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Willie complaining with the ref is so irritating

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 4:55 pm Willie complaining with the ref is so irritating

You complaining about every player not a Stormer is irritating

Willie’s defence creates a 80 meter breakaway for Libbok.

Money to save the day

22-9 Boks
70 mins

Sards wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 4:56 pm

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 4:55 pm Willie complaining with the ref is so irritating

You complaining about every player not a Stormer is irritating

Eben is good.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 4:59 pm Willie’s defence creates a 80 meter breakaway for Libbok.

Both have had a good game. Faf too

to have a kicker at flyhalf

Thank vok Ellendig get yellow.

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:04 pm Thank vok Ellendig get yellow.

Sigh

Try Carreras

With Marx, Kitshoff and Van Staden off, we haven’t got near a turnover chance. Shit bench today.

Faf de Box again

Geez. Faf made tackle after tackle for the Argie try. Seriously. It's like he is everywhere

Faf faf vokken faf.

Brace doing everything he can to get Argies to the win.

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:09 pm Faf faf vokken faf.

Close to MOTM

Boks hold on 22-21

Awful 2nd half, kicking away 80% possession by Faf.
He tackled like a demon, passed like a cnut

Wow. That tackle from Faf

What a kak game. Not impressed at all.

A waste of 2 hours.

The Springboks box kicks is as shite as their WC song. We won't get to the quater finals with this RasNaber kak. I'll rather watch netball.

Sards wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:15 pm

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:09 pm Faf faf vokken faf.

Close to MOTM

You are fucked.

And that , ladies and gentlemen, is why we are ranked 4th in the world. Let's not try kid ourselves

Sards wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:30 pm And that , ladies and gentlemen, is why we are ranked 4th in the world. Let's not try kid ourselves

Spot on. We are going nowhere.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:15 pm Boks hold on 22-21

Awful 2nd half, kicking away 80% possession by Faf.
He tackled like a demon, passed like a cnut

Faf was kak, slowed down every ruck, only to kick the ball away. Defended well, but everywhere else he was very poor.

boere wors wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:40 pm

Sards wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:30 pm And that , ladies and gentlemen, is why we are ranked 4th in the world. Let's not try kid ourselves

Spot on. We are going nowhere.

Terrible game. Horrible game plan. Too many unforced errors. As bad as I’ve seen them play in quite a while.

Never felt like the Boks were going to lose.

Scrum went well, maul went well. Eben's try was well worked, showed planning to have him placed on the wing and lurking. Libbok had an odd match, good with the boot, but very indecisive ball in hand, running sideways one way then the other way. Faf MotM easily, reads the game amazingly well, plays to the ball, he's like a miniature Schalk Burger.

My fellow countrymen losing their shit need to pull themselves together, the Boks clearly took their foot off the peddle and decided to go for a defence and tackling practice. For us the main aspect of the sport is tackling. Every time the Boks needed to score they did. We're not the All Blacks that always try to win every match by 30+.

... I'm now on the edge of my seat waiting for Namibia v Pumas B.

LoveOfTheGame wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:54 pm Horrible game plan.

Chief I think its time for you to hand in your passport.

As the lyrics in the Bok official RWC song say "we're taking load shedding with us to France, when the Boks land it's lights out".

_Os_ wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:56 pm

LoveOfTheGame wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:54 pm Horrible game plan.

Chief I think its time for you to hand in your passport.

As the lyrics in the Bok official RWC song say "we're taking load shedding with us to France, when the Boks land it's lights out".

They are stuck in between two game plans Ox. Today they tried to revert back to a kicking plan, but it was very poorly executed. I’m not going to jump into a river, but we should also be honest enough to call a spade a spade. Enough class and depth to correct today, but to make as if they played the game plan well is delusional.

LoveOfTheGame wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 6:20 pm

_Os_ wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:56 pm

LoveOfTheGame wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:54 pm Horrible game plan.

Chief I think its time for you to hand in your passport.

As the lyrics in the Bok official RWC song say "we're taking load shedding with us to France, when the Boks land it's lights out".

They are stuck in between two game plans Ox. Today they tried to revert back to a kicking plan, but it was very poorly executed. I’m not going to jump into a river, but we should also be honest enough to call a spade a spade. Enough class and depth to correct today, but to make as if they played the game plan well is delusional.

The pack was potentially very close to first choice and destroyed them. The backline was experimental ...

All going according to plan.

Ourpack destroyed them? You are living in a dream world.

Wanted to bring up the Matera incident again. No ref whinging intended at all. Honestly, how can that not be a red card?? Someone mentioned it before, that is exactly how CJ Stander ended Lambies career. Nowadays this surely has to be a red card. Any other views on this?

Gumboot wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 1:07 pm

Ymx wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 12:57 pm

Gumboot wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 12:39 pm How good was that overhand offload to Telea on the gallop out wide? The guy's not all hard nuts, he's also a natural ballplayer.

That helps select him to play, but not captain.

This conversation is confusing me. Have you forgotten he’s a crusaders player?

I reckon the Barrett bros are currently running the show. They're the heart of this team.

I’m thinking sleep deprivation got to you.

boere wors wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 7:38 pm Wanted to bring up the Matera incident again. No ref whinging intended at all. Honestly, how can that not be a red card?? Someone mentioned it before, that is exactly how CJ Stander ended Lambies career. Nowadays this surely has to be a red card. Any other views on this?

Farcical. At the least it’s a yellow card, then the TMO reviews it over the next 10.

You can’t jump with your hip into a kicker’s head any more. Ref team today fucked up.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 8:04 pm

boere wors wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 7:38 pm Wanted to bring up the Matera incident again. No ref whinging intended at all. Honestly, how can that not be a red card?? Someone mentioned it before, that is exactly how CJ Stander ended Lambies career. Nowadays this surely has to be a red card. Any other views on this?

Farcical. At the least it’s a yellow card, then the TMO reviews it over the next 10.

You can’t jump with your hip into a kicker’s head any more. Ref team today fucked up.

Torally agree with the last part. Imho it is so blatantly obvious that this has to be a red, that I can only scratch my head how the refs can fcuk this up so badly

_Os_ wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:54 pm ... I'm now on the edge of my seat waiting for Namibia v Pumas B.

Little brother lost 27-34 to Pumas B. Argies were picking from players that didn't make the top 48 man squad, Nam from what looks like most of their RWC team. Very close to a Southern African double today.

I'm sure you were all cheering on Alister Coetzee's men!

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 7:21 pm Ourpack destroyed them? You are living in a dream world.

Our pack: demolishing them in the maul, scrum going forward on our ball and not going backward on theirs, our forwards made a load of turnovers, our forwards are going for long stretches defending our line and tackling them back over the advantage, our forwards are the ones running in the loose and making breaks/half breaks.

Not even close.

Now it was a bit of a mess what a backline with Libbok in the driving seat did with the ball the forwards won, but that's a different matter. Most of our best backline moves were all from the forwards too.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 8:04 pm

boere wors wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 7:38 pm Wanted to bring up the Matera incident again. No ref whinging intended at all. Honestly, how can that not be a red card?? Someone mentioned it before, that is exactly how CJ Stander ended Lambies career. Nowadays this surely has to be a red card. Any other views on this?

Farcical. At the least it’s a yellow card, then the TMO reviews it over the next 10.

You can’t jump with your hip into a kicker’s head any more. Ref team today fucked up.

Oh Jesus. Are we about to see a ref with death threats again?

Ymx wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 8:37 pm Oh Jesus. Are we about to see a ref with death threats again?

Do you have his contact info?

The real reason there was no card, was because it was 30 seconds into the match, the very first play. Ref pussied out because he didn't want the Pumas to play 80 minutes with 14 men at Ellis Park. If that same incident was 30 minutes into the match and not 30 seconds, the Argie is going off.

Brace was bad generally, some bad calls went our way. The most ridiculous was at the start of the second half (I think), the Boks were in possession and attacking, he stopped play for a Bok high tackle (when the Boks had the ball the entire time), one of the other refs must have told him he was fucking delusional, he then reverses it (there was no replay, so he maybe made more shit up to avoid the Ellis Park crowd turning on him) but now he's taken the Bok attack back and killed momentum.

He's ref for the Wales warmup.