NPR

Blackmac wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 4:16 pm Furlong should be off for an HIA he was all over the place after that clash of heads

Sandstorm wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 4:34 pm Winning Pom style , 3 points at a time.

troglodiet wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:05 pm Well played Ireland, better team won.

Ireland didn't make one single mistake under the high ball. We gave away all our possession.... By kicking up and unders to the Irish backs. What a winning strategy by the Boks.

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:04 pm Gwan Frawley, Skerries' finest.

Hell of a kick to win it.

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:12 pm Congrats to Ireland and their supporters. Only realize now how it feel losing with one point. On the day they were the better team and deserve the win.

This will be good for the Springboks, lots to work on before the real rugby starts.

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 4:33 pm du Toit complaining only a yellow when he should have been redded in the RWC 1/4

Uncle fester wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:08 pm

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:04 pm Gwan Frawley, Skerries' finest.

Hell of a kick to win it.

Oh yeah, you have a Skerries connection, don't you?

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:26 pm

Uncle fester wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:08 pm

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:04 pm Gwan Frawley, Skerries' finest.

Hell of a kick to win it.

Oh yeah, you have a Skerries connection, don't you?

Yeah, we have a reciprocal match the weekend of the 6N international.

_Os_ wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:49 pm Congrats Ireland, got the only try so a deserved win. Try came in a similar way to what I feared, quick play from a dropout, as Schalk said in the commentary similar to the one Ireland scored in the 1st test.

Le Roux going off at the very start with a HIA (nothing in it, an accident) hurt the Boks the most in the end. SFM was a mixed bag, some really good stuff, but it's still losing a player with 94 caps for a rookie with 1 cap. Reckon SFM's finishing cost the Boks in the end, pointlessly kicked away some ball he should've held, but the goalie save of the ball going out wasn't good (could've let it go out, it was covered if somehow the Irish kept it in play), end of the match and gave Ireland a lineout in the Bok half with 2 points in it when Ireland had already scored a drop goal, that was a facepalm moment. Can't blame one guy obviously, probably why the SS guys went out of their way to praise SFM after the match. First half was a write off for the Boks, second half they didn't convert anything into tries and that's where it was lost.

A shame there's no third test.

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 4:33 pm du Toit complaining only a yellow when he should have been redded in the RWC 1/4

_Os_ wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:57 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 4:33 pm du Toit complaining only a yellow when he should have been redded in the RWC 1/4

You mysteriously disappeared after that match. Fair enough, it was a hard loss, the greatest ever French team getting knocked out of a RWC at home. Now you comment Du Toit should've been red carded in that match?

One wonders if we're slowly going to be drip fed your views on that match over the course of many years and many Bok match threads!

_Os_ wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:57 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 4:33 pm du Toit complaining only a yellow when he should have been redded in the RWC 1/4

You mysteriously disappeared after that match. Fair enough, it was a hard loss, the greatest ever French team getting knocked out of a RWC at home. Now you comment Du Toit should've been red carded in that match?

One wonders if we're slowly going to be drip fed your views on that match over the course of many years and many Bok match threads!

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:50 pm Hrmm, that's a stretch, I think. The current team is a decent side, Dupont is one of the best rugby players I've ever seen, maybe the best, but I'm not sure many others in the current side make the "Best French XV of All Time", as much as I like Penaud, he might make it, might.
None of the pack or centres imo.
Fly half is a bit off the wall in France.

_Os_ wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 5:49 pm Congrats Ireland, got the only try so a deserved win. Try came in a similar way to what I feared, quick play from a dropout, as Schalk said in the commentary similar to the one Ireland scored in the 1st test.

Le Roux going off at the very start with a HIA (nothing in it, an accident) hurt the Boks the most in the end. SFM was a mixed bag, some really good stuff, but it's still losing a player with 94 caps for a rookie with 1 cap. Reckon SFM's finishing cost the Boks in the end, pointlessly kicked away some ball he should've held, but the goalie save of the ball going out wasn't good (could've let it go out, it was covered if somehow the Irish kept it in play), end of the match and gave Ireland a lineout in the Bok half with 2 points in it when Ireland had already scored a drop goal, that was a facepalm moment. Can't blame one guy obviously, probably why the SS guys went out of their way to praise SFM after the match. First half was a write off for the Boks, second half they didn't convert anything into tries and that's where it was lost.

A shame there's no third test.

_Os_ wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:18 pm

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:50 pm Hrmm, that's a stretch, I think. The current team is a decent side, Dupont is one of the best rugby players I've ever seen, maybe the best, but I'm not sure many others in the current side make the "Best French XV of All Time", as much as I like Penaud, he might make it, might.
None of the pack or centres imo.
Fly half is a bit off the wall in France.

Mostly just going on what their media and fans were saying. The "more than the sum of their parts" argument has to be there when discussing a team, for the Boks there's a lot of past players that were more talented than players in the current side, it doesn't mean those past teams were better though. It also becomes hard to assess these things if you go back too far, there were good French teams in the 90s but I also recall the Boks beating those some of those sides quite badly, and it's a completely different era to now.