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Allez Bokke and their supporters |
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Written by PB
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
Very good effort on Friday night from the men in green and a perfect start for the 2007 world cup but that is just where it should end. Only one step in a marathon. The late Kitch Christie described the world cup tournament as a marathon, taking it step by step to the end. If you look to far ahead you will drop. So forget about this world cup winning or comparison to the All Blacks talks. There is still a lot of rugby to be played and not that lot of positives with the same amount of negatives.
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have played the England A, B, C….Z teams in a years time and beat all
of them. Not trying to down the opponent only that that they still in
their child shoes while we far from that cycle.
Positives at this stage (forget the scoreline for a moment) Look
like the away from home winning one is dead now. This is world cup
rugby and only the French, Wales and Scotland have those. When we meet
our Southern brothers the boot will be the same.
Our
player look in peak physical condition. Every time they did the physical
thing like defending, going on the drive or just cleaning out rucks
they hurt the so call physical opposition we had. After the end whistle
the English look like they were in a Boere war in Bloem.
The so call youngsters stood up and joined the party. Suddenly JP, Steyn and Wikus look more then capable on the test arena. Negatives Scrums
was good against a weak Samoa scrum but was shown up against the
English on the problematic tight head side. Sheridan had BJ’s number in
the first half. There is no quick fix for tight head with only a part
time CJ to substitute. Problem is our scrum wont be tested before we
maybe hit the Joneses of Wales in the quarters.
We haven’t put up a 80 minute performances. Both this matches was over long before 80 minutes. Jac Fourie wasted two easy tries. He should have pass on both accounts and in a close game we cant afford this.
Tonga
and US up in our closing pool matches , so let us give them the needed
respect and forgot about the previous two matches. Rest some key
players and try and find more experience to get the impact from the
bench right before we hit the business end.
So
before we get all jumped up about this Bokke , lets not forget you are
as good as you were last week. This is a World Cup tournie and just one
bad 80 minutes will sent you packing.
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