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what happened to the Bok line-out!

Its rugby it happens..

Far out the Blacks defence is good. Great game so far.

fuck me Carter takes forever to kick

I wouldn't say poor. But certainly over-rated. It's realistically only 4 wins against opponents which we are expected to win against 99% of the time and a win against a poor England side. I rate our Rugby Championship form over our current form.

Slightly better at the breakdown. But I think he lacks dominance in contact - mainly due to his body height. He runs with a lot of intensity which looks great against the minnows but against Wales he nearly got held up a few times and was very slow to recycle. Other then his 2 good hits in...

I disagree there. McMahon doesn't have much of a presence over the ball at all. He plays a lot like Hooper only less dominating. I think McCalman is the more solid option.

Real poor news about Sio. Slipper is an able replacement to start but the bench front row is significantly weaker. We have previously used this as a weapon late in the second half which now might become a weakness. Hope Toby Smith is up to it. Beale is on fire at the moment so I'm not sweating...

Well not always. What happened to Foley last time we played the All Blacks, we dominated in the forwards and just about everywhere but he was MIA. He was heavily criticized in that game and rightly so. So far in his entire Test career he's only capitalised on front foot ball once and that's...

It could also be that Scotland was terrible

He had direct involvement in all those errors. Yes Mitchell was ALSO to blame but that doesn't mean you IGNORE Foley's direct involvements in making these errors which is exactly what you are doing. Funny that you accuse posters of ignoring Coopers fault but you clearly do the same for Foley...

His first half was more then "one bad error and poor goal-kicking". 4min: he pushed a pass a 50/50 ball to Mitchell and blew a try. Where was the patience? 16min: He fails at contesting a high ball. He needs to stop dropping back or learn how to catch. 22min: He chip kicks ahead wayyyy to far...

Yeah I originally thought it was Gits who gave the pass to Beale. It was indeed Foley. He did well in that try to direct play. The try to Kuridrani, Gits was directing play at first receiver but it was realistically all Kuridrani who makes the break. You summed up the other tries. Foley has...

Who are the posters calling for Coopers inclusion? I think most are just criticising Foley's performance.

How was Foley struggling? Seriously? His first half was riddled with errors and poor kicking. When Cooper did the same he was pulled at close to half-time on both occasions but when Foley does it it's fine? Like we should give him the second half to find his feet? It would make sense to me...

Yeah I didn't get to watch the whole France match but that's not what I wanted to hear :( Looks like he picked the perfect time to return to form in the past 3 years, although I guess he deserves it given his injury run and his outstanding skill-set as a player.

The strange thing for me was this game seemed like the one where we needed the "finishers" more then ever. Given Foley seemed to be struggling.

Players who don't show consistency are easily criticized. Just so happens none of our fly-halves have shown any sort of consistency. I don't think there's anything "ridiculous" about that. We simply do not know which games are his normal standard. The good ones or the bad ones? History...

To be fair, Gits was playing well so he probably didn't want to sub him. He can't sub Foley because that would mean Gits would be kicker... against Scotland, in the rain, and we all know how that ended last time.

Doesn't seemed to be affected by pressure though. Sure he has the occasional brain explosion, but so does Bismark, or Burger. Although I get your point I probably should have used a better example.