The Breakdown, 14 August 2022



The Breakdown crew gets out their microscope and pours over the All Blacks stirring defeat of South Africa at the hallowed Ellis Park.

CREDIT: @Sky Sport NZ

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27 thoughts on “The Breakdown, 14 August 2022”

  1. Love millsies review on Cane. We need those hard buggers to get in the rucks clean the rucks out. That's what ritchie mccaw used to do all game. That's why he didn't score much tries. SA are guns at the ruck and maul area. If you compete with them you gotta be hard they're big boys so props to Sam Cane.

    That had to be one of the biggest wins the ABs could have gotten. 5 losses in a row come to ellis park which is the equivalent te Eden Park or Twickenham but the South African version. The whole world talking absolute rubbish about them. And here they are beating the World Champions by 12 in South Africa. You will not see something similar for a long time. Let's keep this underdog tag right up until the RWC. Let all the pressure go on SA, France and Ireland. And just regroup and restructure.

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  2. This is an over-hyped discussion that clearly masks the real state of the ABs game. ABs have lost the previous 3 games comprehensively and one win does not make all the losses go away.

    ABs are a team who makes headlines when they lost a game not by winning a game. Now we praise days and weeks about one win which clearly shows it is still not at its best. There is a long way to glory days.

    ABs missed many passes in both halves and missed tackles as well. Luckily boks had an off day in the office as well.

    It is great to see all the players playing as one team and well synched.

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  3. I hope they stop fuching around with Ritchie. The have been to fickle snd haven't been showing faith in him. Give him time to settle him to become the master we know he is.

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  4. 44:20 if you don't wanna work under that uncertainty… easy… don't lose to argentina for the first time ever, don't lose two games in a row on Nov, don't lose to ireland on NZ for the first time ever, don't lose a series to ireland for the first time ever, don't lose a 3 test home series for only the third time ever… and so and so on… you get my point

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  5. SA came form 15-0 down to lead 23-21 with 8 mins to go, they pinned the ABs back in the 22 and then forgot to set their defensive line across the park, either tired or being lazy, had they done that they probably would have prevented the ABs break out form the 22 and the 60m run. It was a good win for NZ but people are getting carried away saying they absolutely spanked the boks, they did not the game was very, win even could have gone to the boks in the last 8 mins also. Problem is NZ now have 4 soft games ahead, last year they put 30 odd points past Arg in both games with a large winning margin and Aus look absolutely awful and if not up to it could leak 50 to 70 points against them, so I doubt these games will tell them much in terms of progress. Arg are playing with flair and look good but their defence against the Abs is not always great. The only team that could poss beat them this year is Eng in Nov but they looked poor against Aus too….

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  6. Look! The abs too damage to fix under this foster. It doesn't matter if smitz come in to help. What he can do. You tell me. Now foster gonna do the damage more. We not gonna win the world cup. World cup is a different ball game. The last test? They win because they play to win. They have no choice but to win. Well, bye! Bye! To the world cup.

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  7. Cant believe people still putting Beauden at 15.
    I think he said he preferred 1st 5s, & he actually proven it last year.
    All blacks might repeat the same mistake for 2023, just like they did in rwc 2019.

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