10 Winners & 10 Losers | PLAYER RATINGS | Round 2 | The Rugby Championship 2023 | New Zealand All Blacks, South Africa Springboks, Australia Wallabies, Argentina Pumas
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Would have added Beauden in there as well. A lot of pressure for Jordan at 15. But his contributions to the tries and his stepping up to run the kicking game perhaps more than Richie showed how invaluable that second pivot is.
Good list. Agree on Willemse and de Allende. Great players, but not the inform options
We have our own bomb squad now. Williams. Taukei'aho. Newell. Barrett/Whitelock. And hopefully Jacobson.
Telea's tidy up work in the tight was exceptional
If ABs take the World Cup, it’ll be Fozzie’s big ‘FU’ the NZRU, all his critics and detractors, and quite frankly, they’d deserve it, given the amount of rubbish that man has had to endure.
Will Jordan is the new Ben Smith
Bongi, de Allende, Faf, Willemse, Wiese, le Roux needs to go.
Mapimpi was out of position on defence often, Arendse reads the game better at 11 for the Boks.
I'd play will Jordan on the wing all day. Absolute attacking weapon but can cope with the ball coming the other way, unlike some power runners
I think Bertranou did pretty well, but either way, he is by far the best 9 in Argentina, so not much to do there. Cheers!
A great analysis as usual, I like the bottle of Jack on the top shelf, what would rugby be with Jack? I still say Jack Daniels should sponsor the USA 7's team.
M Marx had such a great impact when he came of the bench. Marx over Smith for the winners
Pretty much agree. Faf and Mapimpi were poor. Boks need a fit Pollard
All the Japanese based players, except Faf, wasn't quite up to speed in the first 30. All players who started for SA on Saturday will go to the World cup. Probable first 15 changes would be RG Snyman, PS du Toit, Pollard and KL Arendse
I think you got it wrong with Kwagga Smith, ineffectual till the bomb squad came on.
For the All Blacks
Winner : Shannon Frizzel
Loser : Mark Telea
Whitelock should move straight back at lock. Barrett to 6 and Frizzell cover for lock, loosies .It will be dealt with by the unofficial rest and rotation policy.
Not sure Tela deserves to be a on the loser's list. In fact I would of had him on the winners list. He was exceptional in his involvement during the game. If I am an ABs coach I am thrilled with his effort. He essentially played like an extra loose forward and had several strong runs into the meat of the SA Pack, making ground where many wingers would be stopped in their tracks. We already know what he does one on one and in open space. Im pretty sure the coaching staff would be pleased with his effort to get over the gain line against the boks. They will expect their wingers to be more than finishers now.
It was obvious that Beauden Barrett playing full back was a second play maker because he was putting through tactical kicks.
Wallabies third fly half is ben donaldson he got named as a utility but he is mainly a fly half I believe
Very balanced
Biggest loser for me – Eddie Jones! Thanks for the vid.
i only disagree wuth telea, he played a great game, both defensively other than kolbes try and offensively, under the highball and making strong metres he did what was asked of him at 11 when he is well and truly a 14 as well as him coming off of a leg injury slowing him down a bit
Winners/Losers, just pick 10 from each lol. 😂
Billy Proctor had a pretty good weekend
Combination of Boks playing kak and against 16 men, we had no chance. NZ can't always win every 50/50 decision and have scrums reset when they cause the collapse. What a joke, but expected when NZ play, they never get bad decisions against them. Hold on there was one bad decision… in 2007
Love your work.
Isn’t Ben Donaldson the back up 10? He the 10/15 MATEEE!!!
The "Losers" says it all about the "dead weight" in the Wallabies and Springboks.