Doom and gloom for Boks

And thus it came to pass – again – that the Boks got stuffed in Wellington. Looks like this is going to be a Tri Nations the Boks will want to forget. The All Blacks are back to their merciless best, and I’d say all the South Africans can hope for this year is to do a bit of damage at home. Piri Weepu made me eat my words too.

When they play at their best, the Springboks just steamroller the other team and the fact they don’t have creative backs doesn’t hurt them much. They are looking particularly blunt at the moment in attack though and it is hurting them now the steamroller seems to be having engine problem, then when you add in another yellow card, what do you expect to happen? I


t doesn’t pay to get these boys too far away from mom’s home cooking. They haven’t shown anything that is going to have the Wallabies too worried either.

Pieter De Villiers isn’t happy with the refs http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/3930251/Springboks-anger-at-cheat-laws and they are really missing Heinrich Brussow, but PDV needs to pick more attacking teams if he wants to win.

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