Not the result the vast majority of us wanted!
Here is my take on yesterday.
It doesn’t take a genius to work out - we got beaten up I’m afraid.
Thing is we all knew that is what SA we’re going to try and do. I’d have started Joe Marler, he is an excellent scrummager, probably the best in the squad? For all that Mako brings, scrummaging isn’t his strongest suit. I may be old fashioned, isn’t that what your props need to do first? If they offer a lot in the loose - great. I probably would have gone with Dan Cole too from the off. Again, he can scrummage, as a previous post said, he isn’t good for 80 at that level anymore. I think that would have taken away the dominance at scrum time in The first 40, would it have effected the result - who knows? In the last 30/40 Mako and Kyle could come on, when the game opens up a bit!
In any game at any level, if your getting done up front, the game plan goes out of the window.
In the backs, I don’t think Ben Young’s had a good day, is it now time to look elsewhere?
As has been said previously, I’d have taken Danny Cipriani.
Don’t think Elliot Daly had a good game, great player, not a 15.
As to the criticism of how South Africa play, finals are about winning. Performance isn’t the main thing. We’ve all been in Finals, who remembers the performance?
Still, a lot of positives, it’s pretty much a young squad. All in all a Good World Cup. Onwards and Upwards.
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