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Kings trump wasteful Jaguares in Buenos Aires
By Sacha Pisani
Southern Kings edged Jaguares 31-30 for their fifth win of the Super Rugby season.
The Kings' last visit to Buenos Aires ended in an embarrassing 73-27 defeat in May last year, but there was no repeat of that on Friday.
Jaguares led 20-14 at half-time, however, the Kings proved too hot to handle for the wasteful hosts.
Makazole Mapimpi scored two tries for the travelling Kings at Velez Sarsfield. Luzuko Vulindlu and Wandile Mjekevu also crossed over, while Lionel Cronje kicked 11 points.
Jaguares posted five tries via Joaquin Tuculet's double and Juan Manuel Leguizamon, Emiliano Boffelli and Nicolas Sanchez but their goal-kicking percentage was just 25.
The Kings remain bottom of the Africa 2 Conference, two points adrift of Jaguares.
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There is nothing particularly significant about Ireland in this regard compared to other Tier 1 nations. To look at 'strategy' for illegal play its best to see what teams push boundaries with new laws. SA have milked two tries at ruck block downs. The strategy is to charge the first few before the ball is out at about 4 seconds but pull out and put up hands in reigned apology. The referees usually allow the scum half to clear without awarding a penalty in this scenario. The problem with that being that the scrumhalf is now taking over 5 seconds through no fault of his own. Having achieved a few slow balls > 5s , the SA forward can now pick a scrum to charge dead on 5s. Now if the scrum half waits, he will concede a penalty, as we saw against Scotland. With the new rule in place, any early charge should result in an immediate penalty.
SA also got an offside block against England which was pivotal again after a couple of 'apologetic' offside aborted charges forcing England to clear slowly.
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