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LATE TACKLE: Marx & Steyn on Super Rugby
By Online Editors
The #rugbylatetackle team break down each South African Super Rugby franchise and identify players who they feel will make a massive impact this season.
One player who had a massive 2017 is SA Player of the Year Malcolm Marx, who gets a call from the team - catch that interview from 00:43.
Howie Kahn, Morgan Newman and Anton van Zyl share their thoughts on each of the squads, to sum up their chances in the competition. Watch from 04:40 as they dissect the Lions, 06:22 for the Stormers, the Sharks sneak in at 09:12 and the Bulls are picked apart from 11:04.
Springbok flyhalf Morne Steyn dials in from France to have a chat - watch the chat from 13:15 before the team gets stuck into a debate about how Rassie Erasmus will handle the use of overseas-based players, watch from 17:04.
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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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