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Moyano hat-trick helps Jaguares sink 14-man Sharks
By Peter Hanson
Ramiro Moyano scored a hat-trick as the Jaguares' impressive run in Super Rugby continued with a 29-13 victory over the Sharks in Buenos Aires.
After losing four of their opening five matches this season, the Argentine side have now chalked up six straight wins to further enhance their play-off hopes.
The Jaguares had never beaten the Sharks – who finished the match with 14 men thanks to Ruan Botha's red card – in four previous attempts, but their latest victory leaves them just two points off South African conference leaders the Lions and fifth in the overall table.
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Nicolas Sanchez had kicked the hosts into a 13th-minute lead before Moyano wormed his way over the line following Emiliano Boffelli's impressive break.
Moyano touched down again from Gonzalo Bertranou's offload, but Botha's score on the stroke of half-time, along with eight points from Robert Du Preez, gave the visitors hope.
But Bautista Delguy's score following a nice break down the left with nine minutes remaining preceded Botha being red carded for a dangerous hit at a ruck.
And there was to be further misery for the Sharks when Moyano broke through a tired visiting defence in the final minute to complete his treble.
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Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".
But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.
The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.
Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?
Go to commentsI think they just need to judge better when it's on and when it's not. If there is a disjointed chase and WJ has a forward in front of him and some space to work with then he should have a crack every time.
If the chase is perfect and the defence is numbered up then it needs to get sent back. From memory they have not really developed a plan for what to do if they take the ball on/in the 22 with a good chase and no counter attacking opportunity.
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