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'We weren't perfect': Springboks want to find 'A-game' ahead of All Black challenge
By Rugby365
The Springboks could be in for a big shock if they don’t lift their performance levels for their upcoming Rugby Championship matches against the All Blacks.
The Boks are coming off a 2-1 series victory over Wales, while the All Blacks are reeling after their historic 1-2 series defeat to Ireland.
Despite the Springboks’ success, there are still some doubts around Jacques Nienaber’s game plan with many fans and pundits calling it “boring” and “outdated”.
Nienaber admits that his team is far from the finished product and that they will have to lift their game for an All Blacks team looking to right the wrongs.
“Our goal is to improve,” said Nienaber.
“When we faced Wales, we hadn’t played together as a team for a while, so that served as a marker for where we are.
“I think the main thing for us is to fix things in our game. We weren’t perfect against Wales.
“There is a lot of stuff that we have to work on and that we have to improve on.
“We had a nice review on Monday and we had a reality check on where we are currently.
“We have to look at what goals we set in the Wales series and where we excelled.
“In some instances we thought we actually showed some good growth and then in other instances, we didn’t show as much growth as we thought we would have.”
Meanwhile, Springbok centre Lukhanyo Am agrees that his team will need to find something extra to beat New Zealand in Nelspruit and Johannesburg.
“They [All Blacks] are one of the teams where you have to be on your A-game all the time,” said Am.
“As a team, we have tried preparing as much as we can.
“We all know that we will be facing a different threat compared to Wales.
“We are busy doing our prep and we trust that will put us in a better place for the Test next week.”
-Warren Fortune/Rugby365
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I’d say France was far more hard done by in the 2011 final than the All Blacks in this game. Joubert simply refused to call a penalty against the All Blacks in the last quarter even directing an All Black to drop a ball he picked up in an offside position rather than penalizing him. This article also totally discounts the efforts of PSTD. Ask Jordie how well he played. Or the backup flank who played hooker for the entire game. Siya was also a brilliant tackle by Richie from scoring a blinder. Pollard was also fantastic. Look I don’t like the boks style but the only thing more questionable than the content of this article is the timing of it. Get over it already
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