eToro Rugby Championship Round Five: New Zealand press conference - etoro review

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xRUTHL3SSx: Be good to see beauden Barret have a few more runs and not just catch and pass and also some fast support runners backing up their fowards for the offloads

karl Rensburg: Congratulations team All Blacks, 🥂🎉👏👏 once again you defended our shores. Enjoy the growth from this 100th match.

Flet Mok : George Bridge should’ve been subbed off instead of Jordan! Give Reece or Ennor a run next week …or Caleb Clarke lol

Hubert Cumberdale: You would expect our strongest XV to have performed much better than the side that played today. 1. Moody 2. Taylor 3. Laulala 4. Whitelock 5. Retallick 6. Papalii 7. Cane 8. Savea 9. A Smith 10. Mo' unga 11. Reece 12. ALB 13. Goodhue 14. J Barrett 15. B. Barrett

Tom Carbanp: I think if the all blacks held the ball and ran it they would’ve scored more tries. Cody Taylor’s set up for will Jordan is a good example. Even when they were losing territory they were still pulling the defence out of shape and making gaps. All blacks couldn’t manage the highball (praise the almighty saviour jordy barrett) handing it back to the boks for them to kick highballs was silly. Kicking needs to be more reserved and tactical. Having said all that, thrilled for the all blacks to secure the win and we’ll done to the boks for being so competitive. It looks like they found their form and executed their game plan much better.

Fahiem Davids: Def not the game expected ...win is win ...hopefully the mistakes will be wrked on as to end the championship on a high note ...

Ross McIntyre: The important kicks that win a game are the conversions and the very last penalty kick that either wins or loses the game.

U-W8t: Congrats on winning the Rugby Championship, Freedom cup & Bledisloe !😊🙌🎖🏆 well deserved .Awesome #No.1 ABs

Fools 4 Jesus Christ: Well done All Blacks Ian Ardie and the whole team.

douglas wright: The springboks brothers, loads of respect and humility.

Hipa mccready: ' BORING NO' strength, power, stamina & all that muscle contest, great match reminds me of games of old back in the 60's + against The SpringBoks' Awesome fought match & well done Number One team of this World.

Jax Munroe: Pretty sheeeeity team effort,some heads need to roll cause that foward pack look scurrrrrred,and the back three were average as well.Long gone are the days of nz having those dogs in the pack as well instead now they've got speed bumps.our props are marshmellows

Puppy Soda: Wished they asked about the terrible refereeing??

Puppy Soda: Is Ardie Savea the best pick for captain….I’m seriously not sure 🤔 SA players allowed to go down before most scrums especially in 2nd half….did Ardie question it? Ref blowing penalties for SA especially at scrums….did Ardie ever question it? He seems more to look for others to make decisions.

Matthew Clarke: hyok

James Hickling: Would have liked the media to press more on the tactical decision of Dmac on for Will Jordan instead of Bridge. And why TJ was not subbed earlier after clearly struggling. We all knew what the books would do, but its simply the coach saying "we were put under pressure and the weather was humid" . Other than the 57-0 glitch in the matrix its nearly always a 2pt game. And yet we are trying to take 5m Lineouts over taking pens.

Mark Wilson: Gee I nearly saw a smile there......WTF...cant have that in a corporate conference!

Shirley. Zhang: ABs need to do alot better.Boks exposed the ABs in many area of their play eg handling skills and a plan B.The Boks appeared to be more hungry for the win,but they made mistakes that cost them the game.Where are all the arm chair experts that expected the ABs to win by 20 to 30 points ?. The next game will be a ripper.We need a captain like Ritchie McGaw.

pork bone: Classic north v south hemisphere game.

Jay Matta: Ardie looks sore! Poor bloke 😂

TOA Toa: Damn, he was in real pain during that interview.Congrats to the AB’s that was squeaky bum time😬. Never drop your head 👍

Gurdial Singh: Ian ABs won 100th but u ll agree that it wasnt simply us but the World was watching . U were simply saved by the bell . Of course alot was lacking ball handling was terrible . ABs can comeup with excuses but mate we fans were almost going facedown on concrete . Boks didnt perform well but they werebetter then the best AB lineup . Boks rattled u with their kicking defence tecks. Just lucky . Hope u do heaos better next week . U dont want 2 out ideas in the minds of 6 nations. Goodluckhereon .

Slo Mo: More banal and repetitive questions from the press.

bmac63: savea not a captain,why turn down 4 shots at goal when you already had lost mauls & Lineouts within 5 m of tryline. No tactical awareness at all. AB lost the scrums,lineouts & collisions along with poor service all game from Perenara & B. Barrett...take an ugly win but lot of room for improvement.....along with poor questions from Journalists, afraid to ask hard questions

Te Kooti Tom Anderson: A fantastic, tough, bruising game. The teams couldn't play their usual expansive game plans so required to adjust to whatever the opposition threw at them but also how the referee judged the situation to their advantage or not. It was a hard defensive game (pressure from the opposition) where teams relied on penalties to grind out that scoreboard. The Boks slowing the game was not by chance but a deliberate strategic move to unsettle the ABs. The drama and suspense right to the end. The Boks again lost to a penalty against the Wallabies and now the ABs. What a tournament feast for rugby fans!

Cocojuice.: Any other team would of lost to the bokke

Lyell Clare: What bad tactics. The rule when playing the Boks is take the points always. That forces the Boks to play catch up rugby. Simple really. Bad leadership all round.

Driss Zyani: Lucky and poor victory. The same problem continues in this team : no plan B vs the rush défense like vs england in the world cup 2019. With Foster the ABS wont win the world cup 2023. He does not how count the rush défense and agressive in the ruck.

Anahera Jones: SA needed to run it at the end. I thought they would have tried to set for a drop goal. But the ABS need games like this can't always be walk overs. Good hard game, but a was it a pretty game noway.

Peter: Thanks ref who dominated the style of play that suited saffas. Didn't manage tackled ball release and roll away. Scrums resets- zero. Pinged all blacks for being dominant Collapsing lineout mauls and allowing boks to push from offside position and not from behind. Defensive onside positions were not back enough and boks were offside so many times. Boks came to play spoilathon. Boring as fk. Glad the all blacks won in a 4/10 performance. Next week we will destroy them once that ref fks of back to the place that boring rugby is played. Northern hemisphere.

Dave Lemmon: Maybe take a few steps back give the backline more time and space. Less pressure. Bridge struggling to find his way back.

Rasta Mahn: AB's underestimate the Boks of going for lineout instead of 3pts and nearly cost them this game.

rabbitss11: Pollard's missed conversion kick turned out to be quite expensive this time

Rasta Mahn: Error and mistakes far to high on this match for NZ...SA dominating breakdown....the reserve need to pack it up next week.

sebastion tyme: Ugly win without a doubt! But we'll take it lucky, haven't seen the all blacks play a mistakes riddled game in such a long time, not pretty!

superbok: My springbok team 1. Kitsoff 2. Marx 3. Malherbe 4. Etsebeth 5. De jager 6. Van staden 7. Du Toit ( if he comes back) 8. Wiese 9. Reinach 10. Pollard 11. Mimpimpi 12. Dallende 13. Am 14. Kolbe 15. Fassi 16. Bongi 17. Nakayane 18. Koch 19. Snyman (if he comes back) 20. Smith 21. Jantjies 22. Goosen 23. Simelani

P F: ABs one of the worst performances... too many errors

Johny Anderson: To the team and coach, you must concentrate on brake off points, line outs, loosing to much ball possession, the bokkies plays negative rugby, they don't play the ball, the play the man and they make the game play sloppy

John Tai: Here before @Driss Zyani makes a fool of himself 🙏🏼

Glenn Thrush: ABs lacking a direct running hard tackling 12....

Sublime Ranter: All Blacks No 627 Waka "The Black Panther" Nathan R.I.P.........Legend

kainoizking: If I have to watch another match involving that ref man. Whistle-happy little git. Completely ruined the game for me. Just pulling up the most pedantic little penalties that didn't affect play at all. It ruins the spectacle when we get these stupid English refs in a southern hemisphere tourny. Stopped either side from gaining any momentum at all.

Jack B: Good words, take ownership of what they did wrong and work on it for next week. Without the “unforced errors” ( with understanding the pressure) the ABs would have been really comfortable. Love the attitude in reflection because it means they know what they need to work on and I know they will be better for it. Keep fighting to get better ❤️‍🩹

Val Sables: Bokke are maar kak. Dom players. Avbob must sponsor them.

Rayleanne Hornsby: Ardies face and body language was telling Fozzie... Stand up and be proud brother Ardie! Was never gonna be easy playing a world class team.. YOU were exceptional skip! Thank god for Jordie too 🙏🏼😅

Prasanna M: Ardie Savea looks bit like Dwayne Rock Johnson

Antonio Villion: lets just get one thing right here ... we still dont have the best players in our Bok team ...... its still old fossils and BEE ..... we have a kak team ....point

lewis Williams: You need to pick the best all black team and play ur game not worry about the best springbok defensive team thats the same mistake hansen done in the worldcup against England we were lucky why change whats working

Alec Castro: well done ABs from SA. You guys were always No.1. I wish our guys would start running the damn ball more

pip Boss: Hats off to the bokke for making it interesting , congrats ABs best XV in the southern hemisphere