Good point and fully agree with the comment about if you’re late on the rush. Shadow and line up. Just before Quade Cooper passed, notice the momentum, position of bok defence (fragmented/ staggered). The Quade from a couple of years back, would’ve sent i light grubber kick between the defenders for the fast running winger to collect. This is exactly what the All Blacks did a couple of times. Almost mockingly exposing that weakness with a less controlled over the top kick and still managing to collect the ball. This clip clearly shows the fragmented line of defence as if the boks almost hesitated on the defence approach system to apply. I hope the team learns from this as NZ knows this weakness and will exploit it to their benefit.
@@blaquenguni9249 This is true, what has changed is our opponents have caught up with us and if Australia as per this video could exploit the gaps and score against us. Then we can now begin to understand why the scoreboard against NZ was not in our favor. Both Rassie and Jacques said at the start of the year camp, that what worked in 2019 will not work now and we will need to be better and different. I think this line of defence contributed to the NZ score board, just not in our favour. NZ and Eddie's team, have studied that system and I wouldn't be surprised if Cheika has also picked up on that. We shall wait and see how it plays out this weekend.
This didn't work against the ABs because the forwards were gaining metres over that advantage line, which already put the Boks on the backfoot. The other reason was the Crossfield pass kicks from Beauden to the wingers which exposed the edges of the rush defence.
You also needs players out wide that can change direction and accelerate rapdidly to cover. That requires nippy wings like Kolbe and Arendse who also read well. Bigger wingers and players cant cover the same space. Also we often rely on faf to come across as an extra player. So the rush defence really only works with the right players
Am is going for the 1st centre, when his man is the outside centre...Esterhuizen needs to go up to the inside side of the 1st centre, thats why they had the overlap & our winger (Moodie, but often Mapimpi too) out of position tackling the outside centre...double overlap for opposition. The flank, 8th man & scrumhalf should shadow run the inside of the opposing ball carrier as cover defence. Our 15 needs to stay at the back or if he comes up, our other wing should cover the back, when our 15 goes up.
The winger shouldn't rush. He must hang back with the FB slightly behind him (who then moves up in the defensive line or fields the up and under) and the 10 should come across to form a second line of defense (assuming that the 9 is used in a free defensive role). At the moment we are being unlocked by cross kicks to where our wings should be.
Teams have really started to figure how to properly exploit and counter rush defences now and the players have gotten so used to it you see a lot less panicking when they suddenly have someone rush up in their face. This year we are starting to see a change thanks to recent evolutions in attack. The game seems to have hit a tipping point where it slightly favours attack more than defence. The last 5 years has really been dominated by defence. Plus relying on the same tactics used at the previous RWC is a bad idea because the game changes a lot over 4 years.
Howcome they get their WING wide & our WING is defending in the MIDFIELD, is where the rush defence fumbles...our speedster should MARK his opposing WING. We get caught time & again, leaking soft tries wide. Our winger does not have a good chance to catch the opposing centre ball & all (not just Esterhuizen to blame here, Moodie was late too), in which case the opposing team has a massive overlap. NZ first try, Mapimpi was also out if position as well as with Will Jordan's try later again. This is not 7's rugby.
Good point and fully agree with the comment about if you’re late on the rush. Shadow and line up. Just before Quade Cooper passed, notice the momentum, position of bok defence (fragmented/ staggered). The Quade from a couple of years back, would’ve sent i light grubber kick between the defenders for the fast running winger to collect. This is exactly what the All Blacks did a couple of times. Almost mockingly exposing that weakness with a less controlled over the top kick and still managing to collect the ball. This clip clearly shows the fragmented line of defence as if the boks almost hesitated on the defence approach system to apply. I hope the team learns from this as NZ knows this weakness and will exploit it to their benefit.
Nienaber has been using the exact same system since the Stormers days I'm 2007/8...Boks defended the same way in 2019 and nothing has changed
@@blaquenguni9249 This is true, what has changed is our opponents have caught up with us and if Australia as per this video could exploit the gaps and score against us. Then we can now begin to understand why the scoreboard against NZ was not in our favor. Both Rassie and Jacques said at the start of the year camp, that what worked in 2019 will not work now and we will need to be better and different. I think this line of defence contributed to the NZ score board, just not in our favour. NZ and Eddie's team, have studied that system and I wouldn't be surprised if Cheika has also picked up on that. We shall wait and see how it plays out this weekend.
This didn't work against the ABs because the forwards were gaining metres over that advantage line, which already put the Boks on the backfoot. The other reason was the Crossfield pass kicks from Beauden to the wingers which exposed the edges of the rush defence.
You also needs players out wide that can change direction and accelerate rapdidly to cover. That requires nippy wings like Kolbe and Arendse who also read well. Bigger wingers and players cant cover the same space. Also we often rely on faf to come across as an extra player. So the rush defence really only works with the right players
Finn could have a field day against that tactic.
Great analysis….
Am is going for the 1st centre, when his man is the outside centre...Esterhuizen needs to go up to the inside side of the 1st centre, thats why they had the overlap & our winger (Moodie, but often Mapimpi too) out of position tackling the outside centre...double overlap for opposition. The flank, 8th man & scrumhalf should shadow run the inside of the opposing ball carrier as cover defence. Our 15 needs to stay at the back or if he comes up, our other wing should cover the back, when our 15 goes up.
The winger shouldn't rush. He must hang back with the FB slightly behind him (who then moves up in the defensive line or fields the up and under) and the 10 should come across to form a second line of defense (assuming that the 9 is used in a free defensive role). At the moment we are being unlocked by cross kicks to where our wings should be.
Only time I remember SA's rush defence working effectively, when we had the likes of Aphiwe and Sbu as wings.
2 world class wingers made these boring tactics look like genius work
@@blaquenguni9249they aren't that boring guys 😅
Teams have become more adept at defending / attacking, rush defence.
Good comments
Teams have really started to figure how to properly exploit and counter rush defences now and the players have gotten so used to it you see a lot less panicking when they suddenly have someone rush up in their face.
This year we are starting to see a change thanks to recent evolutions in attack. The game seems to have hit a tipping point where it slightly favours attack more than defence. The last 5 years has really been dominated by defence.
Plus relying on the same tactics used at the previous RWC is a bad idea because the game changes a lot over 4 years.
Howcome they get their WING wide & our WING is defending in the MIDFIELD, is where the rush defence fumbles...our speedster should MARK his opposing WING. We get caught time & again, leaking soft tries wide. Our winger does not have a good chance to catch the opposing centre ball & all (not just Esterhuizen to blame here, Moodie was late too), in which case the opposing team has a massive overlap. NZ first try, Mapimpi was also out if position as well as with Will Jordan's try later again. This is not 7's rugby.