Pressure mounts on Coetzee after All Blacks crush blunderous Boks
CHRISTCHURCH — The Springboks blundered their way to a third successive Rugby Championship defeat here on Saturday.It completes a full set of away defeats against all their rivals in this competition and heaps more pressure on Allister Coetzee and his coaching staff.They now have to engineer a turnaround in the two home tests next month against the Wallabies and the All Blacks.The imprecision that dogged the Springboks against the Wallabies in Brisbane last week followed them across the Tasman Sea and their handling‚ in particular‚ was ham-fisted.By contrast‚ the All Blacks look better organised‚ conditioned and maybe even assembled.The visitors shot themselves in the foot‚ and they did so repeatedly.Avoidable errors‚ especially of the handling variety‚ conspired against the Boks in the first half and the trend did not dissipate in the second.With the All Blacks already in the ascendancy due to a superior kicking game‚ the Boks invited trouble onto themselves by not applying due car...
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