RUCK N ROLL
GAVIN RICH: Two-try burst was shot in the arm that resuscitated Boks
It never ceases to amaze what a difference the injection of confidence can do to the performing levels of even the most elite sport teams. The Springboks were dead in the water before the two-try burst that transformed them into the supermen that pulled off an epic win over the All Blacks in Wellington. Most South Africans probably started watching the game with trepidation, and rightly so after the poor performances preceding the one in Westpac Stadium. In the first 15 minutes there was reason to fear the worst. The Boks were forced to make 30 tackles by the 15-minute mark and they missed 10. After the well-created try by Aphiwe Dyantyi and the gift handed to Willie le Roux that shot the Boks into an unlikely lead, the momentum didn’t change that much in terms of the number of tackles they had to make. By the end of the 80 minutes they’d been asked to make well more than 200. What did change after those two tries, though, was their success rate in completing tackles, and suddenly t...
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