The South Africans dismantled the All Blacks with their two forward packs.
You’ve just made a miserable start to the second half against South Africa, whose clever lineout play has yielded their third try and a 21-0 lead.
And there he is, the seventh Boks forward among their replacements, the cake-loving, tackle-breaking loosehead prop Ox Nché. A minute later, scrum time again. This one is a South African scrum penalty, continuing the theme that had been so firmly implanted by the Boks’ starting pack.Du Toit’s yellow card then briefly takes the sting out of the bench impact but even without him, they’re soon marching you over your own tryline for a maul try finished by Mbonambi.
The Boks didn’t have to go this way. They had other backs with them in London and could have stuck with 6/2. Evidently, Erasmus and Nienaber have been plotting this new development and the timing felt right. Even the 6/2 bench split brings a clear element of risk, as Toulouse’s defeat to Leinster in the Champions Cup last season underlined. That day, an early injury to centre Pierre-Louis Barassi meant rejigging the backline. Toulouse shifted scrum-half Antoine Dupont to out-half, while out-half Romain Ntamack moved to centre. It was deeply prohibitive to their chances of winning.
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