SUNDAY SPECIAL: Foster's mulligan
When my "Rating the Match Ratings" turns up a shocking coincidence ($$$).
If Jacques Nienaber had accidentally sent his strategy email - subject line: “First Test Tactics” - to Ian Foster rather than his own staff, the All Blacks would have learned not one iota more about this Springboks team than they already did.
That’s the real concern about this result and, at a big-picture level, this team: the Springboks came exactly as advertised. The instructions were written in large font on the box. And still… still, the All Blacks could do nothing about it.
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