Genius play by the springboks to keep Ian foster around

“I think we might be living in a Golden Age of Test Rugby right now.” - Squide Rugby The rugby world is on fire at the moment and I’m there for it, every single moment!!!🏉❤️🔥🔥

11:10 as an All Blacks fan this is the best description of what I feel’s gone wrong with the team I’ve seen. I’d argue the rot first set in with the lions tour but apart from that it’s spot on.

Great video Squidge, it always blows my mind how in depth and analytical, yet super entertaining you deliver these videos. You just see this sport at a different IQ level. You can be more critical on the Springboks, I know our coaches use your videos for Monday morning reviews ;) Credit to the All Blacks, they definitely earned that win.

Man as a New Zealander it’s so nice to see all these other nations playing so well! Test of the AB’s ego right now but will always believe in our team, their biggest strength has always been their collective attitude and mindset. I’m a fan of the game first and foremost so it’s been incredible seeing the standard not only be met, but set higher by numerous nations.

I think one thing you're missing out on with the early bench swaps for the Boks was Marx for Dweba. At a certain point you have to cut your losses cuz Dweba's line-out throw was abysmal and the Boks needed Marx to steady the ship

Got my A levels today and Squidge uploaded, best day of the year

Love your insight Squidge, great video. Really excited for the RWC, it's gunna be absolute carnage!

Awesome video and an awesome game! Congrats to the ABs…it’s always good to have the old foe roar back! 🇿🇦

Another brilliant analysis. Well done!

Brilliant analysis, thank you!

Unfortunately, most of the subs were out of necessity. Duane was way off match ready and Dweba (great player for the future) had confidence issues at the lineout.

Great vid, thanks. One of your best. Really enjoy your channel.

For the 100th time, please, please make ‘How did Georgia beat Italy’. This really was one of the biggest outcomes in Rugby history generally.

keep doing what you doing squidge' wait for this every time south Africa plays

We enjoyed your analysis and commentary. Thank you.

This made me feel much better about the loss, thank you.

No better rugby channel than this, always looking forward to a video after game day 🇿🇦

Phenomenal analysis!!! Thank you so much

Thank you, Squidge. You are a shining light in a world that can become very dark at times. With love and respect from South Africa.

Thank you Will and Robbie!

1331 to put Ardie on the wing for that massive gain was lovely to watch

South African here. Love your videos. I’m not even that into sports even though I went to a rugby school. Your videos have really given me a huge appreciation for the game now again. Thanks

Is it really a coincidence that NZ put together their most analysis driven game with Joe Schmidt literally analysing and selecting for them? A guy who is known for his ability to put together a specific gameplay and set/power plays to nullify a defence. Especially now he has been announced as the new attack coach, I can't help but think that he had a bigger role to play in this test and as an Irish fan I am worried about what that means for NZ going forward and the potential QF against them...

Pleaseeeee UPLOAD MORE YOUR VIDEOS ARE SOO GOOD IVE ALREADY WATCHED THEM ALL ❤️

Yours has become the quintessential analysis.Well done again!

The Boks played their best rugby. No excuses there, but yet again this loss makes us underdogs again, completely fine with me

There can be only one Team Squidge!! Light-hearted, technical and honest.

I love your vids man keep it up

great stuff as always squidgemeister. whilst i share your admiration of B Barrett, probably my favourite non irish player, i think there needs to be a shout out to richie mo'unga. can hardly think of a more pressure filled game to make your first start of the year, but he was total class.

Loved loved loved the Saul Goodman reference on the week of the Better Call Saul series final. Thank you

Me: time to be productive with my day. I'm gonna go do some work and chores Squidge: the fuck you are

Awesome analysis, thanks.

God you're good Squidge. Much love, keep up the good work

I love your videos. Emphatically.

Thanks Squidge, you are the best analyst by far.

It's nice the squidge finally accepts that Wales real competition in rugby these days are teams like Georgia and Romania

I dont think ive ever seen a wholesome rugby comment section

Okay so I've paused this video right at the start. I'm going into it as a Bok fan who is hurting a little bit. Here are my thoughts before we go in and I'm going to see if my mind is changed by the end: - we didn't play badly. It was a decent game. NZ was just better than us on that given day - NZ lifted their game immensely and it's the best I've seen them since... Since before the last world cup - Dweba was shocking, costing us a scrum right at the start and then the first offensive lineout. Was a mistake not to play Malcolm "Mincemeat" Marx - Very big gamble on Vermeulen. I love him but he wasn't ready - The disallowed try was a real obstruction and was a fair decision - The penalty was the correct decision instead of a penalty try, even though I believe we would have scored - The challenge on Mapimpi was a shocking miss - The ref was not bad, I think he had a fair game. Let's watch!!

Excellent video. I love your narrating. It's so amusing, yet insightful. Both teams did well, but I feel the AB's had the dirty side of the game down more than the boks. It was that that meant the first 20mins we didn't have a single point on the board, when we could've/should've had a try at least. I said after the game that the ref influenced the game for the boks. I still stand by it.

I'm a kiwi and I love your vids Squidge, excellent breakdown as always. Remarkable.

The Squarespace advert was bloody fantastic!!!

Bro you should make all advertisements ever. I actually look forward to watching how you work them in to the video and I absolutely HATE ads. Brilliant 👌🏻

What made the difference last Saturday was that the All Blacks had unity in all aspects of the game: scrums, rucks, line-outs, set piece, turn-over, high ball takes, standing up in the tackle, player support when needed without exception. The fact is that this Bok performance may well be good enough to beat any other side, including France & Ireland, however the All Blacks read everything so well & put the game beyond doubt after reaching 0-15 in spite of the Boks temporarily taking a slight lead which, evidently, meant little & no wonder the Ellis Park crowd was suitably stunned. Bravo the All Blacks & a thumping good analysis in this video. Good one!

Class as always.

HIYA SQUIDGE ! How you doing?! Trust your not burnt out from such an intense summer 👍🏻 We do miss your work when we don’t get a new vid!

Agreed that the Boks actually played pretty well. A bit complacent at the start, and disrupted by the changes, but ultimately just beaten by the better team on the day. The combination of Pollard, Willemse and Le Roux was great to watch. Lots of variety and adaptability.

Week after week, the best analysis in the game!!

Cracking vid again, wld love to see your analysis of the Aus v Argentina games if u get the chance

Great analysis!

Cant wait for the NZ vs Pumas review.

Good analysis of an epic encounter, there's now about 7 teams at the top of rugby who can all beat each other on the day but it's great to see the AB's re-animated, don't write them off just yet

"It heartbreakingly means, we'll never get to see the xhosa commentary on this moment shared on social media " 😭

Even the squarespace ad is amazing

Beautiful game from All Blacks to climb back up that mountain and conquer the Springboks after their very disappointing previous games. It was not easy by any means, Bokke are no rollover team, let's hope the All Blacks keep up their pace and focus. 🏈👍🔥

Callout on identity is so on point at 11-12min mark - enjoyed this video.

@ Squidge....dude. I seriously think you should consider a coaching job. Any country would be lucky to have you on their coaching staff. I literarily wait for your videos to come out. I enjoy your videos immensely. Lastly big shout out to your support staff (If any) for also making your vids possible. Keep up the brilliant work.

Thanks for the quality breakdown. Hopefully our boys have turned a corner. Loving the Podcast, would love a little more chat about the third best marching band in New Zealand in 1987 though.

13:52 that Lukhanyo Is joke had me in stitches!

Man that square space ad was like a kick in the guts

Legend, well played brov

Genius videos as always

Three things for me. 1) Jason Ryan impact cant be understated. Hes had the fowards for two weeks and their improvement has been phenominal. When have we ever seen a post 2018 SA get that well beaten up front. If the all black forwards continue to find their groove they will be very hard to beat. 2) Foster has always been first and foremost a great attack coach. I think we saw this in the weekend and i think the way the managent team is structured going forward his focus on this area will pay dividends. 3) Joe Scmidth is now the shadow head coach. In the past All black teams out of (humble) arrogance have gone about their business with the mindset of "if we can play our game the way we want to, no body can beat us". As teams have gotten better (and the all blacks worse), we havent been able to get into our groove and have largely won games on indivial brilliance or oppositon mistakes. Joe will change that as he has proven time and time again with ireland that their isnt a better coach in world rugby at getting his team to adopt a plan that not only plays to their strengths but specifically targets areas of the oppostion. Bring on RWC23

One thing I noticed last week and this week was that when we are forced to shift our centres out to the wing we lose on the defence in the middle channels and the ABs exploited that massively. While having Willie on was great I think having Herchel on instead and moving Jaden to the wing might have been better. Or alternatively moving Damian or Damian (lol) to Wing and leaving Lukanyo at 13? just feels like we opening ourselves up a lot there.

Great analysis.

Hey Squidge, would be amazing if you did an New Zealand NPC rundown for the rest of rugbydom - it's so much more exciting this year with plenty of high profile players getting stuck in to provincial rugby

Top analysis as always, and super interesting. Has me wondering though: the last couple of AB games it seems like Barrett (Beauden, that is) has been one of the better performers. How much of this turn around is due to Mo'unga stepping in at 10, or doesn't it matter? Was a game plan being applied the main difference or is Mo'unga better at marshalling the attack?

I always agree with your analysis of a game, but man… there were 4 “try scoring” (or stopping ) penalties in this game that went unpunished that it just irritated me. The boks committed 1 foul and the AB committed 3. The only punishment for these 4 fouls was 2 yellow cards. Some of the fouls were straight up malicious and unsportsmanlike as well.

Terrific analysis! Perhaps the strategy of the Boks playing at altitude backfired somewhat. As you reported, and other analysts have also commented especially the fact that many in the home side no longer habitually play in those conditions and so lost the expected advantage, the need for the SA's to go to the bench so early led to a conditioning issue in the final 10 minutes for them. This, inspite of a player advantage, saw the AB's superior fitness prevail and get the result?

Do a video about Portugal rugby please!! It’s really growing and deserves recognition

Excellent game from these two GREAT teams

It's true that the gaps have largely closed. At least among about 7 teams or so. Under that there are a few good teams (about 4 or 5) that I would argue still struggle with consistency (Japan, Georgia, Argentina, Scotland, Fiji..maybe Italy?). Once you go under that there is still a massive gap. But as you say it's a huge improvement over the 3 team domination that has existed for decades in rugby.

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If you listen to Ian Foster being interviewed he said that in this game the players showed more patients then in past games. Which allowed the system to work. The previous week they pushed passes that weren't there. This by all means was not a polished performance but I have total faith in Ian Foster to take the All Blacks to the world cup final and win it. It is still a long way off so alot can happen in that time but I am backing my team. If you hear Mike Cron interviewed about Jason Ryan becoming forwards coach he said that Ian Foster is one of the best backs attacking coaches he has ever seen. With him now taking a more hands on roll with the attack and Joe Schmitt in the mix I am hoping the All Blacks will be a formidable force. I also believe a key factor in the AB's win over the Springboks is the ref didn't allow the Springboks to slow the game down with BS injuries like they did the week before and like Ireland were able to do. Not complaining that they do it, that's gamesmanship. But if the referee does this in future it will play into the AB's hands. Just my 2 cents!

I think this Ellis Park test match is going to turn into a major turning point for the All Blacks and it shows the impact of Jason Ryan and Joe Schmidt coming onboard. I believe we just witnessed the rebirth of the All Blacks who are only going to get better as they spend more time with Schmidt and Ryan coaching them. By the end of the Rugby Championship I expect the All Blacks pack will be playing with the intensity, ruthlessness and dominance of the Crusaders pack.

I hope when Ox Nche retires he starts a podcast called "Ox in Chair"

You are spot on squidge, by poor selections, they had to bring the bomb squad on early, and despite their " injury breaks" every ten minutes, and water breaks ( unsure what page that law is on) every 20 minutes, they ran out of gas in the last ten. Which may have been the dastardly plan to keep fossie as coach. And easily the best commercial segue ever. Brilliant mate

great analysis, and at least in this the Boks get a fair shout as they did play well, interesting take on the drop goal debacle, with Mo'unga at 10 this won't be a problem and I think it is likely the ABs will revert to their old ways of being very structured while backing their skills and ability to execute attack and counter-attack under pressure and having a plan B of winning at any cost. You were looking for a name for that style, "All Black". PS you are a brave man at 15':10".

Thank you!

Do trust you might consider the Aus v South Africa game at the Adelaide Oval. About 35000 people from a non-rugby state rocked up. (SA is an AFL - Australian Rules Football state) This is the first time in 20 years a game with the Wallabies has been played here. The potential for rugby in South Australia is huge.

Geez, don’t like watching this when it’s my boys😭. But I have to😭😂

Thank you Squidbuddy rugrat

Squidge, I'd love to hear a bit more on your thoughts of Lukhanyo Am being pushed to the wing, especially after it happened again against the Wallabies on Saturday. You briefly mentioned that you probably wouldn't want our best 13 on the wing every week, and that he turned inside to defend Ioane as if defending as a 13 when he was on the wing. The Springboks have now twice shifted their entire backline during a Test, ending with Willemse at 12, De Allende at 13 and Am at 14. However, it appears that our famous defence becomes quite fragile without Lukhanyo organising from 13. The Boks conceded four times and looked vulnerable against the AB's with Am on the wing, and both second half tries conceded against the Wallabies on Saturday were when Am was on the wing. I believe the Boks are a better team with Am at 13 organising things, following in the footsteps of the dominant Springbok (2007-2009) and All Black (2010 - 2016) teams with Jacque Fourie and Conrad Smith organising defences. If the Boks want Willemse as an extra distributor at 12, I would rather sacrfice De Allende than Am, although that is harsh on DDA as he's been sublime at 12, if perhaps a little one dimensional. I still support your view as Willie le Roux as the Boks best 15, as our attack is a different animal with him co-ordinating things. If we're trying to bring variation to our attack, and we may need it to convert the pressure we build in the opposition 22 without scoring, then perhaps attempting Willemse at 12, Am at 13 and le Roux at 15 would be an option. DDA did start his Bok career on the wing so I wouldn't be opposed to shifting him to 14 until Kolbe is back. Alternatively, after a shocker against the Wallabies on Saturday, perhaps giving Willemse a run at 10 in place of Pollard could be an option. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this in the future. Thanks for another excellent video Squidge!

Great analysis and very interesting. I enjoyed it. One editing suggestion I have been meaning to make since I subscribed - make the text more legible (bigger) and hold it on screen for longer. I read fast, don’t wear glasses but I cannot pick it all up watching on a phone. Call me lazy but I don’t like to pause to see what it says. I imagine your audience includes all age groups including many older than me. I assume they would also want the text (even if it is a gag) to be legible. This is of course a minor point. You do great work. The analysis is in a class of its own.

You should make shorts about the team line ups before the games 🔥🔥

"Jammie Gits" - Hope this is a reference to your beloved Welsh, Squidge 😆

We let ourselves down at key points, like when our 9 stupidly box kicked straight into their 22 with 9 minutes left to play and after we'd finally gained the lead. Our execution when going for the try was also pretty shit.

What seems to be missed by all is that during the Irish test series and the 1st test against the Springboks the match officials policed the game extremely strictly, i.e. tackling players past the ruck, holding players, obstructions etc all the subtle "streetwise" tactics that create space, the All Blacks showed improvement and the Boks did themselves no favours. But you can bet the officials have been told to temper their approach

I think it's great to lose. Especially the way the Boks did. Gotta find out how teams might exploit you. A few things we saw, Daune not fit, but played anyways, Marx maybe should start vital matches. I think the backs did awesome jobs considering the early injury. Definitely looked tired at the end there, and playing in Johannesburg with those early subs, it was always gonna be a tough last few. I think Janjies should have been subbed in as well. Small things ended up causing big points. Lots to learn for the younger guys.

Completely off topic for this video and I don't know about anyone else but I couldn't be happier that we're getting Japan vs. Chile in next year's RWC. Match of the tournament potential IMHO.

Fantastic analysis. I too thought it was a great game that the All Black won rather than the Springboks lost. I loved the improvisation that came out of the Boks backline with the forced positional change. I'd like to have seen a little more analysis of how the All Blacks managed to shift the battle between the forwards, especially in the set pieces. Not sure what the scrum penalty count was in the end, but it certainly wasn't dominated by the Springboks and losing four lineouts on their own throw-in is not something you would expect from the Boks.

Great analysis but two words, Joe Schmidt. His job was to sit at home, analyze the opposition and come up with solutions. The difference between the first game and the second in the way the ABs played has Joe written all over it. Jason Ryan's influence cannot be overlooked either, it was such a relief to see the pack playing with such certainty. Maybe, just maybe, the new new coaching set up just announced, with Joe putting a track suit on, means the ABs are back.

Your channel is as useful as the rewind button on my remote

Tis RSA's long term plan is to ensure the NZ coach remains in place for the 2023 World cup...

11:53 my favourite segment, especially when describing France

The Uruguay vs Fiji match, in the Japan World Cup was GOLLDDDDD!

Appreciate your effort to help me accept that foster is staying. Lads played well.

France being "French" is some outstanding punditry, mais oui. That one made me laugh!

@squidge I feel you left alot of meat on the bone here there is so much more you could have reviewed here this is arguably the game of the year it definitely needs a part 2

I love how this video was made "knowing" they were gonna beat los pumas