De Villiers and Rolland… Match Fixing???

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Published: July 17, 2010

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One can only imagine if we were watching cricket in the subcontinent that the ICC would be asking serious questions about today's test match.

Yes, call it sour grapes if you wish, but enough is enough.

When your coach is too arrogant to accept that he is in the wrong and refuses to drop players not performing, it looks like he is trying to throw a game.

When a referee is inconsistent in decision making and they all keep going in the favour of the same team, then questions must be raised.

I would urge the IRB to please investigate.

Let me rate the Springboks on performance, followed by the coach, then the ref and then the All Blacks.

Boks first up and we start with the big boys.

CJ and BJ both dominated at tight head. A pity that CJ got hurt. I this blame squarely on Rolland.

The front rows said they were too far apart he ignored the complaint and the scrum went down leaving the Tight Head injured. John played a great game, strong in the scrum, accurate in the lineouts and very good on cover defence.

Only complaint was that after McCaw was warned for a second time he should have insisted to the referee, that you have warned him already and the card is now required. Steenkamp was poor again in the scrums and certainly it is time to bring "The Beast" back into the game.

CJ and BJ rated six, Smit seven, and Steenkamp five.

The second rowers did well today except for Danie Roussow who actually "kicked" - it was more like prodded, guess who, "Cry Baby McCaw" with his boot. Strictly to Law that should have been a straight Red.

He got 10 minutes in the sin bin for that.

He then comes back to dominate the tight phases and scored a fantastic try.

Victor was standard again. Won his lineout, tried to run like a back and defend as he should have done.

Andries Bekker was lucky not to give away a try wi...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Rugby Union

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