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Kieran Read on Rassie's F-Bombs, the Mind Games and the Third Test

Kieran Read on Rassie's F-Bombs, the Mind Games and the Third Test

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The All Blacks lost the second test in Cape Town but were they
actually that bad? Andy Rowe is joined by former All Blacks captain
and two-time Rugby World Cup winner Kieran Read to break down a
game that turned on two minutes at the start and an aerial battle
the All Blacks still can't win. Read explains the untidy exit that
had New Zealand seven points down inside two minutes, why the
Springboks changed their defensive picture (14 in the line, nobody
hunting the ruck) and what that means for the way the All Blacks
attack. Plus the accuracy numbers: South Africa took 4.8 points
from every 22 entry, New Zealand just 2.8 from nine. There's the
2009 parallel (Matfield, box kicks and the series that changed how
New Zealand played the game) and why the All Blacks are still
catching high balls the old-school way. Pieter-Steph du Toit's
100th test. Then there's Rassie. The suit and tie, the team sheet
handed over half an hour before kickoff, the F-bombs in the press
conference and the complaint that the All Blacks are planting seeds
in the media (from the man who put out an hour-long video on the
referees during the Lions series). Read's take: "coaches have been
doing this for a long time, but Rassie is the absolute king of it."
Plus the scrum row it all came from: "we're not walking around,
we're scrumming." And what changes for the third test, including
Sam Darry, a six-two bench and where Rieko Ioane fits. Over the
Tasman, the Wallabies win 27-21 in Argentina, Les Kiss loosens the
structure, and Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii starts on the bench — would
you put him on the All Blacks wing to catch our high balls? This
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