Tony Johnson

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DSPN -RUGBY · Are The Springboks UNSTOPPABLE? | Tony Johnson Breaks Down The Greatest Rivalry Series · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

Maybe take the game away from the springbox strength, move those big forwards around the park. voice-verified

And in the end it did produce some scintillating rugby, some great tries, but the spring box still had the ultimate. voice-verified

Answers when it counted. voice-verified

And so does that mean now that, yeah, sure, play that game, but are there elements of the all blacks game that are going to need addressing and that at some point you have to meet them at the coal face, on the advantage line, in the collision zone, whatever you want to call it? voice-verified

And until you you can actually find some way of spiking their guns, even gaining some voice-verified

Some sort of edge, if not parity, um, then the Springboks are still going to be a very, very difficult proposition to beat. voice-verified

Yeah, I you have to have a kicking game. voice-verified

You have to have a long kicking game, you have to have a short kicking game and you have to be able to put the ball into the air. voice-verified

It's a question of how well you do it. voice-verified

And I think that's probably the issue that the Springboks do it so well that their ki their contestable kick rate is off the scale. voice-verified

And and look, I think the thing is and I I've talked a bit about what happened in two thousand and nine when the All Blacks were beaten in three test matches. voice-verified

By the Spring Box and quite a few of the similar characteristics of that series, you know, the Spring Box causing problems at the set piece, it was more the lineup back then with the likes of Victor Matfield. voice-verified

The kicking game was causing all sorts of issues for the All Blacks, and the All Blacks were making mistakes under pressure. voice-verified

And the thing that came out of that, and Graham Henry talked about it in that documentary that we did at Sky, The Weight of the Nation, and he said that the the silver. voice-verified

lining was it made us sit down and think about what we were doing. voice-verified

It made us think about what players uh we needed to do certain things, about our strategies, about our own roles as coaches. voice-verified

So they actually had to sit down and and really unpack the whole thing. voice-verified

And you you're talking three great brains of rugby, obviously, um Wayne Smith, Steve Hanson, Graham Henry. voice-verified

They will have to do that again now. voice-verified

They they will sit down and I have no doubt that they will. voice-verified

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