Tony Johnson

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DSPN -RUGBY · RUTHLESS Springboks OVERPOWER All Blacks In Soweto | Match Breakdown w/ Tony Johnson · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

I thought the springbox, particularly down the stretch, really voice-verified

really showed their dominance. voice-verified

I think the thing about the Springboks, we've always known they've always been big and strong, but you add smarts into that mix and they are a very smart team. voice-verified

When they get it all together, you think about that first test, they look like a side that hadn't played together as a unit for a while and I'm not pouring any cold water on on what the All Blacks did. voice-verified

I mean, 'cause they scored five tries in that test. voice-verified

They deserved to win that test match. voice-verified

But once voice-verified

that core had played that time together, you can see not only their the strengths that we all know them for, but I just think those the the smartness as well, plus the ability to build pressure and wave after wave after wave where teams inevitably will make mistakes that can turn a game. voice-verified

Yeah, I also thought they took a bit of a risk going into this test match. voice-verified

with just a slightly different look to their forward pack. voice-verified

I thought they'd done pretty well out of having Tupul Vati playing at number six. voice-verified

It just gave them that extra bit of size and I think they might have sacrificed a bit of surprise for uh a size I should say, um, for mobility. voice-verified

Uh just to try and play around the spring box and it really it it didn't really come off. voice-verified

Look, they scored some great tries, no question about it, but I just w voice-verified

wonder whether they gave away a bit too much and that manifested itself uh particularly in one scrum um and uh a a driving mall where the just the lack of bulk there might have hurt them. voice-verified

Do you think having the captain going off when he did and let's hope it's not a serious injury but to me if it is a dislocated shoulder then there's every chance he won't play again this year, do you think that sort of leadership void might have contributed to that somehow? voice-verified

Because I just thought for the first time in this series towards the end of the game, there was just a semblance of I wouldn't describe it as absolute panic, but it wasn't voice-verified

as it just wasn't as controlled as you you would like it to be and th there wasn't the clarity about what they were doing that's probably been there through the early stages of this Dave Rennie tenure. voice-verified

Yeah, there's no question about it. voice-verified

When the Springboks come at you and wave after wave, and it it's funny, just looking back over the history of this great rivalry, um, you need to be reminded that only twice in the hundred plus years of rugby between these two nations, only twice has the visiting team won a test series on opposition soil, the Great Springboks of nineteen thirty seven with Danny Craven. voice-verified

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