Tony Johnson

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7,552 appearances 26 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

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

We just have to paint better pictures for the referees it etc. voice-verified

But there's no question that it key moment again has been a weapon for this spring voice-verified

Bok team, not just now you think about the way they demolished Ireland. voice-verified

Um and and they have such a powerful scrum. voice-verified

And when they get to scrum the way they like to scrum, it's hellishly hard to stop. voice-verified

Three different referees, three totally different ways of policing the uh yeah, M Matthew Carly around allowed some leeway, but when it came to the crunch he was prepared to penalise the spring box when they had that scrum five metres from the all black line. voice-verified

Um, Angus Gardner insisted on square and straight, because that's how it's done in this part of the world. voice-verified

And then you had Nika Amishukelli who I voice-verified

I I guess had a more le say fair approach to it. voice-verified

But e again voice-verified

the the the smart teams and you think about all the time that Richie McCaw played and George Smith for Australia, these great open side flankers David Pocock, and the line always was the thing that made them brilliant was that they would work out the parameters, the boundaries that the referee set and they would play to them. voice-verified

And again, that's what the what the Springboks did. voice-verified

And look I I d it the the risk of prolonging it. voice-verified

I had a uh quite a long chat with a guy who's played a lot of rugby in the front row and he's played in South Africa and he's played in France and Australia and New Zealand and he's saying that what's going on, every team tries to do it. voice-verified

There's no question. voice-verified

Every single team tries to to isolate the tight head prop or whatever it is that they're doing. voice-verified

But he said in this case voice-verified

sixty percent of it at least comes down to the size and the power and the ability of the spring box. voice-verified

So at least sixty percent of it just that that's a that's a a big factor in it as well. voice-verified

So I look yeah we'll we'll move on from that because as I say, the All Blacks are going to have to come up with answers. voice-verified

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