Tony Johnson

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DSPN -RUGBY · 'GAME ON' | Tony Johnson Breaks Down All Blacks LOSS In Cape Town · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

Game on. voice-verified

Well, joining us to comb through it all now, Nigel Yeldon. voice-verified

Nigel, first and foremost, before we get to the All Black South Africa thing, you commentated an epic Ranfurly Shield match on Sunday coming out of Whangarei. voice-verified

And boy, an old-fashioned Shield game and really a lot of fun to watch. voice-verified

Yeah, and quite a world away from the white-hot reaction to what we saw in the second test in Cape Town. voice-verified

The inevitable bocklash, I think I referred to it as last week, they came back strongly. voice-verified

But I thought that was a deserved win from a Springbok team that just did right a whole lot of things that they didn't quite do right at Ellis Park. voice-verified

Yeah, I was talking to a former All Black who watched the game and his comment was, look, they managed their way through the key passages of the game better. voice-verified

And I suppose you look at the start, that driving mall, that straightaway you think the alarm bells are going off here. voice-verified

This is a different Springbok beast. voice-verified

And you look at that period there, the way they opened up. voice-verified

And I also thought the early stages of the second half, because... voice-verified

We've said it so often, matches can be really decided either side of halfway or big moves towards winning a match can be made either side of halfway. voice-verified

And that was a period just after halftime where the Springboks managed things well and the All Blacks just made some crucial mistakes that really hindered their efforts to get themselves back into the game. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Look, for all that, I mean, we think back a year ago and what happened after the Springboks lost at Eden Park. voice-verified

They went to Wellington and absolutely toweled the All Blacks. voice-verified

It was a win of record-breaking proportions. voice-verified

That didn't happen this time. voice-verified

And really, for all the fact that the Springboks, you felt, had the game kind of in their hands for the most part, voice-verified

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