Tony Johnson

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

You get to the end of the game and the All Blacks were still in with a shot at a remarkable draw if they'd been able to get a converted try. voice-verified

So they stayed in the contest. voice-verified

And so does that say just where this All Black team has come in the last 12 months? voice-verified

era. voice-verified

Yeah, talking about those micro moments, and I mentioned one early on, and I think the score was pretty close. voice-verified

It was about 10-7, something like that. voice-verified

And the All Blacks were attacking, and then there's that... voice-verified

off the ball clean out by luke jacobson and then the piggyback effect downfield and then there's an illegal what they call it an escort run and moments later instead of actually threatening the springbok try line the box are knocking over three points and to me that was one of the key passages of the whole game if the all blacks had been able to make something out of that if that voice-verified

error hadn't been committed that gave them the exit and then the momentum to get downfield and challenge and score those three points. voice-verified

Who knows? voice-verified

And those are the moments that they have got to eliminate because as we've seen so often over the years, it's those micro moments, those little flash points that so often can decide a test match. voice-verified

Yeah, I mentioned the discipline side of things. voice-verified

You've brought up that tactic that the All Blacks have come up with, that it's actually the player running back trying to catch the high ball rather than the player coming forward. voice-verified

It was an interesting one, but again, the Springboks seem to have read that pretty well. voice-verified

The other thing they read really well was the lineouts and just a classic example of an experienced campaigner. voice-verified

And I thought Eben Etzebeth was absolutely monstrous in this game, absolutely fantastic. voice-verified

But the way he was able... voice-verified

to get in front of, and there was one line out in particular where Va'i was lifted straight up, but he got in front of him. voice-verified

And that's a classic thing. voice-verified

For example, we used to see that from Victor Matfield or Sam Whitelock. voice-verified

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