Two-try Len Ikitau the difference as Brumbies hold off Fijian Drua

At least the ref was very communicative & not trigger happy like last week. Some clearly wrong tackler/ruck calls. & Lomax yellow, FACT OF RULES IS a player has to change direction for that infringement. Lomax's feet didn't even move off his spot before Kolbe RAN, AT ANGLE, INTO HIM. NOR any Lomax arms for a classic clothesline. REwatch, blind if can't see it.

None of those wrong ref calls would have changed the result. Best team won.

Wake up Mr Razor & gang. Actually in fairness to Foster... Mr 50% [Fiji doesn't count] Razor. 

FORWARDS fine, except desperately need SR star SOTUTU. 

BACKLINE 3rd rate. NZ back stocks fantastic but Razor & gang asleep.  Changes needed, actually was needed pre-SAf, 

TJ, Reece GONE!

Reece?I was his biggest fan, BUT... Low impact & shouldhave been awarded SAf last try. Defensive vague out & didn’t even yell for obviously needed support on the blind. Lost the test . + a few other errors after similar in previous tests.

TJ? Ratima going fine. But Razor replaces him with Mr Shouty, TJ. STILL repeatedly warned be ref to shut it! Nothing professional about him.

Too late now Mr50% but need, AT LEAST [CONSERVATIVELY ]; 

{starting} 

9 {Ratima}/ Christie (ie waiting on Roigard!) 

10 {D.McKenzie }/ Plummer 

12 {J.Barrett}/ ALB 

13 {Proctor} ( backup R. Ioane) 

14 {Narawa}/ R. Ioane 

11 {C.Clarke} / Tele’a 

15 {W.Jordan} (backup J.Barrett) 

For me the picture is like Locke's its a all or nothing approach, you don't catch it and its a scoring chance, you're off full stop. Or you can do what you like to get any body part possible in the road of it and its treated like a normal charge down (imagine someone slapping it down and it bounces back up into their arms and they charge off down the field!!) :D

The fast ruck ball is where they looked great and I see that being how they need to play to win big games.

Nick gill has some work to do if we're not fit enough to play that game.

That was our bread and butter years ago. Run the big boys off the park.

I think he is so different he will really need to stop playing his games and stuff in a few years. If he doesn't settle selection in particular down and help with transition I have definitely considered it being a rough change "coming down" from Rassie as a coach. So that's all without factoring in him just simply being the best coach in the world as well!

I'm not sure it was that much of a step up from Ireland. And as I see with those two teams, SA will also be at the same game, using the next group of teams down to get better at the killer parts of the game. The ones you don't get much practice at executing in these tight games (why execution is always such a big word from the coaches). As NZ is also getting their combinations firing, so will SA be making this improvement you ask. I'm not sure Argies will be the team to try it on but Rassie is already trying something for that first game. Even these EOYTs are looking exciting now.

Well on the elevated camera (not the low angle one the South African TV people kept wanting to show!!) I could clearly see daylight. So an onfield try would have been overturned👍

Didn't our guys look just as gassed to you? Maybe that why Razor threw TJ on!