Scrum

So congrats to him on his 40th cap and it's been incredible to watch.

And shock you will tell you the greatest thing he's done in his career is at Scrum in the World Cup final.

to secure that ball, which was incredible.

But yeah, it is interesting because I think the best way with the Wallabies, I mean, that Paul de Villiers, Fraser McGrath battle is, wow.

They resorted back to their set piece.

Scrum had been rock solid.

Line out, they'd overthrown a few, but their strike moves and their starter plays were class, weren't they?

Yeah, they were.

I thought it was a very fair test series.

I thought that... you know, the Springboks had the upper hand and the set piece, which immediately I think of Scrum and, you know, some test matches, some matches in that series, they started Will Collo, other matches, they brought him off the bench.

Other matches, they started Dianne Ferry in either the second or the third series and brought Malcolm Marks off the bench.

So the Scrum was a big feature, but after the first test, And I'm getting some of them confused.

I'm pretty sure it was the second test.

South Africa put a huge emphasis on contesting in the line-out.

It wasn't just referee interpretation and if the scrum breaks up, then it's a penalty and whatever.

you know, very repetitive.

They've gotta somehow deal with the, the, the, the Springbok defense and the speed of the Springbok defense, not just Kriel but the others, and their enthusiasm to get in and compete at the, the tackle contest.

Steve said scrum.

Scrum's a big part of the, the game, dealing with the high balls, not the box kicks but, you know, the bombs and things like that.

The high balls, y- we, we, we know that, uh, Pollard's there, so he's gonna be-- he's gonna execute the kicking game, the cross-field kicks, things like that.

Competing there is gonna be important.

So, opinion.

We have some Scrum chat.

Oh, this was just a funny thing about in my head.

It was.

You know, so we know that South Africa always want to choose a Scrum.

And at this particular moment in time in the game, Carl gave South Africa the option of a line-out for Scrum because it got knocked on.

Yeah.

I love when, as a referee, you have to give them the options anyway, because that's what it is.

I just wonder if there's time to bring Mike Cron back in for a period of time.

So Mike Cron is known as the- Scrum guru.

Messiah of when it comes to the scrum.

He lives in our backyard.

Tupou Vai drops a ball from the kickoff.

What happens? Scrum, South African on our 25, uh, 22 score.

Uh, uh, today, a knock on.

You know, um, I've got little...

Maya Kawanaka, Alani Roos and Laura Bayfield.

Lock the Scrum, Mia Anderson, Eleanor Plum-King and Liana Makaelitu'u at the loose forwards.

Maya Joseph and Hannah King in the halves.

Justine McGregor on the left, Mererangi Paul on the right, Amy Duplessis and Sylvia Brunt in the midfield with Braxton Sorensen-Magee at fullback.