{"id":1189226,"date":"2026-09-06T07:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189226\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:21:15","slug":"underperformed-again-three-all-blacks-who-flopped-against-the-springboks-page-3-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189226\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Underperformed again&#8221; &#8211; Three All Blacks who flopped against the Springboks &#8211; Page 3 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Bower<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bower makes the list of underperformers for many of the same reasons as Lomax, although he can take slightly more credit for his overall contribution than his tighthead counterpart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, his scrummaging also fell short of the exceptionally high standard required against the Springboks, which had a significant impact on the All Blacks\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He conceded an early penalty but was heavily involved defensively, putting in plenty of tackles and showing an excellent work rate throughout his time on the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scrum was relatively solid, but like Lomax, he was eventually overpowered on his own line, contributing to the penalty try. He was replaced after 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>EDITORS PICKS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Bower Bower makes the list of underperformers for many of the same reasons as Lomax, although he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1189226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117222892456212202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}