The Springboks\u2019 all-court game has been hailed by New Zealanders James Parsons and Bryn Hall following their Rugby Championship title defence.<\/b><\/p>\n
The duo were mightily impressed by Rassie Erasmus<\/a>\u2018 charges throughout the tournament, with Parsons stating that he has not seen a team that is so consistent in their statistics as the Boks were in 2025.<\/p>\n While Hall was left questioning \u2018how do you stop the Springboks\u2019 who have so many options in attack and styles at their disposal.<\/p>\n Springboks\u2019 options<\/p>\n After praising South Africa\u2019s<\/a> scrum and the influence of loosehead prop Ox Nche, Parsons turned his attention to the accuracy and ruthlessness of the Boks once they enter the opposition\u2019s 22.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are the one side who across the Rugby Championship<\/a> scored a bulk of tries, five plus phases, and it\u2019s all to do with that pick and go, just anyone next man up,\u201d he said on the Aotearoa Rugby Podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cAgain, sometimes I feel like it\u2019s a mass thing; they just dominate the collision, and they know that eventually they\u00a0are going to go over.\u201d<\/p>\n Hall added: \u201cI also agree around the 22, how do you stop them? Like when it\u2019s in the 22 and they\u2019ve been able to have guys that are latching, they\u2019ve got ball carriers, how do you stop them? Because it\u2019s hard when it comes to efficiency, they get over the advantage line, two cleaners. Good luck.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I guess the solution is that you don\u2019t want them to get into the entry of the 22. Try to have them in a low number because when they are in there, I don\u2019t know, it seems like it\u2019s unstoppable at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Reading further into the stats, Parsons believes that South Africa were consistent from minute one to 80 during their Rugby Championship matches, which was not true for the other three nations.<\/p>\n Ex-All Black offers theory to Springboks scrum success as \u2018absolute dominance\u2019 has a \u2018consistent theme\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Turnover attack<\/p>\n The Springboks have also paired their physical brutality with Tony Brown\u2019s attacking structures, which gives the defence too much to consider, according to Parsons, who also likened their threat on turnover ball to the All Blacks under the tutelage of Wayne Smith.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s their ability to play so many different ways because defenders have so much to think about, and if you look in terms of consistent themes with South Africa in the Rugby Championship, they have the most balanced scoring metrics,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you look at every other team, you can see that in that 20 minutes, they are good and that 20 minutes, they struggle, but South Africa it\u2019s balanced scoring, balanced defence, and balanced conceding across the 80 minutes.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are just so consistent, and then obviously when they get into the 22 they they build a lot of phases and score, but 52% of their tries come from turnover.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I look at those stats, all I think about is when Wayne Smith brought in that click attack, and you have 15 seconds. They have that and mass brutality in the 22. They know what they\u2019re doing, but defence doesn\u2019t, so you have to be wary for the cross-field kick to Kolbe, you can\u2019t tighten up and go, \u2018Okay, we\u2019re going to take you on muscle to muscle\u2019 because they go, \u2018Okay, sweet, we\u2019re just going to go to the edge and score.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve just got that bag of tools that will expose you and game drivers that make really good decisions based on the pictures that the defence is giving them.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never really seen anything like it in any team across 80 minutes across a competition to see such consistent themes in terms of points scored, points conceded.\u201d<\/p>\n