{"id":294971,"date":"2023-10-23T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=294971"},"modified":"2023-10-23T20:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:24:59","slug":"south-africa-and-england-accused-of-being-bad-for-rugby-after-world-cup-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/rugby-league\/south-africa-and-england-accused-of-being-bad-for-rugby-after-world-cup-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa and England accused of being ‘bad for rugby’ after World Cup bout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawes reviews England's Rugby World Cup semi-final loss to South Africa<\/h3>\n

Former Scotland coach Matt Williams has accused South Africa of being bad for rugby following their 16-15 win over England in the World Cup semi-finals on Saturday night. The Springboks completed an impressive comeback against Steve Borthwick\u2019s side, only taking the lead with just minutes left on the clock.<\/p>\n

The key to South Africa\u2019s success at the Stade de France was penalty kicks, making use of Handre Pollard\u2019s impressive accuracy from distance. However, Jacques Nienaber\u2019s team have been slated for relying on set-pieces to try and win penalties rather than more \u2018traditional\u2019 tactics.<\/p>\n

Australian pundit Williams is among those to criticise their style of play and feels that the world champions are not a great advertisement for rugby union with their scrum-heavy approach.<\/p>\n

He told Virgin Media Sport: \u201cWhat are you incentivising? By giving a penalty where you can take three points or kick for touch and start a maul, you are incentivising scrummaging to get the penalty. If you take that incentive away, well then what\u2019s the incentive?<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou get the ball to the backs, you have 16 forwards tied up so there is all this space. All through the 90s and early 00s, we had wonderful back row moves and wonderful backline plays coming off scrums, it was entertaining and it was great.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scrums were still there and they were a contest, you could still get a pushover try, but the referee wasn\u2019t going to give you a penalty unless you did foul play or were offside. The game was much better for it\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n