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13-11-2012, 12:20 AM
IT MIGHT have been worse. It might have been a lot worse. Nevertheless, there were far too many missed tackles – 21 according to a published statistic, as against 71 made. Curiously, the All Blacks had to make more tackles than the sum total we made and missed, while missing 11 themselves. But this just goes to show how misleading statistics can be. They had to make more tackles because we played a lot of pick-and-drive. In contrast, they moved the ball wide time and time again. One might add that if Dan Carter is faced by a prop and hooker, he will break between them nine times out of ten.
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