All Blacks had opportunities to hit the lead with missed kicks at least. Mo’unga has been a huge loss in his kicking and playmaking
It's looking shaky for Razor they have to win 2:0 against this Aussie side flogged by Argentina, and the end of year tour they play Ireland, France, England and Italy, what a tough tour for a regime still finding their feet, lose 2 he'll be under a lot of pressure
The loss of 4-5 ultra senior players is taking a toll and Roigard with the long term injury made it worse. If they struggle for the rest of the year I guess they might payout Japan and rush Mo'unga back, he's Razor's conductor for the 7-peat....
Pundits and people don't like to pin it on 1 person but DMac is a known serial chocker, gave away a free kick when he took too long to take the clutch goal kick to extend the lead vs England, threw 1 of the 2 passes from halfway to in-goal and ending up conceding the match winner vs Argentina at home, hit the post yesterday followed by missing a sitter in front that would have given us the lead & put pressure on SA with 6-7min to go.....when the Chiefs were in hot form in 2021 and he was the best half at the time, he also managed to choke and miss half the kicks in the final, where Mo'unga went into beastmode as usual.
He's just not good enough as a starting 10 and he reminds of
CHT, it was like watching the Warriors again when the playmaker kept on missing clutch kicks in front or passing the ball to in goal, in
CHT's case no look pass to the touch judge
Like if your 10 has composure and nails key moments we would win 1 of those SA games, not lose to Argentina, and the conversation would be how to we push ahead of the world champions in Razor's second year...but now we're almost in a SOS mode