Wellington performance against All Blacks was not good enough

WHEN Tony Brown was playing for the Sharks in 2006, he famously said he loved having “a pack of angry Afrikaners in front of him rather than attacking him.”

- MIKE GREENAWAY

Now, as Springbok attack coach, he is enjoying the ball his backline is receiving from that same pack. Brown, a former All Black and Highlanders flyhalf, saw the fruits of his labours in Wellington last week when the Boks overran his former team. But while rugby folk are raving about the 43-10 victory, Brown is not one of them.

The Kiwi says the Boks must be even better to give themselves the best chance of winning the Rugby Championship by beating the Pumas twice over the next fortnight, starting in Durban on Saturday.

“It was a good performance last week against the All Blacks, but Argentina are a different team playing pretty good rugby,” he said.

“They have beaten the All Blacks, they have beaten Australia, so the message to our guys is that if we don’t prepare as well as we can, and pitch up and be as physical and dominant as possible, we are going to be put under pressure.