A non fiction Sharks/Cheetahs account....it was only selection

Playing in Bloem, with the Cheetahs home swan song for many players....the Sharks put in the kids. Big mistake. From the moment the manne like Alberts, Bismarck and  Jannie arrived the game flipped.

The real problem was Swiel who missed touch, made a pathetic tackle attempt on the van der Walt try, and threw hospital passes all night long.....eg at minute 69.50. And he was caught in possession a few times and turned to stop the half. His lack of leadership at 10 was clear.

Opposite him Goosen relied on the boot....and he kicked very well, as did Fransie. Frans brought some good tackling and traffic running into the mix as well. His tackle on Sadie in space for example, after Sadie made a good cut.

JP is getting better and better at 13 and is a handful....he made one searing break. I would think HM is happy.

The fullbacks were both excellent....with Marais gaining a monumental 139 metres. He was every bit as good as Willie on the night.

Reinach must be the best running scrumhalf on the planet. He certainly put Willie and a disappointingly hesitant Hendricks to the sword. Sadly, as good as his running game is....his general scrumhalf play is poor with awkward blunders into the ruck, low passes and poorly directed kicks. Once again, when McLeod came on the Sharks became more fluid. Reinach is a long way from AB ready.

The Cheetahs maul was tremendous....but why were  Coetzee and Deysel spectators. Coetzee was also culpable in the Lood try. Once again in tough matches he is not the answer. He can run somewhat in space, not in traffic.

Coenie once again was a disaster....totally dominated at the end by young du Toit, who looks useful.

Lood had a fine game, but Lewies did not. Lood had a few lineout hiccups....the feed at minute 10.50 went right through his hands. And on another occasion he couldn't get the ball down and the Sharks lost it. He did, however, make a good steal at minute 59.34....using one hand to slap it away. A good effort from the big fella, but I think Willemse is the better of these young locks. It's a pity he is lost.

And the Cheetahs loosies were better than the Sharks till the power arrived. Deysel, by the way, had a shocker.

This was a missed opportunity for the Sharks....things don't get easier against the Stormers. They have to start Frans at 10....you can't have a kid learning his lines in the S15.

A very good article Mozart...must agree with the content and the implied context...don't always agree with you in fact most times but this time I go with this.

Well done boet...I hope Mike is humble enough to give you credit due...lolz

I find stats boring and a nemesis to accreditation to a game...anyway the paradox is that you are the mathematician...a fault no less and Mike is just the opposite ironically and uses stats to try and back his cause!

 And Beeno is the season for mole hunting due...the kamp has so many parodies...I thought it appropriate to encourage Rooinek the expert mole hunter to give us an update and get his latest information to their latest devious and clandestine activities.

can I help with an update to their strategies...lolz

http://youtu.be/kBO5dh9qrIQ

Here we go again......what a load of bloody bullshit.

Swiel had a good game as confirmed by the commentators all evening. He attacks the gain line and never threw a single hospital pass - all his passes went to hand and put people into space. Both Swiel and Goosen were good on the night.

Coenie was good in the scrums all game and the only time the Cheetahs scrum failed was at the end of the game when Cayleb Oosthuizen replaced Nkanyane at loosehead......Moz if you actually knew your rugby you would pick up on this, but hey ho, its the same old predictable shit.......your anti certain players is becoming a little tiresome, why do you bother with supporting SA rugby at all?

Willemse better than Lood.......bwhaahaaaaaaaaa. Willemse is very good, but Lood is far, far better - its not even close.

Coetzee had another fine game, he was far better than say Schalk for the Stormers

The Sharks lost because Jake fucked up the selections by not starting with his strongest side

A report and photo showed him together with the Paris St Germain Rugby Club and he himself posted the photo.   Could be - because he was a serious and very expensive flop for Stade Francais.

As I understand it both Stade Francais and Paris st Germain at one stage  belonged to the same owner - and the article on the issue quoted them as sister clubs.  

However, Paris St Germain is not a Top 14 club and it seems that they are a second level club with no representation in the French international team.  

If this arrangement proceeds I believe it would be a massive comedown for Steyn - a second level club in France and he is he to be considered for the Springbok team?   That would be a disgrace and I hope it does not happen.     

This from Rugby 24

"Former Western Province under-21 player Tim Swiel played against the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein last week, but he has failed to really make full use of his opportunities in the Sharks jersey this season and it would be a massive gamble for White to stick with him for a Newlands clash with the Stormers."

So I'm wondering, if Swiel is dropped for Newlands....will Dave and the Oom realize they were completely wrong about Swiel's performance against the Cheet ahs. Or will they attack Jake White....it's a lock that they will attack moz.

Wrong I never said Wales would beat us, I said we were a shit side and the Welsh proved that in the second test..........and confirmed just what a smack the Aussies and Kiwi's are going to give us.

You can quote me on this one - we will lose all 4 tests against Oz and NZ this year.

As per usual your takes are utter rubbish........Swiel was good, Coetzee has been great for some time now, Coenie dominated and if you think Lewies is overrated that just confirms how poor you are when it comes to player assessment - I mean look no further than rating Morne, or wanting Frans at 10 or rating de Jongh, but best of all Adi Jacobs over Fourie.......that is worse than Beenkop and his anti Matfield in his prime.

Moz your take on players is very, very poor......you hardly ever get them right........you remind me of a conservative Dutchie in charge of the game.......you like the bog ordinary or the washed up hasbeens  

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Destroyli has stuff all to do with it......Meyer is cocking up in a big way and I'm going to take great joy in saying I told you so  

"The real problem was Swiel who missed touch, made a pathetic tackle attempt on the van der Walt try, and threw hospital passes all night long.....eg at minute 69.50. And he was caught in possession a few times and turned to stop the half. His lack of leadership at 10 was clear."

This one contained a string of outright lies and misrepresentations.   Swiel was only peripherally invioolved in the tackle of Van der  Walt.  The tacklers were Deysel and Cooper.  Those two could not stop van der Walt = but Swiel gets the blame.    Swiel never threw hospital passes 3ever furing the whole game and that is an outright lie.  There was no instances where his "lack of leadership" was in evidence.   

Swiel in fact inititated a number of attacking moves and was involved in two such moves as well where he handled  balls more than once in such moves.  The one time he made a line break he tried to off-load the ball to Francois Steyn - who promptly knocked it on.

"Sadly, as good as his running game is....his general scrumhalf play is poor with awkward blunders into the ruck, low passes and poorly directed kicks. Once again, when McLeod came on the Sharks became more fluid. Reinach is a long way from AB ready."

The issue about low passes and poor service was just an outright lie.   H never made one poorly directed kick during th whole game - another lie.   When Mclead came on the Sharks became fmore fluid - another lie.   One would not expect that type of lies from anybody.  It is obvious there is an ulteriror reason for the lies - the potential threat the player poses for one of Mozart's fvourites in the Springbok team.

 "Coetzee was also culpable in the Lood try. Once again in tough matches he is not the answer. He can run somewhat in space, not in traffic."  

Once again a totl misrepresentation of facts.   There were three tackles invovled in the tackle attempt on De Jager.  Coetzee was one- Alberts the other and the third one was dear Fransie.  - Now we have it all - Coetzee gets the blame as culpable - the other two are just exonerated.

"And the Cheetahs loosies were better than the Sharks till the power arrived. Deysel, by the way, had a shocker."  

At last = part of a sentence reflecting the truth - Deysel did have a shocker - but at least he tried to do some work.  A lberts had a worse shocker - he did bugger all during the whole game.  other than buggering up.

ONE HAS TO BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN MOZART WRITES ABOUT PLAYER PERFORMANCES.  IN MOST CASES IT IS ABSOLUTE DRIVEL. INVENTIONS AND OUTRIGHT LIES.

Two birds with one stone....there you are Davie, predicting a Welsh win;

That's not me saying the Welsh WOULD win is it? 

Try again