11 Nov 2024, 08:03#2
This believe is obviously short lived. It was clear to see that the years is catching up with a lot of those incumbents.
Was it a AB, OZ or Ireland team we would not have managed to win. It was a poor showing that looked old.
Old in our players, old in our game plan . The only thing that is still working somehow, is our defence and scrum, that is when the right Personnel is scrumming.
If the wrong guys are there, then our powerful Bok Scrum becomes mediocre.
On more than one occasion the Scotties were challenging our defence and it really looked like they found the way thru.
But in the end they were there own worst enemy and played into the Bok hands.
Also tony Brown is supposed to be working on structures for new attack, but none of that was really noticeable last night.
This style of ours, players and the Coach is steering into something that might just make us crash heavily again.
No proper building towards the future is done in player depth.
Why is Brown even there if he doesn’t have much impact at all? Or is he getting reigned in?
And Rassie keeps on building with the oldies like they were 20 years old….He is More bloody worried helping players reaching there desired number of caps?!
Not building a new team will definitely come back and bite him in the Backside….
Maybe things will change in 25, but he keeps on persisting with Dumb combinations and same old Game Plan from 5 years ago ….
We should not be struggling against a Scottish team like this…
12 Nov 2024, 16:03#5
Well for me Draad it was Am , Bongi, one Of my Favourites but Mostert looks really down, I hope he gets back to his old self.
Even guys like Eben, Pollard and Willie took some time to really get going.
All I am trying to say is that they are not getting younger…..Reasonably speaking who will make WC 27 and who won’t?
And the one’s that is earmarked to not make it, how long will they still be allowed to play before being replaced by the new incumbents?
If the coach has allocated anybody in particular to replace some of the incumbents, is another story all together.
That’s the golden question…. For me more of the new incumbents should be playing already.
12 Nov 2024, 16:07#6
Yes Moz i am not sure how much Brown is allowed to change??
That is what it looks like to me, that Rassie is sitting on his head and only allowing increment changes….
But it’s really hard to spot the changes and I think it’s because they not there??
12 Nov 2024, 16:34#8
Here’s the rewritten version:
This year, we’ve played 10 tests and lost two, ending our winning streak of trophies as a result. Mpower and Mozart tried to become howling prima donnas, shouting doom and gloom.
As far as our playing style goes, it’s clear that it’s working. However, regarding the backline attack, there’s an old saying—“nobody can turn bad into good”—and that’s exactly what happened on Sunday. The backline was substandard and malfunctioned. Analyzing what actually happened, it was clear that Esterhuizen was the main issue in the backline. He killed every opportunity for the ball to reach the wings.
Elsewhere, you mentioned an interesting idea that rather than Pollard rushing up and missing tackles, he should stay back while Esterhuizen rushes up instead. Unfortunately