All Hail PSDT

The work rate for such a big person is unbelievable. He plays 80 minutes in every match and never looks too tired to continue playing.

Certainly, must go down as one of the Springbok greats - better than any number 7 lock I have ever seen. 

Even when he played lock in last week's test, he played well. He covers so much ground but is still involved in the tight play as well, and makes the most tackles. He reads the game well. Like Vermuelen he can adapt his style of play to what is needed at the time. 

Du Toit is the greatest 7 I have ever seen. Huge engine.

Vote for Du Toit the best ever 7 playing for the Springboks.

Mozart 

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Mostert   -    Protecting/stealing the ball on the deck…Z      

In a quarter final of a WC Jean de Villiers forward passed in the same position as PSDT and cost the Boks a semi final. The Boks lost by 1 point as the try was disallowed. Makes me wonder if PSDT has poor hands or whether he's just clumsy, still he's a forward and Jean is a back. I know which one of the two I'd like to kick up the ass.

I looked at the incdient again - when Du Toit passed the ball it di go backwards despite a Wallaby touching Du Toit's marm and the ball went dsieways - with the result that Kriel knocked it on.    The scrum resulted from Kriel's knock-on I believ.   

Du Toit got the ball away…..forward…you can see Kriel stretch forward to reach it. He may or may not have touched it with the fingers of his left hand. But it was forward anyway.

Kriel was wide open, both defenders were on the deck. Dud Toit’s arms were free and clear. He couldn’t execute the simple pop and botched the try.

Once again the stats verify, Kwagga turned over no balls, the left most number. What amazes me is the determination to defend everything Dud does. No Kriel wasn’t entering the ruck, no he never botched the try, no there wasn’t anybody pulling Dud’s arm.

He was in a position to simply po the ball to Kriel and he blew it….to blame Kriel there is rubbish, he scarcely touched the ball if at all. Or perhaps it was nobody’s fault, we would be content if  our 7 can’t execute a simple pop.

All nonsense.

Dud had a decent game against a team that were overpowered by the Boks, which allowed him to stand 60 metres away from the play. Pollard managed to hit him in full stride, he couldn’t hit Kriel from 2 metres away. 

Not a phenomenal ball carrier, not a phenomenal open field tackler, not a phenomenal passer, not a phenomenal lineout player…a almost non existent fetcher.

A player who is given two roles which draw attention to him. First tackler off the ruck and rover who is given the luxury to be 60 metres from the breakdown as he was in the botched try.

He is a big unit and in the WC finals he raised the intensity of his hits, which played an important role in those two wins. His shortcomings also  blew tests, like the second Irish test.

He seems like a nice bloke, I simply believe he is way over hyped….you are entitled to your own opinion.

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Ollivant is way better. Here they are head to head at the WC. Ollivon  makes three times as many meters. And he makes nine tackles, same as Dud, but he misses one….Dud who was actually pushed beyond process tackling misses 5. More things you will never hear from the hypsters.

Way better…a complete player, not just a process tackler and rover. Look at the numbers from the test I posted above…dominance.

The only thing I find amazing is that anyone still takes this hopeless biased, ignorant and egg-faced fool seriously when it comes to PSdT . . . or Rassie for that matter.

Can't believe some of you are wasting time arguing with Moffie on his juvenile little pet hates . . . just have a laugh.

Mozart

Just a question - when was Ollivon World Player of the Year?

Mozart

Stop talking shit.   There is a Selection Panel appointed by World Rugby to decide on awards and this panel  consists of 8 ex-players - mostly past captains of teams and other people playing a leading role in Rugby.   Do you tink that you know more about rugby and rugby performances than  they do?   

There is no rea link betwen he players selected and who won the RWC in years when the playes are awarded - in 2025 the RWC winner was S A - yet the player selected was Ardie Savea,    

The panel has the most advanced techology as to player evcaluation at teir disposal - you have only got stats with no link to vslue of performances - so you come up with BS based on s-caled stats.    

Embarrassing me…..when he failed to contest the ball at his feet against Ireland, which as a result went quickly back to the flyhalf for the winning drop? That was literally the last opportunity to save the match and he inexplicably backpedaled. 

I do my own analysis and reviews. I always consider the views of others, but the number and passion of those views never move me. I reach my own conclusions.

In all honesty half of the things that I find persuasive aren’t even highlighted by commentators or reporters. It is a very poorly researched sport.

Mozart

You take the  half-baked stats are what you claim is indicative of player performances,   And the shit flows like lava from you.  You pretend that you now mre about player evaluation than does the experts used by World Rugby than experts dealing with the issue on a rational basis.   

I remember how you claim you never saw anything that makes players like Du Toit and De Allende contribute to matches - in other words it is hatred and prejudice that influence the BS you write on site.    You are a real BSter inventing your own facs  and pouting lies on site. 

He was the only player in a position to do that…if he tried for the ball on the deck, or rucked forward vigorously, it would have made the pass far more difficult ….perhaps even preventing it if he was a real fetcher. The ball carrier dropped right at his feet  

Dave what’s funny is you are so protective of this player, you deny what’s obvious.

You are the one needing protection in most  of the BS you spread on site and is too stupid rugby wise to make any real and objective comments.    This is my final comment on site as to Erasmus, Du Toit and De Allende - it is sickening to see what you in vented about the three people involved.   

Come now Dave that’s utter rubbish and you know it. He should have contested that ball, what possible reason could he have had for not doing so.

In the Rugby World Cup….against Ireland, France, England and NZ…Dud ran the ball 28 times for 67 metres, courtesy of one long run against NZ. But he lost the ball twice in the process, which at 20 metres a turnover means his net gain was 27 metres in 28 runs.

His numbers tend to be improved by the open runs down the wing, but basically he is a meter a run man. And he hardly ever offloads…..for good reason as we have seen with his two botched try offload attempts against the Wallabies.

Best player in the world and in a generation.