Classical Mike who wouldn’t recognize a stat if it hit him in the face denigrates ESPN. No facts just assertions. But watch this well liked analyst go through his sources….his #1 source….ESPN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32TC5uwBjHI
What Mike says ….the opposite is true.
Swine? Gosh that’s a bit harsh Plum…hahaha. The equation is just indicative…..an aid to thinking through the issue. I actually believe most of what I’ve said about the WC, although on occasion I might have been trolling a bit.
But I have always had respect for aesthetics in sport. Ernie Els’ golf swing, Grahame Pollock’s cover drive, Federer’s baseline half volley. These things inspire more than pure results. Gary may be mentally tougher than Ernie, but I enjoy watching the Big Easy far more.
So yes I obviously want the Boks to win the WC….hell I played rugby at Newlands it’s in my DNA…but I’d be so much more inspired if we produced just a modicum of back line play. I also believe if we can integrate that into the fabric we would be even tougher to beat.
The facts are simple. Frot mozzie has waged an unrelenting campaign against Rassie showing a level of bias only matched by the departed Doos.
There is no honest balanced analysis coming from mozzie. There has never been ever since Rassie started to coach Free State. Its been one smear after another. The loon even waged an unrelenting campaign against Du Toit who ws busy winning the rugny player of the year. Mozz is nothing more than a clown thee days.
Now Rassie has walked off with another RWC and the buffoon is beside himself. So rather than admit his mistakes as Rooitwit did he goes on day after day trying to to prove the Boks are unworthy winners and thus Rassie is not a great coach. That is wat its all about. Not fair comment or analysis its just to discredit Rassie.
You really don't get more pathetic than this and I for one cant take this jackass mozz seriously anymore.
"Points differential= f(complex variables) +kicking success differential=1 for all of the last 3 matches...therefore if any of the "complex variables " (which isn't so complex BTW) resulted in 2 points less, we lost....my point, it was a team effort...Manie's foot passes for the early tries and Eben's try vs France, RG's try vs. the Poms...everyone's tackles in all the last 3 matches...one slipped tackle too many and all Pollard’s kicks were in vain or didn't even happen...BTW, luck was one of those not so complex variables, but you don't win a RWC on luck alone...and we didn't.
Your problem HasBeen is you have become a nutter, believing every conspiracy theory promoted on insane far right sites. I’m sorry I hurt your feelings by telling you almost every one was factually exaggerated if not dead wrong, but it’s hard to see a man so deluded and not try to help.
Plum, I don't know what you're struggling with here...I'm not negating Pollard’s effort...I think it was absolutely phenomenal, but that's not the issue...Moz is full of sh!t...he's trivializing the effort of the rest of the team and coaching staff , if you can't see it, I can't help you...Pollard MVP, sure, the only reason we won the RWC? Norrefok...this is getting tiresome.
Manie is like Carlos Spencer...he'll do fantastic things...but almost just as much stupid things...I don't care, I enjoy it while it lasts. ..Moz's drag-me-downs-like-a-kreef-in-a-bucket irriteer die kak uit my uit.
Only dead fish go with the flow...I'm no conformist...the opposite actually, but I'm no "contrarian" either...and I liked the AE/Moodie paring in the Twickers game, but the more conservative game we played in the wet final doesn't bother me to the extent that it diminishes my satisfaction with our RWC victory....sure we were lucky...sure Pollard saved our bacon....but it was also so much more than that...I'll take it without feeling any guilt...we've had our share of bad luck...I ain't giving back a bit of good fortune.
Ja Plum, it's not ideal...I get that...but it's not a junkyard either.
Not a conformist, not a contrarian…..that seems to cover all bases. Hold on a Draad sitter maybe?
The trouble with Plum is that for some strange reason he refuses to acknowledge that Mozzz has been an unrelenting virulent critic of Rassie way back from the time Rassie coached Free State as a player. Mozzzue is not interested in truth his real interest is the savaging of Rassie's reputation. That is what IS AT THE BOTTOM. OF A HIS ARGUMENTS.
For some reason Plum diggedly ignores this constant bias and malice by Mozzzue who is only slightly less unhinged than poor Doos.
Plum strangely refuses to admit real Mozzzzie's objective is to diminish the Bok win as a means of discrediting Rassie as he has consistently done for years.
Is Plumm auditioning to take over the position vacated by Doos one wonders.
I do hope Plum does not follow Mozzie into the darkness.
As for Mozzie he has been caught out time and again. But the mampara maintains everybody against his whacked out nonsense is a conspiracy theorist. This delusional nutter could not admit any of the facts showing US led NATO instigated the war against Russia. Proving he is a bald faced liar etc etc.
You are a conspiracy theorist HasBeen, there isn’t a bat crazy idea about the West you haven’t bought.
...then you should be able to recognize deception...
Exactly Draad. Mozzie is a liar.
Okay you keep using that word….produce one lie…back up your bluster
You must be joking. You know darn well the drivel you post is BS.
"...then you should be able to recognize deception"
As I would expect you to do .....
Mozzie is the arch deceiver here. That is why I am calling him out. It's one load of garbage after another.its time Mozzie pulled himself together. Tried his level best to be honest etc.
Once again you show you don't know what has been going here here.
Way back, 8 think it was around 2004 to 2006 Rassie Erasmus became to the player coach of Free State. While he was coach Free State won 2 of the 3 Currie Cup wins.
But virtually ftom the start this bigot Mozzzie launched a campaign against Rassie. So we are talking about almost 20 year of vitriol directed at this coach. People like Mike and I were posting with Mozzie way back then
So for almost 20 Years we have been subjected to this never ending barrage of spin, lies and Smears against Rassie.
As time went on Mozzie got more and more obsessed in trying to prove Rassie was a useless coach.
In 2019 he trashed the Boks and Rassie. He continued this all they way till now.
The last thing Mozzie wanted was a Bok win. It left him fully exposed for the hater he has been towards Rassie but only worse.
Enough is enough. He will continue to get called out if he posts his lies and BS. The clown had learnt nothing about Rassie in almost 20 years.
So I have been rightly calling this buffoon out and make no apologies for it.
Then you get him ignoring all the facts surrounding the Ukraine war. No this guy is dishonest. Mike has schooled him repeatedly but he is immune to the facts.
His approach to things is fundamentally dishonest.
If he posts his drivel on the board he can expect to and will be called out. Just like poor Doos got called out.
This not about somebody casually disliking Rassie. This is an obsession arising from Rassie humiliating Mozzzie repeatedly and never more so than in 2023. Mozzie is not offering fair ballnced comments his is just continuing his two decades old vendetta.
Doubtless the buffoon will give us no rest on the subject even if RASSIE WINS A THIRD RWC. I see no end in sight.
Rassie is a great coach. Very few people today would contest that.
Moz was miserable when the Boks win and immediately should to devalue the win while the real Bok supporters were all rejoicing. That is a fact.
Untrue….everybody in my group was on our feet cheering when the Boks won. So I repeat my challenge, name one lie that I have posted on here.
The floor is your’s.
Sure - it was not any lie - it was jsut the total misrepresentation of the situation raised in the above video and the inability of Mozart to understand anything relating to the issue of teambuilding . His only objct is hated of Erasus as coach and of certain players that he considers as causing of Springbok failures based on his hatred over many years with ma ny cases of outright lies about Erasmus and the players concerned.
With Mozart around in the land of the blind cockeye is king. That is the real idiom involved. .That is why I said every posting of Mozart represents boring cock-eyed BS spreading and that does not apply only to rugby issues - but to every issue he raised on site. . .
Mozzzie your lies are so numerous that I could spend the rest of this year listing them. But of course I have no intention of being a puppet on your string running around to satisfy your crazy requests.
How about ceasing your vitriolic unceasing attacks on Rassie and admitting you were completely wrong about him so we can move on from this nonsense you post every day hoping to convince somebody that Rassie is useless. The ji g is up and you have made a complete mampara of yourself.
Bwahahahahhahahahahaha
Being right or wrong is a matter of opinion. A lie is something else.. produce one lie I have ever posted in 20 years of posting on these Boards. Put up, or stop lying yourself.
"Being right or wrong is a matter of opinion"
Actually no, it's a matter of facts...opinion is the interpretation of the facts...being dishonest in your interpretation of the facts is not technically lying...but almost the same thing...bias makes being really honest difficult...and we all have our biases...
Of course it is….if somebody honestly believe something which isn’t true, it’s a mistake not a lie. As for bias, calling the positives and the negatives is not bias. Bias is only seeing one side of the story, something you, Dave and HasBeen consistently do.
Mozart
Your lies are so many I will take days to deal with it. It is not opinion - it is hatred of people that cause lies being spread about them by you. .
The old saying is you are entitled to your opinion but not your facts. You have a right to be wrong.
Trouble here is the facts prove you wrong. You ignore the facts presented and then give a totally dishonest version of events. Your take on the Ukraine war is a great example.
Disagree, nobody in America wanted a war between Ukraine and Russia. For the simple reason that everybody thought Russia would win in weeks. Military genius after military genius told us that. So what possible benefit could it have been to the West to start a war they thought was going to be lost, elevating Putin and the Russian myth.
Mozart
You ahve been caught lyming about your desciptiion of what happened in matches all the time. This goes back to your so-calledf Morzoscopes of a decade ago. When it was then poven it was based on hogwash and you skipped that one altogether,
You were told hundxreds of times that you base all your arguments on stats provided - while experts have advanced systems these are used to follow players during whole amtches and that the activities of playes and there inputs are available and used by real rugby experts when considring constribution by players.
These advancd tools were too complicated for Meyer and Coetze to understand and despite discussion of those in numerous media articles not even a world expert on rugby like you undersand how player evaluation is done. So in 2019 the only real reason for the selection of Du Toit in 2019 was based only on the Springboks winning the WC in 2019. So what happened in 2023 when Savea was rightfully the player of the year despite the fact that in the end the AB's did not win the WC in 2023? Motert was shit in the 2019 WC and equally so in 2023 - yet you came up with the BS 9 that his replacement of the injured De Jager in the 2019 WC was the reason why the Springboks won the 2019 WC - then switch to Beast because of his scrum dominance and then to Pollard making the goal kicks.
You opinion is used to lead to practical lies you spread about things like a non-existent tryscoring opportunity being undermined by De Allende. You spun a lie that it was a trysc ouiing opportunity which it was not.
But tghen you admitted that you do not regard the truth about performanxce of some players you ignore. The try scored was not recignize because of a failed tacckle attemot by the welsh flyhalf - but nt the fact that there were two other players also missed attempted tackles - the eonly imortant thing that ahppened and gave credit only to a turnover by Louw of the ball in the semi-final and being converted by Pollard, You thn gave a false description of what happened in the case of the Welsh try in the same match ending in du Toit being blamed for a try scored by the Welsh wing.
These are just a few examples of BS spreading lies you used. The myth about that nobody caught you out lying on site is the biggest joke ever on site. . . . . . . . . . . .
Actually mozzz Rusdia was said to be a backward country with a poor military and small economy etc.
Sanctions would cripple Russia. The Nordsteam 2 pipeline was blown up by Biden to ensure no gas exports to Europe.
The Ukrainian armed force built up by the USA were going yo smash Putin. Indeed Putin would become so unpopular as the body bags came home and Ukra8n March on Moscow thst Putin would be kicked out via a coup.
Russuevwoukd thrn be dismembered and her resources raped. Best of all LGBT doctrines would be introduced and the borders of Russia opened to ensure the Russian people were destroyed.
It was all hopeless Globalist propaganda. They knew there was zero chance of Rusdia losing this proxy war. The real agenda was yo cause economic chaos in Europe with the aim of destroying Western Civilization.
Look at the emergence of a multi polar world and the de-dollarization taking place. The Globalist want a World Government run on the lines of the CCP..
So the intent was never to topple Putin. If you disagree explain how Russia could ever be beaten. Any threat if thst a they press the button. THE USA and Europe disappear.
So again Mozzie lies about what the Globalist West was predicting.
Putin if course was also dying of cancer. One lie another.
Mozzie also lies about the predicates for this war and the way Biden scuppered peace talks.
One lie follows another.