Arendse

Here are his tries...in chronological order.

Let's start with try number 1. Does that look like luck to you?

He not only knows where the tryline is he smells it as well.

Fattex is trying to tell me that most of Arendse's try's are luck. 

But if he knew rugby even nearly as well as he thinks he does, he would easily be able to recognise how great Arendse's positonal play is. 

What looks like a run-in try to Fattex, is time after time sublime wing play, anticipation, support, and always putting himself in the psotion where when he gets the ball he has the most opitmal route to the line.

Only a complete noob would call that luck. 

Look at the first try in that vid eo. He basically creates the opportunity by disrupting the high ball, then he times his run perfectly and gives Am a great window to pass the ball, and then it becomes a run-in try. Fattex ignores everyhing Arendse does in the lead up to getting the ball for the score.

Like I said, a complete noob.

Lets look at score number 2 in the video...

He hangs back a bit in case the ball is spilled, and then accelerates with perfect timing to get it from Moodie. 

Nothing special here, but doing what he must do in that situation and doing it perfectly.

For try number 3, Saffex for sure would not see how good this is, no matter how many tiems he looks at it...

As soon as Willie gets tackled Arendse darts in-field, but then he sees Eben getting the ball from a popped offload, anticipates Eben is gonna run straight at the widest defender, so he cuts back again to outside of that defender in ainticipation of the pass from Eben, takes a damn nice catch...and then it becomes a run-in...

There are a plethora of ways that Arendse could have fucked that up, but he didnt...he showed perfect anticipation and adaptation to the point where he made it look easy.

Luck? 

Whahaha "LUCK!!!???"

Try numebr 4 is a good finish but he's jus t doing his job here.

Try numebr 5 is a great finish by all counts..

He has two on him, takes the hit from the first one and then adapts his position on the ground to stay in touch while avoiding the second tackler and scores...there is nothing lucky about that. It's instinctive body positoning to get the result. ZERO luck and far from a simple run-in score.

A brillaint finish, and one he'll repeat against Australia.

Try numebr 6 is an easy score from him. 

This one is a run-in.

Try numebr 7 will haunt Smith, and his grandchildren, until the end of time.

Again, many ways he could have screwed up his support line, but ran it perfectly and then made S mith look invisible.

Zero luck here.

Try number 8 is a run- in for his first score against Oz.

Try number 9 is brilliant wing play by all accounts. 

He has no right to rush up behind Bongi like that and to pick such a perfect line. When Bongi gets the ball Arendse isn't even in the frame yet, but he anticipates the space, senses the moment, and gets to Bongi with perfect timing to take the ball at full pace and make it look like an easy score. Were he to hang back a fraction of a second longer the opportunity would have passed...but he timed it with sublimie accuracy.

More luck?

My arse.

Try number 10...

He has ZERO right to score from there. 3 defenders on him, with no space, but he does that roll move again and turns it into a much simpler score than anybody else could ha ve made it lookk.

Try 11...

He gets into the AB line, reacts quicker than everybody else, gets in front of Jordan because he anticipates BB's pass to him, and is already heading to the line before any of the Kiwis have even turned around. 

Again, our man finds himself in the perfect position to take advantage of an opposition mistake.

You can call this luck if you want to, but that level of anticipation and insitinct is EXACTLY why he scores so many tries.

Try number 12...

Just a winger doing his job here, but does time his run onto the catch perfectly so that he can continue on at full pace once he catches the ball. 

Perfectly executed.

Try  numebr 13...

He makes this try on his own.

Watch the replay. While the ball is coming down, he pushes the Frenchman in the back, which disrupts the catcher and pushes him past the ball. When you watch it in slow-mo, you can again see how he reacts before anybody else does and that is what gets him to the ball before the french 15. 

It looks like a lucky score but this entire sequence was thanks to Arendse's q uick thinking and excellent response time. 

There you go, that is all 13 tries.

Now how many simple catches and scores did you see there? 

Fattex was making it sound like Arendse just waits on the touchline for the ball, gets it and dots it down.

The noob fails to see that the vast majority of these scores requried excellent anticipation, timing and execution. 

But...try raitos don' t matter.

What a joke.

Whahah poor old Fatty is all red faced now because he tried to reduce a brillaint winger to a lucky baby.

Boo hoo...the lip grows fatter.

The Philosophy of Fattex 101

His words: "First try damn right he is lucky the action happened on his side of the field. No skill at all involved in that try simple catch and run in unopposed. My grandmother could have scored that try

1-0 Dave"

Assertion 1 : Rugby is a game comprised solely of luck.

Fattex is trying to convince us that the recovery of a high ball is always luck. What if the ABs collected the ball, formed a ruck, and from that ruck they ran 70m to score a try. Would that also be luck? Does the high ball cease to be called "lucky" once the ABs gather? Obviously not, because there could be some Springboks out of positon as a result of the kick and this may be what is exploited in the scoring of their try. 

Assertion 2 : Fattex's grandmother is fitter and more mobile than he is.

We fully agree with this statement and commend the writer for his honesty. We'd, with the utmost respect, also suggest a few less p/h (pies per hour) and feel this would aid the writer on his journery toward semi-mobility.

TLDR: Every event on the rugby field is lucky and there is no skill on display.