Biltong...just a reminer

You claimed it wasn't your point of view that we couldn't win and so you would  just pick a  new team. This extract from your Nov. 12 post  kinda blows that out the water: 

"Lets face it, this Bok team is not going to win the Rugby World Cup, you may argue this is an over reaction, but the same issues in this game has plagued us against Wales, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.

Meyer is relying on experienced players as his leadership group and they are not showing the ability to adapt, I therefor say get rid of them all.

Apart from the fact that Matfield is not physical enough, de Villiers have not shown any of the form that made him great last year, there is criticism of form against all the older players.

Forget about winning the World Cup in 2015, it is not going to happen, accept it and move on by building a new team, put a group of youngsters together and build a team for 2019, but start now.

Agree or disagree, but these so called experienced players are not going to take us any further."

 RE: Biltong....as requested
December 11, 2014, 21:21:41

I'm not expecting much agreement, and to be honest I don't really care. The challenge is obvious....what do you do when your putative centre pairing is a class down from the NZ, Wales, Oz, French centre pairings? The answer is obvious, bottle up the centres and counter attack. But when you can't even see the problem, the solution is likely to be elusive.

A "me too" strategy never works with inferior resources. You need a unique strategy that allows you to shape events in your favour.

Or you adopt Biltong's view....we have no chance of winning so lets just play wide open rugby.

RE: Biltong....as requested
December 11, 2014, 22:31:04

 Blows what out of the water?

If you are going to nitpick, at least be correct.

BUILD NEW TEAM is not the same as PLAY WIDE OPEN RUGBY.

Mike, some don't understand what playing positive rugby means.

As soon as you suggest we have to be less predictable, ore creative and more positive, the brain shuts down and thinks.

We gotsta play da ball wide. Duh.

For a start, our centre pairing is as good and potentially better than any other test side out there.......NZ have two old men in Nonu and Smith, with Fikato a real hot prospect and the return of SBW for how long really......so we will give NZ the edge for now......but they have no class young 12's coming through. If Crotty is the best then that proves my point.

Oz have recently discovered that Kurandrani is a real threat, but that's where it ends. AAC tends to play all over the shop in that side and the likes of Tomua and Liafano are hardly world beaters. So Oz are NOT better than us at centre, not even close

Wales have old man Roberts at 12 who is past it like Jean is and in Davies they have a class act at 13......it ends there. They are not better than us at centre.

France......hell they change their centres weekly. The only class act here is Fofana at 12, but he is not better than Jan......the French are certainly not better than us at centre.

Give me Jan and JJ/de Allende over any international centre pair other than SBW/Fikato  

Without doubt Jan is better than Fofana who has not done anything of note in a test all year. Don't get me wrong, he is good but Jan is better.

But my real point was that you are so wrong regarding our centres versus the rest out there......you need to be a little more loyal and positive about our players Moz