Boks v Bargies Video package here (Tries & Louw cam)

Hi guys

https://youtu.be/Fx2bToTd8NQ

The video is done . 

Two categories.

1) Tries - Included all the tries, with multiple replays and put them up in the order they were scored.

2) Louw cam. Stitched together every single slither of Louws involvement in the game. Surprisingly he did very little of any note. 

After having now watched the game multiple times due to having to follow Louw's every move, it became clear that most of you completely missed Whitley's huge influence on this game. He cleaned out ruck after ruck, was often the closest forward to a ball chase and made numerous tackles as well as some good passes. 

Whitely was easily the best loose forward on the park and likely the best forward overall on the day too. Louw on the other hand was increasingly slow and his influence on the game shrank and shrank. He had his only steal of the day just before being subbed. 

All in all, if what Louw managed on the day is all that we expect from a 6 then for my money there are much quicker and fitter guys to chose from. 

Mike, you assessment of Louw's game, in general was correct. He was not responsible of the Argie try though. Eben was semi-obstructed and Dyanti should have filled the space. 

The only parts of Louw's game that were excluded form this package are moments when he arrived at a ruck late or for whatever reason was not required to be involved in the ruck, resulting in him standing over or near the ruck without making any type of contact with anyone.

Let me know what you think. 

Yes, there is a spelling mistake somewhere. 

Don't even!

Plum, if Whitely was our best forward, we are in big trouble.

Thanks for the effort, I will watch later.

@Plum. I have a program called Kinovea, that I found many moons ago but haven't used it for a very long time. It is really very good for what you are trying to do with this. It was actually developed and is used for video analyisis of sports events. It is freeware and, by the looks of it, still available. Have a look. https://www.kinovea.org/

It is described as: "Kinovea is a video player for all sport enthusiasts.

Slow down, study and comment the technique of your athletes or of yourself.

It is 100% free and open source."

It allows you, among others......

to draw gridlines on the pitch, etc to analise play, etc.

....compare two incidents

Cool Moz.

I guess part of my interpretation is down to following him around and seeing how few rucks he got to. 

He probably punched smarter rather than harder.

We did lack speed to ruck in this game and Louw just got to very few of them.

He made very few tackles too. If he's gonna be the power guy then Kolisi needs to get there faster since Whitley was all over the show but can't be the only one relied upon.

Without Whitley's contribution, I'm not sure we'd have won this game.

This was very nicely done Plum. I still maintain though that our best forwards were Eben, Louw, Beast, Mal and Du Toit. Van Staden did good work when he was on. 

"Without Whitley's contribution, I'm not sure we'd have won this game."

WTF Plum, did you watch another match?

Lol Draad. 

No, and before the edit I thought Whitely was pretty average. 

But man, as I was going through the game, he just kept popping up everywhere. 

Made tons of key cleans, lots of tackles and more. Nobody else matched either his work rate or his effectiveness. 

Lol edit two!

Lol Draad. 

No, and before the edit I thought Whitely was pretty average. 

But man, as I was going through the game, he just kept popping up everywhere. 

Made tons of key cleans, lots of tackles and more. Nobody else matched either his work rate or his effectiveness. 

Lol edit two!

It's amazing how much you see when you start following one player around. I'll have a look at perhaps summarizing Whiteley's contributions, maybe PSDT as well if I get time since he had a busy game as well. Thanks for the efforts, Plum.

Plum  i noted Whiteley's high work rate but am concerned about his physicality. He always plays hard the whole game. This RC will settle any questions.

Bit of a mistake on my part.

Kind of hijacked the conversation by punting Whitley when uploading the video.

Seems to have negated discussion on the tries and Louw's performance.

Wasn't intentional. 

It's no problem Plum. Let the discussions be fluid. It's better that way. 

Don't get a chance to post as much anymore, but really good discussion point. Cheers for the breakdown Plum....Louw may not have as much gas left in the tank anymore, but we'll be lacking experience next years WC so a more experienced head can't be under-estimated.

Damn, Dyanti has some wheels, and he works hard too...compared to Rhule and Skosan last year, he goes looking for work, he's got a bit of Habana about him.

And obviously I'm gonna be biased being Shark oke, but Esterhuizen and Am looked far more stable than anything we've seen in the midfield recently, and with the lack of genuine carrying power from the loosies, Esterhuizen provides that - going into a WC cup year with a midfield who know each other, a 14 too (be it Mampimpi or Nkosi) it gives us some familiarity.

Look it's a long road back from the dark place Coetzee took us too but Rassie is doing well so far, it will take time but he's building depth and we actually have some starting of a style of play.

The team is very organised. More then that, these players were able to read play well, and the various units looked comfortable with each other. Hence why I am reluctant to bring the rotten apples back into the team. I'm almost finished the second half. It looks like Plum is going to be vindicated. Whitely did grow into the game. 

As much as I like Faf and Pollard, I really do miss the long passing game of Du Preez and Morné. It was so fluid and calm. Reliable. 

Esterhuizen is considerably stronger than Damian. He handles contact effortlessly and looks calm when play breaks down. The entire backline handle pressure well. Off the ball movement is the best for a while. I can see potential in this group.