Yes he is. The only 10 to track back with 100% effort of all the Boks we've had these past 20 years. If you want a coward, look no further than yellow belly Lambie, twice letting Cooper past him, practically brushing shoulders, in our 22! Morné, with over 80% tackle success in his career, is factually an outstanding defender.
Where did you get that 80% from deamworld paragon. Morne had a unique ability over the last decade - he was near to never injured. The reason was he ducked out of tackling and attacking the gainline. he had the worst tackling stats since 2013 in tests. His average in three tests were 22 tackles made 17 missed. The Missed tackle ratio happened to be 43,59.
Morne could not tackle, did not know when to kick and when to pass balls and in general did no know how to read games, A failure at flyhalf, One coach who identified him as useless was Hansen and he expressed it quite clearly before the Johannesburg test in 2014.
Never did Morne duck out of one tackle. I challenge you right now to reference one such instance and I'll bring the film here. Go ahead big mouth. There were "loads of samples", remember? So it'll be easy for you. But, I'll make it even easier... just reference one.
Morne was the second best defensive Bok 10 in my lifetime, at least. The worst? Lambie, Goosen, Jantjies. All of them gifted front-foot ball at will. Though Jantjies actually had a good pass, which does set him apart.
Well, worst ever defensive and attacking 10? Worst record? Do you realise that Morne has a better winning record than Pollard, Goosen, Butch, Jantjies. So, you really don't have much of a point. Morne is a better overall passer than all of those players, a better reader of play, and fundamentally sound as a kicker. He was a phenomenal defender, and that's why he ended his career with a better tackle percentage than Dan Carter. You really are easy pickings Saffy, far, far too easy.
Funny, all the questions I have posed and neither of the two self-professed geniuses can answer us. Can it be that they know nothing?
Both Dave and I explained in detail why Morne was a failure at flyhalf - both in respect of passing the ball - in out of hand kicking - in defense - in all aspects of the game other than kicking at goal and the dim AO could not understand anything. Even Meyer gave up on Steyn in three occasions and his inclusion in the 2015 WC squad was a farce only Meyer was capable of. In that series Morne was one of the 8 unplayable players in the 31 man squad. It is indeed difficult to reach the mind of rugby idiots - they are too ignorant to understand any logical explanations, LMAO.
"The useless player is literally shit scared of contact. You see it every time someone runs at him, he looks like a little girl in the headlights"
Give me an example. It's really that simple. I can and have given many examples of where this is not the case. I have proven that Morné went looking for contact, and I proved how good his cover defence was. I also showed him mopping up after other players. Saffy, you get it wrong probably more than Lügnerin! It's hilarious. Analytics isn't your strong suit.
You are the only person who got their facts totally wrong about everything related to rugby are you, In the case of Morne Steyn -
* he stood too deep in the pocket to be an effective flyhalf in either kicking or passing of the balls - it slowed down the game and cause the opposing teams to organize their defense;
* he did to attack the gain line as is expected from any reasonable flyhalf - as a result defenders ignored him and went for the inside center in case he passed the ball or the scrummie, the no 8 and the wings fell back to cover his out-of-hand kicks;
* his out-off- hand kicking game was exceptionally poor - normally the licks formed the basis for counter-attacks and loss of ball possession but he has had another major problem and that relates to the fact that he too frequently failed to found touch when making penalty kicks - I once did an evaluation in 9 tests and found it happened 7 times;
* I referred to three tests where he missed 17 tackles and made 22 tackles in the relevant test for a missed tackle ratio of over 43%; and
* he did not really know when to kick balls and when not,
So let me go on about defense, You claimed that he was perfect in cover tackles, I do not know where you got that impression from. He missed many tackles as indicated and I ahave snever seen him making a real cover tackle,
Morne's main asset was always his kicking at goal. In the 2011 WC quarterfinals Morne's success rate at kicking at goal was 50% and he missed a drop kick at goal as well. That contributed in a main way to the Springbok loss in the quarterfinal. He then went on in 2012 Super Rugby and missed a lot of goal kicks culminating in the Dunedin game where he missed 7 of the 8 kicks at goal, His goal kicking record in earlier tests were equally poor and it resulted in his sacking in the reminder of the 2012 tests, His goal kicking accuracy was back to 80% in 2013, but in the June tests in 2014 against Wales he really was substandard again and as dripped from the test teams and was selected only for the Perth test in 2014. He was atrocious n that game and virtually lost it single-handedly. Dropped again by Meyer after that fiasco.
Steyn was a limited p layer with very negative performances and that was proven subsequent to his tests career under Meyer. Under Coetzee he was in the team since and failed as expected . His Stade Francais stay was equally poor.
How you can rate Steyn remains a massive mystery for everybody in site, ,
"He missed many tackles as indicated and I ahave snever seen him making a real cover tackle"
Yes you did. I posted a video on the 2013 Ellis Park test you frequently used to attack him. His only test where he didn't perform as well as he usually did on defence was the away Wallaby test in 2014. It was still better than the defence of Damian, Lambie, Steph, Lood et al.
Name me one game where any of the players you described had as bad a defense record as Morne had in tests since 2013 as Morne had - dim doos? The one tackle you claimed was a cover-defense tackle he missed anyway.
Actually Morné made several cover tackles, making two try saving tackles. He cleaned up after Habana, Louw, Thor and a break out wide at the death. There were others.
Damian against Australia 2015, England 2018, throughout the RC last season.
Damian missed tackles at an alarming rate in 2017.
Steph. The Wellington win, the England test of 2016, the Welsh test of 2018. There are many examples.
Lambie? He never had one test with strong tackles.
Damien against had a missed tackle ratio of 28,75 - in the 2015 test, as against the one of Morne of 46,67 in the 2014 test in Perth, That was a huge difference dimwit, Ever since that test Damian never had a missed tackle higher than 20, The 2018 story is an outright lie and the lie about the 2019 was disgraceful. In the 2 RC tests De Allende played in in the 2019 series he made 12 tackles and only missed 1. So stop being the liar you always are and the fact is you are a bad example for other members on site, Disgraceful.
Your story about Du Toit is total garbage as well:-
England test - Tackles made 15 - missed 3 = Missed tackle Ratio = 16,67
Wales 2018 - Tackles made 6 - missed 2 = Missed tackle ratio = 25,00
Another lie as expected. Are you not ashamed of lying and getting caught out, dimness,
Stats don't tell the story Lügnerin. Remember Damian's best test from a stats perspective in 2018? Against England, the one you boasted of? I exposed the limitation of stats. Just as I exposed Steph in the Wellington win. Damian's tackles are wholely ineffective. He cannot and will not handle front on pressure. He is very weak in the upper body.
Here's another treasure for you:
The High Priest of Liars
We have to listen to the half-ba ked so-called stats provided by you, but nobody can use stats to disprove your lies. Disgusting,
"We have to listen to the half-baked so-called stats provided by you, but nobody can use stats to disprove your lies."
Half-baked? ESPN is half-baked? So if you don't want to listen to my "half-baked" ESPN stats (not my only source, but I haven't used those here), why should you be taken seriously for using the very same thing?
Here's where you lose Pal, I have the film at hand. I have analyzed the film, therefore, I can put context to those stats. Like when I posted the footage of Damian's second England test of 2018. It was statistically his best test under Jose Erasmus, but I was able to show all of his mistakes and weak defending. You can't do this, therefore you are disadvantaged. You couldn't resort to video evidence though, because the things you say are consistently not present on film. Ever.
There is stats and stats and their are abuse of stats, You se half-baked stats because you always omit scoring of tries and winning of matches when using stats, Stats about ballc arries is only valid when there are positive result in the end, In the famous -
* 2011 quarterfinal all stats points to a Springbok win bit I became a loss because the Springboks failed to score tries and Morne's kicking at goal stats were disastrous; and
* in the Japan test loss in 2015 the stats were the same - but the fact is that a variety if disasters by the experienced players in the squad and a totally insane game plan caused the loss,
However, this issue dealt with the lying myth of yours about how a string of players all had worse tackle records than Steyn had and suddenly you decided that stats is not what you pretend they are and you have video evidence the stats are wrong. This is about the most disgusting lie one can ever imagine, Try again dimness - your stunt did not disprove that you are indeed a liar, LMAO
"You se half-baked stats because you always omit scoring of tries and winning of matches when using stats,"
You have a tendency to confuse yourself when forming your lies. I suppose you don't split the tongue as sharply as you did all those centuries ago. I always put stats in context, I always back that up with references and when I have the time, film (I have put forth more than anyone else). Do I "always" omit tries scored? No I do not. I know exactly where you are going with that, and I keep having to pull you back to the point of that discussion, exactly the way YOU framed it to begin with! In future, be more mindful of what you are getting into. You stated that Jose Erasmus brought back running rugby, attacking rugby, that the Pollard and Willie are finally showing their potential after Meyer "destroyed their careers". I proved in every way possible that you were wrong. You harp on tries scored - which I put into proper context by the way, again, because you are too deceitful to do so yourself - but never, ever assess attacking output, how the teams use the ball, or trends within the game for each season, or strength of the opposition, or the attacking output in relation to opposition. But then, I am talking to the person who willfully omitted 128 games of super rugby defence stats to try and win an argument about its regressing defensive figures. You are a liar, each and every member knows you are a liar. I dread to think of what people think of you in real life, or what they know about you that we don't. Where exactly do you draw the line?
WC 2011 - AUS: Interesting, it's now Morne's fault that we lost. He was very flat in that game, too flat if you ask me - that was a Jose Erasmus decision, so take it up with him, he has a habit of doing things you openly hate. We lost that game because of a few reasons. One was the ref calling back a Habana break for a try, because off offside, which it wasn't. The other was persistently overlooking Australia killing the ball (the most decisive factor in the game), and Lambie over-running Jean's pass and ruining the game winning try. No true Bok fan would over-look those factors to attack the team or any one player. But, you are no Bok fan. You have a crush Jose Erasmus and his blue-eyed boys.
WC 2015 - JPN: Really? How many times have I covered this? The best players in that game were Du Preez, Schalk, Matfield, Kirchner. Jean was more anonymous than poor, but that was to be expected considering how little game time he had. He wasn't much of a factor in the loss. Coenie and Kriel were, so too the Steph who was overpowered and amounted to nothing more than 0.7m per carry. But, Kriel blowing his assignment was the key factor in the loss.
Morne Defence: Are you saying that Morne didn't end his career with 80%+? You speak of lies? You cherry pick, relying on two games, the one at Ellis Park, a game I have to keep going back to because you keep asserting the same lies each and every time we talk about him. You have constructed an entire narrative around those numbers, which I corrected with a video. If I were dealing with an honest, intelligent and mature individual, that would have been enough to clear the matter up. But. no, not old Tokkie. No, you go on and on and on and on and on. Never learning. With regards to the away Wallaby test in 2014, you never even bothered to explore those defensive engagements, I did. You couldn't even recall the weather. You recalled it was a nice sunny day with perfect conditions. All of it wrong. You just can't help yourself. You are a liar. I don't even believe you saw that game, you couldn't recall any detail accurately. Zero.
So the Springboks with all the territory stats in their favour did not score any tries and Morne did not miss 50% of his kicks at goal and did not miss a drop goal; attempt as well. So Erasmus forced Steyn to play flat and did not want to have him stand like normal too deep in the pocket so he was flat, as well as the forward pass and bad timing of the pass made by De Villiers is solely Lambie's fault, Never heard of a forward pass blamed on a recipient before - but liars can obviously use it to further destroy their own posts,
Now to the 2015 game against Japan. Du Preez did not start in the test and was a replacement for Pienaar, Both produced nothing of consequence bar constant bad play and trying to implement the crazy game plan of Meyer, Schalk knocked on four balls passed to him according to Meyer's crazy plan and did zero better in other aspects of the game. Matfield took some line-outs and made some tackles - but he also as vice-captain sabotaged Meyer's game plan by not using the Springbok forward power to best advantage in the game - this was in the media as well. For the rest Louw failed as well and Bismarck's main contribution was giving away 4 penalties as well, The only forward with some real credit to his name in that game was De Jager.
The constant lying issue iro the Perth game was not repeated here - only a string of added lies. This idiot has never explained why Morne was dropped by Meyer after the Dunedin test - the 7 missed at goal kicks and 1 successful kick at goal was just a continuation of the bad kicking performance in the Quaterfinal ibn 2011, He did not play in any of the subsequent tests in 2012 and Meyer only brought him back in 2013. That was followed by the two Welsh test where Morne was again substandard and dropped by Meyer. In his first test after that Steyn virtually single-handedly lost the game in Perth.. For instance I never said it was a nice sunny day anyway - dimness,
The list of lies and distortions are getting longer and longer, Disgusting,
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