Building around Sacha

a "promising attack"

one can only laugh

The most legal tackle the world has ever seen...

Now for the last arrow in Mike’s quiver..,,,that’s not Esterhozen

Now Mart is aback to his shit about Mostert's tackles, Ke ade stackles but to bring players down he needs help from other players, Mster is a shot defender in open play defense and people have on occassions ran straaight through him. Du Toit is much better than Mstet has ever been. That is one of the reasons why twice Du Toit was the Rugby Player of rhe year a xaase where Mostert would never have qualified,

So you gonna talk us through your previous comments, Mike?

Are we just gonna ignore that despite you telling us we are spreading BS, you were the one spreading BS about the incident above?

Like the opposite of what you said happened is what actually happened.

And he just lied about Mostert in the post above….

Mostert does tackle just NEVER dominantly

He tackles like a girl

"Mostert is renowned for his exceptional defensive skills and work rate on the rugby field.

For instance, during the Rugby World Cup 2023 knockout stages, he made 49 tackles without missing a single one, showcasing his reliability and tenacity in defense.

In the Autumn Nations Series match against Wales, Mostert not only contributed defensively but also scored a try, further demonstrating his all-around capabilities.

Such performances highlight Mostert’s status as a key player in the Springbok lineup, admired for his consistent and impactful contributions."

Mostert is SHIT

DDA is great because Rassie is a genius and selects him.

Mostert is shit despite Rassie selecting him.

Rassie loves Mostert and Rassie loves Wiese.

I guess he must just be a clueless rugby ignorant.

Spot on plum….I guess some people have no shame In making untrue statements to deceive.

Mostert is a very good player...almost great, but he hasn't been 1st choice for the Bokke in his position for the last decade...beeeeg difference.

This board has it's very own axis of stupidity . . . giMp, Moffie and ButtPlug . . . still trying to pretend that all Rassie's achievements are due to luck.

What a weak cop-out is all I can say . . . by three very weak individuals.

Keep on being lucky, Rassie.

Go Bokke!

Stupid is as Stupid does….

Well Vaccine thought the explorers were vaccinated in 1600, you don’t get much more stupid than that.

No dumbfuck - Rassie is rugby genius but he is not perfect for if he was we would not have lost a single test

Part of his imperfection is his blind spot when it comes to locks

Selecting physically inept locks is his failing, in particular powder puff Mostert - but he is slightly forgiven in that after initially starting him, he eventually realised a proper lock like Lood was better and again of late with RG

Unfortunately the injuries to Lood and RG had Rassie mistakenly believing powder puff could do the job - so what we got was plenty of heart and energy, loads of process tackles but unfortunately we saw zero physical productivity - the essence of a Bok lock

But unfortunately Rassie has a blind spot when it comes to locks - Mostert, Orie, Nico Janse v Rensburg and of late Ruan Nortje - ignoring talented young proper locks in the process

Thankfully we have had Eben and Lood and of late RG. It’s just such a shame we have had so little of RG for had be been fit over the years, we would never have had to endure the physically inept Mostert for the Boks - it would have been the Eben / RG combo with Lood off the bench

Oh and why the fuck has Wiese come into the equation - does it imply that some dumbfuck has me not rating Wiese?

Just to be clear...

Rassie is a mega uber genius with otherworldly rugby vision and guile.

Rassie was also a Bok forward.

...but he just doesn't know what's required from a test lock and Dave could teach him a thing or two.

Is that about right, Dave.

"still trying to pretend that all Rassie's achievements are due to luck."

More weak sauce from the residents slime.

Mike....

hello?

Read what I wrote about provincial issue in rugby as it used to be.

I think that we do not know enough about the inner situation as te coaching, team selection ad the game plan issue and seu p and how and why playes were selected or omitted from the team to really make a contribution on player selections. I like what I saw of Sacha and wrote about him two years ago after I saw him playing in the Under 20 WC and when people was arguing about Libbok and others to be played at flyhalf I wrote about him being he solution and I believe I was right about him as was finally proved in franchise rugby n 2023 and in the few tests he played in in 2024, His alst to matches this year ws sensational,

The oher flyhalf I prefer as a supporting flyhalf includes Wolhuter - he had some really good matches for the Lions this year - if Sacha or Polalrd is not avaiable I would pick him as replacement or back-up flyhalf,

As to AE I just cannot see what others on site see of him. He is defnitely slower in pace than De Allende who was part of long distance attacks that led to scoring a number of tries in tests - which I see as a positive,

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Mike

What we don't see is the promising attacking play you were talking about.

Before you spin us a yarn, remember that you used that specific incident above as your reasoning for why AE fell out of favour.

Are you gonna pivot and find another reason that you swear he's so bad and unacceptable to everyone?

Andre has been better for the Sharks than DDA has been for his club side. And the URC is a tougher competition.

Don't be surprised if you see Rassie use AE much more this year.

Plum

I will indeed be surorised if he 31 year old Esterhuizen who played in 22 tests without ever making a real positive impact in the matches is selected as replacement of De Allende, If De Allende is not selected or avaibale the next candidate would be Willemse followed by Kriel and Hooker as third and fourth choices,

That incident in the November 2018 test was a law contravention by Farrell -my problem is Esterhuizen tried to run around the back of the Springbok wing - a stupid miove at his deficient pace and it even surprised the other team members and caused him to be isolated - he would have caused possession loss anyway irespective of what happened in the Farrell tackle - there were othe supporting players around Farrell and AE would have been dead meat. .

"That incident in the November 2018 test was a law contravention by Farrell -my problem is Esterhuizen tried to run around the back of the Springbok wing - a stupid miove at his deficient pace and it even surprised the other team members and caused him to be isolated - he would have caused possession loss anyway irespective of what happened in the Farrell tackle - there were othe supporting players around Farrell and AE would have been dead meat. ."

Was it a promising attack, though?

Can't say we didn't predict the pivot...

Yes Rassie’s record with locks is kak - I could definitely do a better job of selecting locks

Thankfully he has got the main ones right in Eben , Lood and RG

The rest are substandard - not real locks - a bunch of powder puffs

You heard it here first...Dave can teach Rassie a thing or two!

So could anyone - there is no way in hell that Mostert, Orie, Nico Janse v Rensburg and Ruan Nortje have been the best lock options available

Lol

Lomp is not the answer. He has been out of it to long and never in his whole career, has he been as influential as Mostert.

So for the sake of future development, Erasmus should start picking the younger inform locks.

Ruben V Heerden, Reinhardt Ludwig, Ruan Vermaak, Cobus Wiese etc..…..is all options that need investment now and not later….

Mpower

At last a eaaningful comment and I agree with you. In the case of locks the situation is not clear at all This yeaar thus far Etzebeth played only in one match and a week klater did not play - so there are questionmarks wth him as well, Maybe the idea with Esterhuizen is the ame - play him rarely in tests only and for the rest be rarely used to prevent injuries. I think the same applies to Pollar as well.

In teh caase of Sacha part of his injury problem was caused by imself last year and the oher part was die to Dobson being a village idiot playing him at 12 - which exposed him to play in a position he should never play, The latter position is for thinking players more physical than Sacha is. He is dangerous at 10 and a liability subject to injuries played at 12.

Np aabck to thee lock situation - I think we have enough younger locks that should be given more playing time opportunities, With Etzebeth in a situation he is in - they shoud play Wiese at 4 and for the 5 positin hei is a long list of locks available. I like R van Hererden, But their is anther Van heerdenplaying fro the Sharks as well. You mentions Ludwig as well - he can also pay at 7 making him a particular player whose roe model and hero is P-S du Toit.

In the July test series I think that we will see less of Kolisi amd Du Toit in the thee tests and moe of Roos and Hanekom as 8 and 6 respectively, Wiese at 6 is a payer makig little impact at 8 insofar as attacking play is concerned so for me the likely loosies likely to play in July wille indicative of the future role as learner coach be expected from Kolisi.

Interesting enough is the fact that both Erasmus and Browne believe that the idea of the past is that loosie are an extenion of the Tight 5 is not applicable anymore, Loosies has to link up i providing help to the backlines in playing attackng rugby in future - a winning formula for many years siccessfukky used used by the All Blacks. Despte all the negative comments on this site in 2024 that system was successfully used by the Springboks who scored more tries than the other top ten teams in the world, That s why the comments of some site members that they did not see any difference in the style of play is really ridiculous, There will be some players who are established playrs in the July teams and amongst those is likely to be Ox and one of the hookers like Bongi as well as Du Toit and Sacha, De Allende and Willemse - with Moerat also in the mix, On the wing Kolbe and at full back there wil be no changes. Who will be on the scrumhalf will also be an issue, I think Kriel as a good goalkicker may be involved.in the bench selection. That is where playes that can play in multible positions will also be involved,

In the meantime it would be better to forget about players in the past will be in the mix. Those playes has had their opportunities like Easterhuizen and did not perform up to standard in the tests they played in will not be in the mix in future,

We will have to wait and see what happens as to squad and team selection over the next two months who wil;l actually play in the July tests,

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Super Springbok Sacha dubbed a generational talent

4 min read • 09 May 2025

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has been hailed as “a generational talent” by his DHL Stormers boss John Dobson.

The Springboks star has been in sparkling form of late, scoring 50 points, including four tries, during Cape Town victories over Connacht Rugby and Benetton Rugby in the last two rounds of the BKT URC.

He is sure to be a key figure for the sixth-placed DHL Stormers as they set their sights on making a big impact in the play-offs.

Giving his thoughts on the 23-year-old fly-half, Dobson said:

“I am the coach of the team he plays in, but I can’t claim to have coached him for a second. He is a generational talent.

“He is such a good guy and so level headed.”

Dobson says that’s all the more important with the hype surrounding the versatile young back having gone stratospheric.

“We had that with Siya (Kolisi) when he was here before he went to the Sharks,” he said.

“He would walk into a petrol station and you would have people howling and dropping their pumps!

“It feels curious for the team. When one player is elevated by hype above the rest of the team, it’s sort of contrary to rugby values. That worries me a little bit from a team perspective. It’s a tricky one.”

Reflecting on what the future holds for the eight-times capped Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Dobson said:

“Probably our biggest challenge is to make sure he stays on the field.

“That’s not something we control.

“It’s nerve-racking stuff because he has done his knee twice.

“We have to be very careful about his body without changing who he is.

“You can’t say to him ‘Listen, you have been tackled six to eight times a game, it’s too much for a fly-half’ because that would take away who he is.

“It’s a real tightrope the whole Sacha project, but brilliant to have.”

The Cape Town-born Feinberg-Mngomezulu scored a scintillating hat-trick of tries in the narrow 34-29 victory over Connacht and then crossed again in the 56-5 demolition of Benetton.

He also landed nine shots at the sticks against the Italians - six conversions, two penalties and a drop goal - and demonstrated his astute tactical kicking game.

“It was entirely clinical and mature, the way Sacha and Warrick (Gelant) kept drilling the ball into the corners in the second half. We were so territorially dominant, so in charge,” said Dobson.

The DHL Stormers coach was in a far happier mood after the Benetton game than he had been following the nerve-jangling win over Connacht.

He had described the defensive performance against the Irish province as their worst in years, so he was delighted by the response from his players.

“There was a lot of emotion after the Connacht game even though we won,” he said.

“We knew we had to change dramatically and show we are a championship team. It was a big week.”

The Stormers certainly stepped up to another level against fellow play-off contenders Benetton, running in seven tries.

“It was everything we wanted and planned, a really, really good performance,” said Dobson.

“It was almost flawless. We were so clinical, so mature and we were really good defensively.

“It was our best performance in the URC by a distance.”

What was also impressive was the crowd of 18,474 at the DHL Stadium, following on from 18,211 for the Connacht game.

“There is something brewing,” said Dobson.

“You see the amount of blue in the crowd, jerseys, not just flags. It’s just going up and up and up. It’s becoming like a soccer crowd. They are fully invested.

“It was a great crowd for the Benetton game, a really good experience and we entertained them, which is our theme for the season.

“We are playing rugby that suits our DNA and the people resonate with it and they are coming along. It’s a really good space with the crowd numbers.”

The DHL Stormers now have two more home games to round off the regular season, with Dragons RFC (this Saturday) and Cardiff Rugby (Friday, May 16) the opponents, as they look to secure their play-off spot.

“If we keep going like we are, I think we will finish fifth and stay local in the quarter-finals,” said Dobson.

“We will go to Durban to face the Sharks, which is something we will do with great relish. That derby would be a nice one for us.”

Dobson just waffles...

He plus the guy at 12...but the. He says things like this...

"“You can’t say to him ‘Listen, you have been tackled six to eight times a game, it’s too much for a fly-half’ because that would take away who he is.

“It’s a real tightrope the whole Sacha project, but brilliant to have.”"

This while literally every fan in the country knew Sacha should never be played at 12 where he is far more likely to sustain an injury and did indeed get injured.

Dobbo loves his own Kool-Aid far too much.

You guys forget very quickly that Dobbo is the only SA coach that have won the URC title….just like Rassie he is very loved by his players…..a great motivator and tactician.

Stop hammering on the man for the mistake with Sacha, he clearly is invested in Sacha at 10 and in Sacha the man.

You go Dobbo and get us that trophy again ! Go Stormers!!

The team needed him at 12 at the time...he should be just a regular player...we are going to spoil him if we protect him too much...Sasha is big enough and skilled enough to play at 12...10 is his position, but he can play anywhere in the backline...rugby is a team spirt...he shouldn’t be elevated above the team just because he is potentially a generational talent.

Going to the match today...dis eendeweer in Die Kaap, so it won't be a running fest.