Cheetahs reputations take a hit

Willie opened up  a few gaps, but passes were spilled....he made one superb tackle, but missed a few.

Both wings were not worth a damn. In one short stretch Rhule lost the ball and never attempted to get across to tackle. A few minutes later he totally failed to read the telegraphed cross kick for a try. The other guy was just as bad.

The centres were a tad better, but the Rebels figured out the patterns and were on top of Venter.

Goosen missed a bunch of tackles...he really has poor technique and his atrocious kicking took the Cheetahs out of the game...there is very little positive other than him lasting for the game.

Coenie and Strauss were the pick of the Cheetahs, doing massive work. 

Poor Lood by contrast was ineffective in contact, and robbed of the ball several times....is this another hype job.

The loosies made lots of tackles. But Labuschagne made a mistake which led to a try. Van der Walt tried hard, Lappies tried hard....but they were pretty ineffective. When he came on Cook did a few good things...but how poor was his corner flagging tackle. When will our guys learn to go low close to the line, when it's the last tackle option.

Sure

The Cheetahs lost their first two games last year badly and then came back and won all all three their other tour matches in a row.   The game against the Rebels was a repeat of what happened against the Chiefs last year and their tour matches is less tough than they were last year.  

It may be a repeat - but who knows.   Definitely not Mozart and Dim Sun Tzu.   The teams they support was shit poor thus far and both manufacture junk mail to run down Cheetah players 0 while ignoring the worse performances of their favourites .  Standard fare that one.            

Mozart

I did not raise a fuss about Goosen - I said his goal kicking is not acceptable and he seems  to be avoiding contact - maybe he has learnt more from Morne in that regard than anything else,

However, your constant running down of Cheetahs players are hopelessly off track.  Why don't you occasionally look at the mess some of your favoured players are making and comment on that as well?   

 Mozart

You call yourself a balanced observer - I have never heard that claim before - but one thing is clear - your rip into players you do not like and not into layers you like.   That puts a serious strain on the word "balanced."  

Sun Tzu

Where do you get th following fiv from:-

"Morné has always played flatter than Goosen when called on to do so. Another whimsical tall tale from Michael. The issue is that you are only just starting to see now what was observable two years ago. Slow on the up-take Mr.Clever. "

Steyn was so bad in that regard that Meyer said before the Ellis Park test that he instructed Steyn to play flatter.   Would that be said in public - if it was not the case that Morne always stood so i deep I the pocket he mi ght as well be in the car park.

Mone always was way too deep in the pocket and since he always received the ball standing still - his passes to the 12 was always in the "hospital pass" category. 

Sun Tzu

You have footage - OK go and watch the games against the English in 2012 and also the RC tests in 2012 - before Morne was given the boot by Meyer = he way standing way deeper than any other flyhalf I have ever seen in any SA teams.

And for you to say that Morne takes contact is far-fetched.  If he really takes contact he would attack the gain line himself - and that is not a thing Morne ever does.

Because of -

*   the lack of variation in his game;

*   the fact that Morne never attack anything;

*  the fact that hje stands too deep in the pocket and never is on the move when he gets the ball; and

* he is slow in execution - since he is a poor reader of games and not an instinctive player = and the result is a slowing down of the ball,

the opposition loosies go for the 12 as does the opposition 12 - so by time the latter poor bugger gets the ball - he is being tackled by three players - not one.  That is what is known as hospital passes - a Morne speciality.

Anybody seeing anything else  in Morne's game is daydreaming.          

 Mozart

Kick and chase - sure that is supposed to be the case.   But when Morne kicked the balls - he normally kicked it too far and chasing is just not feasible.   Or like the Dunedin test when the commentators said about two of his kicks - "it is bullshit".

Morne extremely rarely made a decent strategic kick that produced positive follow-up results.  His  kicks basically have two effects - counter-kicks or counter-attacks.  Both of those have normally got breakeven or worse results for his team.

If kicking was the only requirement for a flyhalf - then he is OK - but kicking is not the only requirement for flyhafs.   In all other components of flyhad pla y he always was and always will be a medium to poor flyhalf.