Danie Gerber 2

So I got thinking about this fella and started watching some stuff on Youtube. Obviously highlight vids are not really the way to assess a player because if dog shit losers like most of the Blocks can look good in spliced footage. Then I got reading up on him. I never knew he played a lot of his tests at 12. I thought he only ever played at 13. Kinda sad that I couldn't find great info on his domestic rugby because I wanted to know where he started out playing. But lots of positive stuff said about him. He scored 10 tries for the Blocks at 12 and then 9 at 13. Mostly played 12 in the first half of his test career. So, it's kinda impressive that he was able to score so regularly at post positions. His record against the kiwis was 2 tries in 4 games and he won 1 out of 4. They did play the cavaliers, and a lot of Blocksters say that was the unofficial world cup but that's bullshit. Anyway the Blocks won the series 3 to 1 and Danie scored 1 try in the third game which was a win. Kind of a mixed bag in terms of wins against top opponents. He lost to Australia. It was as a pretty loaded Wally side with Horan and Little in the centres... world champions. Lots Blocks in the backs who made the 1995 world cup but they absolutely fucking pumped 3 to 29 . So my conclusion is that he was a pretty good centre. I still don't think he's the best ever but I have a lot more respect for the guy. Would be nice to see some Province games posted up and a bit more info on what his record and stats were from them. 

You have a pretty strong opinion about a guy you've only ever seen in highlights. I grew up watching him, all the way from his club rugby for Despatch (which was still big enough back in the 80s to be televised), the Eastern Province and even at age 34 he was still playing wing for Western Province and outsprinting the younger French backs in a chase for the ball to score for the Boks in 1992. I think the closest modern day 13 to Gerber would be Brian O' Driscoll.

I watched three tests... two cavaliers and the 1992 kiwi test. 

Danie dispatched all competition and arguments as to the best centre ever. He was poetry in motion. The most perfect centre ever, only wish he was 30 years younger, even the modern game he would have excelled and found the gaps.

Danie dispatched all competition and arguments as to the best centre ever. He was poetry in motion. The most perfect centre ever, only wish he was 30 years younger, even the modern game he would have excelled and found the gaps.

Agree that the players you mentioned are all excellent ex-players as well but the point we are making is that Danie Gerber was the GREATEST.

Now just to explain it a bit more to you, Greatest is better than Excellent.

Got it now?

Good.

If we talk what Gerber could do against the top level structures etc Gerber is not the best ever. Get fucking real. 

. I think the closest modern day 13 to Gerber would be Brian O' Driscoll.

Indeed, but Danie was still much better...him an Carel in one backline was something to behold.

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There are some players from the amateur era people believe would not make the grade in the professional game given the changes in physicality, then there are some players that would take to the modern game like a duck to water. South Africa’s Danie Gerber is one of the latter.

The 24-cap Springbok proved to be nothing short of a freak of nature during his twelve year international career between 1980 and 1992 and had the full package with ball in hand. He had the power to sit down tacklers and the pace and swerve to leave them in his wake. His running style and pace is comparable to Christian Cullen’s, or rather Cullen’s was comparable to his, but then Gerber had the brute strength to complement his agility.

Gerber is the non-active player with the best try-scoring ratio with more than 20 Test caps, who ended his career with 19 tries in 24 Tests (79.2%). Though that record could well be beaten by some current stars of the game, particularly his compatriot Makazole Mapimpi, it is a hugely impressive record and why there is a very good case for him being the greatest centre ever."

I see nothing to show me that he could cope with modern systems and keep that try ratio. The defences he faced were wide open cover was slow... space wasn't covered and marked very good. Players are more tactically aware and these systems are waaaay more sophisticated. That's the problem you fucks have... you can't fucking run through wide open space anymore. It takes a collective effort to make a break and support the strike runner. Too much thinking and too much skill. Dopes like Kriel and Am would be legends if they played in the 80s. Fucking yarpies with no sense of reality. 

"Fucking yarpies with no sense of reality. "

Better than a fcn turncoat wannabe Pom with no sense at all.

Jou oupa draai in sy graf om...

turncoat?? What the fuck are you on Db??? well named.. a flat dud XD

I am quite delicious, but you cannot have a suck Pakster. I could have named a hell of a lot of other better centres... that's just off the top of my head. 

Do not diss Will Carling, Pakie  

Carling was good Becs, I always enjoyed watching him play. A Gerber he was not, though.

Hmm well, Pakie, I forgive you now. 

Will Carling is off limits for nasty comments 

No Saffex 

Will was fabulous  

Ha ha ha ha ha !! 

Will Carling was good enough to break through walls of defenders. He was tough, he had field presence and leadership and he could pass. Sella may very well be the best 13 ever and his record speaks for itself. Guscott was also a great centre in his own right and has a strong record. I forgot to mention Mortlock who was way better than O'Dribble and probably the candidate for top 1 to 3 centres of all time. You fuckers should know him well cause he fucked you lot over a fair few as well as shattering kiwi hearts. The man could run, pass, kick he had it fucking all. Way more complete than Gerber. That's the thing with you stupid dildos, you aren't fans of the game and yarpies typically have a very linear scope of anything outside of their fucking bubble world. Gerber was a hero to YOU, in YOUR pond... not the biggest fish in the SEA. But that comes with that typical yarpie arrogance and you fucks took a long time to kind of realise you aren't gods gift to rugby, but any time you get the odd result you fall quickly into that old mindset. YOu fuckers probably wouldn't even know half the names of a list of the worlds best because you only know your own little dinkys. 

Koro... maybe I was wrong about you...

Yes, Red Rose, Will Carling had many attributes needed from a good Centre and he partnered with Jerry Guscott really well. Oh for a Centre pairing as good as those two today ! 

The bigger the laughter the bigger the stupid. I suppose Snor was wrong, he who laughs last doesn't laugh lastest. 

Here's one for you you fucking queen. Sella putting Gerber on his arse. Sella was known for defence as well as attack. The complete package....

Funny you should mention that match:

April 19, 1986

Unlike the British Lions v World XV three days earlier in a wet Cardiff Arms Park, this game was played in ideal conditions at Twickenham.[3] At the time, there were only eight Unions affiliated to the Board, thus only players from those unions were chosen.

April 19, 1986

Five Nations XV 13 – 32 Overseas Unions XV

Gerber scored 2 tries and Carel Dup 1....South Africa had 4 starters in that team and scored half the tries....Sel la scored no tries and his team leaked 6.

Well, Sella had no trouble with Gerber. Yarpies can never stay on topic. What's Gerber's record against New Zealand and Australia? What's his strike rate against top teams? I don't mean invitational South American teams etc. 

"Well, Sella had no trouble with Gerber. "

Wel, Gerber scored 2 tries...so maybe just a little...I really must try to get that footage...can't recall much of it...

Yah, I've already seen it you poofter. 

So why're you repeating your nonsense then???