Damian is and always be a failed wing hybrid who became an unintelligent and unskilled and predictable crashballer. 9 years and counting. Ende.
I do t trust the sources in that. I have thoroughly assessed every test and all of three entire super rugby seasons, and he has never lived up to the hype. Whenever the micoscope comes out to bring details to light the truth is another matter. Until I see something more substantial, for a change, I dispute the validity of this.
Kindergarten Imbecile
Your assessments is not on performance - but on total lack of knowledge about the game of rugby and the microscope you referred to has been broken for years now.
For the normal biased idiots got the MOM was based in the following:-
Distance if ball carries - 58 Meters
Ckean Breaks - 1
Defenders Beaten - 7
Carrias - 5
Off-loads - 3
Turnovers - 2
Try-Assist - 1
Munster beat Leinster - the strongest team in Ireland and top of the of in the Heineken Cup log - beat Leinster 27-3, despite the fat that Leinster have most of the Ireland national team in their line-up.
D e Allende played a massive roll in that victory,
Not too shabby...some nice stats, but the haters will continue...
De Allende is probably our best centre, although 4 missed tackles, haven't seen his highlight real or the game at all. So won't judge.
Esterhuizen been cited for another foul play, wonder what happened to Serfontein. Been very quiet of late.
He should just go back to the bulls.
The is Rohan Jansen van rensburg still injured or actually playing.
Sale posted something about him and Tualagi being a probably the biggest midfield in the premiership
We have always had good centres, we always have had but perhaps not as good as NZ, De Allende is world class too but nothing wrong with Andre Esterhuizen too ..the more the better.
He missed 4 tackles.....how many did he make?
Now seen a video of the assist. Best I can see he handed off a small fat prop whose arms weren’t long enough to reach him. Then dummied a guy who had to cover the overlap..... tractored through some open territory and passed to Murray who was supporting on the inside. Hardly Cheslin Kolbe stuff but certainly high Dud!
Hard to please you - not so? Fact is that De Allende is a talented and very strong player who played a major role in the WC final in 2019 - a role you did not want to see, Pollard at flyhalf did saw it and he is the best center he ever played with and you must remember that he played with Jean de Villers in a few matches as well.
Be it as it may - he is rated by many foreign critics as the best inside center in the world at present whether you like it or not.
Hard to please you - not so? Fact is that De Allende is a talented and very strong player who played a major role in the WC final in 2019 - a role you did not want to see, Pollard at flyhalf did saw it and he is the best center he ever played with and you must remember that he played with Jean de Villers in a few matches as well.
Be it as it may - he is rated by many foreign critics as the best inside center in the world at present whether you like it or not.
Gosh I said it was High Dud....pity about the missed tackles.
Damian has never had a breakout test. Never has he ever been a key Bok. He is worthless as a player. I posted his entire 2018 test season, which was lauded as greatest in the world material, and it was one big shameful flop. Wise up.
A classic ‘the king has no clothes’ phenomenon.
Dave it is better to laugh about the bullshit Mozart and the Kindergarten Imbecile spout on site / I tried to argue and explain to them - but they always comes up with distortions and outright lies to cover up for their rugby ignorance,
And I’m not sure who is fatter Dave, you or the small fat prop Allende handed off...
Oh my ! It’s that time again, is it Mozart ?!
Well Dave....let’s see.
‘You are predictably weak’
‘Moz you really are a laugh’
You see Dave you always start the personal stuff and then whine when I respond. I think that was a perfectly ordinary break by Dud, you think it shows some sort of genius. Doesn’t make me weak, or a laugh or anti South African rugby.
Exactly where you were when Jake was coach Dave...I’m just walking the path you established after we won the 2007WC and you could see no merit in it. Winning the WC with no structured back play and 20% the offloads of our opponents is not growth.
Unlike you and Mike I always claimed we could win with defence. You guys denied it...but when it happened it suddenly became the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I repeat myself the Boks should always be very competitive if they sort their defence and play to their forward strengths. But if we want to be great we have to add backline play which doesn’t rely on turnovers. A Bok team should be able to walk and chew gum.
Erasmus coached exactly what Jake did, but even more narrowly.
He declined in his third year because Burger was injured and the whole team was under the Watson controversy. So much so that Jake had to fly back from Oz to defend himself.
I like Willie, Kolbe, Mapimpi, Am, Pollard, Faf, the Beast, Marx, Malherbe (a late convert), Etzebeth, Mostert, Snyman, Louw, Vermeulen.
Amongst our test team that leaves the Duds, Kolisi and Lomp, who aren’t disasters, just very over rated. Hardly the majority of our players.
Mozart will not accept that before the WC in 2007 the Springbok team was bullied in a 33-6 loss by the All Blacks and in the WC they struggled against Tonga and Fiji 0 the fact is that those two teams scored more tries against the 2007 Springboks than all teams scored against the Springboks in 2019 , Fact is the 2007 final was a mess and the evidence is clear for all to see - the Springboks were substandard in important aspects of the game. I recently watch the two finals and the fact is that parts of the 2007 was a shambles aa a result of poor ball skills, deficiencies i ball protection and recovery at breakdowns and even their scrumming was questionable in 2007. They were lucky that the English team discipline were poor in 2007.
Mozart's ignorance of the game is summarized in one statement he made - "He declined in his third year because Burger was injured"
H e has yet to understand that RUGBY IS A TEAM SPORT and that all players play a part in games and if teams like happened against the AB's by a big margin - the absence of one player is not what caused the team failure.
Anyway Mozart's attacks in Erasmus started immediately after he was appointed and can only be ascribed to the fact that he supported the appointment of Coetzee as the coach in 2016 and could not stomach it that Coetzee was ousted because he was totally incompetent. In 2018 the attacks by Mozart on Erasmus intensified and in response comparisons to Meyer's first year as coach got him and the Kindergarten Imbecile inti a frenzy, It was only after Mozart continued with attacks on Erasmus continued that Dave and I started looking at what happened in the case of White in 2007.
Petty attacks on players because of prejudice covering the period since 2013 to date based on some site members supporting the players represents extreme childishness / The man is a nutcase to be laughed at. and the Kindergarten Imbecile is even worse than him/ .
ong before any comparison was made between him and any other coach. It got progressively worse in 2018 when the compaarisons inaoruisbn between
Well that’s finally a concrete argument Tokkie. The 2007 Boks struggled for their wins you claim . So we look at some numbers and oops:
2007 WC total points...305 for/ 89 against. Positive differential 216.
2019 WC total points.........262 for / 67 against. Positive differential 195.
Now it’s true we played an extra pool game in 2007, but it was against Scotland...a top team. On average our pool teams in 2007 ranked 56/5 =11....in 2019 with patsies like Italy , Canada and Namibia the opposition ranked 60/4=15
We played a much tougher pool in 2007....a full 4 ranking points tougher. Nobody told you that I bet.
It seems the 2007 Boks won more easily even though the 2019 defence was stingier, because they simply were better at putting points on the Board.
On balance it’s a win for the 2007 team based on point differentials and also because unlike their 2019 successors, they were undefeated.
Dave do stop repeating yourself unless you want to add some facts to support your arsertions ....my word for something you pull out of your arse.
Mozart
Are you trying to get facts that does not exist to argue about something, that does not exist going again. Lets first look at the actual pool games played in 2007 and there were NONE - SA did not play Scotland in the 2007 WC. South Afrcia was in pool A and the pool teams were as follows:-
England, Samoa, Tonga and the USA
Scotland was in Pool C - so how did we play them in the WC?
You claimed SA in 2007 scored 278 points and gave away 86. Fact is SA scored - the points difference was 192. So you were totally wrong again and caught out again,
So lets look at 2019 WC. The pool games were against the following-
All Blacks, Namibia, Italy, Canada
The AB's at the start of the WC was the world number 1 team in 2019 - England in 2007 was the number 5 team in the world. Fact is that the English team was weak and handicapped by too many over-the-hill players - the 2019 team would have beaten the 2007 tem by at least 20 points/
So lets s look at the real point differences:-
2007 for 2007 against Difference
278 86 192
2019 for 2019 against Difference
262 70 192
Since the point difference were the same one has to look at the TRIES Scored for and against as what represents the real performance differences:-
2007 for 2007 against Difference
24 8 16
2019 for 2019 against Difference
32 4 28
The latter is the exact point differences and not the imagined difference between the tams you cooked up - the tries score for and against being the real norm.
Now lets look at the play-off stages of the tournaments concerned:-
* Fiji in 2007 was poor and Japan was an entirely different scenario. By 2015 Japan already able to disgrace the Springboks beating them, In the 2019 WC they beat Scotland and Ireland to top their pool. The Springboks faced a much stronger team in the quarters in playing Japan than they did in having played Fiji in 2007
* Wales in 2019 was a vastly stronger team than Argentina was in 2007. But for two try-scoring opportunities fouled up by Le Roux - in knocking on ball with an open try-line in front of him and the other with a forward pass to the wing with an open tryline in front of the wing the point difference would have been much higher. The game was actually won by the Springboks through the very difficult try scored by De Allende.
* England in 2007 was a farce and the 36-0 loss against SA in the pool stages confirmed ,y statement as to their real strength in that series/ They got through to the final by a narrow margin they managed against France, The problem was the playing strategy was changed by White in the final that helped England to be competitive, However, a 32-12 win in 2019 against a team that convincingly beat the AB's a week before confirms the fact the 2007 England team was weak and the 2019 English team was much stronger.
Finally a plea to you - if you want to quote figures in site please make sure it is correct and factual.
Augenblinde
:Damian has never had a breakout test. Never has he ever been a key Bok. He is worthless as a player. I posted his entire 2018 test season, which was lauded as greatest in the world material, and it was one big shameful flop. Wise up.
What?
A tribute video? Really? Shall we dissect any one those games? Do any off you learn at all?
No I just wondered why and how you see obvious straight forward actions differently from a normal, ordinary fan...do you live in another world or are you just a contentious person that suffers from extreme closed mindedness and bias. Do certain players, no matter what they do remain forever doomed to a fixed and closed opinion. You are not the only one. Anybody can make a mistake about a player initially and a lot of players that we don't initially esteem later change an honest critics original opinion. But some never change...no matter what. Shows a very self opinionated stubborn and dishonest character with no humility whatsoever.
Even better....the Scottish game was the last game pre the WC, my mistake. Leaving those results aside the differentials in the pool games were indeed the same.....so one has to look at the quality of the opposition.
So without Scotland our opponents ranked 47/4 equals 12 rounded up....vs 2019 where our opponents were 60/4 equals 15. Poof goes your rebuttal. It’s obvious we had a way easier pool in 2019 and could only manage the same points differential as 2007.
Mozart are you dreaming up more info than normal again? One wonders what you will come up next? Another lot of BS as per normal I expect.
