Sidestepped by a hooker, unable to get the ball down over the try line….hopelessly gassed by Mo’unga for a try which was called back. Total of 1 meter for 5 runs. Quarter of his tackles missed.
Case closed
What about Kolisi blowing our best tryscoring opportunity
Kolisi had support inside and outside and was stopped 2 meters short….our players haven’t done enough offloading to get the ball away in the tackle.
Pollard's defence is questionable, has he forgotten how to tackle?
Overall, I actually thought Kolisi had his best game of the tournament, even considering the error he made.
Add in his ridiculous high tackle, and then immediately charges into the ruck from the wrong side. He has no Software at all. Press the power button, and you are greeted with a black screen. The hardware isn't much either. Like a bulky low powered 1980s PC with a clean one Kilobyte HDD.
Kolisi was dominated. Most Boks were dominated. Many players with better looking defence stats were dragged around like rag dolls. It wasn't a very good showing all around, and Kolisi was poor as he usually is.
Actually Pollard has always been an unreliable tackler….thus never really a candidate for 12.
Just watching Jordie Barrett bumping off Dud Allende effortlessly…he was dominated skill wise as expected, but also dominated in his supposed long suite physicality.
His shepherding of Mo’unga was a copy of the Umaga incident where Dud ran alongside him just long enough for him to offload to Barrett, whose subsequent try took us out of the 2015 WC.
This was an even worse performance than usual….but not unlike his normal work product.
He has perfectly good hardware but the he can’t react to unexpected inputs and he can’t make decisions under pressure.
Nine lost years of center play.
DDA was about the only Bok who didn't seem to be aware that he was in a World Cup final. Contrast his lazy doddling with Steph showing up everywhere and launching himself all over the place.
I do believe AE can feel that he was robbed. Hardly got any test in the past 4 years, even thought being the Premiership best player for the past 2 years. Never had a bad game for the boks this season creates so much space for his outside backs. I do hope this is the last we see of Dud. Let him play out his career playing touch in Japan.
AE is 29, next world cup might be 4 years too far away, but he has the next 2 years to leave his mark.
That said, we won, the coaches backed their favourites and it came off. Be it with the help of a red card.
Had we lost the knives would have been out for Rassie. Especially against a 14 man team
King
I think Rassie inherited DDA from Meyer and bought into the hype. Then w as too proud to go back.
There's every reason, the WC final providing further evidence, that a new coach might look elsewhere and that elsewhere is likely AE.
There is hope.
Mostert made a total of 49 tackles in the 3 playoffs ................ & he missed zero.
...and kicking, or passing slowly and badly, isn't the job of a 12.
Damian played to the level he has always played at. That isn't a good thing. His whole career is one big flatline.
"AE is class as well but at no point did he show he deserved to replace DA"
Show me a game he played this year where he wasn't better than DDA's best game all year.
Clear...?
You tell me the worst game AE played and the best game DDA had, and I bet you AE's worst was better the DDA's best.
I see the anti Rassie brigade have given up on roasting Du Toit as they were severely embarrassed yet again as Du Toit had a blinder
So what to do. Let's go for Alkende. Jordie Bar rat dominated Allende. Really! How many tries did Jordie score. We ZERO.. Alkende has him well in check.
But don't worry oaks Alkende was on for 80 minutes that must be something he did wrong after all nobody is perfect.
So they go through the match to see if there is anything they can find. It doesn't even have to be definitive evidence but as long as it's debatable.
Then of course they ignore everything good the guy did which earned him a good game rating as we saw.
Having been after Alkende for years now it's so embarrassing that now this fine Bok center has two RWC medals.
Ask yourself what have these buffoons been right about.
But they reckon their best argument is AE is better than Allende. That is all they have got left.
They of course conveniently forgot when AE had a chance to force a change he flopped.
For me thought Moodie before Arendse. I can list reasons why. However not being blinded by hatred of Rassie 8 can see why he went with Arendse. I think Am is a very fine 13 but again 8 see why Rassie went with Kriel.
The trouble with the Allende come Rassie haters us that they can't evaluate the pros and cons.
The Mamparas simply say AE good Alkende bad. It's not that they are SAYING AE marginally better than Allende which is acceptable even if it could be wrong, they are saying there is a BIG difference which there is not.
Yes a number of Boks will be set to move on. This was not a young side as tried by poor Eddie Jones and for which Rassie was heartily criticised and it's time to start a gradual rebuilding.
Never in my years of posting on a Rugby board have two carping dumbassrs have had more egg landing. It's a function of their even more hysterical garbage (as compared to 2019) and what transpired.
This was best exemplified by THE DOOS and backed up by Mozzzzzzz. Hahahahahahaha.
It's not a crime to think the AE is better than DDA.
It's even less likely to be criminal if it's true, which it is.
I've personally been saying it for years, long before this World Cup.
This "Alkende" bloke sounds a bit of alright, when is he playing his first test?
The fact is none of you lot gave any credit to De Allende for scoring a crucial try in the match against France - without that try we would have been out of the tournament.
By the way - you write about Esterhuizen - he had his chances .to play for the Spruingboks a number of times and showed some deficiencies. It is not a crime to feel that Esterhuizen is a better center than De Allende - but it is stupid when it is based on prejudice. If it was based on a scientific analysis that the selectors have at their disposal that records the activities of every player on the field every moment of the game and not the wishy-washy stats Mozart always quote - then you may have a different opinion on the issue.
In 2019 the defense of De Allende and Du Toit neutralized the attacks of the Englisjh backline - the component of the game that beat the SB's in the semi-final - but all the two of them got was repetitive BS by Mozart and some other members.
There is not a player on Saturday that did not make a mistake during the match - Mostert for instance made plenty of those and was a non-factor in the line-outs - yet none of the members follow the normal Mozart norm - we did not see anything we did not want to see.
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Exactly Mike.
I am not saying it's a crime to think AE is better than Allende. I am saying it's nonsense to say he is more than marginally better. I am also saying it's BS to suggest Allende is completely hopeless and brings nothing to the table.
What we have been dealing with in regard to Allende and Du Toit is years of biased vitriol with no balance or fairness.
Now they sit under a mountain of EGG the likes of which we have never seen on this board. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHA.
Nine years of stampkar rugby…..thank heavens that’s over.
If we believe Michael, then we believe that Matfield was the worst lock in Bok history (affectionately called Cuntfield by Mr Mike), that Morné was the worst 10 of all time at all levels of the game, Du Preez was fat and slow, Frans was useless, Tim Swiel was a class act and sure Bok, and Damian was the best 12 in Bok history. Pretty extreme. One is entitled to have alternate opinions, but you sure better be able to back them up! The likes of Michael, Saddex, Mrs Searle et al never have any facts to hand. They get routed effortlessly. Very emotional and childlike types.
Mo'unga is a rare all-rounder in the 10 jersey, a creative
Gassed!