Dud Allende the toothless

So as usual there are those on here who believe Dud Allende is the best centre in the game….and that has some support amongst the moronic rugby media, basically because the Boks are ranked number one.

But the facts tell a sad story to the contrary. Dud ran the ball 87 times in 2021. He made 2, that’s right 2, clean breaks. He beat a paltry  17 defenders, 5 in one game against the Bargies. For the rest he beat a defender every 6 runs! He had zero tries and 1 try assist against Scotland.

To all intents and purposes he tractored up or ran through open space with no impact on the games….1 try assist all year is what he contributed.

Kerevi by contrast beat 6 tackles in the first Bok test….made a clean break and a try assist. Poor Dud, faced with Kerevi never beat one tackle in the two tests…..completely dominated.

So there are the facts, something our rugby writers never bother to explore. And they validate the irrelevant role Dud plays.

Mozart has two really [problematic attributes, those being - 

*  petty hatred of performing players that at one stage competed for selection with his favorites for selection to the Springbok team; and

*  a persistent admiration for duds that led the Springboks down for years.

He based his arguments on anything he dreams up and sometimes  selective stats - whenever a petty hate player performs well he ignored their real performance record and discover his own story about what happened.

An example was a so-called try scoring opportunity created by Le roux in the WCC final.  According to him Le Roux made a break in the English 22 carrying the ball 20 meters  that set up a try-scoring opportunity, but De Allende was not there to receive his pass.   In the first instance  there was no try-scoring opportunity - the so-called break which entails an attempt to run in between Ford and Farrell happened just inside the 10 meter line and in the whole match ball-carrying gain of Le Roux was 6 meters and not 20 meters indicated by Mozart.    There was no gap between Ford and Farrell into which De Allende could run - it a occupied by the two English players and after 6 meter carrying Le Roux was tackled by Ford and tried to pass the ball to  Kolbe who somehow catch the poor pass - but was immediately tackled outside of the 22 - and De Allende covered the breakdown and prevented the English to take over the possession at the breakdown.

That is just one of many anti-De Allende stories dreamed up by Mozart.    He ahs repeated the Kerevi story 50 times already - in one test in Australia last year Kerevi did  better than De Allende in ball carries in the test after that De Allende did better than Kerevi.  

The same BS is repeated every time by Mozart and I wonder whether he thinks that repeating it will make thinking people  believing him.   .

Totally botched try scoring opportunity. Willie through the half gap, ready to feed the ball to the next man  Dud Allende with an open line. Dud’s brain had another implosion and he meandered inside trotting behind Farrell. The man is epically dumb.

Imagine a 12 who in 12 tests contributes 1 assist. I’m not bothered to do the numbers but I’m pretty sure Dud has the lowest strike rate of all our incumbent centres since readmission. A robot at best.

The rest of the men consisted on Kolbe - there were no space that De Allende could run into.  That half gab story and your version were based on distortion anyway.   There were zero try-scoring opportunity in that case and the cross -defense was in place anyway.   That type of BS coming from you is normal in your case.    .   

Yep…a classic case of  the emperor’s clothes.

Kerevi plays for Aus...we have DdA...we have to put up with him, warts and all, until someone better comes along...for the game Rassie's Bokke play, Damien is more than adequate...there's nobody who would be clearly better for the Bokke. 

I also would like some other players given a go from the bench...at 12 and some other positions, but it is clear that Russie doesn't hand out caps on a whim...consistency is probably Rassie and Jacques greatest strength as a coaching pair.

What results….being beaten twice by Oz because Kerevi dominated Dud. For Dud to be the best….taking gaps, beating defenders, creating tries and scoring tries are of no value…..because Dud ranks low on all 4 measures as the stats I provided clearly demonstrate.

But you’re right the Duds were nothing until we started winning, after which they were credited for us winning. A laughably easy assertion  to blow up….we were hopelessly losing against the Lions until Duhan monstered Dud Toit and he was out for the series, after which we were easy winners.

Easy pickings Dave!