I guess this must be a team of players he has coached.....he certainly got the Boks spot on!
Eddie Jones’ dream Test XV – 15 Anthony Watson, 14 Bryan Habana, 13 Stirling Mortlock, 12 Manu Tuilagi, 11 Lote Tuqiri, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 George Gregan, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Schalk Burger, 6 George Smith, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Maro Itoje, 3 Mako Vunipola, 2 John Smit, 1 Kyle Sinckler.
Another load of baloney, These are all players Jones was involved with in his coaching career and it does not reflect anything other than that.
I wouldn't select all of those players, but this is a solid team. The Boks were quite logical selections.
Agreed Augie, surprised he chose Watson at 15. Mortlock was a dominant player.....hell of a set of outside backs.
Mortlock for me is the best 13 of all time. He was ruthless against every opponent he played against. There were times I was left fuming as he turned games around against us. The Butch tackle whalloping him was especially enjoyable, but I respected the bloke. George Smith and Schalk? Pretty nightmarish combo. Great leadership in that team. I think that's something Lügnerin misses: this is a very composed group of players with serious BMT.
I mossed nothing and look at performances objectively both of teams and individual players, By the way the real deal at outside center was O'Driscoll. Jones may have picekd players he coached - bit that really meant nothing at all.
BOD was elite, but not always great against the SH trio when they really were The Big Three. Mortlock was elite against everyone and a player who bit New Zealand hard time and again. Who could forget his famous 80m try to knock NZ out of the 2003 WC? Once again I must educate you Lügnerin. Mortlock is the sixth all time points scorer in Super rugby history (the only non-fly half in the top 10). He is the fastest Wallaby to 50 and 100 test points and holds the record of the first Wallaby player to score 20 or more points in four consecutive tests (the 2000 season).
You educating anybody is like an idiot trying to fight facts, with fiction.
Mortlock had a sterling career, but my Oupa said BOD was the best he'd seen after Gerber.
Would Gerber make it in an era with structured defence? Those tribute videos look wonderful, running through acres of space, but that wouldn't cut it in the modern game, especially before the ELVs. We need to be realistic.
The situation is weird and often misunderstood The law changes aimed at making rugby more attractive was played already from about 2000 by Australia following thereafter by New Zealand,after the 2003 WC. Before 2008 defense was not organized in the way it is now.
When Mortlock played the situation was basically the same as was the case with Gerber. There were acres of space as well. The problem was that by 2007 Australia was poor and the French had a fluke win against the AB's due to a faulty referee decision on a forward pass preceding the scoring of the French try. If the AB's went through to the final they would have walloped the Springboks like they did in the 2007 RC.
Be it as it may - the 2008 law changes were first implemented in New Zealand and by 2011 they were the best team in the world by a distance, They keep improving while the rest of he world were lagging behind. Argentina by 2015 was playing in the same way as NZ was, but SA was not there yet, neither was the NH teams. There were no NH teams in the semi-finals - SA was there after losing in Japan - and was not even thinking of revising their ames according to the 2008 laws.
It was only in 2019 that SA started playing the game according to the 2008 law changes, They sharpened both their attacks and improved defense to a very high level,
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Blasphemy!!!!
Everything you said is totally removed from reality.
