that the Boks vs Wales game was awful, as a matter of fact it's one of the worst rugby games I've ever seen at a WC. I n comparison the 2011 Boks Vs Wales pool game was a better game and the Boks under Snor De Villiers were better, the same can be said of the 2015 quarterfinal between Wales vs Boks under HM.
In some respects I agree with you - in others I disagree. The 2015 game between Wales and the Springboks was a horrible one and up to minute 74 the Springboks were losing the game. They ended up winning by themselves changing what Meyer wanted them to do.
However, I sincerely disliked what I saw in the game yesterday and persistent poorly executed and predicable kicks are not the answer.
The Springboks under Meyer in 2015 was a real disaster and it would be better to rather forget about the two years under Coetzee. In my opinion Snorre was a rugby genius compared to Meyer and Coetzee.
Whoooooooooooooooosssh
Yes ... it was a snore-fest. The standard of play was below par ... not what one would expect from semi finalists.
I saw Eddie and Mitch in the crowd making notes. Not sure why. He could easily select his second stringers to deal with these quotas.
Sorry CC
You should know by now that you Gave been wrong about the Springboks all along in the WC this year and pretended all along that you were all doom and gloom while I suspect secretly supporting the team.
I have no problem with any team selected on merit and it is clear that some of the players of colour are in fact merit selections while others are not. I would never condemn the team because of the latter few, in which I think the following are included - namely Kolisi and likely also Gelant.
I would much rather see Willemse at full back ahead of Le Roux who is going through a very bad patch in poor form.
I note again that Gatland, by all accounts a shrewd coach, had the same tactics as Rassie. Nobody has commented on that.
Snorre inherited a great dude and ran it into the ground. The firing of Jake set up back years.
Rassie inherited a mess. He won the Rugby Championship and now is in the final. Schalk Burger has just said he is the sharpest ruby brain in SA. Schalk himself has impressed as a Panelist on Supersport - best by some distance.
No Rassie has already been very successful regardless of what happens in the final. He has after only 18 months made a huge difference.
Time for all the Rassie bashers did pipe down and realise they are looking very silly right now.
Just like the Malherbe, Steph and Allende bashers - that has been a complete disaster thus far in this RWC! Hahahahaha Orhan Huffer has saved himself much embarrassment by not commenting during the RWC. Imagine him still telling us how Allende is pap etc. Lacks upper body strength I think he said.
Mike ... do you know the difference between a merit selection and a non merited selection?
Please enlighten me on who you think deserves to be in the squad.
De Allende has been one of the few stand out players in the squad.
He could easily challenge for being the best Goat in the side.
He's probably playin the best rugby of his life.
Cc make a list of who you think shouldn't be in the squad and who should replace them.
The big quota pick in my book was making Kolisi captain. Rassie did that to get the ANC off his back. He has team leaders so could manage the leadership issue.
Who gives a shit - we won we are in the final
Same circa as 2007 only now you're singing a different tune. Wouldn't have anything to do with your hate of Jake, perchance?
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........ Compare to me Snorre was a rugby genius ......... "
Never a truer word spoken.
This game against wales was god awful. it was way worse than the 2015 game between thr two of you. The game you guys play now is the same shit you played fifteen years ago but for some reason you like it now... weird! Big difference is back then you kicked downfield, into corners, but now you like to kick two metres at a time... hahahahaha!!! The kick is the new carry into contact but you lose the ball so its basically a ball carry with a knock-on going to the other team. Yep, you deffo need a foreign coach because your deevolving into dinosaurs. Hehehehehe!!
