I took another look a couple of times at the two turnovers and the driving mauls that ultimately let to the springbok try.
In the case of the turnovers I am prepared to admit Louw caused the penalties resulting from the breakdown, but in either case was he as described by Mozart involved in any of the tackles preceding the turnovers. In fact in both he had a chance to attempt the turnovers because of the initial absence of French competitors and n both cases resulted in penalties, because the French ball carriers after tackles hung onto the balls. Louw in both cases were nearest the ball carrier and got to the ball, but to say it was as brilliant as Mozart and AO made it out to be is questionable as any other good forward being in his position would have done the same. If Louw in fact did not do what he did he should have been rated as utterly useless.
In the case of the two driving mauls preceding the scoring of the try, the position was as follows:-
* The first one the ball went to Snyman and he tried to set up the maul and was not really successful - but the result was the French took the attempted maul down and by that time Snyman was not co-ordinating the maul as expected from a lock.
* The second one the ball went to Mostert and he tried to set up a maul - but the initial movement was backward and Mostert was pushed upwards out of any position to co-ordinate and organize any movement by the maul. The most prominent forward trying to get the maul moving forward was in fact Du Toit afterwards joined by Vermeulen. This was a total misrepresentation by Mozart and AO.
In looking at the last 12 minutes of the game on U-Tube it became clear that Snyman's ball handling was exceptionally poor and that Pollard in one case knocked on a ball and in another case made a forward pass to Kriel - this while he was the supposed inside center. Not very successful as a 12 - despite all the praise son gs about him in that position.
