SASaffolk
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SASaffolk Captain30,741 posts
10 Sept 2014, 12:13#3
I know hak....It means the AB's will now have a harder job beating us.
SASaffolk
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SASaffolk Captain30,741 posts
10 Sept 2014, 14:10#5
DA I don't deal in what it's you plank - we lost end of
CLclevermike
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CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
10 Sept 2014, 14:54#6
DA
You know what happens to IF - if my auntie had balls, she would have been my uncle.
The selection of Pollard will make it somewhat harder for the AB's than the flopping Steyn would have been. But I still think that it would not help - we astill have only a Tight 4 having to compete with the AB's Tight 5 and then we also have the kicking donkey Pienaar - bad news.
I still think we will lose - but maybe with a slightly less margin ot would have been.
CLclevermike
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CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
10 Sept 2014, 14:55#7
Hakwa
Not to worry - Meyer has removed the main culprit - but there are still two problem cases in the team.
MOMozart
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MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
10 Sept 2014, 16:21#8
Yep Morne has gone. And HM may never bring him back. He did some fine things for Bok rugby, as recently as two weeks ago when he rescued the Bargie test in Salta. Still Pollard, his replacement was denigrated by the OOM and never picked by Dave, so what are they crowing about. I always liked this young chap from the moment I saw him and HM seems to have huge confidence in him. Let's hope he wins as many tests as Morne.
10 Sept 2014, 16:25#9
I am Mourne-ing ......Isnt a Pollard some sorta fish ?
SASaffolk
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SASaffolk Captain30,741 posts
10 Sept 2014, 16:27#10
Never picked by Dave what utter rubbish as for Morne he should never have smelt a single test cap. Bog ordinary rugby player with a good boot. Test standard pivot he never was - not even close.
CLclevermike
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CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
10 Sept 2014, 16:31#11
Sure Mozart
In the case you referred to Morne did for a change what any other ha;f-decent flyhalf woudd regard as routine. He then went on and kicked a ball directly into touch - putting his side under extreme pressure. What would have happened if n the follow-up play a penalty was given to the Pumas? A certain loss.
Morne should stay out of Springbok rugby and continue to warm the Stade Francais bench for keeps.
10 Sept 2014, 19:55#12
So as soon as Pollard was available, Meyer selects him as the starting flyhalf in 4 of the next 5 tests. Definitely not what the youth brigade here saw coming based on their opinion of Meyer.
If this is indeed a changing of the guard and Morne is being marginalized then he has been a real servant of Bok rugby and the fact that he was vilified by so many couch potato Bok fans for not being the total package is pathetic. Fact is for a long time he was the best we had, proving longevity and seeing off challenges by Lambie, Goosen et al who proved not to be good enough. He may yet be the best we have. It cannot be said that Pollard has done anything in the Test arena with the opportunities he has been given so far to be labelled the incumbent. Perhaps a Stephen Donaldesque moment in his future?
SASaffolk
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SASaffolk Captain30,741 posts
10 Sept 2014, 20:00#13
Oi what is pathetic is your tears over a sad excuse for a pivot. Nothing against morne as a person but he is a crap rugby player end of.
Saying Goosen and lambie did not make it is pathetic and far from the truth. The only reason morne kept coming back is because we have a pathetically conservative coach
DBDbDraad
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DBDbDraadCaptain26,388 posts
10 Sept 2014, 20:06#14
Morne will be at the RWC next year. Wardad, what kind of a lame arsed attempt at humor? Apt nick for you, although Warmonger will suit better. Why all the anger sir?
FOForeverArizona
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FOForeverArizonaClub Pro580 posts
10 Sept 2014, 20:07#15
warplank...
What sort of contribution was that?
CLclevermike
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CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
10 Sept 2014, 20:08#16
oimatey
I am not prejudiced just fair. The first time I saw Morne playing was for SA Under 21 in the final in Argentina. He missed every goal kick and was an uttrer flop - so badly so that the Juniors nearly lost the game.
Then he made his mark in the Bulls team and his goal kicking improved - the rest of his game stayed pretty stagnant. I also believe that Morne can be good in one game and poor in th enxt - or even if he is good in one gam he can be poor later in teh same game or vice versa. Have a look at his ESPN profile and you will see that they say the same - he was throughout his career erratic insofar as performances are cooncerned.
Problem is he could win matches by kicking at goal - but how many matches has he lost by erratic and often enough poor play. He never was the complete flyhalf we have been searching for - sad to say. Far to robotic and poor in reading of the game.
DBDbDraad
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DBDbDraadCaptain26,388 posts
10 Sept 2014, 20:10#17
FA, a kak one. It seems the outoppie has got a real deep issue with everything SAcan.
10 Sept 2014, 20:44#18
No Saff, I don't pity Morne one bit. He's living a dream. Being a professional athlete is a pretty cool lifestyle.
Especially when you get big French bucks
SASaffolk
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SASaffolk Captain30,741 posts
10 Sept 2014, 21:11#19
Oi I never said you pity him I said your tears over what we think of him was pathetic. He is/was crap so I don't get your concerns. Nothing anyone says about Morne will change the fact that he is a very ordinary rugby player who made it thanks to his boot.
That fact in itself raises serious questions against those that selected him.
Given my outlook on the game it would be impossible for me to endorse the selection of a player like him. Goes against the grain
DBDbDraad
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DBDbDraadCaptain26,388 posts
10 Sept 2014, 21:33#20
Saffx, who was the 10 the last time we won the AB's 3 zip in one year?
SASaffolk
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SASaffolk Captain30,741 posts
10 Sept 2014, 22:59#22
I don't care who the 10 was. That is not going to detract from the fact that morne is crap. He has a 46% win record as a Bok when last we checked l ast year. He is shit
SASaffolk
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SASaffolk Captain30,741 posts
11 Sept 2014, 00:41#24
What I have achieved has fuck all to do with yo u all I know is that it is one hell of allot more than a pathetic toy soldier. You should be ashamed of yourself
11 Sept 2014, 00:48#25
Morne will be back at Ellis Park...don't think Pollard can kick can he... and probably why he was dropped...
11 Sept 2014, 01:41#26
Morne did have that sorta good tackle that one time last year against Nonu?I is in Morne-ing .Mr Muttly is prolly right tho"
SASaffolk
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SASaffolk Captain30,741 posts
11 Sept 2014, 01:52#28
Anyone stupid enough to join the army has to be one sad sad prick. Does that clarify things for you
CLclevermike
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CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
11 Sept 2014, 07:06#33
Mo\zart
Talks a power lock like Flip and a power flank like Alberts - that is not even remotely true. Flip collexcts cards and penalties per game - because his power is often enough misdirected and stupid - and Alberts one has to use a microoscope to find anything he actually prodiuces during a game.
Being a great Morne fan means that one overlooks all the bugger-ups he made at flyhalf - so the team with Morne is a known - known to make mistakes at flyhalf that constatly cost the team dearly. With Morne at flyhalf one can start listing the mishaps at Eden Park and go through virtually every test from the Eden Park test onwards and find a long list of mistakes made by Morne. Morne struggling after the gaff - as if that gaff was the only one he made - is a joke. Morne made gaff after gaff during those tests - that specific gaff is the seventh one of exactly the same nature made by Morne in 9 tests. In at least two tests he made two of those. the other 5 was spread over the remaining 7 tests. So gaffs enoough - so Morne must ALWAYS be struggling after gaffs.
Morne made one fatal error? I asked before - what happened with a kick he made at minute 13-14 in the game on Saturday and no answer. That was as much a fatal bugger-up as the last gaff was. What about the constant aimless kicks and the constant missed tackles - misisng 46% of all attempted tackles - but Morne made 1 gaf? Do you ever seen anything in games or do you coionstantly ignore what is wroong with players you favour? It is because you do - that your contribuitions - like this one - are so farcical .
MOMozart
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MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
11 Sept 2014, 07:15#34
Look OOm are you still not getting the message, nobody on this Board takes your views seriously. Sadly I'm afraid posters laugh at you, rather than with you. But have a good one anyway.
CLclevermike
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CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
11 Sept 2014, 07:20#35
It is because you are so totally biased and absurd that people do laugh at your contributions - they are nonsensical beyond recognition - so keep on living in dream land. Because you cannot answer or argue against the statements made above - you suddenly become personal - as if anybody cares about your personal attacks once you are cornered. What a joke
MOMozart
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MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
11 Sept 2014, 07:27#36
You think I have "suddenly" become personal. Ag no OOm, I have been telling you that you are a fool for years. Don't short change yourself.
CLclevermike
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CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
11 Sept 2014, 08:45#37
Mozartron
Why not answer the questions and say that Morne's gaf on S aturday was a unique occurrece - Making out that it is not a regular thing with Morne? Why not justify his string of miss tackles as an abberation? Why not comment on his aimless and directionless kicks that was at one stage even called BS by the commentators in a orevuious match?
Omne thing you are loyal to oudated ideas and concepts. When Morne was dropped in 2012 - bcause of generally poor play (his normal) and an atrocious goal kiking record - you remain loyal to him through thick and thin. Biut for his goal kicking, Morne has not been much better since then. If the same constant bugger-ups normal with Morne are made by any player you dislike you would write books about such a player - better still you would invent reasosn to write books on your unliked players in any event.
However to discuss rugby issues with a verkrampte non-thinker living in the past - and going to ridiculous lenrgts to invent more often than not lies to discredit players is really typical Mozart - the most prejudiced and consequently useless poster on this site.
The only thing I enjoy is the discomfort Morne's absence on Saturday is felt by NZ supporters on this site. If physical-deficient Matfield was also absent - and we had a Tiight 5 combination and not Tight 4 combination with a hanger-on, the disconfort would have been worse.
