How different the Bok side is to mine
Stepfontein and Coetzee are nothing and always were nothing. Beast is a far, far better scrummager than Kitshoff....that's why he is in the team. Deysel twins are just great lumps of beef, with tiny brains in their tiny heads.
But I agree on Wilco and Snyman.
Your sides are always better.....except when you look back in history, and you see how they did. Here's a typical Dave team:
Kirchner.
Mvovo.
JJ.
Vorster/Meisiekind.
Taute.
Lambie/Goosen/Swiel.
Hougaard at 9.
Marcel van der Merwe.
Chilli Boy.
Coenie/Greyling
Flip
Quince.
Watson/Kolisi
Deysel.
Strauss.
..........
All of these guys were class acts at one point.....er...in your books. And here's the thing, Stepfontein, the Deysel twins, Lomp, Coetzee are just more of the same.
Stick with moz
Point is Dave we all have likes and dislikes. Eraser has chosen a team close to the consensus view....I wouldn't start several of these players, but the proof is in the result. And despite one's reservations I hope he is right.
Dave
I prefer Willemse to Gelant and Steyn. He is the future and is at this stage already twice the player Steyn is at present. Anyway I also prefer Serfontein to Steyn.
As to the issue of the loosies I always worry about two issues - namely pace and ball sense, That is why I prefer Du Toit as a 7 to some of the players you listed,
You will remember how bad Meyer's selections became an abomination with at least 8 unplayable players in the WC squad in 2015. You may remember how Mozart supported all 8 duds and moaned about players like De Allende, Kriel, Du Toit and De Jager then and still moans about them at present, It was even clear that talented players lost their mojo when Meyer was coach. Some players improved massively when playing in NH clubs - some deteriorated.
De Allende is going north after the WC and I am sure he is going to do well - he is already much better with Erasmus as coach than he was with Meyer and Coetzee.
Whenever anybody suggest players Mozart would immediately starts to find fault with them without even never seeing them playing before and if they made very good performances would discover deficiencies to falsely blamed them for problems.
On the whole some players listed by you some have gone off form - but then at the time they did were better than they are at present.
Still think he might be used at flyhalf in the Super Rugby series next year and we will then get a clearer idea where he will be used in future.
Dave here is proof ….just before the RWC 2019 finals….you wouldn’t even have picked Dud Toit or Dud Allende. So you too have only recognized Dud Toit as a flank after the WC final in 2019.
How embarrassing, you wouldn’t have chosen either Dud, Kolbe, the Beast, Am or Vermeulen the MOM in the WC final.
Let this be the final chapter of you as a selector…you are hopeless.
Had poor Mozzietard changed his mind about Du Toit, Allende and Rassie he would not have lost his credibility.
There are other issues where he has been proven to be drastically wrong but he can't change his stand. It's hilarious to observe!
What nonsense….here is Dud Toit’s first Bok game as a starter:
19 Sep 201523FlankJapanAnd he was bloody awful in that game. He started on the flank 18 times before WC 2019 and at lock 12 times. Clearly you wanted to play him as a lock.
Dud was more or less useless before Harrassmiss gave him first tackler role in the 2019 WC final. You obviously agreed with that observation.
Dud Allende has remained useless, Dud Toit has become effective in an unconventional narrow role. Which works as long as others do the hard work on the deck.
Who was supposed to play and selected by Meyer in that match as no 7? Du Toit was informed of Fat Alberts cannot play because he had a fat tear half an hour before tha match, Did no play at 7 for three yeaars before that. So talking shit again. .
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