It’s all about Dr Lucky

We lost to NZ but we were certainly in the contest. But the good Dr has weighed the personal odds. If we lose to NZ a second time the myth implodes. So we do the cowardly thing, the same thing France did, we throw in all our promising young players who should have played as a unit against the likes of Italy, not in the crucial game of the RC.

This is not the game to change half your team. This is the game to still try to win the championship. Kolisi who was hopeless had to go…he stays. Thomas who did nothing in the scrums stays. Nortje who was ordinary at best stays..

‘But those who are trying to figure out the logic need to understand one simple thing, despite the ‘humble’ mask, it’s always all about Erasmus. Nienaber was given free reign in the hard matches in Oz in 2021, but when success was in the offing back comes DrLucky

So what’s happening here is he didn’t like the odds next Saturday…if he lost two in a row to NZ the mystique would be gone. So he trots out the time tested cop out…we are developing our team. No problem if that team loses, it’s not our best. And if we happen to win against this ordinary NZ side, why Lucky is a genius. Win or lose he’s okay.

Fuck you are too stupid to realise how good Rassie is

Talk about a bloody plank

Talk about a groupie.

Yeah all 99.9% of SA rugby followers are wrong and you are right

Brilliant

Oh I doubt that 99.9% of rugby followers believe Lucky’s BS.

I am yet to hear anyone who does not rate or love Rassie other than the few fools on here - the love and admiration for his achievements fill social media

Which fucking idiot is not going to rate a coach who has won back to back WC’s, a Lions series, RC’s and kept his side at number 1 for most of his tenure and has a 70% win record huh?

Fans who recognize that the Boks skills haven’t advanced at all under Lucky and that winning 3 knockout matches by one point each because our kicker never missed and theirs did, was massively lucky. The luck ran out against Oz and NZ.

Oh what utter crap fans are not stupid enough to believe games are won through luck or by a single player or that a loss to Oz and NZ defines the side or coach

No one is that stupid except ……..you

So a loss to Oz and NZ doesn’t define the side….but one point wins over France, struggling England and 14 man (for 40 minutes) NZ does define the team.

Thanks for helping me demonstrate just how flawed your logic is.

No it doesn’t but winning WC’s etc do and if we win the next three RC games we stand a good chance of winning the RC - that is defining

The majority of fans will like what and who the media tells them to like. Who in the public ever watches a game a second time? They form opinions on the emotion of the live event, heavily influenced by commentary and who the camera pans to most.

No Pakie... they are influenced by winning...that's the bottom line...and sometimes winning isn't even enough...Toetie had the the media until they couldn't plaster over his record losses anymore...

Stop speaking utter shit Pakie - you take SA rugby supporters as idiots

The only idiot here is you making a pathetic uninformed comment like that

Mozart

Fans who recognize that the Boks skills haven’t advanced at all under Lucky and that winning 3 knockout matches by one point each because our kicker never missed and theirs did, was massively lucky. The luck ran out against Oz and NZ.

Coming from you - who claimed that SARU made a mistake in replacing Coetzee with Erasmus - the above stnatement is utter BS. So please gro up and stop being childish at your age of over 75 years,

Stop speaking utter shit Pakie - you take SA rugby supporters as idiots

Just saw one on social media calling for more midfield lineouts as a new power platform for the Boks because World Rugby is apparently neutralizing the scrums. Guess he missed NZ defusing our attempt on Saturday in about half a second.

Lots of smart supporters out there Dave. More stupid ones though.

To me, we played one team in the first game against Oz, another in the second, another in the first NZ game and yet another in the second NZ game.

Boys, we are halfway through the second season of experimenting yet we still don't know what our best side is.

So the question is simple. Why?

There is no point in experimenting forever and never arriving at a conclusion. The fact he has picked a completely different team for this second NZ game tells you that Rassie hasn't, after a season and a half, come to a conclusion about what his best side is.

And the follow question is obvious;

Is this acceptable?

One of Dave's smart supporters on social media said "it's called rotation, duh". We must listen to these smart fans.

On that point why does the law allow the opposition to come offside when defusing the midfield lineout maul - seems ridiculous

Two of the AB’s ended up at the base of our attempted maul - how can that be right?

Because it's open play so no offside lines. There's no set piece, no breakdown and no ruck, it's just a pass to a bloke. There's no maul until the opposition binds. Defense can go right in and tackle the receiver. That's the fatal flaw in that cute little trick.

Got you - so now that it’s been worked out we won’t see it again

The NZ commentators talked glowingly about the greatest rivalry in rugby, during and after the game. And 3 days later we disrespect that rivalry, by not choosing our best team.

Does anybody on here think that team represents our best chance of winning the next match. Lucky makes it clear it isn’t, in all his talk about rotation. You don’t rotate in the last chance match to win the competition you are playing in.

Are we better off with Etzebeth not playing, with Pollard not even on the bench. Have we forgotten how 3 weeks ago Pollard saved our bacon against the Wallabies.

These players and others like Kriel are being punished for embarrassing the good Dr. But Kolisi who was rubbish in that game is retained and reinstated as captain because the of politics. And fans gobble it up, seeing all sorts of higher purposes in it all. We used to be an honorable team

Disagree that Kolisi was rubbish - he had a solid game and makes sense to start him in his usual position at 6 as v Staaden is useless and he needs to be our captain

Not starting Eben is stupid as is not having Pollard on the bench

Kolisi ‘needs to be our captain’….why. He doesn’t even know what to do with himself….how the blue blazes is he going decide on field tactics. Track him on the field as an experiment….a lot of the time he just stands in midfield looking at the play. He made 6 tackles and 3 runs for 4 metres.

Oh what utter rubbish Kolisi is a great player and a great captain

Your take on him is on par with your take on all players

Kolisi is crap yet Mostert is great

Give me a break

Got you - so now that it’s been worked out we won’t see it again

Yeah, because we exposed it to the world in a nothing game against Italy B instead of, say, saving it as a surprise for when we, say, really needed a try to save a big game against an arch rival. For example.

The consensus on YouTube seems to be that...

1) this is an unfair selection on players that have been given little time together prior

2) many in this backline have little experience against NZ...even less so in NZ

3) that this is very close to the team of the best available players but that they would have liked to have seen them together more often by now

Yep you add Williams at 9, Arendse on the wing

Eben and RG at lock, Wilco at 3 and Hanekom, Elrigh Louw and Roos as your loose trio and we have our best side

A side dominated by under 30 year olds littered with plenty of experience coming from Kolbe, Arendse, Willemse, Ox, Marx, Eben, RG and Pollard on the bench

Yep 20 odd tackles as a lock beats 6 tackles as a loosie. Kolisi’s main skill has always been his ball carrying in space…Lucky doesn’t believe in that so he hardly made a carry in the WC knockouts…ie he was irrelevant. Just as he was last Saturday.