Oh boy since when does height determine size the guy is 96kg the same weight as Am and Jessie Kriel. He has huge stocky legs and stacked upstairs. He weighs more than Moodie
Wake the fuck up
His pace is off the mark not over 50 metres - he has explosive pace off the mark evidenced by the try he set up for Hooker earlier this year
And yes he had a good game this past weekend, especially those touches by hand
Fuck me you are so damn rugby ignorant it is scary
Let me guess Ox at 1.73m and 123kg is not big either?
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Dave exclaims that Jirre-Enzo played well this weekend. And i think most of us enjoyed the try he scored last weekend.
...though when he was chasing that counter attack kick down the touchline, how he was the third fastest man in that chase? He doesn't have express pace. Fassi would have gassed the shit out of those other two runners over 50m.
At 178cm, he's not a big guy either.
Sucks for him that he stopped growing...right? Him at 190cm would have been something else.
So he's not big, and he's not exceedingly fast.
Now, Moodie is 189cm and Hooker is 194cm.
I like this picture much more for a 12/13 combination - We know Moodie can do it and we've seen enough of Hooker to know that he could switch his brain off and play at least as well as DDA.
Kolbe and Arendse, they have that express pace and more guile than necessary. So it's not definitive, all things being equal, that a bigger guy is better.
Jirre-enzo needs a couple of years of scoring good tries before he should be considered.
Since he's not quick and not big, he'd be better served just jacking out and getting huge. For a short guy like him, another 7-9kg's, get up to like 105KGs and just beast-mode everybody.
At the 27 WC, as things stand, we want Sacha, Fassi, Willemse, Arendse and maybe (Moodie and Hooker). In terms of looking for a 12, the mandate simply has to be a player that is inclined to temper the naturally adventurous nature of the other backs in the side. Not necessarily someone as methodical as DDA. And AE will be 33...
Perhaps the plan is for AE to take over now. Maybe that is why Rassie has stuck with him.
But if it's not AE then the Boks are on the hunt for a new starting 12.
I believe Rassie would want to cushion that 12 and not expose him to the burden of having to carry a new player like Jirr-enzo.
TLDR; AE being the man going forward would make it more likely that Jirr-enzo gets a shot.