Lethal.....just lethal

Bath had Underhill but he looked no more impressive than against the Boks.  Their main weapon on the deck was Francois Louw....who made at least 3 turnovers by my count, reminding one of his WC winning turnover against Wales....prompting the commentator to call him 'lethal just lethal'.

But Gloucester were motivated and well coached I thought. Amazing how Ackerman's coaching accomplishments have been forgotten.

Ackerman made a super back tackle to prevent a Faletau try and scored a good power try himself. Grobelaar and Marais both looked good as well.

Mostert had a busy game with a fine early break, and a huge try saving lineout steal but a few  uncharacteristic handling errors.

If he can pass and create plays he is more than a back up for Dud.

Mozart

You must have watched one of few games which showed some spark in the Engllish Peremier comp this year,   Both Gloucester and Bath played 8 games thus far in the series and one 4 of those,   Both are not really the showpiece of rugby you try to pretend at all.  

Only a few weeks ago there were a thread dealing with Gloucester on which it mentioned as doing very poorly - and questions raised about Ackerman's coaching,    Now suddenly we had a new discovery about how we so easily forgot Ackerman's coaching abiilities.   Dave's comments was that Gloucester has a "shit squad".   Problem is that Ackerman did a good job at the Lions - but his methods were foreign to Meyer's ideas about rugby and no Lions players were in thee 2015 WC squad,   

Where Louw's wonderful performance in the Gloucester game  came from is a joke one has to wonder about,   That story about Louw winning the semi in the WC is a joke as well,    He was at best a back-up loosie in the WC and that is a fact,

However, Ackerman always as a youngster showed promise and I agree with Dave on this one.   He used to play at 7 for the Lions because of Whiteley being the no 8.    For Gloucester Ackeman in the main played at 8,    With Vermeulen leaving the scene we are indeed hunting for an 8 and I agree with Dave - Ackerman Junior may be the guy to fill that position.   

Always liked the young Ackerman and hope he can play number eight.

He has no chance, barring injuries, of displacing the World rugby player of the year at 7.

LOuw has been a solid performer for the Boks and has earned respect so give it to him.

Mike, 

Maybe I missed it. Where exactly is Gloucester touted as a showpiece?

Funny ... I rated Ackerman as a Bok back in the day when he played for the Lions and ignorant fag lovers like Stupid Dave had a lot to say about my choice.

Now suddenly he's in favour of the lad. Go figure.

LOL!!

If he's not late to the party then he's singing the praises of quotas like Gelant.

What a dumb ass!!

Well it's a good thing I'm here to help the chump right.

You're friggin welcome

Ben Morgan is Gloucesters preferred 8 while Akkerman Jr is used at 7. 

He's pretty handy as cover though and should be looked at to replace Thormeulen.

When was the last time Kriel featured for them though? He's had a pretty horrid time of it with injury niggles  and with Polledri showing form he's going to struggle getting on the bench. 

If Polledri goes off with Italy for the 6 nation's, Kriel could get a chance to show us what made him a household name for the Lions.

Little AC Kerman played really good rugby when he played at the Lions.

It was a real loss when he followed his pops to Gloucs.

He still looks really good!

I agree that Ras needs to give him a shot in the G&G.

But if its just to take him off the English radar, i doubt he'd take it up.