Michalak headlines France's impressive win

No doubt some on here would be screaming le bleu murder, with the selection of Michalak over the youthful Trinh-Duc. But the Shark was quite brilliant in his team's dominance of Oz.. On the other side of the coin Beale showed the downside of a dumb runner. Weaving mazy patterns that took out some of his support runners and pinned the remainder against the touchline....he usually completed things with a sudden, inaccurate and unexpected pass. The result was predictable, isolated runners were turned and France countered.

The French looked scarily physical in contact and they slaughtered the Aussie scrum. Every year the SH teams head up North with no respect for the scrumming test they are about to get. Fortunately Meyer, in his selection of CJ and Heinke showed he got it!

France looks formidable for the next few years. Oz looks like a rabble. How long can Deans survive? Surely this Beale at 10 miscall will finally do him in.

France played well, Michalak is real class. I personally don't think the coach is to blame. Once the team is on the feild the coach has no influence on the game, the team needs to deliver. The Wallabies aren't playing as team and can't get the fundamentals of the game right. Deans tried his best.

Mozart

Meyer made a serious mess in his selection of Steekamp and Van der Linde.   If you do not take cohnisance of the horribly bad performance of Van der Linde on Saturday - nothing else will convince you that you cannot select has-beens in the Springbok team.

My guess is Meyer will tell van der Linde to watch the penalties, but select him again next week. You are way over the top Mike

Mozart

What about the collapsing scrums and the general bad scrummaging - as well as the zero contribution in the rest of the game?  If Meyer is stupid enough and fall for a repeat of that - then I can undestand why he stuck with a completely out of form Morne Steyn as long s he did.

Moz which test were you watching if you think Meyer got it by selecting CJ??????????????????????

He was f......ing useless, a complete liability.

What Freddie showed, was exactly why test sides should have creative players at 10 - ala Cooper, Jantjies, Goosen, Lambie, Carter and Cruden.......not ponderous plodders like Morne.

Beale was one of the better Ozzies on display - even though he is playing out of position

I see you are blathering a lot.....but very little about how useless Heinke and Pienaar are, as you were before the game.....and not at all about brilliant Hougaard is. Wrong on all three counts.....old Sport.

I said Pienaar was good, Heinke did sqaut, he was not on the field long enough to merit a take on his credentials.

Did Hougaard get the ball and for a start he should never be on the wing - thats my point. He is a better 9 than Pienaar

Yes Hougaard did run the ball.....4 times for a paltry 9 metres. He made 2 tackles and missed one and conceded three penalties. I trust that answers your question.

So Moffie are you saying Hougaard is a poor runner and poor defender? Take your time and did he receive the ball down the line.

When he received the ball those 4 times, was it in space, wise man????

As for his miss, it was a great step by Earls, who would have slipped anyone in that position, given we know what a class defender Hougaard is............try again Moffie

I don't have to try again Greasy Butterball....the facts are on my side.

Answer the question ignorant old fart

Hahahaha......Swami, you bald , short, fat , greaseball....I look down on you physically, morally and intellectually and from the my superior years of experience. Hougaard missed one of three tackles and conceded three penalties, while not dong anything positive. He had a shocker.....live in the real world blubber brain.

Wow Moffie, why dont you just post a picture of your house on here as you did on that other messageboard, that should then just cement your superiority - how pathetic are you, banging on about how superior you are?

That pathetic statement in itself defines how inferior you are. Grow up man, you should be bloody ashamed of your last post.

I suggest you ask the Ed to delete it as anyone reading it will squirm - even Denise will be feeling your pain

Pathetic

Swami, once again you set the tone. I'm just responding in kind. And as an example of my intellectual superiority, I don't have to ask Ed to eliminate anything, if I were so inclined I could just edit it out. Do you follow Duffus?

One word Moffie the below is - 'pathetic'

Hahahaha......Swami, you bald , short, fat , greaseball....I look down on you physically, morally and intellectually and from the my superior years of experience. Hougaard missed one of three tackles and conceded three penalties, while not dong anything positive. He had a shocker.....live in the real world blubber brain.

Nah it's factual......I'm taller, more experienced, smarter and as you can see in my picture, I have all my hair. These are just facts......enjoy the rest of your day, although it must be hard after three of your big calls bit the dust yesterday. Look on the bright side, by the law of averages you have to eventually get something right.

You are one pathetic old man, confirmed by the above. Let our fellow posters decide

Be ashamed, very ashamed - let me guess, you are too stupid to realise what a complete twat you have just made of yourself?

Smart?

I give you more experienced, that comes from being in your 60's old fart.......but my guess is that the above will have most concluding that 6 would be more appropriate

 Ashamed of what, Dave, giving you a bit of your own medicine? I'm sure posters don't give two hoots about this little spat and unlike you, understand my comments were tongue in cheek. But just for the record, unlike you, I am not particularly sensitive.

So call me ancient, and I'll, correctly, call you obese, and let's see whose feelings are hurt. I doubt it will be mine. Take your best shot crybaby.

Bwahahahahaha Moz and Saff, you guys are pure class!!!

Seriously guys, the name calling is a joke! Please leave the petty abuse to the kids on a playground. If you really want to have a trade insults, swap e-mail addresses and do it on your own time. This is a rugby forum...its not that hard, it is for chatting about rugby. You are both calling each other names etc, and are therefore equally guilty of what you accuse the other of being guitly of.

Regarding rugby, you both make good points in general, and I actually take seriously most rugby related points you both make....but this crap must stop.

i must say since freddie's stint at the sharks he as grown a lot as a mature player and to be fair one can see it against the wallies...really played very well and to be fair was really dominant

I agree 100% with Bluebok here - too many insults and too little rugby discussion.   Saffex - Hougaard failed as a scrummye this year - he really was bad.   There must be something in his top storey that went amiss - maybe a superiority complex - making it very difficult to coach the nonsence he produced on the playing field out of him.   Meyer obviously tried and failed to do that - otherwise he would never have moved him to wing or placed him on the bench.

After Hougaard was replaced as Scrummie - he only played in the CC semi - coming from the bench in that position.   He really gad a rubbish game and that again proved that something serious is amiss with regard to his scrummie performances. 

On the wing Hougaard was in all three games he played there downright poor.

Whatever you say - Hougaard better improve drastically - otherwise the end of his test career is imminent.  Hope he can get back to form in the Super Series next year.