This is becoming tedious. What are these things that the "experts" say that are so different? Where did you read these things? Is it that you read it, or filled in the blanks for yourself? Like you filled in the gaps for Meyer about dropping Morné? Yes, Morné was under pressure to drop Morné because of his goal kicking misses. That is it, end of story. He had trouble scoring at goal. It can't be any more simple the that! The two tests in particular where the Aussie test and Dunedin.
You harpers on about needing to stand flat and not static. I just posted information here that proves you are wrong! It's right up there. It's astounding that you can post that right here in the same thread.
About the WC semi. Pollard ran hard at the defence Clever Mike. He didn't kick every ball away! He should have actually kicked, because that was where the Boks lost the test; they were pinned back. If you knew anything about rugby. Even the most basic, you'd have very quickly seen that the backs had very little platform to attack. You are now telling me that the Boks should have run the ball even more from deep, against the most dangerous team in the world from turnover ball? I find this delightfully funny that you pick yet another game that debunks you! What next, the Boks should have passed the ball wide all game against Wales?
Now, I did say that the centres were not very good. Which made it even worse, because the All Blacks were trying to force them to play ball in hand. Damian had 8 runs for 28 metres. He passed the ball 1 time. I phrased that so I could emphasise the numeral 1. 8 runs, 1 pass. Where was the game breaker there? Frans would have brought his team mates into the game. They may not have won the game, we can only speculate, but I assure you they'd have been more functional. Then we have the try because of the Damian defence lapse. Schalk made 5 passes and Thor 4. Kriel had 0 passes and 1 big fortuitous run. Poor Kriel was starved on ball. The only time anyone got ball in the backs it was from Du Preez or Pollard. The centres were useless. Damian was a bottleneck. He created big problems on defence too. As I mentioned weeks ago, defensive systems are predicated upon the principle that the players outside and inside the main defender support him to create line integrity. It a defender is too reactive he creates a break in the link. Any lapse on his part creates problems elsewhere. The link between 10 and 12 is one of the main areas to attack. Poor Pollard. He also left Kriel on an island all year like de Jongh. Poor Kriel.
This is an embarrassing mess on your part Clever Mike. Absolutely shocking. Please stop the cringe, ah cany take no more cap'n!
