Morne Steyn Suspension

After being selected for the first time this season to represent Stade Francais in a Top 14 match - Morne Steyn was red-carded in a match against Lyon.

He has now been suspended for 14 days and must appear before an inquiry on 22 January 2015.

Morne must be very careful - there were rumours last year that Stade Francais tried to get out of their contract with him - purely because he was not up to standard - and the Club may use this as an excuse to get rid of him especially if he is to be banned for a further period.     

To the best of the my knowledge it is the first time he has ever been suspended.

You did see the reason why he kicked out at the other player?

In a nutshell........the choice of Morne over Lambie sums up posters take on rugby generally.......if you favour Morne over Lambie, you are almost certainly going to be in favour of the retention of players like Matfield, Steenkamp, Bakkies, Pienaar, Jean and co........its conservative versus progressive.

Some supporters are like HM, conservative in their rugby outlook......others tend to live on the edge, where experience for experience sake counts for little and where solid is just not good enough.

One thing that cannot be questioned is Lambie's mental toughness. He has always shown an old head on young shoulders. At that to his natural talent.

A quality player who proved his credentials ages ago. Hell imagine how good he would have been by now if he had been afforded as much test time as useless Morne has.

The poor lad, like Goosen and Pollard are always on trial as our useless coaches have always invested in a plodder in Morne, instead of showing the same faith in a real rugby player.

So typical SA - conservatism rules 

Lestat you are lying again......Goosen was brilliant against Oz at 10, sadly got injured and should not have played the following test against NZ. But such was his impact against Oz that Meyer could not resist playing him injured against NZ.

Goosen and Lambie have more rugby talent in their baby toes than useless Morne has in his whole being.

The guy has no rugby talent at all. Has no attacking skills, knows nothing about making a break or beating a defender and is a complete liability defensively.

All he has is a boot on him......take his boot away from him and he would not have played a single CC game. He is not even average, he is bloody useless  

Point our where de Allende was useless against Argentina you liar

Morne our best defensive flyhalf.........bwhaaaahaaaaa........you really are a joke.

What a bloody insult

 "One thing that cannot be questioned is Lambie's mental toughness. He has always shown and old head on young shoulders. At that to his natural talent.

A quality player who proved his credentials ages ago. Hell imagine how good he would have been by now if he had been afforded as much test time as useless Morne has.

The poor lad, like Goosen and Pollard are always on trial as our useless coaches have always invested in a plodder in Morne, instead of showing the same faith in a real rugby player.

So typical SA - conservatism rules"

Absolutely...without question!

Ah Lestat so because Meyer dropped him, we should take this as the measure? You are even more stupid than I originally thought.

Fact is de Allende had two solid tests playing out of position and the fact that useless Meyer dumped him after such a short spell speaks volumes for how useless Meyer is  

Actually Mike you are  offensive. You say I lied that Lambie was moved to accomodate Butch....I give you an article that describes exactly that....and you turn around and accuse me of lying again.

Have you literally got no morals? Or is it an early softening of your already puny brain?

Once again it's game, set and match.

Here's the problem with the Morne bashing and Lambie promoting. Lambie has won nothing internationally.....Morne has won a TN and a S15.

This is not about how good a player is in isolation. It's not a pick up game of two players in the park....it's about the effect you have on the team. It's about how your game defines team strategy and how you execute.

Lambie was obviously told up North to attack the game line. But he can't. He is too small, too slow and has no guile. So he was smashed every time....so much so he got into the habit of last second passing. Which meant the next player was smashed. And after Pomerania everybody was waiting for the short chip. By the end of Wales he had no idea what to do and was dropping the ball.

Morne has no pr etentions of running. He is a link and very effective  one.....partially because opponents are protecting the U & U .....but his passing is crisp and accurate. The tries we scored against NZ in 2013 were generated by superb Morne passes. And the team is confident with him at 10....they know what to expect. You don't have the chaos we saw against Wales. The strategy is clear and well executed.

So where does that leave us. Well with the best 10 in the world for executing a tight game plan....and in Pollard the best 10 we have had since 1990 for executing a game line based running game. I would start my campaign with Pollard and have Morne available to execute Plan B when indicated. Lambie is a sub for Willie at 15.

Morne has had all the opportunities sadly while Lambie has not. Had Lambie started as many tests at 10 for the Boks as Morne had, we would not be having this debate.

Lambie is twice the talent Morne is and that is literally.