Everyone knows I dont rate the guy, so please explain why he is our Bok 10 given how poor he was yesterday and how ineffective he has been all year?
I just dont get it. Aimless kicking, poor defence and nothing with ball in hand. Pienaar was just as poor yesterday....the lad lacks the hard edge, those missed tackles were poor.
He is useless always has been and the sooner Meyer moves on the better
Dave any predictions when JJ is going to beat his first tackle in the RC
Dave, what do you know ? Next we'll be hearing about the Jantjies/Lambie option . Morne by the standard he's set himself this year, had a kak game,but he's undoubtedly our best option at Ellis Park .. For someone whose biggest contribution here , remains how he got moderated somewhere else Eish................. the unfairly maligned, aspiring business magnate, Beeno has far more credibilty, &, he doesn't throw around the C word.
The tactical kicking by the boks was rubbish this weekend, and this is the main area the All Blacks gained ascendancy.
Morne was poor in the kicking department, and the kick by Habana was terribale. The All Blacks will punish poor kicks more times than not.
I did not even know that Ma Nonu could kick but he placed the ball behind the rush defence with ease, and Kirchner was way out of position.
I would have rather had Lambie at 15 who would have been better at positional play and tactical kicking, along with all other areas.
Although Morne was poor on the day, and his tactical kicking and up and unders were mostly poor.
The boks backline played crap and this was not just because of playing against the number one ranked team.
Moz that will be when he gets the ball, he beat no less tackles than his opposite number did or Jean for that matter.
He can only play with ball in hand unless you expect him to do the impossible. Did Conrad Smith beat any tackles - NO
JJ took ball in traffic and got over the advantage line and he made all his tackles.......something Jean did not do
Blob, Morne should never have been our option. Lambie is a far better flyhalf. Damn right I would select Jantjies ahead of Morne.
Morne is useless and has been poor to average all year
Ou Maaikie does not even need a flyhalf in his teams. Unbelievable.
For a start I never bought into Lambie having a poor season for the Sharks, I never saw it. Sure he did not set the world alight but that was down to a shocking Sharks performance all round.
My point is that he is a far better rugby player than Morne and that in itself is enough to have me select Lambie ahead of Morne everytime.
Sorry but I dont recall a single clean break from Smith or tackle beaten. Jean has been no better than JJ with ball in hand and Serfontein certainly has not. A 13 cant go look for work when he has a job to do out wide. How the hell is JJ meant to make an impression when he receives little or no ball, thanks to his 9 & 10 kicking possession away all the time.
In a tight game like Saturdays, no centre made an impression and the anti JJ is misplaced. JJ has 4 tries in 10 tests, that's pretty impressive. JJ made all his tackles, Jean missed two and Serfontein missed one.
So are you saying Steyn never had more metres, more defenders beaten, more clean breaks and more metres per carry than Lambie in the S15? A simple yes or no will do, but in any case keep it short.
Let me repeat the question.....are you denying that Morne had significantly more metres, more metres per carry, more clean breaks and more defenders beaten per carry....yes or no?
I can understand why I Maaikie has such a big issue with MS. Fact is that ou Maaikie does not believe in having a flyhalf in his team. LOL.
Hahahaha. Ou Maaikie is getting kwaad kwaad kwaad when somebody else milks his mistakes in the same way that he does. He is so upset that he does not even spot the TIC remark.
Not quite sure what all the booha's about anyway ... cause we've been playing with 14 men all along.
JJ contributes nada each and every match. I see him run on ... and then ... I see him run off. His jersey doesn't even look played in. It's not even soiled or stained with perspiration.
He doesn't even have a single hair out of place. It's as if he's just stepped from the shower.
Simply useless.
Meyer selected Kirchner for the purpose of taking the high ball. Nothing else. He did this well against the Wallabies but sadly lost the fight against the All Blacks.
Morne was selected ahead of Lambie because of confidence issues suffered during the Super Rugby this year. Obviously one would look toward the more confident of the two to start in a test match and bringing Lambie in at this stage of the Champiojnship would be crazy.
If Lambie were to be brought in, I'd rather bring him in place of Kirchner ... not Steyn. Maybe then he could work up a little confidence and possibly challenge for the 10 jersey.
Yes I know he would be playing at 15 but my point is to give him more game time.
Currently we have no one else in the country to even consider at 10.
The first four matches......................out of how many..................?
morne has never ever had a decent game against the real threats like the AB.......as his limited skillset is badly exposed. same as zane there is no way that they are the best in there position at all
one of the overseas based player i wont miss at all when SARU kwotas kick in.
Regardless of all of the above comments by minute 43 we were not going to win. So the shit decision comes from Heyneke who had a golden opportunity to replace either Steyn or Kirchner (both of whom were passengers) with Lambie and give him a solid chunk of game time. If his confidence is shot he is not going to get it back on the bench. At least he would have added a new dimension and given the AB something to think about.
Please stay with Steyne ! He makes life so much easier in a one dimensional easy to read as a large print library book kinda way !
I am not talking about the run on side but to bring him on with 5 or 10 to go when the game was lost cuts right to the conservative approach that is going to hamper the Boks progression.
He has flair and vision which Steyn and Kirchner do not have and on a day when we had nothing to loose this was a missed opportunity. Just like keeping Pienaar on.No Mozart I was reffering to the big book of " How we wuz robbed at Eden Park " and other Bok fan Fairytales !
steyn and pienaar has about as much flair as robert mugabe's suite tailors
@mike i agree with you 100% but the performances is once again masked away with other poor excuses in this case the refs bad calls
