Mostert’s incredible stat

This much maligned player set a record that will probably never be equalled…two World Cup finals and not one missed tackle. He made 31 tackles in total….15 in 2019, 16 in 2023.

Not only does this represent great consistency, but it’s also a huge total, especially when you take into account he only played 58 minutes in 2019 and 52 minutes in 2023. So in total 110 minutes/31 tackles/none missed.

So 31 tackles in 110 minutes  is equivalent to 22.5 tackles in 80 minutes. But his tackle rate against the ABs was even higher at 24.6. Scarcely less than Dud Toit at 28….but Dud missed 3 tackles.

You heard it here first….where are our reporters. In the NFL this would have been a major talking point.

It went to Vermeulen….tell us about the tackles Dud Toit broke as our designated forward runner, the balls he stole at the breakdown, the lineouts he took, the kickoffs he caught.

He did nothing but tackle in both WC finals and even then Mostert did better.

Dud Toit’s stats vs England.

11 tackles/1 missed/1turnover conceded

4 runs/2 metres

MOM give  me a break.

Pieter-Steph wins us the RWC final almost single-handedly . . . just as he did 4 years ago . . . but it doesn't matter if he always steps up in the big games and becomes a national hero because Moffie once called him a poor player . . . so he'll always be a poor player according to Moffie. 

Childish yes, ignorant yes, but that is how the egg-faced fool rolls.

LMAO!

Pieter-Steph is the greatest Springbok of the modern era.

You were a prop Dave….who were you playing for Lillyput? .

‘ You have his weedy 112kg frame as compared to Lood at 125kg or RG at 136kg. As a prop I know which lock I would want behind me’

Mostert was a weak tackler in both tests and in cases where he tacklesd players they routinely went forward in the tackles.    He was useless in the real sense of the word.         

Ja Dave is right, Mostert did miss a tackle in the previous final that wasn't logged or for some reason not considered as a miss. I would have marked it a miss.  Barely registers in terms of his wider efforts though.

The truth about tackling is most tackles have the attacker going forward in the tackle. As proof I provide the Dud Toit tapes. He timed two tackles on Barrett where he was in an undecided mode and knocked him back. There was another tackle on a receiver turning after a kick went behind him.

For the rest, including some tackles he missed, Dud Toit’s target went through his tackle in the process of going to ground.

The idea that Mostert should be knocking runners backwards is nonsense. And if you are wondering if Mostert is a weed….watch at minute 13 as Jodie Barrett breaks the thr ough the Dud tackle and Mostert rips him to the ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE_Cdrwg3dg

Moffie, if you'd typed "duplicate" like ou Maaik does it would have been marginally less embarrassing than this biased and ignorant tripe you chose to replace your double-post blunder.

Actually the last post you see is the first one I posted. The post above I marked with an X and then replaced it by addressing the question of whether Mostert missed a tackle. Both posts addressing points raised by others.

There was more rugby content in those posts than 95% of the personal attacks which are your standard offering.

So once again, in your warped desire to get me (sic) you have made a fool of yourself . Give up man, you’ll never succeed.

He put in 4, in two of those cases because the player was going sideways, and one against Barrett because he hesitated and was a sitting duck. The other he genuinely timed a big hit on Barrett perfectly.

For the rest he was carried along in the tackle just as Mostert, Etzebeth, Vermeulen or anybody else. Some of the toughest tackles made in the goal line stand were Mostert on Vunipola.

You don’t have to believe me, it’s all on the video.

Just so we're clear. Moffie, the ignorant, childish and laughably biased witterings from a self-important yet painfully stupid old rugby noob do not constitute "rugby content".

You can call the all-time legendary Springbok  and warrior Pieter-Steph du Toit a "dud" and you can whine about his inability to tackle to your heart's content but only your most servile of gimps would see it as anything other than a truly pathetic attempt to try and save some face after you slagged him off for so many years.

If you ever put up some actual rugby content rather than this infantile drivel just to pretend you haven't got copious amounts of egg all over your stupid fat face then I'll be the first to applaud you. 

You backed the wrong horse, chump. Accept it and deal with it. Pieter-Steph has already done enough to cement his place in the annals of Spr ingbok rugby folklore as one of the greats and to see a pompous, self-aggrandizing old fool like you continue deriding him after his heroics in two RWC finals is nothing short of sickening. Don't confuse your childish and ignorant drivel with "rugby content".

LMAO!

Oh how tough….you are such a keyboard Wallie. Dud does one thing and one thing only….tackle. He doesn’t fetch, he doesn’t offload, he doesn’t break tackles, he doesn’t run good lines, he doesn’t take kick offs,  he doesn’t even get called on in the lineouts. He is a totally limited player. 

Now that you have got that, your constant focus on strings I start and whining about me is embarrassing. 

Practice what you preach:

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Moffie, does your constant and whiny need for my attention ever bother you?

Be honest now.

Yep Plum total hypocrisy on the part of the small Wallie. Still I’m off to golf, you can handle these two losers with one hand tied behind your back. 

Absolute rubbish ButtPlug. I've never been anti Mostert and I'm on record as saying he's a worthy Springbok who playes with great passion and commitment. Go do some searches and stop lying,

But did Mostert have the same impact that PSdT had in winning us two RWCs? Did he front up like Pieter-Steph did when it really mattered? No, he didn't.

I did say that only the most servile of Moffie's gimps would support him in his childish little campaign against PSdT and you've just proved my point.

I actually have more respect for Moffie than I do for you. His rugby ignorance and his bias is at least original and not the repulsive sucking up of a grovelling toadie. That would be . . . ummm . . . you!

Dud Toit 18 runs against Ireland, France and New Zealand  and not one defender beaten,,,and he won us the World Cup but Pollard didn’t ….sure (sic).

So who were the two biggest supporters of Luke Watson and biggest detractors of Schalk Burger, Dave and (sic)nek. Now they are incensed that I criticize Dud Toit, but for years they went after Schalk, not an opensider, as if Dud is even a flank.

But not a word about Dud who is far worse ball in  hand. Schalk was  not a great ball carrier, but he learned how to offload, was a great fetcher before his neck injury and a superb defender. Dud can’t fetch, period.

There’s one rule for (sic) and another rule for everybody else….the stuff he said about Skinstad was pretty awful. Why? Because he never forgave Bobby for the Teichman firing….just like he never forgave Schalk for Watson not being selected.

Mozart

You h ave not criticized Du Toit "now"  - you have eben criticxizing him since 2013 and the criticism was always based on  prejudice.   You openly admit you never see aanything  positive about certain players - in other words you just ignore it.   That makes your comments totally delusional.

I have enver seen Mostert making a tacjkle where he stopped forward moverment by the tacxkled player and to bring people down he needs assistance  by fellow playes,    But tackling is a part fot eh whoe evaluation fo players.   Mostert is usless in driving mauls and in breakdwon ball protection and ecovery.   He just gets pushed out fo such situationas easily.  On the whoe he si a very average player and effctively used as a fringe Springbok player.   

He is unlikely to eb even a fringe player in future.    .          

Top tackler

Once again it is little surprise to see the three-lung freak of endurance that is Franco Mostert well and truly leading the way in the tackle count with a tally of 179 this campaign. The Honda Heat star’s total is 13 ahead of the nearest player who is Brave Blossoms skipper Kazuki Himeno (166).

The very high tackle count from the South African shows that Mostert has not taken his foot off the gas after claiming his second World Cup title last year, during which he made a simply crazy 49 tackles during the knockout stages of that tournament. What made it even more sweet is that the towering forward did not miss one during that period.

179 - The six players with the most tackles completed in this season’s @LeagueOne_EN D1: 179 - Franco Mostert  166 - Kazuki Himeno  158 - Pieter Labuschagne  154 - Ardie Savea  149 - Yuya Odo  148 - Tiennan Costley 

Well one of the most capped locks to ever wear a Springbopk jersey is quoted as rating MOSTERT the most outstanding lock in the last two world cups and is the one he would select first before any other player to represent his country.

I believe he made that statement when enterviewed on a TV show in South Africa.

That player is VICTOR MATFIELD,

He surely understands the performance, skill and dedication that is required at international level for a lock as opposed to us old guys, rugby followers, ex internationals (?) bloggers and hackers on this forum.

Case closed.

Thank you.

Lomp is toast…he was marginal at best, he’s days are over.