‘Huge hole opening up in that defensive line, easy two on one’.
Dud was never properly focused on Marchant who was his man. To be honest I have no idea what he was thinking. Jantjies had tackled the inside player and I think Dud thought he could come in above Jantjies and snuff off the pass.
But he was way too late…and the pass went off to Marchant and lights out. Marchant ran through the barn door gap Dud had left wide open.
If he just stayed on his assignment and made the tackle we would have been fine.
A massive mental error.
Dave
Mozart cannot prove you wrong because he dreamed up a reason to blame De Allende for the one England try. I wrote about the tackling of De Jager compared to Mostert, where he claimed that Mostert in game after game made more tackles than De Jager - it was in fact total BS and I gave him the figures for the last three games.
In the 16 minutes Mostert was on the field on Saturday he made ZERO tackles and missed one. In all three of the tests Mostert made 8 tackles combined. In the Scotland test where Mostert was on the field for 62 minutes he made 5 tackles and missed 1. In the 16 minutes De Jager played he made 5 tackles and missed ZERO.
Mozart obviously would not comment on that BS story of his - same as the one on De Allende.
Blah, blah, blah, blah….if you guys could explain to me who else was supposed to tackle Marchant I’ll buy you a toffee. As clear a blown assignment as you’ll ever see.
Commentator: " Damian de Allende stepping in to support Elton Jantjies, huge hole opening up in that defence".
Here is how they're lining up. Marchant (highlighted yellow) can be nobody's man but Damian's. There is too big a gap between Damian and Am for him to ever be Am's man.
From the Sports 24 match commentary:
20 Nov 18:46
It's the small margins that count.
A mix-up on defence by Elton Jantjies and Damian de Allende left that screaming gap.
Except Jantjies wasn’t confused he tackled the man he was lined up on…….Dud Allende was the moron that came inside onto the man Jantjies had covered and tackled…..leaving that ‘screaming gap’.
Thanks Pakie, a picture is worth a thousand words.
So Pakie is wrong, I’m wrong, the Rugby 24 match commentator is wrong, the TV commentator is wrong and you’re right? You need your eyes fixed and while you are about it have your bias checked out, these things can become resistant to antibiotics.
Sorry it doesn’t pass the smell test or just basic observation
1 The ball comes quickly off the lineout, on a set play Quirke throws a long pass out to Slade rather than Smith who hangs back deep to confuse the defence.
2 Slade is opposite Jantjies. He runs no special line, if anything he attacks Jantjies outside shoulder.
3 Jantjies makes the tackle low leaving Slade’s arms free to pass. Marchant who has been hovering two steps deeper hits the ball at pace.
4 But there is no need Dud Allende is so confused he actually convinces himself he should tackle Slade even though Slade is first receiver and well marked by Jantjies. And even Marchant’ path carries him right through where Dud was lining up.
5 Dud leaves a barnyard gap which Marchant runs through and then Dud trots meekly behind the movement.
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There is your truth Dave and the real truth which is Dud gifted England a try right when we looked set to win it.
Utter balls…Slade ran all of 3 strides pretty much straight down the park. This angle stuff is just a fabrication to protect Dumb Dud Allende.
Thinus Delport called it right on the commentary De Allende stepping in left a huge hole in our defence. But I suppose Delport also knows nothing and is anti Bok.
Yes you are wrong - all Pakie is doing is drawing lines before the ball is received - a lot changes thereafter
Slade is already carrying in that image. At the very least this is a breakdown in defensive communication. As you see on this image when the pass goes, DA gets caught in no man's land. It's not so much that he stepped in, it's that he held his position
inside while the movement was drifting outside and ended up nowhere worth being. He is not covering the gap, he is not tackling the carrier (who is already being sorted out by Jantjies).
It's a smart bit of running by Slade, sure, but it's also pretty ordinary defending.
Allende selected for team of the week and world team. Meaning right now he is the best 12 in the business.
So whatever you have to say about Allende leaving a gap open that doesn't define his performance for the match.
Allende was superb and every one bar some nutters here know that.
The only thing more embarrassing for Moz was a player he trashed being world rugby player of the year. Cant think of anything that tops that! Bwahahhahahahahahahaha
Sorry Saf, but look how compressed he is against Jantjies, they probably targeted that channel knowing that they had no trust in Jantjies defence. Although, this on de Allenda as Marx would have been able to cover Jantjies but to expect hi to cover that wide is insane. Even just getting in the way with no clean tackle would have helped.
It is not the first time, Australia did the same to us in the Championship in the same channel. So we are definitely venerable here
Marx was never in the picture Dave, he lost maybe one yard bumping into the ref and never got within 5m of any carrier. The long pass took him straight out of the picture, ref or no ref.
Go back to Pakie’s first image. There is a perfect line up with Jantjies on Slade, Allende on Marchant and the 2 outside backs also covered one on one, Allende’s body position is also orientated directly at Marchant….not Slade, who is covered by Jantjies and on the inside by 3 Bok forwards.
The danger is all on the outside. Potentially with one of the two lagging backs Smith and Simmonds getting up to take an offload.
With the danger all on the outside and Slade well covered, Dud turns inside opening the gap.
Outside in pressure is fine until your opponent gets outside the man pressing in….Dud in this case.
In the Tuilagi try Kriel also shot up trying to seal off the movement, but got there too late for a smother tackle and Tuilagi was away. Another try from a basic defensive situation where our backs, Dud included, were simply not getting across fast enough…not reading the play.
Two embarrassing lapses ….but the Dud Allende lapse was on him alone.
What’s most instructive about this string is how Dave, HasBeen and Clever are so committed to the Dud is great idea that they can’t be honest about a black and white case, inventing all sorts of abstractions.
The Board would be much higher quality if we could be more objective.
The trouble you have Dave’s is you lie through your teeth all the time and think you will get away with it. But this time the picture is so clear no amount of bs about angles and inside defenders will change the fact that Allende just blew the defence wide open.
And no amount of vulgarity on your part will make your lie any more plausible.
So that’s the first alarm bell in their head, in their heads they are
both thinking we have to cover narrow, then the long pass is another
alarm, as is Smith as decoy and finally Slade targeting the direction
towards DA
Dave this early already the entire movement of the England attack is to the outside. You're telling me DA cannot adjust from here to spot the threat on the outside? Marx bumped into the ref so now both he and Jantjies are so confused by that simple event that they both go narrow on one guy on the inside while the entire rest of the England attack is moving across field? Come on. Nice deception by England yes, caused uncertainty yes, but also always evident early on that the threat was going to come on Slade's outside.
Which reminds me of the classic line in Dance with a Stranger when Rupert Everett says to Miranda Richardson….” I have come to ask you to marry me” and she responds “why are you pregnant”….delivered totally straight.
Dave's pregnant? Oh no.
No I think a bit of dieting might alleviate the symptoms
