Pakie
The issue was dealt with is the 2019 WC and not the 2023 one.
In any event the Springboks ended up wnning both WC's and that is in the end what happened. Playing with a team that had no hooker beause both hookers in te squad was injured and a player whose throw-ins in line-outs were atrocious and yet beat all those teams dserveds ccredit - not conmdemnaion like that shit idiot pretends.
He went firther and retends the atrocious reccord of Coetzee never happened. The great players Ersmus inherited suffered mega-losses against the AB's 57-15 and 57 - 0 and lost in their lost the match in Bovmber 2017 against Italy.
Experts looked at the state in which the players were and came to the cnclusion the players involved were demoralized totally and had no believe in themselves and in the team. It took months for the players courage and performances to be rebuild and get the encessary self-believe to perform. as a winning team - yet they beat the AB's in Welligton in the RC and then had to play England outside of the test window and had to play Etserhuizen who flopped totally by isolating himself and broke down an attack causing the Springboks to lose a test they could have won.
Then came along the 2019 season in which the Springboks won te RC and the WC - the first time that happened. The village idiots blamed Erasmus for winnng that one and not losing it - and gave Erasmus no credit for it. He was by 2019 aware that Esterhuizen was not an international player and did not include him in the WC squad. In the end when Kriel was iinjured he called up Wilemse and not Esteruizen as replacement. In the case of Esterhuizen he calle him up to the squad in 2024 and the man was a disgrace in the only match he played in and got himself banned and despite that site members insist that Esterhuizn must be in the team/
International observers and experts gave Erasmus credit for turrning demoralzed players into matchwinners and the site idiots gave him no credit for it The most idiotic simpleton on site claimed that Du Toit became player of the Year solely because he Springboks won the WC despite him being useless, That together with lies about wat happened in the 2015 WC semifinal was what they built their arguments on/ The real loser of that semi was caused by the fact that Meyer included 8 unplayable players in te WC squad and after the famous Japan disaster Meyer had only 23 players that was usable in the team. and they were used in the playing squads for all play-off matches, Asde the disaster also were caused by Matfield when he was brought on to replace De Jager Matfirld fluffed he firstline-out on Springbok throw=in and after that gtot prgressively wore when he cused a easily convertable penalty into reversal o a penalty reveal. By the way WC squads consists of 31 players - the main objective was always to allow rest tests in the round robin stage to rest key players. Meyer never rested any key players - he had to use thm in all round robin matches played, By he time the reaching the semi-final stage the players he used was "dead on their feet" and the liar went on to blame De Jager and De Allende for the loss based on his own lies. Nobody else did that - but village idiot one claimed he is the best rugby performance analyst in the world - he sees things other analyzers missed - what he saw was his own disturbed mind analysis/
Now back to the 2023 WC - the condition is that all 31 nominees can include injured players - but then if they cannot play in the WC they cannot be replaced. Pollard was injured when the team was submitted and Meyer did not know at the time whether Polard would be able to play in the WC and could not include him in the original squad. However Pollard returned to play rugby 6 eeks after the submission of the team list to WR. When Marx got injured in the first WC test Erasmus called up Pollard to replace him,. He had to rely on Mbonambi as the only real hoker in the team. Mbonambi played in the rests of te ests and even van Staden was used asa repalcement hooker when necessary - but in the,final Mbonambi was injured early in the final match and Fourie had to play te rest the match. The Springboks lost every line-out Fourie had to throw in the ball. Granted Erasmus msde a serious mistake in including Fourie and not a third real third hooker in the WC squad, As it was in Fourie the AB's had an asset and and the Springboks a liability. I blame Erasmus for hat balls-up - but despite that situation the Springbks won the final and that is the end of that issue.
To be quite frank Pollard is a wonderful player at his best - but he is not at his best since 2019 and he is also injury - prone. That has been the case ever since 2019. In the tests this year Pollard played in - the Irish tests - he was not a real positive in the two maches, After that Easmus went for SMB at flyhalf and the Springbks won all the matches he played in. In fact the Sprinbok backline did not perform to expectation when Pollard was in te staring lie-up on Saturday and he was replaced early in the second half and the backline functioned better and eventually the test was win,
It is seriously time to blame Erasmus for winning tests and supporting shit vcoaches instead, Every selection he made is under attack and so is Du Toit. The latter is wel on his way to be Player of he Year again his year and the same shit can be expected fom the sefl-proclaimed "best rugby performnce analyer" in the world.
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