Pieter Steph du Toit is the 2024 Player of The Year

All too funny for words. 

Now the anti Rassie, anti Du Toit and anti Allende buffoons are getting humystericsl because nobody aside form the little groub of Mamparas agree with them. 

Nobody can anakyse the game like these half bakes. Bwahahahahahaha. 

According to poor Mozzietard 2024 is suddenly the year Du Toit started playing good rugby. 

Mampara trying to downplay Du Toit RUGBY PLAYER IF THE YEAR award notes, correctly that it was close when considering Cgedlin and Eben. However to be in the same bracket as these two great players means Du Toit is also great. 

How many rugby players have two such awards. 

No these clowns have made complete fools of themselves regarding Rassie, Du Toit and Allende. I could also add in Malherbe who mozzietard took a dislike to as well. Perhaps Malherbe has also suddenly improved this year. Hahahshshaha

Beeno

There are two common factrs to Mozart pet hates/   If  Dave and I wrote neatively about retied  players Meyer  brought into he Springbok squad and menioed the slliness about Mattfield Mozart went on te attack trail in 2013 and it never stopped for the past 10  years.  Same with Malhebe - especially as his father was a lifelong riend of mine and when I menioned anything  the hate campaign started.   

When De A llende was foced into the RC in 2015 and played only three matches as cne partnes the hatred took unheard levels,  It stemed from the fact that De Villiers was injured and Forie was so fat and unfit that he was kicked out of he June 2015 training camp.

The lies about performances started afresh  in 2015 wih falsification of what ahppened in matches,   It reached now heights of using pet hatred  in 2018 and 2019/     If you compare what Mozart wriote about he De Alende try against Wales in the semi and what actually happend,  it was a clear case about is being invented by Mozart,   

The vitriol against Du Toit and De Allende was always total - but it started off against Erasmus in 2018/   He even wrote that SARU made a mistake - they should rather have retaied Coetzee than to appointe Erasmus,   It was obvious that  he lied all the ime when it came to Ersmus.   

In all the lies invented by Mozart of imgained try scoring opportunites and lies about defens e Mozart always had the full support of  Pakie//   One really womdes when the BS wold stop - but it never does. 

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One really womdes when the BS wold stop - but it never does.

The BS will never stop

Fine, I'll ask the question then...

Is anybody here actually concerned about Mike?

I am. 

Mike, do you live alone? Are there other people around you? If not, how often do you see people... like anyone? 

I'm not trying to belittle you and put you down with this. But what is happening here isn't normal. It's not simply spelling mistakes. 

We've gotten so used to your posts being like this that I think we are looking past the fact that you may be in terrible health and not taking any sort of care of yourself. 

Guys...am I worried for nothing here? 

"DA’s great hands to set up the Etzebeth try"

Reading that statement, versus the actual video...it's like the add for a us ed car versus the actual car.

..and then you're gonna tell us with a straight face that DDA hasn't drastically lowered the bar. He catches an easy pass and passes it to Eben. That's literally the entire description of the event.

Please elaborate on the "greatness" of it...

This is the highest echelon of the game. Catching a ball while standing still and immediately passing it 2m to the left is already routine in high school rugby. We did those drills while warming up back then.

I’ll leave you with his try set up for Kolbe and challenge you to come up with a better passage of play by any other centre during the November series

I'll give him that.

Len Ikitau runs that close for handing off Sleightholme and then sucking in Smith with the no-look backhander that releases Jorgenson for the winner against England. And check out Donaldson's "quick hands" in the same move, since you enjoy quick hands Even flanker McReight gets in a quick hands.

I've never been the biggest fan of DDA. I'd much rather have a playmaker like Damian Willemse in the #12 jersey rather than a crash-ball runner like DDA and even if I was going to go for a crash-ball centre, I thnk Andre Esterhuizen has done enough this season to warrant the Bok jersey . . . but here's the thing . . . like it or not, DDA has been named in the World XV for the year and if all his many detractors would stop snivelling and bleating and rather name another candidate . . . well, that would make a welcome change.

No-one is calling DDA a superstar, the IRB have simply selected him as the best #12 in test rugby this year and in the absemce of any realistic candidates, I have to agree with them. Who else?

Yoram Moefana has been the weak link in the French backline, Bundee Aki has been injured or downright poor, Jordie Barrett has done nothing of note in the #12 jersey (in any season), Robbie Henshaw has hardly played and when he has he's done squat, Len Ikatau has had one or two good games recently but for the rest he's been a rather anonymous part of the worst Wallaby side in living memory who wer e thumped by the Springboks . . . so please, instead of just whining and bitching about DDA and telling everyone how useless he is and how much you hate him, put up an alternative. Tell us who should have been named at #12 for 2024. 

Oh and congrats to Pieter-Steph du Toit, a Springbok legend.

As I said a week ago I would have picked Cheslin Kolbe but I have no problem with PSdT being recognised again for his consistently brilliant play and the hard edge he brings to the Springboks.

Now, imagine being the biased and prejudiced rugby noob who has spent the last few years trashing and denigrating this great Springbok. 

LMAO!

Seriously, how little must you know about rugby to call this warrior an ordinary plodder or a run-of-the-mill "process" tackler or whatever other derogatory terms have been used? I reckon you'd have to be so stupid that you can't even give Rassie Erasmus credit for winning back to back RWCs . . . oh . . . hang on . . . 

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha!

"Stick with Moz"? Yeah right . . . stick to knitting or flower arranging, Moffie, you egg-faced old fool.

I see, so David Kriel is your nomination for the #12 jersey in the World XV for 2024, Emp ?

LMAO!

"Draad,

I'm evidence driven. As always, all I ask for is just that...evidence.

Show me the world's best 12 performance that DDA put in this season.

The games are all available for review. Pick your best one and provide the timestamps. I'll happily watch it a give my opinion."

Plum, your interpretation of the evidence is different than mine...I've got an INTP personality,  so my best decisions are intuitive...can't explain it, but I'm almost always right when I follow my gut...subconscious evaluation of all the data points and going with what feels right...never have I ever been disappointed when I listened to it...only when I didn't...

DdA does the odd stupid thing...at least once in every match, but his tracktoring and smashing thinhs up are much more than just effective...and his work at the breakdown adds another loosie to the equation...the Boks as a unit performs better when he's playing...I  like AE, and there's a case to be made for him to get more game time...him and maybe Willimse are the only players to come mildly close to having a crack at the Bok 12 jumper...but they have not even come close to being serious contenders to surpass him...and a lot of pundits agree...him making the dream team is no fluke...the best team on the planet performs best when he plays at 12...my kinda evidence. 

Plum, which match, in your opinion is the best game the Bokke ever played? ...off the top of your head...I know mine...

Delande has his days. He is good in tight test match games when there is no space. It is not often that people break his line of defence,

I am not his biggest fan, but I must admit I have seen him play an all-round game as the complete inside centre, but in other games, he becomes a loose forward.

". . . which match, in your opinion is the best game the Bokke ever played?"

Best in terms of the quality and style of rugby, I'd have to say the 52-10 win over France in 1997.

Best in terms of excitement and enjoyment, I'd go with the 33-31 win over the Wallabies in 2002.

Well, in terms of context and the opposition,  the 2023 QF vs France for me is probably the best Bok test ever...the 1997 match vs France was my previous fav bok test...when Slaptjips scores a hand full of tries...seeing the Bokke getting a standing ovation from a full capacity French crowd was special...

The first test against NZ in 1960…won against the much fancied ABs by two brilliant backline strikes from far out. Probably our most important test win post WW2 and pre readmission,

Ja, well it's before my time...I wonder how how much footage is still available today.  

Bits and pieces on Youtube, Draad. Here's the first try on Ellis Park. Nice line from the 14. Love how all the players look about the same physically, regardless if they're backs or forwards.

My best game is probably the 1998 Tri-Nations game against the All Blacks where we down for the entire game....but scored 3 tries in the last 10 minutes to beat the All Blacks 24 - 23.

From almost certain defeat, we turned the game on it's head in the last 10 minutes to secure a fantastic win.

Draad

I was invited to the Match  by a major watee engineering firm and  before the match started went t the entertainment tent  - where I met some senior staff  officials 24 myears after I left the Deparment and they spoke to me for near to 2 hours about what we  did when I was one of their project team parners in projects.

But that was neither here nor there - before the match started we awere all at or seats and there I stayed until the end of the match - most of the oher guests left  by miute 60 and when I saw the people at the tent after the match  I told them you missed a bloody good match   

As you stated the Springboks scored three tries in 10 minutes  - the first two tries were very good  and certainly showed good play by the Boks - bu he ird one stemmed from panick by the AB's.   The gave away ree enalties one after the other.  The  final one ended in a coner kick from where the Springboks scored the winnning try in he last minute of the match,