Planet Rugby team of the year

The worst attacking team in test rugby has both centres! And yet, their only creative attacker didn't make the team (Willie)! 

I think Saffex takes Planet Rugby a little too literally. They aren't any kind of authority on rugby! I'm having such a good laugh at how Saffex cleaves to them like a wilting man-baby his Marvel comic collection. The bigger the effort, the greater the fail, the harder the lolz! 

You do whatever the heck you want. In fact, please carry on. I'm enjoying it! 

People participating on planet Rugby competitions and their readership were  asked to vote on the issue and in most cases the majorities were used to help identifying the team they think is the best.  In the case De Allende got 44% of the vote - so I think l'Grande Merde thinks those 44% of the vote are dumb - he alone and Mozart are the ones who claim otherwise and according to them the majority of people who think otherwise are idiots.   They should look in the mirror when it comes to the Idiots Stake Race .         

Six Boks…..they must have won the RC and had a great year end tour? Wait..they lost the RC  to the ABs who have one player in the team? Gosh that is some seriously screwed up logic. But hold on it’s a readers’ team and PlanetRugby Forums are heavily South African weighted. Okay. That makes sense.

As for Dud Allende he certainly added to his game….aimless grubbers when we had 3 man overlaps.

Another lie and you have the cheek to make that statement.    Probably happened four times in akill games played and one of those resulted in a try.   the 3 man overlap was BS Mozart dreamt up.    Even when a try was scored from one of the kicks the refrain wa it should have been better f De Allende passed the ball - what arseholes the two are. 

1 thing I think all of us can agree on is that Duh Allende cannot distribute the ball very well.....well atleast playing the Role that R&N has got him playing......so maybe if Tassenberg and his Butt buddy decide to let him play a more expansive game, he might distribute better.....but @ the moment he is nothing more than a crash test Dummy.....planet Rugby is some kind of fantasy league game....not to be taken seriously ....my opinion.

Mpower, gamelan has nothing to do with a player's ability to throw a short or long pass off either hand. Damian has been tried in every possible configuration since 2015, and he has shown no ability to be able to do these things accurately. That's one of the reasons he ended up with the linear game, as Meyer pulled the plug on all the plays and shapes he worked in for the Stormers in his disastrous 2015 Super rugby campaign as Australia saw right through them, and he could not function at a high level. The only hope was to then have him target the inner channels with blunt running, which didn't exactly help the team succeed. Damian has had every opportunity to show he can do more, he simply cannot deliver. Why? He is not talented enough for test rugby. 

Well I have seen him play better in his days @ the Stormers ....and that inner line together with blunt running, is exactly what's keeping DDA in the team.....a extra loose forward....So the talent part is not of importance, he fits the R&N mold and Gameplan.....When Esterhuizen played it was much better for our attack and things might change in 23, but I doubt it.

Damian is not an extra loose forward. No function of his role in the blueprint is anything like an extra loose forward. This is just terminology that has been thrown out ignorantly by those who don't and can't analyse film. Talent is important as it exacerbates the poor coaching. Damian is at his very worst trying to play like a fully developed senior level centre. His skills have never been good, and this is actually the best version of him. The one everyone gushed over was immeasurably worse! 

Saffex, you are no rugby guru. Save the chest beating for your next braai, stud. 

Dud Allende has a role because we don’t have a Savea….a loosie that is a productive ball carrier. Dud Toit is ALWAYS smashed in the first tackle. Kolisi has ceded the ball carrier role. So Dud Allende, and Wiese who is more effective at what Dud does, bash away.

The thing with Dud his fans don’t  get is he does the running at half pace….and then when tackled he tractors. It’s all in slow motion,  allowing defenses which may have been out of place to reset.

So the consequences of a typical Dud possession are, 1.5 metres gained, a reset, with a totally re- organized defense waiting for the next ball carrier. He kills all momentum.

Damian runs no more at seams and the interior, rather, in the middle of the line, where he is smashed. He has been steadily moved further out, but it hasn't worked. The dilemma is that Damian started out as a 13/wing hybrid, but cannot stand insolation and command the line or tackle with authority, he also is no playmaker or distributor. So, Meyer was the one who focused him on the inside at 12, limiting his decision making. Meyer crafted that role for him that became the blueprint ever since. Erasmus is obviously wondering as he is shifting the midfield around. I don't think he is as confident in Damian as he once was. So he is has been shifted further out, even with a 12 on his back. He can't pin down a position. 

Kerevi is the strongest centre in rugby…..Dud Allende is a retard they are now teaching to kick.

Gave thinking about the 2023 WC - the best cneter cmbination would eb De Allende at `12 and Willemse at 13.   The latter was extremely dangerous in the teams he played against in the various series this year - but he will be better at 13 where he has more space to operate in as at 12.

To even discuss rugby with Mozart and l'Grande Merde is wasting time - they ahve no idea of rugby,        

Kerevi has effortlessly run right over Damian and thrown him aside each and every time he has run at him. Kerevi has also stopped Damian in his tracks. However, this is nothing special as every opponent centre outclasses Damian. The only Bok who has physically dominated Kerevi, forward or back, is Esterhuizen. Damian is literally weaker than Adi Jacobs, with less skill, and slower, inferior defence and much less smarts. Damian is a poor man's Jorrie Muller. 

Mozart

Kerevi rarely played this year in tests due to injury and fuckwits are still carrying on about him in this case.   So he should be picked as center when he did not play in enough matches to be considered.  The same can be said of any rugby topic the idiots try to use and reign supreme when they write shit on site.             

So Dud Toit has hardly played since the WC and you still think he’s relevant. Nobody said Kerevi should be selected given his injury….we are saying he has dominated Dud Allende historically. Please stop projecting your stupidity.

What the hell has that to do with the item posted by Dave.   As per normal you are the rugby  idiot in this case.   

It’s too subtle for you….don’t worry about it.

And you think the same of Vermeulen?  

Surprise surprise...

When it comes to the Emperor's Clothes, we rely on the opinions of others as evidence.

Here's yet more evidence from our side...

Every try the Boks have scored since the 2019 WC. Now count how many times DDA is involved in making the scores or scoring himself. Is this what Musk means when he talks about the "Great Filter"?

We know that DDA's fans will count him touching the ball during any phase of the play leading up to the try as an assist. Because these are the lies they tell themselves...

Edit: the links still works. Just click "Watch On YouTube.

1 Try vs AB, OZ and ARG.....1 Break and Pass for Mapimpi,s try vs Scottie??

those 44% of the vote are dumb -

Dumb, no (not enough elements to state that), clearly biased, yes.

People giving too much credit to the vote, failing to see an obvious bias, on the other hand display a dumb behaviour.

IRB ranking: IR, FR, NZ, SA rugby.

In the team: five irish players, one french player, one NZ player, six SA rugby players.

Six players are a lot, nearly half of a team. Usually, this treatment is reserved to teams that've just won a major competition (and not always) as it is more cohesive with a recent result.

Most of the so called knowledgeable rugby fans are in all likelihood unable to name a full french squad without looking up at notes.

The presence of six SA rugby players in the team without any team performances to back it up come with consequences.

One is that the other potential candidates are not outstandingly better than their SA rugby counterparts (as it is the belief reflected by picking up the french fly half with such a wide margin) therefore allowing SA rugby players to be picked. On the average, they are only slightly worse than other candidates, meaning they can be picked without jeopardizing the team average. It could have been many other names but by personal preferences, people picked SA rugby players.

That is one interpretation among many. That is favourable to SA rugby.

Another one is to take at face value the team list. It disparages SA rugby.

All the SA rugby players named in the list are indeed the best. It reflects poorly on the level of their teammates as the latter brought down the general contribution of the other marvellous ones.

France went unconquered for the year, beating all the other teams named in the list. Yet one player only. Either the only one is such an outstanding player he lifted all the others above what SA rugby players contributes or the other SA rugby players, the ones unnamed in the list are so poor they wasted the contribution of all the other named in the list.

SA rugby would be six brilliant players dragged down by many sub par players, reflecting a deep issue in training and drilling.

Spent a few minutes reading the team of the year lists from this site since 2019.

Summed it all.

These lists tell more about people taking them at face value than on rugby players' performances.