Mozart - the leader of the idiots brigade on this site wrote a book about certain players and went into his standard BS phase again. So l;ets look at the standings of players in the five SA teams who played yesterday and grade them on the basis of performance:-
For that purpose I am using the same stats he quoted from so extensively in his contributions.
No 12 position
1 Damian de Allende
2 Jan Serfontein
3 Harold Vorster
4 Michael van der Spuy
5 Francois Steyn
Please note that Van der Spuy is a player that was rejected by the Stormers and consequently started for the Cheetahs at 12 this year and that Vorster is a rookie in his second Super 15 game yesterday.
Only a supreme idiot like Mozart would claim that Steyn was good enough to be considered as a potential Springbok - but we know what to expect from him.
No 5 lock
As per normal Mozart launched a major assault on P-S du Toit yesterday and even and the audacity to quote his stats - so what is the factual information:-
1 Pieter-Steph du Toit
2 Michael Muller
3 Victor Matfield
4 Francois Uys
5 Manual Carriza
It has to be borne in mind that Muller was up against one of the top locks in New Zealand rugby - Tuipulotu - who have played for the AB's and Muller in that game did not let his team down.
It was with great hesitation that I put Matfield at 3 - he is physically deficient and contributes zero to Tight 5 play - as was evident again yesterday.
Du Toit was in a side where the other 4 Tight 5 players was under serious pressure and he fought a lone battle against overwhelming odds and put in a really creditable performance.
No 7 Loosies
1 Lappies Labuschagne
2 Warren Tecklenburg
3 Willem Alberts
4 Siya Kolisi
5 Oupa Mohoje
It is with great hewssitation that I put Alberts third in this case. He is slow and tend to miss tackles as a result of that. His ball carries are insignificant. However, his main deficiency is his total inability to do ball protection and breakdown ball recovery - making him at best an inadequate loosie. In some way in the latter category both Kolisi and Mohje are better than Alberts. The only reason he gets my votre for third is the one incident that - unlike him normally - he did pass a ball to Lambie who scored a try. For the rest he was totally insignificant.
So who is the madman Mozart who knows nothing about player assessments punting - obviously Francois Steyn, Victor Matfield and Willem Alberts - what a joke.
