Really? Who made Kolisi captain? Hamstringing the team to the greatest quota in modern rugby history? Not only dancing to the media's tune, but going as far as doing a little political pole dancing for the politicians. You are too easy.
Erasmus did and it turned out to be an excellent choice. The media never once raised the issue of making Kolisi captain and he was not a quota selection either - he was there on merit. Erasmus made the decision and queries in the media never changed his mind. Pole=danciong for the politicians is done by people selecting quota players and in that Meyer only made quota selections without merit.
I will go so far as to saying there were no quota selections in the Springbok WC squad, Erasmus never made quota selections and always merit selections, He did make a few mistakes though - Mostert amongst others like Kwagga and Louw, .
On merit? At the breakdown? On defence? Carries? The guy was totally anonymous game after game after game.
No one should ever listen to your garbage on player performances in games because the players delivering zero is praised by you for excellent performances and the op performing players are described by you as not delivering anything, It is the case here again and that remains. Fairy tales do not assure real performance evaluation and you always thrive on fairy tales.
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What exactly did he do that made him a merit selection? Given that Louw saved games from the bench, making a bigger impact than Kolisi says a lot, that's if we are to believe that Louw was as poor as you say!
You have asked for it, Louw no ball carries and made 2 tackles against Wales- Kolisi carrie the ball twice for an 16 meter gain and beat one tackle attempt.. One turnover means nothing in the broader context of the game and the fact that Louw did bugger all at all otherwise in the game is telling. He saved the game - how? If it was a draw it would have resulted in extra time and the Welsh had no way of surviving extra time.
In the final Louw made three tackles - but no ball carries - so he played in two tests for about 28 minutes with zero ball carries and 5 tackles is all that he showed.
As to the rest Kolisi was always near the ball carrier and did a lot of work in ball protection and recovery and in the turnover case Louw was next to the tackler and since his pace is insufficient he cannot make it to the breakdown point when tackles happen further away- too pace-deficient.
Louw was at a time an excellent loosie - by the time of the 2019 WC he was way over the hill and near to a passenger in games.
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Lots of egg on this string for Dave, Cleverwanker, Biltongbek and CC. We now know neither Lambie nor Goosen were international fly halves. The media were heavily in Lambie’s camp in 2014...they were horribly wrong.
Lambie always started better than he finished....got confused as a game progressed. He had no flyhalf game plan. He was actually a passably decent defensive fullback....that’s it.
And the Shithead always supported the worst flyhalf I have ever seen playing for the Springboks - Morne Steyn - who never attacked the gain line and did not know when to kick and when to pass balls. His out of hand kicks were grossly inaccurate and out of hand penalty kicks too often did not find touch too often, A bench player for Stade Francais regarded by him as good enough to play for the Springboks, Lambie is ten times the all-round player Steyn ever was - the latter had an 80% success rate kicking at goal - but with everything else missing was a dud flyhalf.
The idiotic comments that Frans Steyn - who according to him terrified opponents because of his size ahead of Pollard was a joke in bad taste.
