In no particular order:
Has Os got a twin?
You're working for Rapport now?
I'll edit that out AJH. I wish he did have a twin! Only part time Draad, they can't afford me.
Are you upset there's no place for JJ (better than Gerber), Lambie, Steph, Kolisi, Watson, Boshoff, Damian, Murray, Goosen (Best since Naas) ?
Come now Saffex, you were the fellow who backed these players at various points. Don't be shy.
It was CC and myself who thought Boshof showed some early promise.
What has Am done? He isn't even as good as Joubert was. Damian has done nothing his entire career. I'm still waiting for him to have one good test. It's nearly ten years since his debut and we are still waiting for that breakout game. Pollard is good, but is he better than Stransky, Butch, Morné, or even Pretorius? No on all counts, except maybe Pretorius. Bismarck was overrated. Marx hasn't done anything to crack the top 30 yet. He can be good on the ground, but his overall game is far too inconsistent. In 2016, he was the best Bok, and best hooker in the world, we've never seen that again, though cracks were still apparent to the more observant. Steph has had two solid tests in his entire career. Both occurring in 2018. Nothing good before or since. He consistently ranks around 20th at flank in a good patch (by his standards). Kolbe is too flawed. I'd have nearly a dozen wings before I'd select him. Kitshoff? Malherbe is a belly flopper. Jannie was better, so too CJ Van Der Linde, Naka Drotske, BJ Botha, Swart. But seeing as you rated Mujati best tighthead in rugby, we see where your standards are. Skinstad is a more understandable selection, though I disagree with it.
The only man who beat the Lions twice. Imagine you have a player who can deliver in one of the two ways points are scored, with almost 100% certainty…..and that points scoring machine can’t get a place in the top 30 players? Just more emotional thinking.
No super shit are guys like Lambie, Jantjies and Goosen who you always championed and who failed. Give me a winner over a loser any day.
No super shit are guys like Lambie, Jantjies and Goosen who you always championed and who failed. Give me a winner over a loser any day.
No super shit are guys like Lambie, Jantjies and Goosen who you always championed and who failed. Give me a winner over a loser any day.
But Goosen, Jantjies and Lambie would have missed the kick that won the Lions series.Boring is in the eye of the beholder. Sure I think Libbok is more exciting and Goosen in the early days.
But I don’t find Jantjies or Lambie at all exciting.
And speaking about boring…..Dud Allende’s crash ball rugby is surely as boring as it gets. But it doesn’t bore you watching him run 10 times for a metre a carry.
Morne was primarily an old style Bok kicking flyhalf but he had a splendid pass and a great tactical sense of what to do next.
They do the same thing….but, hell , Wiese is more exciting than Dud.
I have ever seen Damian dominate any opponent physically. He is a poor man's Jorie Muller.
Now lets get back to Morne Steyn. He was the ideal flyhalf in terms of Mozart's idea about flyhalf play - according to Mozart 90% of the requirements expected from a flyhalf is kicking of balls. He was totally useless at attacking the gain line and setting up backlines to attack in games - he was the genesis of dead backline play. So what ws Morne actually like when he played rugby. His kicking was inaccurate and often used as a launchpad for counterattacking by opposition teams. His defense was poor and he held the record of missing 8 out of 15 tackle attempts misses. He was also the clueless flyhalf boo-ed by the spectators in a test in Port Elizabeth. What else can I add. He was dropped from the Springbok team on ce in 2012 and twice in 2014 due to gross incompetence on his part. He suffered the same fate once in 2014 after contributing to a loss in Perth.
After that disaster he was contracted by Stade Francais and soon afterwards became the bench-player of the club. He wqs in the Springbok squad in the 2015 WC and played from the bench for a total of about 31 minutes in the series. His next appearance for the Springboks were when Coetzee was coach and the result was two record losses against the AB's.. His history for the Springboks was from a rugby perspective a disaster.
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De Allende dominated Frans Steyn totally when the latter landed on his arse twice trying to tackle him.
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Each two tackles on the other. Frans grabbed Damian and stopped him each time, in the last tackle, Frans threw him to the ground. Damian tried to hold Frans up twice, once holding him feebly until support arrived, the other Frans just dragged him backwards. I still have the time stamps for the encounter. As for attack, Frans was the better of the two by far. It was interesting to note Frans' expert defence on the short side, where he managed his spacing to thwart several attacks despite being outnumbered. Damian doesn't have the gray matter, composure, strength or skill to do that. Damian is a very weak man with no skill or ability. Only in South Africa can someone so mediocre have such a lucrative career. He has never ever earned a solitary test, and has never had one good test.
Were it not for Frans, we lose the 2021 encounter with New Zealand and we lost to Wales. We seem to ride these fine lines under Erasmus, where a less favoured player makes a key contribution to change the entire complexion of the season. Frans also saved Damian's blushes in the WC final with two key tackles, as Damian predictably folded deep in our territory for a very threatening shot at our try line.
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So Frans Steyn stopped him by landing on his arse on the ground - massive achievement. Morne Steyn was a shit player proved throughout his career - if he was any good why was he the Stade Francais bench player?
Hansen summed up Morne perfectly - "We know what to expect from Morne Srteyn - we do not know what to expect from Pollard". Everyone know what to expect from Morne Steyn - that made him a disaster at flyhalf.
Frans is still better than Willemse, Damian and a host of others. Talent is better than youth without talent. That said, time is running out for Damian to prove himself! Willemse is going down the same path.