Rassie flawed bomb squad exposed

The Boks took a commanding lead over Australia when they decided to put race based selections aside and not trying to meet politicians dumb race quota numbers. 

With only one questionable black representative in the pack, the Boks were able to dominate up front for most of the game and no head for early subs.

 Usually at the 30 min mark we would see Dweeb getting subbed. Even Fat Bastard Malherbe made it to 65 min. Kitshoff until 70 min, Marx played the whole game. 

Fourie was just and insurance policy.

Lomp came off early but Mostert shifted to lock with quagga coming on. The Kolisi started to show tiredness around 40 min Mark and was completely spent by 55 min. 

However, with a miss firing backline thanks to the likes of Dud and Jess. We weren't able to close out the game like we should have. Had we selected a decent backline and with this pack we could have put 50 points on this wobbly team. 

Willemse did okay at 10, happy to see him there instead of out of form Pollard but would have like to see someone like Libbok, Willemse and Gelant operate with steady backs like Esterhuizen holding up the midfield. 

That said, Rassie has been exposed for picking race over merit. How can he go back to his normal selections again when it means we go behind early in the game 

When Rassie heads back to his office he will have Julies M and you know who waiting for him.

Going against the COMMAND and failing to comply with  the colour code per ANC mandate will most probably allow for many questions to be raise about the "White" rugby Director and his sidekick.

Could possibly be the last "Whites" to have had a say in SA rugby selections.

The "Original Locals" must be beside themselves at this time.

If so it could result in a major move North for many a "Pale" Springbok rugby player and the total demise of the Springboks.

Your asshole losers can't fucking use the race card excuse. If fucking behead you morons for using it! There are now shitty white players for the Blocks than black. FACTS! If your don't like what that adds up to then actor the fact ALL your players are shyte! 

We created plenty of opportunities, but the first impulse is still to kick and secondly to carry, which tanked a number of promising chances. Willie remains our best attacking player with regards to smart running and distribution when something is on. No surprise he was involved in both our wide tries, his subtle influence in the Mapimpi try key to the whole thing. The wide pass he threw that cancelled an overlap is a blot on his report card, unfortunately. That is also a thing we're too prone to do, as I mentioned in my thoughts in the game thread.

Well, we have old stick to thank for absolute no attack patterns. Did you oaks see Mallet and Swys analysis on the previous match when Kolisi and PSDT just ran away like headless chickens and not pin the defence. Boks attack has gone backwards since Swys left, they need to bring him back before the World Cup. 

Not sure how they can justify the likes of Trev and Ox when the best tight five in the world just showed what forward dominance can do. I would be happy if Mostert shifted to 5 and PSDT on the bench to cover both lock and Flank. Start with Louw. 

I don't buy into the empty the tank nonsense, it just means that some players don't have the stamina to last the whole game or the brains to put themselves in the right place. 

Richy Mccaw made a statement recently that a captain should not leave the field until the game is done but our fearless leader can't make it past 40 min, kolisisi. My theory is that if you look at a 20 year old kolisi and look at him now, yes, he has bulked up and looks great, but his frame means he is way to bulky to last an entire game. But, if you listen to McCaw, he has to finish the game. 

The same Mccaw many years were also talking about how much ground a player covers during a game and his numbers were lower than other loose forwards but he always popped up at the right place at the right time. His statement was, what is a player doing racking up so much meters when all he needs to do is just read the game and know where to be. 

So it sounds to me that Richi knew how each team would play and he knew how his team would play and made sure that he did his job of an opensider and that was to get to the break down, but he was able to cover less ground. 

Lesson to be learned there. 

Kolisi did well but not captain material if he can't finish the game. 

I would test every player and see whether they can play at least 80 min, if not 100 min and see how they perform

Marx started to miss some of his jumpers towards the end, so he wasn't perfect and we lost a lot of momentum. 

Lets see who we select for the next test match agains the argies, but for now we are just have to wait what these guys do

A number of players benefitted from the game plan….we haven’t seen that Kolisi since the Super 12 in 2018……breaking tackles and fetching. The more open game plan….hell  Etzebeth made two offloads…made Kolisi relevant.

The same is true for Willie, Willemse, Mostert even Dud got in the act. Many of our players are limited by the game plan.

In this match we had the right mix of passing and kicking,

Dead wrong. What happens in a game where they have to fight for the ball and space??? How fuucking often is it that a game of this shit quality comes around... not often. Time for some fucking perspective because the shittness of these players didn't fucking change over night. What next?? De Lindy is Sonny Bill "again"? Is your water 50% cattle shit?? Something not right there. 

Hmm Mozart, what Rassies game plan aloud was for limited players to be able to fit into his system. The likes of Fat Trev and Ox are great and scrumming and good at getting penalties at scrum time. Good lifters and not so good at hitting rucks, although, Ox is a good ball carier and solid tackler. 

But they can't play a full game, we always concede points when they start. Every time Marx started, we were leading at half time. This because their general play are way better. 

The front rowers are ALL template swaps... none are fit enough for a full shift! Block scrum is consistently 3rd in rugby championship and gave up 5 scrums to the Wallies in their third test. Never seen a great Block scrum. Must have existed before I was born. 

Unsurprisingly, SA rugby supporters take lessons from one game.

The victory was announced before hand: the rationale is that in their current condition, SA rugby can not be allowed in a spree of losses that would reflect their level as this would plunge them deeper toward the unavoidable outcome that is the termination of SA rugby.

An outcome undesired by world of rugby that keep clinging to the dream that rugby in SA could be something else than an association with the apartheid regime.

Extrapolation from one occurrence yet dismissing knowledge acquired from patterns over a series of games.

One swallow does the summer make.

Hate and envy, what a combo.

Their bomb is a dud ... it misfires all the time.

Hate and envy, what a combo.

Anyone who accepts human nature accepts that people may hate and envy for  grounded causes.

That is human nature.

It is granted that SA rugby has been provided many causes to fuel hate.

But envy...

There is nothing to envy from SA rugby for anyone who loves the rugby game.

Disgust, pity or whatever but envy.

Makes no sense.

Even SA rugby supporters are ill at ease with their SA rugby.

You would always rather paint the dark picture of things.....

ABs state that when facing SA rugby, one goes to dark places.

some of the things you say is true, but some is taken out of context to suit your own agenda...

What agenda. The announcement of what the future lays for SA rugby is no agenda.

.also the fact that you don't say muh good about your own team ( AB I assume by gathering what was said on posts ) shows your inclination for Negative...

Humanity still is diverse. Various categories of populations. One is simple minded people, people who keep things simple and fail at producing convolutions.

So what: this board is dedicated to SA rugby. Which might provide a simple cause to explain a perceived lack of praise of other teams(including the allegedly supported NZ team)

Most posts are indeed dedicated to SA rugby. Convolution inclined minds see in that a leaning for negativity. Brilliant. Dazzling.

Bomb squad exposed:

It's been a while that the bomb squad strategy has been exposed.

In fact, it was since what is supposed to be the crown of the strategy: the 2019 WC.

This strategy relies on managing freshness of players. Its effects are better felt on a short duration tournament like a WC as it is not so efficient in other contexts (see the up and down results )

Now EN lost the WC during the semi finals. All SA rugby victories in WCs are tainted with refereeing manipulation.

The one that helped SA rugby must not be looked for so much during the final but during the EN NZ semi final.

This encounter featured various manipulations from refs (including two tries cancellation) which prevented EN to enjoy an early lead and sit back, properly managing themselves.

This got them to work way more than they should have considered their start.

They came to the final having spent themselves more than they should have.

As a result, this gave a freshness advantage to SA rugby that did not even come from the bomb squad strategy whose main purpose still is to ensure a freshness advantage.

Well, coming back to my point. The coaches have to ask an honest question of whether they think that the players they select to start is better than those who are on the bench. We saw that the likes of Dweeb can't even get past 30 min but Marx played the entire game without dropping his intensity. Do we want players in the match day 23 that can only play 30 to 40 min or someone that can play 100 min. I'm thinking about over time like we had in 95. 

1. Ox vs Kitshoff
   
2. Mbenambe (Dweeb) / Marx
3. Fat Trev / Malherbe (Koch, Du Toit)
4. Moerat vs Etzabeth
5. Ori vs Lood
6. Kolisi (in his defence, he had his best game in 12 months, but need to do more of it to convince me)vs Kwagga or Coetzee

The likes of Hershal Jantjies and Elton Jantjies have been poor

Then don't get me started on Vermeulen, Frans Steyn, Reinach, Mpimpi and Le Roux and Pollard to a certain extend

Am is out but full value for money, Willemse and Hendriks deserve their spots. 

But the number don't add up when you our starting 15 doesn't have at least 7 players of colour. Unfortunately other than Kolisi, our entire pack would be white and maybe only 4 players of colour in the backline. So you make your front row black and all of sudden the optics looks better. However, if you look at 7 out 23 then it is not 50% but it looks great in the first 30 min and when the anthem is sang. The lazy ANC that don't even watch the games nod their head as the starting team sheet had enough black players, but yet we are 10 points down in the first 10 min and all of sudden we have to try and play catchup. We leek more points and all of a sudden dweeb gets hooked off the field and on come Marx at the 30 min mark. 

Down with this window dressing, we just have to accept that sometimes we will have only 4 or sometimes we could even have 9 players of colour. 

There are so many quality players of colour coming through that all of us are rooting for. 

Sacha Ngomuzulu is a player to watch, Moodie has impressed, Dyamani can be very unlucky. Pepsi is there about. Not sold on Moerat but he is still young. 

Mchunu is a prospect and looks like a solid unit. Dweeb could step in but why break him against the ABs. 

Not sure if Dweeb will recover.