Mozart is one thing that we should all appreciate - he is loyal to the players he supports - loyal to the elvel where he lost it completely. He hates too many players and is the one to go for them indicriminately and with malice.
Lets take a few examples to illustrate what I meant insofar as players are concerned:-.
Players he likes
Bakkies Botha
Within 30 minutes of the end of the Scottish test last year - Mozart had an amazing praise song about Botha on this site saying that he was outstanding. Some of us smelled a rat - there was no obvious reasons for the praise song - Botha was very average and even poor in some aspects of the game. Studying the Stats they confirmd a sub-standard performance.
Morne Steyn
Here we have another player whose deficiencies are according to Mozart taboo insofar as discussion is concerned - He made some serious mistakes in the Eden park test last year - but those were never mentioned and when I pointed them out - the silence was deafening. Then followed the Ellis Park test last year - where Morne was pathetic in defense and found wanting in decisionmaking. Morne - despite serious defences lapses and rank poor decvisionmaking prior to Messam's second try - he was never blamed for that and the whole loss was ascribed to JJ Engelbrecht.
In the case of the scond test against Argenitna this year Mozart came up with the myth that Steyn won the test for us - because his kicking at goal was so good. Take note of this one - and look at the Lambie case.
Despite Morne's poor performance in the Perth test - Mozart's criticism was limited and he made a point after the test last week - like Steyn did at Perth. Pollard missed to find touch with penalty kicks - the impliaction being that criticism of Morne should be limited.
Jannie du Plessis
Accordfing to mozart Jannie is a national treasure and his deficiencies are never discussed. Whenever deficiencies showed up - the answer is simple - a deathly silence ensues.
The alternative is to malign potential successors and that is when he discovered deficiencies - real, but mosty imagantive and often based on false info about potential replacements for Jannie. hat reaches the point of untruths that is totaslly incredible.
Victor Matfield
Nothing but praise songs about Matfield - nothing negative is ever to be emntioned and if one dares to - his personal attacks becomes routine. Matfield is sublime - he has no defects and anyone saying anything to the contrary is guilty of Lesee Majestee.
When he fouled up in line outs laterinthe games against the AB's - the baame was assigned to the hookers invovled. In the case yesterday it was a classic explanation explanation - Matfeld went how ad the ball was misdirected by the hooker. Fact is that the ball was the correct height and the AB player took it with ease - because he out-jumped Matfield who barely jumped.
He would not recognise that Matfield runs out of steam in games and he has physicality problems as well - he also shows no grunt in games.
Francois Seyn
If there is one player who according to Mozart walks on water it is Francois Steyn. He gets credited with all th wins of the Sharks in Super 15 this year and his stats should never be mentioned as a proof of below par perfomances. He kicks at goal and he is according to Mozart the best flyhalf in SA - even better than his beloved Morne Steyn.
Juan de Jongh
For the first timethis year De Jongh looked good in attacking play yesterday - despite the fact that he had stilldefensive problms. The thread was an eye-opener in praise-singing. De Jongh scored two tries yesterday against the Cheetahs yesterday - one a good try - the other a gift.
To put this into perspective - a week ago Jordaan - a player Mozart hates beyond description - score d two difficult tries and deathly silence ensued. That is a typical example of Mozart's contributions to this site.
Players he Does not Like
I have a problem here - the list of players Mozart dislikes is too long to even start more detailed discussion. None of thm is ever any good - but in some cases he really gets malignant in this criticism. Lambie, Reinach, Serfomntein, Malherbe, Marcell van der Merwe, De Jager and De Allende is part of a long list of players he maligned endlessly.
The more these players threaten his favourites in the Springbok team - the more vicious Mozart becomes. All the players are systematically run down - mostly based on misinformation Mozart provides himself.
Lets face facts - Mozart is the most prejudiced member on this site - end of story.
