The fact is that you are as stupid and as easily caught out as Mozart, because you are prejudiced with no idea about rugby, other than a doomed level of prejudice, Schalk as a younger player was about as brilliant as Du Toit was, but later on he became a rather questionable loosie as was clearly illustrated in the Japan disaster in 2015. Maybe it was an absence of 2 years from rugby from 2012 that he became a problem - after that absence he never was the player he used to be, But then he was already 29 when the absence started in 2012 and 31 when he returned to play rugby in 2014. That was why he could not make the grade anymore, Of equal importance was that he ended up playing under one of the worst coaches in the history of Springbok rugby.
Your evaluating of rugby performance is the weirdest I have ever come across with, You rate questionable players as top class and topo class players as under-performers. The sane with coaches, Whether it is idiocy or stemmed from prejudice is not always clear, The fact that you do rate players can be blown out of the water with ease, You make wild claims and experts will see it as ridiculous idiocy, I repeated some of your claims in discussion with experts and they just laughed, Nobody could take it as serious rugby discussion, because it was so utterly ridiculous,
The difference is that the players you promote turned sour after some brilliant starts. Frans Steyn was one if those. I rarely saw a player like he was when he came out as a full back at 19 years of age. He was not a center then and used only at full back, His pace deficiency early on was not a problem. Maybe it was his movement to center that cause the problem in the first instance, but his departure to France in 2009 was a real disaster for him from a performance perspective.
As many others I raved when he returned to SA in 2012, It took me just five test matches to come to the conclusion that he was not a test player at all anymore. He was grossly overweight and his pace was gone. He still attained some physicality and could carry balls strongly for a few meters - but on the whole his playing skills were gone and never returned. He was a continuous disaster for the Sharks for three years running whether he was used at center or flyhalf and his test career effectively gone. His return to Springbok rugby on 2019 was just as a kind of back up player never used other than from the bench in the key matches
Reputation players can easily lose out when it comes to a player evaluation later in their careers. They often destroy their image in such cases by under-performing and that was typical in the case of Steyn, A typical example was that Super Rugby game in 2015 when De Allende wiped the floor with him. But when that was raised you discovered line breaks that never took place.
To conclude - your so-called evaluation of players is the weirdest ever in the history of rugby - so people should really ignore it as a farce. LMAO Just for the record that like Mozart you described that 7 to 8 meter pass by Du Toit to Kolbe as a short ball pass is totally ridiculous amd show to what level of idiocy you can descend. . .
