You insisted on making M admit a mistake. Well done…he did. Now admit you made those 3 incredibly dumb, ignorant errors….showing a complete ignorance of world history, no concept of how posting works and a cricket noobs grasp of the game.
Here I’ll make it easy for you….a simple yes or no will suffice.
giMp, you seem to be very angry with me for explaining to you the difference between openside and blindside flankers. That's not really normal. A normal person would be grateful that someone had the patience to point them in the right direction.
If I call Moffie words like "infantile" and "childish" it's because he acts like a 5 year old. On this board anyway. You can almost picture him sticking out his tonge and waggling his fingers every time he posts.
Look, I do realise you're either too stupid or too infatuated to see through Moffie's posturing and bluster, but that doesn't mean he doesn't baheve like an obnoxious and spoilt little child most of the time.
Moffie, post it on the threads where I've already refuted your childish and deceitful little claims. Be a big boy for once.
Just a technicality to avoid answering the question… show you can man up like M, yes or no?
Shall I ‘throw some insults to you’ Drinksbreak or will you simply give us a ‘yes’.
He is small at 100kg for a modern forward - what I’m saying is that after his honeymoon year he is going to struggle to make an impact at test level unless he bulks up
Time will tell
Playing club rugby vs test is very different
Ardie Savea is 107kg these days - he started at 95kg and was told to put on 10kg
Much like Retallick started at 115kg and is now 123kg
He’s still a kid. He’s got a lot of time to bulk up if he has to.
I wouldn't be in a rush to change a single thing about Henry Pollock.
He has shot to stardom in a very short space of time with the build he's got and the style of rugby he's playing. Why tinker with what is working so well so far?
Agreed, Rooinek.
Because test match rugby is a different beast and once teams work him out he will need to adapt quickly if he is to continue to impress - starting with bulking up
A 100kg flanker is not going to consistently tear test match rugby apart
Drinksbreak changing the subject….half the man M is.
Rooi Tit is a Gutless Wonder….to scared to own his actions :)
Against heavier forwards, Henry would need to rely heavily on timing and low body positioning.
Against the physicality of someone like Wiese, who drives through the contact zone like a sledgehammer, Pollock would struggle if caught flat-footed.
I Agree, lighter flankers often get targeted and worn down. He’d need to bulk up or be rotated smartly to stay injury free across the International season.
"Rooi Tit is a Gutless Wonder….to scared to own his actions :)"
Gutless you say, giMp? Why? Because Moffie can't bear seeing you get all that egg on your stupid face (and well-deserved egg I might add considering all the vitriol you spewed when I pointed out your hilarious blunder) so he stands there like a red-faced little teapot with his hand on his hip demanding that I admit defeat on questions I supposedly haven't answered?
Is that why you're also now calling me "gutless", giMp?
Well, just to burst your little bubble and apply even more egg to your fat face (assuming that's even possible), I refuted Moffie's childish little claims on this thread:
Here's my comment:
"Well, I do occasionally post on another message board and that board records the time of edits . . . so if me mixing the two up is your biggest ever win over me and has had you shrieking with joy for some months now, then enjoy it . . . but don't delude yourself into thinking it comes anywhere close to the humiliating embarrassments I've inflicted on you every time I point out your boasting, your poor use of language or your stinking hypocrisy . . . among many other blows that have put you down on the canvas with egg dribbling down your tearful fat face.
As for the drinks break, we were talking about our own cricketing experiences, not test cricket - as you tried to change it to in your usual deceitful and manipulative manner - and I never got drinks breaks playing school or club cricket. You wouldn't know that because you clearly never even played at school . . . but it didn't stop you trumpeting victory again when all you were actually doing was proving me right that you'd never actually played the game and wouldn't know which end of the bat to hold. Yet another clear win for me even if you lack the intelligence to realise it."
And then on the same thread, responding to the "vaccine" crowing:
"If you prefer "antibodies" to "vaccines" then knock yourself out . . . the only point I'm making is that resistance to diseases that they brought with them was an additional advantage that Europeans had when they conquered pretty much the rest of the world."
Now, whether you and/or Moffie agree with my statements is irrelevant in this case. What is relevant in this case is that I responded to them all on that thread and I have proven that they've been dealt with elsewhere . . . so Moffie calling me a coward for not answering his stupid questions is just him being childish and deceitful . . . and you cheering him on makes you an ignorant sycophant.
I know you're feeling a bit sheepish, giMp. Not knowing the difference between the openside and blindside flankers is quite a startling admission to make . . . especially from a loudmouth who likes to pretend he knows so much about rugby . . . but snapping and snarling at me while you cower behind Moffie isn't making you look like less of a tit. It's making things worse.
Try to be your own man and learn a little about rugby before you opine on it. That is my advice to you. Run along now . . .
Henry Pollock already weighs significantly more than world class openside flankers like Michael Jones, Michael Hooper, Phil Waugh and David Pocock.
Saying he needs to bulk up before he can become a successful test player is just more ignorance from someone who has already proven he knows nothing about loose forward play.
No Rooi you are very wrong - Pollock weighs 100kg - Pocock weighed 115kg - I’ve not looked up the weight of Jones and co but they were bigger than Pollock
Other way around Saffex.
Henry Pollock
No Rooi Tit…I called you a gutless wonder because that’s exactly what you are. A man who can’t engage without throwing personal insults, even when the other person has already owned up. You don’t correct to help,you correct to feel big.
, Rooitjie — that post was longer than your SANDF basic training and still had no substance. You act like you’re delivering lessons, but it’s the same tired chest-beating and strange egg metaphors
I called you a gutless wonder because that’s exactly what you are — a man who can’t engage without throwing personal insults, even when the other person has already owned up. You don’t correct to help — you correct to feel big
giMp, just take a look at your own comments after I set you straight. Here, let me quote you:
"But honestly only a overweight pig, Bitter and old, sexually frustrated over the hill male like yourself, would try and stir shit like you do…??
Once on here you bragged how fulfilling your life is??? I call BS… if that was the case you wouldn’t be on here acting the way you do.
Get a fucking life dude….also you still haven’t answered me. What part of SA are you from?"
And yet, after all that, here you are, having a little snivel because I insulted you.
Do you have any sense of self-awareness at all?
Are you butt hurt? Your behaviour on here fits that description perfectly…
I admitted my mistake like a man, but here you are carrying on about it like a bitch.
So me admitting that I made a mistake is irrelevant, because you were going to ride my ass like Zorro regardless…
". . . because you were going to ride my ass like Zorro in any case…."
Let me guess, you have a poster of Zorro on your bedroom wall?
Yes I do…how did you know?? Be a pal and sent me pic of your face, which I can use when shooting in my Hunting rifle….:)
all.rugby have Pollock at 102kg. When you search his name on Google he is listed at a 100kg and this site have him at 107kg.
Even at 107kg, in a head-on collision with someone like Du Toit at full speed, at a 120kg ,he might be outmuscled or simply run over.
Pollock’s best route is a Kwagga-style approach — bring a high work rate, mobility, and breakdown speed, but avoid prolonged trench warfare.
Kwagga has proven that smaller flankers can survive, but they need insane fitness, timing, and smart positioning.
Well, I do occasionally post on another message board and that board records the time of edits . . . so if me mixing the two up is your biggest ever win over me and has had you shrieking with joy for some months now, then enjoy it . . . but don't delude yourself into thinking it comes anywhere close to the humiliating embarrassments I've inflicted on you every time I point out your boasting, your poor use of language or your stinking hypocrisy . . . among many other blows that have put you down on the canvas with egg dribbling down your tearful fat face.
But you have been posting on this Board every day for 13 years and you thought editing a post changed its Timestamp …..that’s monumental stupidity. The rest about correcting me is balls.
As for the drinks break, we were talking about our own cricketing experiences, not test cricket - as you tried to change it to in your usual deceitful and manipulative manner - and I never got drinks breaks playing school or club cricket.
No we weren’t we were talking about cricket and you kept on denying there were drinks breaks in cricket. If you thought we were wrong you could have made that point immediately. Cricket noob that you are you kept on insisting there were no drinks breaks in cricket.
"If you prefer "antibodies" to "vaccines" then knock yourself out . . . the only point I'm making is that resistance to diseases that they brought with them was an additional advantage that Europeans had when they conquered pretty much the rest of the world."
RooinekHall Of Famer
15,619 posts
Apr 08, 2025, 19:10
"white people are the most invasive population"
Well, there's a reason why Europeans invaded and conquered pretty much everywhere else . . . they were miles ahead in terms of technology.
North America, South America, Africa and most of Asia just weren't anywhere close to Europe in terms of their technology, their inventions and - importantly - their vaccines . . . and their indigenous populations were either exterminated or subjugated.
Finally the vaccine debacle. No you were not talking about herd immunity you were talking about vaccines….’importantly’ vaccines. No high school kid would think the European explorers were vaccinated ….you did in perhaps the most embarrassing goof ever on these boards.
So no Vaccine, Timestamp, Drinksbreak….you simply gave your stinkingly dishonest answers without reproducing your original mistakes. Making you also ….and we all knew this ….a disgusting liar.
Game, set and match.
Just to repeat - for the sake of the dull-witted or the inebriated - your opinions on these replies is completely irrelevant to me, Moffie. I'm just demonstrating that they were in fact addressed . . . so your whiny little claims about me dodging those questions is a barefaced lie.
If you had such strong feelings about my answers, why didn't you address them on the appropriate thread at the appropriate time, liar?
LMAO!
Take a pill, Moffie. Sounds like you need it!
So you think posters are dull witted or inebriated. A bit rich coming from a self confessed substance abuser. Just stop trying to insult other posters and when caught out as you were in all three instances…..don’t try to lie your way out of it.
"So you think posters are dull witted or inebriated."
No Moffie, pay attention. The poster who was so dull-witted or inebriated that he needed me to repeat what I'd already said was . . . ummm . . . you!
What other poster required me to repeat what I'd said, huh chump?
LMAO!
Vaccine I have a PhD from what is sometimes ranked the worlds best business school…..do you even have a BA from Potch. I have a drink maybe once a week, you confessed your addictions right on this site.
Your wording suggests you were addressing multiple posters, but no matter, the poster you should have been addressing with those characteristics is you.
Here’s a reminder:
DennyHall Of Famer
11,631 posts
Jan 19, 2017, 10:27
No-one has painfully and methodically painted you as an alcoholic and drug user, as a matter of fact you were the one to tell us of your drug use...remember? Huh?
I even dug out that post after you challenged me to provide the proof.
Now be a nice chap and run along, I really don't enjoy a Nothing.
Hmmm . . . a drink once a week means it's going to take a very long time for you to polish off the thousand bottles of wine you bragged about, Moffie.
At the ripe old age of 77/78, time is not on your side. Better start increasing your intake. Would be a waste otherwise . . . and it might make you more appealing as a human being (for everyone else, use your imagination here).
Actually I sold most of that wine when I set up in Florida. It was a great investment, I sold in late 22:
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It’s was mostly in Burgundies and I kept most of the champagne which has dropped in the last two years. Still at the time I sold I was up about 700%, so who cares about the small loss on the residual.
So you were trying to assess if I could drink it all…..hahaha…what a peasant you are!
I agree with Saffolk - Pollock will get found out quickly - For starters he will piss off some of his Lions tram mates in Aussie and get off side with them - He is more interested in the fruits of social media than the hard grind of International Rugby and will be found wanting.
The Bok / AB / French forwards will put him in his place