Spectacular try….it reminded me of Bobby Skinstad against Ireland in 98, when he picked up the ball from a scrum on halfway and beat all the Irish backs for pace.
Roos continues to impress me. He was making a ton of big dominant tackles today as well as clearing the ruck. The guys is pure class and it only adds to his stock that he can cover all 3 back positions. He reminds me a bit Ardie Savea today.
Then we have Elrich Louw putting in another huge shift and Cameron Hanekom. Unfortunately these boys are too white and only one will make it.
We do have Ethan Hooker who I believe should be our next bok 12. Imagine him and Moodie in the Midfield together.
Did you see Hooker run down Arendse. The guy has a high work rate and always tracks back and makes his tackles.
We could have a pretty decent backline with these youngsters as well as a lethal back row.
Imagine a spine of the following players
15. Willemse
14. Arendse
13. Moodie
12. Hooker
11. Fassi
10. Libbok / Pollard
9. Williams
8. Hannekom
7. Louw
6. Roos
5. PSTD / RG
4. Etzebeth / Rhal
3. Ox / Du Toit / Wilco Louw
2. Marx / Grobbler
1. Mchunu / Steenkamp
Plum
Roos has never played in the 12 position and is a career loosie. He himelf would refuse to play at 12 and not theorizing as playing him at 12 is just about thinking the moon is made of Green cheese. I do not believe to play forwards outside the position they have specialized in - especially fowards taking up backline play or backline players as forwards.
I can think of two cases where it flopped badly and that was to move Spies from wing to number 8 and for the White effort to move Esterhuizen from 12 tried at 7 in 2014. It jsut failed badly and in the end was the end of players international careers. Etserhuizen was movin g back to 12 after the White effort - but he became nothing bar a fringe or even third choice player at 12 when it came to Springbok selection,
Duplication
Listen to this ignorant twit shrieking for attention!
"Roos scored a try that a #12 might have scored so I must be right about playing him as a back rather than a forward!"
What does this rugby noob think, that all loose forwards must be lumbering donkeys and any one of them who shows a bit of pace must be shifted straight into the backline?
I reckon even Baboon-ou knows more about rugby than ButtPlug!
LMAO!
We played a lock at flank all these years. He could only do one thing….process tackle. But that apparently is a success. Maybe Dud Allende should have been a flank ….at one stage before Eluckmiss got hold of him he was fetching and offloading quite well.
One thing’s for sure. If Roos plays Bok flank he will be a way better ball carrier than Dud Toit.
Well he could replace either of the Duds. I have no doubt he would be better at 12 than Dud Allende. But as a blindsider he would be way better than Dud Toit…..as good a tackler, much better offloader , much better at turnovers and a way, way better runner.
I agree with Corn he is our Savea…but could he be our Bundi. It certainly would be interesting to see him at 12 for game or two,
Moffie still trying very hard to discredit the finest Springbok of his generation, the RWC player of the tournamant in 2019 and the player of the final in 2023.
There's stupid, then there's ou Maaik and then there's Moffie!
LMAO!
There hasn't been a better or more effective blindside flanker in the game since Andre Venter but because this pathetically biased, egotistical rugby noob once slated PSdT and isn't man enough or doesn't have the character to admit he got it wrong, we're subjected to this childish drivel on a daily basis.
Enough! Pieter Steph will go down in history as one of the all time great Springboks and to see this weak-arsed old loser denigrating him to the applause of his even more pathetic little Servile Gimps is nothing short of sickening.
Can’t beat tackles, can’t offload, cant fetch, not good enough in lineouts to challenge for #5 his natural position. Mostert made similar tackles per minute in the final as Dud….but from the lock position and unlike Dud who missed 3, he missed none.
It’s not rocket science if your assignment is first tackler at every breakdown you make a lot of tackles.
But I do apologize that I upset you so much that you are sick (SIC).
More childish, biased and laughably ignorant rubbish from the decrepit old egg-faced rugby noob as he continues his hate campaign against a Springbok rugby legend.
I suspect the reason this sad and pathetic loser can't celebrate the Springbok vic tory is because of the huge contribution Pieter-Steph made to our fantastic and record-breaking RWC victory . . . and not for the first time either! Player of the Tournamant in 2019 as well!
As you did every time with Schalk. It’s not a question of hate, it’s a question of rate…..he’s a lock playing flank and only contributes in defensive stands, which we rely on far too often.
A barefaced lie by a stinking liar.
I have said on many occasions that the pre-injury Schalk Burger was the world's best player when your team doesn't have the ball. I never hated him the way you hate PSdT and I gave him plenty of credit for his abilities.
So try again you low-life, deceitful, egg-faced old rugby noob!
Skulk? Remember all those posts you made. Oh yes you often said he was great, which is why you wanted him dropped for Watson.
The liar and the fool who can’t think for himself is you.
And by the way, I live the high life….the one living the low life is you.
Mostert missed no tackles…Dud missed 3. And he is hopeless as a runner, hopeless as a fetcher, did you ever see him used lately on kickoff receptions.
A tackler plain and simple …nothing more. And it’s not even a novel role. Mallett assigned that exact role of charging the inside backs to Eluckmiss in 2000. It actually worked until Matt Cockbain smacked him and got a card for his troubles. But after that Erasmus was nowhere to be seen.
You poor two twerps have no analytical capacity, no rugby memory, can’t link cause and effect. You can just stand on your groupie legs a bray like donkeys. Poor old (sic) was so afraid of not being accepted….he totally reversed himself based on a one point victory over a 14 man team.
No integrity….just a mouth
2m tall running in traffic….seriously.
5 runs 0 tackles beaten against NZ
8 runs 2 defenders beaten against England
7 runs 0 tackles beaten against France
6 runs 0 tackles beaten against Ireland.
7 runs 0 tackles beaten against Scotland.
That’s 5 matches, in 4 of which he never beat a tackle….that’s 33 times he had the ball and 31ntimes he was brought down by the first tackler. Great at taking a ball up in traffic …you are kidding me.
And a great tackler every game?
Scotland 7 tackles made/3 missed
Ireland 13 made/1 missed
France 9 tackles made/5 missed
England 9 tackles made/0 missed
New Zealand 28 made/3 missed.
So we see his high tackle rate was only in the final. In the aggregate he was 66 tackles made/ 12 missed. But here’s the killer 33 runs …..2 tackles beaten. The great tackler’s success rate is far lower than the success of the oppo tackler’s tackling him. If he had 78 runs, equal to his number of tackle attempts….he would have beaten 5 tackles. But when he was the tackler 78 times he missed 12 tackles.
So Dud played a role in a specific plan in both WC finals. But his running and tackling for WC2023 as a whole was mediocre at best…..and certainly oppo runners got more out of him than he got out of them.
Case closed…now you are schooled, apologies aren’t necessary
He can’t run, he can’t fetch, he can’t offload…he can process tackle and he’s a media darling.
Of course great forward ball carriers beat defenders….they also offload. So they become an attacking threat. Dud is no threat with the ball.
And your argument about fetching is also nonsense. All players fetch these days…in Dud Toit’s defensive role he is often over the tackled player. His in ability to fetch even when it’s served up to him on a platter makes him a liability….costing the team many meters.
Making the height excuse for him is nonsense. In his role which rarely includes lineouts his height is no positive. If he is too tall to carry out the role of a blindsider….find someone who can.
The tackling record is a result of the Boks having to make a record number of tackles. It’s a bad thing not a good thing.