Rumours are that Schalk Burger has been encouraged by Rassie to play for the Stormers, with the possibility of him being linked with the Boks in the world cup- along with the other ageing Schalk Brtiz
Ag nee man.
Rassie isn't a good enough coach to follow in the steps of Meyer.
Silly Billy
Are you nuts again? The two coaches are miles apart in competence - Meyer was clueless, Erasmus has a top class knowledge of the game. Meyer was destructive iro development of the game by reverting to reputation players - Erasmus sis trying to bring back performance as a norm.
Meyer selected a weird WC squad for 2015 - a large number of players he picked was unusable and the load on some players was totally unrealistic who were forced to play in very match. Meyer presided over the Japan disaster for which he was entirely to blame in whom he selected for that match.
Schalk Burger is way past his best and that is a fact/ The Stormers have many younger players better than him at present. The WP would not be foolish enough to sign him up. .
Meyer went to youth first and left behind many players that Rassie built his team around. Who has Rassie brought into the fold? I already exposed your nonsense last year.
In terms of game planing and style? They are definitely worlds apart. Rassie has implemented the most limited style I have ever seen from the Boks. Kicking repeatedly into the corners from outside the 22 with numbers wide. Slow and clunky attacking structures that are too deep. Yes very far apart. Meyer did more with less.
I'll give Rassie credit though, he clearly sees the need for experience and dynamism. The flat cul-de-sac ball we got from Steph - occupying fly half according to several members - might not have gone unnoticed after all.
Meyer implemented a flatter, quicker and more modern style of game. A game which empowered players to make decisions on the field.
Rassie has a very limited and highly rigid pattern based game where very little happens outside of scripted sequences. Show me when we've had so many possessions which resulted in our wings kicking. It's unbelievable how much kicking is involved in his game. Rassie is everything Meyer was incorrectly branded as being. Everything and more. Hence why I laugh so hard when people like Mike become his disciples.
Meyer was useless ... he had everything he needed to take the Boks into a golden era ... an era of absolute dominance for 10 years ... and he fluffed it.
He was a coward ... a weak leader ... stubborn ... too proud to admit he'd made mistakes ... delusional ... old fashioned ... easily outsmarted ... a very poor selector ... clueless on any sort of modern functional game plan ... bias with his jobs for buddies policies ... persisted with duds ... selected players out of position every test ... and ended up costing us a decade of catch up ... we're still trying to recover from his incompetence.
His failure abroad as a coach says it all.
Thank the stars he's gone ...
Burger is hopefully done with rugby ... I know rugby at a higher level is done with him ... he should hang up his boots permanently.
Silly Billy
When did you see the implementation of the myth about the flatter, quicker and more modern rugby dreams you spout on site?
There are two things that totally contradicted that BS:-
* Meyer himself said that the Springboks backline players do not have the skills to play a ball-in-hand game which would equate to hat you said - but in fact was never used; and
* Using Morne Steyn as pivot to play that type of rugby is a total impossibility. Steyn stood too deep in the pocket - virtually never attacked the gain line himself - was utterly predictable - caused the opposition defenders to ignore him and go for the potential recipient of the balls in the case Morne did pass it and being all over the poor and unfortunate recipients getting the ball passed to them.
* Meyer in the WC used a game plan causing 80% of the balls passed by the scrummie to go back to forwards - thus eliminating totally any form of backline play.
Please think before you write total BS on site.
This really hasn't been a good week for you. It isn't getting any better today.
Foeitog Silly Billy
That was the test where Pollard took over from Morne and scored two tries himself by attacking the gain line. Before that game Hansen said they know what to expect from Morne - they did not know what will happen with Pollard at fyhalf.
It was also the game where Matfield tried his utmost to help the AB's to win the game by losing a ball on own throw late in the game and the AB's scored a converted try as a result.
It was the last bit of a show by backline players - and in this case more particularly of Pollard in any test under Meyer's coaching. After that it was back to Meyer's game plan for backline players - in the process he nearly destroyed Pollard as a pivot. In the rest of the tests they played in 9 games losing 5 of those - all playing Meyer rugby. That was followed by the Japan disaster.
You definitely are as per normal totally in the dark as to rugby issues, You do not even know what really happened in the test iro which you posted the above clip/
LMAO
Mike, you are clutching desperately at straws. Shall we review the entirety of 2013 as well? We can review the 2015 RC as well. I can still remember the plays used in those games. Do you? Getting into a debate when you have no information is a very silly billy thing to do. Especially when it's failed you repeatedly .
Can you extinguish this fuse? Or will you bomb again? Lets see what the wriggly wee wirm comes up with...
Yussie, it is not going so lekker na by Stad Franciaas.
Ek was maar demoted from the director, to head coach only. Ek het gedink that Morne wees like paap and boerwars, but onse nie doen so goed. Waar is Victor? Ek nie Maak de almal Stad Francias Bulls
Rassie he gedoen better at Munster wees ek, wat kan se.
His results, despite having to rebuild a team after only having two sessions with them before the England series, were actually good. He lost his way on the 2014 EOYT when selecting fan favourites, and numerous fan favourites in 2015 cost the Boks. Like Damian's highly acclaimed capitulations which singlehandedly lost the Aussie away test. Comparing the game employed by the two coaches makes this discussion a one-way affair: Meyer wins. Rassie brought back an emphasis on defence and field position, but what else? What has he done? Show me where he has been the better coach.
Dave
To the credit of Erasmus he said initially that his preferred lock combination is Etzebeth and De Jager. Unfortunately De Jager was injured and whereas the number 7 position was a serious problem he decided to play Du Toit at 7 and was forced into selection of Mostert at 5.
Huge mistake - the physically defective Wentzel was a total flop. He reduced the tight 5 to a Tight 4 and the result were that the usage of driving mauls became a rarity. The Springboks was forced not to make penalty corner kicks because of the substandard lock situation.
Obviously it opened a flood gate of pet hate against Du Toit and he was strongly supported by Silly Billy and the rest of the pet hate brigade. They pretended to see that Mostert was a re-incarnation of Matfield and wrote lengthy praise songs about Mostert - all airy-fairy stuff.
Fact is that Schickerling as a Tight 5 player is a ten times better lock than Mostert will ever be.
To his credit Erasmus said recently that he was looking at foreign club players and althofuh he did not mention names I think that Serfonetin, DH van der Merwe, Reinach, Coetzee and Jacques du Plessis may be on the players he is looking at.
I have every lineout and maul logged. Point out one maul that failed because of Mostert. Show me one test where the Boks refrained from kicking. You won't, as right up until the last game of the season, the Boks kicked for territory. This is the kind of made-up non sense that leads you into trouble Mike. You actually have the audacity to think you can flagrantly lie and it'll be believed, by everyone.
Silly Billy
Not necessary - there was a weird absence of mauls with Mostert around. From what you wrote previously I am afraid that you do not know what rolling mauls are. The fact is what you have logged normally turn s out to be utter BS devoid of rugby facts. .
You have never, will never disprove anything I post. This issue should never have been raised, but you thought you were being very clever and opened a can of worms for yourself. You thought you could attack Mostert, only to find that Steph failed to meet any of your "strict" criteria. How delightful, you throw your own crush head first under the bus. Then, you raise the issue again, and again! You have a bizarre appetite, dare I say, fetish, for punishment.
Don't have to - BS remains BS and everything you have ever written was always BS
BS because... Mike says so. A very compelling case you have there.
LOL
Matfield was a flop in 2015 and was just han ded the MOM as a good bye gift - he was not the best player that day. Schalk is past tense - the Stormers can have no use for him - they have better loosies available/
Yeah, you better listen Mozart. They have Kolisi and Notshe. Both class acts! There's definitely no need for Schalk to stink the place up.
Just one missing link - it was the Argentine "B" team the Springboks played.
There were very good players in that "B" team. Orlandi, Lavanini, De La Fuente, Moroni, Sanchez, Cubelli, Montoya, Lobbe, Leguizamon. They, like Italy, have an endless supply of props. Lots of depth.
The Boks had Kriel, Damian, Lood, Malherbe (not good in 2015), Lambie, Serfontein. If we include players you don't like, we have: Pollard, Victor, Jannie, Bismarck, Schalk, Habana, JP, Alberts.
This makes the Boks, as per your estimation, a significantly weaker side than Los Pumas' "B" team. How's that crow going down?
New Zealand would never persist with non-performers. Jordie Barrett would reach 90 caps before anyone pointed out the mistakes he makes. Look at commentators, praising the wrong players on the field. Our fans then believe what they heard. No country is less progressive than South Africa.
This is totally weird on the side of Mozart and Twisted Silly Billy. NZ would not have selected the duds Meyer send to the WC. Are you jealous because Du Toit is a top class person who is regarded world wide as a top rugby player? All but a few miserable members of this site.
