There are two sides of a ruck to defend. Some of the defenders are on one side, some are on the other side. You've been watching rugby for how many decades now and you don't grasp this simple concept?
Here's Esterhuizen and #23 at top right covering the far side of the ruck in the lead up to try #5, for example. Play though goes to the near side. Elementary stuff. Common sense. But keep going. You look more idiotic every time you type something.
Pakie good job ..... take a bow.
ouMaaik ffs. lift your game.
Final warning
ouMaaik, I heard rumours that you might be shown a yellow card .................. lift your game & I'll put a word in for you.
I heard rumours that you might be shown a yellow card
Yellow? Is Mike now the Owen Farrell of Ruckers? Red all day
Cheers Plum & Blob.
So the players of Benneton just ran through the gap between Masuku and Esterhuizen in one case and the photos proved it/ Why did that h appen - either one or both are blamed for that type of situation and from the word go in 2018 in the first five tests of Esterhuizen and De Allende their defense stats were as follows:-
Esterhuizen - tackles made 22 tackles missed 5
De Allende - tackles made 42 tackles missed 5
Even Jake White in 2014 knew that Esterhuizen does not have the pace o be a backline player and tried to mv Esterhuizen to play at 7 and then realized he ould not play in that position at all. When Fransie was banned for five weeks in 2014 he used Bosman at inside center rather than Esterhuizen.
In 2018 in the test against the English Esterhuizen ran the most stupid line ever by a backline player and thus isolated himself with no players being there to protect the ball should Estehuizen be tackled.
In 2019 Esterhuien was left out of the Springbok squad for the WC and when Kriel got injured early in the tournament rsmus called up Willemse to replace Kriel. So why was that? The site "experts" have attacked Erasmus and what they want is always the same BS. According to them Erasmus is a failure as coach as he selected playes like Du Toit and De Allende ahead of Mostert and Esterhuizen.
When Erasmus gave Esterhuizen the opportunity to try and prove he can play in attacking backline play modem he got red-carded within he first 3 minutes and a ban of 4 weeks as result. According to you St Esterhuizen did nothing wrong and the red card was the result of an accident and the referee and panel reviewing tha card was wrong and the four week ban was unfair.
On Saturday in the case of one try runing through te gap between Masuku and Esterhuizen and in the case of another through the gap between Julius and Masuku. So why did those gaps even existed?
The oher issue that nobody eer questioned is ahy in he 18 tests Estehuizen played - he never scored a try. There was one excellent opportunity for him to score a try - but wen the break was made and Esterhuizen had an open run to score - he knocked on the ball passed to him - opportunity gone.
After the Portugal fiasco this year it will be a great surprize if St Esterhuizen is included in future Springbok squads. Too many obvious deficiencies and failures to perform is in evidence - two of the worse being pace indeficiency and ball skills absence. At the age of 30 ther is no chance that those wo deficiencies would be overcome and I beleive that players like Hooker and Kriel are better suited than him to play at inside center if De Allende needed to be replaced.
What is not surprizing is that mot experts worldwide believe De Alende is at present the best inside center in the world - while our site "experts" condemn him as being te worst. No urprising - if they cannot explain the fact tat De Allende scored crucial tries in the 2019 and 2023 they lied about what in fact happened in the tests against Wales and France respectively.
So when I said Esterhuizen is not a test level player and never will be the site prima donnas go into overdrive like happened in this case. It may be advisable for him not to go to sleep like the case is in "Nessun Dorma" - but he missed the advice totally.
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So the players of Benneton just ran through the gap between Masuku and Esterhuizen in one case and the photos proved it/
There is no photo anywhere showing anyone running between Masuku and Esterhuizen.
Pakie
Lets face facts when opposition backline players ran through gaps in defense what was wrong? You yourself mentioned that a player ran throug the gap between Masuku and Esterhuizen and in al the photos shown Etehuizen in one made a mck dive when the Benneton playe was passed him by meters already/ You even circled him on the photo. In the other photo's Esterhuizn was not anywhere shown in the pics. He wss just trotting meters behind the Beneton backline and players with no haste to get into the defeendig line at all.
In fact the Sharks backline was a defensive disaster in the match and you do not ev try t indicate why it happened. To my mind it was Masuku and sterhuizen who went AWOL in defense - end of story.
Agree with you about Julius. My commen on him was favorable - for the rest the Sharks backline was supershit - especally when it came to defense .