Springboks - Player assessments

The following represents my assessments of the Performance of players:-

15   -   Willie le Roux   He was good in most things he had fone - but at time overdid kicking which was not always accurate enough and made some kicking errors -   7,5/10

14   -   Cornal Hendricks - Scored a try - but was seriously deficient in defense - 5,5/10

13   -  Damian de Allende - Had some strong ball carries - but lost balls in possession - because of deficient support from other players  -   5,5/10

12   -  Jean de Villiers -  Profuced nothing of value in attack and was questionabe in defense as well -   4,5/10

11   -   Bryan Habana   - He scored a good try through speed by following up on a kick. but showed  serious defects in defense -  6/10

10   -  Handre Pollard  - Did well enough considering the poor service he got - foal kicking 100% - but showed some inccurate kicking and  lost one ball in trying to catch a high kick -  5.5/10

9    -   Ruan Pienaar  -   Did well in dribbling the ball forward - which led to the Habana try - for the rest he was seriosuly defective in his kicking game and he destroyed one promising attacking move - 4/10

8    -  Duane Vermeulen  -  Strong ball carries and defense - the best Springbok player on display - 8/10

7    -   Juan Smith  - He was seriously deficienmt in both defense and attack - was largely invisible -   3/10

6    -   Francois Louw -  Had a quiet game and did not do well enough in breakdown situations -   5,5/10

5    -   Lodewyk de Jager   - solid in line-outs and strong in Tighty 5 play - but missed sme tackles and ned to improve on defense -   6/10

4   -    Eben Etzebeth  -  Strong in line outs and in Tight 5 play  - 7/10

3  -    Jannie du Plessis - Disgustingly  poor in scrumming and totally ineffective outside of scrumming as well -  2/10

2  -     Bismarck du Plessis -  Suffered from very poor support by his props  - rather ineffective  in the rest of his game -   5/10

1   -    Gurthro Steenkamp -  Disgustingly  poor in scrumming and totally ineffective outside of scrumming as well -  2/10

16   -   Adriaan Strauss   -   Did well in defense and attacking play -  Did well in scrumming and in teh rolling maul leading to a scrum being scored - 7/10

17   -   Tendai Mtawarire   -  Was solid in scrums and in Tight 5 play -  6.5/10

18   -   Frans Malherbe  -   Reasonably solid in scrumming - was penalized once for scrumming when his opponent was clearly scrumming inwards - solid in defense - 6/10

19   -    Bakkies Botha -  Did nothing of significance when he came on - gave away a penalty that could easwily have let to defeat -  3/10

20   -    Marcell Coetzee  - Excellent performance  - bioth in defense and attackig play -  8/10

21   -    Francois Hougaard  -   Good service and showed some initiative in play - 7/10

22   -    Morne Steyn -  Solid in goal kicking - but made a serious mistake in kicking a ball directly into touch when he should have passed the ball putting the Springboks under pressure - 5,5/10

The weaknesses in the team was clearly identified as being deficiencies at scrummie, no 7 and the props.   

Willie made a crucial mistake in the Bargie's  try.

De Allende lost ball, should have been carded and was terribly aligned on the left wing try. He never forces the play inside....the primary reason Bargie found so much space outside our defence.

Jean got the ball 5 times in the game. He ran twice for 9 metres. He missed no tackles. When the Bargie scored Jean was trying to push him out, but de Allende was on the other side keeping him in.

Hendricks score a magician's try.

Pienaar was fine behind a well beaten pack, Hougaard

did nothing better

Morne saved the test....a match winner. Pollard had a solid outing, he will be our next 10 and a great one.

Steenkamp conceded no penalties and wasn't the cause of any scrum collapse. His tackle set up the Habana  try.

Malherbe never stayed on his feet through any scrum....he conceded a penalty even after a lot of ref help

Lomp missed a routine tackle for a try and missed over 40 % of his tackles....he was a non factor apart from the lineouts where he was routine

Louw had a huge game, making most tackles and spoiling ball

Coetzee had his best moments in a Bok jersey....he showed real heart in those last moments

 Well he might be the real deal Gonzo, he is certainly much better than last year. But let's wait for the AB/Oz tests....I think playing against the lies of Hooper and McCaw will tell us. In the Saders match a few weeks back he was a non factor.

Disagree with Jean being out of alignment. Look at that left wing try....you will see a SHALLOW V in our defence. The point of the V being de Allende, he is two paces behind Jean. When Fury defendes he tends to be a bit ahead of Jean making the pass difficult.

You have to love the OOM's comment about de Alllende losing the ball because of insufficient support. HM must be worried about 13 for Oz/NZ

"Pienaar was fine behind a well beaten pack, Hougaard did nothing better".  Which game did you watch?  Certainly not the one played yesterday.  Pienaar's service was pathetically slow and his kicking worse.

"Morne saved the test....a match winner."   Morne is a miracle - he kicked well at goal - but like last Saturday he fouled up again.  That kick out of touch that put the Springboks under pressure was not acceptable.  

"Steenkamp conceded no penalties and wasn't the cause of any scrum collapse. His tackle set up the Habana  try."   Sure thjere was no collapse on his side of th scrum - but the scrums went back at pace on both sides while he and Jannie was on the field of play - Pathetic performance.   Both Jannie and Steenkamp was BS - Jannie just slightly worse so.

"Malherbe never stayed on his feet through any scrum....he conceded a penalty even after a lot of ref help."   You are a bad liar - the first two wscrums won by the Springboks were when Malherbe and Beast were the props - the rest were utter disfraces.

"You have to love the OOM's comment about de Alllende losing the ball because of insufficient support. HM must be worried about 13 for Oz/NZ"   When De Allende made two runs were there any players to support him and do ball protectction?  None at all - De Villiers wer nowhere - neither were the wings  

Forget about the real problems yesterday?  They were the pathetic props and some reputaion players that was a disgrace.   You need to eb assured of srcum and breakfown balls to perform and there were nearly zero of those.