MOMozart
Captain49,914 posts
MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
03 Oct 2018, 14:03#5
Unlike NZ the Boks never seek to humiliate weaker opponents, and thus have always been more vulnerable to a minion uprising.
And then when you play Captain Confusion at flyhalf and the Skim at 13....well it makes for a good story.
CLclevermike
Coach57,555 posts
CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
03 Oct 2018, 18:00#10
I would love to see the movie. It would remind me of the "most experienced team in the history of the Springboks" be humiliated because half of the elderly and useless should never have been in the WC squad and illustrated the stupidity of coach who selected them.
Will Meyer be the comedy character in the movie???????
AUAugenöffner
Pro6,974 posts
AUAugenöffnerPro6,974 posts
03 Oct 2018, 19:22#16
If you take Matfield out of the equation it drops to something like 26.7 years. I posted the numbers twice before. Can't be bothered to do it again. Lügnerin keeps ignoring those figures as it shows a team that has an average age in it's prime. Younger than the World Champions. Many of those in their 30s actually looked more youthful than the youngsters! Kirchner was full if running. One of our best attackers. Du Preez made an immediate impact when he came on. Schalk and Beast were two of our best starters. Victor was about a 7/10. Steph was poor. Lood had one or two big runs, but was anonymous elsewhere. Kriel was hopelessly out of his depth. Lambie and Pienaar player a game the Japanese do much better. The Boks were caught out playing the game the Japanese wanted. Always take your opponents best options away. Force them to beat you with their weakest tools. The Boks were tactically nieve.
JWJust_win
Captain18,570 posts
JWJust_winCaptain18,570 posts
03 Oct 2018, 21:33#19
Japan played a very good game that day, I dought they would win on most days. Theirs was an heroic effort! Boks gambled by taking them lightly & lost. If the steyn’s were playing the results might have been different, lol perhaps Matfield was not seagulling enough on that day? All water under the bridge now.
MOMozart
Captain49,914 posts
MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
03 Oct 2018, 23:30#21
Kriel missed a tackle for the winning nipper try...Coenie got himself yellow carded. There are plenty of things that could have contributed to our loss....those two things guaranteed it
AND THERE WERE 4 PLAYERS UNDER 25.....LOMP, STEPHANIE, LAMBIE AND KRIEL.
The usual Tokkie inaccurate bs.
MOMozart
Captain49,914 posts
MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
04 Oct 2018, 00:00#22
Average age of the starters 29.7....average age of the bench 27.0. The average age of the team 28.76.
But here's the thing...we were ahead by 29 points to 22 at minute 62. Then lost by 34 points to 32. In other words our 29.7 year old starters won their part of the game by 7 points....the team with the 27.0 year old subs on the field lost their part of the game by 12 points to 3.
According to Liarmike's own logic, therefore, we went too young in the last quarter. Case closed.
MOMozart
Captain49,914 posts
MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
04 Oct 2018, 02:50#24
Learned the lesson from the British attack on the Italian Navy in a similar harbour. Little buggers are always copying the good stuff.
MOMozart
Captain49,914 posts
MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
04 Oct 2018, 04:33#28
WD I have recently read a new comprehensive history of the naval events in WW2. Starting with some of the crazy stuff Churchill tried to do in Norway....to Leyte Gulf the greatest naval battle in history, the equivalent of Kursk for tanks. Well worth the read.
@ denny....no more dead than Matfield, Schalk, Morne etc. sadly.
MOMozart
Captain49,914 posts
MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
04 Oct 2018, 04:56#30
Hoist by your own Petard Liarmike......29.7 year old starters have a poor game, but are still ahead by 7 points at minute 62.....the. 27 year old subs then lose the last 18 minutes 12 to 3.
Game, set and match!
MOMozart
Captain49,914 posts
MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
04 Oct 2018, 05:27#32
29 to 22 vs 3 to 12.....de facto the younger subs lost the game, backed up by Coenie being penalized twice and carded....and Kriel missing a basic one on one tackle which gifted the Niponese the game.
Enjoy your crow.