Stephanie .....is it a bird, is it a plane

What about Danie Rossouw BSter  - you cannot think , easy to understand you never do.  

So you do not want Du Toit on the flank - who do you want in the back row?   Kolisi must go to 7 - who must play at 6 and 8? 

Mozart - this is about the biggest load of BS I have ever read from you - why do you not start thinking for a change?   How long has your campaign against Du Toit has been going on - since 3013 I believe?  And it never changed - so what else is new?       

Sure according to you it was a failure - but what do you suggest as to the back row. 

And Danie Rossouw because he was a lock there were serious  debate at the time about his selection in the back row - so did you have tor un for cover when caught out writing tripe?

Just another question you praised  Matfield endlessl;y for being a good lock - but he never involved himself in rucks and mails and moonlighted endlessly amongst the centers    

Mozart

I asked you a question - who do you want to be playing at 6 and 8?

I read all your jargon - why not come up with the same for Louw, Vermeulen and your new hero Mostert and show us how much better they are than Du Toit.     

Anyway - why don't you do us a favour and sent the posting in an e-mail to Erasmus pleading with him to get rid of Du Toit and asking him for his viewpoint on the desperately poor Du Toit.   

As expected no answer yet,   Who do you want to play at 6 and 8?    And why not do a similar long drama queen evaluation of Louw, Mostert and Vermeulen as well.  No answer there too.   Happy moron day.  

And why not send an e-mail expressing what you wrote above and ask him for his comments on Du Toit.   You can do it - but won't.   

That sounds about right. I'm still analysing a few things, haven't gotten to Steph as of yet. He does some good things, but some poor things as well. The instances where he is cleanly beaten aren't registered by the stats. He can be baited and rush out of the line. This is quite alarming at times when he is the pillar or guard defender. His open field tackles can be poor, but seemed to improve in the later portions of the season. When we have had our big defensive stands, he has had some exceptionally accurate games. Against Australia at home, I can't recall a single error. He regularly caught the attacker for a loss. Was our most impact full defender alongside André.

What's missing here is a little honesty from the over-emotional types. The forum is composed of three groups: 1.The emotional whiners and liars , 2.Those who correct the emotional whiners and liars, 3.Those sitting on the fence, trying to be impartial. 

Mozart. Mozart, Mozart

Snyman had ONE good game, TWO average games and was SUBSTANDARD/POOR in all the other games he played in.  

Mostert fails in line-out work inasmuch he cannot be the basis for driving mauls and cannot take opposition throw-in line-out balls.  he can take line-out balls - but what happens then is also very important.   

Have you not looked at Snyman's performance in the tests he played in?   Have you no shame about writing BS on the site?

I would play the Du Preez brothers at 6 and 8 with PSdT at 7. Vermeulen would be on the bench.

Still 4 tests left to evaluate this combo.

Blikkies

A much better suggestion - but I would rather have a specialist 6 like Kriel and Labuschagne at 6 -  Du Toit at 7 and the Du Preez twins - one of whom on the bench. 

Still insisting on  Louw at 6, Kolisi at 7 and  Vermeulen at 8????  

Flo on the bench...Thor still our best 8.

Mozart

Let me remind you of what Meyer said about the 2015 WC squad selections.   He said that his selections are based on "that I know what each of the selected players are capable of in the past".  We all know that most of the reputation players failed in the WC and that others did not complete the series because of injury, 

Unfortunately that is exactly what you are pleading for.    It si unfortunate that -

*   Louw failed in all tests he played in this year and you tried to cover up the failures by stressing the three ball possession turnovers he made in all tests he played in - but forgetting about the fact that he missed crucial tackles and his tackle count was far too  LOW in virtually all tests played;

*    Vermeulen was very good in the first two tests - even though in the two tests his tackle count for both tests - a basic function of loosies made it ridiculously low.   In the other four tests played he was very little in evidence and his tackle count for the last three tests where he played in was 17 tackles made - 4 missed,   In the main he was nowhere to be seen otherwise as well.  Was his defense good enough?  No ways.

Sorry Mozart - you are not objective at all.   Fact is that Vermeulen tried to use the Alberts and Matfield tricks in 2015.   Pick and choose what games to play in leading up to the World Cup and then failing to perform in the WC tests .           

Mozart

One thing about Matfield - in his prime before retirement - he was very good in line-out play, but for the rest a dead loss in other phases of Tight 5 play.   He rarely entered mauls even when in his prime, he would stand around in the backline, making open field tackles.

When he came back from retirement his line out performance deteriorated badly losing own throw crucial line-outs and being useless in all phases of play.

I was a great admirer of Mafield in his prime - but when looking at his return in 2014 he was a farce.   He damaged his reputation badly.  So your praise above is misleading as well.

As to Mostert he has never once since becoming a Springbok took any balls on opposition throw-ins and that counts for a negative - a bad one at that.   He is also incapable of handling the ball so as to get a driving  maul  forming and to co-ordinate such mauls in tests.   The only one he tried to start in the French test was typically flawed.     

Snyman in line-outs were so poor that in the test against the Scots he was not jumping in front in line-outs -  Du Toit was used for that purpose.