Steyn has inside track over Goosen

Ex Supersport

The clamour for the prodigiously talented Johan Goosen to be named as the Springboks’ test flyhalf is growing, but South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer said that, for the time being at least, Morne Steyn still has the inside track for the number 10 test jersey.

Steyn enjoyed a meteoric start to his test career, playing a major role in the series win over the British and Irish Lions in 2009 while he won his first three tests against the All Blacks in the same year, including scoring all of his team’s points in a 31-19 victory over New Zealand in Durban.

The 28-year-old Bulls pivot has scored a total of 483 points in his 40 tests but he has come in for increasing criticism, with some pundits believing that Steyn is stifling the Springbok backline with his seemingly conservative approach.

Steyn also has to deal with the 20-year-old Goosen breathing down his neck after Goosen showed a few impressive touches when making his test debut last weekend off the bench against Australia.

However, Meyer is backing Steyn and his style of play to come good for South Africa.

“I’m a big believer in a guy sticking to his strengths, and I think Morne is a great player in his own right. He doesn’t make a lot of mistakes, so I don’t think that he needs to change the way he plays. It’s more about the outside backs who must use their opportunities,” Meyer said.

This is perhaps contentious?

bean Brain what % of yr posts start with a copy n paste?

Just a rough guess. Tx.

No idea jallopy I will leave the stats to my biographer.

Now how many of your posts make sense jallopy. Take  a guess! 000000 - a clue for you. Bwahahahahaha

Beeno

Let me put on record - that Meyer sticking with Steyn is ultimately going to cost him his job.  The signs of dissatisfaction is all over the show and it will indeed be a mircale if he can survive till he end of 2013.  

The expected massive loss on Saturday is going to cause a major outcry in any event.

Morne Steyn may not make any noticeable mistakes - but he destroys any potential backline play by the Springboks.   Meyer apparently thinks that games can be won by kicking away balls and by defence - but I am begiinng to wonder whether he lives in the same cloud cuckoo land as your friend Card.

How many balls have Morne Steyn "kicked away" in the last three tests? I mean really kicked away meaninglessly kicked away and which left us in a worse position?

Mike you forget about Bokke spirit.  I trust Meyer is far from loosing his job. Morne has competition andMeyer i squite awre of Goosens potential but will not rush him - he is too valuable for this. However Goosen should get perhaps a fe wmor eminutes than he did last time particualy if meyer i splanning a change of pace a tthe end - given the guys he has on the bench.

I hope Jannie can start. No doubt he has been informd, along with Beast, that his days are numbered. Flip will be trying hard to make an impression. I hope this loose trio clicks. It lacks pace but if we can drag the abs into some trench warfare and moer hulle it could get interesting!! They dont like rough stuff. Soften them up and run later maybe the plan?

The bench has some flair so that could be interesting. De Jongh is dangerous in broken play and could ignite things as could Lambie, Goosen, Liebenberg,  Coetzee and Bekker. Our bench should in this match have some impact as an impetus to attacking play. 

Frans we have been patient and now we expect action.  Nonu needs a good flattening as does ou Conrad. Carol Jane will not enjoy a hard tackle guys so remember that as well. Dagg loves to run until he has the daylights thumped out of him. Some good offensive tackles - all legal of course - will discourage their netball style of play.

TIme to rise to the occassion Bokke and give the abs a sound whipping. Take no lip from mccheat and show the oak a worms eye view of the ground.

Go Bokke!!!!!!

the truth is meyer wont gamble with goosen so early i personally wont risk a 20 year old so early in his career either. but mike your right many a coach has died by the sword with one eyed selections so we will see. steyn has always had a poor game against the Ab because he cant handle the pace of the game and they really put a lot of pressure on him and he crumbles like a school girl at a bieber concert in the face of quick running backrows.

once again the talk of the pack and defence just proves the mindset HM has of beating the AB. to be fair i wont be unhappy if HM loses his job. we cant have the backword mindset and tactics.