Mpower
I ae watched every match Estrhuizen played for the Spring boks and he failed them in each test. That was proved in -
* the first five tests in 2018 when Esterhuizen played when he made 22 tackles and missed 8 as against he similar figure in the case where De Allende made 42 tackles and missed 5;
* in the 18 tests in which he played in - he never scored a try or contributed to such tries the Springboks scored;
* After being tested by Erasmus he never was included in the 2019 RWC squad in 2019 and when Kriel was injured Erasmus called up Willemse ahead of Esterhuizen.
Wih due respect to you and other repetitive critics of Erasmus I believe that Erasmus jknows more about player performance evaluation than you and his other site critics do, He often gave Estehuizen oportunities to become a test regular - also in 2024 to see whether Esterhuizen would fit into an atatcking backline where fowards provide the gaps tat enable scoing of tries, Esterhuizen failed tat test miserably and even in yesterdays match Kolisi scored a try - while Esterhuizen produced nothing/
Fact is that in the last two tests I looked yesterday where Esterhuizen stationed himself and why he was not anywhere near the defensiv line when in both maches he was not, So I ie carefuly at where he was when the Glasgow backline atacked the Sharks and lookd out secufucally where Eterhuizen was when defending. In two cases he was standing in the wing position and in 2 cases he was stading n the blind side of the maul - twoth the Glasgow ws lind up on the other side of the breakdowns. By watching him in the match carefully Esterhuizen made himself going AWOL when it comes to defense/
I also saw him making 3 poor passs and knocking on at least three balls during the game/ The one knock-onzs occured when he tried to make a turnover in pssessiom and insteadof recoveing the ball and he knocked it on instead,
You said I was wrong in the statements I made about Esterhuizen last week - never was in the defensive line-up last week and watched him yesterday as to what happened last week and found the answer by looking at yetsterday's match and find out what really happened in both matches
I do think wih the better player performance evaluation prohram he had at his disposal Erasmus no doubt would realize what the defensive line-ups have been poor and wrong,
After his failure in the Portugal test in July an the reecnt RC matches I do not think Erasmus will select him for the November squad. It is not what think will happen - it s for Erasmus and his fellow coaches to actually decide on squad and team selections 0even though they may r ay not gt inputs from the framchise coaches and from the Bulls real owners .
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