Sun Tzu
Lets just get it straight. I went to England to watch two EOY tests - against Scotland and England - where Du Preez played in. His service in the Murrayfield test was so poor, he was replaced at half time. In the Twickenham test the forwards recovered a turnover ball and Do Preez was nowhere to be seen to get the ball. An England player got to the ball - pick it up behind the maul and England scored a try. Two very average if not poor shows in succession.
I am sure it was 2005 - I was in England for two weeks and returned on 1 December. My younger brother was in the final stages of cancer and died on 5 December that year.
Be it as it may - Du Preez was crap in 2005 - end of story.
Mozart
You are talking BS in this case. Morne is a shit defender with a missed tackle ratio of 19,4% in tests in the RC last year - and him bumping off a lock gad nothing to do with tackling,
Your hilarious crap on Aplon's defence is also just that. I had a look at the first seven matches in Super 15 last year was as dollowsL0
Tackles made - 13
Tackles missed - 5
Missed tackle ratio - 27,8%
Sure with that kind of stats Aplon would have tackled Whitelock - what amount of eff is dripping from your mug - must just be raw egg.
First of all you went on the rampage about something you never read properly and did not really come up with any truthfulness in your response - now it is the lying cover up - when are you going to admit that you wrote crap in this case and save face.
The Springboks drew level when Cueto found himself
isolated on the right flank and was penalised for holding onto the ball,
Montgomery's kick scraping over.
But after a couple of strong bursts from Corry, England seized the initiative with an opening try from Hodgson after 15 minutes.
Steve Thompson and Andy Gomarsall combined to release the fly-half into
space and he held off the tackles of Jean de Villiers and Breyton Paulse
to score at the posts.
Try #2
The impressive Josh Lewsey weaved his way past four
tacklers, Hodgson continued the move and Paul's perfectly-judged
cross-kick sailed straight into the arms of the waiting Cueto.
But don't take my words for it, lets have a look at the video.
Diagnosis: Anti-Bull, supported by a load of bull; tragic irony? You tell me.
Sun Yzu
"He is a dud, a fake, an imposter, a fraud, a blooper, the joker in the pack. Save yourself from more shplott headed your way."
Back to Morne Steyn again?????????????
The two tests I went to watch the Springboks in the UK - Du Preez was nothing but average to poor. He did improve in subsequent years and reached his peak in 2007-09. On his return from Japan he was just slightly better than he was in 2004 - at best average as was proven in the two RC tests he had full games in last year.
As to the date I made a calculation error. My brother/s daye of birth was 8 March 1955 - he died at the age of 49 - and would have been 50 on 8 March 2005. It was in November 2004 - when I went to Europe to watch the two games I referred to. Thanks for the correction.
Mozart
The tear is not the most important thing -- the performance of Du Preez was - he really was sub-par in both the Murrayfield and Twickenham tests.
You found a weird excuse for all the tackles missed by De Jongh and Aplon - while the real reason often enough is that they get run over by opponents. If you cannot see that context then clear up YOUR ACT.
Mike we can have debate about whether Aplon is a good tackler or not. But the numbers we use to make our arguments should be reliable. This is the second time you have selected part of the S15 season to make a negative argument about a player you don't like. It took me all of 3 minutes to calculate the numbers for the whole season. So to save 1.5 minutes of your time you were happy to publish false information. Or perhaps you just keep going until you get the result you want, and then stop.
Either way it's dishonest and does the Board a disservice. Up your game!
At fullback and wing being a great open field tackler is 90% of the battle. It's a bit different at 13, and much different at 12. That said I have more faith in de Jongh defensively than any other SA 13....especially than Taute and JJ. Juan wouldn't have missed Barrett, Dagg and Bosch.
Mozart
I looked at the first seven games in which Aplon played and the results were consistent and a reliable indicator of what happened in the rest of the games. You said it took you a very short time to calculate all the games Aplon played in - accuse me of using part of the Super 15 season to be negative about a player I "don't like" and then did not give any figures which you have calculated from all matches.
If there were a serious difference in the figures calculated by you for the whole season to prove me wrong and before accusing name of dishonesty, If the figures you calculated duffer substantially give it - otherwise accept the fact that the dishonest person in this case is not me.
Then another false accusation - namely that I don't like Aplon. Where did you get that from? Is that based on your ridiculous statement that Aplon would have stopped the try of Whitelock and the fact that I said no chance. Please look at Saffex's comments on defence by De Jongh and Aplon and you may get the answer,
Time to own up to the truth for a change.
Mozart
I have not lost my marbles and am not a liar like you.
You should not be surprised that I checked whether you did not fiddle the stats of Aplon would you? The answer is simple you missed out in one tackle made and sub-tracted 2 missed tackles. The answer was simple he made 37 tackles and missed 11 - making for a missed tackle ratio of 22.9%. The reason was that in the last four games played - 2 against the Kings (8/0), Cheetahs (2/0) and Bulls (3/0) - he made 13 tackles missing none, The bulk of those were not surprisingly against the Kings. Fiddling is something you are very expert in - but this time around you were caught out.
You had to manufacture a reason for the high missed tackle ratio of De Jongh and Aplon - so you found one which happened rarely and made that the rule. You had to do that to justify -
* the hard fact that De Jongh and Aplon gets run over regularly by players - bigger and heavier than they are; and
* the ridiculous statement of yours that Aplon would have stopped the Whitelock try.
You also made a remark about where Goosen attempted the tackle on Whitelock. Now lets work it out. Whitelock with the arm stretched out is 3 meters. He barely reached the tryline after coming down in the tackle. Take off 1 meter for the stretch - and that means he was tackled at 3 meters out came down at 1 meter out and reached out - 2 meters is allowed for momentum. Can your addled brain work that one out?
Let's see x +2+1 =5. And if we solve for x we get 2....hahahahaha....ja we have to allow 2 metres for momentum. I think that's Newton's fourth law of motion......or perhaps the distance a lightie is displaced when hit by a moving object. Weeeeheee!
But seriously OOm I think you have missed the fact that the arm protrudes from the shoulder, which means you have to subtract the neck and head......unless of course, bwaahahahahahahahaha, Whitelock has 48 inch arms.
