Swys on RJVR and Am...

DDA is quite strong, but his direct route is always straight into opponents....then he goes to ground, a ruck is formed and usually a kick after that....he hardly runs clever lines or side steps to avoid contact or offload while being tackled....not a guy to spot space to put himself thru or Distribute Smart to put his Teammates thru....but then DDA is not alone to blame, do not Forgot Rassie having him play this Dumb 12 role....its not like Rassie is stimulating his sense to play expansively with his asinine Gameplan....no it's the same shit, just a different Day.

Kerevi, Jordie Barrett ( inside centre as off late, but way better than DDA) Henshaw, Gael Fickou,  Nick Tompkins, even Owen Farrell makes more of a contribution....and the list goes on.... getting picked for these so called XV Teams, means sweet blow all, if you cant get the job done on the field....that is usually the scenario with DA and even worse if you combine him with Lost Kriel....besides I have read up enough stats and the ones that is constantly here on Ruckers + Video Footage, to see that he is not the Best 12 for us or in the world.

Oh ok, which ones then?

Conclusion: We could replace DDA with any number of lose loose forwards in SA.

Fix it before your master our resident grammar queen gets here.

Hey Saffex...here's your ideal 12.

Are you beginning to see how you've cornered yourself?

I’d take any of Kerevi, Henshaw, Esterhozen, Willemse, Rohan and  a host of other centres who haven’t cracked their international teams yet ahead of Dud. Dud is the Cul de Sac. 

You could make a 50 metre break, be stopped inside the opponents 22 with their defense scrambling to get back in place….the ball comes out to Dud….he crashes into the first defender he sees, tractors for a few precious seconds and then gets put to ground.

But by now the defense has regrouped….we face a solid line of defenders and the prospects of a backline strike have dropped. So keep the ball in the forwards with more Dud-like runs and hope for a penalty. 

This is the Dud effect.

Saffex, you are the only one here, besides Michael, who has literally denied video evidence of incidents of Damian making very negative contributions to the game. Damian started out as a 13, and ended up there a few times since. He was switched to 12 because he was horribly exposed on defence for having exceedingly poor decision making. He was never switched to 12 because he was excellent, but to conceal weaknesses. His most successful ploys have always been on getting him outside into space where he could crash a weak leverage on a defender taking him high. Damian is one of the weakest Bok defenders I have ever seen. Size does not equal strength and power. Damian is weak, and has no skills and even worse rugby iq.

What's easy pickings? You have literally posted zero information to back any assertions. All we have is you saying some guys thinks he is the best in the world. That's actually rather weak, and cues me in to the fact that you either cannot think for yourself and you have no idea what you are talking about. Always the over emotional types. 

This was the closest thing to Damian having a good season, you tell me where this world class player is to be found. 

My take on DA has fuck all to do with what anyone else says... 

These people say he is the best and that's a fact...

Saffex, do us all a favour... 

Your little tantrums are becoming rather desperate. 

Dave..... calm your tits ...

So Moz out of interest why do you think these 3 different sources picked him in their world sides of the year?

A bit of time, so more about this.

Different biases, flawed lines of thought may lead to the same conclusion. Achieving the same conclusion provides no guarantees (see for example the COVID crisis or the flat Earth)

All these sources share one common bias: at least one SA rugby player must be named.

Now these three sources show a large discrepancy on the number of SA rugby players (as stated already, a lot to be learned from players who are not named): it begs the question on how this player makes the list instead of other SA rugby players.

One potential answer: SA rugby lack of values are better embodied by this player over all the other SA rugby players.

Usually, when people state they love SA rugby, they do not love rugby. They love brutality, they love vice, they love callousness, they love hegemony, many amongst are nostalgic of the good old days of the Apartheid era.

Usually, these people would prefer a forward as the most representative of SA rugby lack of values.

This player's production on the field is atypical: it is very rough, monodimensional and lack many of the attributes expected from the position. Ironically, this gives him an edge over other SA rugby players as it takes a certain mindset to accomodate that interpretation of the position.

Only a rugby bent toward destruction, vice, brutality could lead to such a player.

As the ABs state, when facing SA rugby, one goes to dark places. This player embodies the thought.

So two biases:

First, at least one SA rugby player must be named.

Second, which amongst SA rugby players is the most iconic, the one who matches the most the image of SA rugby.

So this back line player over any forward as his reduction of his tasks fits better.

Free of charges.

Actually I thought that was quite interesting from Trad, definitely original. Plum’s posting on attributes that spring to mind was very insightful and Trad’s mono dimensional concept covers some of the same ground.

That, however, leaves one with the impression that Dud is just a low contributor, one who doesn’t do much. I see him as much more destructive…on defense with his massive mental mistakes….and on attack because the gum he puts in the works takes away valuable time, allowing  defenses to reset.

Dud seems like a nice bloke, I remember him being the only Bok who walked with Jean as he was carried off the field after his terrible knee injury. I have no problem with him, except the effect he has on our backline play.

Flip Saffex, the dagga is good tonight eh?