The Bok RWC tackling monster

Most would probably pick Dud Toit….but it was that unsung hero Mostert, by a mile. Here are the stats from the games where we fielded our best team….Scotland, Ireland, France, England, NZ.

In total Dud Toit played 381 minutes, made 66 tackles and missed 12.

Mostert played 305 minutes, made 67 tackles and missed 2.

So Mostert actually made 1 more tackle than Dud despite playing effectively a game less in terms of minutes. But much more crucially Mostert had a 97% completion ratio. Dud Toit languished at a mediocre 85%.

But he’s a great runner they object. Dud Toit ran the ball 33 times and beat 2tackles. That’s a tackle beaten every 16 runs! Vermeulen ran the ball 8 times in the WC final and beat 2 tackles.

That’s an aside. The point of this string is not to humiliate Dud, but put Mostert’s WC in perspective…..our true WC defensive hero.

Perhaps he wouldn’t have missed 15% of his tackles if he hadn’t tried to be dominant. And I can guarantee you we lost more metres from Dud’s missed tackles than we made because he may and I say may, have been more dominant.

Dud Toit ran 25 times against Scotland  Ireland, France and New Zealand without beating one defender. Talking about dominance, what about dominant running. Is that the most flaccid ball carrying any Bok designated ball carrier has ever racked up?

"I think it's safe to say that Mostert won the Boks the WC.

I'm sure we can all agree on that.

I really hope he's fit for the next WC too!"

Ag nee man Plum!...naughty naughty...

Just glad I could shine the light of truth on the hype about Dud Toit. He played a part, mostly in the final. But Pollard, Ox, Kolbe and particularly Etzebeth, without whom this whole party ends, were key through the whole knockout phase.  

You are in a particularly dark hole Dave, it will take a searchlight of truth to convince you. Hell you are still harboring thoughts that Manie Libbok could be a Bok flyhalf.

Yes….it’s a popularity contest.

No defenders beaten in 4 of our critical  WC games in the role of our key ball carrier….an 85% tackle rate…no turnovers anybody can remember. The whole thing hinges on the big hit on Barrett who could easily have stepped him if he was alert.

I’m not persuaded.

Take Mostert out the team and re-evaluate our chances of winning the World cup ....

A fantastic team effort overall.... but the win diminishes significantly without Mostert.

Mostert has always been in the shadows. Remember that famous Bok win over NZ, 34-36, where Steph shot to fame over his tackle count? Mostert made the same number, while missing 3 fewer. Didn't even get a mention.

Mosert is a shit poor playe that shoud not eb in the  Springbok team and that has ben proved since 2019.  He fucked up royally in two tests in 2019 nd was dropped form the staring line-up in the remainder of the RWC tests and  only replaced De Jage when eh got injured in the Final - where Mozrt first climed Beast won the inal for the Springboks and then switched to Moster being the palye who won tehs eries for he S pringboks.   

Both ere BS statements and was proved a total B S anyway.   H now came up with the same stroy again/     Fct is the substandad Mostert was neve picked as  Player  of ny test match  either while Du Toit ws playe fo the Yedar on two occassions.    Mostert neve did anything tht inluence match outcomes and that fact is being ignored by all the incomplete stats used by them  sit diots.   

I thought Mostert was great when he played fo he Lions in 2014 - bu as a test player he enve was of any real value on test level.   

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Q: What do you call someone who doesn't rate the great Pieter-Steph du Toit and cannot see the value that he brings to the Springboks?

A: A rugby noob.

Q: What do you call someone who is too vain and conceited to admit he ever made a mistake?

A: A pompous twat.

Q: What do you call a rugby noob who is also a pompous twat who lies awake at night trying to think of new ways to criticise the great Pieter-Steph du Toit so that he can pretend he didn't get egg all over his stupid face after PSdT won his second World Player of the Year award?

A: Moffie.

Yes Dave, you've only told us about 1342 times.

"Everything you say about Mostert, is in direct conflict with how Erasmus views and uses Mostert."

Well, GiMp, everything Moffie says about PSdT is in direct conflict with the rest of the world . . . but I don't see you yapping away at your Master . . .

It's all really quite simple......

A neutral rugby body voted PSDT two time winner Rugby Player of the Year.....read my lips......it wasn't Mostert, he didn't even make the final list.

Not once....twice!

Are we missin somethin here?

Apart from his two World Player of the Year awards, PSdT has also been named Player of the RWC in 2019 and he's won the SA rugby Player of the Year.

What awards has Franco Mostert won?

I'm not for one second saying I don't rate Mostert as a player. I've always liked his warrior spirit . . . but to compare him to PSdT and to say he should get the credit for our last RWC victory is . . . well . . . something only a rugby noob might say.

Nothing new in that behavior we've seen it play out many a time over the decades.....kinda like a puppy dog with bone clamped between jaws .

PSDT does and should still receive all the accolades that he has already received, and hopefully does still receive during his brilliant playing career.

I have always highly rated PSDT and I have supported him before, and that has never changed.

I think he is a bloody phenomenal player, and I believe that without him, our chances of winning that last world cup would have dropped dramatically.

At the same time, I do also genuinely believe that without Mostert's overall performance, all over the field, in every single game he played.....with his constant higher than most work ethic, his tireless in the trenches performance ... game after game, which the stats 100% back up.... I also believe that our chances to win that last world cup would diminish significantly without him in the side.

I cannot say that for many of the other players unfortunately... bar Eben, Pollard etc etc

That is all I am saying