The second law of thermo dynamics states everything is in a state of DECAY. ie the Universe has an ending. Any thing that has an ending is not eternal and has a beginning.
This law once again is a proof of an eternal God.
Power speaks about Rassie being lucky. He doesn't mention that Rassie had key players out. The world's best hooker for a starter and a turnover king. We saw what Kwagga's turnover ment. Marx was a collosal loss. Also very solid when throwing in and very powerful scrummager. This absence ment Bongi could not be in the bomb squad.
Then we had Lood out. Lood is a fine lock and a master at the lineouts. He was a big loss.
Two of your Frontline tight 5 gone.
We missed Pollard in the opening games. We would have beaten Ireland had Pollard played.
We missed the silky skills of Am. A fully fit Am is probly the best outside center in the game. Very creative.
We would not have been talking about 1 point wins had Marx, Lood and Am been fully fit and available. We would certainly have gone through UNBEATON.
The big point and one which the increasingly servile gimp Plumster refuses to acknowledge is that Mozzzie has been smearing Rassie for close on a decade. It has been unrelenting. He pretends to be objective by his bias shines through.
Happily poor mozzzue has utterly failed. Rassie now has 2 World Cup win and a battery of other achievements.
So congrats to all who were not conned by the con artist Mozzie!
In the Anglican religion one of the prayers ends with ‘world without end….amen’. A hard concept to grasp, but a more optimistic one than Revelations.
Even more difficult is the idea of ‘world without a beginning’. Existence always existed, that’s the central fact. How it evolved into producing our world can partially be explained by science, but only with considerable speculation and after a point in time where existence was infinitely old.
We can be sure the world is not just a few thousand years old. The missing time between creation and the birth of Christ as described in the Bible is not even a debate.
What’s more interesting is whether Christ at any time endorsed that Old Testament view. Something I will be looking for when I reread Matthew.
The standard religious tactic when challenged is to call such questions a ‘sin’ with unclear but radical punishment. That’s in every religion. Don’t allow questions. But if you follow the creationist logic, we were given enquiring minds. We needed them for survival.
As time goes by our increasing capabilities may shed further light on some questions….but a million years from now we still won’t have solved ‘world without a beginning’.
What the old deceiver is saying is consistent with what he has tried to do for almost a decade. Devalue Rassie. That is the real purpose of all his whining about the Bok RWC triumph.
All the loon sees is luck and Pollard. Poor Mozzzietard has become a laughing stock. His side kick had more self awareness an realised the jig was up and left. Mozzzietard has such a big ego he thinks people are going to accept his drivel.
As Dave has said, this was the toughest path to a RWC and luck and a good goal kicker would NEVER have been enough without numerous other factors coming into play.
Anybody not realizing that Lood is a world class lineout forward simply has no clue whatsoever. Mostert is not in the same class.
In the semi final and final it was raining. These conditions have never suited a Bok side. We are not good wet weather players which is understandable given our climate. Some oaks with short memories forget what happened in the tests preceding the semis and finals and just how good the Bok attack was.
This Bok side overcame all obstacles. They never chocked, their courage and determination was second to NONE. They never conceded defeat. That great Pieter Steph Du Toit, a forward despised by mozzietard, epitomised what this team was about.
What Mozzzietard has tried to do is play down or ignore the Bok strengths apart from Pollard. To this disgraceful fake Bok supporter its was all luck and Pollard. Man what a joke Mozzzietard has become!
Away with the mozzzietard. Go and support the wee abs turncoat!
You miss the point HasBeen, I don’t care what you or anybody else thinks.
Your points:
1 It was a tough path to the WC final. But we lost to Ireland and played NZ down a man.
2 Lood is a world class lineout forward…nope…pretty average. His loss made no difference in 2019 and it made no difference in 2023. In 2015 he was splattered by Kaino for a crucial try in a close game:
Lood de Jager 6
Brushed off by Jerome Kaino for New Zealand’s sixth minute try – not what you expect from an 18st13lb lock.
3 It was raining in the semis…..it was a light drizzle…perfectly playable conditions.
4 The Boks never conceded defeat….fair point, we had a lot of veterans.
5 Dud Toit epitomized what the teams about…yep tackling. Lots of hot air about his tackles in the final….Mostert made the same number of tackles per minute played, and unlike Dud missed none. But he had a good if narrow game.
7 To this disgraceful Bok supporter it was all luck and Pollard. Nope there were lots of contributions by Eben, Fourie, Kwagga etc. But our opponents had similar contributions by Telea, Aaron Smith and Savea…..the difference was the card(luck) and Pollard.
The jackass goes down again!
ABs down for 50 minutes on the red/yellow and 10 more minutes for Frizell at the start. The Boks down for 10 minutes on the Kolisi,,,,should have been a red…tackle, and the Kolbe yellow.
Net time the ABs were down a man 40minutes. Handicap 2.5 points per 10 minutes. The ABs had a 10 point handicap.
Zero handicap for Fourie…..that was Eluckmiss’ choice, he clearly thought Fourie added more than a replacement hooker.
And yes Kolisi botched the pass, but there were plenty of general play screw ups….they all amounted to a stalemate and the game was decided by Pollard’s superior boot.
Up a man for the whole half we should have torched the ABs but Harrassmiss’ risk averse tactics have created a team that is more comfortable defending than attacking.
The game was won by Pollard, but almost lost through a series of selection and tactical decisions made by your hero. I have seen hero worship before, but nothing as blind as this. Why would you want to be a groupie….admit it, Dud Allende was a mistake, box kick everything was a mistake, the bench was a mistake.
Now lets get the situation discussed above into perspective.
First of all lets deal with Doos. He had been on site for many years and must hae used at least 12 user names in that period. Unfortunately he will be back to cntiinue his BS on site. It will be easy to identiy him. Just imply Meyer was a bad coach and he will scream BS on site.
Mozart is another complte idiot.. When it was announced that Erasmus were appointed as Director of Rugby and that he will handle the duties of both that position and coaching of the Springbok team until the world cup Mozart came up with a classic on site. He said that the appointment of Rrasmus would turn out to be a disaser and that it would have been better to retain Coetzee as Head Coach.
The attacks on Erasmus started in 2015 whe h as thouh to be a replacment for the disastrous Meyer - but got really venomous as from 2018. Initially he lied about Erasmus' caeer in the coaching field and did not even bother to check whether his statents on site was true.
That issue went on through 2018 and 2018, despite the S pinmgboks won the 2019 RC. Mozart's attack on Erasmus was started afresh when the Springboks beat the Welsh in the semi. However for about a week after the final it was announced that a new head coiach would be appointed to take over the coaching fuctions. Mozart screamed about Erasmus; inability to take responsibility for anything. The fact that Erasmus was never appointed as Had Coach and did the coaching on an iterim basis never entered his mind. There were two other conditions contained in his contract of appointment and those were
* that the selecion committee system is to be abolished and selection would be done by the Director of Rugby and the coaches invovled;
* that SARU would deal with appointment of ciach es based on Erasmus' recomendation.
Mozart then went bananas about the second cndition mentioned and claimed that it did not exist - but that Erasmus was a coward refusing to take responsibility for anyhing.
That waqs followed by his "Chicken story about non-participation of the Springboks in the 2020 RC due to the Covid issue. That dxecision was taken by the SARU Board and not Erasmus and wa based on a variety of factors.
That was followed by his constant jeremediats about how SA will be out fo the WC without reaching the play-offs, When that did not happen he changed his tactics and claimed that the only reaon why the Springbosk won the WC in 2023 was because Pollard converted four panalties and the AB's should have won the match and the reasomn he used was the red cart.
So far there is no news about the Appointment .of the New Head Coach - but one thing is for sure - if the new Head coach succeed - Mozart would claim that it happened despite of Erasmus. If he failed it Mozart will claim ithat it is s the result of having Eraasmus being around.
It is now near to 6 years of constantly atatcking Erasmus based on lies and prejudice.- so on sho uld realize we are dedaling here with a total prejudiced rugby idiot. . .
50+10-10-10 =40 if you can’t be sure just looking at it, use a calculator.
Genius, pure genius……choose a sub hooker who nullifies our lineout advantage. Nonsense of course, our maul never worked against England or France or Ireland either. We never scored one maul try in a key game at the WC. Even against Scotland with Marx playing.
Kapow! Up goes another bullshit argument in a puff of smoke.
...it's easier to hate...