The DDA hype machine rolls on

So reads a Planet Rugby headline. So I thought hey, let's look at this tremendous play by DDA that "powered" his team into the final.

Well, turns out the flyhalf made a clean 40m break to within a meter of the tryline, and DDA just had to pick the presented ball up and push it over the line.

POWERful stuff

Pakie

Please give us a reference wherfe we can wtch the game - a match is not won by one incident as youd escribed - it is won by contribution fo players overall.   So please help out.

Plum

What has Roos to do wiuth the topic.   He is nto a backline player and will never be.  

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rugby+japan+league+one

The try is at 1:11:16 in Blob's video.

Here’s something to notice in this try. The flyhalf breaks and Dud Allende sprints to catch up…..then for unknown reasons, drifts behind him….dropping back to 3 steps behind. Why? He should be on the flyhalf’s shoulder, ready for the pass or the offload. Juvenile defense allowed a rather dubious try…but a simple offload to a support runner was available.

Ja Dave, that's my reaction too watching The Slow Motion Man play.

DDA has a killer instinct. He kills plays by simply being near them.

It's been pointed out here on many occasions. In a moment of advantage, DDA doesn't have the instinct to make the correct choice. He generally picks the one with the least likelihood of success.

It's why he is so rarely part of scoring sequences. 

"Here’s something to notice in this try. The flyhalf breaks and Dud Allende sprints to catch up…..then for unknown reasons, drifts behind him….dropping back to 3 steps behind. Why? He should be on the flyhalf’s shoulder, ready for the pass or the offload. Juvenile defense allowed a rather dubious try…but a simple offload to a support runner was available."

Versus this guy...

So Rassie chose Mostert…either Rassie is stupid or you are clueless Dave? 

Ja sure. He has started 32 test for Erasmus….but Erasmus doesn’t really rate him

Eleven  at lock in 2018,  five at lock in 2019, four at lock and four at flank in 2021, five at flank and one at lock 9 in 2022, six at lock and two at flank in 2023. I underestimated his starts under Eluckmiss, there were 38….which excludes his starts as a reserve.

  Eluckmiss has been amazingly lucky….never more so than when the  low energy Lomp was run over by Tuilagi and Mostert subbed on to tackle the Boks to WC victory in 2019.

So, Eluckmiss played him at flank in 2021, and again in 2023 because he thought he was useless in 2021? My numbers are right….he was picked as a starter 38 times by the genius.

Knock  yourself out!

Can you count….my advice, use your fingers and your toes till you get to 20. Write down 20 and continue using the same fingers and toes…..when you get to the end you will find you have two big toes left. Ergo 38. Comprende?

I’m giving you his full test match record. I assume you have the capacity to start counting in 2018.  So you were wrong about him not starting 38 tests. Were you lying ? 

‘Started 32 name those tests’…..sorry Dave, no mention of flank. That distinction entered the mix as it became clear to you that you were wrong.