The genius that is Rassie

Josè is a gimmick coach with no ideas. Manipulating the refs was the only was he could compensate for his poor coaching. The sooner Josè and Crutch depart the better. 

Agree Dave it was brilliant. When you have a ref who made 30 questinabel and downright crookedcall the cheat had to be called out.

It looks like Rassie has found a way to stop the anti Bok refs in theri tracks.

Faace facts we are not too popular. perhaps it was Apartheid and perhaps t was also our physcal style of play - you hear whines about the Boks being bully boys and who desnt wanta bully taken down.

hence over many years we have got the short end of the straw. Now Rassie sat down with the video clips and calmly went through he many errors, nd in some cases shockingly bad decisions. No coach has had the courage to do this before. Well done Rassie.

the beauty of it all is that nobody can really dispute what the cumulative evidence proves. Bad refereeing rising to the level of cheating.

Result was that Kolisi was shown respect by the ref and the decisions made were much fairer.

Hence my saying Rassie was man of the match.

As for the demented Org, well he gets more bitter and twisted and more unhinged as the days go bye. All objectivity is lost as his Rassie Derangement Syndrome (RDS) grows and grows.

Pull yourself together Org! I fear for your mental well being!

Josè himself has done what exactly? There is no evidence of real coaching from Josè. Only Crutch has tangible coaching influence. Defence, kick, occasionally shuffle the ball to the wing to kick. Have Willie do his thing 50m behind the gainline. Yep, coach Unteromlett might just receive a promotion to Dame Omlett. 

The near implosion of the match yesterday was down to Erasmus’ disgraceful video. I disagree that we were not liked. South Africa got huge credit after the WC and almost universal admiration.

This week has put us right back in the role of bully boys and now bad sports as well. There is respect but no admiration.

The truth is we are a much better team than these Lions. Only Watson, Henshaw and Itoje would make a team of the series as things stand. We should never have lost the first test against this very ordinary Lions team. I could never see how they were going to hurt us.

Yesterday’s dominance was an opportunity to open up in the last 10 minutes. But we have no plan that allows the ball to be passed beyond 12…..the wings get the ball on turnovers.

Erasmus is a very limited coach who has added no new skills to the Bok game. But he has our best set of players since 2007, led by Etzebeth and Pollard. It’s like saying Bottas is a great driver when every race he gets into the best car.

Crutch is the entire brains of the Bok defence Unteromlett. My word you are from another planet! Defence is the heart, soul and spine of the Bok game. Josè Erasmus was supposed to add attacking ability, but was so inadequate that he needed the also poor Stick to actually do some coaching. Josè is a hands-off philosopher, like Muir. Exactly like Muir. Always needing someone to do his work for him. The only difference was that Muir stabbed Campese in the back whereas Josè had the sense to be paly with Crutch and keeping him involved wherever he goes. 

Ja, using race to pressure the ref into compliance. Spoken like a true neo-lib. Another member of Generation Dummy-Spit.

Erasmus has that special characteristic that makes the players want to walk through a wall for him.   That sense of loyalty to the coach was absent under De Villiers and  Coetzee and only found in the case o0f Meyer iro his braai pals - who generally was unable to produce the goods anyway.

Players have to admire the coach and they must feel that he si loyal to them as well.    That is why I think that Erasmus is the ideal coach for the Springboks and experts feel the same about him.    If you mention the garbage  written by the Kindergarten Imbecile to any rugby follower and springbok player they burst out laughing and youa re the idiot who wrote what those two claims/ 

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As I said on another string only Watson, Henshaw and Itoje would make a team of the tournament. So Erasmus has 12 of 15 best players in the series. And he is playing at home. How the blue blazes did this so called genius lose the first test.

You are thinking about garbage again  - for of the players in the first test was out of training for two weeks being in isolation because of Covid infection.         

Hahahahhahaha seldom seen such a bad case of sour grapes. These two moaned away when we won the world cup. While the rest of South Africa celebrated they searched for reasons to belittle the coach, the team and certain top players.

If Rassie walked on water they would complain he cant swim. Bwahahahahahahahhaha

Don't shoot the messenger oaks. Keo nailed it for sure. The Boks are very lucky to have a guy like Rassie around.

Mike you make a good point. Time and again we see the players and other coaching staff having kind words to say about Rassie. There is tremendous spirit in this side.

The Boks have hardly played for 2 years, have a few key guys out and yet managed to decisively win this second test. Of course that's only because this is a bad Lions side. Guscott was talking about a 3 nil clean sweep after the first test. The Lions were the team with the momentum.

They never expected that master game analyzer Rassie Erasmus had the goods on the refs etc and more importantly would actually use it. A masterstroke! 

Gatloon of course will never provide a similar clip because he knows he may have a few incidents but nothing of the sorts Rassie has.

Refs are now on notice. Do a Berry on us and you will have your BS shown to the whole Rugby world. Hahahahahahahahha I have to say I am enjoying this immensely!

Henshaw’s numbers are superior to Dud Allende….he is a  proper centre. Henshaw 4.3 metres a carry….Dud 3.0 metres a carry. Henshaw 93.75 tackle success ratio……Dud 87.5 success ratio.

The numbers tell the story.

If he was a constant physical threat his metres per run wouldn’t be 70% of those of Henshaw. He has been totally predictable and easily contained.

I've already congratulated the Boks for a great win on another thread, but the headline on this is plainly ridiculous!

Saffex, it doesn't take a genius to bleat about the referee so please give it a rest..........

Cue abusive response.

Graham Henry did in 2007 when we lost to France in the QF but he didn't put out an hour long video about it.

I looked at both tests Dave…the combined data….a more representative sample.

The data you have is totally defective and inadequate to look at anything.   There are a detailked description data system iro each player that is available to the unions, experts and coaches at a very high price and that data is what counts,     No player can hide away from what he did in games.    Meyer and Coetzee had access to the data and ignored it because they could not understand  and use it properly - hence their bad losses at times.    A really good coach would study the data  not only of his team players - but also those of the opposing teams and determine strategies to neutralize opposing players and team tactics.   

That is why your deductions from limited and sometimes inadequate and wrong data available on ESPN is very superficial  and is not what really happened in games.    Aside from that even your descriptions about what actually happened in games are frequently totally inadequate based on your likes and dislikes of players.   You for instance totally misinterpreted the scrumming on Saturday and  wrote garbage on site.    

Mike for a guy who in the past has criticized players who weren’t even playing, you have a kettle black problem.

Damian was absolutely hopeless in both tests. Blew great chances in the second test with poor skills and shuffling the ball aimlessly. So far, he has one solid tackle all series. 

I did once made a comment on what happened in a game years ago and once in the case of Steyn - in both cases I apologized afterwards.   The problem of you two are that you cannot analyze what happened ion games and made hilarious and often totally false claims about incidents in games.   In both cases what you write is total garbage and it is not what I say - but most people think you are so prejudiced you cannot look at games objectively. 

You make false claims and when I discussed it with at least two springbok players they thought I was stupid because I even mentioned what you two wrote.    That is how really tragic your lack of grasp on the issue of rugby performances really is.       

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Well TMOs are only Refs so they will still make mistakes, even with the aid of technology. 

Saffex, just because you don't agree with a ref's decision doesn't make it a bad decision. You're still going to get 50/50 calls with or without TMOs.

An example is Willie le Roux's non-try in the 1st test. About half the people I know believe that Willie was in front of the kicker and the try was correctly disallowed and the other half believe Willie was behind the kicker and the try should have been given. We've all watched those same replays multiple times and no-one is changing their mind . . . so how does a TMO help in a situation like that or many other similar situations?

Refs aren't perfect and neither are TMOs. Deal with it and stop whining like a baby about every decision that you disagree with . . . or else find some other sport to watch because this is as good as it gets and no amount of whiny videos or national outrage is going to change that.