27 Jul 2019, 14:00#10
Mapimpi is lazy on defence as well as not looking for work. Happy to hold wide and wait for the ball.
MOMozart
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MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
31 Jul 2019, 06:52#13
Too much good visual material to lose this one....back to the top.
31 Jul 2019, 07:21#15
You people really have a bug up your arse about De Allende. This try was all Mapimpi's fault. He came off his wing when there was no need at all to do so. That created the overlap that put the Boks under huge pressure. De Allende was lazy in his running, I agree with that...but the stuff up had already been created by Mapimpi. I don't like De Allende, but good lord some of you are obsessed with discrediting him. That is illustrated no t only in the fact that another article had to be created to discuss the exact thing that Moz's article discusses, but also by the fact that Am, who was just as guilty as De Allende, is barely mentioned. I wonder how long it will take for you people to admit that you are just as obsessed with discrediting De Allende, as Mike is with defending him?
MOMozart
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MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
31 Jul 2019, 14:38#20
The point.....what is the point? The point is not that Vermeulen, Am and Mapimpi weren't culpable ......they were. More practically culpable in each case than Allende.
Do we have that point......have we grasped it. There is no argument about that point. That point is a smokescreen.
The other point being discussed here is whether an experienced Springbok centre......one of our leaders by way of his many caps......did what you would expect of a school boy centre in similar circumstances.
Or did he say to himself.....'not my problem, I can only look bad chasing back at full pace and not intervening'
Or here is another point......what possible harm could it have done if he ran at full pace versus jogging, and made a full hearted effort to prevent the try.