The most disap[pointing Springboks thus far this year

The worst display of all is what Jean de Villiers dished up in the first two matches played by the Stormers.    he was a disaster and f that is to continue we have a serious problem in future.  Question remains - is he past it?

The other player who seems to do less and less in any game he played in is Willem Alberts.  He always has been a low work rate p[layer - but it is getting ridiculous to see what extremely little he produces at 7.

Vermeulen has had 2 off days at the office as well, but at least he tries and should get better as the season progresses.

Engelbrecht was by some distance the weakest 13 on display and Serfontein only slightly better- but still miles away from satisfactory.        

 JJ did nothing at all except botching up a try that should have been scored - but there he and Serfontein should share the blame.  

However, this is not about a single match - it is aboat ALL THE MATCHES played thus far in Super 15.   He was pathetic in some instances and just about par in others.  

He was comprehensively outplayed by Jordaan in the first  match. and I am really worried what will happen this week against the Blues centers.      

 Ignoring the first match - no rain at all. And they could have shouted my ball or at least seen that both were going for the same ball - but it showed something I call lack of ball sense.   Not new on the part of JJ though - ne botched a similar try against the Argentinians in Soweto.

The basics are that players should perform in all conditions - style of play may differ - but that is not the point where players should fail like JJ did in all three matches.  

You have built a pedestal and put JJ on it - but thus far he has done squat to justify the p edestal position.  

Sure - Serfontein scored a try when he got the ball in the clear with no defenders in site.   Both beat one defender - no line breaks - and Engelbrecht lost ball possession once and gave away a penalty as well.

Neither of them showed anything substantial thus far in Super 15 and they have to improve drastically in the remaining matches to get a pass mark insofar as performances are concerned.

Sure - Serfontein scored a try when he got the ball in the clear with no defenders in site.   Both beat one defender - no line breaks - and Engelbrecht lost ball possession once and gave away a penalty as well.

Neither of them showed anything substantial thus far in Super 15 and they have to improve drastically in the remaining matches to get a pass mark insofar as performances are concerned.

 Two nice little outside breaks last week - are you dreaming or something?   Those so-called breaks amounted to nothing. 

I saw no line breaks above and saw none on the field of play as well,  He did beat three defenders - but made no real progress in ball carries and his defence was putrid - so was his possession losses and the penalty he gave away.

Not much to w rite home about - sad to say.    

AJ

The scrummie you are referring to is Reinach, the one center from the Stormers you mentioned is Damian de Allende.  The Sharks s[peedster is Paul Jordaan.

I don't think that either JJ Engelbrecht nor Jan Serfontein did anything worth mentioning in Super 15 thus far this year and Francois Steyn had an atrociously bad second game - refusing to pass balls, poor ball retention and giving away penalties.     

AJ

A bit of advice, ignore anything Mike has to say for the simple reason that he knows fuck all - b ut guess who knows less than fuck-all - my dear friend Saffex.

He has some real duds that he supports and when one shows that they are not worthy of Support - he goes ballistic.  

Saffex

No I don't - what I am saying is you refuse to be objective when it comes to certain  players  you support  and that reduces the quality of your contributions on this site.

Saffex

I have absolute factual support for what I wrote about Francois Steyn and Alberts.   My take is not based only on factual observation during games - but also statistical evidence which all support my take on their performances.  

When I wrote after the first game this series that Francois Steyn had a good game - it was proven also by stats.  When I wrote that he had a seriously defective game in the second match against the Hurricanes and in fact fucked up badly - the evidence was clear and precise.   I did not try and invent reasons to prove that he did he did well enough to avoid he criticism or did not condemn Steyn's performance unduly without any basis at all - since what I wrote was factual, clear and precise.

As to Willem Alberts - the same logical conclusions apply.  Low work rate - slowness - no ball protection or recovery - no ball passing ever - no role in line-outs - low tackle counts - unacceptably high missed tackle ratio's - all the above are evident for any observer to see and also confirmed by facts.   In the test against the French where he was highly lauded - his missed tackle ratio was 30,8%.  In the Saracens game he did squat and his defence stats in the first two Super 15 games was dismal - he made only 8 tackles missing 2 with a missed tackle ratio of 20% - incidentally that is worse than the tackles regularly put in by props and Alberts is supposed to be a loosie.

I have had ample reasons to criticize those two players - I did not have to invent things to praise them for or to criticize them.

So try again - your attack on me  his misfired AGAIN.