If there is one thing that Mozart says on this site - which is an absolute certainty - that is that as long as Meyer sticks with the old players he is always right - when he dares to select a younger player - he is wrong.
Mozart takes an immediate dislike to any new player in a Springbok jersey. Adter his first five tests as a Springbok Mozart wrote on this page that Etzebeth has proved nothing to indicate that his selection is justified and it took him another six months to admit that Etzebeth is acceptable.
Yet that support also vanished into thin air hen there was a sniff of the possibility of Bakkies Botha and Victor Mattfield returning for the Springboks. The final visit in the Scottish test has hardly being blown when we had a praise song on Bakkies Botha;s performance on this site - how good he was and how he was better than any of the younger players. When it was pointed it that Bakkies in fact had a poor game and t was statistically poor as well - he tuned his praise singing a bit down. However, Bakkies remains his firm favourite for selection.
Maybe he learned a bit from the Botha episode because when the news on Matfield's return to playing Super 15 rugby broke - he at least said that Matfield had to prove his candidacy for selection through performance. The problem is the bar Mozart himself set for the Matfields and Bothas is very low - while the bar for younger players is ten times higher.
Then we have the other issues in Meyer's selections. He is the most avid Morne Steyn supporter around - Morne can do no wrong because he is an accurate kicker at goal. Morne has a defence problem - his tackling is iffy and he missed far too many tackles. The reason is that he goes high and miss tackles as a result Howeverm the confenbation of Engelbrecht is endless - because Engelbrecht has the same problem going high in tackles The difference is that in Engelbrecht going hogh in tackles is a mortal sin - in the case of Morne it is acceptable and missed tackles by Morne is never a Mozart topic.
Mozart is also a wizard - when stats is to the detriment of a player he likes, it is ignored - but the poor player he dislikes are attacked especially if he could find a single negative in the stats of that player. Take for instance the defence stats of one of his absolute favourites - De Jongh. I made a serious mistake in calculating the missed tackle ratio - a mistake I admitted and regretted (I indicated as such on the site) - yet it was not enough. Mozart went ballistic and I suddenly became a liar and worse. But get back to De Jongh - his missed tackles tackle ratio is still double of what it should be. So a reason has to be discovered and a load of absolute garbage followed. De Jongh missed so many tackles because he is a strong tackler - it never hits home that he was writing crap. A string rackler miss less tackles and has ab acceptable missed tackle ratio.
Then we had the classic. Before the Ellis Park test - it was pointed out that that -
* Juandre Kruger has no grunt and is a poor selection; and
* the immobility of Alberts was going to be a severely detrimental issue.
Back came the illogical response. No problem - Alberts will provde the grunt that Kruger lacks and since Kriger is a mobile lock - he would do the work wider out that Alberts will not be able to do. But that junk did not work out - so Mozart's essage was crap at best.
Then we have the issue of one-incident that determines career. Whenever a player he does not like makes one mistake through using deficient technique or otherwise - and the condemnation of Mozart is endless and for him it is a career - defining incident - whether for years afterwards that player never makes the same mistake again ever. His favourites van make bugger ups regularly - often repeating the same mistakes match agter match - and the silence of Mozart is ear-splitting and the excuses endless. Mozart definitely qualifies for the designation "one incident junkie".
I can go on and on. In conclusion - SA has not produced any quality player since 2007 - there were some new selections that Mozart supports - but those you can count on the fingers of one hand. The rest are all crap and we must always revert to the older players. He is one member who believes that reputation is all tat counts for selection - performance is nothing. Any player Mozart does not like is weak and is a "process player" - a term use to discredit them any really top performers.
The musings of Mozart on rugby is at least interesting - but one always have to remember not to take it really seriously. If you do - it will mean that we have to use the 2007 WC team in 2015 and destine any younger players to the dustbin. So back to the future is Mozart's idea of progress.
