Ou Mozzzie will be surprised to find out there were other contributions to the Bok RWC other than Pollard.
The loony Allende bashers need to note the powerful performance of Allende against Ireland.
Note the speed of old Deon Fourie oaks. what a wasted talent this was!
Nice to see those kicks of Pollard again though….World Cup winners.
‘South Africa on the verge of scoring’….but of course they didn’t because Dud was focused on bashing rather than finding support.
He does the hip check and the lowered shoulder well….probably should have been a ball carrying flanker.
Nobody denies that Dave….but Esterhozen, Kerevi, Tuilagi, Aki all offload off their breaks. Dud dies with the ball time and again…he creates literally nothing. Take the Irish test:
B AkiC0614661410DdA has done a few stupid things over the years, but he's still a very good player...I don't get the "hate". Yes AA might be better in a few games, but he's no spring chicken either and DdA has loads more XP...
Perhaps mozzz didn't notice Allende's passing ability in the clips I have posted.
So much simply passes ou mozzietard by these days. In the end he simply has no clue whatsoever.
Those passes would have been totally expected of an Under 15 center. Dud actually had one year, 2014 perhaps, where he tried to emulate SBW and offloaded. It was exactly what he should have continued to develop. But he was clearly coached away from that.
Then some genius tried to teach him to tactical kick and a number of tries were lost as a result.
Mostly though, Dud is just a very slow thinker, so if something unexpected happens…like he encounters Mo’unga in space he freezes,
...at some stage you had a similar campaign against Jaques Foury...one of the greatest 13s since re-admission...do you always need to campaign against some Bok stalwart?
He could have reacted faster...I would like to see a proper analysis of the play leading up to that try, but he's done some stupid things in the past and will do again...for me Matfields lineout blunder in that match stood out as a bigger blunder...rugby is full of these little moments that defines outcomes and results, but in the end its a 15 man +8 team played over 80 plus minutes...unfair to pin a narrow loss to the eventual champions on one single player or passage of play.
Let me narrow down the question…was he culpable for the try. Disregard whether that took us out the WC.
yes...on him and JP...both culpable...more so the wing.
...DdA took too long to make the tackle causing JP to doubt which attacker he must defend...
if Taipan was here, he would have put all the blame on Schalk being ripped...
Agreed
Made the tackle because Nonu slowed up to make the SF winning pass. No guarantee he would have made it if Nonu fully kept on the burners and drove for the line.
One man makes his tackle after allowing his opponent to run 25 meters unchallenged to within 5 meters of the Bok line….of course JP had to deal with the possibility that Dud never makes that tackle. Failing JP coming in Nonu was angling for the corner with at least a 50% chance of making it.
He just let his man run for 25 meters because he was hopelessly out of position, but he never fucked up….got it. Careful Dave or you might become the rugby version of Clevermike.
So Nonu gets the ball 25 meters from touch and 15 meters from the goal line. We know because the lines are clear. He is brought down 6 meters from touch and 4 meters from the goal.
So his progress is 11 meters forward and 19 meters across. So it’s simple Pythagoras…..the square root of 19 squared plus 11 squared. Which is the root of 482…or 22 meters.
Imagine letting your opponent run 22 meters inside your 22…could be a record,
Saffex, you must be watching a different game to the rest of us!
Blaming JP for DDA’s indecision is pure horse shit. He left JP to have to move in to cover Nonu and this is clear for all to see.
Your one-eyed view on things is legendary, especially your attempts to belittle the ABs’ performance in the RWC Final with 14 men by telling us because Fourie was on the park, this made things even!!
I note you are the SOLE Bok supporter on this site with this bizarre theory……
Nope if he ran dead straight to the 4 meter line it was 11 meters….on the angle it was 22 meters. If trig isn’t your thing try this.
Studies of men sprinting show they cover 1.14 times their height in a stride. Nonu made 13 strides before being brought down at more than 2 yards per stride gives north of 26 meters. But he chopped a few strides to stand up the Dud, hence the 22 meters that would have satisfied Pythagoras,
There is no way a player takes 13 strides at speed and doesn’t make 20 meters.
"There is no way a player takes 13 strides at speed and doesn’t make 20 meters."
I haven't seen the footage, but if this is the case I 100% agree
"Most here have all but given up on him ever living up to 5% of the hype"
Why so generous Plum... WTF ...5%
"Saffex, you must be watching a different game to the rest of us"
Moola, to be fair .... this is usually the case.
Top Bok moment in the WC…..Pollards 60 m kick against France. Second top moment….Pollards 50m kick against England.
Daly, supposedly a long kick specialist showed again last Saturday how difficult it is to land these things….when you really have to, to win a match,