The true story about the scrumming in the Aussie gme

Ouch Jannie never scrummed against Sio and Sio did not come close to owning Malherbe.

There is no better evidence to confirm who the better tighthead was, than when Malherbe replaced Jannie and in that very first scrum, the Bok scrum ripped the Aussie scrum to shreds.

The only change from the previous scrum was Malherbe for Jannie.

The only time the Bok scrum struggled was when useless Heinke v/d Merwe replaced the Beast.....simple deduction is.....Heinke was not up to it.

One has to ask the question, what the hell was Heinke doing there is the first place - only clueless Meyer will know the answer to that.

Well Moz its funny how it was Heinke that was penalised then.....but best of all is you inability to work out the maths on this one.....let me explain one more time, its simple really.

At the start of the game, we have Beast, Bismark and Jannie as our frontrow......at best we are solid, its parity at scrum time.

Off goes Jannie and on comes Malherbe. Now we have Beast, Bismark and Malherbe as our front row and in the first scrum they completely demolish the Oz scrum.....you with me still?

Simple maths tells me that given the only change to the equation is Malherbe for Jannie when the scrum improves, then by simple deduction Malherbe is better than Jannie - which he is anyway.

In the second half Beast and Bismark depart, replaced by Strauss and useless Heinke......what happens, the Bok scrum struggles thanks to Heinke being completely out of his depth.

That is the FACT of the day and no amount of bullshit from you is going to change the fact that Malherbe improved the scrum when he came on and Heinke weakened it when he came on.

I thought maths was a strong point of yours Moz?  

I dont have to support my national treasure, just bask in the glow of being right again. And there are many articles out there confirming that. As for Malherbe, the hype has suddenly gone very quiet. Why? Because all but a few rabid supporters like Tok and Dave know.....he was monstered....not by the Bargies, but by the weak scrummming Aussies.

Game, set and match.   

Sharks front-rankers Du Plessis and Beast Mtawarira have been severely criticised by pundits and armchair experts alike for what they perceived to be an indifferent year.

“I don’t think I doubted at any time of the year whether I still have the desire or the skills but unfortunately our season at the Sharks didn’t go as planned,” Du Plessis said.

“It was never because of a lack of trying but I am really happy that we can play better when it matters most.”

Although a host of talented, albeit inexperienced, players came to the fore this year, Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer persisted with his tried and tested combinations.

Du Plessis rewarded Meyer for showing faith in the Bok stalwart with two laudable performances against Australia and New Zealand.

He anchored a strong Springbok scrum in both matches while he was also bustling in the loose.

The South African scrum lost some impetus in consecutive weeks when the Bethlehem strongman left the field.

His presence was sorely missed in the final stages of the defeat to New Zealand when he left the field thanks to a knee injury.

His replacement Vincent Koch also had to leave the field in the 62nd minute resulting in uncontested scrums due to both tightheads injured.

“It is actually not sore, it just feels weird, we don’t really know what it is at the moment but it looks like a medial ligament but by grace maybe I will be good,” Du Plessis said.

“I am a quick healer and even if they take a staple gun and staple it on and I can run, I can be good.”

Du Plessis admitted on Saturday the criticism he came under this season did have an influence on his personal life.

“It is a very lonely place if you don’t have a successful season, then it is easy to find mistakes and criticism as such,” he said.

“If you give me one guy that it doesn’t affect, I will give you a liar, so it does affect you but as a player you’ve had enough criticism to know how to deal with it and to know whose opinion really counts.

“But the thing is it hurts your family because they read it more than you and people confront them.”

The 32-year-old brushed the criticism aside and sent a strong message that he is anything but a spent force.

“If you play rugby long enough and read in the papers that you are s#*t enough times, you have to pick yourself up,” he said.

That article says nothing about Jannie that puts him above anyone else.....it merely confirms the fact that Jannie was crap for most of the S15 but has at best been solid in his two tests......which is correct.

But Malherbe was better than Jannie when he replaced him against Oz.....evidenced by that first scrum that had Malherbe on board - this is a FACT