Mozart
I thought you would come up with the BS that nobody else blamed Du Toit for but you try to. To be expected from you though. There were no problem with the jumpers - whether it was Du Toit or Vermeulen.
What is the difference - does either Du Toit or Marx not understand the language used? There was in fact no solid formation involving Mostert. If he was the jumper there would have been no possibility of a driving mauls - you saw what happened in Pretoria against the AB's. Mostert on test elvel is not physical enough to organize and co-ordinate any driving mauls.
Now back to the problem - I do not know why - but Marx throw-ins are problematic. If you look carefully at it - it is too high for any jumper and dropped down just about a meter behind the last man in the line-out. It is nothing new though - Marx has had the problem for years. Sometimes it is more prominent than other times. It happened in the June tests as well - where Mbonambi was brought on when Marx could not find the jumpers - and the caller was Mostert.
Sorry - but you are om another false Du Toit campaign.
Mozart
You are totally talking crap. If you want driving mauls you do not throw the ball to the front jumper since it is easily defended by pushing the maul over the sideline.
Then you come with the story that Marx throw-ins are accurate when Mostert does the calling. Why was there the same problem previously when Mostert was calling and Marx was replaced because of inaccurate throw-ins. Marx's line -out throw-ins has been problematic - and there has been efforts to get him over the
To the come and tell us that Shields outjumped Du Toit is total crap - did he take a line-out when the ball was thrown in by the Springboks? Look why do you not start using your logic and stop the hate campaign against Du Toit - it just makes you look silly.
Agree.
Regardless of who was to blame for the first two, that third one at that time in the game should never have been called.
Poor leadership.
Mostert was indeed missed yesterday.
So many don't rate him despite seeing what a chasm his absence creates.
Moz , both Marx and PSDT are good otherwise. Creates a bit of dilemma if Rassie doesn't wanna play Mostert.
Plum - sorry I disagree
I do not think Mostert was missed. The Springboks tried to use rolling mauls and a few was indeed successful. When Mostert is at 5 they cannot do so - he is on test level not physically strong enough to form and co-ordinate mauls
A typical example of the deficiency was clear in the Pretoria test where not a single penalty corner kick was used - since you need a co-ordinator and Mostert cannot fulfil that role.
Mozart is on his routine anti-Du Toit campaign - so he blames Du Toit for the mess Marx make in throwing in balls. It is not the caller that matters - it is the accuracy of the throw-ins that count. Nobody would call balls to be so high that none of the jumpers can reach it.
So Keegan Daniels was used in the lineouts for the Sharks. Wonder how that happened (SARC).
Easy friends - the choice is between having a Tight 5 or a Tight 4. You can have Mostert at lock and whether you like it or not you have a Tight 4 incapable of really getting the upper hand up front.
Easy friends - the choice is between having a Tight 5 or a Tight 4. You can have Mostert at lock and whether you like it or not you have a Tight 4 incapable of really getting the upper hand up front.
Hard to tell. If that picture is the only evidence, then it must be a penalty to the Boks. Bok player's fingers are higher and in contact with the ball. Shield is coming from the side and attack PSdT's hand ... thus interfering.
Would like to see at what time in the match this occurred .
I think the picture clearly shows that although duToit has a long neck, he has relatively short arms .
Good point Blikkies.
Plus depression is known to shorten the forehead, for sure to be sure .
Mozart got what he deserved - funny how his BS tends to land him in the shit bucket.
Bump
his is BS started by Mozart and he finally got it in the "neck".
Mozart
Mostert is the better jumper? He cannot set up mauls and co-ordinate same. So the choice is Mostert and NO driving mauls or a stronger player who can set up and co-ordinate driving mauls. Most experts will consider the second option.
How many times has Mostert taken opposition balls in line-outs if he indeed is the better jumper?
Marx fcked up the throws...stupid to persist on calling there, but he still botched it.
Eben has a thinner neck. In the last shot, Eben is raising his head up, Steph isn't. The comparisons aren't accurately adjudged. Not that I particularly care for the issue.
Never since 2014 - Matfield was good in line-out play before his retirement and poor afterwards, Please note I referred to the Springbok decline in rolling mauls starting in 2014 with Matfield being the problem and continued to this day - other than a few occasions Du Toit played at 5 - when he engineered rolling mauls.
In the tests played by Mostert this year he did not engineer a single roving maul,
Mozart - you are indeed talking tripe, First thing the jumper must be physically strong enough to form and co-ordinate the maul, That requires more than Mostert is able to provide,
When did it happen that mauls were initiated by Matfield in 2014 and 2015? Never. In the Wellington test he fumbled a ball thrown at him which made a driving maul impossible.
In the WC test against Japan - not a single maul followed line-outs when balls ere thrown at Matfield. That was the reason why he was slated after the test for not following orders.
Whenever Matfield tried to form a maul in tests in 2014 and 2015 - he was pushed out of the mauls and ended up on his arse next to the unsuccessful mauls efforts. That is why he ended up not getting involve in maul situations at all.
