Orrie was hopeless. He was the worst player on the pitch.
.https://www.rugbypass.com/news/springboks-player-ratings-vs-argentina-2023-rugby-championship/
It's the gameplan more than the changes. Esterhuizen has never had front foot ball to work with. Never given a chance to be a facilitator or focal point. That's what makes it harder to assess him, but even being severely hamstrung by the clown masquerading as a coach, he has comfortably outclassed every other 12 we've played. The new gimmick for this shambles is to select track runners and hope they do stuff. They haven't. In the process, our defence has fallen apart, and our set pieces are now the worst in the RC. We didn't go forwards with Erasputin, the man who took us to 7th, but we've surely gone backward from that lowly place of 2018.
Interesting, have to agree it is the game plan. Forcing players to play a game which doesn't suit them. Swys warned that the current system doesn't bring the best out of players like Libbok.
Then, we are making the same mistake as New Zealand a few years ago where they had so much depth. Jake White famously said that they don't know who the first and second choice players are.
Here we are now. We had player with 50 plus caps, that play like headless chickens. Why on earth are they experimenting now?
New Zealand is building momentum. We know their best team is and they are not messing it up. Now we have some weird c team going to Argentina with no value. Yet another test match waster and used as a trial match to prove why certain players should not be selected.
At this rate I think New Zealand and France will both knock out SA and Ireland in the quarters
JW the AB's are a quality side.
Great to see the "B" brothers performing in each and every game.
Good luck for the WC.
JW, there are very few secrets in rugby. To those who actually study film, it's very easy to see what happens next.
@Korn: We don't have great depth, and the likes of Libbok will never be test quality. It's an uncomfortable truth, but truth nonetheless.
Run at passive defences and exposed space, but kick and pick-and-go elsewhere. It's horrific.
That's an incredibly retarded excuse. Sounds like something from Erasputin.
