What Frans Steyn did for us

Brilliant point Chip-OU. A lesser observer wouldn't  have grasped this subtle point. It wasn't until Frans came on that the  Poms really knew they were licked.

thanks for your input Saffex.

Frans was good enough to mop up after, another, Damian gaff around our 22. Preventing an England try. No. Frans was our best 12 at this world cup. How like you those supporting runs by Mostert, lending power to the tame Damian carries? 

LMAO

Congrats Chopped ou on stati ng the very obvious. 

That said I am still not convinced about how good Steyn currently is. Never saw enough of him. 

We saw enough. 

Who is we. Frans need a full game against top opposition. When did that happen. Oops it never did. 

We saw enough. The sight of Mostert - supposedly pap - driving Damian forward was a sad sight. Esterhuizen does better on his own, and he distributes. Frans too is better. Mopped up after the Damian tackle fail in our 22. 

Beeno

Steyn was used in the main as back-up given a limited time coming from the bench in tests  against the stronger teams we had to play in the WC and starting in minnow games.  In all the games he did play against minnows he had one good move and was a problem in defense, never to be rated higher than 6/10

Mozart and AO made a huge noise about the issue and was silly in the extreme.    The game yesterday was probably the last test Steyn played in for 12 minutes after he replaced Le Roux and if you read what Mozart and co said about the match one would think he was critically involved in the game - he was not involved at all in any of the tries scored - but Mozart as expected gave him a huge write-up.   What a farce.  

AO is still pushing Esterhuizen as a player ahead of De Allende.  LMAO     

I identified but one incident: Frans cleaning up after a Damian missed tackle in our 22. Stopping tries is important, especially when closing out the game - refer to Ellis Park 2018 against die Schwarzwelle. 

It's all very sad Mike to see great posters having a poor run of form. 

One cannot even remember that the wonderful tackle Steyn made after De Allende missed it - must be another concoction of total BS dreamed up by the fool.   I expected that the poor two at least could admit that they were writing BS on site like Pakie did when he said he was wrong about things - Mozart and AO still keep on in writing total BS on site.   

Ah, the "I'm going to pretend it didn't happen" card. To think, you are nearly three times my age! It doesn't show. 

Never said that - but nobody bar you mentioned that as  game changer.   So what is needed here is that you stop being childish and start thinking for a change.  LOL.  

You really need to clean up your grammar Lügnerin. It reads like something from The Colour Purple. Perhaps you are working excerpts from your own magnum opus onto Ruckers : The Colour Brown. 

Damian was a carthorse with no skills. How embarrassing it was that "useless" Frans was on hand to take down the runner Damian flubbed in our 22 in the final. It sums up the gulf between the two; Damian's prime is unworthy to occupy the shadow of a twilight-years Frans. 

The Springboks won the World Cup

Team of the Year  -   Springboks

Coach of the Year -  Erasmus

Player of the Year -  Du  Toit

Idiot of the Year  -   AO aka Liza Page aka a dozen other User Names 

Co-Idiot of the Year - Mozart aka Shifty Schiff-Strzok

The Springboks won the World Cup

Team of the Year  -   Springboks

Coach of the Year -  Erasmus

Player of the Year -  Du  Toit

Idiot of the Year  -   AO aka Liza Page aka a dozen other User Names 

Co-Idiot of the Year - Mozart aka Shifty Schiff-Strzok

Still firing blanks. You come off as the Aids Skrillex of Bok rugby! 

The Springboks won the World Cup

Team of the Year  -   Springboks

Coach of the Year -  Erasmus

Player of the Year -  Du  Toit

Idiot of the Year  -   AO aka Liza Page aka a dozen other User Names 

Co-Idiot of the Year - Mozart aka Shifty Schiff-Strzok

The Springboks won the World Cup

Team of the Year  -   Springboks

Coach of the Year -  Erasmus

Player of the Year -  Du  Toit

Idiot of the Year  -   AO aka Liza Page aka a dozen other User Names 

Co-Idiot of the Year - Mozart aka Shifty Schiff-Strzok

Allende had to make 2 open field tackles on backs....one on an isolated May on the English goal line. He makes that tackle we likely score.The second on Watson running up the right flank in a potential try scoring position. 

Allende misses both tackles, but fortunately Frans stops Watson.

Allende is given credit for his defence, but he remains very vulnerable in space or when some anticipation is required.  

Frans missed that tackle technically as well - but Watson went down and  not held could have gotten up and went on the score a try had it not been for Du Toit who caused Watson to knock on the ball in the process, 

When describing a scene on the site - please for a change be correct in what you wrote.   .      

Not only vulnerable in space, but he still lacks upper body strength. It's amazing how one game changes everyone's perception of reality. Now Damian "rediscovered" his game. He never had it in the first place, and didn't have it at this world cup. We are a team hamstrung by mediocrity. If we could only select our very best, we'd literally be unstoppable right now. But, that's South Africa, wasting its potential on superficial feel-good nonsense. 

Duplication

AO

You remain the expert in writing BS on site.   It has been going on for years.   Remember that incident when Steyn landed on his arsehole on the grass when he tried to tackle De Allende - not once - but twice in the same game?

And how many tacklers does it take to bring De Allende - routinely two or three and he always manage to get the ball back while going forwards in the tackle.   How many tackles does he make causing the ball carrier to go backwards when tackled and how many possession turnovers has he affected in games?   That from a player you dimwit called having weak upper body strength.  How stupid can this idiot get??????????       

Which "huge" tackles? Damian was very often driven forward by a forward. A couple of burrows into the line - his primary weapon is the mole burrow. Damian was not vital, but one of the reasons why our backplay was so putrid throughout the World Cup. Another whose absence upgrades the team. He remains a myth. 

@Lügnerin: I'm still waiting for you to reference one instance of the mythical Steph production. Can it be that you are emotionally attached to him for no reason whatsoever? How sad. 

If he was as you say, then it'll be no trouble whatsoever to reference something. How can it be that you are so devout in your belief, yet have no reason for that belief? Your entrenched circular thinking is not a good look. 

The Springboks won the World Cup

Team of the Year  -   Springboks

Coach of the Year -  Erasmus

Player of the Year -  Du  Toit

Idiot of the Year  -   AO aka Liza Page aka a dozen other User Names 

Co-Idiot of the Year - Mozart aka Shifty Schiff-Strzok.

What more do I want? One piece of evidence. I'm telling you it's not there. 

I said Damian is weak in the upper body, I have been correct. Hence his burrows when he runs. Opponents have been using his leg drive off a weak shoulder against him more recently, sending him sideways. Perhaps why Rassie, in all his genius, assigned a forward to lend power to his carries. Something Esterhuizen does better on his own, better than the combined efforts of Damian and the supporting forward. 

Shit - this is unbelievable - really so.

The Springboks won the World Cup

Team of the Year  -   Springboks

Coach of the Year -  Erasmus

Player of the Year -  Du  Toit

Idiot of the Year  -   AO aka Liza Page aka a dozen other User Names 

Co-Idiot of the Year - Mozart aka Shifty Schiff-Strzok.