The great Steph Du Toit the strong silent time making a difference in the dressing room.
Here is a great video of Pollard sinking that kick. Note the calmness, as he slowly goes back to his mark then effortlessly strokes the ball splitting the uprights.
This Bok side has to be the toughest bunch mentally of ant RWC tournament.
Very informative HasBeen… our coaches were so clueless that it took one of the senior players to say ‘we have to fight’? Hahaha the genius Eluckmiss couldn’t come up with that.
Also it’s nice to hear the emphasis on the Pollard kick. Best strike of his life, without which the WC is toast.
Stick with moz for the honest scoop.
Mozart
Get your House n order - no it is the sayings of a teammate that rules and who put to put the idea that players must motivate each other during games came directly from Erasmus. It is part of the team spirit the Springboks display during matches. that wo he 2019 and 2023 World Cups.
Oh so teammates trump coaches…got it. Why not family members?
Stupidity Alet warning.
Stupidity Alet warning.
Thanks for ‘aleting ’ us.
PSDT...one of the greatest players playing the game...take note Moz...the one thing they needed to change things, to turn things around: "our scrum"...and what a fcn kick to finish it!!!
Mozzietard still thinks rugby is a one man game.
The poor oak has lost his way.
Final comment on Mozart
There are a leadership group in any team and Mozart now claims otherwise. Du Toit is a key player in that leadership group and so is De Allende - but Mozart continuously atatcked them and had been for more than a decade. There is no reason for his constant attacks on them and the coach other than an advanced degree of rugby idiocy.
The genius coach apparently said nothing and Steff added the intellectual content when he said ‘oaks we have to play harder’. Hahaha.
It was the kick stoopid!
Mozart makes u p BS all over the site.
Well whatever he said had no effect according to Pollard….the players were still shell shocked….this whole thing reminds me of when the players saved PdV.
So a coach can’t get the players fired up…..our whole WC rested on a guy who says nothing suddenly leading the discussion. Failing that we fail, and that was the plan.
Hell that’s even less likely a plan than leaving our WC down to three last minute kicks.
I aw when Erasmus met the players and walked with them to the change-room and he obviously gave his assessment to the players about the game thus far and then the senior players follow suit.
I have never seen such BS deductions like Mozart did in this case. He never understood how Erasmus deals with the players and encourage them to speak about issues they consider to be important. S Mozart twisted that approach as BS and twisted it around into BS. . .
Dave I’m not telling you anything. I’m simply repeating what Pollard said in the video which you can access above. The coach had obviously had his say, but follow me closely now, the players were still shell shocked until Dud Toit spoke. It couldn’t be plainer.
So let’s see what had to happen for the Boks to win the WC:
1 Marx had to get injured so there was an opportunity to call up Pollard who hadn’t been selected. And Fourie had to be available to avoid the need for calling up a real replacement hooker
2 Du Pont had so be head butted by the Namibian to take away prep time for the Frogs and leave him at way less than peak form.
3 Ramos had to miss a crucial kick and Pollard had to make a harder one.
4 Eluckmiss had to get Pollard on in the Pom test and yank Libbok at minute 31.
5 Dud Toit had to break his silence to tell the team to er.. .play harder…. after the coaches had failed to impart any urgency. According to HasBeen that saved the WC.
6 Steward had to crazily kick a vertical up and under on the halfway at minute 76 vs trying for the 50/22 or a deep kick….yielding a scrum and the winning Pollard penalty.
7 Cane had to be red carded in the first half giving the ABs a net 40 minute man disadvantage (a handicap of 10 points) and Kolisi had to only get a yellow for a much more dangerous tackle.
8 Both Barrett and Mo’unga had to miss kicks giving the ABs a 50% kicking success ratio, while Pollard had to land all 4 of our kicks. This all depending on a man who Eluckmiss never selected in the first place
…..They don’t call him Eluckmiss for nothing.
The fact is who called him Eluckmus -the only time I see that usage came from you - arsewipe. But then you were in the change- room and saw and heard everything so we musta all accept your true imagination account as to what happened. You sound more and more like Biden - who came across as big a liar as you are. It is really tragic to see what you became on site. . . .
But Dave our opponents beat more defenders, made more metres, made way more passes and offloads. In general play the only thing we really did consistently better was scrum. Our defense kept us in there….which meant the WC was decided between their kickers and our kicker. Fortunately our kicker was better so we won the WC.
There was obviously competent coaching of the set pieces and defense. But genius ….nah….the traditional South African will to win and luck. Huge truck loads of luck,
As for the education bit Dave, I accept your description on the half time routine, I also accept Pollard’s description of what actually happened….that the team remained shell shocked until Dud Toit broke his silence and told them to get a wake up.
If you win by 1 point….be conservative….the other side had to have a 1 in 3 chance of winning. Or our chances of winning, being very optimistic was 67% in each game.
Then the chances of winning all three are .67X.67X.67 or 30%. Damn lucky.
So where is your answer n who calls Eramus that BdS name?
‘We converted our pressure into points’….you are finally getting it Dave, Pollard made his kicks….Ramos, Mo’unga and Barrett didn’t.
Dave you support the Boks come hell or high water, except of course when Jake was the coach. I always support the Boks, I picked them in every WC game…but I don’t pretend they are playing great rugby when they aren’t. There wasn’t one statement performance by the Boks in the whole WC. And in the two WCs there was one, against England in 2019…and I called it exactly that.
We played stupid rugby and we were lucky to win.