Who was saying Gelant lacks pace

Hard to tell when there weren't any real chasers apart from the #2 5m distant and the #10 coming across from way inside.

That 10 year running down the touch line with Gelant showed good pace for that age! 

He would be better as an outside centre. He is more of a playmaker than a player with outright pace. Fast yes, but their are certainly faster options for outside backs.

After Willie the guys with promise are Fassi and Willemse. 

Willemse was courageous under the high ball adchas a nice boot. Can step and has reasonable pace. 

Fassi need to become  physically more robust and he could make it.

Notche disappeared to some extent in a tight game. He too needs to work on becoming physically more robust. Dave tends to jump the gun as he lacks rugby acumen. 

I thought that tubby gray haired touch judge kept up with the Gelanter pretty well! 

Not saying he was moving slowly, Dave, just saying there was no easy visual gauge as to how quickly he was really moving. The #10 made pretty good ground on him, if you take the angle he was running into account he made about 3 yards more than Gelant to the point where they were in line with each other (I actually plotted their positions on a diagram of a rugby field and drew lines to measure this).

Watch Mapimpi leaving Leyds for dead over 40m if you want real pace.

Geez what is wrong with you pricks

Always fun, Dave.

Fat blue eyes, yes.

Pakie is an expert in motion, it’s how he makes a living. I’m inclined to believe  he got this simple exercise right. And to answer your question Dave I said Gelant is slow. No not disastrously slow.....but slow like Combrink...likely to be shown up by faster backs.  He is a stepper, and pure steppers rarely make potent outside backs, Campesi is a rare exception.

Sadly Pythagoras proves you wrong. As they reached the 22 metre line Gelant was a step outside the line.....he had 23 metres to the line. The painfully slow O Connor was a step inside the line....he had 21 metres to go. But he was 12 metres infield from Gelant.

So his distance to the line at the point Gelant crossed it was:

Root(12squared +21squared)= Root(144+441)=24.18 metres. One more metre than Gelant’s 23 metres.

And if you look at the race itself O Connor lumbered to the line at the same time as Gelant lumbered to the line, but was still a metre infield. 

So I think it would be fair to say that these two cart horses are equal pace...but O Connor at almost 30 has slowed markedly. 

Gelant is a pretty slow fullback with an awful boot,

Sorry Dave, but even Gelant doesn’t believe he has any pace. A few minutes after the try he gets the ball in space with a real chance to run it in....but this time with O Connor a step or two behind....and he simply hoofs the ball aimlessly downfield. Any player who believed in his own pace would have given it a go.

Case closed.

Dragonfruit?

Rubbish Moz, Gelant backed his pace scoring that try

30m from an open tryline with the nearest defensive back 15m away, you'd have to be pretty feeble not to back yourself.

A mobile loosie like Notshe would have scored from there, Dave.

Alberts could have scored that