JWJust_win
Captain18,570 posts
JWJust_winCaptain18,570 posts
13 Jun 2015, 22:00#2
Willie is too erratic for my liking. Maybe he will be better when surrounded by Boks.
CLclevermike
Coach57,555 posts
CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
14 Jun 2015, 08:00#4
To my mind he remains our no 1 option at full back. Kriel is a potential full back - but he lacks the vision to optimise his team mates to top advantage.
JWJust_win
Captain18,570 posts
JWJust_winCaptain18,570 posts
14 Jun 2015, 08:20#5
Welcome back CleverMike, I hope the move went well. The most important thing is the internet of course.
Fantasy rugby scores sort of went back to normal as far as I can tell, i.e. nobody got 700. We will see what the final scores are & hopefully Ruckers will move up the overall rankings, or at least not move down.
BEBeeno1
Captain40,032 posts
BEBeeno1Captain40,032 posts
14 Jun 2015, 10:28#6
Willie will be even better when other players around him pack an attacking threat.Krile is excellent. You could play him as an outside center as well. He is wide awake and a real threat. The context also is that he plays for the bulle. These twom are defintely our RWC 15s. Cheslin might make it as an impact player?
Oaks always miss context. How well for example is Srauss playing at the Bulle. What a pity he and those others left the Cheetahs.
DEDezertFox
Pro2,288 posts
14 Jun 2015, 12:41#7
If you want a player that can create something, then Willie has to your man.
@Denny: It's an interesting proposal, one I explored in 2013. He does come in at first receiver at times, so that's another argument for him already. But starting 10? He knows exactly how to play right in the face of the defence and distribute, more so than any other 10 we have. I even wondered at one point what Du Preez would have been as a 10, another player who has the ability to play right in your face and create space. But the problem is still there however, we do not have good running structures outside our halfbacks. There has been many a game where our 10s have played flat only to have slow, flat-footed runners run aimlessly into nowhere.
CLclevermike
Coach57,555 posts
CLclevermikeCoach57,555 posts
14 Jun 2015, 13:20#8
Letrsal
You are still saying the same thing about De Allende being operating in space created by De Jongh and Kolbe. First of all De Jongh is incapable of creating space for anybody - De Jongh is a finisher - not a creator of plays for anybody. He can only operate if somebody else can create space for him.
Kolbe when he joins the backline creates an overlap id the player outside of him is De Allende - fine the attack would proceed. It it is De Jong - chances are the attack would die with him, as he lacks any creativity whatsoever. His passing game has been poor in the past and has only this year showed some improvement - but he still ran at his opponent and can be tackled easily and in the process often enough lose ball possession.
De Jongh is physically way too small and light to be of any real affect in backline play - he cannot impose himself against the much bigger and stronger backline players he has to face on Super 15 level. That is why he could not do much with ball in hand against for instance Vorster in the match last week.
DEDezertFox
Pro2,288 posts
14 Jun 2015, 13:32#9
Actually, de Jongh runs fantastic lines. He can attack either shoulder or head-on. He and Kolbe are running the lines that set DA free. Conversely Kolbe, Lleyds and de Jongh are the cleaners and punch runners to set up return phases. They are the hardest working players in that Stormers backline.
Michael, you are too much, really. You are straining and quite frankly incapable of supporting your position. In all six games I have reviewed, nothing you said has been as you said it. Nothing. These things are merely a figment of your imagination. Not real. Not observable.