That's the problem, in tractor mode he can continue to move forward until a scrum forms around him. None of these slow motion 'runs' ever amount to anything.
As for offloads he never offloaded once against Japan, Wales and England. Hell against Wales he got the ball 12 times and passed once!
The man is a cul de sac.
Now that Delande's defence has improved it might be worth giving him a few games at outside centre. He used to play on the wing so he has the pace for outside centre. He could be even more dangerous ball in hand on the attack.
Frans Steyn at 12 with Delande at 13 could be pretty devastating, albeit Steyn is on his last legs.
Ok Mike ... so now that you've been shown that the nonsense you were spouting regarding Savea was factually incorrect ... can we expect an apology and a promise that you'll at least try to pull your head out your arse?
CC
One game does not change a year of test selections stooge, Especially after Hansen admitted that he made a mistake by selecting Barrett as a blindside flank, How would you like your eggs - fried, omelet style or scrambled?
MozartBy the way - I pointed out Kerevi's defense deficiencies and Mozart ignored it totally because it was factual. So here we have a real powerful tractor in Kerevi, with two missing tyres caused by defense deficiency. That is why Mozart is always under an egg mountain and it is getting worse by the day.
Why not defend the defense record of Kerevi dimness or are you too stupid to recognize a real deficiency in a player you punted for the past two years?
Moron Mike ... we aren't talking about Barrett now are we?
Ardie Savea ... remember? You claimed he was a blindside flank. I corrected you.
Now ... about that apology ... and the promise. Can I expect it soon?
Whatever do you mean, Stupid? Where did I lie?
Did you not go on and on about JJ being the best?
How about Jantjies? Wasn't he the greatest 10 to ever don the Bok jersey? You told us of the wondrous work he did on the pitch ... didn't you?
Could have sworn it was you, Stupid!!
I know that lying in front of a judge is how you earn your wage. It's become a way of life for you now ... and I can understand that it was inevitable that all the lies you spout everyday would seep into your private life.
With all that practice, one would have thought that you'd at least be a little better at it.Huh??
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaaa!!!
Are you really that slow on the uptake? Is it humanly possible? Are you a retard? Did your mommy drop you on your head?
I never said anything about De Allende and a step. Are you kidding me? You see, Stupid ... that's why I know you as "Stupid".
I'm tempted to explain my comment, but on second thought I doubt it would help.
Oh ... are you suggesting that De Allende has a step? Interesting!!
What's that? You did what? You conceded that you were ... "WRONG" ... well ... I hate to tell you this, dumb ass, but you've never been right. Not in anything.
"Man enough" ... pffffffffffffhaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha!!! You didn't just say that did you?
Listen up, Dickwad ... Jantjies should never have been given a second bite at the cherry. He exposed himself as a jittery chump and even though we all saw what a mess he made, you kept conjuring nonsense, claiming him to have had a brilliant match.
Are you going to be "man" enough now and "concede" that you were "wrong" on this account too? Go on ... haven't you heard ... the truth shall set you free.
Yeah, yeah ... we've all seen the excuses you use to justify your useless favourites ... "it's not the player ... he's a world beater ... a great ... a legend in the making ... it's the friggin game ... it's changing you see".
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!!
Well at least you admitted to De Allende's inability to score tries ... and ... I'm really proud of you Stupid for coming clean that you did in fact say those utterly absurd things about JJ and Jantjies ... and ... in a round about way, that I never lied to you.
Keep it up!!
Kerevi 9 starts in the RC ...3 tries.
Dud 13 starts in the RC .....1 try.
Dud's 6 tries have been padded by 3 WC tries against weak opposition. He doesn't score tries because he has no vision....a process player.
He was ranked 32nd in Super Rugby 2019 in terms of tries scored.....the only inside centre who played for more than a thousand minutes and didn't score at least 3 tries.
As for centres not scoring tries anymore....nonsense....3 of the top 10 try scorers in Super Rugby were centres. The rest were wings whose tries rely to a large extent on centre play.
Productive centre play is central to try scoring.....Allende doesn't create or score tries.
Mozart
I said nothing about Kerevi's tries = zilch. II wrote about his deficient defense - which you in your normal style ignores, If De Allende in the 219 season had the defense figures of Kerevi he would have been out of the SA squad,
The other problem is that Kerevi is a strong - but very pace-deficient ball carrier and also a layer like Esterhuizen = who for obvious reasons not in the SA squad,
Nothing has changed at all - tryscoring is a priority - even though you disregarded that when it involves certain SA players,
The other three factors are defense an d linking up with outside backs and other potential ball carriers and ball protection and recovery at breakdowns.
Comments on defense please.
Allende's tackling technique is still pretty much a high grab. But the Bok system of rushing the first and second receiver has made tackling less onerous at 12....and shifted the defensive decision burden to 13 and the wings. That's why we see the wings shooting in so often.
Certainly Kerevi is regarded as a poor defender but his defensive stats against common opponents England Wales were no worse than Dud's....actually slightly better at 86% vs 84%
Mozart
We were not discussing De Allende - you asked a question and I answered the one on Kerevi and said merely that if De Allende's defense was as bad as that of Kerevi - he would not have been in the SA team.
So forget about De Allende - we all know how warped your myths are about him, So Kerevi is an inadequate defender and you admitted it - but still think he is the best center in the world, LMAO
I asked a question about Schiff?
So centres need more space than scrummies, flyhalves, wings and fullbacks? If contracting space was an issue one would expect that to effect halfbacks first.
Positions go through cycles. Right now we have poor centres and props.....nobody in the class of O'Driscoll, Jean and Nonu in the centres. No loosehead as potent as Ayerza.
By contrast the locks in particular are stellar.
O Driscoll, Jean and Nonu would still be ringing the cash register. The space argument is balls.
Nonsense Dave .....more of your unsupported assertions. We saw Kerevi and Vakatawa ripping at the WC. The notion that centres are uniquely affected by reduced space is clearly balls. You haven't even proven there is reduced space. Hell even Japan found space on the outside against the Boks supposedly state of the art defence.
There were 33 tries in the 2019 knockouts vs 38 in 2015.....hardly seems like a sea change, especially as 2015 saw NZ score 9 tries in blowing out France.
In the semis and two finals there were 13 tries in both 2015 and 2019. Defences are hardly more dominant. And in 2011 there were only 8 tries in the semis and finals. Perhaps defence was more potent in 2011!
But hey don't let the facts confuse you!
Shezza you and Dave just keep repeating yourselves with no proof and I keep providing proof you ignore....not very sporting. Here's another example, the French centres in the QF:
Vakatawa ...14 runs, 52 metres, 1 clean break, 5 defenders beaten, 1 try
Fickou...9 runs, 72 metres, 3 clean breaks, 3 defenders beaten
So they made clean breaks and scored.
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Kerevi vs England.....6 runs 3 clean breaks....no crash ball there.
And here's the clincher....in 32 runs in the knockouts Allende made 2 clean breaks. Kerevi made more in 6 runs! Allende does not breach the defence he runs into the defence!
So lets see how Mozart's past centers shaped up,
* The first one he has been writing praise songs about for years was Frans Steyn
* The net one was Basteraud
* Then we got Kuridrani
* Then we got Kerevi
* Last year it was Slade,
Other than Slade the other players all have the same attributes - they are pace-deficient and all pf them has serious defense deficiencies.
So your stats place Allende behind Petaia, Slade, Tuilagi, Leinert-Brown, Fickou, Vakatawa and Parkes in terms of metres per run. Placing Dud 9th or just below the mid point of QF centres.
And he acheived that mediocre result playing the weakest QF team, with a surfeit of great front foot ball from a dominant pack . What a disappointment! Case closed.
For me 9th among 16 centres in terms of metres per carry corroborates what my eyes told me. Allende worked for the Boks as a crashballer....the Nienaber defence disguised his poor tackling technique......the Boks media blitz on his behalf did the rest.
He's the same mediocre centre he has always been.
Anyway to come back to the team Mozart listed, It remains an unholy mess to be xpected from him. He screams and carry on about Kerevi for the past two years, but does not consider defense as a requirement as is evident in this case, When challenged on that score he went bananas about what he thought was De Allende's deficient tacklng ability - the same BS he spread for years ion site,
As to Folau - the guy is out of rugby for keeps it seems to me. He apparrantly approached the Bulls to play for them in Super Rugby and they said NO, A pity - he is even though Mozart's arse-swipe thinks differently he is indeed a top class full back,
So what next - he selected Barrett at flyhalf despite the fact that he ahs not played test rugby in that position this year,
So lets summarize - he has three of the backline players from Australia - a team he himself claim is not good enough and that was the reason for their loss in the rugby championship.
In the flank position he puts in two regular blinside flanks playing on test level this year, In one test the imbecile CC claimed Savea played as opensider - it did not take much to see that the team and he himself was defective in that game,
Next selection - both Retallick and Etzebeth are no 4 locks - bu t Mozart wants them both in his World 15 team with neither of them having played in the no 5 position on test level ever,
So why worry - just push in the names of favourite players and forget about performance in the position they routinely play in and make sure that the other players are nowhere in sight,
Dave I have given up in paying attention to Mozart's BS, The man is certainly not worth listening to on rugby issues,
Ironical then that you have responded to my views 12 times on this string alone! Face it Wanker, your whole purpose on this Board is to try to contradict me......you probably wake up in the dead of night thinking......'how can I get mozart'.
Read this from Psychology Today....and recognize yourself:
THE DOWNSIDE OF OBSESSION
At its worst, obsession is an iron mask that permits us to gaze in only one direction at one thing—or, to use another metaphor, a giant tidal wave that crashes through our minds and washes away all other concerns. We may become obsessed with a person, a place, a goal, a subject—but obsession amounts to the same thing in all cases: addiction.
At first, like all addictions, obsession is intoxicating. It fills us up, and what a relief that feeling is (especially if we felt empty before). But even if we didn't feel empty, obsession makes us feel potent, capable, and purposeful.
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Do you feel potent Tokkie, even if you are machine enhanced ....you stupid old coot
