Yeah like playing a flank at hooker….man you are so biased.
Yeah like playing a flank at hooker….man you are so biased.
That was make shift huge difference
No harm in seeing what he does at Wing in this game besides he is really good there …his defence misjudgment has prompted Jake to make a change …Kriel can manage 13 quite well.
Piss poor call from Jake - nothing new from Jake at all
His player management has always been utterly shit
Like leaving the guy who won the WC at home. Who put the whole WC on a guy who can’t take the pressure in club matches.
Pollard was injured helloooooo
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Mozart is spreading his normal BS. Pollard was injured when the WC squads were to be subbmitted to World Rugby and nominating Pollard at that stage would have been a lunacy decision equal to all the passengers selected by Meyer in 2015.. By the time the WC started Pollard was back playing aagain.
You select him and if his injury prevents him playing you replace him….as it turns out he was playing before we played our second WC game. Easy to leave out one of our 4 scrum halves. Only England among the top teams went for 4 scrummies.
It was a stupid decision and failing the injury to Marx would have cost us the WC,
BS as per normal from Mozart. Only a totally defunct brain coach will select an injured player to play in the WC and there is a drawback in that case.- if a player was injured at the time of nomination and selected and he cannot play at the start of he WC he cannt be replaced. Meyer found that situation in the 2015 WC and ended up with 8 unplayable players in that series, The result was that it was a disaster for the Springboks in that series and I think Erasmus knew what happened in 2015 and he nominated only playing players at the time the squad selecion had to be submitted.
I think Erasmus made a blunder by including Fourie in the WC squad instead of another hooker - but to blame him for leaving out Pollard at the time of nomination was total BS.
And to claim that Polalrd was the only plrayer contributing to the 2023 WC being won is a total Mozart brain fart again.
Bullshit you don’t select a player that has been injured and not yet returned to the playing field at the time the WC squad is announced
There is no rule that says that and Pollard was clearly about ready to play. It was an judgement call. Anybody with half a brain would have taken along Pollard for insurance given Willemse and Libbok’s lack of big game experience, it was an obvious decision with no downside….none.
Just another case of Erasmus getting lucky.
It’s a team rule that Rassie abides by and was well documented in Chasing the Sun 2.
They don’t select players that are not 100% fit to play and part of that involves a good few club games before they return to the Bok side. So in fact Rassie broke his own rule when he selected Pollard as he had only played 20 minutes off the bench for Leicester when he was called up
Nothing about Rassie being lucky at all you don’t win back to back WC being lucky - it’s just plain childish putting anything down to luck in a game of rugby played of 80min by 23 players
Lucky Ireland played NZ in the quarters.
Lucky Du Pont was half the player in QF.
Lucky Marx got hurt so he could correct his Pollard mistake.
Lucky Ramos missed crucial kicks, lucky Pollard didn’t.
Lucky to get a flaccid England in the semis
Lucky Steward screwed it up when a deep kick would have won the game
Lucky NZ got a very marginal red card
Lucky Kolisi didn’t get one for a far more dangerous tackle
Lucky NZ missed two kicks
Lucky Pollard made all his kicks
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Eluckmiss.
Absolute bullshit that is all just utter rubbish - every one of those points
If you want lucky just look at Jakes WC - he only had to play England the entire competition
Now that’s a lucky draw if ever there was one
Every one of those points is true….that’s your problem Dave.
Not a single one is true and that’s a fact
Well Dave that’s your problem……huge bias….you just can’t absorb any facts that contradict your beliefs.
No that is not true as I can easily counter everyone one of those points with reality
Reality in your case equals bias.
"Reality in your case equals bias."
That from the pompous, ignorant, blue stocking who wants to use (sic) inside quotation marks. Stay down (sic).
Great song Blob 
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I had a feeling the finger off the pulse Jake would resort back to Moodie on the wing instead of investing in Moodie at 13 and letting his centre partnership with Kriel develop
Instead poor Kriel gets shoved to 13 with Vorster at 12
Jake never fails to fuck up