Playing Dud Toit at flank was a good move by Erasmus….he was a mediocre lock. All these players you mention, like Dud Toit are too tall for 7….Kobus Wiese is a better physical type.
Playing Dud Toit at flank was a good move by Erasmus….he was a mediocre lock. All these players you mention, like Dud Toit are too tall for 7….Kobus Wiese is a better physical type.
Bullshit PSDT was a great lock, one of our best ever.
Made perfect sense moving him to 7 given we had no obvious candidate at 7 and thereby enabling the team to have Eben, Lood and PSDT on the field at the same time
Hahahaha….sure Dave, so great he was never the number 5 incumbent.
What part of him moving to 7 so that you had him, Lood and Eben starting do you not get?
He was certainly not moved to 7 because he was poor at 5 - that’s pretty obvious. 5 is easier than 7 which tells you everything you need to know of the success he has made of 7
Pretty impressive that he went from a great 5 to one of the best 7’s ever
A great 5, hahaha. And nice try saying it was Lomp who replaced him, for most of 2017 before he was chosen as a flank by Erasmus he was on the bench with Mostert starting at 5.
Yes Mostert started under Rassie’s reign until he woke up to the fact that Lood was better
I’d say PSDT is our second best 5 after RG, third would be Lood, fourth Ruben v Heerden
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For the Bulls is a great call by Jake - like Mostert he is not physical enough for lock so it makes perfect sense to play him at 7
He has been good there - a more skilful version of Mostert playing in his rightful position
Leave locking to big physical brutes and play the less bulky like Nortje, Mostert, BJ Dixon and Ludwig at 7