Hulle was nie die Springbokken nie
Wow. What kak was that?
The monster pack looked just as bad as the monster pack Jake selected for Sydney (was it last year?)
How many attacking balls did we lose when players went down without support and the Irish robbed them or forced the penalty?
Five lineout jumpers? Jake if you can't do the maths, I'll fly out and write it down for you. For the possible extra lineout that might win you (and we sure didn't win too many extra tonight), how much ball does it lose you because you don't have a fetcher?
While Spies looked like a world beater behind a dominant Bulls pack, he looked like a chump behind a beaten pack tonight.
And never mind the loosies, our locks shouldn't hold their places either. Ackerman was awesome in the Super 14. But he hasn't played since then due to injury and it showed. Albert van der Berg can't hold down a first choice place in the Sharks. And it showed.
The rush defence - farkin hell. The only player who makes it work is Breyton. The line takes their alignment off the wing in the rush, and with two rookies, our alignment was kak.
Jaco Pretorius looked like he met his teammates before the match. His defensive alignment was the worst of the bunch.
Habana on wing would not have done much better - he's been crap at marshalling the rush all season.
I'm one of the proponents of Habana at centre. After today I don't know what to think. There were so many holes, I can't judge his performance.
The scrum got drilled - Sephaka and BJ. That just tells me that our scrumming is still kak. Balie has done nothing for the technique. We keep blaming every player from Eddie Andrews to Deon Carstens to CJ van der Linde.
What we need is someone who is a master of technique - not strength. Visagie is our Mendez. Jake swallow your pride and call him. He's got a year of playing time left. Maybe he can teach our youngsters something before he retires.
Congratulations Francois Steyn. You looked class today. As for him on wing? I'd have rather seen him at flyhalf. We need a backup to Andre Pretorius. Tonight proved that.
What did today teach us? The commentators thought it was that we don't have much depth outside of the first choice match 22.
St Mich said something similar.
I don't think that's close to the mark. When Jake selected half the side out of position, I think he lost the opportunity to learn any lessons at all.
Pick a first and second choice side without a bias for size, without a bias for Potentially world beating stats (like the highest bench-press-to-time-for-the-60m ratio). Pick them based on their Super 14 and Currie Cup performance.
Stop feeding us the representivity bullshit - that side today looked bloody white to me.
This resting players stuff lacks credibility too. Paulse hardly played this season. And yet we went in with two guys on wing who don't play wing.
Swallow your pride and pick a fetcher.
Then we can start learning about how to tune the side to win the friggin World Cup.
Until then we're shooting in the dark.
The monster pack looked just as bad as the monster pack Jake selected for Sydney (was it last year?)
How many attacking balls did we lose when players went down without support and the Irish robbed them or forced the penalty?
Five lineout jumpers? Jake if you can't do the maths, I'll fly out and write it down for you. For the possible extra lineout that might win you (and we sure didn't win too many extra tonight), how much ball does it lose you because you don't have a fetcher?
While Spies looked like a world beater behind a dominant Bulls pack, he looked like a chump behind a beaten pack tonight.
And never mind the loosies, our locks shouldn't hold their places either. Ackerman was awesome in the Super 14. But he hasn't played since then due to injury and it showed. Albert van der Berg can't hold down a first choice place in the Sharks. And it showed.
The rush defence - farkin hell. The only player who makes it work is Breyton. The line takes their alignment off the wing in the rush, and with two rookies, our alignment was kak.
Jaco Pretorius looked like he met his teammates before the match. His defensive alignment was the worst of the bunch.
Habana on wing would not have done much better - he's been crap at marshalling the rush all season.
I'm one of the proponents of Habana at centre. After today I don't know what to think. There were so many holes, I can't judge his performance.
The scrum got drilled - Sephaka and BJ. That just tells me that our scrumming is still kak. Balie has done nothing for the technique. We keep blaming every player from Eddie Andrews to Deon Carstens to CJ van der Linde.
What we need is someone who is a master of technique - not strength. Visagie is our Mendez. Jake swallow your pride and call him. He's got a year of playing time left. Maybe he can teach our youngsters something before he retires.
Congratulations Francois Steyn. You looked class today. As for him on wing? I'd have rather seen him at flyhalf. We need a backup to Andre Pretorius. Tonight proved that.
What did today teach us? The commentators thought it was that we don't have much depth outside of the first choice match 22.
St Mich said something similar.
I don't think that's close to the mark. When Jake selected half the side out of position, I think he lost the opportunity to learn any lessons at all.
Pick a first and second choice side without a bias for size, without a bias for Potentially world beating stats (like the highest bench-press-to-time-for-the-60m ratio). Pick them based on their Super 14 and Currie Cup performance.
Stop feeding us the representivity bullshit - that side today looked bloody white to me.
This resting players stuff lacks credibility too. Paulse hardly played this season. And yet we went in with two guys on wing who don't play wing.
Swallow your pride and pick a fetcher.
Then we can start learning about how to tune the side to win the friggin World Cup.
Until then we're shooting in the dark.
posted at 12:23 AM
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Hey there thanks for stopping by my scribblepad...
I wanted to crawl into a hole on Saturday .... I have never seen such a poor performance from a Supposed Springbok side (except maybe the Aussie game where we committed Hari kirri). The Irish fans were as stunned as we were. They kept asking me in the Pub afterwards who the hell picked those Bozo's ....
Lets hope JW pulls his head out of his ass and swallows some pride and calls up Floors and or Watson...
I hope we arent the ones to hand the Brits their first win....
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