Do we deserve an award?
1 Dec 2006
We want to know what you think of the latest issue of SA Rugby magazine (with Fourie, Spies, Erasmus and Watson on the cover).
There are no prizes on offer, just the thrill of seeing your name in print in the next issue of the mag.
We welcome criticism that is constructive and any suggestions as to how the magazine can improve.
Just to remind you what’s in the awards issue:
– Jaque Fourie (Player of the Year)
– Luke Watson (Comeback of the Year)
– Pierre Spies (Rookie of the Year)
– Rassie Erasmus (Coach of the Year)
PLUS:
– Gary Botha, Ollie le Roux and Jonathan Kaplan on the Absa Currie Cup final.
– Kabamba Floors: Why my height shouldn’t matter.
– How Heyneke Meyer built the Bulls empire.
– Hilton Lobberts on his breakthrough season.
– Bevin Fortuin on being a Bok.
– Tiaan Strauss is back in South Africa.
– Nick Mallett and Naas Botha look ahead to the Vodacom Super 14.
– Keo on why SA’s high-performance academy only creates the illusion of transformation.
– Who knows Phillip Burger better, his dad Thys or Cheetahs centre Hendrik Meyer?
– World Cup countdown.
233 Comments
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1 Dec 2006, 12:34 pm
skabenga
We are the sh@t! Sharks are just plain sh@t!
1 Dec 2006, 12:35 pm
Ruan and Marshall, should be a scrummie battle royale and Cobus vs Carstens for the front row, who your money on?
1 Dec 2006, 12:36 pm
Skabenga
You guys are gonna need Tony Brown!
1 Dec 2006, 12:36 pm
LOL Supa
come on bru, we bring the Brazilian flair to the rugby…for you I killa da bull…
1 Dec 2006, 12:37 pm
LOL that old fossil nooit ekse, we are gonna need a proper flyhalf though ja, hmmmmmm
1 Dec 2006, 12:38 pm
Maybe Francois Steyn, thats what they are touting him as…Percy WTF is he up to?
1 Dec 2006, 12:39 pm
skabenga
You guys have two decent flyhalves – Steyn/Butch – but they dont seem to perform that well when playing for the Sardiens…
1 Dec 2006, 12:39 pm
ag no pls! Percy should quit! Steyn is much more exiting!
1 Dec 2006, 12:41 pm
Heard Nokwe and Benjamijn might be playing for you…
1 Dec 2006, 12:41 pm
Butch, he’s under the knife again, I guess its time for Steyn to shine…We arent the sardines ekse, we the MEGALADONS my bru….One bite a whole paddock of bulle weg…
1 Dec 2006, 12:41 pm
i heard all the praise they dished out. they praised the improved defensive effort, praised the playing of players in familiar positions. On Supersport and Keo.
But you cannot overlook the basic mistakes we continuously make.
supporting does not mean ovelooking all mistakes.
1 Dec 2006, 12:42 pm
Hmmm Nokwe overrated, and benjamin 50/50 call…we need better…
1 Dec 2006, 13:30 pm
We can change our focus
1 Dec 2006, 13:37 pm
Ig / Simon
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE update the article to show that you guys selected JACQUE FOURIE as player of the year and NOT FOURIE DU PREEZ!
1 Dec 2006, 13:38 pm
Focusing on the negative is easy
Spotting the good is a little more difficult and not the obvious good but really watching
If Habana had scored three tries Jake would have been a hero
1 Dec 2006, 15:12 pm
The awards were accurate , each player and Rassie deserved it.
Hilton Lobberts’s sudden rise to form and breakthrough season was a load of ****. Even Gus Theron deserves a bok jersey more than him.
1 Dec 2006, 15:17 pm
The article on the bulls was good! Heyneke Meyer has laid an great platform for them to remain very competitive in the years to come.
1 Dec 2006, 16:05 pm
im starting a new religion called watsoniasm.And Luke is God
1 Dec 2006, 22:57 pm
I think your magazine is very much beautiful.
2 Dec 2006, 00:45 am
Oooo.. Luke Watson detractors.. got some stats from the S14 just for you.
Player Tackles per minute (min. 400 minutes played)
R. McCaw 0.167
T. Dlulane 0.138
W. Van Heerden 0.138
D. Braid 0.128
C. Masoe 0.127
G. Smith 0.125
D. Croft 0.123
J. Botes 0.121
L. Watson 0.118
M. Holah 0.118
Player Tackle efficiency (min. 80 tackles)
D. Braid 98.8%
R. McCaw 96.9%
S. Bates 95.4%
D. Croft 95.3%
J. Collins 94.8%
C. Newby 94.3%
C. Masoe 93.6%
M. Tu’ali 93.5%
J. Botes 92.9%
L. Watson 92.3%
Player Turnovers (lineout, breakdown, looseball)
R. McCaw 25
AJ. Venter 24
J. Botes 18
W. van Heerden 17
S. Lauaki 17
C. Masoe 16
E. Joubert 16
L. Watson 16
P. Wannenburg 15
J. Blackie 14
Points to make
S. Burger’s stats are far inferior to L. Watson’s.
L. Watson concedes just 0.467 penalties per T/O, compared to R. McCaw’s 0.8
However, stats do not take into account slowing the ball down,
or penalties gained through rucking
(i.e, when a player is caught holding on with looseforward attempting to steal)
Interesting to note that SA’s two most successful flanks (Watson and Botes) didn’t come near the Springbok squad.
2 Dec 2006, 00:49 am
Interesting to note that only 4 players made all 3 lists (essentially lists indicating qualities of a fetcher)
Those are:
R. McCaw
C. Masoe
L. Watson
J. Botes
I also am astounded that Jacques Botes is in fact a blindside flank… yet his stats suggest otherwise.
2 Dec 2006, 00:55 am
Schalk Burger’s stats (btw)
Tackles per minute
0.109
Tackle Efficiency
88.80%
T/O won
13
2 Dec 2006, 00:58 am
Jacques Botes also made the second most amount of metres (532) of ALL PLAYERS and the highest number of breaks of SA loose forwards (9).
2 Dec 2006, 00:59 am
Watson’s proved he’s good at cuurie cup level, deserves an award… as for fourie he just lived off the good ball the Jean provided him, but made a good contribution on Defense… Raassie is a genius and Spies’s award was well deserved..
2 Dec 2006, 01:08 am
Looking through some more stats… DWB’s tackle efficiency was a paltry 72.2%!!
When one considers his poor skill levels and lack of creativity, one has to ask the question… what does DWB possibly have to offer SA rugby, if he can’t even make three quarters of his tackles?!
JDV had a tackle efficiency of 81.2%, with Wynand Olivier industrious at 87.6% success rate. Jacque Fourie also struggled, completing just 80.6% of his tackles. Brad Barrit had the best tackle efficiency of SA centres with 91.3%.
2 Dec 2006, 01:10 am
However, JF (1039) and JDV (797) made the most clean breaks of SA centres with 16 and 11 respectively.
*Minutes played in brackets
2 Dec 2006, 01:39 am
35 – McCaw rates Luke very highly. He has stated it in public even. You could, however, argue that this is propaganda though.
2 Dec 2006, 01:39 am
223 – No THERE is an underestimated bugger….
2 Dec 2006, 01:41 am
220 – Not sure if the penalty ratio of Luke is correct though….this year I am under the impression that he conceded the most penalties of ALL players in the Super 14.
2 Dec 2006, 02:31 am
229
No he only conceded 7… as opposed to Richie McCaw’s 20.
3 Dec 2006, 10:25 am
I appreciate the Line-Break article on the value of bringing back the ‘proper’ tours. Mid-week games are entertaining, develope fringe players from both teams and will make money. Somebody explain why we gave the up?
How about more preasure from articles like these to get the change the fans want.
Otherwise great mag as usual.
9 Dec 2006, 15:23 pm
Cool idea with the awards, but the Sports Illustrated coppied you, they had an awards issue aswell. You shoulod have had more awards.
9 Dec 2006, 15:23 pm
Should’ve had more awards.
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