Comments on: Do we deserve an award?

By: Bok

Bok — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:23:55 +0000

Should’ve had more awards.

By: Bok

Bok — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:23:21 +0000

Cool idea with the awards, but the Sports Illustrated coppied you, they had an awards issue aswell. You shoulod have had more awards.

By: JMan

JMan — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:25:20 +0000

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.

By: ziyaad

ziyaad — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:31:36 +0000

229

No he only conceded 7… as opposed to Richie McCaw’s 20.

By: willievz

willievz — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:41:22 +0000

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.

By: willievz

willievz — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:39:55 +0000

223 – No THERE is an underestimated bugger….

By: willievz

willievz — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:39:09 +0000

35 – McCaw rates Luke very highly. He has stated it in public even. You could, however, argue that this is propaganda though.

By: ziyaad

ziyaad — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:10:08 +0000

However, JF (1039) and JDV (797) made the most clean breaks of SA centres with 16 and 11 respectively.

*Minutes played in brackets

By: ziyaad

ziyaad — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:08:01 +0000

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%.

By: Futurebok

Futurebok — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:59:54 +0000

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..

By: ziyaad

ziyaad — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:58:01 +0000

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).

By: ziyaad

ziyaad — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:55:08 +0000

Schalk Burger’s stats (btw)

Tackles per minute
0.109

Tackle Efficiency
88.80%

T/O won
13

By: ziyaad

ziyaad — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:49:58 +0000

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.

By: ziyaad

ziyaad — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:45:38 +0000

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.

By: Finfan

Finfan — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:57:35 +0000

I think your magazine is very much beautiful.

By: KILIKIJAAN

KILIKIJAAN — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:05:30 +0000

im starting a new religion called watsoniasm.And Luke is God

By: wp_boytjie

wp_boytjie — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:17:39 +0000

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.

By: wp_boytjie

wp_boytjie — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:12:20 +0000

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.

By: Brag

Brag — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:38:17 +0000

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

By: remybfg10k

remybfg10k — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:37:14 +0000

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!