By the way, defense is not just about tackling.
Pienaar gifted them possession (5 handling errors and poor passes), that is “negative defense”: he is breaking our defense down.

And he didn’t bolster our defensive rucks when the need arose, and we got rucked off our own ball a bunch of times.
He is was not the best defender just because he made 14 tackles.

The Turnover in the category there is the FORCED TURNOVER MADE IN THE TACKLE (read the header notes).

Stegmann did make a turnover where he arrived at the tackle.

The Assists are part of the tackle

Catch a wakeup.

A coach takes on the job with all of this known to him, a good one will beat/overcome this. PDivvie has shown little to convinve me he can plan his subs during a match let alone plan a 4 year stint or lo and behold…a GAMEPLAn.

Stegman first then Pocock…

Tackle Assists 5/7
Turnovers 0/0
Tackles made 14/16
Missed tackles 2/0
Ball carries 4/4
Offloads 0/1
% across gainline 80/100
Meters gained 21/24
Passes 3/4
Handle count 9/8
1st 1 to 3 on attack 36/21
1st 1 to 3 on defence 6/9

So irrespective of what old agitated t*tty is telling us it seems Stegman is ahead on one count only, 1 to 3 on attack. Problem is even so he did less overall. By the way, these guys counted zero turnovers for Stegman in the game..

In defence he is #1 with Pienaar but he had 2 misses and Pienaar 0. Four Wallabies had more than 14 tackles.

All said and done, he played as kuk as the 21 other guys and I have to think hard to say even ONE Bok player stood out…and that is the problem!

Call me old-fashioned, but that’s not what major test match rugby should be about under any circumstances.

Australia were impressive in Sydney but then again, they were playing rugby midgets in the South African backline. You will see bigger backlines in Auckland secondary school teams.

The Springboks would not only lose the World Cup with that mob, they’d lose the Currie Cup as well. Their coach, Peter de Villiers, must think he’s in That ’70s Show, or else he’s desperately trying to throw his World Cup opponents off track.

The Springbok backline that started against Australia averaged well under 90kg and there were no substantial reinforcements on the bench.

They were road kill in waiting, and if that unit lines up against Sonny Bill Williams, Ma’a Nonu, Sitiveni Sivivatu, Hosea Gear and co, they should be smashed into oblivion.

(Chris Rattue, NZ Herald 27.7.11)

Actaully Ruan tackled ok, but his DEFENSE was shocking. As a total defensive effort coughing up possesion the way he did (caught behind the line and passing into the opposition hands, not commiting to b/d defense etc. are all bad showings.
I would just say that he is rusty. I expect much more from him.

And on top of that Hargreaves got an abdominal muscle strain or whatever, that might explain his lack of aggression at the b/d.

But if we had a hardcore tight5, the openside would immediately be able to contend and direct matters more smoothly.

“OK look, it’s really simple guys:

Some people have a habit of calling Stegmann a penalty machine, or that he disappears during games.

Since Stegmann didn’t give away a single penatly in the test match, they can’t use their usual accusation against him.
The areas penalties are most likely conceeded:

Rucks;
ball carries;
tackles.

And the sum of these put together is more for Stegmann than any of the 44 players on the field that day. In other words Stegmann did more work and had more opportunity to conceed penalties (especially in a losing team) than any other player present.
And since he didn’t, they rather say that he did nothing.

How precious are you lot !

And that’s how that it. Simple. Haters gonna hate.

(unfortunately they do suck in some other SA ignoramuses that are susceptible to this slandering of our own talent, since they are incapable of forming their own opinions. Just read any thread on keo.co.za to see what I mean).

it got me thinking, when stegmann puts on the – green – bok jersey he becomes a ninja & disappears on the field, hence most of these bloggers CAN’T see him even though he is on.

That doesn’t make a lot of sense. They way they carry on…..

In that case they are all pathological and believe their own lies.
Other people say it too.
Tank Lanning, unfortuinately, I see writes that Stegmann was completely AWOL!
Well, Mr. Lanning, I’ve lost a little respect for you. Who in the Bok-team then was conspicuous?
Who could hold their head up high?
There are a number of A-team players in that team.

Stegmann does the most work on the field of 44 players and he is EXACTLY the one they say did the least.

GTFO.

Dude, Im starting to think these guys are doing it just to annoy you.

I can tell you now that he would do allot better than the clowns that we currently have.

OK, well since you asked for me, look here:

http://www.keo.co.za/2011/07/25/sa-rugby-needs-honesty/all-comments/#comments

From post #419 and onwards.

We had this “debate” yesterday. I help “Two-Eyed” to come right.
I don’t have to do it from each one of you imbeciles. So just refer to that passage there.

Were was Steggman??? Let alone the abouve comments.. Did he do anything the entire Game?? Im being serious please some1 tell me? Were is his Agent Agile with all the “Stats”??

Did not see him ONCE the entire game. I remember some1 saying he was to busy hanging around trying to play centre, still though I never saw him..

Players like Flow, Deysel, Daniels, Brits, etc must really hard done by watching this minion being selected ahead of them.

How Matfield & Snor sleep at night I don’t know.

Just because he is a “fetcher” and from the Bulls he walks strait into the bok team.

Has he ever proven himself? NO. Has he ever warranted Springbok inclusion? No! Is he proving these comments wrong? No! Is he good enough? No.. Will he ever be better than Flow, Deysel, Daniels, Brits,Schalk,Juan, Watson, Johnson, Strous?? At this rate I seriously doubt it and until I see otherwise ill never believe it.. McCaw, Poccock and co must be liking their lips.. **** even the Northern Hem will be praying he becomes a bok regular if not at the world cup then after..