hahaha…

yip… that’s the corollary of the assumption…!!

yeah i know… i remember him saying that…

was just making the point that it’s not as simple as one over the other… both are actually required…

no point having an innovative player who can’t execute and keeps losing the ball in contact or not passing accurately to the next guy etc…

“That is the only thing I’m slightly worried about with the Heyneke regime – his mantra is execution above innovation,” Mallett told reporters in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

“So he is not looking for innovative players, he’s looking for people who execute well.

“If we are going to do a move that will take the centre into the midfield, we are going to do it so well, at such pace, that it doesn’t matter if the opposition know about it – we will get across the advantage line and we will dominate that impact zone.”

one-off runners – alberts, marcell, strauss, beast, flo, vermualen are all looking to FORCE our predictable game plan on the opposition, when they are matched by their equally conditioned counter parts the coach goes on telly to say the players disappointed as they never got us gainline advantage as he wanted.

Execution of Innovation…!

Yet… JdJ’s few moments of brilliance in the CC final and other games through the season are dismissed as flashes in the pan… swallows in summer… the exception rather than the rule…

history suggests… the point Heymaker just does not get is that you will seldom, if ever, get those moments or minutes of brilliance from lumbering big unskilled players… simply because if they don’t have the skills they don’t have the ability to use them to proactively effect a moment of brilliance… so we wait for opposition to finally succumb to a brutal physical onslaught and then when an opposing player gets bliksemed over… we throw up our arms in celebration of our ‘moment of brilliance’…

this is why we need guys like JdJ and the mighty Gio… or guys like Willie Le Roux playing every game for us… because they have the skills, intelligence, finesse and instinct to poach those moments of brilliance that turn games and gives us beautiful rugby to reminisce over in years to come…

you simply can’t coach those moments of brilliance… players either have the innate ability to produce them in a split second… or they don’t… and if they don’t have the finesse or skills because they have relied on brute strength their whole lives… they’re never gonna be able to do it…

so sad that meyer can see what is missing in his team… but obviously is oblivious to how to rectify it… because he is so hung up on size he literally can’t see the benefits of skilled players who are smallER…

great pity and really frustrating…!!

It also doesn’t help playing players out of position, Heyneke.

It also doesn’t help extinguishing all natural talent and flair in a player, by forcing them to play to a 6 year old one-track gameplan that YOU believe is the best way forward, Heyneke.

And finally, it doesn’t help when you put so much pressure on the guys to win, win, win, win and then talk about how they aren’t executing the “gameplan”, or persist with kak selections like M.Steyn, or continually play the least talented fullback in SA whilst a better one is in the 13 jersey and a better 13 is on the bench, or subtly bad-mouth your coaching staff that you picked from a franchise that has hardly set the world alight in the last 3 years, Heyneke.

In other words. If the guys are playing k a k – as they have against, the Poms, the Argies, the Aussies and the Kiwis this year and nothing seems to be changing, then it’s 95% likely that it’s your fault, Heyneke.

But you absolutely HATE being told that it could be your fault don’t Your Pretorianess.

the all blacks are just too clinical & full of guile to be faffing about sending one-off runners in the 22

meyer thinks everyone in the world is out to get him & the Boks. he is constantly defending his gameplan…

earlier this year:

Auckland – Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer
has hit out at critics who say that his team
play a kick-and-chase game, stating that
getting the ball from the back and running
through the defence “will usually work in
movies”.

The Boks tried to utilise their possession a
bit better by carrying the ball more in the
first half of the 26-19 defeat to the
Wallabies in Perth, but there was still a lot
of aimless kicking, especially from the back
when Australia had not even chased their
own kick.

Often the ball was fielded well outside the
Bok 22, but the likes of Zane Kirchner,
Morné Steyn and Ruan Pienaar were all
guilty at stages of using the boot rather
than looking for a teammate or taking on
the defence themselves.

If they do that against the All Blacks in
Dunedin on Saturday, the Boks will have to
try and stop such devastating runners like
Israel Dagg, Cory Jane and Kieran Read.
But Meyer looked irritated yesterday when
told that the Bok gameplan could be
described as a “kick-and-chase” approach.

“I just want to put it into perspective -
there has been criticism from people back
home that it’s a kick-and-chase game, and
that it’s all about the defence. I know
people want you to get the ball at the back
and run through the defence, but that will
usually work in the movies. It doesn’t work
at this level anymore,” he barked.

“What’s actually strange is that when
Argentina played us, people said that it was
a kick-and-chase game, but Argentina
actually kicked more than us. Australia
kicked more than we did again at the
weekend, and people are saying we should
play that game. The fact is that if there is
nothing on and you can’t counter from the
back, then you have to kick accurately.

“The thing about New Zealand is that if you
don’t kick accurately, they will punish you
with seven points every time. They are the
one team where the whole backline are
game-breakers. If you don’t put pressure on
the kick, they can move the ball into space
and will punish you.

“If you do want to kick, and there’s space to
kick, then your contesting in the air has to
be 100 percent. If you give them space and
ball on the front foot, they can punish you.

Our chase-lines have to be 100 percent
intact, and I believe our work-rate needs to
go up. It’s the third game away from home,
and you can see it in the guys – it’s tough
with all the flying. Come Saturday, the guys
will be fine.”

True
However it’s no use playing for penalties if the conversion rate of those borders on 60 percent.

Scoring from inside the 22 sounds like he is hoping more for penalties & driving maul type tries to me. Maybe I am being a bit too harsh, but in light of the rugby played, probably not.

Dude, the only thing you do here is slam the Boks and blow off the AB’s. It gets boring, your lips must be raw, give it a rest!

Give it a rest Hurricane, your boner for the AB’s will start hurting soon!

So you bought up 2 games….so?
Yes ABs do have those games but no matter what they still put it through the backline and try to find those gaps, run the teams defenses from #1 to #15.
Test rugby is all about winning but the Boks are struggling just to do that in most cases. If you are happy with the way it is going Trans then good for you.