Comments on: Hansen recalls AB stars

By: hoof hearted

hoof hearted — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:15:04 +0000

^Wing not wind

By: hoof hearted

hoof hearted — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:13:08 +0000

Have to agree with the nz’s here in that very few of our current bok forwards have to skill set to fit into their game plan. Our loosies that fit into that mould would be Keegan and kanko … May be wrong or underthinking it but those to would shine in the blacks game plan, much like they do at the sharks year in and out but not with the boks..
I do get annoyed when okes write ‘SA rugby is a dinosaur’ need to distinguish a difference between SA rugby and current bok rugby.
Every saffa will admit that bok rugby at the moment is terrible and frustrating to watch. But our super teams have been great!
So selecting all blacks from our bok team, yup I’d say only Jpp would make it, but selecting a all black team/ best team from a pool of all form super15 players, I think more saffas would be in contention .. Jane most certainly doesn’t set the supper15 alight. Honestly, any decent wind would look amazing winging it for the all blacks, because opportunities will always be created. Poor Jpp and Hab have to run around our team desperately look for a rare touch and to try create stuff…

Just thinking allowed;) but I reckon I’m right, ha

By: nortierd

nortierd — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:14:49 +0000

@poppa69-73: No one is disputing that the AB's are currently setting the bar, then if one looks at the last 2 weeks as a yardstick, France are playing a similar game. Yet in last year's final when they met they both played a game similar to our so called dinosaur rugby. There is a place to play less entertaining games, and I also wish we would cut loose, so to speak, but it is not for us to decide when and where. I would rather watch the Blacks play if they were on at the same time as the Boks, purely for the entertainment and skill, but once our players have settled and built up some confidence, who knows what will happen when we meet in a crunch game where the stakes are more than just another Championship match that has no bearing on the outcome of a competition?

By: Hurricane

Hurricane — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:07:56 +0000

@katman-67: I am referring to what tackles you were talking about in post #58 So i said it takes more than tackles to become an AB. To become an AB is something you have no clues about so do not even try. Now that there boy is a fact.

By: corporal punishment

corporal punishment — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:51:56 +0000

@Hurricane-72: Jane is an incredible winger. He plays the game differently to most other wings, but is so influential in both attack and defence I think he would be a first choice winger in any world xv. His handling and footwork in tight situations are sublime and create many tries for himself and others. He has incredible reactions and his speed fo thought and the accuracy of his decision making are game breakers. He just creates opportunities and scores tries that no-one else would.

By: corporal punishment

corporal punishment — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:47:42 +0000

@willievz-76: Willie, I think it depends on the style of play the coach of the team wants to play. If it was the current AB coaches, I think it would be more like 75/25 in favour of the AB's, because they are determined to play a very high tempo and somewhat risky game plan. I think most other international coaches would be very happy to go for the most muscular hard assed pack they could get, to play more of a possession and territory game. Either team would be pretty formidable, that's for real.

By: corporal punishment

corporal punishment — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:44:18 +0000

@CoachPete-51: Flow has the skillset and allround game to be a regular AB. Only query is whether he is fast enough. Bismark is a fearsome player. I think the AB's would try to find room for him, and upskill his ball handling and tone back some of the penalty earning aggression..

By: willievz

willievz — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:06:25 +0000

Anyways, enough All Black bashing for one day.

Nite all

By: willievz

willievz — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:04:58 +0000

@corporal punishment-49: I think a combined AB-Bok side could well see a 50/50 split in personnel. It is a close call between the 8 or so players I listed and their AB counterparts for a spot in the combined team. However, here is the crux - the main difference between the two teams at the moment, player wise, is that the ABs have far greater players in some positions (eg McCaw, Read, Carter and Dagg) than anything the Boks have. We have the players, but we don't have the legends.

By: poppa69

poppa69 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:03:46 +0000

@katman-67: if our country allows youtube? hahaha says one of the priviledged 20% of SA's who have access to the internet.. eish..you really are stupid..

By: Te Rangatira

Te Rangatira — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:31:16 +0000

@poppa69-73: JPP is kinda like Christmas....one day in the year he gets the best in the world tag...usually when Jane is off duty

By: poppa69

poppa69 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:25:02 +0000

@Hurricane-71: Habs has always been over rated, an intercept merchant that cheats more then Ritchie ever has... as for JPP, his strike rate would indeed dispute his current "man love" standing with our Saffa brethren.. not one SA player is worthy of playing for the ABs, they would be as useful as Rawlinson was.. which was not at all.. SA rugby is a dinosaur, and should be put out of its misery,..

By: Hurricane

Hurricane — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:21:18 +0000

@katman-68:
I see your two and raise you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dsSp1j9kyg

By: Hurricane

Hurricane — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:14:56 +0000

@katman-68: You dont watch rugby then. Habana is not what he use to be, you are living of memories. Jane is the now. Leave the past be

By: poppa69

poppa69 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:51:11 +0000

@nortierd-66: Liam Messam or even Gear I think would do a great job..

By: poppa69

poppa69 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:37:49 +0000

Saffas are delusional

as if any player from a team that has won 6 games from 11 would make the run on side of a team that has won 11 from 12 games..

our forwards have more skills then your backs for a start, and any SA player would have to be up skilled like Rathbone was before even contemplating making the side..

no wonder your team is meiocre..

By: katman

katman — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:50:48 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwehyLYSRwE

And once you got your fil of JPP, then watch the Habanero. Jane couldn’t do that in three rugby careers.

By: katman

katman — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:49:38 +0000

@Hurricane-64: Are you slow? Watch the clip, if your country allows Youtube. Then tell me which of the tackles you're referring to.

By: nortierd

nortierd — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:37:49 +0000

@Hurricane-61: How about Liam Messom taking over? No one really seems to fit the bill, gotten so used to Piri leading it

By: Te Rangatira

Te Rangatira — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:37:08 +0000

@Hurricane-61: I prefer the Captain to lead the Haka.. Richie in the same mould as the cunning, anything is possible, old chief....Te Rauparaha