Much maligned
Would have made every other country’s Test team during his career
Good on you boy, enjoy your century
@MiketheSnow said in Springboks v Barbarians:
Much maligned
Would have made every other country’s Test team during his career
Good on you boy, enjoy your century
We could not have more disparate opinions on Willie le Roux.
@MiketheSnow said in Springboks v Barbarians:
Would have made every other country’s Test team during his career
Ahead of Ben Smith? Nah
Credit to Willie. He went the long way from Paul Roos via Boland, Griquas, Cheetahs , Sharks to the Springbok team. Lassie ignore him while coaching the Stormers. Here he is , 100 up. Must admit he made me swear a lot.
@Frank said in Springboks v Barbarians:
@MiketheSnow said in Springboks v Barbarians:
Would have made every other country’s Test team during his career
Ahead of Ben Smith? Nah
BFA hasn't even been good enough to make the ABs since 2019. Man we've had some smashing wings/fullbacks in that time.
@OomPB said in Springboks v Barbarians:
Must admit he made me swear a lot
haha i bet. I've watched Bok tests where he has done dumb shit and thought "by fuck he must drive their fans nuts"
@mariner4life he has been good for the Bulls. They need x factor.
@OomPB said in Springboks v Barbarians:
@mariner4life he has been good for the Bulls. They need x factor.
yes but he had X and Why? factor.
@nostrildamus said in Springboks v Barbarians:
@OomPB said in Springboks v Barbarians:
@mariner4life he has been good for the Bulls. They need x factor.
yes but he had X and Why? factor.
Well played
@mariner4life said in Springboks v Barbarians:
@OomPB said in Springboks v Barbarians:
Must admit he made me swear a lot
haha i bet. I've watched Bok tests where he has done dumb shit and thought "by fuck he must drive their fans nuts"
Absolutely. But for a long time he was the only Bok who could see, create and use space.
Even so almost every SA group chat I’m in has
been renamed something like Willie Le Roux Appreciation Society because it drives at least a quarter of the blokes mental.
@pakman said in Springboks:
@Smuts Perhaps balances out Pollard at 10?
Reckon so. Because lord knows before Am established himself during the first World Cup run Faf, DDA & Kriel weren’t exactly producing champagne rugby.
@pakman said in Springboks:
One for the WLRAS:
Taking that intercept and almost skinning the fastest rugby player on earth is why he has double the World Cups of the next best test 15.
@Smuts said in Springboks:
Taking that intercept and almost skinning the fastest rugby player on earth is why he has double the World Cups of the next best test 15.
That makes no sense.
And he's no Ben Smith from accounts.
Le Roux was very much the playmaker in the recent successful Springboks sides - the number of touches he'd have from 15 was pretty outrageous. Not necessarily a better player than a Ben Smith etc, but exactly what South Africa has needed.
@nostrildamus said in Springboks:
@Smuts said in Springboks:
Taking that intercept and almost skinning the fastest rugby player on earth is why he has double the World Cups of the next best test 15.
That makes no sense.
And he's no Ben Smith from accounts.
You’re right. Unfair to compare Willie to Smith with his solitary RWC trophy
@Smuts said in Springboks:
@nostrildamus said in Springboks:
@Smuts said in Springboks:
Taking that intercept and almost skinning the fastest rugby player on earth is why he has double the World Cups of the next best test 15.
That makes no sense.
And he's no Ben Smith from accounts.You’re right. Unfair to compare Willie to Smith with his solitary RWC trophy
Both you and Willie might not think rugby is a team game but I bet Ben Smith does!
@Smuts said in Springboks:
You’re right! Mr. Smith needed the best AB team of all time to bag his winners’ medal…
To be fair, Willie did it with the best team(s) in the history of world rugby ever ever.
@Smuts said in Springboks:
Hadn’t thought of it like that @Bones but I’m prepared to be convinced. Go on.
You're welcome
@Smuts said in Springboks:
That makes no sense.
And he's no Ben Smith from accounts.You’re right. Unfair to compare Willie to Smith with his solitary RWC trophy
If by that logic Sam Whitelock is twice the player Victor Matfield could ever be, I'd almost let you have that one.
7 days later
1 month later
It's like the Onion on mass shootings in USA.
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
Shocked, say the Saffers, as the only team with repetitive positive drug test. I mean, the team looks like normal athletes amiright?
This is good listen and the book Guns & Needles well worth the read
The Old Foe have arrived in Auckland.
19 days later
The bok transition into different players and tactics seems to be going well. Pleased that rassie had the guts to make big changes after the loss at Eden park. The mindset seems to be more of moving forward from what worked in the past, to what will work for the next World Cup. The two Argie games will be a potential banana skin for a team on a high, so that will be telling as well.