Comments on: Smit set for No 2 jersey?

By: Groen_en_Goud

Groen_en_Goud — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:55:04 +0000

Hope Smit is Hooker. He is absolutely sh1te anywhere else in the front row. His best performances have only been from wearing the No.2. He is totally dominated by his opposition as prop. Please PDV keep him wearing no.2!!!!

By: Mutant

Mutant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:21 +0000

@Ratel Brussow (MSIUR): Ja, lets try Smit back at hooker this game and see how he goes. The only game the front row of Beast, Bismarck and John have struggled in was against Aus. The others they've held their own or dominated.

By: Ratel Brussow (MSIUR)

Ratel Brussow (MSIUR) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:01:40 +0000

@husky: You are spot on Husky. Basically the only SA TH better than JS is BJ and he plays overseas. Give Bissie a rest this game (from the bench) and start with BJ. In the 3N its back to Beast, Bissie, Smit. We should have 2 props on the bench rather than a hooker.

By: uncleben

uncleben — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:44:08 +0000

206. husky:

Yes JS did ok as a decent tight head.

But be honest, we (boks scrum) has been under pressure!!!

No matter the cause this is the fact.

I for one, understand referee bias/ bs. But I am also tired of blaming the refs and screaming unfair even if Wayne Barnes is a DOOS.

So rather than that, BJ in front row and get the perception back that the boks are the best scrummagers in the world, like we used to be.

At least we have JS option to move to 3 as additional cover.

By: Atreides

Atreides — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:22:53 +0000

HUsky one thing that surprised me was when Mils got banged into touch and didn’t score, he had the ball under the wrong arm!! Schoolboy error….I’m pretty sure if he’d had it inhis left arm and reached for the line he could have dotted down before getting hit into touch

That said, the AB’s never really kicked it up into top gear…

By: Atreides

Atreides — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:19:35 +0000

Div should drop this foreign based selection policy….our biggest defensive weakness at the moment is called Adi, so bring in Jdv (does ANYONE in their right mind want to see Adi defending BoD’s channel???) and recall F. Steyn at fullback…Kirchner was wobbly at best, dunno how anyone could say his kicking out of hand was good, it was poor! 3 mistakes in the first 10 minutes against Italy, 2 mistakes in his first 2 touches against France….F. Steyn can be prone to brain implosions at times, but he can punish opposition mistakes from just about anywhere, positionally far better than Zane and much much more to offer on both defence and attack. With Ireland’s backline and the Boks gassed at the moment we need to shore up our defense big time.

By: Atreides

Atreides — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:16:55 +0000

Div should drop this foreign based selection policy….our biggest defensive weakness at the moment is called Adi, so bring in Jdv (does ANYONE in their right mind want to see Adi defending BoD’s channel???) and recall F. Steyn at fullback…Kirchner was wobbly at best, dunno how anyone could say his kicking out of hand was good, it was p*ss-poor! 3 mistakes in the first 10 muntes against Italy, 2 mistakes in his first 2 touches against France….F. Steyn can be prone to brain-farts at times, but he can punish opposition mistakes from just about anywhere, positionally far better than Zane and much much more to offer on both defence and attack. With Irelands backline and the Boks gassed at the moment we need to shore up our defense big time.

By: Dunx

Dunx — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:26:13 +0000

pienaar is out of form because of the national coach

By: ufo

ufo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:41 +0000

Our scrum was the most solid it’s been all year when Beast and BJ came on and John moved to hooker…

This should be our starting line-up from now on… Bring Bismarck on in the last 30 to run riot… with John moving to prop or leaving the field – depending on the match situation…

By: husky

husky — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:06:04 +0000

Perhaps you muppets should just take a breath and look around before wailing that JS has been shown up. Why do I say this? Well look at what Italy did to the NZ scrum, even to the extent of bringing the NZ sleeper PoB out in defence of the AB’s. The Boks were not man shamed like the AB’s. Then consider that at least one of the penalties for the Eyeties was when they went around JS and wheeled the scrum. When the Boks did this to the Frogs, the Frogs got the penalty.

Finally, note that the scrum appeared to stabilise when the wily BJ Botha came on. A man much criticised by many keo muppets Botha pretty much proved his worth. He is probably SA’s only replacement for JS who will be better. The others touted by muppeteers are untried youngsters (from WP, that bastion of scrumming nogal), or have been shown up when they replace Smit in the last part of a game.

What to do? 2 choices – bring back BJ or coach JS and the SA scrum more intensively (Os where are you?) and pressure referees by analysing scrum penalties; pretty much like PoB did free for the AB’s. What will actually happen? Who knows as the administrative shambles that is SA rugby probably only has half an experienced person in total. And it’s the bottom half.

By: jockstrap

jockstrap — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:38:37 +0000

Woo-Hoo, I’ve been counting down the days for this match since the Second Lions Test. And you can be sure so have the Irish Players. This match will decide the Team of the year and World player of the year. From what I’ve seen so far of the Springboks they are a bit like the French in they don’t seem to travel well. Some exciting battles all around the park

Kearney – Kirschner
Bowe – Habana
BOD – Fourie
HOPEFULLY Sexton – Steyn
Heaslip – Kankowski
Wallace – Smit
Ferris – Burger
O’Connell – Matfield
Flannery(Would have started for the Lions if not injured) – Smith

It’s the Front Row where SA really have the Upper Hand, Healy is outstanding in the Loose but he only just turned 22 this month and his opposite’s experience will really be a factor.

By: KevinRack

KevinRack — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:37:05 +0000

Sarel Pretoruis is the next best world scrumhalf…

By: KevinRack

KevinRack — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:30:10 +0000

Great captain and hooker but no prop.

By: farkeq2

farkeq2 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:30:07 +0000

Please give pienaar a go at scrumi. Even though I think FDP is the best around At the moment , we have to look to the future world cups

By: farkeq2

farkeq2 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:26:18 +0000

Takler you would give anything for smit to be on your side.He is by far the best international captain around

By: TheTackler

TheTackler — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:23:13 +0000

No question that Smitty’s currently the captain among captains.

But he’s definitely not the best tighthead prop for the job or even the best hooker for the job. Others are better.

So he has to go.

His time is up.

By: Big Hit

Big Hit — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:49:55 +0000

Boks should line up on the Irish side for the anthems and refuse to move. I hear that goes down well

198. it doesn’t make a lot of sense to retire when he’s playing the best rugby of his career and he’s the only viable option for captaincy

By: TheTackler

TheTackler — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:03 +0000

Everybody has to retire/be replaced some day. It’s not treachery. It’s just the way the world works.

By: Heavens Game

Heavens Game — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:12:54 +0000

You negative chaps will not be happy unless John Smit – the most successfl Springbok Captain in history – has been dropped, or retires.

South Africa has a history of treacherous treatment of great Captains – Pienaar, Teichmann… Smit?

Build them up and shoot them down – like an English Tabloid – all emotion, minimal facts/knowledge, and a herd mentality.

By: gunther

gunther — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:18:36 +0000

grant kallis injured for rest of one dayers and Gibbs dropped…