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MiketheSnow

Much maligned

Would have made every other country’s Test team during his career

Good on you boy, enjoy your century

antipodean

@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.

Frank

@MiketheSnow said in Springboks v Barbarians:

Would have made every other country’s Test team during his career

Ahead of Ben Smith? Nah

OomPB

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.

Bones

@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.

mariner4life

@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"

OomPB

@mariner4life he has been good for the Bulls. They need x factor.

OomPB

With Fassi and Willemse it will be probably Willie last test

nostrildamus

@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.

MiketheSnow

@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

pakman

Can Willie tackle? He wasn’t known for it in Premiership.

Smuts

@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

@Smuts Perhaps balances out Pollard at 10?

pakman

One for the WLRAS:

Smuts

@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.

Smuts

@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.

nostrildamus

@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.

Mr Fish

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.

Smuts

@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

nostrildamus

@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!

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