Springboks

[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!

[Smuts]

You’re right! Mr. Smith needed the best AB team of all time to bag his winners’ medal…

[Bones]

@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]

Hadn’t thought of it like that @Bones but I’m prepared to be convinced. Go on.

[OomPB]

@Smuts Had a lucky draw.

[Bones]

@Smuts said in Springboks:

Hadn’t thought of it like that @Bones but I’m prepared to be convinced. Go on.

You're welcome

[nostrildamus]

@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.