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[2014 Mid-Year Test] South Africa vs Wales (1st Test)
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 652709" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>Really, Saffas thrive on tight game situations, huh ?...of course they do, how could they not, they're South Africa...hopefully for them next RWC they'll thrive on it a little bit more than in the last in that 1/4F, then...</p><p>and I have no clue how Burden played in S.A., but I guess he was about 20% the player he is now. The dude did ANYTHING but shrink in either competition this year (H Cup, Top 14). In fact he was brilliant in the final phases.</p><p></p><p>I get the impression, and this is materializing more and more as it goes, that Saffas (coach or fan) throw away or dismiss their players too quickly. In the stuff they put in the bin, anyone else would find perfectly good, if not VERY good trash wastefully thrown away. The Top 14 isn't a league that picks up old scrap iron from other places anymore. Guys like Hosea Gear, Nalaga, Nagusa, Sivivatu....etc....score tries over any side in the world, and S.A. themselves will still go and pick a Botha or Steenkamp (the latter being a very average often-benched player for Toulouse). On which topic Morné Steyn was benched the whole year for 22yo Jules Plisson in Paris, and need I remind the readers he's South Africa's no.1 choice at fly-half.</p><p></p><p>Moreover, Juandré Kruger or Kockott could play in any national side, esp. Kockott. Juan Smith or Danie Russow are still world class at what they do. The list goes on. The point being the Top 14 isn't what you guys from abroad might think. The cliché of it being some league collecting old rusty pieces the SH rejects is fiction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 652709, member: 57076"] Really, Saffas thrive on tight game situations, huh ?...of course they do, how could they not, they're South Africa...hopefully for them next RWC they'll thrive on it a little bit more than in the last in that 1/4F, then... and I have no clue how Burden played in S.A., but I guess he was about 20% the player he is now. The dude did ANYTHING but shrink in either competition this year (H Cup, Top 14). In fact he was brilliant in the final phases. I get the impression, and this is materializing more and more as it goes, that Saffas (coach or fan) throw away or dismiss their players too quickly. In the stuff they put in the bin, anyone else would find perfectly good, if not VERY good trash wastefully thrown away. The Top 14 isn't a league that picks up old scrap iron from other places anymore. Guys like Hosea Gear, Nalaga, Nagusa, Sivivatu....etc....score tries over any side in the world, and S.A. themselves will still go and pick a Botha or Steenkamp (the latter being a very average often-benched player for Toulouse). On which topic Morné Steyn was benched the whole year for 22yo Jules Plisson in Paris, and need I remind the readers he's South Africa's no.1 choice at fly-half. Moreover, Juandré Kruger or Kockott could play in any national side, esp. Kockott. Juan Smith or Danie Russow are still world class at what they do. The list goes on. The point being the Top 14 isn't what you guys from abroad might think. The cliché of it being some league collecting old rusty pieces the SH rejects is fiction. [/QUOTE]
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