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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 522730" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>Clearly you don't know much about Heyneke Meyer by stating these remarks, and clearly you haven't read a single article that he has said or what was expected from him from his bosses. </p><p></p><p>For a coach in his first year at international level he's not doing a bad job at all. 5 games so far without a single loss. Many coaches would beg for that kind of a record.</p><p></p><p>As for his selection policy, while it is debatable, every coach has his peeves. Even Graham Henry had it. As for Heyneke Meyer, after the whole PDV 4-year error trial, SARU decided to pick someone who could bring back the traditional values of Springbok Rugby, and to be quite honest, HM is trying his level best. His philosophy, which I agree with, and many others do, although not many on this forum would is that it's better to pick a big strong guy ahead of a small strong guy.</p><p></p><p>Hence the selection of JJ Engelbrecht ahead of Aplon. </p><p></p><p>We are marred with injuries which has been countless times mentioned on the forum (I bet we could make a squad out of just injured players) and HM has to go with what is available to him. The Argentina test while not the best result should be looked at with more understandability than what some of us did immediately after the test.</p><p></p><p>It was Heyneke Meyer's first test overseas, as well as 7 players in the 22. Eben Etzebeth, Marcell Coetzee, Jacques Potgieter, Pat Cilliers, Tiaan Liebenberg, Keegan Daniel and JJ Engelbrecht.</p><p></p><p>I think HM biggest problem is that he wants to do too much too soon. He has a gameplan that he's trying to enforce on the guys and it's not what they are used to. for him physicality is something that every player must have.</p><p></p><p>You mentioned he hasn't rested Keegan Daniel... the guy has been on the bench for nearly every match for the boks apart from the first test vs Argentina in Cape Town. I think a guy who should be rested much more than Daniel is Morne Steyn. He has played in every test match and Super Rugby game for the last 3 years. no other player in the squad has played as much rugby as he did, and I for think he's on the verge of crashing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 522730, member: 40658"] Clearly you don't know much about Heyneke Meyer by stating these remarks, and clearly you haven't read a single article that he has said or what was expected from him from his bosses. For a coach in his first year at international level he's not doing a bad job at all. 5 games so far without a single loss. Many coaches would beg for that kind of a record. As for his selection policy, while it is debatable, every coach has his peeves. Even Graham Henry had it. As for Heyneke Meyer, after the whole PDV 4-year error trial, SARU decided to pick someone who could bring back the traditional values of Springbok Rugby, and to be quite honest, HM is trying his level best. His philosophy, which I agree with, and many others do, although not many on this forum would is that it's better to pick a big strong guy ahead of a small strong guy. Hence the selection of JJ Engelbrecht ahead of Aplon. We are marred with injuries which has been countless times mentioned on the forum (I bet we could make a squad out of just injured players) and HM has to go with what is available to him. The Argentina test while not the best result should be looked at with more understandability than what some of us did immediately after the test. It was Heyneke Meyer's first test overseas, as well as 7 players in the 22. Eben Etzebeth, Marcell Coetzee, Jacques Potgieter, Pat Cilliers, Tiaan Liebenberg, Keegan Daniel and JJ Engelbrecht. I think HM biggest problem is that he wants to do too much too soon. He has a gameplan that he's trying to enforce on the guys and it's not what they are used to. for him physicality is something that every player must have. You mentioned he hasn't rested Keegan Daniel... the guy has been on the bench for nearly every match for the boks apart from the first test vs Argentina in Cape Town. I think a guy who should be rested much more than Daniel is Morne Steyn. He has played in every test match and Super Rugby game for the last 3 years. no other player in the squad has played as much rugby as he did, and I for think he's on the verge of crashing. [/QUOTE]
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