I do not know what this fuss is about Jantjies. I have the greatest fear every week when I see his name on the team sheet.with less salted and inexperience loosies. Jantjies can't tackle. I pray every night that the Saders or any other team with big forwards don't sent traffic down his channel for 80 minutes. He miss the big guys running at him and Kolisi seem to run sideways after the ball carrier rather than stay in his line and protect his 10. Thats his first job and that is what he is there for. Why do we have the big guys on the opposite side from most of the teams in World Rugby? Cause Naas Botha could not tackle. Krige protected his 10 was a good example of it but Jantjies at the moment is about a 10 million rand defensive hole
Geez, they just beat the two teams on top of the table in consecutive weeks. You are a hard man to please. The Brumbies sent traffic down Jantjies' channel all afternoon and came away with one try in 80 mins. This was the same team that put 4 tries on the Sharks in the first half of the previous game!
Jantjies is by no means a dominant tackler, but I don't remember him missing a large number of tackles. Are you able to point to an incident(s) where this was the case? Or perhaps some missed tackle stats which confirm that he is weak defensively? According to RugbyHeaven (
http://livescores.smh.com.au/rugby/super15/player-stats.html), he's not in the top 20 for missed tackles, so hardly a clear weak link there.
He also had a significant hand in two of the Stormers' 4 tries on the weekend, giving the final pass for Aplon's try and also one of Bekker's. While Jantjies has been wearing the 10 jersey this season, particularly in the last two games, the Stormers have looked more threatening in attack than they have in the whole of the last two seasons. They scored a 4 try bonus point on the weekend (against one of the stronger defensive teams), something they were not able to achieve in the whole of 2012.
In short, I don't think I could disagree with you any more!