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Manie Libbok – Give the Man A Break Idiots

So every time I watch a rugby placekicker kick I concentrate on the ball and the kickers boot as he strikes in order to predict whether it will be good or not (before the ball has travelled a significant distance) and most times I am correct.

For Manie Libbok’s kicks against the Irish on Saturday evening I noticed that the ball was not ‘pointing’ towards the center of posts as he has done in the past but rather to the left and then right of the uprights and he missed. (Okay I admit that my observations may be off due to the angle of the camera or my old age…..)

The man is only 26 years of age and the added pressure of having to beat the clock must have had a negative effect on this aspect of his normally faultless game.

I sincerely hope that all those people who have unfeelingly written Manie off as a ‘disaster’ and ‘not fit’ etc. etc. one day do have sons and daughters playing at the highest level and they van then experience the pain that unthinking ‘armchair experts’ bring upon someone so young and at the cusp of greatness.

For, if we bring someone down at that crucial stage, we will forever then be the losers.

It was just a scant couple of days ago that we were all in raptures over his wonder cross-kick for a try and now this crap. How farging fickle are we that we actually believe that humans are continually faultless!

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