A-P Cronje

Former account got hacked... guess we burnt that bridge when we came to it! Still a purveyor of takes. Still mostly rugby.

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

@AndreGeel Sure but if it were just about extra cash then Twickenham would deliver more by some distance I’d guess. It’s part of a bigger push to grow the game in the US… but I just can’t see what they’re actually doing

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Still not convinced by the decision to play the match in Baltimore - particularly given the NFL season is already underway. How much buzz is there really - I’m genuinely curious? All good to say ‘grow the game’ but will it? Can someone articulate what the plan is?

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

It does really worry me that it seems the strategy is just ‘have the two best teams play against each other in the only stadium that’s free that weekend and that’ll do’

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Has there been loads of press before the game to market it? I’ve seen one article…. Tie-ins with commercial partners? Any digital marketing?

I’m a million miles away from Baltimore so I don’t know the answers to these questions BUT

[Humble Leinster Supporters Club @LeinsterClub]

@scrumming_ten When did we have our golden generation?

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Beauden, Ioane and Richie. Let’s run it back

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

@moi_pseudo I refute it thus

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

@moi_pseudo I couldn’t pronounce the ‘th’ sound properly until about 14 years old. And being the boerseun that I am (and, it follows. having the chip that I do) I made a decision to become the most proficient person in this language of anyone I knew.

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

@stodders79 @jaredwright17 Been a decided uptake in sales from the NZ market to be fair. Should be a decent counter

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Exceptional.

[Oom Rugby @Oom_Rugby]

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[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

I hate my powers

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Would be lekker if Hermann could bring up the highest ODI score on debut 👀

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

@WilliamJamesL They aren’t in the USA, that doesn’t mean they won’t go to Aus. That group hasn’t been announced yet.

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Can see the team for Aus being something like this:

Boan
Grobbies
TdT
C Wiese
F Mostert
De Villiers
Elrigh
Hanekom
Grant
Pollard
Hooker
Esterhuizen
Moodie
Edwill
Horn

Wessels
Mchunu
Porthen
Lood
PSDT
Herschel
Manie
Willemse

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Duane was a generational talent. But Jasper is suddenly on the cusp of 50 caps 🤯 We’ve suddenly spawned a guy with the potential to be the complete flyhalf. And every season 6 genuinely international quality flankers appear.

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Changing of the guard. Frightening stat this tbh.

[Hendrik Cronjé @hendrikcronje71]

Steven Kitshoff, Bongi Mbonambi, Frans Malherbe, Franco Mostert, Duane Vermeulen, Faf de Klerk, Handré Pollard, RG Snyman, Jean Kleyn, Kwagga Smith, Willie le Roux and Trevor Nyakane all played in 2023 World Cup final against NZ and did not play in any RGR test.

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Frightening - for the rest of the chasing pack. Easy to forget that the Boks lost the best loosehead in the world, twice, between 2019-2024 (Beast + Kitsie); and the best tighthead (Frans). Plus world class players like Bongi and Trevor. And they’ve just kept dominating.

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

@Slipcatch I don’t think they struggle with it generally. Think there’s one player in particular that some fans struggle with it 😉😂

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Veeeeery JL / Dan du Preez vibes about this

[Matthew Bauer @MB5Plug]

Sean Jansen , Under 17. Lock/looseforward
Maritzburg College and Sharks U17 Lock.

Powerful and impressive first year of first team rugby , going to be very exciting to watch in 2027.