HOCKEY FAN REACTS: Is Lukhanyo Am the best player in the world? by Squidge Rugby

[@fabienjean5875]

Squidge is the best rugby analyst in my opinion

[@player-ty2sy]

Fax

[@SamCarr-nf1zs]

Eggchasers...

[@fabienjean5875]

@SamCarr-nf1zs Love the guy, but i stick with my first choice. Tim is an awesome dude, cant wait for him to experience SA.

[@zzzap5425]

Facts

[@rugbywatchesgaming4048]

Wibble rugby is better imo and without the weird high pitch waffle the squidgy gets carried away with

[@azalianieuwenhuys8844]

You really need to watch Chasing the Sun...maybe even forward it to your hockey team...it sounds like they need to hear the messaging ,the thinking and basically what it means to play for more than yourself. Its basically the springboks super power

[@jandreneethling5664]

Class centres are real gems in rugby.. Line breaking vision = Danie Gerber Brute power = Ma’a Nonu Blade cutting accuracy = Brian O’Driscol Wizardry = Jaques Fourie Selfless and genial gameplay = Lukanyo Am Freak of nature = Sonny Bill Williams.. Captain my Captain = Jean De Villiers.. Master of midfield Finesse = Tim Horan.. No team in Rugby Union can flourish if a centre pair is out of shape.. There’s no use trying to search for the “best ever” either.. Here I only mentioned southern hemisphere names with the exception of O’Driscol.. Don’t forget the likes of another Irish player Bundee Aki.. Anyone of these guys can or could have turned a game upside down in their time.. What a beautiful game!!

[@annettekolb3103]

He read a game like it is child’s play. He is grounded and selfless as squid said he could have scored that try instead of passing the ball to Mapimpi however Am knew how important that world cup was for Mapimpi. He shared that try with a hero's heart.

[@JannieFourie-n7c]

Am did not make the last RWC squad because he had a injury.There was a injury just before the knock out stages and Am was called up as a replacement.He did not play a single game or even make the match day squad.This was brilliant from coach Rassie because Am was breaking down the opposing sides backlines and mimicking the oposition centres in the practice sessions.

[@bradleyrhodes8906]

Check out Squidge 'How the springboks beat England in the 2019 World Cup final'. Also keep up the good work, the more you learn about this game, the more you'll learn to love it 👍

[@peterweber4094]

Good to watch a new fan of rugby learning and observing the magic of the game in general and the South African Springboks in particular.

[@kjlovescoffee]

4:40 When the Springboks won the world cup first in 1995, and again in 2007, both games had no tries for either team, only penalty kicks. So the Mapimpi try was significant. Am set that up though, and he could easily have taken it himself too. EDIT: I should have watched on before commenting :)

[@fkngeniuspappie]

And the drop goal..

[@EamonnReacts]

And I should have kept reading haha. That's a wild stat though. How common is it for games to not have any tries?

[@rudierasmus8162]

@@EamonnReacts it really isn't common but in tournament finals both teams usually wait for the opposing team to make mistakes, therefore penalty kicks are common in finals

[@ukuthulakhumalo6288]

With the south african players of Bantu descent like Am and Mapimpi, pronunciation of the vowels in our names is a bit different to English. The a's in Lukhanyo Am are pronounced as aaaah, e's are not silent at the end of a word like with Makazole Mapimpi and are pronounced like the é in the Latin languages. I's are pronounced like -ee-, Os are pronounced like oh but not ending with the soft h, but an abrupt end, and u's are pronounced like a long drawn out oooh, like when you see someone eat dirt hard😂

[@charlcoetzee3358]

A lot of foreign English speakers (including commentators) also got tripped up by "ph" not being "f" and butchered poor Lawrence Sephaka's name for his whole career.

[@nox6885]

Keep the Squidge reactions flowing bro.

[@trevandtina6323]

Ardy Savea, incredible Number 7 and leader.

[@SweatyChicken1]

I love Lukhanyo. The most underrated springbok in my opinion.

[@annabrisley479]

Lukhanyo is my favourite!! Thanks so so much!! ❤️

[@tonic8945]

Great player, it's the centres who create the space for the glory boys to score while also bearing the brunt of defending.

[@wesrobmat]

12:11 correct Faf is also an extremely reactive player but the Bokke also like using codes for plays so who knows what the deal is there. Am is one of my all time favourite Boks. His fast has incredible ball handling can smash any player in a tackle and to top it off is very quiet and humble. His intelligence on the field is also unrivalled by most.

[@-Muller-]

Wow !! That was now enjoyable to watch 😉👍

[@marchennink]

Bro so good you back... I was born into rugby but I absolutely love seeing somebody learn and spread our sport. Fk the pundits dude😂 you rock. Gonna teach me hockey!

[@myshepspud1]

Don't watch many channels like yours but earned a subscriber because you seem real genuine sincere.

[@rudolphvanrooyen2655]

I would advise you to watch Chasing the Sun. It's about South Africa journey to the 2019 World Cup. The second series, about the 2023 RWC, just started this sunday on TV.

[@annettekolb3103]

I seriously can't wait for episode 2 on Sunday. Gave us a good insight of what happened preparing for the world cup and Rassie admitting he fudged up on social media with that video of Nick Berry. I don't think he should have apologize look what the French coach said last week about Ben O'Keefe in the rwc quarter finals

[@EamonnReacts]

I'm definitely going to check both series out at some point. Just don't have the time to do all the editing and such required as of now. May end up just watching them in my own time instead of a reaction.

[@annabrisley479]

Thank you. I love Lukhanyo.

[@Just_JasonZA]

Just helping with pronunciation before continuing the vid😂 Ma Ka Zo La, mm pim pi like that

[@ashishd380]

Check out the British and Irish lions tour of South Africa the one in 2009 that series was violent and epic and the tour of 2021, squidge also did break downs of this tour.

[@randomlyfactual1943]

Springbok fan here and more pertinently, Lukhanyo Am fan as well. He is an absolutely fantastic centre. But is he our best player? He is certainly up there, but I wouldn't single out anyone in our team. Suffice it to say that my biased take is that he is the best 13 in the world. New Zealanders would disagree. The Irish wpuld disagree. The French would probably threaten me with a guillotine. But I am backing our boy to be the best in his position.

[@henk_iii]

Thanks for this one bro

[@EamonnReacts]

No prob I'll be checking out the others you recommended at some point as well for sure.

[@henk_iii]

@@EamonnReacts man, I'd appreciate if you gave Cobus Reinach some love, he's our other world class scrum half alongside Faf, and is one of the fastest players in the world. For some reason Faf gets the all the attention and people forget about Cobus.

[@glennvanzyl4066]

I Am legend O Driscoll Con Smith and Jean de Villiers best Centres. I dont know much about nfl but these guys could do for big money lucky they show us what we got

[@BuffaloReeves]

Squidge is class

[@Arti-iChi]

Don't worry about pronunciation of names.. most of us won't be able to pronounce Celtic names... Don't think Lukhanyo Am is the best that we have seen over the years but he is good enough to be selected as Springbok.

[@annabrisley479]

Am is pronounced like hum. Not like cam. Doesn't matter really, still love it

[@omegadivingacademy7937]

Watch the world cup final 2019 from squidge.

[@TomasGerhardusSmith]

Malcolm marx willie le roux react next

[@XANDER_REED]

Whatever is going on you want AM there. Mr reliable you can just trust him to take care of the situation with no fuss.

[@irvanngobeni7523]

Pause the video if you need talk

[@myshepspud1]

You will have alot of South African fans I'm sure. 😂

[@HayManned]

Can you please react to Chasing The Sun

[@KLEIN_NIC]

you could do Damian Deallende

[@EquaxionX]

Silent killer!

[@jan-gertnel4556]

You go Lukhanyo’s name right. He is a 13 .

[@roeloflindeque4055]

Yeeeh do a Danie Gerber he is the goat

[@EamonnReacts]

doing him next most likely!

[@peterhughes8699]

Hey Eamon - you're listening to SA fans again. L Am is a good Test player obviously but not in my top 5 in his position today imo. The highlights video of Am doesn't even feature him much cos he doesn't have many highlights and ..... he plays in a SA team who rarely give him the ball to do anything. Springbok fans are mostly full of poo imo :)

[@rob8863]

Check out Cobus Reinach

[@rl2204]

girls running in slow-mo

[@tbdmemphis3115]

You should react to Sa schoolboy rugby its u18’s

[@EamonnReacts]

I did one video on them a little while ago. May check em out again in the future. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHTEd62krNuho5o

[@xAvaragex]

The greatest center in rugby right now, par none!!!!

[@Nervybear]

He's not the best by far.

[@thamihlophe8599]

He’s definitely the best player. I wish he wasn’t injured during the last World Cup

[@nic0072]

Not even the best centre in SA on current form.

[@KernowekTim]

Am is not the best player in the world. He never has been. The players vote each year for their, "World Player of the Year"..Ardie Savea is WBP in '24. Antoine Du Pont'23. Josh v d Flier '22........

[@Sbu_Phakathwayo]

you are right hate to admit but that being said am light years ahead of du Pont maybe ardie is more influencial that Am. you most northern hemisphere viewers lack understanding on is western media overvalues their best players to appear relevant

[@subbie5498]

am is or was the form outside centre in 2022

[@Sbu_Phakathwayo]

@@subbie5498 before 2019 till injury yes best at outside centre on the world. Just because realisation came about 2022 doesn't mean that's when Am started cooking