GET RID OF THE LOT!
THE performance of our “Keystone Boks” leaves the South African rugby-loving populace gutted, to say the least.
Most of us are still in a bitter state of shell shock.
The rot in Springbok rugby started to show when we were Pearl Harboured by the Japanese at the last World Cup.
We have gone from bad to worse. The soft underbellies – yes, plural! – of Springbok rugby have been exposed.
Please somebody help me here by answering a few basic questions:
· Why did Adriaan Strauss go on tour? Would it not have been better to blood some youngsters with a view to building for the next World Cup?
As it is, Adriaan is a very ordinary captain so please do not tell me his leadership quality could not be replaced – remember Warren Whiteley, the man who pulled it together against Ireland?
Why persist with playing the likes of Bryan Habana who is clearly past it? Along with at least five others who started week after week. Why not pick form ahead of reputation? Why play players out of position? Why was the selection of the team so in your face, pathetically poor?
Why could our Boks not do the basics right? I refer mostly to clearing the ruck. If anyone watched France play the All Blacks this past weekend they would have witnessed fire-in-the-belly commitment from the French players, who were not intimidated – in fact, the difference between the two sides was an intercept try by the All Blacks.
Allister Coetzee has broken all the basic coaching principles that, in the main, are common sense.
Withdraw the Springbok emblem – the current crop of players, management, coaches and support staff do not deserve the honour of being associated in any way with this.
Transformation is an issue – klaar! Please can someone have the balls to call it as it is. I am sick of hearing all the mealymouthed utterings of Victor Matfield and Co who maintain that is a peripheral and should not demand any attention.
Get rid of the lot and start again.
Dennis Opperman
like motor cars and grows the food we eat, and hands over R1 trillion in taxes to black monopoly capital (the government sector) which uses the money to deliver Third World education and health, Third World army and police, Third World municipal services, who cannot provide leadership when the country needs leadership, wastes and steals hundreds of billions via its 100 000 cadres and contractors, lies, obfuscates and double-talks, driving the country relentlessly to junk bond status. This is slow poison. A faster poison is calling for the end of