Cubiczirconia,
‘each team in your group once with play off after that’. That still isn’t fair. We should look at something like Champions League or even Premiership soccer in Europe. Those teams would not put up with less. Home and away and then semis and finals for the top two in each group is fair and the S14 teams still would play less matches than the current S14 format, I believe.

He should have an A and a B side. Use the B side in the early tests and the November tests against the likes of Wales and Ireland. Even if they lose, we will be giving them much needed exposure at this level and then when they are drafted to and from the A side, they will fit into the structures no problem.

Use the strongest team this year for the Tri Nations and the England tests in November. Also, stuff the currie cup. As a competition these days, it has lost it’s appeal. The only reason it ranks so high on everyone’s list of dram wins, is because it’s about all our boys are confident of winning anymore… Use it as a blooding ground for new talent. And lose the small unions who waste time and just make up numbers. WP, Natal, Lions, Bulls, Free State and Griquas or something should compete and have the next generation of players hammering away at each other week after week, before steppiung up to S12 and then Tri Nations etc. The path to being a Springbok should be a hard slog, where you must earn your wings at every level before gaining the ultimate prize.

All this would also help speed transformation along at a far greater pace, because there would be space in the CC teams for the players out there who play second fiddle to the countries top 50 players.

You needed to ready carefully, we were all discussing the RWC, and resting players etc etc blah blah.

The currie is important, just go read em all again.

i will definately support a gesture like that, only have three or 4 teams then it will serve a purpose.

blouskop,

what value did the S12 had for SA rugby.

we are consistantly poor and no-one is the wiser at the end.

fair enough, but a different opinion might be that S12 is as close as one is likely to come to test match rugby without actually experimenting with one’s national team.

Lets face it, at least 2 of the SA sides perenially dont win a game the entire season, wouldn’t it be better to amalgamate these 2 sides into a more powerful team for the following season and use the other team slot to be filled by young players with transformation in mind.

Pissant,
“i would rather cut the S14″. This is all a bit blinkered. So the Boks would only play internationals on their march to your Holy Grail, the World Cup? How would anyone challenge them for their place in the side while they’re wrapped in cotton wool and choking on moth balls.

I like rugby whether it be NPC, Currie Cup, S14, 3N, 6N. Preventing physical and mental burnout is all about managing the players adequately, that’s all.

I pay to watch the Bokke play, not practise.

that must suck hey.

4 more years plonker……..

You won’t find that sort of loser-mentality in NZ!

The All Black fans expect their rugby coaches to experiment AND win. And, of those two, by far the most important one is the Winning.

Losing is NEVER an option.

And that applies in EVERY single test they ever play.

And that’s precisely why the AB’s are the world’s best rugby team by far.

i would rather cut the S14 and i believe too much emphasis is placed on it in the first place and that it also has little or no bearing on a players ability to play test rugby.

you have different coaches, different combinations, different conditioning methods, etc.

if you are looking at a scenario which will serve springbok rugby best, an ‘a’ or dirt trackers team is the best way to go.

look at the whole danie scenraio, JW sees him as a flank or loosie, and the bulls setup sees him as a lock, who suffers at the end, the player.

because he never plays where the national coach wants to use him thus wont be in the running when the coach picks his top players for this position.

brent russel all over again.

Would also consider Ramapele, Lobberts and Frolich who should be around 21 next year. There’s also the leopards no 8, mokeuna, who sounds like he had a great season last year. The U21 world cup winning inside center signed by the cats. Also, plenty of 7′s talent and pace in Juries and Demas.

The only way we will get there is to develop players in the big leagues ie: Super 14 and dirt tracker Bok games.

What about the Currie Cup that is on at that time ?

Cheers