Tim in the fast lane
8 Mar 2006
Tim Lane’s coaching career is back on track.
Lane, the assistant coach of the 1999 World Cup-winning Wallabies, enjoyed great success with Montferrand in 2000 before being lured to join Harry Viljoen’s new Bok management team in 2001.
Lane’s subsequent two years in South African rugby coincided with some of the worst times in the code’s history and the luckless Lane was done a dirty when Bok coach Rudolf Straeuli discontinued his services a week before the start of the 2003 season.
Lane stayed to continue the head coaching job of the Cats, but his tenure proved as unsuccessful as most who have tried to find the claws in these pussies. He left South Africa, frustrated but always convinced that South Africa had some of the best players in the world, but definitely the worst administrators.
When called by SARU officials and told that they would send him Ian McIntosh to help after the Cats had lost three matches in New Zealand, Lane responded: “Don’t bother. Send me 15 C****S who can tackle.”
He took up a consultancy in Japan for six months, but on Wednesday was confirmed head coach of French club Brive. He will be keen to reestablish himself with his French winning ways, after the South African dramas of 2002 through to 2004.
15 Comments
8 Mar 2006, 17:06 pm
should have sent 15 dragons
8 Mar 2006, 17:26 pm
What are 15 C****S?
8 Mar 2006, 17:29 pm
one * to many
8 Mar 2006, 17:30 pm
Hier Kom Groot k… 15 C****S are the English rugby team
8 Mar 2006, 21:47 pm
The way Tim tells the story, he really put an emphasis on the T!!!
8 Mar 2006, 22:13 pm
LOL wls
8 Mar 2006, 22:20 pm
We never should have let this dude leave – he was the reason the boks in Rudis first year were competitive…..
9 Mar 2006, 01:04 am
He should really be coaching a super 14 side in Australia as he has had success here under Macqueen
9 Mar 2006, 07:29 am
Bollocks he is a waste of time he did nothing for the cat’s . Japan is where he must stay
9 Mar 2006, 08:19 am
Don’t show your ignorance Pompies. If only he was still around I would have had some hope of creative backline play in SA. Now there is none.
His departure from the Springbok setup coincided with its slump under RS. Sacking TL was worst than Kamp Staaldraad!
9 Mar 2006, 08:21 am
15 C***S that can tackle hmmm??????
Morale in that team must have been very low. They are probably still trying to shake it off…
9 Mar 2006, 09:20 am
Keo, seriously mate, you guys have to stop using puns like they’re a new discovery. Nobody outside of a 1954 press office has ever been amused by a lame pun.
9 Mar 2006, 09:27 am
Tsiko ignorance is often blind rs is one fat **** and Lane is not that far behind. backline me arse
9 Mar 2006, 10:57 am
Always felt sorry for old Tim, it’s not his fault my team couldn’t/can’t tackle… Sorry boet!
10 Mar 2006, 16:47 pm
He was the reason Greef and De Wet Barry were actually thought of as good players with an eye for the gap …
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