Fester can sleep easy
10 Mar 2006
WP director of rugby Nick Mallett couldn’t coach the Stormers this year, even if he wanted to.
According to Die Burger, a verbal agreement with the president of the French club Stade Francais, where he coached for two years, prevents Mallett from coaching anywhere in the world until the end of 2007 – when his contract would have expired.
“After my stay in France, I wanted to return to South Africa to see my children finish their schooling,” Mallett told the newspaper. “My contract in France expires only in 2007, but they agreed that I could leave early.
“The president told me, however, he didn’t want me to coach professional teams anywhere else.
“My job is to work out all aspects of the game and to assist Kobus (Van der Merwe, the Stormers coach) and the other personnel.
“I perform an advisory and supporting role and cannot take over the coaching. That is Kobus’s job.”
45 Comments
10 Mar 2006, 06:51 am
Hello bunnies no change if Mallet coached this team, Probleeeeems
10 Mar 2006, 07:07 am
Fester! Brilliant!
Happy friday all.
10 Mar 2006, 07:16 am
Simon
Watching too much TV NOW?? GOOD ONE!!
10 Mar 2006, 07:18 am
Dis jammer want miskien kon hy ‘n verskil maak.
Dis egter goed om te **** hy is ‘n man wat sy woord gestand doen.
10 Mar 2006, 07:26 am
Staal,
Hy sou geen verskil gemaak het nie.
Jy kan nie die July met n donkie wen nie….
10 Mar 2006, 07:41 am
Sorry Staal,
Gotta agree with Stan. Mallets up 2 kak @ province, the whole staff are
10 Mar 2006, 07:44 am
Why would a president from a French club not want him to coach a regional side in South Africa, but allow him to be the “Director of Rugby”. I’m sure if he asked nicely the president wouldn’t mind. I think something fishy is going on, or he just doesn’t want to coach.
10 Mar 2006, 07:53 am
I disagree
IF…..Nick had to step in and coach Province, he would make a difference. Look what **** is doing with Natal [What Putt couldn't do]. If any of you read Rob v/d Valk’s book about Nick, you would have heard how Nick took a Club side in CT [Not sure which club]from Nowhere to win the league I think. **** Muir took Pirates [In JHB] from nowhere to win the National Club Champs. The following year he took Tukkies from nowhere to win the National club champs.
A great coach like Nick CAN make a huge difference to any side.
10 Mar 2006, 08:21 am
Craig
My only question is why does the coach have to make deference, what happened to playing for pride?? The player’s should take some responsibility and step up to the plate. I mean the whole backline of WP is in the Springbok team??
10 Mar 2006, 08:26 am
Hobo
I agree 110%, the players HAVE TO take responsibility, but a good coach DOES help a side as well.
10 Mar 2006, 08:29 am
Hobo
If the whole backline of WP is in the Springbok team then it get’s quite scary to think about the Tri Nations and World Cup 2007…
10 Mar 2006, 08:30 am
I think Nick can make a huge difference. Remember, he’s got all the experience in the world, and he’s been there and done that. You can’t blame it all on the players just like you can’t blame it all on the coach.
If the coach want the players to play a certain game plan, but the players don’t buy into it, you’ve got some problems. But even if a coach has got the best ideas, but on match day the players can’t tackle and can’t catch, it’s not his fault.
Don’t get me wrong! I don’t rate Kobus at all, but we’re stuck with him. Any coach who keeps on selecting Gus Theron is useless. Aspecially if you have someone like Egon Seconds playing Vodacom Cup.
But if I was a player I would rather put my body on the line for Nick Mallet than for Kobus.
Botton line, we’re stuck with Kobus. He and the players need to pull finger and start delivering.
My 2 cents…
10 Mar 2006, 08:32 am
Charlie, don’t worry about that, people said that for the last two years, that just shows you what a difference a really good coach makes.
10 Mar 2006, 08:39 am
Werner
I can tell you that Nick Mallett is the one sitting behind the Gus Theron situation because Mallett does not have a liking in Egon Seconds as well as what happened in the past with Breyton Paulse…Mallett told Egon Seconds that he won’t be playing Super 14 Rugby, so what does that tell you…I don’t think Mallett will make a difference because the Stormer players are just not up for what Super 14 Rugby expects from them at the moment…
10 Mar 2006, 08:43 am
Werner
So what you saying is that you can dish up **** for your regional or provicial team and still be selected as a Springbok because the coach will fix that…I think it is very unfair towards other players that are consistant each week but never gets the oppertunity on a higher level…
10 Mar 2006, 08:47 am
Nick is a good coach , i think he would have made a difference to the team. But as he also said we must give time , things doesn’t change overnight. I know alot of supporters are not very happy at the moment. Look at the Bulls , they also had a couple of bad years behind them before they became a good team again. It was hard work and they made it. Stomers will not come right in one year , more likely in 3 years time. But if they realy wanne play rugby they will improve there game soon otherewise alot of them will loose there places in the springbok team. We already see what Jake is doing ,getting players back from overseas again.
10 Mar 2006, 08:50 am
Charlie if that is true, then it’s even worse off at Newlands than I thought. But I mean, even if he don’t like Egon, for **** sakes, anyone is better than Gus. Anyway, the thing with Nick is that he is so pationate about the game, if you talk to him you can just see how much he love the game, but at the moment there is seriously big time stuff wrong there.
I just don’t hope there is more that 5 000 supporters (or should I say spectators) at Newlands on Saturday.
10 Mar 2006, 09:38 am
Craig,
Quite a few valid points but I dont think it is fair to say Tukkies and Pirates were ‘nowhere’.
But yes he did very-very well with both sides.
10 Mar 2006, 10:19 am
Look at Boots and All last night.
Scotland have the same 15 people as they had last year. So why are they competative now? New coach.
A coach has a huge influence on players
Why is it JW can make the Stormers backline into world beaters and yet KVM makes them inot the laughing stock of world rugby?
COACH COACH COACH
10 Mar 2006, 10:22 am
Graig – Nick coached the False Bay club in the WP leagues.
10 Mar 2006, 10:23 am
Ha ha ha !
Heard the new Stormers ad on the radio this morning where Neil de Kock answers his cellphone:
Neil: Neil de Kock speaking
Rayno: Hi Neil; it’s Rayno Benjamin speaking.
Nei: Hi Rayno ! How you doing mate ?
Rayno: No good; can’t complain.
Neil: And how’s the family doing ?
Rayno: Good thank you.
Neil: Good to hear that !
Rayno: Listen Neil, the reason why i’m phoning: I am standing here on the wing. Can you please pass the ball sometime ?
Ja swaer…
10 Mar 2006, 10:27 am
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
10 Mar 2006, 10:30 am
Fester buddy sleep tight untill 2007 and then you gone DOOS!
10 Mar 2006, 10:32 am
Ek wil net by julle manne wat iets van rugby af weet ****, ons in SA is gou om te se nee moenie vir Rose, Hougaard, Petoors, Russel kies nie hulle is te klein hulle kan nie verdedig nie ek het ook al so gedink. Gisteraand op Boots/All se John Robbie toe het ons as Suid Afrikaners nie te groot obsessie met grootte nie, ons sal eerder n “basher”van n speler kies want netnou mis Rose of Russel n tackel, moet ons nie die spelers kies wat ons meer moontlikhede bied as net vedediging nie???
10 Mar 2006, 11:18 am
Stan
As jy probeer om onnosel voortekom op Keo.. slaag jy met onderskeiding.
Gister lees ek jy reken dit is n belediging vir Pierre Spies om met Joe vN vergelyk te word. Dis nou dieselle Joe vN wat JW se eerste keuse agsteman is? Dieselfde Joe vN wat onder JW se uitverkorenes was om te rus in laasjaar se CC?
En vandag lees ek dat Mallet nie n verskil sal maak as WP/Stormers coach nie. Mallett wat die Bokke in 17 opeenvolgende oorwinnings gecoach het en 27/38 toetse gewen het? Mallet wat Stade Francais na twee Franse titels gelei het in 2003 en 2004?
Stan… jy is n d00s.
10 Mar 2006, 11:39 am
The Stormers are a team with no confidence, simple.
If most of the province backs are good enough to be Boks and win a tri-nations (albeit narrowly) yet they cant perform for their province
then it is the coach. Simple.
It might be that Jake can take an ordinary player and make him play above himself whereas Fester is unable to do the same.
It makes little difference how talented a player is at the end of the day if the game plan and tactics implemented by the coach doesnt suit the player… or even worse if the players dont agree with the game plan. Which is what seems to be happening at the Stormers.
My question is this… if at half time you have realised you are unable to catch the ball at the lineouts and you cant string two passes together why play expansively and why kick so much?
The only other option open to the Stormers during the match in the above scenario is to use the forwards more but IMHO I think the stormers believe the press and dont rate their own tight five. They have no confidence so they have no plan B.
Surely the coach is supposed to create a confident vibe in the camp?
10 Mar 2006, 11:43 am
Thanks Geco
10 Mar 2006, 11:46 am
WLS agreed.
10 Mar 2006, 11:47 am
Mallet en WP ek het goeie nuus vir julle!!!
Vat die donnerse Fransman hof toe!!. Almal doen dit in SA Rugby.
Ek dink Mallet sal moerse verskil maak. Van al die afrigters van die S14 spanne, is dit net HM wat nie provinsiaal rugby gespeel het nie.
My neef rig ‘n O13 skool spannetjie af en het nou ook Blou Bul kleure vir afrigting. Hy het ‘n moerse klomp praktiese en teoretiese eksamens afgelê oor omtrent 3 of 4 jaar om hier uit te kom. Ons huidige afrigters het geen ondervinding van afrigting nie. SA het verseker die spelers, die probleem is daar is geen afrigters wat deur die “ranks” kom nie. Hulle hou op speel en sommer die volgende jaar coach hulle ‘n provisiale span.
10 Mar 2006, 11:51 am
Laat stormers saam met Bulls train.
10 Mar 2006, 11:56 am
Drunkmonkey,
What!! are you drunk?
10 Mar 2006, 12:00 pm
You right let the stormers …storm some more off the field with boooooo from there crowd.
I love it …. that mostly why i watch stormers game its a great comedy.
How do you confuse a stormer: give him the ball with open tryline …. he will be so confused he knock the ball.
10 Mar 2006, 12:01 pm
Shosoloza
Kuik uit vir Die Bulle se Vodacom span se afrigter. Ash Everit.
Hy is a jong mannetjie, 28 jaar oud dink ek.
10 Mar 2006, 12:07 pm
TigerShark,
yes he is coming thru the ranks and he has a great mentor.
Drunkmonkey,
or he will relax after he crossed the tryline and get tackled from behind only to loose the ball…….. like you said, great comedy
10 Mar 2006, 12:07 pm
The Cats are getting knobbed!! The Stormers do have hope, they can never play as terribly as the cats. Can they?
Cats to be relegated.
Waratahs to crack 50 plus.
10 Mar 2006, 12:08 pm
Ah Shoso, who can ever forget that *****, Fleckie the legendary ****!
10 Mar 2006, 12:12 pm
Die afrigter van die Luiperds **** ek is doed hy is jonk ook, Jaques Swanepoel
10 Mar 2006, 12:18 pm
yeah still early to say what going for what …. but stormers playing at home …. u think they gonna get better when they travel and playing like this?
the public is angry cos they know the stormers can play much better…. its almost like there is no spark. The players just going threw the motions.Thats what missing from the stormers that electric spark….. i say run on the field an give them all a electric shock some vooma
10 Mar 2006, 12:33 pm
Cats get a cricket score.
So, by how much would the Spares lose next year if they play? Surely even with their no name brand team they can still do at least as eaualy bad as the Calamity Cats?
Whats worse I think they Cats have the worst ever S12 / S14 record. Lets get rid of them and give the Spares a 10 year chance to at least equal the cats mediocrity.
10 Mar 2006, 12:57 pm
If there is a form of restraint of trade why then he cannot play an advisory role to the Stormers coach. The president (France) won’t even see him.
10 Mar 2006, 13:24 pm
Hobo – the coach doesn’t make a difference? Are your synpases congealed?
There is such a load of rubbish posted on this site, but that comment is right up there with the best.
10 Mar 2006, 15:38 pm
This is an idiotic statement, but i wonder what would have happened in RWC2003 if Mallet had come in to do a hospital job?
However the man is a rugby genius, why did we have to go thru 2 **** coaches to get to White?
A coach makes all the difference, a coach can turn under performing players into champions!!!
I hope for the RWC2007, they get Mallet on board for the world cup. Do White and Mallet have any kind a relationship?
10 Mar 2006, 17:25 pm
Mallet and White do not have a relationship that would be conducive to productive results – Jake was Mallets technical analyst in 1997 / 1998 and was let go before the 1999 season (I think) … the results after that speak for themselves as Nick tried in vain to play Brumbies / Aussie phase rugby with light weight forwards …
10 Mar 2006, 20:43 pm
So Kobus is gonna be there for at least 3 years….how bad will they be then?
11 Mar 2006, 02:25 am
Craig hello what have the sharks done that all of a sudden makes dem s14 champs, get real. I hope what you say is true we will see at the end of the comp
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