French lesson for Baby Boks

French lesson for Baby Boks

26 Jun 2006

The Baby Boks were gracious in defeat after relinquishing their World title to France on Sunday.

The Baby Boks were defeated 24-13 by the French in the final of the IRB U21 World Championship competition on Sunday in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

“They were better than us on the pitch today. We lost against a very good team,” said De Villiers. “They were quicker than us but I think we’ve learnt a lot during this tournament.”

SA captain Chiliboy Ralepelle agreed with his coach. “I think France studied our game very well. They made fewer errors than us and that’s why we lost the match.”

The match was played in front of a full house of French fans at the Parc des Sports Marcel Michelin, which caused De Villiers to remark that the Baby Boks had to play against 13000 people.

The dramatic win gives France their first winners’ medals in the tournament’s history and follows the senior side’s victory over the Springboks in Cape Town on Saturday.

“We made South Africa play in their own half,” said outstanding French flyhalf Lionel Beauxis. “Even if we scored through penalties, the principal was still to win the match. We controlled the ball really well and a lot of the credit for that goes to the forwards.

“It’s very satisfying to beat South Africa. It’s been a long road of hard work which has paid off.”


34 Comments

  • 1.Staal: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 07:50 am

    Wat is die les?

  • 2.Andrew: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 07:53 am

    Staal -

    De Villiers: “They were quicker than us but I think we’ve learnt a lot during this tournament.”

    Chili: “I think France studied our game very well. They made fewer errors than us and that’s why we lost the match.”

    Geddit?

  • 3.Staal: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 07:56 am

    Andrew,

    Thats what happened, now what did PdV learn?

  • 4.Sampioenman: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 07:57 am

    Vra dit. Wonder of hulle actually ‘n antwoord kan gee.

  • 5.Sampioenman: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:02 am

    Andrew vertel net wat hulle waargeneem het. Wat gaan dit help vir die volgende wedstryd?

  • 6.TheTackler: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:04 am

    “We made too many mistakes…” and “We can take lots of positives out of this”…

  • 7.Sampioenman: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:06 am

    Ja…. Wonder of hulle ooit weet wat die foute was.

  • 8.Staal: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:08 am

    Hy gaat dit seker weer waarneem en dan is dit ‘n “les”. Maw hy is reaksioner in die rugby wat hy leer.

    Nee wat, dit is sommer maar net “iets om te se” hoekom hulle verloor het.

    Ek persoonlik dink die O/21 het hul kant gebring vir SA. Ons kan werk met die manne.

  • 9.green blood: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:09 am

    Andrew,

    looks like you do not understand ‘die taal’ **** reply to the ?tion.

  • 10.Sampioenman: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:10 am

    Yup. Meer belowend as die has-beens wat Saterdag gespeel het. Anycase, laat ek eers werk, voor ek n has-been by die werk is. Later.

  • 11.Staal: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:13 am

    green blood,

    he is thunderous in his quiet response.

  • 12.fiftybucks: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:28 am

    The baby boks took the field with a little too much over-confidence and paid for it. I just have to re-iterate some of the bitching on the other article on this game that the ref was extremely poor, the French 4 had his foot in the ruck every time right in front of the ref and nothing was ever done, but besides that, we were outplayed and thats that. Still a better performance from our Juniors than the woeful Boks on Saturday. The french were still unable to penetrate their defence and thats a plus I suppose.

  • 13.green blood: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:31 am

    50bucks so PdV can safely say that we have learnt that they can defend very well. Staal, Andrew should be able to understand that!! lol

  • 14.Andrew: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:31 am

    Sorry guys. Been working on another thread. As jy wil weet ek kan die taal lekker verstaan maar my engels is baie beter. :lol: … That’s why I write in english.

    Anyway, as you say they have not indicated what these lessons actually are and may merely have been pontificating for the benefit of the press etc.

    Regardless, they realise the french were faster and made fewer errors. whether they actually implement this new found wisdom is a moot point.

    But I believe these guys present a bright future for us at Test level.

  • 15.green blood: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:36 am

    andrew

    really no need to comment, were just joking with you!! although your last comment was very insightful – more or less the same info as the article you posted. nothing new?

  • 16.Staal: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:38 am

    andrew,

    no problemo

  • 17.Andrew: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:41 am

    green blood – me too :mrgreen:

  • 18.B4theGame: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:50 am

    One good thing came out of this – Peter d V bubble has been burst..beware the day he EVER becomes Bok coach…

    Sorry to say but after what I experienced on visit in Windhoek when the SPARES played, I have NO respect for PdV

  • 19.Stan: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:52 am

    We should treasure or WC, 3N cup and the 2 junior Bok teams cup’s, because we will not easily see them again.
    I studied this game various times and i am fully convinced that this is not the best team.
    Strauss made a huge diffence when he came on and Blignaut is trying best to become a second Dik Davids by trying to do as little as possible. Lobberts is totally overrated and Dollie not become nothing more than an average VC flyhalf.

    Our best player was Jano Vermaak and why do De Villiers play Pietersen at wing and Delport at fullback while they were playing the other way around for thier whole lives and at their provinces.Spies was also totally under utilzed.

    and to think that some wanted to rate this team higher than the Burger, Rathbone team?

  • 20.Andrew: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:52 am

    Enlighten us B4?

  • 21.sarky: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 08:57 am

    You’re going to los some get over yorself.

    The French looked for more up for it and committed than our Babes did. A big difference, like the seniors game is the mobility of their pack and the clean outs.

    They also don’t suffer from excess forwards in the back line, they seem to think they can manage.

    The French defensive lines were excellent.

  • 22.nicksteroonie: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 09:22 am

    How nice. Losing to France twice in one weekend.

    And I wasted my time watching both games!

  • 23.Alibaba: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 09:27 am

    At least here it was the other way round – ZAF scored the try, and they won with penalties.

    Enlighten me, is Spies a “fetcher” or just a very fast loosie?

  • 24.seamus: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 09:41 am

    The BBs lost the game in the lose. Every tackle situation was dominated by France. They turned over more ball than… well, the prostitutes in Germany.

  • 25.Dutchman: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 09:42 am

    Should lessons not be learnt before a final in the future. Guys were just not up to scratch. Fire the coach

  • 26.MysticBoer: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 10:02 am

    23. “Enlighten me, is Spies a “fetcher” or just a very fast loosie?”

    Well, if he’s a fetcher he can forget about making the senior team while White is around. Apparently we dont need any fetchers.

  • 27.Brickwall: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 10:10 am

    Yeh we lost but I am proud to be a South African\
    \
    The baby boks did well. I just hope that the way our team showed passion for our country will be noticed by all. All cultures in that team combined beuatifully. I got goosebumps during the athems. Why can’t all Saffas stand together like that.

    Well Bokkies. You made us proud.

  • 28.Brickwall: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 10:12 am

    Stars for the future:

    Nxoli
    Spies
    Daniels
    Lobberts

    These oaks showed pure class.

  • 29.Alibaba: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 10:20 am

    LOL @ Mystic!!! :-)

    Let’s hope Jake does not see him as a fetcher then. Question remains however whether we actually need “just another very fast loosie” – we have tons of em. It is the fetcher we missed on Saturday – I only watched from after half time (spent the rest of the time running around in the lovely city looking for a pub that showed the match), but it looked to me like we were being butchered on the ground.

  • 30.Grrrr....I'm a Lion!: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 10:30 am

    Leasons they learned. If you don’t have the ball you can’t score points. If the other team scores more points than you you are likelly to lose. These two were free boys, the next lesson will cost you though…

  • 31.citizenc: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 10:48 am

    Keegan Daniels shouldn’t have been played at No 8 – he was needed to “fetch”. Why on earth was he swapped around with Spies?

  • 32.oxfordshark: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 11:32 am

    Agreed,Keegan was the best fetcher for the BB’s then they put him at #8 ??

  • 33.Stan: Reply to this comment
    26 Jun 2006, 12:50 pm

    Because they have an idiot as a coach….

  • 34.Viper6: Reply to this comment
    27 Jun 2006, 06:36 am

    Maybe instructions from Jake White :P

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