You confusingly often blow it both ways.

I see you are back from the virtual dead after finding things are not so great after all on the dark side of your moon?

OK that’s a better fit for me.

“I suppose it’s easier when Schalk (Burger) or Solly are playing because we know that they’re the men first at the breakdown and doing the graft on the ground,” said Smith.

White may be gambling with his new-look back row and change of scrumhalf when one considers how well they worked last week. But the Bok coach is no fool and has made the changes for a reason.”

Or better yet

“” Great game – you’re dropped
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By Jacques van der Westhuyzen

It was the Springboks’ most compelling display this year, but coach Jake White will still make several changes to his side for this weekend’s Tri-Nations start against the Wallabies in Pretoria.

Saturday’s new combinations could not have clicked any better, with the loose-trio of Solly Tyibilika, Juan Smith and Joe van Niekerk, and the midfield pairing of Jean de Villiers and Jaque Fourie especially influential in the Boks’ 33-20 victory over Australia.

Added to this, rookies Enrico Januarie and Gurthro Steenkamp were also a handful for the Aussies, gaining plenty of metres and defending like Trojans, but changes there will be for the Loftus showdown.
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The Boks have the edge on the Wallabies in South AfricaThe Boks have the edge on the Wallabies in South Africa – as they do over the Boks in their country – and it would seem only a very poor performance by White’s men would allow the Wallabies to steal a rare victory in the Republic.

The team that will go into battle at Loftus will have a more familiar look about them – whether they will do better than the side that ran out at Ellis Park is debatable – but still have the goods to get the Tri-Nations defence successfully off the ground. White, it seems, is still testing certain players and trying out combinations ahead of the real Test against the All Blacks Saturday week in Cape Town.

It is no secret the New Zealanders are the best team in world rugby at the moment and victory over them is what White and his players are targeting.

Maybe he’s experimenting, maybe he’s not, but White is certainly mixing and matching with a greater goal in mind. He has hammered home the point of consistency in the last 18 months, but while his squad selection remains the same, he has this year chopped and changed his starting XV, to varying success. But as White points out “that’s the beauty of keeping the same players together. They all know the calls, the running lines and what’s expected of them, no matter who comes in or who is left out.

“Some players were given time off at Ellis Park, others were deliberately left out,” said White after his side’s Ellis Park victory.

“I was happy with everyone’s performance, but there will be changes this week… I’ll pick a side to play at Loftus,” he said, hinting at the return of a number of Bulls men to the green and gold.

Pedrie Wannenburg has been added to the squad and he may form part of a new back row that will in all likelihood also include Jacques Cronjé. Fourie du Preez will also start again, as will Jaco van der Westhuyzen.

But after Saturday’s solid outing by a bunch of “new-comers” White will find it difficult to leave certain men out. He admitted as much.

“I gave some guys a chance to play at Ellis Park and they showed me they must play again,” said White.”"

Now compare what Deon Stegmann has dished up so far, to what Solly Tyibilika did, but hey!!!, why let facts get in the way of a nice k@k belief system

Do you not think one Tiger is enough for the world to deal with? Now you want more!!!????

How different is this sports-is-politiics-and-politics-is- sports tune you sing to the tune I sang earlier.

All those lack of sport facilities in the townships you mention is ….now wait for it …… sport is politics and politics is sports.

All I subscribe to are the FACTS not the dumb people asking or making dumb questions or comments respectively.

I should introduce JC to my big black buddy ……….

CHRIS GAYLE

Go on JC … tell him he’s small.

@Transformation(Transformation) :

What you are saying is true but there must be better ways of conveying it than JC’s theme for this stupid story.

the National Basketball Association in America did not just turn Negro/black by simply letting things “flow”. facilities were provided in inner city projects for people to start playing the game, scholarships were offered and then the interest in the sport grew and more kids wanted to participate as they saw it as way out of their circumstances.

you can’t tell me Jongi Nokwe @ KwaMfundo Senior Secondary has an equal chance to make the Springboks as a Francois Steyn who is at Grey.

there would be no Wayne Parnell if he never got a bursary to Grey high…

They were probably looking for another 1000 + thread.

I’m sure many so-called black people reading this would be offended.

Greater pressure to impress and to perform results in many exiting rugby altogether (think Eddie), or fading into mediocrity (think Solly).

Or, in the worst cases, they continue to be picked and to be picked on (think Chiliboy).

Some people choose to remain ignorannt all their life by not realising that negative forces once initiated cannot not be arrested even by so-called development.

Classical examples:

exploitation

racism

and now………sports is politics and politics is sports.

Live with it as what has been the status quo for 350 years cannot be expected to be eradicated from peoples’ hearts and minds in 15 short years.

Just read the very, very ‘balanced’ comments here by the minutes to conclude that you are deluded and you are f arting against thunder.