PdV: ‘SBW does it wrong’
10 May 2011
Peter de Villiers says Sonny Bill Williams’ game is high risk and against rugby principles.
When the Springbok coach announced his 51-man World Cup planning squad, De Villiers said he wasn’t worried about Williams – this despite the impressive form the player has displayed with the Crusaders this season.
‘As soon as somebody works him out, he won’t be as much a factor,’ he said in Wellington last month. ‘I’m looking forward to seeing Sonny Bill against a Jean de Villiers and a Jaque Fourie, who can cut down his space, and on the inside you’ve got big, hard tackles coming in from a Schalk Burger. Then we will see if the boxer can box, and if the dancer can dance.’
Now speaking to Union Sports Mag, De Villiers believes Williams will be exposed at Test level.
‘Now why is Sonny Bill Williams in my mind not the best? He’s been sensational and playing good rugby. He has matured in his game,’ said De Villiers.
‘But he’s doing everything wrong [according] to what rugby principles acquires (sic) of you. Back-hand passes shouldn’t be the norm, but it has become the norm. Now everybody wants to do that kind of nonsense and they forget about the basic principles of the game.
‘Like last week, he made four mistakes with those kind of non-rugby stuff. If it comes off, it’s brilliant. But do you have control of those kind of things? If you get to international level when people work you out so easy (sic), then you have to be in control of what you are doing.
‘If you get a little boy who is watching this Super Rugby and he wants to do things like that, he’ll spend hours and hours focusing on those things that are not important and never master the most important things of rugby.’
When asked if he has worked Williams out, De Villiers replied: ‘If you close down his spaces, put pressure on him and hit him hard; if you don’t dance around like he does, then he’s nowhere.’
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11 May 2011, 04:06 am
Imagine if the coach of the 1937 All Blacks had said this about the style of the visiting Springbok scrum-half, an innovative young man called Danie Craven who devised a “dive-pass” to get the ball to his flyhalf without using the conventional upright “stride-and-offload” method : “But he’s doing everything wrong to what rugby principles acquires of you. Dive-passes shouldn’t be the norm, but it has become the norm. Now everybody wants to do that kind of nonsense and they forget about the basic principles of the game ”
Hahahaha…. what a clown he’d be!
11 May 2011, 04:31 am
What an idiot
SBW will make him eat his words at Boks expense
11 May 2011, 06:24 am
I think the word clown is disrespectful of Boswell Wilkie and all other travelling funny men. We have an absolue idiot at our helm.
…Anybody interested in 4 tickets to SA v Wales in Wellington?
11 May 2011, 07:06 am
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-648: Hi there, your feelings seem hurt?Care to talk about it?
11 May 2011, 08:52 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-651: Tickles… You’re losing your touch as a “yarpie revver”…. 90% of SA rugger supporters agree with you 100%. The other 10% would disagree blindly even if Julius M.alema was coach… Mind you, I reckon M.alema would give Dippy a run for his money…
But you speak truth regarding Craven’s dive pass and misalignment with so called “rugby principles” of the day… the fact that he also played no 8, flyhalf and centre (and 15?) would have really done Dippy’s mind in.
11 May 2011, 09:08 am
It will be another Bokke vs Poms final this year.
11 May 2011, 09:29 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-655: Dippy has a mind? I thought he’d lost it.
11 May 2011, 09:32 am
@Sasuke(Sasuke)-656: Those magic mushrooms you’ve swallowed are ultra-magical, hey?
11 May 2011, 09:45 am
and besides, who the fark is Krusty to say ” what rugby principles” are ?
is it up to Krusty to adjudge that “Back-hand passes shouldn’t be the norm” ?
has an opposition coach ever spoken about a players skills as “that kind of nonsense” ?
Perhaps a little self-examination wouldnt go astray, Krusty – “If you get to international level when people work you out so easy (sic), then you have to be in control of what you are doing.” – so are you ‘in control’ then, Krusty ?
“…a little boy …… he’ll spend hours and hours focusing on those things that are not important and never master the most important things of rugby.” And what would those be, Krusty, kick AND chase ? or how about conducting yourself with a small amount of decorum ?
11 May 2011, 10:18 am
P Divvy is probably a great dancer.
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