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5 Aug 2011
RYAN VREDE counters MARK KEOHANE’S argument that Peter de Villiers has engineered his current position, saying he hasn’t had an original plan that’s worked at any stage of his tenure.
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13 May 2013
Duane Vermeulen is out of the June Tests. Stormers strong man Duane Vermeulen returned home from the Stormers Super Rugby tour because of injury and conservatively won't play again until July. It could be that he is out for the remainder of the Super Rugby season as well because of knee ligament damage. Stormers loose-forward Rynhardt Elstadt is also out for at least six weeks as the Cape-based franchise's season went from bad to worse in Sydney. Vermeulen, Meyer's first choice No 8, will be nursed back to action for the Rugby Championship in August. His injury means a likely Bok start ... Read Article19 May 2013
GREGOR PAUL, in the Herald on Sunday, writes world rugby will get its integrated season after the 2015 World Cup and Super Rugby won't break to accommodate an international window. Super Rugby will shift to a March start and won't break for test matches, the June window will be shifted to July and all players will have a 14 to 16-week off-season. Other innovative plans are being discussed, such as building a world series of tests in years that fall between the World Cup and British Lions tours. The revolution that All Black coach Steve Hansen called for last week is coming. The players ... Read Article25 Apr 2013
Jan Serfontein, the player of last year's under 20 World Championship, will head the baby Boks defence in France. Serfontein and Kings wing Sergeal Petersen are two Super Rugby regulars to make Dawie Theron's squad and brilliant flyhalf Handre Pollard is another to play in a second successive tournament. Theron's squad lost a three-match series 2-1 to Argentina in Argentina. Serfontein, Petersen and Western Province's Cheslin Kolbe did not play in those matches. Bulls loose forward Ruan Steenkamp is captain. Serfontein and Pollard are the only two squad members from last year's ... Read Article14 May 2013
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has selected several uncapped Blues players in his training group. Hansen confirmed 38 names and this included many from the potent Blues backline. The Highlanders, despite only winning one match in this year's Super Rugby competition, have six players in the group. An obvious area of weakness is at hooker where Hansen has selected veterans Andrew Hore and Keven Mealamu and Canes Dane Coles. Options are limited and it certainly is a concern for New Zealanders. No overseas-based players were considered, as it is NZRFU policy. Among the uncapped players ... Read Article15 May 2013
French coach Philipe Saint-Andre has included three South African-born players for the three-Test series against the All Blacks in New Zealand. Racing Metro flank Bernard le Roux and Clermont prop Daniel Kotze join Antonie Claassen in a squad that includes eight new caps. Fijian-born Clermont winger Noa Nakaitaci is among the newcomers. Saint-Andre has rested flyhalf Francois Trinh-Duc, but included Toulon's Frederic Michalak. France play world champions New Zealand on June 8, 15 and 22 in Auckland, Hamilton and New Plymouth respectively. French super club Toulon's foreign dominance ... Read Article5 Mar 2013
MARK KEOHANE writes the Varsity Cup in its first year rocked. Since then it's just another professional tournament. The Varsity Cup may have the innovation of doing a few things differently, but what was supposed to be a celebration of student rugby somehow just seems like another tournament, in which the traditional power houses remain the traditional strengths in the tournament. Much has been made of the Port Elizabeth-based Nelson Mandela University display this season and equally there has been bewilderment at how poor Shimlas have been. But it seems the old one two of Stellenbosch University ... Read Article12 May 2013
Marcus Watson scored in extra time to beat the Blitzbokke in the London World Series Sevens Cup quarter-finals. The teams were level 14-all at full time. Watson's try came four minutes into extra time. England won 19-14. England had the chance to win the match with the last play of the game in normal time. They were awarded a penalty and opted to take a drop kick for goal. It missed. Watson then rounded off a move after England had retained possession for two minutes. South Africa suffered further embarrassment when they lost for a second time in the tournament to the USA and were eliminated ... Read Article8 Jan 2013
Limpopo will play in the Vodacom Cup as a separate side for the first time this year. The region, which is a sub-union of the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, has been granted a place in the tournament in its own rights to help foster rugby in South Africa’s far north. They join the 14 provincial unions as well as the returning Pampas XV from Argentina in the tournament, which kicks off in the second week of March and concludes in mid-May. The Polokwane-based Limpopo team will play in the North Section of the competition, along with the Blue Bulls, Golden Lions, Griffons, Leopards, Pumas, Valke ... Read Article5 Aug 2011
RYAN VREDE counters MARK KEOHANE’S argument that Peter de Villiers has engineered his current position, saying he hasn’t had an original plan that’s worked at any stage of his tenure.
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GREGOR PAUL, in the Herald on Sunday, writes world rugby will get its integrated season after the 2015 World Cup and Super Rugby won’t break to accommodate an international window. Read More
Duane Vermeulen is out of the June Tests. Read More
The Rugby Football Union has turned down a proposal from their Welsh counterparts to stage the 2015 World Cup pool match between England and Wales in Cardiff. Read More
Marcus Watson scored in extra time to beat the Blitzbokke in the London World Series Sevens Cup quarter-finals. Read More
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5 Aug 2011, 12:01 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-193:
I agree.
Strike whilst the ironing is hot..
5 Aug 2011, 12:05 pm
So my point being that Jake White used 12 player from “other” coahes. Including only one world cup winner. Pieter de Viliiers will maybe use about 15 players from previous coaches. The big difference being these players are WC winners. Why not use them?
5 Aug 2011, 12:05 pm
@Gunther is an agent for white capital(gunther)-201: Stryk terwyl die yster warm is. That’s stating the bloody obvious, innit?
5 Aug 2011, 12:06 pm
@mpundulu
Having won two WC with local coaches and with Nick’s record to look at, i do not think SA Rugby can accept being coached by a foreigner.
I do not think it can work with our boys.
5 Aug 2011, 12:07 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-190:
good man.
remember uncle gunther was writing essays on British politics while you were still keeping the prefects toilets seats warm in Grahamstown.
I think we are going to be great pals..
5 Aug 2011, 12:16 pm
Gunther: how would you know about the toilet warming ritual at College? Gunther there could be a possibility of a friendship under certain conditions, you’ll have to upgrade your erroneous ranking of St. Andrew’s to top tier and confirm what everyone in the country has readily accepted that St. Andrew’s is without peer.
5 Aug 2011, 12:20 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-206:
Don’t worry.
St Andrews is not alone in the toilet warming stakes.
Now that you have confirmed the practice I am happy to announce their elevation the the premier league.
5 Aug 2011, 12:26 pm
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-159: Awesome Post!
5 Aug 2011, 12:27 pm
@Couchcoach(GI POT)-161: Good post!
5 Aug 2011, 12:28 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-160: “Annunciate”… Huh? Fukaduk,,,
5 Aug 2011, 12:30 pm
@Zinto(Zinto)-202: Yeah nothing wrong with your point. I think it is more than just the players. It is that he does not have a game plan and did not keep up with modern trends, and now “have” to use players from WC07 and the same game plan…
5 Aug 2011, 12:30 pm
@willievz(willievz)-172:
5 Aug 2011, 12:32 pm
@Gunther is an agent for white capital(gunther)-205:
5 Aug 2011, 12:36 pm
Madvillain: accepted that the Boks have collected two pieces of silverware at the WC, however, for the large part of between WCs, the Boks have lost routinely. Their game has not progressed from 1992 until 2011, SA has the largest player base in world rugby by a country mile, however, they’ve been dominated by an island which boasts more sheep than people! Statistically, the Boks should own the number 1 spot, and NZ and Aus should only borrow it from time to time. Under these circumstances, the only element of the SA rugby fraternity to blame is the coaching brotherhood. They are incapable of harnessing all the talent that exists in this country and that’s a shame. Employing a NZ or Aus coach who are accustomed to extracting the impossible with a small player pool is exactly what SA is desperate for.
5 Aug 2011, 12:38 pm
Gunther: we are indeed friends!
5 Aug 2011, 12:43 pm
@BullDog15-211: World cups are played completely different to “normal’international games. That is the reason why a team as dominant as New Zealand can’t seem to win world cups. The pressure is different and game plans change during world cups. So, is it possible to say that Pieter de Villiers game plan or as people like to believe Jake Whites game plan cannot work again. Remember the Boks struggled to make it to the final even with Jake Whites ” team and game plan”against Fiji. If it wasn’t for that tackle from JP Pietersen. Remember up until the WC Australia and New Zealand were dominating world rugby and they could play the modern trends at the time best. What happend to them in the WC?
5 Aug 2011, 13:01 pm
@mpundulu 214: i must say the name mpundulu is funny. it’s like i should not be typing it at all. It sounds offish.
True true, our rugby has not progressed. I agree with you on all the things you’ve said; biggest player base and routine losses between WCs.
What i fear the most is pride, South African pride will not allow us to use a foreign coach. Heyneke or Rassie is what the establishment will get.
Eddie Jones might be acceptable because of Jake and the fact that he has taken Oz to a WC final. John Mitchell is not part of the foreign coaches we can use.
Apart from Eddie Jones i cant think of anyone immediately. You can come up with some list we can work with
5 Aug 2011, 13:10 pm
Keo, Where is the squad buddy?
5 Aug 2011, 13:13 pm
Wall street and the bok team have something in common. They’re both bleeding heavily with no hope or light at the end of the tunnel.
5 Aug 2011, 13:20 pm
Madvillain: I agree with the SA pride element, which is a real impediment. SARU must get beyond this Meyer and Rassie won’t change anything, Meyer is the cause of the Boks playing the skop en jag plan, and worse Meyer with the Bulls is not capable of altering the gameplan to effect wins, the bulls have been worked out but Meyer can’t progress their approach. SA rugby from school level to national needs a holistic overhaul in game strategy, primarily from skills development perspective, and a modern gameplan.
I’d want either Ewan Mckenzie, Steve Hansen, Wayne Smith, Graham Henry, Warren gatland, Ian Forster. I would there to be a triumvirate of international standard coaches covering attack, defense, forwards, skills development, and backs. Whoever they are they must have full reign of directorship of rugby in south Africa for a minimum of 8 years.
5 Aug 2011, 13:33 pm
Madvillain: Critically, coach development institutes in each region must be established by SARU with these coaches providing the blueprint for the curriculum and focus of the institutes. This will ensure a uniform gameplan with a standard backbone but is tweaked from province to province by each respective coach. There’s a lot of scope here if we are serious about it.
5 Aug 2011, 13:50 pm
Next Weeks Bok Side to restore some pride:
15. Francious Steyn
14. JPP
13. Jaque Fourie
12. Jean de Villiers
11. Lwazi Mvovo
10. Butch James
9. Fourie Du Preez
8. Danie Russow
7. Willem Alberts
6. Schalck Burger
5. Victor Matfield
4. Andries Bekker
3. Jannie Du Plessis
2. Bismark Du Plessis
1. The Beast.
16. John Smit
17. CJ van De Linde
18. Bakkies Botha
19. Piere Spies
20. Ruan Pienaar
21. Morne Steyn
22. Juan De Jongh
Just my opinion.
And before im outa here. Goodluck Sharks for tonight. Kimberly can be a *****!!! Go Sharks!!
5 Aug 2011, 14:12 pm
If we are going to rate a coach on only winning the world cup and one Tri Nations and a Lions series then we have lost the plot. We have to rate the coaching team on their total wins, whether Tri Nations, EYOT, Friendlies, etc. The World Cup is a tournament and not the be all and end all – Well tell the All Blacks that!
Time for South Africans to realise that performance should be measured in terms of each international played.
5 Aug 2011, 14:13 pm
@Sharkie10(Sharkie10)-222:
Andries Bekker??? Did he recover so quickly…
5 Aug 2011, 14:15 pm
@Sharkie10(Sharkie10)-222: Have you been reading the papers lately?
5 Aug 2011, 14:36 pm
I think that we should wait and see what happens against Wales. For all we know guys like Frans Steyn has shed some weight, Spies sharpend up his ball protection skills in contact and a few other things have been tweeked at the camp. I trust the following team to do what most of them have done before, which is, TO WIN THE RWC.
15. Frans Steyn – World Cup winner
14. JP peterson – World Cup winner
13. Jaque Fourie – World Cup winner
12. Jean De Villiers – 2 Tri-Nations and Lions
11. Brian Habanna – World Cup winner
10. Butch James – World Cup winner
9. Fourie Du Preez – World Cup winner
8. Willem Alberts – Big and strong
7. Schalk Burger – World Cup winner
6. Jaun Smith – World Cup winner / Brussouw if Smith is injured
5. Victor Matfield – World Cup winner
4. Bakkies Botha – World Cup winner
3. Jannie Du Plesis – World Cup winner
2. John Smit – World Cup winner
1. Guthro Steenkamp ( If Fit )
16. Bismark Du Plesis
17. Beast
18. Gerhard Mostert
19. Danie Rossow
20. Fracois Hougard
21. Jaun De Jong
22. Patrick Lambie
With Aplon and Brussow lurking.
5 Aug 2011, 14:42 pm
Andries Bekker is out until after the World Cup!
5 Aug 2011, 14:53 pm
@MG(MG)-226: They better start playin this combination soon 2 more games until the WC
5 Aug 2011, 15:00 pm
The Rustenburg 21 has two home games to effect Rassie’s new gameplan, thereafter, there are no more tryouts it’s straight to the WC. We’ll see what Rassie has conjured up next week against the Wallabies and then the week after the Boks will face the TRUTH in PE!
5 Aug 2011, 15:05 pm
@madvillain(madvillain)-217: ewan mckenzie
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5 Aug 2011, 15:06 pm
Ryan, to say Chilli is a political pawn is rubbish. I personilly think he has shown great form whenever he has been on the field this year. As for using the “11″ players from the last world cup, Rassie and Derick Coetzee, I would rather say he was stupid if he did not do this. Experience counts a lot. The players are comfortible with Rassie en Derick because they know them. These players will also have confidence in one another because they know and trust each other. They are a band of “brothers” that know what needs to be done and how to do it, cause they HAVE DONE IT BEFORE! Why find a different fitness coach for the world cup if you have one at your desposal that has brilliant knowledge of the tournament and how to condition these players to WIN the cup, as he has DONE before? Again, why do stupid things Ryan? Just to say he was different to Jake White? Maybe there is an honest DESIRE to WIN, not to say I did it MY way, but rather, I did it the RIGHT way.
5 Aug 2011, 15:08 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-229: rassie has no new gameplan, as technical adviser he will do analysis on opponents and bok deficiencies, present his finding to the coach and then they must decide what to do.
5 Aug 2011, 15:23 pm
Transie: it’s impossible for Rassie to purely serve an analytical role for one month, I’ll concede that’s his primary role but PdV, Gold, and Muir have been in the antipodes for the last several weeks, therefore, their focus has been on the Baby Boks, Rassie’s mandate I’m sure must be broader so in other words, he analyses opposition, the Boks, and then formulates a plan to bolster the Boks to overcome oppositions. This must have been what the Rustenburg 21 have been trying to implement for the last while, surely? The gameplan would have to be tweaked to meet the measure of the other teams. If then that’s not what happened PdV, Gold, and Muir have had a week to formulate, implement a new strategy.
5 Aug 2011, 15:25 pm
Transie: uDeans akacacanga! 55% win ratio, no trinations silverware, and has shoddy EOYTs. As I said before this is a Dodgy Dingo in our mists!
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