One great game he had

Admittedly, at times we have been guilty of underestimating the opposition, and its bitten us on the ***, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, eh

thank you brads…

yeah… i know people say JK doesn’t have the requisite experience and has coached lesser teams… but few coaches have that top experience before being appointed national coaches…

IMO though… JK has successfully walked the minefield of cultural issues in japan… so should cope with the same issues in sa… and the fact that he got japan to perform as well as they did against the abs… i think… speaks volumes about his ability… so i would be willing to take the chance on him…

and we all know there’s is only open way he’d coach and that would be to play running rugby… can you imagine how some of our talented young backs would benefit from from JK’s skills and enthusiasm…? i mean how many youngsters practise by sprinting downhill through pine forests having to dodge pine trees and if you jink or sidestep the wrong way are gonna run smack nto a rooted tree trunk…?

anyway… JK would be my fantasy pick… but i’m enough of a realist to know it won’t happen…

so will have to wait and see what will happen…

As for JK, he has had two stints at international rugby, both with lesser teams, so it is really hard to gauge how he would make out.

Hansen looks a shoe in to replace Ted, but he will be needing assistants. I suspect that would be his best route to further his coaching career.

thanks BP…

the ABs are World Champs… Ranked No 1… and indisputably the Best Rugby Team on Earth… The players certainly deserve the accolades for performing so well over such a long period of time… and AB supporters can be very proud and should really celebrate and enjoy your time as champions…

and I’m not just speaking of the last four years… I’m speaking of the last 24 years…

as a Bok supporter despite all the banter, i must honestly say that only once in that time did I expect to beat the ABs and that was at home in the 2009 3N… every other time our teams played each other all i could do was hope we played well enough to maybe beat the ABs… and was very pleased when we did… but never expected it… the ABs have consistently been the best team in the world and ABs supporters could be forgiven for expecting to win…

anyway… i hope sa rugby chooses a good coach and makes the right decisions and that being cast in the role of trying to topple the undisputed Champions of World Rugby every time we play will force a new perspective and mind-set of more humility and striving for excellence and less arrogance and entitlement that pervades our rugby…

i really believe in sa we have the players to be the best rugby team in the world… but we fail to draw all the different aspects of our game together from players, to strategy, to leadership, game plans etc etc…

and to be frank… we can learn from new zealand’s single-mindedness… hopefully sa rugby, the new coaches and the players will focus on only one thing from here on out… the NEXT game… nothing can be more important than the NEXT game… no matter what team we’re playing

if we forget about peaking and aiming for world cups and do whatever we can to to win the next game… maybe bok rugby will regain the greatness of bygone eras… and the rankings etc will take care of themselves…

BTW… as unpopular as it may be in SA… if it was my choice… i’d hire JK to be our coach… to me no one epitomises the rugby most boks fans would like to see us play any more than him… and even though people say it was ‘only japan’ i think he has done really well with the and would be great with top players… but it won’t happen in a million years…

so we’ll see what unfolds over the next few months… but looking forward to the s15 and 4N and knocking the world champs off their pedestal…

I still think it was not the best judgement to throw someone into a cup final like that. I would have thought that Cory or Weepu would have moved to 10 before Donald played. He was nervous, that first kick was a shocker.

At the Wales game in Hamilton a group of us joked that Donald would kick the winning WC goal.

I still can’t get over how much possession we kicked to away. Has there been any comment on Ellis’s kicks?
Was he told to do that?

Rugby WC sentiment is too fraught with setup favoritism through the hierarchical structures to allow a fair and even contest where the unfavorable team gets to win and so it is tainted.

AB’s won the first half yesterday to go 5-0 up and then even got a lucky break 50/50 call penalty at 45 min to go 8-0 up but directly thereafter it was 80% France throughout second half and ref closed up shop on awarding penalties anywhere near strike range.

At 73-74 min France were so all over NZ Joubert basically refused to blow AB’s for sealing and hands in ruck within strike range because he knew it would be game over and he’d have to award match and WC to France and that simply could not be and would not sit well at IRB or an entire nation would go into disconsolate mourning for eternity, so he simply took the easy comfy option and didn’t blow AB’s loose forwards for sealing or playing offside on the deck when it was absolutely called for if he interpreted laws correctly. He also didn’t blow Donalds high tackle on Mermoz or Hore and Woodcock popping on a dominant French scrum at around min 72 or thereabouts.

Dusottoir, Bonnaire and Harinordeque out played McCaw, Kaino and Read and Mermoz and Rougerie were too strong for Nonu and Smith while Yachvili and Trinh Duc were far better than Weepu/Ellis and Donald.

France were by far the stronger team on the day and AB’s got baled out another loss situation by a ref that could not or would not blow the game without favoring bias which seems par for the course at RWC affairs these days.

Well done caner my boy.

Pour yourself another spritzer.

let your hair down.

(whatever is left)

Did you ever get tired of telling yourselve how great SA were in 29007 Moron?????