‘I’ve got unfinished business’
5 Nov 2011
Peter de Villiers says he will definitely re-apply for the Springbok coaching job.
When the Boks crashed out of the recent World Cup at the quarter-final stage, De Villiers told the media that his journey with the team was over. However, he’s since changed his mind and wants to continue next year.
‘Not winning the World Cup makes me feel like there is unfinished business, that the story isn’t finished,’ De Villiers told SuperSport.com rugby writer Gavin Rich. ‘So if they call for applications for the Springbok job I will definitely apply for it. Why not?’
De Villiers added that the way the Boks had exited the World Cup, with a poor refereeing performance from Bryce Lawrence contributing to their defeat to the Wallabies, had influenced his decision to re-apply for the job.
‘I don’t want to make excuses. We got knocked out and as I said when we got back from overseas, a quarter-final defeat wasn’t good enough and we failed the nation. But what was so frustrating was that we appeared to be peaking at the right time, and there was still room for further growth. I feel the story has been left unfinished,’ he said.
‘I made a lot of mistakes along the way, but you learn from those mistakes, and I believe that I have learned sufficiently that if I was to get a chance to do it again, I wouldn’t make those same mistakes again.’
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7 Nov 2011, 22:43 pm
@bokfan1(bokfan1)-45: Convinced? Hahaha, love it, if you lose, you always think you could/should/would win the next and so forth.
You’re either dumb, or dumber than that.
you squeaked past Wales and Samoa FFS
7 Nov 2011, 22:52 pm
@Jeraldjay(Jeraldjay)-56: No you were not actually. As with Joubert who ruled that in the final that if McCaw was on the wrong side of the ruck – and if he was interfering with play, then he would have been penalised, as he wasn’t, the ref let play go. BL was guilty in allowing Pocock 2 turnovers that were marginal at best, the rest of the time, Pocock may have been offside in the ruck, but hell who hasn’t been, and BL let play go on. The fact we all look at that and scream penalty, but disregard the play by others should alert you to how the game was being reffed. Brussow was equally guilty of similar infringements.
SA had opportunities to win that game, they didn’t take them, and paid the price, it can not be more simpler than that.
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