PdV’s making a fool of himself
5 Nov 2011
SIMON BORCHARDT says Peter de Villiers has overstayed his welcome and should do the honourable thing and resign.
When the Springboks were knocked out of the recent World Cup at the quarter-final stage, Peter de Villiers said that his journey with the team was over. The vast majority of Bok fans heaved a huge sigh of relief and looked forward to putting the past four years behind them.
Now De Villiers, in an interview with SuperSport.com’s Gavin Rich, who is writing the coach’s autobiography, says he will re-apply for his job. He says he has unfinished business and that he has learned from his mistakes.
When I SMSed Rich about De Villiers’s sudden change of heart, he pointed out that the Bok players want De Villiers to continue. That is not surprising. When De Villiers was Bok coach, the senior players ran the show and effectively picked themselves. Why do you think Smit started the quarter-final against the Wallabies and not Bismarck du Plessis, the best hooker in the world? The senior players who will still be around next year would love nothing more than to have a boss who will let them do what they want for the next four years.
When De Villiers was named Bok coach in 2008, Saru president Regan Hoskins (who did not vote for him) admitted that the appointment ‘was not entirely made for rugby reasons’. Yet De Villiers ended up coaching the world champions for four years because Saru didn’t have the balls to fire its first black coach, who was clearly out of his depth.
At the end of the World Cup, De Villiers should have done the honourable thing and resigned immediately. Instead, he has refused to let go of the job he didn’t deserve to get in the first place, and has made fool of himself yet again.
As a coach, De Villiers is not in the same galaxy as Graham Henry (who was re-appointed as All Blacks coach following their World Cup quarter-final exit in 2007) let alone on the same planet, so those who say Saru should be brave and follow the NZRU’s example are simply showing how little they know about the game.
Fortunately, the chances of Saru retaining De Villiers, I’m told, are non-existent, so if he has any sense at all, he will walk away from the job now with whatever dignity he has left.
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7 Nov 2011, 08:35 am
before Lucky packet WC 2007,. where White played and BEAT 12th rank Samoa, 7th rank England, 16th rank Usa, 14th rank Tonga (just) and 13th rank Fiji, 6th rank Argy and 7th rank England to gain double points to climb from 4th to 1st over the 5 week gimmick WC, his win/loss ratio was exactly same as Pdv around 62-63%
His win/loss ratio against top 5 countries was diabolical
30% vs NZ
25% vs France
50% vs Aussie, England and Ireland home and away including weak inbound tours, his away record vs Ireland and France and England was loss after loss.
White record against top 5 teams was worse than Pdv and especially his away record.
7 Nov 2011, 08:36 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-650:
Besides that, my stats say Smit won 4/9 and 5/9 in 2010 and 2011 respectively = 9/18. He started 9/9 in 2009 and 7/9 in 2011 so not matter how you slice and dice it, skop praat kak!
PS I use the term ‘Smit won/loss’ in the same way skoppelos does and in the process forget about the 21 other players and coach!
7 Nov 2011, 08:43 am
Hehehe JW v England…
Played 7, won 5 with the last loss against them in Nov 2006 followed by 5 straight wins…terrible indeed.
7 Nov 2011, 08:47 am
JW v Wallabies…
Played 11, won 6 = 55% including a 100% home record.
But lets see how PDivvie did…
Played 12, won 4 including a 50% home record…!!!
7 Nov 2011, 09:17 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-650:
You are the dumb fck numerically challenged dunce arse idiot
I am showing in CLEAR and discernible unmistakable facts how Smit systematically fckd up the Boks SINCE 3N 2009 where it was CLEAR that his bullshit overrated useless nonentity of a fckup leadership was MORE of a LIABILITY than an ASSET!!
YOU simply cannot read clear unfettered non tampered facts!
That SINCE 3N 2009 when ELV laws favored the Smit led fckup JW strategy of kick n chase and FdP could NO LONGER control or dictate the kick chase game that Smit led HIS team to 11 LOSSES ONE AFTER THE NEXT
Through EOYT 2009 where Smit led HIS team to 2 LOSSES against France and Ireland and through 3N 2010 where Smit AGAIN led HIS team to 5 LOSSES vs NZ and Aussie, and yet again in 2011. Where Smit led HIS team to 3 LOSSES in the 3N and ANOTHER loss vs Aussie in WC,
and had it NOT been that he was YANKED OFF in the nick of time vs Wales in the WC would have most DEFINITELY been ANOTHER LOSS to his fckdup esteemed f’ng LOSING LEGACY of the WORST string of Bok losses by ANY captain ANYTIME in Bok history..
Long and short of the matter IS
John Smit is the f’ng WORST LOSING captain this bok team has EVER had the misfortune of playing under for an ENTIRE 2 YEARS,
FROM EOYT 2009 until WC 2011. Smit LOST 11 tests from 13 starts
Suck it UP any other way you wanna AVOID the ISSUE.
JOHN f’ng BIGGER than the game f’up LOSER CAPPY F’NG MARVELOUS SMIT was the CANCER that KILLED THE BOKS. him ALONE… and none OTHER!
7 Nov 2011, 09:29 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-652:
You are Conveniently using weak incoming tours by Ireland, Italy, Wales, England
THAT is what you using to bolster your deluding stats
I am ONLY concerned with EOYT tests and 3N competition through 2009 – 2011.
Those to me are the ONLY stats which count. I could not give two continental fcks how many times we beat poor watered down touring teams like France, Ireland, Italy, England or Wales in their summer tours here. I am ONLY concerned how we fared There and in the 3N because those are the ONLY strength vs strength tests which COUNT!!
Smit LOST 11 from 13 starts in EOYT and 3N tests through 2009 – 2011.
Losing Every time to Aussie and every time to NZ and once each to Ireland and France
Matfield did a WHOLE Lot better with Bismark at 2
In Short John Smit Absolutely SUCKED!!
7 Nov 2011, 09:39 am
@man1a(man1a)-608:
Hey doos for brains, no Islanders manhandled any Boks. F uk arehole if we had so much as thought about retaliating against the persistant niggle we would have lost a few men to reds. Doos!
7 Nov 2011, 10:24 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-603: time to move on, my man.
7 Nov 2011, 10:53 am
there are few candidates for captaincy right now but as Pissant says far more important to select correct coach who will delectable his captain and run with him
If its AC then next captaincy goes to Burger and I start shivering in my boots worse than I did under Smit
Burger is one unfathomable dunce as a captain.. And is Not the best blind side or open side or 8th man in the country by some distance
So to pick Burger as captain now is Not only DUMB its downright f’ng ludicrous as a decision before we know who is coach and who will ACTUALLY perform in next S15.
Burger don’t make my team at 6 or 7 or 8 so how the fck he starts as best captaincy potential only some dumb deluded dunces here will know!
And btw if you looking for a caretaker captain then JdV trumps Burger 1000 fold HANDS DOWN
7 Nov 2011, 10:56 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-659:
wrong thread belongs next door
7 Nov 2011, 11:22 am
@grant10(grant10)-410:
It wasn’t a train smash because the nature of the cup is you either win it or you don’t. There were 19 teams at the world cup who failed to win it. You understand how a knock-out works right?
3 games, which you have to win, to win the cup. If you lose one, it doesn’t matter if it’s the first, or the third, you’re out.
The Boks played a great game in the QF, including Smit. I’m proud of the boys. Would have liked to see them progress, but at the end of the day the result is the same if they lost that QF or they lost the final.
The odds of them winning the WC were what, something like 15/1? So a very long shot, and yet you (and your troops) will of course blame one man. Sad.
7 Nov 2011, 12:55 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-575:
Highest winning margin since 1928 – prove me wrong
7 Nov 2011, 12:58 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-607:
Abssolutely correct
7 Nov 2011, 13:20 pm
I have been a member of this blog for over four years – but haven’t commented much in the last two althought I come here every day to read what is being said…I enjoy some peoples opinions and some peoples knowlage…however the vast number of bloggers on this site have little or no respect for others and the belitteling and name calling are just plain common!To my fellow Saffas – grow up we lost – get over – to the AB supporters – congrats best side at the RWC – to my fellow Sharks supporters – commisirations – to the Lions – Well done and about bloody time. One last point if PDV gets the job again – well then SARU deserve what they get – I believe that they will loose alot of ticket sales and support. I know that if PDV is at the helm I won’t be going to a test…why pay all that cash to get kicked in the nuts?
8 Nov 2011, 20:13 pm
@whatever(whatever)-657: dream on. you guys were smashed. since when have the boks ever worried about send offs from dirty plays?!?! classic.
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