As I said, old Nick doesn’t suffer fools gladly.

And he has also settled back in Cape Town. As I said earlier, great poker-player is old Nick. The RFU are under more pressure as they will have to start getting ready for the 6 Nations pretty soon. Lets just wait and see.

But Mallett is his own man. Much has been said about the Teichman episode and Mallett has been humble enough and big enough to admit his mistake. But any new coach should be able to select his assistants. I was among those who said “Solly who?” at the time. The duty of the head coach is to get the best out the players and Mallett is the type of person who commands respect. This, to me, right now is the type of person that the Boks need. After all, he’s been there before and now knows even more what the job entails. And he won’t go on about “judge me on the World Cup” type of craptalk. He’ll want results immediately. He doesn’t suffer fools easily.

I’m not totally convinced that Mallet is as astute and on the money strategy wise as many seem to believe he is.. I reckon he got some distinct blind spots of his own brought about largely by quite a sizable self worth opinion or ego of himself..

nevertheless he may have matured substantially from the dude who let his rugby infatuated passion get the better of some pragmatic down to earth reason when he lost the 99 semi down to very similar circumstances to how we exited this last WC knockout game against self same opposition the Wallabies… where we let compromise rule our better judgement and the coach played the wrong personnel in a do or die death knell game…

Mallet is not as superlative efficient in terms of accurate decision making as some seem to think.. Solomons was a big part of his success when Boks were unbeatable for the 17-0 sequence .. as well as it was Carel Dup who unheralded wrote the blue print and laid the foundations for that script

To me that would be first prize.

will be in ct from the 12th jan. And you?

Just hope it was old Nick sitting with the biggest pile cashing in. That guy is no fool.

i watched the Force demolish the Bulls there earlier this year.

better be careful now this could be construed as inner circle ‘state secrets’ getting defamatory and derogatorily exposed out here on a public forum rugby blog… which put in incorrect context could expose one for libelous intent and anti party blasphemy… who in their right mind would dare to brand the arch icon of this hard fought democracy as a traitor?… and you yourself could even find yourself being the proud resident of a two by four meter lock up facility for no other crime or reason but for stating some innocuous so called ‘truths’ in the vain aim of offering a warped self righteous opinion…