Comments on: Mbalula wants PdV back

By: Great White Shark(Predawn)

Great White Shark(Predawn) — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:38:50 +0000

He’s shy.

By: roobarb2(roobarb2)

roobarb2(roobarb2) — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:30:31 +0000

@willievz(willievz)-81: goeie vraag. hoekom vra jy hom nie self nie?

By: willievz(willievz)

willievz(willievz) — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:40:37 +0000

@roobarb2(roobarb2)-80: If the German football coach may speak German at press conferences, and the Lithuanian softball coach speaks Lithuanian to the media, why couldn't PDV speak Afrikaans to the media?

By: roobarb2(roobarb2)

roobarb2(roobarb2) — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:38:27 +0000

with a translator who speaks snor, and a good admin person to back him up, he would be great. at the very least we would get some value for the money we spent on him for 4 years.

i like him despite myself. i saw him at a practice here n East London, and almost felt sorry for him, he seemed isolated. he was off to the side by himself most of the time.

By: willievz(willievz)

willievz(willievz) — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:33:38 +0000

@Blitzbok(Blitzbok)-72: How did it fail? Despite those changes, 2008 and 2009 was his best years with the Boks. It was in 2010 with injuries to many key players, and 2011 where his wheels came off. One of our most successful national coaches ever, certainly regarding his record against the Kiwis.

By: willievz(willievz)

willievz(willievz) — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:31:56 +0000

It’s a no-brainer.

Of course he should be involved in rugby development, at the minimum.

By: ossewa(ossewa)

ossewa(ossewa) — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:28:43 +0000

Screw soccer these boys should learn to play rugby, it is the only team sport where SA has won anything significant….imagine how strong SA would be if rugby was the no. 1 sport….

By: ossewa(ossewa)

ossewa(ossewa) — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:25:12 +0000

It would be great if there was a bigger pool to draw players from. Screw soccer

By: nicsm(nicsm)

nicsm(nicsm) — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:28:13 +0000

If he can do anything at all to uplift grassroots rugby in disadvantaged areas then god speed to him. There’ll never be enough talent for the voracious South African ‘rugby machine’.

By: rangerman(rangerman)

rangerman(rangerman) — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:21:50 +0000

Good job Mr Minister!

Divvy certainly has skills and most importantly, enthusiasm, to impart to the youngsters. the guy breathes rugby.

i wish him well!

By: TheTackler(TheTackler)

TheTackler(TheTackler) — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:52:14 +0000

@Transformation(Transformation)-16: Good on Pieterse. But you know as I do that in every old Model C school there'd be five or six Pieterse equivalents right there in the staffroom, coaching and reffing as best they can even if it was just for the skinnies and fatties in the Under 14E team scraping the 8am Saturday morning dew off the muddy cabbage patch. They'd put in the hours and weekends for free and for zero glory. Out of that comes the proper "culture" out of which excellence springs and is sustained year after year, decade after decade. Mbalula needs to get his Sadtu comrades to adopt that attitude. If they all shoot off home at 2pm every day, there won't be any transformation as there just aren't enough selfless Pieterses around to gather up all the slack.

By: Blitzbok(Blitzbok)

Blitzbok(Blitzbok) — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:28:14 +0000

@ufo(ufo)-70: @Bloues(Grootdrink)-68: no excuses peter made MANY changes in 2008 through to 2009 rotating between 7 fullbacks and many loose forward combos and trying out many centres and all his tinkering failed. he failed because he cant identify talent and doesnt understand the real value of a player and is too arrogant to learn blaming virtually everything else but himself. he never did a hospital job either... that was nienaber and rassie in 2010 while peter showed us what he couldnt do with a fairly strong group of new blood in the opening rounds of the TNs! peter is an idiot who knows jack shit about rugby, is too proud and arrogant to learn, has a massive chip on his shoulder and loves to play the race card to deflect criticism. he has no sense of responsibility, poor leadership is completely unprofessional and is ridiculously unintelligent. sure, put him at grassroots where he can feck the whole system up at its heart. the man is a disease and he only ran back to saru because nobody else in their right minds would hire him anywhere else on the planet.

By: Blitzbok(Blitzbok)

Blitzbok(Blitzbok) — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:22:49 +0000

P Divvy cannot do anything. a quota failed coached in charge on grass roots rugby is frikin asking for serious kak and you ******** know it! and also on development,. your ******* ANC doesnt do development they just force blavks through the system thats where your problem begins and ends. they create a culture of self-pity and handouts. and most of these black players are not cut out for test rugby or high level rugby if they were such a gold mine these unions would have got them because it would have taken pressure off of themselves with these stupid cleft politicians on their backs. how many successes we had? far less than the failures.

By: ufo(ufo)

ufo(ufo) — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:29:22 +0000

@Slappes(Slappes)-64:

and missed yours too bud…

cool story…

and chuffed for PDivvy… hope he’s stoked… great thats he’s got a chance to prove his detractors wrong…

all the best to him…

By: Treehugger(Treehugger)

Treehugger(Treehugger) — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:20:53 +0000

Can imagine his wife will be relieved to have him out the house for a while.

By: Bloues(Grootdrink)

Bloues(Grootdrink) — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:10:10 +0000

@Hondo(Hondo)-65: I also checked that up. Who coached WP between 98 and 2000? My point was that Meyer was an assistant coach for the Boks and JW was one as well. There's no doubt that much of their coaching skills were honed in that period. Div's resume before he got the Bok job wasn't that impressive, and he spent the whole of 2008 learning the ropes, with his players peaking in 2009 and then he had to do a hospital job in the following two seasons. We all knew that some changes had to be made after 2009, Div knew it as well. But any changes he would have made would be trial and error with no time before the World Cup and a very impatient rugby public.

By: guangzhoupoes(guangzhoupoes)

guangzhoupoes(guangzhoupoes) — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:03:55 +0000

ANC should focus on stamping out corruption and stay the fark away from rugby

By: guangzhoupoes(guangzhoupoes)

guangzhoupoes(guangzhoupoes) — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:03:22 +0000

ANC should focus on stamping out corruption and stay the f$&) away from rugby

By: Hondo(Hondo)

Hondo(Hondo) — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:10:59 +0000

@nama1(nama1)-61:
Hey Nama
No idea where that one came from?
1997 – Amature Club in Tyeberg
1998-2000 – assistant coach for Western Province in the Currie Cup
1999-2002 – South Africa national under-19 side
2002-2003 – Falcons through the 2002 and 2003 Currie Cup
2004-2006 SA national under-21

PdV never served under Mallett as far as the record tells me, please enlighten us

By: Slappes(Slappes)

Slappes(Slappes) — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:04:58 +0000

@Ufo, late reply mate but yes hes going to U-dubz. You see Slappes was visiting at his parents in paarl for the wknd and guess who rang the frontdoor bell… (he came to see Slappes’ dad)