(Now: that is not a Post you see from the average Saffa).

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We lost, but I’d be happy for Mark to do all Canes games.

Saying things like Eddie Jones saved us – lol – what a joke. He helped have helped, for sure. But a good coach isn’t always the one that thinks they know everything. They call on others to add value.

A head coach needs good assistants

Well said as well. Trolling a bit but spent too many years writing the same thing to defend Jake. The guy took SA rugby from the mess of Staaldraad to a WC winning number 1 team in the world, and some ungrateful morons don;t appreciate it.

Saying things like Eddie Jones saved us – lol – what a joke. He helped have helped, for sur

Couldn;t have said it better myself.

Being defending the guy since 2004 on here because idiots like Skopskiet couldn’t see a good thing if they walked right into it

HHAHAHAH yes yawn – I’m still waiting for him to use his bedroom wall to blog on and leave us alone.

Jake White fan are we now Grantie

he has many many unresolved issues on white. but mostly it has to do with white not rating luke watson and rating schalk burger.

even the ABs have bad years though. remember 2009. richie and danny injured for parts of that year and they were awful (for their high standards) at times. boks clean swweeped them 3-0 in 3N and bok laden baabaas also knocked them over at end of year. Many of our boks beat them 4 times that year!

injuries hampered the team in 2006 and SARU were trying desperately to get rid of white because he refused to budge on whio he’d pick and play. the week of the 49-0 result against Aussie the team knew what was going on. SARU, the team and the coach collectively own that result, not just jake.

I disagree. if the game is giving advantage to the attacking team. more rucks are looser due to attacking teams trying to recycle the ball quickly to ensure slick flow and the defending team on the back foot more. have a fetcher he will slow the ball and has more chances during the game at the the ruck to pilfer.

before it was skip and donner…kick the ball onto a player deep in opposition territory and chase him…usually these players are in the backline isolate him and get the ball back from a penalty due to the player not releasing. the tackler could get up without letting go the tackled ball carrier and go for the ball. with these laws the fetcher was more a player in the backline.

I think your issue with Jake is purely in his surname…WHITE!

Even more surprising, he’s repeating the same things ad nauseam as he repeated in 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004. Uber yawn.

Skoppie: Crush your mother – She’s a White.

White’s position on Watson was that he was too small – he preferred rangey athletic looseforwards.

White’s position on fetchers, was that every player should play to the ball, which is what alot of teams are doing nowadays, hore and bismarck and coenie are all frontrowers, and they are best pilferers and to-the-ball players in the modern game, none of them are opensiders.

JW’s real problem season started in 2006 when he had a massive spate of injuries, same as PdV’s had problems in 2010 almost exactly the same. Unless you maybe the ABs you simply cannot compete against the top teams in the world if half your best players are out due to injury.

What he did well was go out of his way to secure able “assistants”….
Assistant coach – coached the Brumbies with great success
Larkham & Gregan – WC winners who are probably the best halfback pairing for Australia in the Pro era…
We can go on and on…