KeoTV: Deans in the dumps
24 Aug 2012
MARK KEOHANE and RYAN VREDE predict another miserable weekend for Robbie Deans against an All Blacks side who will only be tested by the Springboks.
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MARK KEOHANE and RYAN VREDE predict another miserable weekend for Robbie Deans against an All Blacks side who will only be tested by the Springboks.
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16 Comments
24 Aug 2012, 10:02 am
Hey Vrede & co, if I may – here’s the Wallaby bench :
16-Saia Fainga’a, 17-James Slipper, 18-Radike Samo, 19-Liam Gill, 20-Nick Phipps, 21-Anthony Fainga’a 22-Kurtley Beale
:-]
24 Aug 2012, 10:59 am
Beale has a bad game and he gets dumped. I can understand trying to motivate the guy but he’d probably benefit more from playing. Not to mention he’s the classiest player besides Genia.
Looks like NZ’s Trojan Deans is working better than hoped for. At this rate, he’ll be back to super rugby in 2016 with Gatland taking over the ABs
24 Aug 2012, 12:12 pm
Havent seen the vid but I think if Aus lose to Arg in any of their 2 games, he’s out of there.
Even if they beat SA at home.
24 Aug 2012, 12:23 pm
@John Galt-3: I wouldn’t want to be the coach that gets handed this mess with only a November tour to prepare for the Lions.
24 Aug 2012, 13:20 pm
Deans is useless, no sader system and structure to rely on has exposed him badly.
Convicts to compete for the Argies for the wooden spoon.
Fact.
24 Aug 2012, 14:02 pm
@RL-5: i agree this guy is useless no peter dom villiers to hide behind this year, the guy is clueless and has regressed the wallabies a lot. argentina have a msasive pack and can easily provide the gainline punch that australia have no answeres for. so far australia have been easily beaten when they are blunted on the gainline their flea backs have no punch. i dont think new zealand are much better though. take away the ref leniency and voila they just average. argies should finish third and i think they are good enough to beat new zealand away.
24 Aug 2012, 14:13 pm
You guys don’t think the fact that the Ausie Super teams sucked balls has anything to do with Wallabie performance? Dream on.
24 Aug 2012, 14:57 pm
Australia will beat South Africa and finish ahead of Boks on final log standings.
Oz will be ruthless vs Argies and can score tries so will win by bonus point.
Never underestimate mate Oz especially with Bok current pattern of play with one off runners and kicking all day with no clue of how to break line.add fact that at breakdown SA is avg,Hooper/Gill will be potent as slowing down already pedantic Bok ball.
Cooper,Oconnor(will be back by Bok game),Ashley-Cooper,Iaone,Mitchell,Beale will punish Bok errenous kicking.with the amount of Ball Boks kick away.
Oz will have enough ball to attack with vs Boks.They always do.
24 Aug 2012, 17:57 pm
@mshiniwami-8: well mshimistupid the aussies havent exactly been doing well against these kinds of teams throughout deans time as coach. i dont underestimate australia at all just saying it how it is you guys are so slow on the up take its a fkin joke! the only good attacking backs australia have are beale and genia. all of them were completely shut down in the last two tests between these countries. australia cannot penetrate the gainline and are very, very predictable. one of the worst backlines in the world right now for quite a while. you dont understand **** you doos.
24 Aug 2012, 20:44 pm
@RL-5:
of the previous 7 matches between Australua & Sth Africa, the Springboks have won
ONE.
And Sth Africa’s sole World class player is now injured, out of the season.
It might be time to dust off the death threats, gold watches, travel excuses and tutus because that Wooden Spoon is, still, sitting firmly up your @@@@@rse.
24 Aug 2012, 20:55 pm
@The Donkeys Egg-10: your a ***** idiot. how much better were australia to the boks after nienaber sorted the defence? not alot in the first and definitely not even close to being equal in the last test. genia and cooper had something like 8m run between them!! bwaha!its time to grease your neck, loosen the cobwebs and pluck your head out of your aarse you fkin ******.
24 Aug 2012, 23:51 pm
Springboks will loose against aus in aus, morne kak steyn zane useless kircher wouldnt have any nightmares about them they need todd louden to teach them how to play running rugby again, ricardo loubscher rubbish.
25 Aug 2012, 00:02 am
@Blitzbok-6:
Strange thing to say.
I understand he should be better but if he was Ozzie would have #1 IRB ranking.
Fact is Deans took over when Ozzie were #3 IRB ranking, he is now #2… and you say regressed?
25 Aug 2012, 00:35 am
@Hurricane-13: Spot on Hurricane. Deans has the smallest pool of talent to work with and he still has the aussies at nbr 2.too many ignorant and poorly informed bloggers think that because he has not taken them to nbr 1 he is useless. They are the defending Trinations champs as well. Deans is way ahead of Meyer as a coach. I can guarantee you if he coached the Boks guys like Kirchner and Potgieter would not be anywhere near the side.
25 Aug 2012, 01:20 am
The Donkeys Egg
halarious stufff…..lol… and Im a Bok fan.
Our pasionate springbok fans do get ahead of themselves, after playing one of the worse teams in rugby.(8th position). Stats do speak for themselves. To discuss or even compare is illogical.
Personally I see the Springbok team , now without our best player, a team trying to develop depth since so many injuries to our 1st choice players have accured.
New Coach and staff, to much disruption, so we are developing through this compo and can only look at ourselves after it and even only start from next year.
Poor managment with in local provinces, poor managment in Springbok Rugby frenchise, they all the same idots. We could be great, we we’ll never be until these fools change. too selfish, narrow minded and lack one collective thought- whats best for SA as a whole. I’d like to see provinces swopping players more regularly if they have too good a player sitting on the bench, and in abundance.
Whats best for SA rugby as a whole I say!
25 Aug 2012, 04:13 am
Blitzbok
Try constructing a counter argument instead of infantile response that you’re picking out your arse.
But that too much to expect from you really.Aussie backs much better than DeVilliers and co.
But hey uve always had sh*t for brains,typical f*ckwit that you are.
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