PdV’s Boks were as white as Meyer’s
18 Sep 2012
Peter de Villiers, whose last Bok XV had just three players of colour, says the current Bok team, which also has three, is too white.
Speaking to Ballz Radio on Monday, De Villiers lashed out at Heyneke Meyer’s apparent lack of interest in selecting players of colour.
‘It’s just the little things that bother me,’ said De Villiers. ‘We need to know in what country we do live. And at this moment we are turning a lot of black people against ourselves by making the team white and nobody will talk about these things but I just have to. And that is what … actually we’re breaking up our country again. We’re turning all the black support against the Springboks. Wherever I go I hear people talking negative about the Springboks.’
Ironically, though, Meyer selected three players of colour for the Test against the All Blacks in Dunedin (Beast Mtawarira, Bryan Habana and Zane Kirchner), the same number that De Villiers selected for the 2011 World Cup quarter-final against the Wallabies (Gurthro Steenkamp, Habana, and JP Pietsersen).
De Villiers told Ballz Radio that Gio Aplon, Juan de Jongh and Chiliboy Ralepelle were black players he feels could make a difference, yet Aplon started just three Tests in 2011 (one of which was against Namibia at the World Cup), De Jongh two (he came off the bench twice at the World Cup against Fiji and Namibia), and Ralepelle none (all three of his appearances last year were off the bench, including one against Namibia at the World Cup). In the four years that De Villiers was coach, Ralepelle started just two Tests at hooker, in the dead rubber against the British & Irish Lions at Ellis Park in 2009 and against Italy in Witbank in 2010.
The fact is that De Villiers’s transformation record as Bok coach is no better than Meyer’s.
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18 Sep 2012, 14:30 pm
@Dawn-95: HAHAHA is this the old “I bet you can’t make coffee in 3 mins” trick? How do you know who he is Dawn?
18 Sep 2012, 14:31 pm
@Skeppie-100: And way too many chiefs.
18 Sep 2012, 14:34 pm
@nama1-96: Who was the form Super Rugby flyhalf of 2011…?
Yet he was hardly picked either other than a few minutes on field in the snow against Scotland?
Apparently he was a better 15 than flyhalf… according to Matfield and the other Morne Steyn cheerleaders…
So, Nama, its not always about pigmentation… Maybe its about the way you speak… Lambie, a good Michaelhouse boy, could be a little too posh of a soutie for some of the inferiority complex sensitivities of some of the “traditional power” Boks…
18 Sep 2012, 14:43 pm
@Skeppie-101:
We go back a ways
18 Sep 2012, 14:46 pm
@Dawn-104: Methinks you have the big offshore fishing rod out Dawn, nice try.
18 Sep 2012, 14:53 pm
@Skeppie-100:
true
@Heavens Game-103:
I think we’ve covered that already, HG.
It could be any of pigmentation, Language group or the franchise for which you play/not play.
So, when a favorite of mr X is not selected and it is this perception that it is because of the player’s color and at another time, one of your favorites (Keegan) is not selected and it is your perception is that it is about him being English and not Afrikaans, why are you right and mr X is wrong?
18 Sep 2012, 18:30 pm
@skop-63: How about this team as world beaters.
15: Andre Joubert
14: James Small
13: Japie Mulder
12: Hennie le Roux
11: Chester Williams
10: Joel Stransky
9: Joost van der Westhuizen
8: Mark Andrews
7: Reuben Kruger
6: Francois Pienaar
5: Hannes Strydom
4: Kobus Wiese
3: Balie Swart
2: Chris Rossouw
1: Os du Randt
Only one quota.
18 Sep 2012, 19:11 pm
Fact is that no bok has had enough players of colour to choose from. Most of them are on the wing or outside centre… In the forwards, they’re mostly loose forwards, hookers or loosehead props.
In last week’s CC team sheets the were only 18 players of colour out of 132, only 11 starters…
In next year’s super 15 the following players will feature regularly in match 22′s:
Bulls:
Kirchner, Basson, Ralepelle
Cheetahs:
Rhule, Raubenheimer
Kings:
????
Sharks:
JP Pietersen, Mvovo, Beast
Stormers:
Aplon, Habana, De Jongh, Kolisi, Jantjies? (If the rumours are true)
The problem is that not enough black players are coming through the bok feeder system. The EP Kings who will supposedly address the problem only have two black players in the starting xv for this weekend’s game… Where the hell is this pool of black players the coach is supposed to choose from?
18 Sep 2012, 21:22 pm
Nama1 = Peter De Villiers
Both are fixated with the wit oke.
18 Sep 2012, 21:25 pm
@mxhosa-108:
> Kings:
> ????
Pukie ?
His dad said so
19 Sep 2012, 11:41 am
@mxhosa – at the moment the Bok feeder system = The Bulls
So, yes…I guess you’re right.
How do you okes feel about Mujati…? He’s done some good stuff in Uk….but he’s not played for reasons we all know.
Accusations of inequality for black players when there is racism agains our Zim brothers.
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