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I read with great despair yesterday that SARU are seriously considering trashing SANZAR. I read in the article that Oregan Hoskins and the other misfits in SARU are considering this step because of, amongst other reasons, biased reffing.
Well, I have said it before while commenting on other articles and I can now definitely say it again with conviction: we have seen the best of the Boks. SARU are considering “looking at other possibilities.”
Now, which would those be, I wonder? An African competition, perhaps? Maybe creating a competition with South America? I doubt the Northerners would want us.
So what are we talking about?
The bottom line is that if the Boks do not compete against the world’s best on a regular basis, they will regress. Competing against easy opposition will serve no purpose other than to improve the opposition until we have deteriorated and they have improved to the point where we are equal.
Great, but what now?
Now, when we meet the All Blacks and Wallabies, we get thumped nine times out of ten – like all the other rugby nations.
Hang on, but that’s already happening! WHY, WHY, WHY?
Why is this all happening to Bok rugby? Why are we getting beaten so badly now? Why are the Boks being considered thugs? Why are the refs so anti-Bok all of a sudden? Why are Bok fans turning away from the team we so dearly loved until about a year ago?
The answer is politics.
In South Africa over the last sixteen years, politics has created more racism than there ever was before, and that is a fact. How has this happened?
Well it’s two things. One, instant gratification. Two, greed.
What has happened in South African rugby is simply an extension of what has happened in industry, Government and the public service. Rather than build on what’s in place and working, they want to instantly transform it and ensure self-enrichment by chucking out the “capable” old guard and replacing them with incompetent cronies of the ANC that end up destroying it and breaking it down until it doesn’t work and then walk away from it and blame it on “the previously advantaged.”
If you took the entire SARU board and individually assessed their suitability for the positions they hold, I am prepared to bet they would not be found suitable to run a school team in Nicaragua.
If SARU unilaterally dissolve SANZAR, I will cease to be a rugby supporter.
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