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I agree with your points, as far as a Saffa with limited grasp is able to.
My observation is the WB’s have gradually lost identity – a widening schizophrenia that’s shown in their gameplay over recent years/decades.
A far cry from days of my younger school mates who were told, ‘get hold of ’84 WB tapes’!
Because Durban schools wanted to play like the WB’s (esp those WB’s) & not the AB’s.
If nothing else, EJ has a passion for WB rugby that will surely impact & the wily old fox should restore ‘steel’ & unlock ‘thinking’ in the adventure that’s been missing for ages.
Am excited for Oz rugby – in my limited view that is ????
ANALYSIS: Why Rennie had to go and the ruthless Eddie edge that makes the Wallabies World Cup contenders
… indeed very influential, if the Boks themselves are to be believed
ANALYSIS: Why Rennie had to go and the ruthless Eddie edge that makes the Wallabies World Cup contenders
Wouldn’t be surprised if Jaden Hendrickse climbs further in his current trajectory, he is a gifted youngster & unsurprisingly was the heartbeat behind his Durban school’s outstanding seasons breaking them into the top 3 in SAF at the time – no small feat for a Durban school!
He is an equally gifted flyhalf & place kicker.
No.9s Power Rankings: No prizes for guessing No.1, but how do Whitey and the other Test halfbacks stack up?
I think he only made it by a whisker 🙂
REACTION: Boks turn salty tears into raging torrent of revenge, Marika smashed and humbled in TRC 'mugging'
haha, yes indeed, some nice recreational ‘ballas-trap’
ANALYSIS: Boks will get better and Wales have missed their chance, but all is not lost for Eddie Down Under
There was allegedly very ugly stuff being given by the Welsh boys.to provoke & unsettle.
Gotta be up for that kind of thing … army style
ANALYSIS: Boks will get better and Wales have missed their chance, but all is not lost for Eddie Down Under
@BiB Hopefully they will have fared better than the MIB did in Europe last year?
Surely gotta be more consistent against IRE (& FRA) before giving the trumpet a long blast? 😛
ANALYSIS: Boks will get better and Wales have missed their chance, but all is not lost for Eddie Down Under
Having watched the Boks since the ’76 AB tests, and endured the mind boggling admin/politico chaos & endless resets in the modern era, it’s refreshing to see them building actual structure above foundations for once. The 1st H v Wales was indeed awful (credit to an urgent Wales with intent & … borderline hoodlum antics), but overall there was much to like.
As I sit here sipping a goodly Merlot in a chilly Durbanville, looking at lightly snow capped Stellenbosch mountains in the distance – I for once am quite contented.
ANALYSIS: Boks will get better and Wales have missed their chance, but all is not lost for Eddie Down Under
I recall a historian’s lecture on the French Huguenots who fled France after revocation of the Edict of Nantes rendered them defenceless against state sanctioned terror.
He quoted a prominent Huguenot who declared, ‘God will surely curse a nation that so mercilessly slaughters thousands upon thousands of it’s own faithful servants’. Chilling words!
'Rocky, heaving, but brutally beautiful': What we learnt about every RWC contender in 2021
True that, but they said they intended adding game layers on top of rock solid foundations. The start was fixing fragile mindsets (transformation from resentment & opposition by most Saffers to wild support has helped hugely).
So for the 1st time in many a long year, I end the season with quiet optimism & not despair at being dipped in a bucket of rugby’s equivalent of bubonic plague.
Despite the Press, things are on the up.
'Rocky, heaving, but brutally beautiful': What we learnt about every RWC contender in 2021
Yip, I can’t see IRE bullying the AB’s in NZ next year.
Foz is a wily old fox & I hugely respect Plum who remains a very good coach. (Ok, ok, so I’m biased ‘cos of his astute team play in that Sharks pack in ’90 that befuddled the more fancied Bulls – at Loftus! – in ‘that’ 1st ever Currie cup final win in 100 years).
They will have been stung & that AB pack will grow menace once the individual pods start syncing as a pack.
'Rocky, heaving, but brutally beautiful': What we learnt about every RWC contender in 2021
Absurd!
Fun unmalicious banter that likely would have invoked chuckling from William Webb-Ellis.
Would have hoped Gregor is bigger than that – or at least better informed.
Townsend accuses Eramus of 'sledging' Scotland player during water boy duties
No BBBT, he’s not ‘garbage’. He’s human like the rest of us. As is Nic Berry.
One has to be human to play the game we love, & we love it ‘cos of the values it holds, & I say it’s values are not separate from the humans who play it & from whom, surely, those values originate?
The game therefore throws up drama, despair, loss, adversity, good & bad choices, redemption, triumph & everything in between. The game & the worst team is always redeemable – and so too the players. Otherwise we become guilty of the same thing for which Rassie’s actions are condemned.
I’m sure it was a superhero who once said, ‘he who is without sin, let him cast the first stone’
ANALYSIS: How and why World Rugby's panel reached its verdict in the Erasmus case
Agreed. Which is why I liked Rassie’s return of bok test rugby thinking which assumes the basics of forward play firstly. He had to flush out the Coetzee era romanticism of 15 man flash play to match AB brilliance which can never work without that platform up front
The Wrap: Familiar themes emerge as Wallabies and All Blacks are pasted by England and Ireland
Jaden has Fourie’s vision & a young Pichot’s smarts, & also plays a good game at 10. He maybe needs to temper the youthful over-exuberance but man, I can’t wait to see him return.
The Wrap: Familiar themes emerge as Wallabies and All Blacks are pasted by England and Ireland
Precisely, his vision at the back, & constant communication with the wings is actually very good, something Fassi needs to develop pronto, for the sake of my mental health
The Wrap: Familiar themes emerge as Wallabies and All Blacks are pasted by England and Ireland
Jaden Hendrickse is pure class, with fantastic vision & loads of bmt – a pity he’s injured. Fassi has loads of rugby IQ, but still doesn’t match Willie for defensive vision & comms, which will surely come
'You could see it in their sweaty eyes:' The 2023 Rugby World Cup preliminaries just began
Good point Geoff. . .
However, there’s a backstory here that’s not fully understood outside ZA. . .
A militant fringe political group here benefits from & stokes anger between races. . .
They openly despise the success of the boks & the potential it represents. . .
Local institutions have gradually collapsed under cynical marxist intent such that official proclamations are seen as hot-air belched onto growing frustrations. . .
Most frustrated Saffers grasp meaning from the obvious progress of the Boks, they saw clarity of intent, planning, hard work, transparency, action that brought results. . .
This is not lost on the majority. . .
It paints a picture wildly different from the experiences of govt promises & actions. . .
Siya carries a weight here that he treads carefully with. . .
Imagine, if you will, the perceptions of the many who see Siya asking Ref for clarity, only to be dispatched by a linesman while other captain remains? (After several incidents ‘appear’ unfairly dealt with by officials) We know this was no racism but to see an escalating situation go unchallenged, or not be backed by Rassie would be disastrous beyond understanding of this forum. . .
It would show the masses that things are ‘no different to current experience & laws, officials are not committed to fairness’ . . .
I concede that we Saffers are not strong on common sense, but the impact of these things in ZA is greater than many here will understand. . .
(Sorry, not sure why spaces in the text disappear) 😔
The Wrap: Springboks victory surge vindicates Erasmus, but at what cost?
Hi piru …I confess I find e.g. Faf’s niggles mostly fun but this Bok group honestly doesn’t strike me as dirty.
The Wrap: Springboks victory surge vindicates Erasmus, but at what cost?
The reason they pulled out Micko is because they were refused travel release by govt (covid lockdown).
SARU had no say.
The Wrap: Springboks victory surge vindicates Erasmus, but at what cost?
Absolutely! Not unlike the fondness that native Africans recall being wrenched from Africa to slave on British plantations in the West Indies … before finally & reluctantly being freed decades later (thanks to Wilburforce and his pesky Christians).
… As an interesting sidenote, the local Saffer black population was never enslaved, but rather slaves were brought in by the Dutch from their East Indies.
But importantly, what is Britain doing currently about the bigger and ongoing slave trade from NE Africa to the Arabian peninsula?
And don’t fret too needlessly over ‘construction of the apartheid system’ – the Brits made a significant contribution there, as is always the surprising case with these complex issues.
But don’t get me wrong, while I am of mixed race descent with a great grandfather an officer in the British army (going on to serve as a high ranking official in the British South Africa Police after the Boer war) I do hear what Alexandr Solzenitshyn observed, that ‘good and evil is separated by a thin line that runs through every human heart.’
And as that Marvel superhero said, ‘… he who is without sin, let him cast the 1st stone’
So … lets enjoy the rugby and bash each other legally, while looking to have a good beer together afterwards? 😛
Box the Boks or tame the Lions: A preview of a surreal tour
do you know the background re. the ‘500’ minutes suggestion?
It was a starting point analysis (driven by player welfare) to pick up after a disastrous govt enforced lockdown harsher than elsewhere in the world.
Lockdown blocked access to all & any training environments (unlike for many athletes elsewhere & especially elite training). Everyone was home bound for long extended periods & it was months before total curfew was curtailed.
Pro14, South African rugby clubs form United Rugby Championship
Yeah exactly, thoroughly enjoyable read!
Lions versus Springboks: The history of the British and Irish Lions in South Africa
Dude, I really hope you get some treatment for that stomach ulcer, it’s eating you alive. I honestly wish you well, and would love to sit down for a beer and chat sometime if possible. But be warned I am a white Saffer, whatever that means … considering the inherent racial mixing in a significant proportion of the population, which highlights the huge complexities found here that can’t be fixed by an upstanding Watson or 2 (… if only you knew))
I’m happy to concede that our rugby & most else, (even white rugby supporters) are quite inferior to anything found elsewhere … so we can go on, but don’t give me a lazy half-baked, mediocre argument and try punt it as truth – cos I won’t be afraid to contest it with you with due courtesy & respect.
The vast majority of all Saffers here are kind, well-meaning, respectful folk who love each other despite the divisions being furiously stoked by radical marxists.
And dare I say despite much of what the MSM has pushed for decades.
Despite all you say about the RWC final & your despising the Boks win, it was a win more significant than a trophy mostly because it showed Saffers that we actually don’t hate each other. The win was a loss for the nasties, and I say it ushered the start of something significant …
https://www.sapeople.com/2021/02/05/senekal-community-is-healing-rifts-by-fixing-their-town-together/
Will Springbok pride come before the fall?
If DMac is at 10, then all I would say, as a Saffa, is … Yes Please! 😁
SPIRO ZAVOS: Skelton a force of nature, All Blacks' strategic error that has put their World Cup in peril