Comments on: Tri-Nations: Are the Boks on the decline?

By: Spindoc

Spindoc — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:37:37 +0000

@ Hutch…no DeVilliers will not be replaced because in the eyes of SARU he is a good coach..He just has some problems with communication….:)
I see some radical knee jerk changes coming for the home leg…to save some face!!He could do no worse if he chose the likes of Gary Botha/Tiaan Libenberg(Bismark DuPLessis may be back)…Frans Steyn…..Peter Grant(Back up)….Hougaad at # 9….JP Pietersen to cover on the wing…Vermeulen at # 8…Juan Smit at # 7….these would at least take into account form players and not those who play on past glories!!

By: Hutch

Hutch — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:59:13 +0000

I don’t know enough about the internal politics, but I can see that de Villiers isn’t the ideal coach. He is forever coming out with stupid comments to the detriment of the team, and he makes some very odd selection decisions. Even Bok supporters call him Div.

Will they replace him before the World Cup? I’d be surprised…

By: Spindoc

Spindoc — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:06:29 +0000

…The boks will continue a downward spiral …untill they realise that politics has no place in rugby.The obsession with race …having a black coach…and token players will be there own undoing!!Peter De Villiers inherited a star studded jake White side …a primary school coach could have lead that class to win anything they wanted.The senior form plaers were at there top of there game and the “coach” had players of “colour” who deserved there place on merit.Now with the senior players out of form…Smit…Habana…Matfield…Spies…the token appointments are a bigger weakness…Kirschner…..Januarie…..Ralepelli.The funniest thing is that SA have the players to beat everybody…they just have a coach who chooses not to pick them because he feels a certain loyalty to the senior players.It’s a sad state of affairs and I can see why SA looses so much of there talent…..Quota’s have no place in rugby and no place in sport!!

By: Hutch

Hutch — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:03:51 +0000

There have been a few calls for Smit to be dropped. He’s another of the Bok stalwarts that haven’t been at their best, and perhaps he’s starting to fit Shaun Edwards’ description of him on the Lions Tour (“that fat b*****d”).

It will be interesting to see how they respond in a few weeks’ time, but the Kiwis might have wrapped up the Tri-Nations title before the Boks play again.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:40:50 +0000

the boks are in real trouble and not sure how they got there. they do have a different team now but there are still players like smit, matfield, burger, spies, fourie, habana etc but the team looks clueless now.

i’m sure they will sort it out though. they had both super 14 finalists so probably one or twochanges and theyll fix it.