Everything I would have said about Jake and the world cup - but better said!
Wow. The best article Mark Keohane has yet published.
There is no Bok World Cup plan
Wednesday 16 August 2006
Everything about the Springboks at the moment is hit and miss. It will be no different at next year’s World Cup.
Events in the last two months have shown up the lack of World Cup planning, starting with the warm-up match against the World XV, the debacle at Newlands against the French and the embarrassment overseas during the Vodacom Tri Nations.
Each time the Boks stumble, the management ducks in behind a World Cup excuse. There’s no crime in that if there was a World Cup excuse. If the Boks were losing and struggling because of World Cup preparation, you could still stomach recent events. But there has been nothing to suggest any sort of plan with any player.
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There is no Bok World Cup plan
Wednesday 16 August 2006
Everything about the Springboks at the moment is hit and miss. It will be no different at next year’s World Cup.
Events in the last two months have shown up the lack of World Cup planning, starting with the warm-up match against the World XV, the debacle at Newlands against the French and the embarrassment overseas during the Vodacom Tri Nations.
Each time the Boks stumble, the management ducks in behind a World Cup excuse. There’s no crime in that if there was a World Cup excuse. If the Boks were losing and struggling because of World Cup preparation, you could still stomach recent events. But there has been nothing to suggest any sort of plan with any player.
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posted at 12:32 AM
4 Comments:
here are two 22's i can think of that we should have been developing for the world cup.
1 - gurthro
2 - smit (c)
3 - bj botha
4 - matfield
5 - botha
6 - floors
7 - botes
8 - AJ
9 - pienaar
10- james
11- habana
12- barrit
13- cooke
14- russel
15- percy
16 - os
17 - bismarc
18 - muller
19 - p3
20 - janurie
21 - bosman
22 - jaco
1 - lawrence
2 - gary botha
3 - cj
4 - skeate
5 - pieterse
6 - watson (c)
7 - smith
8 - joe
9 - de preez
10- pretorius
11- giscard
12- JDV
13- fourie
14- odwa
15- fortuin
16 - carstens
17 - brits
18 - ackerman
19 - spies
20 - bolla
21 - de waal
22 - jantjies
we can narrow it down to a group of 30 after seeing who puts their hands up.
From today's Natal Witness.
"White still believes that his team can fight back after sinking to their fifth successive defeat.
“These are very trying times for the team but I have full faith in my players. These are the same players who have achieved in the past so there is no reason for me not to have faith in them,” White said.
And that is the problem. White is living in the past, harping back to former glory when the reality is that his game, and some of the players, have reached their sell by date. ".
Also just look at the headings of your last ten posts - they tell the tale. Push the panic button.
To think I spent good money to pay for a wifi connection to sit in hotel room and listen to the game on RSG for that performance!
good arti by Keo but he is still a cnut!
Jimmy van Staaden
Tony.Wojciechowski@alphameric.com
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