April Fools day is coming

And SARU has their AGM that day.  Quite appropriate as they are deciding on the coach to be appointed that day.   I suspect the thing is kept under wraps to avoid an uproar before the AGM and the appointment is likely to be another April Fool.
But according to Divan Serfontein -
*   SARU is rotten from top to bottom; and*   Meyer was a sh!t coach - so who would expect anybody better from SARU.     

 Thought it was yer special day wee Mikey ! Nah kidding mate although with those predictions of yours ......

 Don't be shocked if Coetzee gets the Bok gig. The real crux wpuld be his staff, so untill that has been settled, there's no need to go into mourning. Alistair is a good man manager and a good communicator. He should be fine as coach, IF he can get the right staff. 
Mike, Coetzee as next coach is a given....stock up on the Xanor and Prosac if that's going to be a shock to your system.

 Draad
I really do not need medicine - I know what is coming.  Very suitable that the announcement will be made on April's Fools day.  We will end up with a team that cannot play 15 man rugby - ie with the typical Stormers game plan and midgets instead of players in the backline.  
I also know about the opinion poll that attracted 22 000 votes and where Coetzee got barely 20% support.  If he is appointed that would reflect what the rugby supporting  public really think and is a bad sign.  He will be subjected to hell on earth virtually from the start of his coaching career - no honeymoon period for that one.
Just cannot believe this man has got it in him to coach the Springboks - sad to say.         

 Mike, the head coach is in many cases just a front and its mostly up to the staff to make it work. Having a POC as head coach takes off a bit of political pressure. Snorre was so much out of contention that he couldn't get the staff he wanted, Alistair is more credible and will be able to put a decent coaching team together. Who knows what he could have dome with a decent 10 at the Stormers? No need to panic yet.

 Draad 
That may be the case - but after the disaster of Meyer - many of us are cynical about the issue.  
It was not only the flyhalf problem that hamstrung the Stormers - it as th e whole structure of the Stormers backline and their inability to score tries that caused havoc in the past.   
One cannot help but wonder about Coretzee's ability to put a proper coaching structure in place,  There is a lot of politics in evidence and he may decide on True as his backline coach and that would be a disaster.   

 SARU is insisting on a quota as coach ... so they can get their "national" team filled with the same. 
We all knew this day would come.
Well boys .... it's here.
Our soccer team is a joke. Has been since Clive Barker called it a day. So is our national cricket side ... for that matter our junior cricket team too. 
Truly a laugh a minute. 
Now it's rugby's turn to take up their spot amongst the these losers.



  

 

 To be honest we have been rugby losers since 2009. Put another way what have won except for one Junior WC played on SA soil?

 So Coetzee is the man and SARU will not make an announcement because he wantsd Fleck and Proudfoot as his assistants and that is still under negotiation. 
That would mean a repeat of the rubbish rugby Coetzee is known for.  A rough ride is awaiting this dud as coach.
Mozart at last admitted that the usage of has-beens as practised by the last two coaches - the proxy-coached De Villiers (the team being run by the senior players)  and Meyer - was a flop and that we had duds as coaches since 2008.   That is a huge admnission on his part.  Meyer took us down to the no 6 ranked country - never achieved by De Villiers.
Coetzee is bound to succeed with an even lower rating.      

 Mike, the head coach is in many cases just a front and its mostly up to the staff to make it work. Having a POC as head coach takes off a bit of political pressure. Snorre was so much out of contention that he couldn't get the staff he wanted, Alistair is more credible and will be able to put a decent coaching team together. Who knows what he could have dome with a decent 10 at the Stormers? No need to panic yetDraad really!!! Not selecting the best coach available is disgusting as a matter of Principle. You are far too accomodating about all this.  E ven ex anc stalwart ou maaaikie is fed up!

 Beeno 
If Coetzee is appointed as coach we are in the era that public opinion - in this case the rugby supporters are shown the upper finger by the SARU Executive.  They want to appoint a person who has a 20% support base in a recent opinion poll.   If Coetzee is indeed appointed and he just does the incredibly stupid thing of ap pointing Fleck and Proudfoot as his assistants, SA Rugby will go the Stormers way - ie an inability to play proper rugby without any ability to score tries.
Meyer did enough damage in that respect - do we need an even worse coach to carry the downward trend?  
In a way I am sorry for Coetzee - he will have no honeymoon period and will be walking straight into hell from the word go.    

 Mike I am very keen on my tennis and will continue to be so!Coetzee is a decent guy with a small brain. He simply hasn't got it.We need the best the world has to offer.

I do expect the Boks to become an affirmative action unit over the next two years in time for the next world cup. 
Unfortunately, we will not choose the best available players for the 2019 Squad- unless they happen not to be white at that time.  
However the reality is that the majority of the rugby players in SA are Afri=kaans White people- so only a minority of this pool will be selected. 
We need to unearth more talent very quickly- or 2019 we are not going to make it through the group stages.

Yes ... your right, Mozart.
It's a sad tale of what could have been ... what should have been ... an era under the guiding hand of Jake the "Snake" White.
Like him or not ... he still brought us top honours ... and was streets ahead of the chumps we've had since his dismissal.
It's all about rugby in the end ... not a popularity contest.

Mike I have admitted nothing of the sort. Why would I when the ABs won the RWC with an older team than ours? 
So why did we not win RWC2015? It comes down to losing the game against the ABs. I can mention specifics for that game.....the failed lineouts....the poor line kicking which kept us deep in our half....Lomp's horrible missed tackle.....the failure to capitalize on the AB yellow. All valid points.

But in truth NZ was a better team. None of our backs would have made the NZ backline and maybe two or three of our forwards. Perhaps there are one or two ties. But if you scored the ABs at an 8 we might have been a 6.5 with pockets of strength where we should have been able to compete.

So what do you do with that grim assessment. You choose a team and a strategy that plays to those pockets of strength. That requires an astute tough minded coach. HM never  could quite the resist the populist calls the way Jake did when he deep sixed Luke the Puke. Nor did he have the quality of assistants Jake did. And he didn't have the young cadre of players to spice the mix.

HM is a decent man and a competent coach, but not as single mindedly focused on winning as Jake was....so we didn't.

 What about the lost line out by Matfield and his penalty turnaround - why not mention that?  What about the ball possession loss by Burger who resulted in the second AB try.  
The real bugger up came from Meyer's predictable game plan.  This is not about Meyer being a decent man, but professional capacity was seriously absent in his case.  If Meyer did listen to some of the professional calls about the deficiency of the players who ultimately let him down - there would have been a time for him to build up a squad for the WC.  The fact that he ignored the warning signs flashing since 2012 was what caused his downfall.  
Jake was so single-mindedly focused that he had to call in Eddie Jones to deal with the issue of which he knew nothing in 2007 and still new nothing about in 2014 - when he coached the Sharks - namely backline play.   Jake had the luck of a pox-doctor never coming up against NZ and only have to contend with the aged English team.
You still do not realize about the difference between the older NZ players and the older Springbok players.  The older NZ was still PERFORMING on the required level - the older Springboks were NOT and was playing on reputation.  That difference is important - but not according to some who rate reputation as the main issue in team selection.     

 Yes we have heard it all before...a broken record.

 We have all heard your views before - a shattered record.

 Actually you stupid moron...a shattered record makes no sound....a broken record keeps repeating, making an annoying noise. Here you go: 

someone or something that annoyingly repeats itself, as a vinyl record with a scratch. You are starting to sound like a broken record. Word Origin. 1940. 

 the following is from Fox sports

http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/enemy-scout-allister-coetzee-firms-as-new-boks-coach-while-wallabies-accused-of-being-boring/news-story/5ad48871589f281c52af908dd7f73fc7

THE Springboks are set to announce their new coach on Friday

Allister Coetzee is expected to be announced as the Springboks coach on Friday.

South Africa — Allister Coetzee firms as new coach

IT’S been five months in the making, but at long last South African will have a new Springboks coach on Friday following the departure of Heyneke Meyer in December.

Allister Coetzee, who won a World Cup as Jake White’s assistant in 2007, appears to have won the job ahead of SARU’s general manager of high performance Rassie Erasmus.

But the details on who will assist Coetzee are less clear.

Despite signing a new two-year contract extension on Tuesday, there is growing momentum for Lions coach Johan Ackermann to be involved in the coaching setup.

Lions CEO Rudolf Straeuli left the door open for negotiations should the mother body decide to adopt the Australian model of appointing a franchise coach to assist the national boss, but said he had yet be approached.

“At the moment, Saru has not spoken to me about Johan but, much like players, we will not stand in the way,” Straeuli said.

“If Saru wants to talk to us about any of our coaches and players, we are open for such discussions, if it means a sharing option or if it’s an option that will help Ackermann grow…

“There’s an important Saru general meeting on Friday and we are looking to them to give us that guidance.

“That said, the dual-role system has worked well for Australia, with Cheika and Larkham.

“In the professional era, maybe it is a system that we will have to look at and, hopefully, one that will benefit both parties.”

Jake White and Allister Coetzee during the Springboks captain's run in 2007.

However, Test rugby’s most capped referee Jonathan Kaplan said that the Springboks should have hired Ackermann as their coach.

“I would love to see Johan involved,” Kaplan said on The Dan Nicholl Show.

“He’s shown (with the Lions) that he can bring a team from ashes, playing a very special brand of rugby, challenging some of the Kiwi teams, and I think this year will be a standout year for them.

“He’s hit some of the right buttons along the way.

“It is a step up from provincial rugby to Test rugby, but he is a South African, he is an ex-Springbok, so from a culture perspective, he understands pretty well.

“I’ve seen what he can do with no name brands, so if he can work with established names, I’m sure he can build something really good.”