The game was basically dead even. each team had a chance to win it in the last 2 minutes, with very similar kicks. Goosen makes his….the Lions kicker missed.
The difference between the two teams…the kicker. Or was it Jake White’s genius?
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Jake’s take on the close win:
'We got away with it': White happy off-colour Bulls ground out victory over LionsRefreshing honesty.I was rather surprised by Mozart in this case. For years Goosen was injury proned and when eh was in toip form Mozart always after each match wrote injury reports on Goosen and D u Toit - w henever they were replaced from the ebnch, 99% of those injury reports were BS. A n example was D u Toit injured in a match before the WC in 2015 - where he was delighted that Du Toit would be out of the WC for a year due to injury.
This type of victory by the Bulls should be seen as praising of Jake White as a coach. He is just impossible to get any logic from the BSter Dav is 100% correct on what White is achieving with the Bulls team. Unless the Bulls styart performing in this season - White will be out of his job at the Bulls. Rupert and Motsepe made available millions to the Bulls to contract players for the squad and if he fails again - like he did in the 2022-23 season he would get the boot ,
Lions is still the only SA side in the URC to beat the Stormers...in Cape Town nogal!
Er….wrong. Jake won a Trinations and was within 5 minutes of winning a second. Harrassmiss never won a proper RC in 3 attempts. I discount the WC prep years.
And Jake was playing against really good AB and Wallaby teams. Harrassmiss has a 50% record against the weakest Aussie team we have played in the professional era.
It’s true they were trying to stab Jake in the back, but he won the WC with the least support any Bok coach has enjoyed in the professional era. Which makes his WC doubly significant,
He would certainly have beaten the Lions and in 2011 we had a great chance to win it all with a competent coach as opposed to PDV.
The only sense in which Eluckmiss is twice the coach is he probably weighs twice as much.
You despised Jake because you were fanatical about Look Watson. Fortunately for Bok rugby Jake ignored the self prompting jerk. PDV tried the runt in a politically motivated selection. He played 4 mediocre games, then was dropped to the bench for 5 more…..and then barfed his way into obscurity.
Watson was a great player…..hahahaha….a complete test flop. Jake had the confidence to bring in Eddie Jones, Eluckmiss prefers guys like Nienaber who he can dominate.
Poor Mozzie still smarting thst his many years of smearing Rassie and Du Toit have backfired on him in a spectacular fashion.
Mozzie makes an elementary error. He thinks a final kick is what won the match. He ignores what happened over the entire 80 minutes. It is an enormous error in Judgement.
He makes the same error when assessing the Ukraine war. To the dope what happened before the day of the Russians March in is irrelevant.
A catastrophic error. Mozzie has lost his marbles or is just lying.
The way he doubles down on this nonsense is remarkable.
If you think we Watson was going dislodge Schalk over the ball you need your head read. Jake had a bad year in 2006, precisely because Schalk was irreplaceable.
Jake White era
2004 Trinations Champs.
2005 Trinations leaders until the last 5 minutes
2007 World Champs
Legacy… a team that was so good they could win a Lions series with PdV in charge.
Case closed.
The only thing closed is you "mind" when it comes to Rassie. Hahahahahaha.
So if they decided Eddie the eagle could win WCs why didn’t they do the logical thing and hire him.
Because unlike Eluckmiss, Jake believes in continuous improvement.
There was some continuous improvement…. Pollard was even better
He was….bloody awesome!