heineken Meyer/SARU's cancerous decision making will cost SA rugby

the sudden exodus of top springboks is due to the fact that meyer's rubbish selection policies willl cost us deerly.

it will delude our local pool of talent and will only serve as motivation for local players to leave our shores in droves as we can complete with the EU's money. the only allure there is for local players is the springbok jumper but if things continue will lose all our boks and our super rugby teams and CC will become dire affairs and the knock on effect will drive our standards down.

SARU NEEDS TO PUT THERE FOOT DOWN AS OVERSEAS BASED PLAYERS CAN NOT PLAY FOR THE BOKS PERIOD.

the cancerours meyers decisions are already startiing to show its ugly head. we as a rugby country cannot afford this. we do not have the talent pool like we brag about.

Too superficial muncher. Jaque Fourie was offered R20 million rand for two years work. How do you combat that. Stars are difficult to keep. With younger players perhaps our chances are a bit better.

A way to combat the drain is to join the NH and earn pounds etc but the season are in conflict. Failing that look forward to a life where our best go overseas and then according to you we dont select them.

Another posibility is to try and persuade foreign countries to select their own crap players. It can't be good for their own rugby to have foreigners ruling the roost. Hower look at premier league football. Have the money boys captured NH rugby. Probably.

Also we could try and ramp up local sponsorship but I would think a fair amount of effort goes into that already and can we so improve matters that we can raise R20 million or the millions required to keep top talent etc.

Its a vexed issue but to blame Meyer is not on. In the case of the Stormers I think we should have pulled out more stops to keep certain players. How expensive was Catrillis or Koster or Quin Roux? Louw was not a Bok regular then either.

In the end players want to secure their future. Nowadays  this including more and more younger players. If I dont play for the Boks I will play for England or Ireland and earn a heap more.  Witness Stander. Will Quinn Roux come back?  Josh Strauss looks like he is eying a Scottish international sport.  Is the allure of  Bok jersey enough to keep them here?

@carpertmuncher & beeno1 aka storminged,

what does the allure of the Bok jersey have to do with anything???
pienaar & louw are alreaady playing overseas & still get selected for the Boks, so theres no reason why any player should stick around in SA.
even jacque fourie would have been playing for the Boks last year had he not specifically made himself unavailable for the Boks.

the problem lies with meyers, not his rubbish selections, but his selecting of players not based in SA.
until SARU & meyer grow a backbone and say if ur not in SA u cant play for the Boks, i cant see the number of players leaving changing at all.

it was a huge loss losing strander IMO, he was looking like a potential Bok player, a lot more then other highly regarded players such as jordaan & serfontein, but hes already gone.
players like  fourie and bekker, these guys have different factors which makes them leaving understandable.

fourie was offered a mountain of money but more importantly, hes 30 and has had a remarkable 69 test cap Bok career, if he never plays for the Bok again, he still played a lot more tests then some players who are considered legends.
bekker dosent have as many caps, but he has had a history of injuries & his choice to go play in japan is very smart, it will do his body a mountain of good & he could remerge back in 2015 as real touur de force.
its a shame hes leaving though, cos hes hitting career best form, IMO hes spXVs form player at the moment. but a chance for his body to recover while keeping his rugby skills sharp & getting a nice payday for it.