Kiwi Tony Brown joining Boks

Boks’ attack coach under Eluckmiss? Talk about a non job….I guess Tony will be teaching variations in the box kick.

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Is that Tony arriving?

Summary of the 2024 Springbok’s Home Fixtures (kick-offs at 17h00):
Sat. 6 July, SA vs Ireland, Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
Sat. 13 July, SA v Ireland, Hollywood Bets Kings Park, Durban
Sat. 20 July, SA v Portugal, tba
Sat. 31 Aug, SA v NZ, Emirates Airline Park, Johannesburg
Sat. 07 Sep, SA v NZ, DHL Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town
Sat. 28 Sep, SA v Argentina, Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit

The Boks have been needing an attack coach for some time. We have all been calling for a specialist attack coach.
Stick is a transformational member who needs to prove he has a clue at lower levels of the game

South Africa produces coaches more suited to forward and defence play, with a few exceptions like Swyss Debriyn

'Brown is no stranger to South Africa. As a player, he represented both the Sharks and Stormers at Super Rugby level before he retired and started his coaching career.

Since then he has earned a reputation as an innovative attack coach, and he could bring a different dimension to the Springboks’ attacking play if he is appointed to their coaching staff.'

The fact s that Mozart is going  of his trolley totally again.    The fact si that SA played poor attacking  play in all years since 1992 depends entirely ion penalty conversions.   and they always struggled to score tries in that period  scored tries and depends on penaltuy conversions only.   The fact is that the onluy period when try scoring was regarded was in 1997 when Du Plessis put together a squad emphasizing  try scoring as important and that squad was taken voer by Mallet.  and used until 1999  when Mallett ahd to amke changes to teh  squad and he failed in doing it.

The next effort came from White when he brought Eddie Jones  on board in 2007 for the WC tournament and that did not help much - because the total emphasis ws on forward play and panelty klicking in that series.   

A f ter that followed the dark days of De Villiers, Meyer and Coetzee as coaches with no ideas about attacking play.

Part of the problem was that the loosies were regarded as an extension of the Tight 5 and could never be participants in attacking play per se.    Erasmus started towards a new approach and the loosies became more part of attacking play in 2018 and 2019,   - but then things start going wrong  again in 2022 nd 2023.    

Brown is a better attacking coach than Jones used to be.    The problem was that Jones operated from Dublin and his main task was to report on player performances in the case of Springboks and potential Springboks playing for NH clubs and keep contact with them.   The appointment of Brown  would bring back the Springboks attacking performances of 2018 and 2019.        

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Brown was a fine attacking flyhalf in his day and now has a reputation as a great attack coach. Rassie looks to have made an astute  choice.

Mozzie has his usual reflex action which is always anti Rassie.. Poor guy can't get over the fact Rassie rubbed his noze in it. 

We have tremendous potential in our backline. We saw last year some brilliant tries etc. Hopefully Brown can help the Bok attack up a level. 

I think Rassie winning a third consequetive RWC would see Mozzie having to be put in a straight jacket and taken off to the nearest loonie bin. 

Well if Brown helps us improve I will forgive the KBBS a lot but not all! 

Clearly we need Brown….we can’t rely on Pollard forever.

So what exactly is Rassie alluding to when choosing an overseas backline coach as opposed to a local? The simple truth is that there isn't one good enough in his opinion. 

And is he signaling a change of style and pattern of play? Obviously he knows that the RWC style of play hasn't worked in the RC and that it's a case of horses for courses, a square peg doesn't fit a round hole and that unlike the RWC the RC rewards the amount of tries scored with bonus points.

Rassie has moved in the right direction.

Not a bad call to bring Tony Brown into the coaching setup. Looking at how Japan did and continues to grow is a testament. That said, just hope Rassie doesn't follow other coaches by trying to be too smart. It will be really difficult to change the bok DNA when the entire team has a defensive mindset. We saw what happened to Coetzee when he wanted to be flashy. 

That said, we have some amazing talented players. Would be great to unleash the likes of Willemse, Moodie, Arendse, Kolbe etc. 

I agree with Dave, there has been nothing to wrong about our attacking play. Brown might be able to lift attack performance and if course as Bok supporter I hope he does. 

I also trust our incredible defensive ability will not erode. 

Mozzie is learning about how rugby is a team game and that a team can earn a scrum penalty which when converted wins a game. All Mozzie sees is the penalty conversion and not the precedents. (Bit like his absurd take on the Ukraine war. The loon thinks one fine day Putin woke up and decided out of the blue to send troops into Ukraine. The guy has lost his marbles or is lying) . 

You would think all this is very obvious. 

No I see the similar penalty the French forwards created….when Ramos missed. And I say to myself  these teams created exactly the same opportunities, why did we win? And then, not being a stupid mong who can’t handle logic, it’s apparent to me the difference was our kicker made the penalty, theirs didn’t.

"I agree with Dave, there has been nothing to wrong about our attacking play. " 

Thanks largely to moments of brilliance by individuals like Willemse, Kolbe, Arendse, Moodie and Willie.

...as opposed to cumulative backline combinations that spread the opposition thin.

Scotland - Manie's snipe no-look kick

Ireland - Nice set-move to put Kolbe in the corner

France - Arendse collects a loose ball

            - DDA Scores at the end of a loose ball collection

            - Kolbe Scores after PSDT pops Kriel a loose ball which is then grubbered to Kolbe

            - Eben scores off of some forward dominance

England - RG Snymyan is put in after a lineout close to the English line

Those are all the tries we scored against good opposition in the WC.

Almost everything is the result of forward dominance and individual moments of brilliance. 

We feast on their errors

Our pressure forces the errors.

Yep we've have a lekker offensive defence.

Our weapons of mass destruction is the scrum, penalties, lineout, penalties, rolling maul....penalties.

However, some of the weapons were neutralised and rendered ineffective it's only the scrum that proved effective.

The Boks don't score tries from set play for that we have to thank individual brilliance.

Rugby is becoming like sailing where kiwis are playing key roles for other nations! It's a consequence of the professional international game. We will have to see if he's a good fit for the Boks .

Howzi JW...don't step innit!¡

Ja, I miss the S14...URC is not bad, but it's not the same... the conference system, post S14 killed SR.