"“I think there’s four or five players in that team that simply are not up to test level, and I think you’ll see that the All Blacks’ three-quarters will run riot against them,”
“The centre and the two wings look simply just not good enough to be playing at that level.
“And, I’d have some questions over one or two of their forwards too. It’s all very well they have big strong props, but boy, they’ve got to be mobile.”
“They looked like a team that was just off the pace compared to Australia,”
“They will come back harder and faster against New Zealand, but they can’t lift that much [in a week]. They won’t be able to lift it enough to give the All Blacks…assuming the All Blacks are as good as they have been, you know, I can’t see South Africa getting close to them with that team.
“I just come back to what I said. They just don’t have the cattle the moment, the world-class players there to actually do a lot about it.”
Sober words. The global rugby community has been speaking negatively about where the Boks are, but the plastiks closed their ears. Everything was great, the team is the best in the world man-for-man, the coach is the greatest of all time anywhere in the world and this is the greatest ever Bok side, playing great transcendental rugby. Even now, we are hearing that the Boks have no weaknesses, aside from two names that are not attached to the scene of any particular failing. Scapegoats. Trying to pave over the cracks. Lying.
The Boks are not fooling the greatest minds in world rugby. Nobody believed this team was really great. It took a negative score on the scoreboard to begin ruffling some feathers. The Kult of José continues in the land of the long knuckle trail.
