Mallett: South African teams are not performing

Mallett: South African teams are not performing

Former Springbok coach Nick Mallett believes South Africa's conference is the weakest in Investec Super Rugby in 2014 .

Speaking on Supersport, Mallett said the conference was 'significantly weaker' than Australia or New Zealand's conferences and the South African sides were not performing.

South African sides, with the exception of the Sharks, lacked the ability to create opportunities on attack and to score tries.

Mallett said it had been a 'terrible' season for South African teams with the Lions, Stormers and Cheetahs in the last three places on the points table and the second team, placed ninth.

Mallett also produced figures to back his comments.

South Africa:
Teams had played 43 games, had won 17, scored 13 bonus points and 72 tries and had 85 points.

Australia:
Teams had played 40 games, for 22 wins, 16 bonus points, 91 tries and 104 points.

New Zealand:
Teams have played 39 games and had won 20 while scoring 19 bonus points and 98 tries for 103 points.

In spite of having played four games less than South African sides, New Zealand sides had scored 26 more tries than South African teams.

"In spite of having played four games less than South African sides, New Zealand sides had scored 26 more tries than South African teams"

unless u have been living under a rock since birth, theres know one who in the world who would be surprised by this.

in fact, the ponly thing im surprised with is we havent scored more tries,

Mallett must be thoroughly disliked by his fellow coaches....a staff type guy who carps from the sidelines. He forgets in his last year we were bottom of the TN losing 4 out of our 5 tests....including two thumpings by Oz. That year Oz beat the Boks by 90 points to 47....they almost doubled our score. Who cares what he thinks.

Mallett had a better record than Jake and he is right in that the tactics employed by top SA sides like the Bulls and Stormers are poor and conservative, yielding shit results......its the same poor tactics the Boks employ

Mallett is a good talker. 
It is common sense that the tactics are wrong, but a coach should be able to teach players the skills to be able to implement a backline attack.
The worst Springbok backline ever had Louis Koen at flyhalf and Braam Van Straaten at inside centre. 
This was one of the last backlines selected by Mallett, and the only time the boks lost to Wales (or the 2nd time). Sasuke, please check the record files and update this thread with the stats.

 Sharkbok

 

Whilst I agree that Koen and Van Straaten were a below poor combination correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they play under the clueless Rudolph Straueli's tenure?

 @Denny I think it was under Mallett around 1999 that this the worst combination ever was fielded. 
"Brain dead" Van Straaten was probably my worst rugby player ever. 

 Seeing as Sasuke has been so slow to respond with the stats, I myself have found some details.
I think it was the test in 1999. 26 June 2004Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria53 – 18 South Africa15 June 2002Newlands, Cape Town19 – 8 South Africa8 June 2002Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein34 – 19 South Africa26 November 2000Millennium Stadium, Cardiff13 – 23 South Africa26 June 1999Millennium Stadium, Cardiff29 – 19 Wales14 November 1998Wembley Stadium, England20 – 28 South Africa27 June 1998Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria96 – 13 South Africa15 December 1996National Stadium, Cardiff20 – 37 South Africa2 September 1995Ellis Park, Johannesburg40 – 11 South Africa26 November 1994National Stadium, Cardiff12 – 20 South Africa24 January 1970National Stadium, Cardiff6 – 6  draw

 Tx Sharkbok, I'll check it out, still think clueless and clueless played under clueless, Rudolph.

 Mallet is excellent - a top rugby brain as his comments on TV show. That he is not coaching a SA Super 15 side is a tradgedy.Mallet gets it spot on again and again.
What needs to be borne in mind is that The Stormers are missing 11 players some of them key players. At full strength they would definitely be top 6. With at decent coach they might weven have won the Super 15. Bulle are about as low as they will be in the log. Once at home they will climb to top 6 or thereabouts. We have three sides with a squad to make top six.
Cheetahs -the loss of their defence coach was a disaster but again at full strength are defintely top ten material. Lions are better than in previous years.
Some oaks here simply cannot understand that having 49 Boks and over 300 professionals playing overseas has weakened our depth and experience. 

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April 25, 2014, 01:44:33 Mallett had a better record than Jake and he is right in that the tactics employed by top SA sides like the Bulls and Stormers are poor and conservative, yielding shit results......its the same poor tactics the Boks employ

Mallett's so-called record, compared to that of Jake White is often pushed down everybody's throats. Equally the issue of Jake White riding on Eddie Jones' back. Interesting to  note that Mallett's winning streak came to an end the moment that he fired Jake White.............

windpomp, Mallet I believe won the French domestic comp. He did very well with a limited Italian squad.
He talks more sense than any other coach I have heard. He is acleaver experienced coach who understa nds the modern game.
He, Rassie, Venter, Meyer and Jake are our best coaches yet only Jake and Meyer are coaching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!How dumb is that.

 Mallett did fokol with the Italian team. He was one of the worst coaches they had. They only had two coaches with a worse record than Mallett. He only won 9 out of  42 tests. His predecessor, Pierre Berbizier, won 13 out of 31 tests including one draw as well. The one who was worse than Mallett was Massimo Macioletti who did not win a single test, but he only coached them for four tests.  The other was Brad Johnston who only won 4 out 26.

 What about him winning the french Comp? W hy do you ignore that part?windpomp Mallet is a very good coach and has great rugby nouus. You probably dont understand what he says most of the time. BwhaahahahahahhahaNow please apply yourself to the brumbies match lest you make some unfortunate comments in that regard as well.

 Which one would be more important. Two French domestic titles or a useless international coaching record? His Bok record is already flawed because of his total collapse after he got rid of White. Hanging onto two Top14 titles is clutching at straws.

He pissed off the Italians towards the end of his tenure by doing stupid things. He selected their no 8, IIRC, at scrummie, only to be humiliat ed in that particular test.

 You are totally biased windpomp. His international record is fine and winning two French domestic titles cements that impression as does his very insightful comments and insights of games. One game Italy played against the Boks here in SA they did very well

Moonie kak praat windpomp asseblief oak! 

 You are totally biased windpomp. His international record is fine and winning two French domestic titles cements that impression as does his very insightful comments and insights of games. One game Italy played against the Boks here in SA they did very well

Moonie kak praat windpomp asseblief oak! 

 Nahhh Beenbal. You are the one who is farting in the wind. Your Mallett is muh like your Rassie. He has had two lucky breaks in the CC, many moons ago just like Grootbek Nick had with SF, and apart from that he has achieved fokol. Italy was all but fine under Mallett, else they would have renewed his contract. It is not as if he decided not to commit for another stint with Italy, they didn't want him.


Italian rugby chiefs decide not to renew Nick Mallett's contract • Coach to leave Azzurri after the World Cup
• Perpignan's coach Jacques Brunel likely to take over

theguardian.com, Sunday 24 April 2011 11.32 BST

Nick Mallett, who coached Italy to last month's historic Six Nations victory over France, will lose his job after this year's Rugby World Cup. Perpignan's coach Jacques Brunel, whose side meets Northampton in a Heineken Cup semi-final next weekend, is poised to take over.

The departure of the English-born Mallett, who has also successfully coached the Springboks, will alert clubs in England and France.

The 54-year-old Mallett, who succeeded Pierre Berbizier as the Azzurri's head coach following the 2007 World Cup, could not prevent Italy from losing their other four games in the Six Nations and the Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) to extend his contract beyond this year. Mallett is believed to have wanted to continue in the role.

A statement from the FIR said, "The president of the Italian rugby Federation Giancarlo Dondi met coach Nick Mallett to inform him personally of the decision taken by the federal council regarding his eventual contract extension.

There you have it. He was virtually fired.