Meyer's timing with his experimentation was wrong.
Jake also evaluated the oldies during his time, but he did it in the 1st year. Remember the 49-0 against the Ozzies when he was evaluating Jaco van der Westhuizen, Joh Van Niekerk and Snyman in the backline. They were then replaced by Andre Verloorius (sorry Pretorius), Monty and Pakslae. His front row remained problematic until he fell back on Os and replaced useless Eddie Edwards(?, tighthead) with OKish CJ vd Linde.
Jake's biggest advantage was that he had a young Schalk, Juan, Bakkies, Matfield, Fourie DuP and Habana. Jake's team was in place at the start of his 4th year and Meyer not.
I see Oregan Pine Hoskin says SARU's transformation program is well under way and from this I deduct that poepies Coetzee will be the new coach.
Plum, how on earth can you say that apartheid is to be blamed for a Coetzee as coach?
What apartheid was there after 1994? - 21 years ago!!!.
What apartheid were there in rugby after say 1980? - or even 1977 when all official apartheid in sport was abolished? It was the ANC who said "No normal sport in an abnormal society" and kept on burning schools with their slogan "No education before liberation"
The Basil D'Olivera incident happened in 1969!
http://www.rdm.co.za/sport/2015/12/04/allister-coetzee-to-coach-springboks
Nice to find the RDM alive & well .
Well, if the regime insists on demographics, then they should see the whole thing through. So, for every whitey that is allowed into a stadium, 9 blacks should first enter before the next whitey goes in.
Lets see who ran out of money first and have to dump this demographics rubbish.
I have already heard that some advertisers said that the Springboks are not a brand worth spending their money on. Good on them.
What apartheid was there after 1994? - 21 years ago!!!.
What apartheid were there in rugby after say 1980? - or even 1977 when all official apartheid in sport was abolished? It was the ANC who said "No normal sport in an abnormal society" and kept on burning schools with their slogan "No education before liberation"
The Basil D'Olivera incident happened in 1969!
Transvaal and Western Province both called for Hendricks' inclusion in an 1894 tour of England. Walter Read said that if they were to send one player on the tour, to send Hendricks.[2] However, political pressure from the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, Cecil Rhodes, saw the head of cricket in South Africa, Sir William Milton leave Hendricks out of the South African touring team because of his race. The official decision was ruled as it was seen to be "impolitic to include him in the team."[3] Harry Cadwallader, secretary of SACA, suggested Hendricks' travel on tour as a baggage master, an offer Hendricks' publicly refused. Augustus Bernard Tancred made a statement alluding that Hendricks' would never be treated equally if he did travel.[3]
Hendricks was never selected to play for his national team,[1] and the media used Hendricks' case as an illustration of the need for racial segregation.[3]South African first-class cricketer and historian André Odendaal described Hendricks' exclusion as "entrench[ing] segregation in South African cricket and confirm[ing] that the English political and sports establishments were responsible for this."[6][7]
Meyer was utterly useless. His reliance on a bunch of washed up has beens cost him. Saying he tried all the youngsters is a load of crap. Its one thing trying a youngster but it’s another thing showing faith and investment in them.
The only youngsters he has shown faith in are Etzebeth and Willie and to a lesser extent Pollard and Coetzee. For the rest he has relied on JP, Habana, Jean, Morne, Pienaar, Beast, Bismark, Strauss, Jannie, Flip, Matfield, Louw, Alberts, Schalk and Vermeulen.
De Allende and Kriel ended up in the side through default, he wanted Jean and Fourie as his centres. Same can be said of Lood at lock.
Had this fool invested in the likes of Kolbe, de Allende, Kriel, Serfontein at 12, Faf de Klerk, Kitshoff, Malherbe, Lood, Willemse, du Plessis, Coetzee, Jaco Kriel and the likes at least 2 seasons back, we would have had a far more competitive Bok side than the sad excuse we have witnessed in the past 2 forgettable years.
Meyer threw in the towel because the public saw through his frailties. He sold Bok rugby short in every way. For the most, his choice of players were not even the 3rd best in their respective positions.
Thank fuck we never have to endure another test under this incompetent fool. How on earth given the talent we have at our disposal, could he get it so wrong?
Cape Town - Whoever the next Springbok coach is will enter the job knowing that making strides in transformation is his - or her - primary mandate.
Anything less than winning a Rugby World Cup is considered a failure by the South African Rugby Union (SARU), but the implication from president Oregan Hoskins on Friday was that performance will fall behind transformation on South African rugby's list of priorities over the next four years.
"Whoever wants to apply for the job needs to know that transformation is going to be on top of his agenda, or else he shouldn’t apply," Hoskins said.
