Orie selection - I’m starting to lose faith

He never did know what to do. To only begin to lose faith is a bit late. Where the heck have you been? 

Trouble is Rassie is so far ahead of you armchair critics you have no clue what he is up to. 

Some of the problem like Orie arise because of Govt interference. Until merit only is adopted it's unlikely any Bok squad will be our best.

Personally I think we will have a good squad and our match 22 will be great. There will be some substandard players selected due to quotas and some you don't agree with. Enough no doubt to keep the oaks wailing away for weeks.

We saw exactly the same happen before the last World cup. Rassie had no clue. 

Astonishing after we had had won the RWC we saw the Mozzzzquito and Deus trashing the Coach, the team and of course DuTojt and Allende. They have not ceased their undermining ever since then.

Be assured should we win the RWC again they will be wailing away. Best ignore these chronic moaners.

Bye the way oaks also just remember we have no automatic right to win the RWC every time. There are some very good si des you have to beat. If of course we do beat any of those sides it's because they played poorly, were under strength etc.

I seen it all before and know how these folk roll. Bwahahahaha. 

It is simple, PRESSURE. 

At international level teams have months or even years when it comes to the World Cup to prepare against you and how to play you. Japan ring a bell. 

You should also go and listen to Ollie (Cheddar Melt Special) le Roux about his time with all the different coaches. All of them buckled under pressure. No matter how smart they are or innovative. Nick Mallet in his own words confessed that he felt the pressure and lost the plot. There is the famous fall out between Mallet and Mark Andrews, Andrews wanted to kill Nick Mallet. I just don't think we have the coaches that can handle professional players and still treat them like school children, *cough* Jake White, Sbu Nkosi to name a few. 

Rassie has done well in that department, but he has created a lot of strife for himself. Outburst about the refs, I was 100% behind on that, but then he couldn't help himself and removed himself from the games to leave it to Stick and Nienaber that never played at the highest and doesn't understand what players are going through on field. 

The game plan has become stale, they are caught between two philosophies. You can see it on the field, players are confused. Listen to Swys, Nienaber is hell bent on protecting his defensive patters. Swys pointed out that they are so obsessed with rushing that if you stand deep enough you can get around them. Then also listen to Squidgy rugby, how they manipulated the boks rush and spread the ball side to side 4 times in 20 seconds, only then to target Flab Malherbe knowing that he'll end up in the centres. Remember Kitch Christies basic philosophy, getting forwards to run agains backs and backs against forwards. 

The bok brain trust, the Rassie was so eager to please the government, that he now has Stick and Davids. I don't see a foreign coach there anymore that can bring in new life. New Zealand got rid of Plumtree and fee. Now their new attack and defence coach had mad a massive difference in the way they play. Yet, we signed those two clown until the next World Cup year. We know stick is not an attack coach. There are so many great coaches out there. I would almost have said, give the bloody job to Eddie Jones, he knew how to get the best out of the boks and we saw what an impact he had in 2007. He got the boks to play we wanted them to. 

Now we are stuck with a stale game plan, stubborn selection policies based on race or whether you've played under Rassie long enough which should be about 2 years before you even get a sniff of the bok jumper and a team that every reff hates. 

63% is not acceptable in my book when the top coaches that we see today for France and Ireland are above 70%, even Eddie Jones were above 70% after 6 years with England. 

Rassie will now be with the boks for another 2 years and hoping the world would forgive him so that he can go find another coaching gig and not fall on the pile of successful has been coaches like we see today. 

Rassie needs to start winning every single game and fast, stop messing around, but he hasn't looked after all of SA Rugby like he should have. We see that from the Junior boks getting hammered. He has neglected his duties for his own ego. 

Yes, he is genius but have now run out of tricks

Mpower, too late now for any changes, but I said long ago that Stick does not fit in as a coach and Swys de Bruyn would have been a much better coach.

Some of the problem like Orie arise because of Govt interference.

Yeah, too bad that government does not intervene to deal with the serious maths problem plaguing SA.

Way too many people are convinced a quota policy is in action.

In Vietnam, first graders would deal with the issue easily.

But the commies were in charge in Vietnam and just when they were in China, dealt with the education problem.

but I said long ago that Stick does not fit in as a coach and Swys de Bruyn would have been a much better coach.

As if the trashing SA rugby received from NZ exposed attack shortcomings only.

The trashing exposed players globally.

SA rugby were exposed as unable to play rugby. SA rugby players can not play rugby, they only focus on negating the opponent's efforts to play rugby.

"but I said long ago that Stick does not fit in as a coach and Swys de Bruyn would have been a much better coach."

We don't know what Stick can do, as everything is heavily shaped by Erasputin, just as we saw with Coetzee.