" It's simple. If you believe that you could create a dominant front row from any of the guys on display this weekend, and that they would dominate...then you are straight-up delusional"
- Gerhard Steenekamp/ Jan Hendrik Wessels
- Johan Grobbelaar/AH Venter
- Wilco Louw/ Carlu Sadie
- Reinhardt Ludwig
- Ruben V Heerden/ JF V Heerden
- Roos
- Ruan Venter
- Cameron Hanekom
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Stormers - So much for its vaunted scrum. So much for Fousche. After yesterday I would simply pay Dweba out and sack him. My word, the amount of squandered opportunity because a pro hooker couldn't seem to carry out his main role.
Leinster were there for the taking but the Stormers just can't seem to control the controllable.
Then of course there is the irresponsible chucking away of the ball and the complete lack of territorial play.
Sharks - I only watched 10 minutes of the game, because it was a nothing match against a nothing team. The Sharks won comfortably...and I suppose all is right in the world now. This despite the Sharks playing like complete fools against Toulouse two weeks back and then last weekend appearing absolutely incapable of protecting the ball.
Lions - They're a team of try-hard but appear to have zero gameplan. Nobody holds out any hope for them and they rely very heavily on a couple of players for everything they do. They're in a the habit of losing and it doesn't look like they want to turn over a new leaf.
Bulls - Probably our best team. They do appear to achieve the basics and there is some semblance of structure in their play. But at the same time, they are nowhere near Leinster or Glasgow. They probably have the most experienced team and it's perhaps only experience that is still keeping them afloat.
But we comfort ourselves by talking about how many Boks are injured or plying abroad. Reality check boys...those guys are all on the verge of retirement over the next 2 years.
Last year, I was very confident about the emerging talent and the much vaunted conveyer belt of SA rugby.
But time, ever the merchant of truth, has revealed that the conveyer belt is busted.
There are some colors amongst the gravel, Hannekom and a few others, but they are few and far between. None of the front rowers in Dave list of 9 million are putting in dominant performances. Please, don't call out scrumming Zebres or Cardiff dominant.
It's simple. If you believe that you could create a dominant front row from any of the guys on display this weekend, and that they would dominate...then you are straight-up delusional.
It feels like the WC win made us all believe how great we are. That feeling is bolstered by the amount of Boks we have playing abroad and the fact that we get hyped wins against crap teams like Cardiff.
But the reality is that 90% of the people of Dave's list are not good enough. Our coaching at franchise level is abysmal and our sides look more like headless chickens every week.
We are in kak, boys.
Dobson needs to go, and so does Plumtree. Akkerman needs to take over ASAP at the Stormers and the Sharks need to get a guy like Meyer who can force them into a game plan where they are expansive only when they have earned it.
Big changes are required and SA needs to return to being a nation of forward dominated rugby.