My thoughts have changed a bit on how I understand and believe the Springboks won this last world cup, and even though I have always said that they thoroughly deserved it, watching the latest Chasing The Sun 2, has just really reaffirmed that for me.
Watch what the players say about this particular training tactic that Rassie used that Dave refers to in another thread. because it is bloody hilarious.
You literally see Rassie dragging this huge bluetooth speaker all over the training ground, playing the French anthem over and over and over, for ages, just to get the Springbok players worked up and pissed off against the French.
Duane actually finally went up to Rassie on the field and told him to please stop playing it, because the players now knew the French anthem better than most French people did themselves, lol.
Willie Leroux said it worked though, because the players were so pissed off or gatvol to hear that anthem again when they were standing in the stadium for the game.
Watching how Rassie identified a flaw in the French gameplay, when they were each working out their specific field moves on that custom made X-Box rugby training program... was just simply absolutely brilliant, which they then used Manie to implement, with another cross kick.... which he did with absolute perfection, to score the try, which in my opinion, won us the game..... well, that and the Eben try scoring "knock back", which would have put the French 14-0 up earlier on.
I must say, this new Chasing the Sun 2 is really giving me new insight into just how much preparation went in to every single game and also the individual moves during certain pivotal moments in the game .... just like another masterclass move, where Rassie himself went and investigated and confirmed beforehand that he could call a scrum from the mark, which when Libbok did, it left the opposition, even the ref and the commentators completely stumped..... nobody knew you could do this....but it was within the laws of the game.... and it worked a charm when we smashed them in the scum that followed.
Rassie had to get this specific law clarified before the game, and when he did, he implemented it.
Another brilliant piece to see was when Jacques Nienaber says that Jessie Kriel had, all on his own... practiced a grubber kick, from Monday to Friday... every day.... at least 30 times, which was the exact same grubber kick move that he made which led to the Kolbe try ...
Got to say though, whilst Rassie may have made some mistakes before and during that world cup, all these small things here just accumulatively add up to a purely brilliant rugby mind