Rassie Erasmus gets my Bad Sport of the Year….again

Having reached an agreement with World Rugby, he simply ignores that and attacks the refs again. If he wanted to do that he should have had the integrity to reserve that right, even if no agreement was reached. Falls under the heading of my word is my bond.

Then there is his constant undercutting of his appointed head coach. He is in the box, he is out of the box….he is talking to the press. Making all the succession mistakes of a man who never intended to leave. Again if he wanted to do that he should have stayed as coach. What are the odds he has overruled Nienaber many times in his 8 and 5 record. And every key game was lost…..the ABs at home  in what was effectively the  RC decider, Ireland and France.

Never has he ever stepped up and praised Nienaber or criticized himself. Bad Sport of the Year.

I'm sure he'll be mortified when he finds this out.

Erasmus was fortunate enough to be from a country gullible enough to soak up his self-gratuitous nonsense. However, he is so out of touch with reality that he is eroding even that. The bottom line is the team, and he has coached them to the point of mediocrity. The Louis Van Gaal of rugby union. 

No I doubt it, Narcissists are rarely mortified.

Erasmus didn't make a single player better. He changed the emphasis. Coetzee implemented a game plan that challenged and stretched the players, and there were signs of acclimatization. Erasmus controlled with a heavily scripted game that took decision making out of the player's hands, and concealed our weaker defenders to a degree by playing the game high up the pitch and taking the battle to the air and set pieces. The likes of Steph and Damian were still making the same mistakes, Kolisi was still useless. If anything, our skills look worse, our fitness is worse, our ability to unlock even basic defensive scenarios is very much worse. Erasmus creates a sideshow to distract from the problems at hand. Saffers fall for it all the time. 

If everybody behaved like Harrassmiss we would have  chaos. He only gets away with it because other coaches of major teams don’t follow his example.

Doesn’t it bother you Dave that he never supports his appointed coach who fixed our defence at the WC.

I think this was Rassie,s plan from the beginning.....get his foot in the Door as head coach, save the sinking Ship.....get the Director of Rugby job and Appoint  Jacques which is not a top Head coach and easy to control.....where does that leave Nienhaber? Surely he can not be happy with being Rassie,s bitch forever?

Did he save the sinking ship? He was crowned king after achieving a less successful season than his predecessor. He gets let off the hook in SA because he ticks all the political boxes, and Saffers enjoy his brand of kak praat. Erasmus successfully inserted racism into the mix last year to depower the refs, to make them scared to exert too much force against us. Erasmus is trying to control the referees like he controls Bok rugby. He is in essence Kim Jong Erasmusaeyo.

We know the dynamics very well. Nienaber is the defensive guru who is the foundation of the Bok model (as stated by Erasmus himself, Saffex). Erasmus is the dictator who lives off of his work. Like Muir when using Campese to promote himself for promotion to the Bok setup. 

Unrivaled? You can’t be serious. He started with a 7 and 7 year. And since the WC he has had two 8 and 5  years. Excluding the WC year he is 23 and 17. And that’s great?

His whole tenure rests on the WC year…where we faced Japan, Wales and England in  the knockouts.

We needed to confirm that year by winning the full RC. So the whole thing looks a little unresolved and mediocre. That with the best talent pool we have had since 2007

Mozart criticized officiating yet if Erasmus does the same he goes ballistic.   Typical of a rugby idiot like Mozart in his hate-filled BS campaign against Erasmus.    I wonder whether he has reached the 5 000 postings on Erasmus yet?   Must be extremely close by now if not already past that figure.             

More than 5000 posts on Harrassmiss? I doubt it. But how did you manage to make 47000 posts without ever saying anything of interest? 

Infighting...the South African way...

"More than 5000 posts on Harrassmiss? I doubt it. But how did you manage to make 47000 posts without ever saying anything of interest?"

I actually find what ou Maaik says to be very interesting . . . in a bewildered, pitying and morbid kind of way, but interesting nonetheless. Astonishing in fact.

Ou Maaik is the stupidest individual I have encountered in my lifetime. I know many think I exaggerate but I'm not kidding. Stupid in such a fundamental way that you can actually picture the two brain cells arguing with each other . . . "yuo ar&e beh ave like a defishint Demmerkrat" . . . "no, yu a//+ BSter waht are allso a idoit!".

Put it this way . . . ou Maaik makes Baboon-ou seem coherent and intelligent by comparison.

"Interesting" is not an adjective I would personally use to describe ou Maaik, but he's definitely not uninteresting!

If you want uninteresting, bland, dull, boring, monotonous and soporific then look no further than your aspiring Alpha Gimp, Squeaky Toy.

And you are the most endearing poster ever. Humble and polite, the epitome of gentlemanly behavior. This board is honored to have the benefit of your ethereal wisdom.

I preferred him when he had his knockers out.

Ja, the Mrs. Searle mask was less pretentious and not as miserable...despite the vuil bek.

Now Wayne Barnes is getting death threats. 

Rassie fanned the flames, now this. 

You lot who criticize Erasmus have been writing criticism of referees on site as if your life depends on it and it was covered in the media as well.    If Erasmus said anything about it he is condemned by you lot of hypocrites and is total BS.

Mozart must have written a third of his total contributions on site in attacking Erasmus, Du Toit and De Allende and I gain the impression that he is totally deranged in that respect he has a mania about those three people.    That is assertions and a case of mental derangement and he should   consult a shrink about.    

You lot who criticize Erasmus have been writing criticism of referees on site as if your life depends on it and it was covered in the media as well.    If Erasmus said anything about it he is condemned by you lot of hypocrites and is total BS.

Mozart must have written a third of his total contributions on site in attacking Erasmus, Du Toit and De Allende and I gain the impression that he is totally deranged in that respect he has a mania about those three people.    That is assertions and a case of mental derangement and he should   consult a shrink about.    

No I’m simply taking a stand on Harrassmiss that reflects the old South African values…..good sportsmanship, transparency, respect for your direct reports and faithfulness to one’s word.

I know many of you see him in the light of a small man taking on a draconian bureaucracy, but actually the bureaucracy has bent over backwards to accommodate him. Even the press has given him a relatively light pasting.

Harrassmiss has had one of the best talent pools in Bok history, a relatively weak AB phase, total support from the country….and still he has produced nothing to be proud of since the WC. In his own best interests he should be critically reviewed.

I don’t care a jot for the overweight, narcissist but I do care that he is blowing a potentially significant moment in our rugby history.

There was an opportunity to dominate the most vulnerable top tier in world rugby, but that opportunity is quickly fading. Arrogance of the rugby public to by Erasmus' tripe. 

Wayne Barnes’ wife also had threats of a particular kind made at her following the Rassie situation. 

Pretty distasteful all round. 

Watch the Rassie documentary...it will confirm a lot of the speculation,  but also gives some insight wrt the tbimking behind things...there's nothing about the tapes, but it illustrates where he comes from...please endure the cringeworthy start...it gets better.

Nothing about the videos in the documentary,  but the videos are not the real problem, the poor reaction by fans is the real problem and that's not Rassie's fault.

There's a few angry grunts of different shapes and sizes...Saffex is one of the nicer ones around...can be full of crap, but without the mean streak....we all have our moments.