Shell-shocked Jake vows introspection, says Bulls will return stronger

I have a stray called Casper now, Mpower. I’m trying to tame him.

Absolutely right, Mpower  .

Cats are certainly more independent than dogs ! 

Jake moaned a bit….Eluckmiss made a misleading video which was conveniently leaked. Chalk and cheese.

Rassie got banned for fundamentally being a poor loser.

He got banned because the video got out, not because he made the video. World Rugby concurred with the problems the video highlighted until it got leaked. It wasn't the issues highlighted in the video nor the making of or the existence of the video that was a problem. The problem came when it went public, which seemed to have been down more to naivety on Rassie's part for not protecting the video enough rather than anything deliberate. He cov ers this saga extensively in his book, but this 365 article offers a short and sweet version.

Pakie 

You are right aboiut th is one.   Erasmus ssent the video to AUSSIE Rugby and they elaked oit to he public instead of invetigating how the Aussie Ref handled the match.   That was the problem - Erasmus did no make a public statement like White did in tis case.

Mozart is a White admirer and so was I until 2014 when he was a divisive coach that caused a player and public backlash ag ainst him and he was effectively fired by the Sharks at the end of 2014.  hat ws a fter he breached his contract with the Brumbies becasuse  he did not get the Aussie Head Coach Job.   

He then returned to SA where he lived in Stellenbosch - shortly afterwards divorced his wife and in 2016 went to coach Montpellier and when they would not renew hiis contract he ended up coaching a Kapan club,   Within 2 years his story with ebing retuning to SA due o family reasons did not count anymore.

Jake is according to John Smit never provided for a potential try score in the game plan in the 2007 WC.   Smit said that if he English corner try was allowed the Springboks would have had to try and work out how they themsleves would have to find a way by which they could score a try themselves.  In fact waching the 2007 final was a bore bcause of the fact that the Springbok forwards did not dominate the forward battle and they lost breakdown ball possession and the backline rarely used and also being  ineffective.

The saying went that the Sringboks were playing Jake Ball in tests and that had minimal effect in 2004 - got worse in 2005 and was total BS in 2006.   In the 2007 WC the Springboks played no teams ranked higher than SA and in effect in all their matches played the number 7 ranked English team twice and the 9 seeded Fiji team in the WC.   After beating the Ehglish 33-6 in the  round robin stage of the tournament scoring 2 tries - they never in the final came near to scoring a try.

The match on Saturday had the same fundamental restricctions as happened in the 2007 final - the only real plan used in the matcch on Saturday was that whereas they had limited competitive success in  2007 the forwards on Satiday failed in the domination stakes - the only reason they lost on Saturday comprised of Jake Play - kick the shit out of the ball and kick penalties to win by those means, while the backline wsa rarely used and when they were they mostly showed how their passing game was a failure and defense extremely questionable.

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