One of the distinctions of Carel as that he was a student at Stellenbosch and never passed a single subject - and was a protege of Danie Craven. A nice guy I met a couple of times - and a tragic fact is he was suffering from Brain cancer and tha is ineed a pity, Hope the latest operation on him was successful.
When Carel became the S pringbok coach he tried to turn the usage o 15 man rugby in the team and initially the players struggled wih the concept - but after three months he put together a squad that under him and Mallett won 17 tests in a row, But the media went razy and in the end Mallett replaced him as coach and in the end when eh ahd to replace the players he failed miserably and in the end Mallett failed abdly and the dream o plaing 15 man rugby went out of the window and the Springboks rarely played that style of rugby up to 2018, .
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