The Inspector Clouseau of Rugby Coaching is back

Hahaha...the funniest man...hahaha that every graced rugby as a coach is back with the Mighty Elephants of all things.

Old Snor, had strange methods like Clouseau but he got amazing results....he was able with all his unorthodox methods to overcome the Mighty All Blacks and now after Zimbabwe of all places , he had a job coaching club rugby...anyway he's back again just like Clouseau...haha....hahaha.

Of all places, hohoho he lands in the eastern Cape in the doldrums....expect great things Eastern Cape.....hahahahaha

Maybe they will win on the field and not on the scoreboard, haha.

Oh well, good luck Snor.

I really enjoyed him...what a entertainer...sorry guys he was so entertaining, he brought  humour back into rugby for all his sin's.

On a serious note he was very likeable, I think Smitty liked him a lot...he was a good man at heart.

Likeable is one way of putting it. I don't think anyone in the squad liked him, but rather saw him as a hin drance. 

Nah, you don't beat the Allblacks 3 zip in one year with an unhappy squad and player coaches...I think he somehow created (by luck or design) the perfect environment for it to happen...he found a way to bring balance...call it whatever you want,  but the record stands.

And what did Snor have to do with it? He stubbornly refused to field Fourie, Morné and Brussow. All three were key players that season. Jacobs nearly singlehandedly lost the second Lions test. Who was it who backed Brussow and worked on our breakdown? Plumtree. There was a clear shift away from the initial Peter blueprint, and it was around this time that he began commenting about those working against him within the team. All eyes were on Gary Gold here, and the gameplan did have a Gold look about it, certainly not a Snor or Muir look. Things were not all rosy that year, our golden age of players carried the team beyond the limitations of the gameplan and poor coaching. We never did achieve our potential, sadly. A missed opportunity. 

Card, have you ever seen "The Man Who Knew Too Little "?

Bill Murray stumbling along to success...like Clouseau...apt analogy Seb...Twakkies also had a Mr. Bean-like knack for stumbling towards unlikely success. 

...for a few months. Not much in the span of four years. 

No, he was no rugby genius, but he was better than he gets credit for sometimes. I'm glad he's gone, let's face it, he said some stupid things, but he was good for s few laughs too.

In terms of understanding plays and concepts etc, the xs and os, he wasn't bad. Putting it all together in the context of a working model was quite another matter entirely. He refused to learn or adapt, and blamed everyone but himself. He even advertised for replacement assistants during the 2010 EOYT, and had another coaching team in 2011 prepare the core group for the WC. I'd say these are quite embarrassing. Losing Du Preez and Brussow really dented the team in 2010, and exposed the coaching team. There were some very poor decisions, such as the compressed line to encourage the All Blacks to move wide, whilst fielding Jean on the wing! He was eaten alive, and no real fault of his own. Bad coaching. 

When I read the headline, i thought Saffex finally got his coaching gig at the local pub side!

What I think happened was Snor created a happy and relaxed enviroment to players battle hardened from previous coach and well drilled. They were mature players and did no need a teacher or sergeant major.

They had done their apprenticeship...Snor gave them freedom to do their thing of which they were well trained and the team spirit was strong and united, an essential requirement of all successful teams.

Team spirit and communication  is vital...that's why Rassie is a great coach...the difference is Rassie knows also what he doing in new battle plans and is good for both young and experienced players.

AO you are the inspector clouseau of rugby commentaries...sometimes you get it right....by accident... but this time you are way out...Snor was well liked by John Smit and I surmise his team as well...you could not help liking him...he was a technically average coach but a good public relations man. 

Rassie has both skills...Jake has technical skills but poor public relation skills...a school master attitude is fine amongst the younger players but not with the more mature experienced players. 

Good public relations? Telling the Aussie press they had no talent? Or that he should give the job back to the whites? Or likening substitutes for injured players to replacing people killed in car accid ents? Need I go on? 

Fair enough, but not in that context.

Perhaps public relations is the wrong word, what I meant was relations, report and interaction with the players themselves.