Time for Rassie to get off his fat Arse

So Rassies suspension has now been lifted, he is now in back at work and ready to start planning our road ahead. However, he has been very involved in the springboks over the last 4 years. Has been able to put a decent squad together but only because SARU allowed him to pick foreign based players. Although, the boks were able to use them before. 

The evidence was pretty clear with 17 players in the last matchday squad all based abroad. 

My real issue is our local teams. We got our asses handed to us in the URC with not much player depth in our franchise teams. 

The bulls and sharks are able to pull in some big names but the stormers and lions have completely fallen away. 

So what is Rassie doing to help our franchises. We still have youngster hopping on a plane for a better future. 

Wiese is a good example of a player that was performing okay but all of a sudden seems to be playing out of his skin once he finds a club abroad. We see if with Tyrone Green, Grant Esterhuizen, to name a few players that are doing really well. 

Skosan is scoring tries all of a sudden. 

Rassie need to catch a wakeup and start figuring out how we can strengthen our franchises. He has been in the job for 4 years but we our franchises is being destroyed. 

It doesn't sound like his Poni scheme is working. 

Are foreign clubs better equiped to look after our players? 

I look at Ireland and they seem to be playing a fantastic brand of rugby, good ball skills, player depth and all four provinces are competitive. 

I'm not sure whether we should continue to allow our best players to go abroad. 

We need to have decent squad depth and allow our players to feel secure. 

So I don't whether we should ban foreign players from the bok team, but we can't carry on like this as our boks will start to implode due to having all of our players being abroad. 

KC

There is nothing Rassie can do about the other franchises - he is not a financier that would save them from bankruptcy.    

Through massive mismanagement in the case of the WP  the present situation is that WP is under administration of SARU who are trying to save them from themselves.   The obvious fact it that the two franchises you mentioned has sold majority shareholding in the two to private companies and they are effectively run based on private business  principles and practices.

Th Lions and Western Provinces should follow the example  of the other two and get private ow nership and get rid of the politico's. and amateurs running the show at present.   

If we start competing and play some decent rugga, it will get better...and the money will improve. Stormers in Cape Town is quite marketable...a few good sponsors and a semi decent season might change things around pronto.

We can’t play as an afterthought in Europe…..work on the return of the Super 12. Harrassmiss may not be able to  solve the NH conundrum by himself…..but he has done almost nothing to bring in new talent. The short term answer might be to more aggressively bring in  new talent playing up north, like Tyrone Green, thus denying him to other bidders.

My point is that our franchises has fallen  apart. We simply can not select a team based on local  players that can beat the tier one teams. It is pretty evident when we played Wales out of the International window. 

Our Franchises got destroyed by the lions etc. 

The only thing that would change this is to stop selecting foreign based players. 

The french has been complaining about the SA players. Pollard has dropped from a $1million contract to £600 000 contract. We as SA should be able to afford him at R12 million rand between a franchise and SA rugby. We should be able to afford at least 45 players with a contract between R5 million to R10 million. 

But I have a random thought and that is is for SA to team up with the Ruperts of the world  and buy stakes in  major clubs abroad in  England, France and Japan with the view that players can be loaned out per season to feather their bed and get more money in. 

NZ is allowing a bunch of their players to go abroad. Why can't we do it with 45 of our top players. 

Hun’s English starters included only 3 players who weren’t Springboks before he took over…..after 3 years. Lot’s of window dressing in the squads…..but this man is playing with the HM/Coetzee team.

This dearth of experience for the next generation is going to be a big issue ….most likely by the WC.

"Hun’s English starters included only 3 players who weren’t Springboks before he took over…..after 3 years. Lot’s of window dressing in the squads…..but this man is playing with the HM/Coetzee team."

Yet he gets results with these players...and he braught just the right mix of discarded players. 

Meyer capped a few players. but never really invested caps in a lot of them...only played them when the old players were injured...the current team is at it's peak and doesn't need much new blood...and Rassie lost more than a year due to covid...plus we got shafted with the RC draw this year...probably next year too...

Dave if you can document one Bok scrum that was less effective after Mostert was subbed on (we hardly ever see him subbed off…a lesson in itself) you might have a case. Mostert does everything  Dud Toit does, but is a better lineout option and a better open field tackler. He isn’t a better runner, but Dud Toit can’t run either.

And in a more modern game plan where forwards are expected to handle, to pass, to offload….he is vastly superior to Dud,

Moz has been advocating Willemse at 12 for some time. Finally the coaches are catching up.

Well, he didn't, but the Stormers still won at Roftus...lekkerrrr!!!!