Transformation and the dismal value of the RAND are the major reason the top players are plying their craft overseas.
Professional sport has arrived in RSA and if you are pale in complexion you best sign an overseas contract to play rugby if you are talented and forget representing SA.
Those are the issues facing players playing rugby and any top division sport in RSA today.
The coaches are all "Brothers" and square pegs in round holes much like most positions in sport and government today.
Sure some darker players have made giant strides in picking up experience and are worthy of national honours but many are transformational goats.
Sad.
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I'm just dumb struck at how poorly the boks performed, the week before we blew Australia out of the water. Showed some brilliant enterprise and then the following week, we threw it all away.
Where did it all go wrong, you guessed it. Yet again poor team selections. Like so many coaches before, Rassie, they all succumb to pressure or arrogance and make these blunders.
When your run on 15 has about 9 players that has not played a game since may and you think you'll just pitch up and win.
Then your captain has been out for more than 3 months, you think everything is fine. Meyer made the exact some mistake.
So how good is Rassies record really? He is however around 65% and much lower against tier one teams.
Yet, I can almost certainly say that it boiled down to poor team selections, time and time again.
Last year they brought in Jantjies who only played 30 min all year and we nearly lost the first test against Wales.
Then they replace the entire team and decide to cap a bunch of players and we end up losing.
We go onto beat Wales. We blow New Zealand off the park and just as I was start sensing that the pendulum is swimming. The bok management has a brain implode. Instead of starting Marx, out comes Dweba, a guy that has not been in the system and can count himself very lucky that he is still in the wider squad.In the same game Oupa Thor are brought back from a long term injury and it is telling that the guys aren't firing.
We rock up in Australia half asleep and then manage to claw one back.
It goes from bad to worse as the bok management stick with willemse as they're 10 and only towards the end decide to bring Marie in.
Last year was a disaster for all the wrong reasons. We lost to Ireland very closely, we went into that match without a kicker, Kolbe and faf are now kickers all of a sudden. The same time we lost France yet again due to not having a kicker in the team. We finally get one over on England when Manie is introduced.
We are at the start of the season and looks like Rassie is throwing games yet again. He is simply not learning and takes the public for fools. Will we win the world cup, don't know, but I can't see the right players being invited or developed under Rassie.
The worse thing of all, Nienaber is heading to Leinster, not as a head coach, but a defensive coach at franchise team. How on earth can you go from being a head coach of the one of the best teams in the world and then just end up doing defensive work.
In the mean time, Rassie gets another two years, Stick and Davids gets 4 years to take us to the next World Cup.
I know continuity helps but what did they do to deserve their extensions.
That is why I say coaches should get two year cycles max. If you can't correct the ship in that space of time, it is time to go. Foster of New Zealand can count himself very lucky, but we know Schmidt and the new forwards coach is running the show and he just pitches up at the press conference.
Man, I just want to see the back of Rassie, I'm so tired of his antics and his ego. We need a coach that knows how to work with the players and bring the best out of them.
Not hanging on to these geriatrics in the team. I mean, Fourie, 37, Vermeulen, 37, Willie 33. If Frans didn't retire he probably would also be in the team
If we had a fair coach, that made sure the top taken in the country is invited into the group and not ignored, perhaps we would see more player playing out of South Africa