Rassie the genius

From 7 to 1

Winning the WC, RC and a Lions series

And right now we are the number 1 ranked side on the planet and again contesting the WC final with a good chance of winning it

He is the most astute coach we have ever had, master tactician and the unquestionable ability to instil that belief and resolve in his players

Thank fuck we have Rassie as our coach - a genius of a coach

You keep persisting with this lie. He took the Boks from 6th to 7th. Nobody else. He has no tangible evidence of any coaching at all, much less excellent coaching. He is the worst of the lot in what has been described by the leading minds in the game as a weird and unusual arrangement that is holding back the Boks. The Boks have never played good rugby under him. No team has shown evolution or development with him. He was saved in 2019 by players he wanted to discard, such as Beast, Frans, and Louw. That's the trademark of his tenure. A few individuals showing up here and there to soften the horrid big picture. The Boks can't even dominate in the easiest cycle in the pro era and the weakest SH of all time. 

Rassie the genius

Clearly, only a genius could have planned for 4 scrum penalties in 15 minutes and a 50 m kick through driving rain…the man is amazing.

We're winning the close contests we normally lost in the past...and under Rassie the Boks have proven that we can beat any opponent anywhere in the world...we are much better than we were 4 years ago....GO BOKKE!!!

Yes number one in the world and in the final. But Doos insists on trashing Rassie and the Boks and fake Bok supporter Mozzzzz says nothing. 

Dave these two have been the biggest mamparas posting here for some time.

Hahahahahaha. 

The genius is leaving Ox on the bench when most of us would have rewarded him with a promotion to the starting side, much like RG

With that call came the game changing scrum dominance. That dominance lead to the try and the Pollard penalty

Also very astute to make the changes he did in the second half disrupting the set play of the Poms in the process

All very clever calls

Clever as long as we don’t have a scrummie injury….or an injury to Pollard. Yes we have players who can step into those roles….but they are not regulars at scrum half or goal kicking and would be required in those roles under maximum pressure.

Do we really need 5 locks in the team? Twenty % of our team are locks.

Definite gamble

Will Rassie still be a Genuis if we lose Tom?

Yes damn right he will be

I think it will tarnish his Genuis status…after the French and English game, there is no other out come we have to take the Crown! A total disaster if we loose Tom.

Rassie the "genius" . . .

Just about everything Rassie has done up to this point has been the opposite of genius, it's been downright moronic. 

Picking 4 scrumhalves in the initial squad (and then not even putting a 2nd scrumhalf on the bench in the final), replacing the injured Mapimpi with Lukhanyo Am when we desperately needed a hooker (and then not giving Am even a minute game time), the kick-and-hope game plan (when we have so much talent in our backline), the 7-1 split on the bench for the final of a RWC game . . . just about every inportant decision has been botched . . . yet we've made it to the final through a combination of luck and having such a good pool of players to choose from.

If we play anything even resembling the kind of game we played against England in the semifinal then the All Blacks are going to put 30 points over us.

Yet, for all that, let me just say that if we win - however we win and by whatever margin - I will take back all my criticism of Rassie and proclaim him a rugby genius.

Go Bokke!!!

Rassie feels compelled to take big risks. It’s as though he doesn’t trust the talent he has.

Or he’s in love with his image as an “innovative genius “.

Rassie is in love with Rassie.

The more I see, the more I believe that Erasputin is the coaching version of Luke Watson. 

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