It has been reliably learn’t that WP Director of Rugby ,Rassie Erasmus, will be appointed as the Springboks techincal director in the next two weeks.
SARU will pay the cash strapped WP Union a considerable amount of money to release Erasmus from his contract. This follows weeks of speculation regarding the future of the Boks “brains trust”. Erasmus will also take over as the Boks U20 coach.
It was decided to keep De Villiers on as head coach after the review of this season. Assistants Muir and Gold were due to be replaced, but no-one was prepared to take the positions.
Rumour has it that Erasmus will take over as Head Coach after the RWC 2011.
At least it is a step in the right direction, I just wonder how much say Rassie will have and how well PDV will listen.
As for the players, they will most likely struggle to adapt. It seems they have had it their way for quite some time.
gooooooooooood MOURNING
everyone!!
When your baby leaves you all alone
And nobody calls you on the phone
Ah, don’t you feel like crying?
Don’t you feel like crying?
Well here I am my honey
Oh, come on you cry to me.
When you’re all alone in your lonely room
And there’s nothing but the smell of her perfume
Ah don’t you feel like crying
Don’t you feel like crying?
Ah don’t you feel like crying?
Come on, come on cry to me.
Well nothing could be sadder
Than a glass of wine, all alone
Loneliness, loneliness, it’s such a waste of time
Oh-oh yeah
You don’t ever have to walk alone, oh you see
Oh come on, take my hand and baby won’t you walk with me?
Oh ya
When you’re waiting for a voice to come
In the night and there is no one
Ah don’t you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Don’t you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Ah don’t you feel like a-ca-ca-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra, (cry to me)
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying? (cry to me)
Ah don’t you feel like a-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra,
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying?…
đ„ đ„ đ„
Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
‘Cause you don’t love me any more
Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love
I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything’s the same as it was
I can’t understand, no, I can’t understand
How life goes on the way it does
Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye
Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye
Mmmmmm, I do not think much about Rassie as a coach… and I really would not like to see him take over as Bokke coach after the Rugby World Cup.
Apparently he is supposed to be technically sound, but I just wonder about his abilities to actually translate that to players. At the Stormers, as coach the Stormers only began to shine when Alistair Coetzee took over the coaching duties with Rassie moving on to Director of Rugby at WP.
But on the other hand, any assistance to Snorrie is better than nothing, I suppose.
gbs @ 5
đ„ geluk met jou spannetjie se vertoning die naweek broetsie!! đ„
6@ Ashley:
Dankie Asbakkie…. wat is dit met die WP dat hulle so mental block het met die Bulle?
Nee, jinne Ash – so erg wassit dam nou okie!
Ek voel vandag soos ‘n uitgewaste lap…
Is vanoggent 4:45 al op, die 3 belangrike S’e gedoen en toe vir BonzaiGBS Lughawe toe gevat..
Gister het ek en Handbriekie ook onse moerre suur gewerk om Bonzaihandbriekie se kamer en aan-suite badkamer skoon te maak nadat ons mense ingekry het om die houtvloer te kom restoureer… flok die houtstof het ORAL ingeklim…
Vandag so tussendeur die werk moet ek nog die skirtings en kwartrondtes ook mooooi saag en aansit… huis lyk nog soos ‘n wille straatvrou se handsak met meubels en bokse wat oral staan…
Flok, as dit so moerse gedoente is om 3 kamers te ontruim en weer terug te trek wil ek NOOOOOOOIT weer in my lewe trek nie…
fender @ 8
djy ve’stanie
‘it was tienie bulls!! đ
…
đ liewer jy as ek!!
Hoeveel trofees het WP gewen vandat Rassie by hulle is ?
gbs @ 7
nee, ek weet nie bru
ek weet regtig nie!!
blouste @ 11
đ probeer jy vir my sĂȘ dat jy verkeerd was
en
dat FL (dis hoe julle hom genoem het) eintlik ñ uitstekende afrigter is? (jy tel trofeĂ«, nie ek nie!!) đ
12@ Ashley:
Alistair Coetzee was baaaaaaie positief oor hoe WP die dinge doen, ten spyte van die verloor, en voel dat WP se foute sodanig is dat dit baie maklik omgeswaai kan word.
Alistair is nou natuurlik super gefokus om komende naweek se wedstryd teen die Tjarkies te wen…
Alistair is ‘n baie “Oop” ou om mee te gesels, hy steek niks onder die emmer weg nie en wanneer hy praat maak hy sin… darem snaaks hoe my persepsie van hom en paar ander afrigters verander het sedert ek die luxury het om persoonlik met hulle kontak te maak.
Persoonlik dink ek ons gaan ‘n geweldig geskommelde Tjarkie span sien Saterdag… met Bissie, Kanko, Adi terug, maar so paar spelers wat dalk niggles dra sal gerus word en gladnie gewaag word nie.
JP Pietersen dink ek is tans effe beseer, so hy sal bes moontlik nie uitdraf vir die Tjarkies nie.
A good article on Luke Watson and his perspectives since leaving the country to play for Bath on Rugby365.com:
ââIâve changed a lot as an individual since Iâve been here.
âBeing away from South Africa has given me ama chance to breathe, a chance to see things from an outside perspective,â Watson told the magazine.
âIt has given me a chance to take a good hard look at myself and what has gone before, to distinguish between what is true and what is not true, what is hype and what is propaganda.
âThe feelings that have driven the way Iâve acted have been feelings I had from a young age. I grew up in an environment that was very different to that experienced by other white kids of my age. I had certain beliefs installed in me from the outset.
âI would hope that over time Iâve grown up, matured. There are still things I stand by, and maybe if Iâd done things differently I wouldnât have learnt as much as I have, but if I had my time again, I would do many things differently.
âI can now understand why so many people back home disliked me,â added the 26-year-old.
Watson joined Bath after the 2009 Currie Cup season, scoring a try on debut, before being made skipper this season â captaining a squad which includes countrymen Pieter Dixon, Michael Claassens and Butch James; as well as current England skipper Lewis Moody, who plays on the flank, with Watson at No.8.
James, of course, is a former Springbok teammate of Watsonâs, but also a close friend of long-time Bok skipper John Smit â who did not have nice things to say about Watson in his book, âCaptain in the Cauldronâ.
âIn all fairness, from my side, the way I look at it now, I can see where John was coming from. I didnât want to be there, and John knew it. That knowledge must have made it difficult for him and the rest of the team,â he said of Smitâs comments in his book â having referred to Watson as âthe cancerâ of the team during the 2008 season, the early part of Peter de Villiersâs Bok coaching tenure.
âWhat I donât buy, though, is that I was the cause of the Bok losses that year. That doesnât make sense. How can one guy derail an entire campaign?
âIt wasnât as if I was even an important member of the squad, I was only a reserve most of the time.
âI donât think I was a massively disruptive influence then, but there were things I disagreed with, and itâs another issue that, were I to have that time again, I would approach differently.
âI am a lot more mature now, and though I will never apologise for calling a spade a spade and fighting for things I feel strongly about, there are a few questions I have to ask myself,â he told SA Rugby.
âWas I the positive influence that I should have been? No.
âWas I constructive enough in my approach? No. I shouldnât have been there, my mindset was all wrong.â
He also admitted that he did not handle his initial Bok call-up properly â having been selected as the infamous âPlayer No.46âČ when he was forced upon former Springbok coach Jake White ahead of the one-off Test against Samoa on June 9, 2007.
âI do regret now that I went to the camp when the coach didnât want me. I was as wrong in doing that as Jake was publicly criticising Schalk Brits and me for no reason,â said Watson, who has already played 30 matches for Bath since joining last November.
âBut I did things back then that werenât always my choice. I was made to feel that I had to attend the camp as part of a cause, to satisfy the people who had pushed for my inclusion.
âIn reality I was a political pawn. I felt that my intentions were noble, that I was advancing some cause, but I also knew I didnât want to be there any more than Jake and the rest of the Springbok players wanted to have me there.
âIn hindsight it was wrong, and while I was cross with Jake for the things he said, two wrongs definitely donât make a right.â
Copied and pasted.
So SARU pay a lot of money to a head coach who they don’t believe is good enough to be left on his own to do the job they employed him to do, then he turns on the 2 assistant coaches that he employed in order to save his arse, but SARU can’t fire them because nobody will take on the job of working with the head coach and besides they would have to pay out the assistants contracts.
So they now pay far too much money to bring in a 4th coach to assist the assistant coaches and the head coach.
So what do you think the atmosphere will be like amongst these 4 coaches!!
And what do the players make of this!!
15@ Blouste:
Does a leopard change it’s spots?
Watched the game between Bath and Gloucester over the weekend and Watson still just inspects the scrums and rucks, actually interferes a lot with his scrummie’s job…. apart from that his play was abysmal too… he was subbed as well.
@ tight head:
So if a spaceman came down from Mars and asked me the logical question:
Why don’t you just replace the head coach in the first place?
I would have to answer:
Because he has brown skin.
Now go and work that out Mr Spaceman!!
tighthead @ 18
since 11:14 when you posted this comment, i’ve been typing and then deleting quite a few responses to especially the “brown skin” part of your comment … so, please remember where we come from …. comments like this are not welcome on here!!
@ Ashley:
I also had a long post, but decided to go with, situation well handled from your side…
I don’t think there was any malicious intend from tighthead, mere frustration about the problems mentioned…
But again I think you handled yourself well buddy.
blouste @ 20
hehehehe
naaaaaaaaaaah, you shouldve seen that first few posts, lol
but
anyway,
yes i detected tighthead’s frustration!
just think, like i’ve said, that its better if we dont open that can of worms here
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