Former Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has approached the South African Rugby Union (SARU) about possible work.
De Villiers, who coached the Springboks from 2008-2011, spoke to Eyewitness News Sport about the issue.
De Villiers told them he approached SARU over a possible role of working with club coaches.
EWN Sport posted on their twitter page that De Villiers had received no response from SARU about the matter by Tuesday.
“#Boks Peter de Villiers says that he hasn’t heard back from #SARU yet over his proposal of working with club coaches,” EWN Sport tweeted.
De Villiers believes he gained valuable experience during his tenure at the Boks, which could be useful for the game in South Africa.
“I feel a bit useless at the moment. Sitting back home and nobody shows interest in trying to draw from experience that I do have,” said De Villiers.
De Villiers’s most notable achievements while coaching the Springboks were a Tri-Nations trophy and a series victory over the British and Irish Lions in 2009.
gbs @ 30
miskien het ek (kom ons noem dit maar) die voordeel dat toe die rugbygogga regtig begin byt het, ek met ñ afrigter te doen gehad het wat nie eens sy moedertaal ordentlik kon praat nie.
die laaste motivation speech deur hierdie afrigter (net voor ons veldvat) was gewoonlik begroet met spelers wat met hulle hande voor hulle monde sit, ander wat iets teen die dak raaksien, ander wat druk besig is om tokse vas te maak en ñ moerse klomp ouens wat skielik hoesbuie ontwikkel het. die kere wat ons nie skaterend veld gevat het nie, was min!!
nou, het die man wat homself nie eens kon uitdruk nie geweet wat hy doen? o ja, o jaaaa!! ek dink dis waar ek my liefde vir die tegniese kant van rugby geleer het, hoekom ek graag ouens se artikels lees wat hiermee te make en waar ons keer op keer, as ons sy (baie snaakse en baie lagwekkende) instruksies uitgevoer het, ons soms net ons koppe kon skud oor hoe tegnies korrek hy die heeltyd was!!
sê nie dis dieselfde geval met peter nie, maar eks beslis nie bereid om sy rugbyvermoë te judge aan die manier hoe hy homself uitdruk nie!!
@ grootblousmile:
PdeV sal beslis goed inpas by ‘jeugrugby’, soos jy dit stel, gegewe sy onderwysagtergrond en gemaklike en rustige aanslag met mense op alle vlakke. Ek sou hom graag as rugby-onnie wou he……en beslis graag om die rugbyvuur met hom saamkuier!
Boland Landbou, PBH of Gimmies kan hom gerus intussen nader trek om ons toekomstige Springbokkies te bearbei.
Terloops, ek koop vir geen oomblik die Oos-Londen ‘Spar Sex Gate’-storie nie. Dit was afdreiging so seker as wat ek hier sit.
Jy hoef nie n Piet Byleveld te wees om daai een op te los nie – kyk maar net wie se familie besit die gastehuis waar PdeV tuisgegaan het en wie se seun se spankeuse op daai stadium erg onder die loep was…….daai OP-rugbymafia is n gewetenlose spul rampokkers.
I would love to have the Snor in my business. Wine is all about the occasion, and he makes every occasion one to remember!
I don’t believe he is completely incompetent – he was well out of his depth at Springbok level, but he does have a wealth of experience the he could, and should pass on. His CV shows:
Tygerberg in 1996 and 1997
Western Province Disas in 1997.
Assistant coach for Western Province in the Currie Cup in 1998
South Africa national under-19 side- third in the 1999 Under 19 Rugby World Championship.
Falcons through the 2002 and 2003
South Africa national under-21 rugby union team between 2004 and 2006.(3rd in 2004, 1st in 2005, 2nd 2006)
Emerging Springboks in 2007 (won Nations Cup)
Away from the media and the public spotlight, he is a helluva nice guy – as has been said by a number of folk here, and in my mind would be perfect at working at club level.
Kudos to the man for trying, and lets hope something comes of it. No one of this experience should be lost to the game in my humble opinion.
32 @ Pietman:
Ek dink ek en jy is heeltemal op dieselfde bladsy wat die OP-Mafia aanbetref en ek dink ook die seks-skandaal was ‘n pot snot.
Snor het goed gedoen met die Junior Bokkies… derhalwe dink ek daar is plek vir hom as mentor van ‘n jonger spul latte, want soos jy tereg sê, hy is gemaklik in daai kringe, inteendeel dalk doelgemaak vir daai kringe.
Die outjies waarmee hy daar sal werk sal beslis nie hulle liefde vir rugby verloor onder Snor nie, inteendeel help hy dalk dat sekere ouens daai bruggie tussen skool en klub en pro-vlak oorsteek, wat hulle moontlik nie sou gedoen het nie.
Ek dink net nie hy is beskore vir die top pos as afrigter in SA Rugby nie….
Daar word baie klem gele op Peter se uitsprake in die pers, en baie hang aan Graham Henry se lippe. Ek het onglangs 2 onderhoude wat met hom gevoer is geluister. Wens ek kan hulle weer vind. Daaring klink hy suurgat, skor stem en glad nie oortuigend nie, inteendeel ek het gewonder wat is ons issue met Peter, GH klink ook maar k$k.
Wat wel waar is is dat GH n BAIE better ondersteuningspan gehad het en die resultate het gekeer dat niemand vir hom wil lag nie.
@ Rugbyprof:
@ grootblousmile:
@ superBul:
Talking of speech blunders by coaches, who of you still remember Harry Viljoen’s announcement of his Springbok team at Boland Park?
He didn’t know who the late Jake Swart was when asked by a reporter (Jake was the Leopards’ flyhalf included on Markgraaf advice. He, Jake, a schoolboy wonder from Pretoria, was tragically killed in a car accident near Three Sisters in the Karoo 4 years later).
Harry also announced Ollie Viljoen as one of the props! Both these oversights were corrected in the next day’s ‘Die Burger’.
And then we had that little Zola Yeye as manager in Scotland, addressing the Boks in Xhosa with Mark Andrews translating……Yeye called Bobo Skinstead out as one of our centers, hehehehe!
Not forgetting Stofile who got two of the Springboks’ names horribly wrong while reading from the team sheet during the TV broadcast, I can still picture the bewilderment on Os Du Randt’s face as he turned to his mates for an explanation…… (Os is also fluent in Xhosa).
And so we can go on right back to Johan Claassen in NZ 1981, where Rob Louw and Abe Williams acted as impromptu translators.
So please, it is not only PdeV who wasn’t well groomed in the Springbok’s PR department.
Rugby World Cup-winning All Blacks coach Graham Henry has poked fun at the England rugby team, describing its players in tongue-in-cheek comments as “a shambles” who should “self-destruct and start again.”
Henry made the comments while replying to a question from an England supporter at a fund raising dinner on Thursday in Auckland, New Zealand.
When contacted later by reporters, Henry said he didn’t want his comments published. But the organizer of the dinner said Henry was an experienced public speaker who knew the media “could be there and would be there.”
Henry, who was once linked to the England coaching job, has previously said the English are “world champions at wasting talent.”
If our fav. coach said this it would have been a earth sin(aard sonde) and the media would have gone ballistic.
super @ 37
not only that
but
the favourate of all comments wouldve surfaced
….
“the world is laughing at us!!!”
wtf!!!???
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