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<blockquote data-quote="unrated" data-source="post: 815901" data-attributes="member: 45773"><p>I agree with the last two posts. To just quickly add to that. we can all agree that if you want the best chance to one day play for your country that you have to play the sport from a very young age. Something like grade 1 already. The black kids in SA dont want to play rugby. some of them do but the majority does not. Most of them chooses Football. So what happening is that there is more white players in SA and the system keeps churning out a very large amount of white players and small amounts of black players from rugby schools here and there. Because all white boys in SA dream of playing for the Springboks and only the best of them one day make it to that level. The provincial teams gets filled up with quality white players very quickly because there is a huge interest in rugby from white schoolboys. but because of quotas even at provincial levels the clubs fight to sign the best black players available to meet their quota requirements which is completely justified. If quotas are forced upon you then at least make the best of it. </p><p></p><p>So on the one hand you have a low number of black players coming through the system and secondly because of the large number of white players produced yearly its easier to produce good players which in turn makes it even harder for those black players to break through.</p><p>The real issue here is to get the playing numbers up from the other ethnic groups. lets say we produce 200 white players per year and 20 black players (just an example) they should focus on getting the black schoolboy numbers up to at least match the white players. They will then most likely be able to select a Springbok team meeting the quotas on merit because the selection pool is larger. There is simply not enough interest from the ethnic groups other than the white and coloured communities to be able to achieve a Bok team made up of 80% black players that has the required quality that we currently have. And everyone is asking why compromise our quality for the sake of quotas.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately nothing will be achieved by me ranting here unless there is the off chance one of our politicians is a TRF forum member.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="unrated, post: 815901, member: 45773"] I agree with the last two posts. To just quickly add to that. we can all agree that if you want the best chance to one day play for your country that you have to play the sport from a very young age. Something like grade 1 already. The black kids in SA dont want to play rugby. some of them do but the majority does not. Most of them chooses Football. So what happening is that there is more white players in SA and the system keeps churning out a very large amount of white players and small amounts of black players from rugby schools here and there. Because all white boys in SA dream of playing for the Springboks and only the best of them one day make it to that level. The provincial teams gets filled up with quality white players very quickly because there is a huge interest in rugby from white schoolboys. but because of quotas even at provincial levels the clubs fight to sign the best black players available to meet their quota requirements which is completely justified. If quotas are forced upon you then at least make the best of it. So on the one hand you have a low number of black players coming through the system and secondly because of the large number of white players produced yearly its easier to produce good players which in turn makes it even harder for those black players to break through. The real issue here is to get the playing numbers up from the other ethnic groups. lets say we produce 200 white players per year and 20 black players (just an example) they should focus on getting the black schoolboy numbers up to at least match the white players. They will then most likely be able to select a Springbok team meeting the quotas on merit because the selection pool is larger. There is simply not enough interest from the ethnic groups other than the white and coloured communities to be able to achieve a Bok team made up of 80% black players that has the required quality that we currently have. And everyone is asking why compromise our quality for the sake of quotas. Unfortunately nothing will be achieved by me ranting here unless there is the off chance one of our politicians is a TRF forum member. [/QUOTE]
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