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June International Test: South Africa vs. Ireland [1st Test] (11/06/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="unrated" data-source="post: 802651" data-attributes="member: 45773"><p>That is our case against the government. Why not invest in grasroots and develop enough black players. Eventualy if the production line gets strong there will be better competition for places than there are now. The problem is that the government want the transformation to start immediately by 2019 they want the team to be atleast 50% black African. What is happening in South Africa now is that the predominantly black schools dont play rugby and the money mostly goes to football. The predominantly white schools consisting of the English and Afrikaans pupils mainly care about rugby. In a lot of "white" schools football is not even played. The black springboks coming through is guys who went to these rugby schools. So there are some good black players but not enough to be able to meet the transformation requirements that they are setting. As some of you have said if they invest to introduce rugby to these black schools then there would be quality black and white players to choose from and our playing resources will double. If you want to be good at a sport and represent your country one day you have to play it from a very young age. You will never be as good if you only start playing rugby in high school and as most black primary schools dont have rugby the kids there are anyway more interested in football.</p><p></p><p>As for the game against the Irish. We cant use quotas as an excuse. We lost because they were better on the day. Lets say the black players included in the match because of quotas were so bad that they were equivalent to one good player put together then we still had 13 players on the field who was genuinely good enough to be on this stage and with the Irish down to 14 men and even 13 at one stage i cant see why those players that was there on merit could not win it for us. That was poor. The coach has to take the blame if was outfoxed tactically and he let everyone down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="unrated, post: 802651, member: 45773"] That is our case against the government. Why not invest in grasroots and develop enough black players. Eventualy if the production line gets strong there will be better competition for places than there are now. The problem is that the government want the transformation to start immediately by 2019 they want the team to be atleast 50% black African. What is happening in South Africa now is that the predominantly black schools dont play rugby and the money mostly goes to football. The predominantly white schools consisting of the English and Afrikaans pupils mainly care about rugby. In a lot of "white" schools football is not even played. The black springboks coming through is guys who went to these rugby schools. So there are some good black players but not enough to be able to meet the transformation requirements that they are setting. As some of you have said if they invest to introduce rugby to these black schools then there would be quality black and white players to choose from and our playing resources will double. If you want to be good at a sport and represent your country one day you have to play it from a very young age. You will never be as good if you only start playing rugby in high school and as most black primary schools dont have rugby the kids there are anyway more interested in football. As for the game against the Irish. We cant use quotas as an excuse. We lost because they were better on the day. Lets say the black players included in the match because of quotas were so bad that they were equivalent to one good player put together then we still had 13 players on the field who was genuinely good enough to be on this stage and with the Irish down to 14 men and even 13 at one stage i cant see why those players that was there on merit could not win it for us. That was poor. The coach has to take the blame if was outfoxed tactically and he let everyone down. [/QUOTE]
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