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Fair enough in the job market and though I accept that sport is professional these days this just flies against the soul of what sport is or at least should be.
Didn't they have a white goalkeeper at one time?
Anyway, player selection based on anything other than skill or game plan is not on.
I'm quite sure that it is against the spirit of rugby. Perhaps the iRB should take a leaf from FIFA's book, and threaten to suspend SARU from the iRB unless the policiy is dropped. They did once before, when blacks and coloured were discriminated against for selection, so why not threaten it again now that the shoe is on the other foot.
That white goalkeeper you're referring to is probably Hans Vonk. i
Didn't they have a white goalkeeper at one time?
Anyway, player selection based on anything other than skill or game plan is not on.
I'm quite sure that it is against the spirit of rugby. Perhaps the iRB should take a leaf from FIFA's book, and threaten to suspend SARU from the iRB unless the policiy is dropped. They did once before, when blacks and coloured were discriminated against for selection, so why not threaten it again now that the shoe is on the other foot.
That white goalkeeper you're referring to is probably Hans Vonk. Played and lived in Holland almost his entire life. I met the guy a couple of times and he was upset when he was dropped in favor of black players back in the late 90's.
Over the last 20 years, I can only think of a handful of white players in Bafana Bafana. Matthew Booth, Hans Vonk, Neil Tovey, Glenn Salmon, Pierre Issa, Eric Tinkler and Mark Williams.
If you compare that to the big number of black and coloured players who represented the Springboks or were called up in the same era:
Chester Williams, Breyton Paulse, Owen Nkumane, Kaya Malotana, Wayne Julies, Lawrence Sephaka, Thando Manana, Bolla Conradie, Ashwin Willemse, Gcobani Bobo, Hanyani Shimangi, Tim Dlulane, Solly Tyibilika, Jongi Nokwe, Tonderai Chavhanga, Akona Ndungane, Odwa Ndungane, JP Pietersen, Chiliboy Ralepelle, Kabamba Floors, Brian Mujati, Tendai Mtawarira, Earl Rose, Heini Adams, Ashley Johnson, Bandise Maku, Lwazi Mvovo, Lionel Mapoe, Raymond Rhule, Trevor Nyakane, Siya Kolisi
That white goalkeeper you're referring to is probably Hans Vonk. Played and lived in Holland almost his entire life. I met the guy a couple of times and he was upset when he was dropped in favor of black players back in the late 90's.
Over the last 20 years, I can only think of a handful of white players in Bafana Bafana. Matthew Booth, Hans Vonk, Neil Tovey, Glenn Salmon, Pierre Issa, Eric Tinkler and Mark Williams.
If you compare that to the big number of black and coloured players who represented the Springboks or were called up in the same era:
Chester Williams, Breyton Paulse, Owen Nkumane, Kaya Malotana, Wayne Julies, Lawrence Sephaka, Thando Manana, Bolla Conradie, Ashwin Willemse, Gcobani Bobo, Hanyani Shimangi, Tim Dlulane, Solly Tyibilika, Jongi Nokwe, Tonderai Chavhanga, Akona Ndungane, Odwa Ndungane, JP Pietersen, Chiliboy Ralepelle, Kabamba Floors, Brian Mujati, Tendai Mtawarira, Earl Rose, Heini Adams, Ashley Johnson, Bandise Maku, Lwazi Mvovo, Lionel Mapoe, Raymond Rhule, Trevor Nyakane, Siya Kolisi
Pacific Islanders are a special breed, they have good genetics impressive, such as Jamaica in athletics. Jamaica only has 2 million people, yet they are leaders in athletics.
A normal person who want to deal with these monsters, you need the highest level training to compete as equals.
Politics should be left out of sport. The worst thing of all about it was the ruling that 2 players had to be forwards. Nonsense.
They're different. Every type of body shape has its own strengths and weaknesses. PIs have a speed advantage over Whites but don't have the workrate of Whites, which is why the Australian and NZ packs named this weekend are very White compared to the backs.
People say the Japanese are too small but I don't agree with that. They could develop into a good rugby team yet playing a style that suits them.
If you ever get the chance you should read Brendan Hokowhitu's "Race tactics: The racialised athletic body." - it illistrates why even this kind of stuff is pretty harmful.
You can't change your argument half way through, after saying that you need to be 100kg to play rugby, then saying you actually need to go to private school.
Accessibility is different to how expensive the game is to play.
The game is not inherently more expensive to play than football is.
As far as I am aware Fiji has comparable levels of poverty to SA and Rugby is the most popular team sport there.
It's not like a scrum machine is that hard tocome by anyway. My team has one, and we're a small country club that barely comes up with 15 guys very weekend. You can make a scrum machine out of scrap wood if you have to.
That's not really the point anyway. It just comes down to a difference in culture. Black kids play soccer. Anyway, if the best rugby is played in the private schools, can you really blame the scouts for doing most of their selcting there? They must be satisfied with the talent they are finding. Whether they are white or black has nothing to do with how good they are at the sport. now, if socio-economic circustances dictate that more white people are in these private schools, then its seems like thats what SA should be trying to change, not squad selections.
Besides, if the black population doesn't watch rugby, then who ccares how many of the players are black? Who cares in any case?
The Georgians used to practice their scrum against old Soviet era tractors. Where there is a will there is a way.
Is this the article nick? Just a few pages in, will have to read later am at lunch now and it looks to lengthy to get done now.
http://eprintstetumu.otago.ac.nz/11/01/Hokowhitu_Race_tactics.pdf
The Georgians used to practice their scrum against old Soviet era tractors. Where there is a will there is a way.