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Split: SavageLes protests that he's not a South African (but fails miserably)
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<blockquote data-quote="Iron Mike" data-source="post: 324339" data-attributes="member: 42045"><p>Sorry, but, who are we talking about here? Last time I checked, when South Africa won the tri-nations in 2009, they played the best possible 15. </p><p></p><p>1. Beast (black)</p><p>2. Du Plessis</p><p>3. Smit</p><p>4. Botha</p><p>5. Matfield</p><p>6. Brussow </p><p>7. Smith</p><p>8. Spies</p><p>9. Du Preez</p><p>10. Steyn</p><p>11. Habana (black)</p><p>12. JDV</p><p>13. Jacobs (black)</p><p>14. JP Pieterson (black)</p><p>15. F. Steyn</p><p></p><p>Now, some are block / coloured, whatever, but the fact is, those were the best players in South Africa at the time, Jaque Fourie was struggling with form until the Lions series and there was no other wing other than JP. Habana is a player of the year and Beast, well, he was setting the world on fire as being the best prop in the world. I don't know what you mean by this selection quota, maybe you don't agree with a few players being named in the squad and use the excuse that they are black and that is why they are there, but South Africa is not doing this. Parliament is telling them to, but the Boks is a business, and a private company, they have nothing to do with the government and there fore there is no official quota because there is no quota, only political pressure.</p><p></p><p>SARU = PRIVATE COMPANY</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iron Mike, post: 324339, member: 42045"] Sorry, but, who are we talking about here? Last time I checked, when South Africa won the tri-nations in 2009, they played the best possible 15. 1. Beast (black) 2. Du Plessis 3. Smit 4. Botha 5. Matfield 6. Brussow 7. Smith 8. Spies 9. Du Preez 10. Steyn 11. Habana (black) 12. JDV 13. Jacobs (black) 14. JP Pieterson (black) 15. F. Steyn Now, some are block / coloured, whatever, but the fact is, those were the best players in South Africa at the time, Jaque Fourie was struggling with form until the Lions series and there was no other wing other than JP. Habana is a player of the year and Beast, well, he was setting the world on fire as being the best prop in the world. I don't know what you mean by this selection quota, maybe you don't agree with a few players being named in the squad and use the excuse that they are black and that is why they are there, but South Africa is not doing this. Parliament is telling them to, but the Boks is a business, and a private company, they have nothing to do with the government and there fore there is no official quota because there is no quota, only political pressure. SARU = PRIVATE COMPANY [/QUOTE]
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