Springboks toppled by Italy

[RuggerNut]

Has Allister Coetzee lost the trust of the Springbok dressing room?

http://lastwordonrugby.com/2016/11/19/italian-rugby-slays-sad-springboks/

 

[jordiev]

you have to wonder where SA would have went out and got eddie jones or another atleast competent coach instead of waiting so long to pull the trigger on a new coach. feel like it has to be jak white to come in surely?

 

[GoTheNaki]

you have to wonder where SA would have went out and got eddie jones or another atleast competent coach instead of waiting so long to pull the trigger on a new coach. feel like it has to be jak white to come in surely?

No sane international coach would take that job. The politics, and government input is not worth it.

 

[TheOvalBall]

Somebody on another rugby site suggested SARU should be privatized. How's that going to work ?

 

[smartcooky]

No sane international coach would take that job. The politics, and government input is not worth it.

Its a poisoned chalice right now.

What coach in his right mind would take on the coaching of a team when selections of the players is dictated by corrupt politicians?

 

[RoosTah]

I'm obviously no expert on SA Rugby, but from the outside it seems like if quotas are the issue then you'd go a long way to solving the problem by just investing a lot more in getting back south africans playing the game so you have a strong pipeline of talented players of colour so that you're getting similar outcomes no matter which ethnicity you choose.

 

[TheOvalBall]

Statement from SARU president, Mr Mark Alexander

"The whole of South African rugby is extremely disappointed with this year's Springbok results and deeply worrying aspects of the performances. It has not been good enough and no one is pretending otherwise.
"We have a minimum target of winning three out of four test matches each season – which is better than the historical record – but we have not come close this season.<o></o>
"It would be easy to lay the blame for that at one door or another and look for scapegoats but it would also be an oversimplification.<o></o>
"All of us within South African rugby need to look at ourselves and ask what we could have done differently in aid of the Springbok cause.<o></o>
"Those questions will be asked at the end of the season when we will undertake a full review of the year and what new interventions may be needed to turn things around.<o></o>
"We began that work recently with the coaching indaba. It set out to align national and Super Rugby coaches on the technical, tactical and conditioning requirements to succeed in 2017 and beyond.<o></o>
"We also have to review such things as how we manage the fact that so many of our leading players are now based outside South Africa and more are being lured there.<o></o>
"No group of individuals is more concerned or disappointed right now than the Springbok team and management. We know they are better than this.<o></o>
"After that it is our job to take steps to do as much as we possibly can to make sure we are not in a similar position in 12 months' time. Our focus is on solutions and finding answers to our current problems.<o></o>
"We have a test against Wales on Saturday and then we will review the season and spend time determining a path for the future."

 

[RuggerNut]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I tend to steer away from the "quota" discussion. It definitely does play a role when trying to get the right balance of skills into a team, but to be fair we can only point to that if there was a definite game plan/pattern of play and a fair execution of skills. Coetzee has not created either a pattern of play that can be clearly identified or moved the players forward in terms of execution of tasks. With the negative influence our national government has over rugby in general, as well as a number of unions operating at a loss or have been liquidated, I don't see any form of quick fix. The "apology" offered by an incompetent coach and a reluctant captain is simply a plaster over terminal cancer.