“WE HAVE THE RIGHT GAMEPLAN FOR WC 2011.”
South Africa coach Peter de Villiers has defied the critics calling for his head by insisting the world champions have the right game plan for the World Cup starting in New Zealand in a year’s time.
SuperSport
De Villiers is under intense pressure after the Springboks lost five of their six Tri-Nations matches this year, conceding a record 22 tries. The South African Rugby Union (SARU) has promised a “very serious” review this month.
He sparked further outrage in the week leading up to their final test against Australia in Bloemfontein when he said the team supported Blue Bulls prop Bees Roux “100 percent” after he was charged with murdering a black policeman in Pretoria.
“It’s painful right now, but I can promise the fans, who are our biggest stakeholders, that we will do it for them at next year’s World Cup,” De Villiers told SuperSport’s Boots and All programme on Thursday.
“We have a very good game plan with which we fared so well last year. Maybe we believed this year that it (success) would just fall into our laps and we didn’t focus on actually doing the job. Our focus maybe went to the World Cup too soon and then you lose focus on the job at hand. But we have learned valuable lessons.”
JAKE WHITE
Jake White, the coach behind the triumphant 2007 World Cup campaign, has been adding to the pressure on De Villiers by offering himself as the new coach.
“At a World Cup you need someone who has been a head coach at international level for a while. I am prepared to do that job and take it on on a temporary basis. I have experience of what is required, I know the players because two-thirds of the guys who make up the core group were players I coached up until the last World Cup,” White said this week.
As the Springboks will play just eight tests before the World Cup, SARU are unlikely to axe De Villiers unless they are able to unearth a candidate who is guaranteed to make more out of the considerable talent still present in the South African team.
White’s relationship with several of the players, most notably those from the Bulls, is also not as good as De Villiers’.
ANGERED SARU
He has angered SARU by making public his desire to coach the team, was strongly criticial of the administration after the World Cup and has mounted his campaign immediately after the Springboks’ worst Tri-Nations showing since 2006.
White was in charge in 2006 when the Springboks won two of their six matches and a side featuring 11 of the 2007 World Cup winners were beaten 49-0 by Australia in Brisbane.
The two leading candidates to replace De Villiers, former Bulls coach Heyneke Meyer and current Stormers mentor Allister Coetzee, both have issues which would probably keep them away from the job.
Meyer felt betrayed by the current administration when he narrowly lost out to De Villiers for the coaching role in 2008. Coetzee is under contract to the Stormers and Western Province, who this year turned down De Villiers’ request for their defensive coach, Jacques Nienaber, to help the Springboks as a consultant.
September 10th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
OFF TOPIC:
Watched Victor’s 100 tribute last
night and I was quite disappointed.
Hardly a reference to his S14 and
CC successes.
No input from team mates.
No input from opponents.
No behind the scenes, shots of
family life (although he talks
about it).
In the end quite dull and incomplete.
September 10th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
“We have a very good game plan with which we fared so well last year”
Dumb twit do not even realize his game plan of last year is old news and do not work anymore, THE GAME HAS CHANGE YOU TWIT!!!!!
September 11th, 2010 at 6:35 am
Reply to Jacques(Bunny) @ 6:16 pm:
Seriously??? What are they not passing anymore and playing with a round ball??
Shit have I been watching reruns on TV this whole year?
The game didn’t change. The laws didn’t change. The only thing that was CORRECTED was the referee’s interpretation of the law surrounding the tackle area. TWIT!!!
September 11th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Reply to Deon @ 6:35 am: If you can not read it is not my fault my friend. I did not say the game has change…it is still the same but if you read you will see it was said in a more than just that one line……for 5/6 man don’t be like the goverment and take one line and make your own story.
LAST YEARS GAME PLAN WAS LAST YEARS GAME PLAN AND IT HAS CHANGE FROM KICKING EVERYONE SILLY ON THE FIELD. THE WAY TO PLAY THE GAME HAVE CHANGE FROM YEAR TO YEAR AND IF YOU DO NOT CHANGE AS WELL YOU FALL BEHIDE.
I am so fedup with everyone defending all every shit this clown is saying. EVERYONEs defending him can do so until they blue in the face it will not make what he says right.
And stop giving the refs the fault for the boks bad game plan and losses, it is just Pathetic. The Boks lost because we have no game plan that can work and we did not have any to fall back on.
You guys starting to became boring. If any person believed that you will go to the WC and win by playing the way the boks did last year you are just freaking stupid.
I am starting to see Bryce’s point now.
September 11th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Reply to Jacques(Bunny) @ 9:19 am:
Where the heel did I blame the refs? Take some of the medicine you are dealing out so freely. READ and UNDERSTAND!!!! The last part is crucial.
You are contradicting yourself. On the one hand you say change, but on the other hand you want the same. The other tems didn’t have a gameplan of kicking every one silly as you say. This year they are not doing that for the mere fact that they knew the other teams would counter it.
So what exactly is it you want? Maybe if you can make up your own mind, things will not be so boring.
Just for the record and I quote
“THE GAME HAS CHANGE YOU TWIT!!!!!”
“I did not say the game has change”
Are you trying to tell us you say things type/say things that one must not read as such; otherwise known as spinning bullshit?
September 11th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Reply to Deon @ 3:35 pm:
Spinning bullshit.
In a tumble drier?
September 11th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Reply to Deon @ 3:35 pm: Wake up
September 11th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Reply to Deon @ 3:35 pm: There is a saying in Afrikaans Idiot: ” Moet nie ‘n dwaas in sy dwaasheid antwoord nie.”
So do not expect me to comment on your idiot comments anymore.
September 11th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
September 11th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Everyone has the game plan worked out to a T – time for a tweak to the plan. If you can’t see that…
http://fromthebottomoftheruck.blogspot.com/
September 12th, 2010 at 12:49 am
Reply to Jacques(Bunny) @ 4:11 pm:
That type of retreat is known as cowardice.
Good to know.
September 12th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Reply to Boertjie @ 3:57 pm:
Must be in Hasie’s case. A washing machine would be spinning to fast for him to try and reign the bullshit back in as he tried above.
September 12th, 2010 at 8:55 am
The only thing Snor has EVER defied is ‘logic’!
September 12th, 2010 at 9:04 am
There is nothing wrong with the gameplan.
What changed this year was that the players were too tired to execute it properly. I thought that Morne’s analysis with Ross Tucker was spot on…
Boertjie I am quite amazed to see you agree with Deon given that he took a line completely opposed to your core beliefs of kak players kak coach and kakkest Spies…
September 12th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Reply to Deon @ 12:49 am: If it makes you sleep at night go ahead
September 12th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Reply to DavidS @ 9:04 am:
Ek sê nie ek stem saam met Deon nie -
dis net die beeld wat vir my komies was.
Ons Bokke KAN nie die soort rugby speel wat
in gister se toets gespeel is nie.
Die spelers het nie die vaardighede en
die fiksheidspeil nie.
Hoeveel keer het die bal by vleuels gekom,
en hoeveel keer kry die Bokke se vleuels
die bal?
Die Cheetahs en die Bulls het gister sulke
rugby gespeel, maar die Bokke kan nie.