Black-Boks Thinking: redemption from the wreckage of two years under Allister
I’ve always wondered what the obsession is with a 4-year cycle between Rugby World Cups.
James Green is not your average couch potato sports fan; in fact, he's watched so much sport on various TVs over the years (some he even owned himself), that he thinks he has a voice that can translate into words online. Views are his own, sometimes to his detriment.
I’ve always wondered what the obsession is with a 4-year cycle between Rugby World Cups.
An image circulated recently on social media of potential squads of overseas-based South African rugby players.
So we drew in Perth. Build a bridge and move on.
Last week former Springbok coach Jake White wrote an article on All Out Rugby about the red jersey the Boks will wear in their upcoming test against Argentina in Salta, labelling it “a sell-out”.
South African cricket is certainly in an interesting space.
Last week Friday, SA Rugby announced that both the Cheetahs and the Southern Kings had agreed that they would be the South African fall guys for Super Rugby in 2018.
After the relatively quick turnaround in Springbok fortunes over the last month, the challenge of measuring up to the All Blacks is on the horizon. But there is one more administrative change SA Rugby needs to make before then.
I’ve noticed recently on social media that a few commenters on some of my recent offerings have been giving me gears about not being positive about the Boks this year given the horrors of last year.
There can be no wiggle room in the following assertion: the Bok team and their aura are in tatters.
While Super Rugby lurches from one insipid match to the next, with the odd cracking game rearing its head infrequently, the lobbying and infighting occurring in the boardrooms by the “faceless men in suits” – a wonderful phrase coined by Wallabies’ flanker Scott Fardy – continues to be the sideshow in an otherwise irrelevant season.
Two weeks ago, a meme did the rounds amongst South Africans the world over depicting Jacob Zuma super-imposed on a screenshot from Pornhub with the simple title, “man f*cks entire country at once.”
23 million. No, that’s not the number of times Lance Armstrong lied. And it’s not the number of women Charlie Sheen has bedded (I think that’s around 8000, actually).
There were plenty of sighs of relief from Proteas’ fans after Morné Morkel made a welcome return to the test team, and managed to get through 24 overs, bringing back memories of his awkward bounce, coupled with his trademark twirl at the top of his bowling mark.
Rant alert. Fikile and Tubby… how do you buggers do it?
Allow me to indulge you in a bit of courtroom drama for a minute…
It was a little bit past 4pm on Saturday 14th January 2017.
Proteas all-rounder Wayne Parnell dug one in short and the Sri Lankan tail-ender, Suranga Lakmal, swiped at the ball only to spoon it to deep square leg, presenting the great man Vernon Philander with a straightforward catch. Test series whitewash sealed!
It was with much shock – at least initially – when I heard of Kyle Abbott and Rilee Rossouw’s departure from the Proteas’ set-up in order to pursue long-term Kolpak county contracts in the UK.
Allister Coetzee simply has to remain as the Head Coach for the betterment of South African rugby
James Green says it like it is: Boks fans have lost their shit, basically doing the Facebook equivalent of rioting in the streets. Naked. With tridents