“He made one mistake on Saturday, but so did other players. What I have learnt in South Africa is the following; if you take your car to a garage to be repaired and the owner is black and he doesn’t do a good job, you will never take it back there again. But if the owner is white and the garage makes a mistake, people say, never mind, he made a mistake and will take it back again”.
This was the response of SA coach Pieter de Villiers to criticism of his selection of Ricky Januarie as reserve scrumhalf for the Springboks. True story, folks. You can’t make this shit up. Januarie is overweight, unfit and the slowest distributor of the ball in world rugby. He’s still riding on the credit he earned when we won the Eden Park test last year. How long can one inspirational try keep a man in a team that he’s clearly not good enough to play in?
On a similar note, how is it that the SA rugby public are the racists? This is same public that worships the ground Brian Habana walks on and that roars “BEEEEAST!” every time Tendai Mtawarira even looks at the ball. And a man who selects every squad based on the colour of their skin is calling everyone else racist? Surely I’m not the only person seeing the irony here. It’s beginning to reek of desperation. The man has made selections that were justifiably criticised, yet which he stood by, and now that they haven’t paid off, he’s being stubborn to the point of ridiculousness because he’s terrified of looking stupid.
SHIT, TOO LATE!
You already look stupid. You insist on picking that pie-chucker (or is it pie-eater?) Januarie and Earl “Tikmasjien” Rose, despite the fact that you’re the only one who can see any form of ability in them. Hell, neither of them can even hold down a place in their provincial sides, nevermind the national side. But you keep on including them in every single national squad, despite there being better players than either of them. If you desperately need players of colour, pick Heinie Adams, pick Bolla Conradie, but Januarie has had enough chances now. As for Rose, I would suggest Stevie Wonder or Stephen Hawking. Both would do better at flyhalf and you score on all sorts of equal opportunity levels.
There were a few other gems to come out of this latest press conference.
“I like doing my own thing and I don’t care what other people think. Their opinion is just that, an opinion.”
Thanks for confirming what we already suspected. That you run things your own way. Maybe SARFU should save some money by firing Dick Muir and Gary Gold and buying you a couple of bobble head dolls. That way you can ask them a question and just bang your desk to get them to nod their heads and agree with you.
And regarding the first Lions test:
“The one thing that people appear to forget, is the result. We won the Test. We waited 12 years to win this match and we did it. We are very, very, very satisfied with it. We never said we were going to beat them by a lot of points, we will win with one point and be satisfied.”
Yes, you won, but you could have destroyed them! You could have beaten them so badly that their confidence would never have recovered. Be happy with the win, but not with the score. These are the Lions, not Romania or Uruguay. You can’t just do whatever the hell you want to and expect to maintain form, cohesion and momentum. You’re the Bok coach. Shouldn’t you know this?
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