Agreed.

My biggest concern is on PDV being hellbent on playing different game plans.

When I saw Matfield in the backline in the 7th minute yesterday I knew it was tickets. I’m afraid that his stubborness might be our downfall. We also have less than two years before 2011. And at the moment we have no idea what our game plan is, or in what direction were heading.

We have the players and the depth (except lock and prop) but we have no idea what he wants to do or where he wants to take this team.

Time is running out.

These guys have been together for close to 2 months, playing every week.

The majority of our changes have not played since the Super 14 apart from a minute here and there.

The Lions was hell-bent on being the first team not to lose 3-0 for the first time in SA.

The Boks, well they were ‘building for the 3N’ and distracted by the whole Bakkies thing.

I dont think we learned much, I do not think it served any purpose in the way it was done also.

In no way could the players have given PDV any idea on how to approach the 3N or with what team as it was unfair to expect them to be clinical having played so little rugby.

Every single combination yesterday was a new combination.

You dont do that at this level.

There are ways to assess players, this was not one of them.

I know, but what I meant was they made 7 changes and the played bloody good rugby.

What’s our excuse?

Forced vs. tactical.

The Lions did not have a choice, we conciously picked a team that we knew was undercooked.

It is a blight on the series and does no favours to the players, who can only play themselves out of contention.

and the Lions made 7?

Fourie got the ball twice in a backline move, Meisiekind thought it good to skip him every single time.

Fourie turned over 6 balls at the ruck and his defense was immense.

Jacobs is not in Fourie’s league.

Strange thing is that the WHOLE ENTIRE RUGBY WORLD – AND NOT ONLY US APPARENT WHITE RACISTS believe Fourie to be better and PDV to be a freakin joke.

Watch REunion, watch Wrap from down under – read the English and UK papers – everybody is saying that PDV is a joke as a coach and the he has no clue.

Does that mean that the whole planet are racists? Or is it maybe just because the PDV supporters will support their coach to the end – no matter what? Throughout this series – the Boks have managed to put together 70 minutes of good rugby out of 240.

I see a very lean Tri-nations for us. Porbably the wooden spoon for the second time in his second year. With great players.

When we did not try and bullie the Lions and play rugby, we were outplayed there too by a team that executed 100% better than the Boks

No gameplan, no structure, no compete at the breakdown. Weird positional changes – Spies? The wrong bench, the wrong front row – can all the pro-Chillis now have a glass of shut your mouth thanks.

Kirchener kicks too much possession away. Are we playing Ruan and flyhalf or scrum half or anywhere we see fit, what about replacement hooker?

As for the armbands, absolutely pathetic. The coaching staff should have refused there. Springbok rugby used to be about pride, honour and taking wins and defeats like men. The armband showed them up for the children they are.

An embarrassment all around.

Yep… you went from playing Jake White rugby to Piet Helium rugby!

First ever ‘game-plan’ to break the Aussie RSA hoodoo record, first ever nil point loss at home to NZ, first southern hemisphere team to lose against the BILS in 9 years…

Snor… stick to talking kak in the media and leave Smit and Muir to run the Boks… and you’ll be collecting your inflated pay cheque for a lot longer…

PS did anyone else find the Boks to be so inaccurate in their cleaning today- moronic diving into the rucks, with no looking even to see where the ball was, and if the dive was even in the right place? We had forwards hitting the ruck at the left side, while the ball was lying on the right hand side, in danger of it being adjudged as out of the ruck. and yet not one freaking forward even bothered to LOOK to protect it. Surely the heart of accuracy must lie in them LOOKING and approaching the ruck HEADS UP? Awful play man…

Even stupid things like the props doing the right thing to start a maul – they did not bind up to the lock immediately after the lock caught the ball. Instead they allowed opposing forwards to get inbetween the lock and support and break the maul up. Shocking!! That is schoolboy stuff man!!

If I was Snor, I would have had Sykes on in the first half already.

yip but will the fools ever admit it, never in your life

This win was built on a platform of rogering the Bok front row, which they well and truly did.

Muller, Kankowski, Knock-onwe were predictably poor to pathetic.

If any one has watched the tour at all this Lions win was predictable (although the margin was disappointing).

Well done bud.

Piet Snor has lots to think about.

Smit for one. Kruger, Van Der Linde
Chili not close to being ready. So who backs up Bismark?
Vermulen and Potgieter way ahead of Kankowski.
Ruan is still in my opinion better than Morne – although Morne off the bench is a great option.
Who backs up FdP? Fatty must retire now.
Lock back up is Rossouw or Sykes (and I like Fondse).

I really really wish Guthro was a hooker.

Jacobs would’ve been better than Fourie today, much more creative in an open game.