Question mark hangs over Bok assistants
21 Feb 2012
Four weeks have passed since Heyneke Meyer was appointed as Springbok coach and still there is no clarity as to who will be on his management team in 2012.
When Meyer was announced as Bok coach on 27 January, CEO Jurie Roux said that Saru would invest its energy into the recruitment of top assistant coaches. Roux said that the matter would be resolved well before the start of the Super Rugby competition.
‘We have to do that soon, we can’t wait a month because that is too long,’ Roux said at the time. ‘We will be in a lot of meetings and a lot of deliberations in the next two weeks, it’s important that we get the right people into those positions.’
A month has passed since Roux’s call for urgency, and yet not one assistant coach has been appointed. What has happened is that several candidates have declared themselves unavailable citing provincial obligations and the fact that they are already committed to what will be a long Super Rugby season.
Allister Coetzee said on Monday that he had been approached by Meyer, and that he had turned down the new Bok coach’s offer. This revelation by Coetzee was quickly followed by the Stormers and Western Province announcing that Coetzee’s contract at the Cape team had been extended by three years.
The Stormers also took the opportunity to announce defence coach Jacques Nienaber has also been offered a three-year contract extension. It is yet to be confirmed whether Nienaber will accept the offer, though. Nienaber has also been mentioned as a strong candidate for Meyer’s team.
Meyer was already in a difficult position on 27 January. He openly admitted that it would be a challenge to secure the release of top candidates and pleaded to the relevant unions to put the needs of South Africa ahead of their own.
Back then, it was suggested that a number of Bulls coaches were being targeted to join the Bok backroom. Four weeks later, and there is still no clarity on the availability of Bulls backline coach Pieter Rossouw, defence coach John McFarland and fitness coach Bazil Carzis.
They are yet to be ruled out as candidates, but are presently locked into contracts. The Bulls have lost a wealth of knowledge and experience with the departure of Meyer and a whole host of senior Springboks, and so may feel well within their rights to deny Saru and the Boks any further favours. The season is going to be hard enough for the Bulls without an abrupt exodus of coaching personnel.
Rassie Erasmus still appears to be in the picture, although nothing has been confirmed with regards to his accepting of a technical adviser position. Of all of those targeted by Meyer and Saru, Erasmus is the only coach who is currently unattached. Why then has he not been secured for another term as the Boks’ technical guru?
Following his appointment, Meyer said that he needs the right mix of coaching personnel if he is going to be successful. Unfortunately, he won’t get the team he originally wanted. It calls into question the timing of the recruitment process, and the timing of the head coaching appointment as well. Surely this mess could have been avoided.
If the Bok coach had been appointed towards the end of last year, steps could have been taken at an earlier date to secure the desired management team. The contractual commitments to the provinces would still exist, but surely the release of these coaches would have been easier before they became too involved in their respective teams’ Super Rugby planning and preparations.
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21 Feb 2012, 20:12 pm
@clm(clm)-287:
Ja, om weg te kom van dom dose soos jy, ongelukkig is daar oral in die wêreld van hulle
Gelukkig het ek nie Philly toe gegaan nie
21 Feb 2012, 20:48 pm
No need to get angry with me cunthie.I can’t help it that your daddy was a pink knicker-wearing rentboy.you should remember and respect him that he at least passed his trade secrets on to you.how’s life at mavericks since you took over your daddy’s spot?
21 Feb 2012, 20:50 pm
Howzit Pietertjie?life still cool down there in Canada?
21 Feb 2012, 21:39 pm
@Clearly Likes Men(clm)-303:
Ja, dis 9 grade hier en so nat soos jou ma as ‘n nuwe skip die hawe inkom
21 Feb 2012, 23:18 pm
Ja Pietertjie ,net so nat as jou oumagrootjie elke keer as sy n rooi baadjie gesien het.Heuning verniet en twee snytjies brood op die koop toe.fit was darem lekker dae gewees op die koffiefontein vakansieoord ne Pietertjie.
21 Feb 2012, 23:22 pm
@clm(clm)-305:
Lyk my jy kuier lekker daar in die Vrystaat?
Jy moet net onthou jy moet voor donker daar uit wees
Het jou ma toe al uitgevind watter een van die veertig Fillipyne moontlik jou pa kan wees?
21 Feb 2012, 23:59 pm
Het oumagrootjie vir oupagrootjie vertel hoe lekker daai rooi baadjies haar jam gegee het?ffs,n hele regiment het n kanaal gebou deur ouma ,geen wonder ouma kon Engels,agterna, so deliciously praat nie.
22 Feb 2012, 00:20 am
@*** licking moffie(clm)-307:
Jy moet pasop as hulle jou na donker in die Vrystaat kry, na ‘n naweek in die selle sal jy hard uit die kas blixem en jy sal wydsbeen weerskante van ‘n sypaadjie loop
Spyker jou sussie ook vir ‘n lewe op die hawe soos jy jou ma?
Jy moet so af en toe omkyk as die matrose jou bykom, dit kan dalk familie wees
22 Feb 2012, 00:26 am
Pietertjie,ek verstaan julle Afrikaner girls raak nou gatvol vir julle boys wat so lief is vir minderjarige boys en girls dat hulle nou maar met gretige en honger ogies kyk na die ouens met die swart bananas, en hulle worry blykbaar nie of die ou n ********** of n sakeman is nie!!
22 Feb 2012, 00:35 am
@****** ridder(clm)-309:
Sal nie weet nie, die girls hier is so butch hulle sal ‘n klein poepol soos jy gou blixem
Waar’s jou vriendjie met die baie knaters (Ekstra-irriterende Trilkop) vandag?
22 Feb 2012, 00:38 am
Née man Pietertjie,jy weet mos nou dat julle Afrikaner pappies en ooms spesialiseer om in die familie te spyker.as jy n blou bul ondersteuner is dan weet jy mos waarvan ek praat.maar soos ek in n vorige post gese het, die girls wil nou uit die laager breek want hulle is nou moeg om deur palooka,oompa en boetie gespyker te word.julle Afrikaners kan maar ook lekker morsig wees as julle tyd het ne.spyker jy ook jou dogtertjie Pietertjie of verkies jy liewer die seuntjies?
22 Feb 2012, 00:47 am
@ miss pollsmoor(clm)-309:
> met gretige en honger ogies kyk na die ouens met die swart bananas
Smaak my jy kyk eerder met groot oë na dit kyk, jou rek-tum rakker
22 Feb 2012, 00:49 am
Elke man vir homself Pietertjie en god vir almal.ek gaan nou waai want dit is frustrerend om met Afrikaans te neuk op n iPhone.laat dit goed gaan ou pedofiel.
22 Feb 2012, 00:53 am
@clm(clm)-313:
Is jou beltyd op of het jy nie die PIn nommer vir die gesteelde foon nie?
22 Feb 2012, 00:59 am
Nee man,die blerrie phone wil elke afrikaanse woord in amerikaanse Engels omskep.
22 Feb 2012, 01:06 am
@clm(clm)-315:
Jy moet sien as ‘n keyboard hier na Canadian English/French gestel is, en hy gee vir jou kappies op alles en party keys werk heel anders
22 Feb 2012, 03:27 am
Victoria – hoe gaat dinge op die Weskus? Sneeu het uiteindelik in Calgary arriveer.
Pragtige taal gebruik daar tussen jou en die clm kleuter.
22 Feb 2012, 03:49 am
@kwas(kwas)-317:
Nat, man ek het nog nooit gedink ek sou ooit sê dit reën te veel nie maar dit het nou genoeg gereën
Ja jong as hy uitdeel moet hy dit vat ook, ordentlik praat werk nie met hom nie
22 Feb 2012, 06:20 am
The ineptitude of SARU just keeps snowballing doesn’t it? Instead of a minor problem , now its nowballs into a major F@#$%#$ UP.
WHEN are these guiys going to be put up against a wall and shot? WHEN??
Seriously if I ran my law practice like them it would be unsustainable and I would be sued all the time – oh wait — they ARE BEING SUED all the time!! And mark my words when a big five union is being relegated, or the Souther Kings are left out again, that is going to cost them another cool R20m. Watch.
Please, please can’t all the clubs vote to put in a professional board to run SA rugby? Oh wait- they DID!! And Oregan Hoskins dismantled it!!! WTF!!!??
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