Jake White stabbed in the back
On the eve of the most important Springbok match in the past 12 years, it has been learned that the sham that is the South African rugby administration continues to hover like a spectre in the background.
First SA Rugby advertised Springbok coach Jake White's post on the eve of a World Cup quarter-final, and now it has been learnt that Blue Bulls coach Heyneke Meyer was offered the job more than two months ago and has been speaking to management and playing members of the squad in an attempt to confirm their availability for 2008.
White has met with SA Rugby managing director Jonathan Stones and he told Stones pretty much what he has been spelling out to the media on tour for some time now: he just doesn't believe he can continue working for an administration that has no trust in him and continues to undermine him.
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Jake White is set to step down as South Africa's coach if the Springboks triumph in this Saturday's Rugby World Cup final against England.
In an interview with The Star newspaper, White said the title of world champions had been his ultimate ambition ever since he took over three years ago and he was cool on the idea of being moved upstairs after the tournament.
"What can I say? When I took over as coach, I said that I really wanted to win the World Cup," he said.
"That was part of my first speech to the guys in 2004 when I got the job. If this group wins, it is the most I can achieve."
White's contract is due to expire at the end of the year and SA Rugby has already advertised the position which is something of a political hot potato in the post-apartheid era.
The 43-year-old had been expected to reapply for the position but his latest comments are his strongest indication he will turn his back on the Springboks.
Asked about the idea of taking up a new position of director of rugby, White said: "I don't think so. At this point I don't even want to think about it."
White was close to being sacked at the turn of the year after a dismal run of results but his stock has soared in recent weeks and he has been widely linked by newspapers with the post of Australian coach.
White has been a frequent target of sniping by provincial rugby administrators and has been come under fire from central government over the continued dearth of black players in the team.
News24/AFP
NVDL: What it is in Sports Adminstrative Bodies all over South Africa is a skewed focus, preferring personal agendas to everything else - the promotion of the sport they represent, and the sportsmen, even when it's a sacrifice of the sport, and the national interest. They get away with it and then it becomes a vicious cycle of who can score the most loot (prestige, kickbacks etc.) for themselves. It's also not a black or white thing. It's about greed, gluttony and stroking ego's. It's human behaviour at its filthiest and most unsporting, and South African sport is choc full of them.
I've said this once and I've said this before. The people in these organisations - CSA (Cricket South Africa, Cycling South Africa), SSA (Swimming South Africa) and all the rest, who have no sense of what is good for sport, no sense of actual altruism, but instead constantly pursue some or other personal strategy at the expense of the actual sport - these should be named and shamed, and then booted out of not only these clubs, where they hold positions, but completely eviscerated out of communities. Kick them out of the churches, don't allow their children to participate in school sports, basically root out the spite.
I considered taking to court the CSA earlier this year. I think the answer is not to play word games or even to attempt a fair resolution of such gross misconduct. They're all about administration; that's their forte. They do hold power in the arena they represent, but in terms of the community, they don't. In termsw of the community they are a spindly David's facing a Goliath of public disapproval.
So it's far easier to punish these incredibly selfish pursuits by employing the highest levels of ostracism civil society can collectively bring about. Bloggers can actually play a vital and important role in spreading the consciousness around this cockroach excrement masquerading as officious human being. And the public at large can join hands to basically dissassociate themselves from these parasites of sport.
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