1. You cannot choose your assistant coaches
2. You cannot choose your management team
3. Transformation is your priority
4. You are gagged
SARU have learnt some valuable lessons from Jake White and his book, and have thus introduced some clever gags to choke the loopholes White used. These changes effectively mean that the coach can now be dictated to in ways that White managed to avoid. Thus, players can be selected as favors (based on funerals, politics or feel-good-factors) so that they can say they played for the Boks. It remains to be seen whether Everybody Loves A Loser. But once wonders if it is not the intention of SARU management not to spite, irritate and others dig at the whites where it is likely to irk the most.
I suppose the question that remains is how can the SA public sanction SARU? Also, what implication will this have for the likes of sponsors Vodacom and SASOL? Possibly we should consider forming a Barbarian Bok team, based on merit, and good old fashioned coaching.
Oregan Hoskins also makes clear that the new coach is in for a nail biting, gut wrenching, hernia creating tenure. Assistant coaches will be appointed, he says, as front runners to the coaching job, 'in order to keep the coach on his toes'. It's likely to keep everyone on their toes. Expect plenty more bickering and bad rugby.
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