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Jake White will never coach again after being 'oofed out by the Springboks

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Speaking at a book launch in sunny Namibia, the blazer lovin' White said, "I have received many offers to coach in other countries but I have turned them down because I strongly feel that it is tough to coach in a foreign country. You don't know when you are doing the right thing because of different cultural backgrounds. You simply don't know their culture and how they want things to be done."

To make matters worse White doesn't seem happy about his controversial South African successor Peter de Villiers. "I mean, how do you expect the coach to be successful if his appointment did not receive the full appointment of the entire board?" White scoffed, as the anti de Villiers brigade nodded / high fived each other. "It is definitely going to take a big struggle to convince the 50 per cent that does not want you. But it also depends on the support you are going to receive from the other half which okayed your appointment."

I'd love to hear from any Springboks fans out there on what you think about the current situation South African egg chasery finds itself in. Are you a Jake or Peter fan? Or... neither...

January 21, 2008 in ScrumBag News, South Africa, Southern Hemisphere | Permalink

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It's not that Jake has anything against Peter...It's just that the Presidents Council (who voted for Peter 10 Vs 9 against Heyneke Meyer) are a bunch of back stabbing Knobs who Jake had countless issues with despite having "their full backing". So he knows what he's talking about when he says Peter is going to have a tough time with just over 50 percent support within the Presidents Council.

I (as a Saffa) have nothing against Peter as the new coach. I mean Jake didn't fair much better in terms of experience when he started. But I just hope that he stays true to his word about transformation (i.e. he'll do what he can but players shld be there on merit) and he doesn't become a transformation 'Yes/Puppet' man. I also worry about what will happen IF things do go wrong and we start losing everything and the players lose faith in him etc etc...then who do we turn to?!?!

Read his book...You can look past all the apparent "sensationalism" and still see that Jake lives and breaths rugby and I very much doubt that he made all that stuff up about what a bunch of clowns are running our rugby.

Posted by: Russell Main | 22 Jan 2008 06:12:10

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