Bulls director of rugby said he knew Willie le Roux would make a few errors since he has not played at flyhalf regularly for years.
After joking that Willie le Roux was 'making me bloody old' with his positioning errors, Bulls boss Jake White said he knew the Springbok veteran would improve.
After acknowledging his errors in last week’s game against the Stormers, Bulls director of rugby Jake White has decided to give Springbok veteran Willie le Roux another start at number 10 in their United Rugby Championship game against the Sharks at Loftus on Saturday . After the Stormers game, White said sometimes Le Roux was good on the ball and at other times “he looked like a fullback trying to slot in at 10”.Still, White said it was still unfair to judge Le Roux in a new position so soon and against an attacking Stormers outfit.“I gave him the video. When he said, ‘What do you mean I turn you old?’ I said, ‘Look here, you were standing here and then I looked again and you weren’t standing there. You remember that?’ He said, ‘Oh, okay’,” White narrated.
“If you think about it, it’s a helluva ask for a guy. I know he’s talented but to ask a guy from 15 to go straight into 10 in a big derby game in Cape Town against a team that have won that conference and been in two finals.
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