We need someone in our national team who can catch, pass, defend and kick penalties and conversions, writes Bruceps.
The most famous thing I’ve ever written was a brief item in an old Business Day column saying that while I could live with high fences and deteriorating roads, “I can’t live in a country without a flyhalf”. People read it as far away as Mongolia.
But he can’t kick. Neither, to be honest, can the reigning chief contender for the spot, Handré Pollard. You never know how he’s going to go. Will he be on or off? Who knows? There are times I can’t watch because he’s playing. Now, though, the team is in different hands. What one makes of a situation where the “head coach”, Jacques Nienaber, is a physiotherapist who has never been the head coach of anything before the Springboks, I just don’t know. It seems a bit insane. Nienaber, I’m told by the rugby people I know, does what he is told by Rassie Erasmus, the flaky genius who we happily credit with winning us the last World Cup.
In the middle, for us now, we discover Willemse, easily the most exciting SA rugby player I have come across since Lambie. There’s nothing Willemse can’t do except kick. I would advise Erasmus to stick with him at No 10 and hire Percy Montgomery to teach him how to kick at posts. And until he can kick, Steyn needs to be a constant option.
We are all blessed to play rugby in SA and I loved the intensity, the aggression, that the Springboks brought to the game against Australia on Saturday. I’m so happy we beat them so handsomely. Never has defeat been so richly deserved. Australians know how to make South Africans doubt themselves, cricket or rugby. They’re chirpers; wittier, better educated, sharper.
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