Dunno ’bout you, but the I find the URC to be dull, almost tedious. Is it the long drawn out programme? Too many teams with few real contenders for the playoffs?
Most of the English, Scottish and alas boyo Welsh teams simply make up the numbers? Teams such as the Sharks, more often than not field ‘B’ teams, and use a slippery ball as an excuse? Maybe it’s because, like you, I can hardly wait for the main course — the Boks’ amazing itinerary this year.
Maybe the answer is all of the above? Perhaps it’s because so many of the teams are not unearthing exciting young players, and worse still, persist by playing a stodgy safety first, cut out mistakes and flair, short interpassing, and a grind out game plan? I mean it seems to me that rugby in England, Scotland and the now not so green mined out valleys in Wales are simply not producing exciting young talent.
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The famous mould that made a Barry John has been broken and Max Boyce has gone silent. How much longer must merry ol’ swing so low that the best they can do is bring George Ford back on to kick some points? Never mind a horse for the R10 million July, my kingdom for a worthy successor to Cliff Morgan, Barry John, and Phil Bennett, while the only Gareth Edwards we see is a statue of him in a Cardiff shopping arcade.
Damn it all the Scots field a Schoeman and believe it or not, their top try-scorer is a Van der Merwe, and that’s no joke meneer. Come to think of it, Saffas are playing almost everywhere, as they win every lineout in Japan. Even our coaches are plying their trade overseas.
If only someone over there would give Jake White a job outside of rugby please. So my friends, is the answer — like that to war — still blowin’ in Robert Zimmerman’s wind. Most probably it is simply because those northern hemisphere countries do not have a rugby pyramid factory — as we do.
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