Heyneke Meyer. With all the mystery of a FIFA presidential election, SA Rugby’s worst kept secret gets revealed today to the SA public. After months of speculation over who would get the job from 4-year care taker coach P Divvy, Meyer has become the last man standing.
Hey Heyneke, we're ready for you now.
The natural and deserved successor to Jake White four years ago until SARU went affirmative on his ass, Meyer takes charge at an interesting cross roads in Springbok rugby. Let’s have a look then at what his first year in charge holds.
87-0! Boks pounded those hapless Namibians like a bunch of bosses today which no doubt makes P Divvy a very happy man. What better reason then to throw him into the spotlight for another Beat the Caption!
We all knew it was coming, but when the whistle was blown on Saturday’s 40-7 thrashing at the hands of the All Blacks, a little more than a embarrassing Bok score line started to sink in. Let’s forget about the injuries, forget about the ‘secret training camps’ and if playing a Tri-Nations in a World Cup year is relevant. The question that really needs to be asked is if P Divvy has actually added anything to the Springbok team since he took charge in 2007?
Ya Bounce, you asks some good questions...
The word no has probably already come into your head, but to leave it there would make for a very short and insignificant article. Let’s go a bit further then and discuss the very real problem that the Boks, under the P Divvy circus, are going into this World Cup relying on nothing other than good old fashioned hope and determination.
Since day one, the tenure of Bok coach Flea Divvy has been a strange and at times mysterious one. He started off wanting to reinvent the wheel and spread the ball around the park. This of course failed miserably and was the first sign of our coach having no cooking clue what international rugby was all about. His players, naturally frustrated by the poor results, eventually then deciding to just play the game to their natural ability and suddenly gave the Aussies 50 points at Ellis Park to round off the ’08 Tri-Nations.
Easy when you know how. Nokwe got enough ball to score 4 tries against the Aussies back in 2008 when the players just played.
On a final note to P Divvy Friday, I think it is only fitting that we end off with a little clip. Nothing that I have made of course, no I’m pretty tired after all the tweets I threw out. So probably best that we get some help from our Aussie counterparts – they are after all such an eloquent bunch of chaps.
Quite predictably P Divvy kept his job as the bumbling incompetent coach of the Springboks after an assessment with SARU. Also to survive were Dick Muir and Gary Gold as assistant coaches, but the moustached maestro seems keen to ditch his mates ahead of the Northern Hemisphere tour and seek the help (much needed) of others.
Moustaches - keeping people in their jobs since 1763.
He has asked just about everyone worth having, but they have all said no thanks. Of course the press and the coaches in question will sight job security post World Cup and that they are currently contracted for declining. Truth is though that P Divvy has as much chance of attracting talented assistance as Jacob Zuma does a birth control campaign!
