SARU Superfan competition comes to an end.

Four years ago the Boks were crowned World Champions for the second time and SA Rugby was covered in glory. Having without doubt the most complete team in all the rugby world and with fantastic talent on the fringes, SARU (the people who are essentially in charge of the great game here) decided that they would celebrate what was going to be the start of a bright future by welcoming back all conquering coach Jake White with a hand shake and good bye. While the rest of the world scratched their collective heads at this decision (especially as All Black coach Graeme Henry retained his job after being knocked out in the quarters), SARU felt no remorse and then proceeded to do something even more unexpected.

SARU - Crazy Mother .......

On the back of successful fan campaigns by South Africa’s biggest beer, cell phone and sports broadcasting brands, the organisational body thought they would run a Superfan competition of their own and select Peter De Villiers instead of an actual coach to replace the celebrated White.

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The Convenient Truth.

Not so breaking news, the Springboks aren’t going to win the World Cup in 2011.

No this isn’t a well thought out prediction for my super psychic capybara friend Marcelo, or is it the debut effort of Paul the Octopus II. It is the sense of the common, or if you like, the reality that all us South Africans should just come to terms with.

Not even Matt Damon can help the Boks from here.

The Boks have been dogshit this year – let’s make no bones about it. We started the year pretty well by beating Wales then wholloping France, but then followed that up with unconvincing wins over Italy which led us into the misery which was the away leg of the Tri-Nations.

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TheBounce for the job as P Divvy’s spokesperson.

So, not long now until Peter De Villiers has his review with SARU. Many are rightly calling for his head, but let’s face it, in South Africa every clown has his day, and this one’s isn’t over for a while. But this piece is not a voyage into the bottomless pit which is the nonsense of politics in SA rugby. It is in fact a constructive look into what TheBounce is prepared to do in the aftermath of this soon to be highly publicized meeting.

Job security - increasing in the clown community.

His record is shit, coaching ability questionable and attempts to employ strategy either laughable or non-existent, but let’s not sweat the ‘small stuff’. The major take out from his assessment is his very urgent need for a PR guy/highly skilled group of individuals to rid him of his severe foot in mouth disease and the kak that it puts everyone in.

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