All Black coach Steve Hansen has rightly commended Springbok captain Jean de Villiers for the way in which he handled the substitute mishap of Dane Coles in their Rugby Championship Test at Ellis Park on Saturday.
On the field there was some confusion and discussion well after the All Blacks had brought replacement hooker Dane Coles on for Andrew Hore in the 2nd half.
Coles had already been playing for about 20 minutes when the match referee, Nigel Owens, questioned why he was playing as his name was not on the official team list handed in before kick-off. It must however be noted that when the team was announced to the world in the week leading up to the game, Dane Coles was indeed named on the replacement bench. Keven Mealamu was however erroneously listed as the replacement hooker on the official team sheet, but New Zealand’s team manager Darren Shand, informed Nigel Owens that he had made a typing error.
A quick on-field discussion followed with Shand, De Villiers, Richie McCaw and Springbok team manager Ian Schwartz, to unravel the issue.
After some discussion Jean de Villiers indicated that they should just get on with proceedings and with Coles staying on the field.
Steve Hansen was quick to praise the Bok captain for his sportsmanship afterwards.
“The team list thing was a human error,” Hansen said. “Keven would never have played. It was wonderful that common sense prevailed. It doesn’t matter that someone made such a mistake. Jean was terrific when he entered the discussion. All credit to Jean for the sportsmanship he portrayed in that moment.”
Jean de Villiers had a little wry chuckle when he said points will be deducted from the All Blacks afterwards.
All in all it appears that New Zealand could be fined for the indiscrepancy but SANZAR is not expected to hand out any fother urther sanction.
So the mighty AB’s do have some chinks in their armour. Or are they carrying onwith their pushing the boundaries as far as they can in management?
1 @ Lion4ever:
It was a mistake, have a look at out team announcement last week here on R-T, as well as the Live Game team sheet… Coles is in on the bench.
As far as researching this goes. There was a possibility that Kevin would play. But it was decided that Coles will play instead of Kevin.
So in all fairness, the squad announcement did state Coles to play.
Having looked at this though. I think that this is a stupid mistake to make. And at this level especially.
The best was still that when this was brought up during the game, the guy who did the team sheet stated that it was a typo. Her are some examples of typo’s. The = Tha, the = teh. But to go from Dane Coles to Kevin Mealamu. YOU CAN NOT TYPE IF YOU SEE THIS MISTAKE AS A TYPO.
And I feel that the fine is in order.
3 @ Timothy Bornman:
Hehehe
Yip, there are typos and there are typos…
Like for instance “to”, when “too” is actually needed or “loose” (los) when one needs to say “lose” (verloor)… hahaha
Wink, wink, hint, hint!
The Coles / Mealamu thing was a mistake, maybe even a gross mistake, a typo it was’nt.
HAHAHAHAAHHAHA. Vol punte vir daai een. HAHAHAHA
Dalk moet ek dan sommer aansoek doen vir daai pos by die AB’s. hahahahaha
5 & 6 @ Timothy Bornman:
Hehehehe
Kan jy die Haka doen?
I think Nigel Owens, the referee, had a good game on Saturday as well, was refreshing to it it happen
Just imagine the uproar if we decided we want this guy off. Was he on for 20 minutes before they realized it?
@ GBS:
Gaan dit ‘n vereiste wees vir daai pos…………..dan weet ek nie so mooi nie. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
GBS, ek kom more Pretoria toe, dalk moet ek by my mense op Rooihuiskraal Noord hoor of ek aan jou kant moet omry. Dan kan ek van daardie kameras vir Bonsai bring , as hy hulle nog soek.
11 @ superBul:
Maak so, sal damn gaaf wees!
Manne, ek is op pad na 3 kliente toe… chat later.
… die tille moet mos rol….
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