By Mike Greenaway in Brisbane
Fed-up Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has written to the IRB’s refereeing boss, Paddy O’Brien, in an effort to sort out the one major blemish on his team’s performance in Perth at the weekend, the slew of penalties against the Boks. “We honestly don’t know what many of them were for, particularly the ones against us for set scrum infringements,” the coach said of Kiwi referee Bryce Lawrence’s 15-4 count in favour of the home team.
“We want clarification from Paddy before our scrumming session tomorrow morning because we can’t understand it,” De Villiers added.
“We want to know what is going on before Saturday’s return Test against the Wallabies at the Suncorp Stadium.
Until last week the Boks had kept their penalty count to single figures in all their matches and the run of penalties against them, mostly in a 20 minute period either side of half-time, stopped their momentum and allowed the Wallabies back into the match.
“We can’t play the game like that,” De Villiers said. “With all that free possession gifted to them they gained confidence and we had to defend really well to keep them out.”
Saturday’s referee will be Wayne Barnes of England, who is quite likely to have a different set of interpretations to Lawrence, but De Villiers is taking no chances.
Lawrence, incidentally, was the referee for the first Test against the Lions in Durban in June and that day it was the Lions front row that was repeatedly penalised, so who knows what the same Bok front row is now doing wrong.
The Boks are winless in Brisbane in the post-isolation era. They have lost all seven games they have played here since 1993 and their only two wins were in 1956 and 1971.
“Records like that do not bother us,” the coach said. “We had never won in Dunedin either until last year.
“There were lots of things the Springboks had not done for a long time before this team. We can win anywhere as long as we keep our focus.”
The Boks had their first training session of the week on Monday and there were four players missing. Two of them, wing JP Pietersen (hamstring) and lock Andries Bekker (shoulder) have left for home and the other two, Bakkies Botha (knee) and Bryan Habana (groin) are expected to recover in time.
Botha has an ongoing complaint that is managed from week to week while Habana was rucked in the groin.
De Villiers said that at this stage he would not call for replacements.
“Danie Rossouw is fully fit now after missing last week because of a hamstring strain and at wing we have options: Odwa Ndugane, Frans Steyn and Adi Jacobs. I don’t like calling players over unless it is absolutely necessary.”
The Wallabies, meanwhile, are licking their physical and mental wounds after losing their fourth consecutive Tri-Nations match.
“Losing is tough emotionally and physically,” said flyhalf Matt Giteau on Sunday. “Mentally we are not staying the distance in games.
“We turned our backs at a quick tap for Fourie du Preez’s try when we should have been switched on. Then we miscommunicated in the backs on who had who to give them two tries from set pieces.
“Each individual has to take responsibility and stay committed for 80 minutes if we are to turn it around in Brisbane.”
- This article was originally published on page 16 of Daily News on August 31, 2009
@SA Barbarians – dis juis wat ek sê, dis net so lekker om een oor die sharks te kry want hul supporters weet mos altyd van beter en ja kani stry nie ek sal dit veel meer geniet as WP dit reg kry om die bulle ook te klop…
89 @SA Barbarians – dink hul moet vir Dewald kaptein maak, sodat Kuun kan konsentreer op die wedstryd en sy spel, nie op die ref nie.
@Scrumsaam – 91
Stem saam. Die 2 wenne teen nul die seisoen, veroorsaak akute sooibrand in die Shark Tank 🙂
@bdb – dis waarvoor ek bang is soos die lions hul beste speel teen die bulls elke keer as hul meet, doen die bulls dieselfde met die WP.. Noord teen Suid kani beter as dit nie…
88 @SA Barbarians – nou waar het ons BB al ooit ons kaapse vriende geskop terwyl hul begrawe (75-14) was ? 🙂
@SA Barbarians – net bewys n vis kani swem op gras nie…lol tot later lekker chat ouens…..
@bdb – 92
Dink nie dit sal veel help nie. Miskien moet FL die bulle se ligte vaste vyf laat gym en op Pierre se dieet sit
@Scrumsaam – dit is waar wat jy daar sê, as die BB teen die WP speel is daar geen motiveringspraatjies deur die afrigter of bestuurder nodig nie. Al wat hy hoef te sê, is: “Ons speel saterdag teen die WP”, en dit is genoeg. Dieselfde geld seker ook vir die WP.
Op ‘n ernstige noot – ek het werklik waar geglo dat die strukture en ontwikkeling waarvan die Bulls die laaste ruk gepraat het, beter resultate sal lewer wanneer hulle Bokke weg is.
Waar is daardie spelers? Op ‘n stadium is daar selfs gespog dat die Bulle ‘n kompeterende 2de S14 span in die veld sal kan stoot
100 !
99 @SA Barbarians – SAB, miskien moet ons eers wag tot die CB verby is, voordat ons uitsprake begin maak oor of strukture werk of nie werk nie. Laasjaar het die WP ook 10 Bokke gemis, en het net-net nie die semi’s gehaal nie.
Indien die BB en Sharks nie die semi’s haal hierdie jaar nie, sal dit wys dat die strukture nie so wonderlik is nie, en dat hul tweede spanne nie so goed is nie.
Ek het in die begin van die CB seisoen voorspel dat die twee spanne wat die gunstelinge is (tot die bokke terug is), is die WP en die Ctahs. Tot dusver het die WP deurgekom, en, alhoewel die Ctahs lelik gesukkel het in die eerste paar rondtes, lyk dit of hul nou sterk oppad terug is.
Soos ek genoem het, ten minste is die Bulle nog onder die eerste 4, al speel hul so sleg. Die Sharks is 2de en doen nog beter sonder hul bokke, as die Bulle. Alles kan egter oor die volgende 2 weke verander.
Maar, wat my die meeste pla is die feit dat die jong bulle, behalwe vir ‘n paar uitsonderings, nie goeie rugby speel nie, en op die langtermyn, is dit ‘n probleem.
@bdb – 101
Die punt wat ek probeer maak, is dat almal weet die WP se strukture en ontwikkeling van jong spelers laat veel te wense oor.
Die Bulle het egter groot ophef gemaak van hulle s’n terwyl dit nou lyk asof daar nie genoeg mededingende spelers is wat die gate kan toestop nie. Die vraag is waarom nie?
Was die Bulle se ontwikkelingsprogramme oorskat en oorbemark, of is daar ander probleme waarvan ons nie weet nie?
102 @SA Barbarians – Goed, ek hoor wat jy sê. Dalk plaas die Bulle te groot klem op ontwikkeling van jongspelers, veral wat die CB betref, want jy het goeie balans tussen ou en jongmanne nodig om goed te doen in die CB, veral wanneer die Bokke weg is.
Maar, soos ek gesê het, kom ons sien eers wat gebeur na die einde van die CB seisoen se kant toe. As die jong Bulle dit regkry om die Bulle in die semi’s te kry, dan het hul hul werk gedoen, en dan boonop baie waardevolle ervaring opgedoen vir die toekoms, beide vir volgende jaar se vodacom, s14 en cb.
Dit is maar 6 van die een, en halfdosyn van die ander. Almal het Ludeke se kop afgebyt toe hy die opwarmingswedstryde so sleg gedoen het, en nou is die res van die S14 seisoen geskiedenis. Miskien gebeur dieselfde in die CB seisoen.
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Helloooooooooooo maters van yster en plaaters
@grootblousmile – 105
Hallou GBV (grootblouvrind)!!!! Hoop daai ghoene swaai lekker los vandag 🙂
Hier gaan nou minder aan as op die telbord vir die bulle saterdag…hiehaaaa!!!!!
@bdb – geen span kan behoorlike rugby speel sonder twee ysters as slotte nie. In Bakkies en Vic het ons die twee beste slotte in die wereld. En daar is op die oomblik in geen provinsie hier ‘n slot wat eers naastenby deurkom nie. Eks nogal bekommerd.
@K9-MonsterLeeu – ja ek stem saam!!!
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