Boland may have been relegated to the first division but if rumours are to believed they have scored a massive coup by appointing one of the best coaches of junior players who also has Super rugby experience.
Rumours are doing the rounds that ex-Lions coach, Loffie Eloff have signed on to coach the relegated Boland rugby union from 2010.
Reports did the rounds last week in the media that Loffie is being courted by European clubs and Boland Rugby for a coaching position with Boland not given much hope given they had to compete with the Euro or Pound, but it seems Loffie has opted to remain in South Africa.
This is a surprise move on Loffie and Boland’s part that they managed to secure the services of such an experienced coach especially given how emphatically Boland was beaten in losing their place to the Pumas in the first division.
Boland however has been seen as one of the breeding grounds of South African rugby with many a player starting their senior careers here before moving on.
One has to suspect with the recent swopping of players between Boland and Western Province in the Currie Cup that WP Rugby, or rather the Stormers management had some hand in securing a top coach for the Boland Rugby Union.
It seems the fact that Rassie Erasmus has apparently moved away from a more direct coaching role to that of Director of Rugby is beginning to bear some positive results for the region (Western Cape) who will only see one team, WP Rugby, in the Currie Cup first division in 2010.
Do not be surprised if Rassie, who initiated a positive and concrete working relationship between the Griffons and Cheetahs rugby in the past through sharing of resources is aiming to do the same thing with WP Rugby and Boland.
Top coach? Bwahahaha….
Boland moet nou besluit wie hulle wil he, ek dog hulle is bankrot, nou stel hulle sommer drie afrigters aan!
Nou weet ek hoekom Boland gerelegeer is, hulle het met te veel WP spelers gespeel. đŸ™„
Careful Supa…
Remember that Ludeke was also seen as the worst coach on the planet at the Lions with a worse record than Loffie and look at him now…
Supa
Is dit hoekom die Bokke Vrydagaand so k@k gedoen het? Daar was te veel Bulle in die span? Tot 3 verskillende Bul kapteins, sonder enige sukses!!
hehehe
#4 Verskil is Loffie het nogsteeds nokkol gewen. Ludeke het minstens nou al CC en n s14. Ek sal Loffie nou nie juis n ‘top coach’ noem nie…
5 KP
Dis moeilik om iets uit te rig as Bekker en JDJ niks doen nie en nie n kaptein luister nie. Hulle is gewoond aan Luke se kak kapteinskap…hehe
Well that is a bit of a dof argument Supa…
Loffie had more success than Ludeke prior to when both joined the Lions, and Loffie is only leaving the Lions now…
He has not had the chance (as Ludeke had) to prove his coaching acumen in another union with better structures as Ludeke had.
Comparing apples with Paw-paws?
Loffie has international success as age group coach, and he took a shit Lions team to a Currie Cup final if memory serves.
8# En dis BAIE DOF om Loffie n top coach te noem!
Watse suskes het Loffie gehad met die Leeus? Hy en Ludeke het albei niks gewen by die Leeus nie. Nie een kon hoer as 10 eindig in die s14 nie.
Jy kan coaches net meet op uitslae en ander raai jy maar. Of dit nou strukture, n goeie span of wat ookal is wat hom suksesvol maak. Jy moet kyk na sy uitslae.
Loffie was drie jaar by die Leeus en hulle het gesukkel.
As jy dink Loffie is n top coach…kom ons agree to disagree dan.
Ek onthou hoe het jy self gese Loffie moet waai by die Lions oor hy misluk het…
See post 9 Supa…
9# en hoeveel trofees het hy gewen met daai leeus?
And of course Loffie had to waai at the Lions as he did not deliver on his 3 year plan – simple.
But as far as coaches in SA goes, Loffie is up there in the group of the better coaches around to have achieved success even in a kak Lions team (CC final and a couple of semi’s) in fact, when Loffie left was the only time in the last 3 years they did not make the semi’s…
13# dis nie n prestasie om n CC semi-finaal te haal nie – jy het dan self so gese? Daar is eintlik net 5 spanne wat kompeteer en Griekwas nou en dan. So jy moet beter as Griekwas en en ander span doen.
As Loffie dan so suksesvol was by die Leeus, hoekom wou jy gehad het hy moet loop?
#12,
Wanneer laas het enigeiemand n trofee by die Leeus gewen?
En wat het dit gekos vir Ludeke om n trofee te wen? Te fokkof by die Leeus miskien?
#13 Loffie didnt make the CC semis in his first year as well.
#15 Leeus het laas n trofee in 2001 gewen. Maar dit beteken nie elke coach wat Leeus toe gaan is noodwendig goed oor hy n CC semi-finale haal nie.
Al hoe jy n coach kan oordeel is op sy uitslae. Strukture, n goeie span is alles goed wat n rol speel, maar hoe meet jy dit?
Loffie het minder as 40% van sy wedstryde teen die ander groot unies in SA gewen. Nou nie juis great nie.
As hy goed, moet hy dit nog wys. Sover het hy nog niks bewys wat hom n top coach maak nie.
#14
Dog ek het dit al genoem, hy het nie op sy belofte nagekom nie, sy plan het nie gewerk nie.
Maar net so Ludeke se plan by die Leeus ook nie…
So was die probleem die coach se plan of die unie?
Se jy my…
18# Plan misluk of nie, sekerlik, as jy regtig glo Loffie is n ‘top coach’, behoort jy nie te wil he Loffie moes gefire word nie?
#17
Ludeke het minder as 20% van sy games gewen teen die groot manne. So gemeet net op Leeus vlak, is Loffie twee keer beter as Ludeke en wat hulle by die Leeus bereik het…
So jy judge Loffie as coach ongeag the unie waar hy betrokke is?
Hoe verduidelik jy Ludeke dan?
#18 So Loffie is n ‘top coach’, wie se afgelope drie jaar se afrigting n totale mislukking was?!
Loffie won the 2003 U19 world cup. Paul Delport lifted that cup above his head.
Loffie won the 2005 U19 world cup. Chilliboy lifted that cup above his head.
Surely that counts for silverware.
#20 Volgens jou moet Ludeke briljant wees, hy het die Leeus na CC semi finaal gevat…hehehe
#19,
So dink jy op Ludeke se rekord met die Leeus dat hy die top coach was om oor te vat by die Bulls? Of was jy een van daai Bulls wat hom persoonlik wou uitdonner uit Loftus?
Veral toe hulle 10de ge-eindig het in die Super 14 in 2008…
So weereens, judge jy die coach op sy rekord by die unie, Lions, en as dit die geval is om n top coach te rate, hoe rate jy Ludeke, want hy was kakker as Loffie?
Ek is baie ge-intereseerd in jou antwoord…
Maar dit smaak my dat jy eerder Ludeke se kak by die Lions ignoreer om jou punt te probeer bewys.
Is Ludeke nou n top coach?
#20
Dis my punt. Lees hierbo. Strukture, n goeie span, n goeie draw ens is dalk alles faktore, maar HOE MEET jy dit? Jy kan nie. Jy kan n afrigter net aan uitslae meet en daar het Loffie misluk.
The last time the Lions won a cup was the Vodacom trophy in 2004. As a matter of fact they won it in 2002, 2003 and 2004 and thus became the sole owners of the cup. The current Vodacom cup is the second one.
#25
Die Bulle het hulle Super 14 gewen met n kak draw.
Strukture ja, en dit is die punt, Lions se strukture sal enige coach breek, selfs n coach wat die jaar die dubbel gewen het…
Maar jy rate nog steeds Loffie as n kak coach…
Ek vind dit interessant.
#24 Ek ignoreer niks nie. Ek gaan dit WEER vir jou se. Jy kan net n afrigter op sy uitslae oordeel, die ander goed kan nie gemeet word nie. Ludeke was kuk by die Leeus, hondkak eintlik.
Toe het hy twee jaar nie gecoach nie. Of hy toe meer gaan leer het van afrigting, n beter span gekry het, beter strukture gehad het of wat ookal. Ons kan dit nie meet nie. Dalk het hy slimmer geword, dalk nie.
Maar wat ons wel kan meet is dat hy NOU n s14 en n CC kmapioen is.
Loffie het niks op senior vlak gewen nie.
Die argument gaan buitendien oor Loffie, nie oor Ludeke nie. Snaaks dat jy Loffie n ‘top coach’ noem wat niks gewen het nie, maar jy glo Ludeke is kak…
#27 en jy rate Loffie as n ‘top coach’ op grond van CC semi finale haal!
Also a point of interest. Frans Ludeke was the coach of the 2003 and 2004 Lions Vodacom teams. In 2003 the Lions beat the Bulls in the final. In 2003 Heyneke Meyer coached the Vodacom side.
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