Now here is the problem: Gold & Muir are conspicuous by their deafening silence. They are the forward and backline coaches. What are they chopped liver? They must perform or ship out.

In my view Peter needs to have an Advisory Board comprising all the six Super 14 coaches and soe external advisors both local and foreign so that he remains current with the game.

Things are moving so fast that Peter hardly has chance to strategize.

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Snor has chosen to be the sole selector… is he that much of an ignoramus that he is not aware of Tim’s comments last year… does he not realise how much some of the Bok’s have been overplayed…

That my friend you can only pass onto PDV.

What’s more worrying than that though is the fact he has not got the cojones to get Watson, Spies, Bekker, Matfield and Beast out of the backline… constantly disrupting ball meant for our speedster.

As for the breakdown and tactical kicking, why does he not have a kicking coach… how many times does he have the learn the Bok’s breakdown follies?

It’s one from five and we are facing more history books being rewritten and he still has taken nothing from the lessons he’s been learning at the top realm of the game.

Is this still going to be the case at the end of year… I hope not!

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*Proudly displaying a Transvaal/Lions sticker on my car since I got my driver’s licence - ah, the good old days of 1993*

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Agree with the general sentiment of the article.

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It is a massive leap to suggest that Peter de Villiers says there is the ball, here are the 22, there are the AB’s and Wobblies, go play.

What Deans has done is plot a good strategic anti-dote to the Springboks (in defence) and maximising the ELV’s (in attack). That worked twice so expect a much more electric Bok performance on Saturday.

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A guy like Spies is the quickest backrow player playing but instead of getting to the breakdown first he is instructed to hang back for the recycled ball. This leaves the ball carrying forward isolated. Leave the 2nd or 3rd phase ball for habana and the rest.

Must players adapt to a coach’s vision or must the coach adapt to the players strengths?

Peter said we have lost the last two games because of the bounce of the ball but the game he is trying to play is dependent on the bounce of the ball.

Everyone of the 22 players have a different manner in which they play the game and it is the coaches job to bring that together in synergy. Not to tell every player to go out there and play as they see fit. There is just no way that can work.

Look how Real Madrid did when they had the best players in the world but not coached according to their strengths.

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You probably watch the high school games and see that this style is ingrained from 15 years and up.

What is missing is response time on the field from the players. The forwards and the half backs are slow, whereas the timing to the ball and ball extraction & delivery from the ruck and maul from the McCaw and Elsom led loose forwards is vital seconds faster than the Springboks.

Who is to blame here?

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I think we differ on our philosophies of player management.

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This is an enormous amount of playing time in 2007 alone - now add S14 in 2008, the games Matfield played in France and the Test Matches to this and you have a potential cataclysmic player meltdown that we are experiencing with these losses.

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