“Hello Marius…..do you hear me? Can you go back to the beginning of the known Universe and tell me Try / No Try?â€
The opening fixture in the South African conference is exasperating at the best of times. It was hard enough to watch the Bulls and Stormers refuse to win their own line-outs. It was tough to see Spies after 900 trips to the gymnasium in the off-season, still moving at glacial speed from the base of the scrum. To see Jean “biltong†De Villiers, Springbok Captain extraordinaire, produce his 34th consecutive innocuous performance. The pain to notice that Morne Steyn’s kicking has got much better and his running has got much worse. It was hard to watch just half a line-break throughout the game, not a single successful offload in a tackle and hardly a skilful piece of attacking enterprise the entire evening. (more…)
