Blooding the youngsters – a possible Bok team for the Barbarians clash
The Springboks’ European tour-opening match against the Barbarians on Saturday looks less and less useful to Allister Coetzee the closer we get to the fixture.
The Springboks’ European tour-opening match against the Barbarians on Saturday looks less and less useful to Allister Coetzee the closer we get to the fixture.
Rudy Paige and Pat Lambie … that seems the fairly logical halfback alliance for the tottering Springboks in their first and most critical Test date of the end-of-year tour against Eddie Jones’s fast-emerging England side at Twickenham on November 12.
Allister Coetzee is not yet the most disastrous Springbok coach – John Williams and Ian McIntosh have worse win records than Coetzee.
Gert Smal feels Robbie Fleck did well in his first year as Stormers head coach, but refrained from commenting on whether he will remain with the franchise next season.
Robbie Fleck was thrust into the Stormers head coach position with little warning, and it’s no wonder he feels Eddie Jones can teach him a thing or two.
Sam Allardyce is about to be charged with recovering the pride of an England national team fresh from being knocked out of a major tournament by footballing minnows Iceland.
Goldman Sachs Group has appointed England’s new national rugby coach, Eddie Jones, to the bank’s advisory board in Japan.
Western Province Rugby has agreed terms with the Rugby Football Union which will see Eddie Jones depart to take on an international coaching post with England.
UK bookmakers have stopped taking bets on newly appointed Stormers coach Eddie Jones replacing fired Stuart Lancaster as supremo of the England rugby team.
Australia coach Michael Cheika suggested England ought to be thinking long-term as well as concentrating on recruiting a new boss after insisting he had no interest in the role as he already had his “dream” job.