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Had a quieter couple of years, but he's back to stir things up again.
http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/story/272113.html
Heyneke Meyer is taking South African rugby "into the gutters", his predecessor as Springboks coach, Peter de Villiers, has suggested in his latest hard-hitting column.
De Villiers, writing wrote amid conjecture that Meyer is about to be offered a new four-year contract, said "the shape South African rugby is in - with all the technical appointments that have been made over the past four years and the accompanying transformation policy … do the people in charge of our rugby have enough knowledge about the game to keep us ahead?".
"By allegedly offering Meyer a new four-year term, it appears the SA Rugby Union does not want to be a world leader," de Villiers wrote for The Times in South Africa. "It signed a contract with a man who has taken our rugby into the gutters."
South Africa claimed their first Test victory of the year, after four consecutive defeats since beating England at Twickenham last November, when they beat Argentina in Buenos Aires last weekend, when Patrick Lambie, replacing Handre Pollard to make his first international appearance of the campaign, was pivotal to the victory.
De Villiers, like most other rugby pundits praised the performance of Lambie, saying that he "read the game situation well, kept the scoreboard ticking over and instilled confidence in his teammates". But the former coach believes that Meyer "missed a trick by not including Elton Jantjies on the bench" as the Lions pivot "was the best South African fly-half through Super Rugby and his talent is being laid to waste".
"His ability to control the gain line is worth its weight in gold for the team, and his capacity to read the situation makes him a valuable asset," de Villiers wrote of Jantjies. "Elton also boasts the ability to generate considerable confusion in the minds of opposition defences. With the time he has at his disposal, he creates space for his runners, but one of his greatest assets is his work rate … "I would play Jantjies at flyhalf and shift Lambie to inside centre - that would prove a potent combination - but I don't know what is in Meyer's mind."
De Villiers' criticism comes just one week after he had written for The Times in South Africa, in the wake of the Springboks' defeat by the Pumas in Durban, that Meyer had "underestimated the intelligence of black people with a dishonest selection", saying the coach had taken South African rugby "back to the late 80s".
De Villiers wrote that Meyer had asserted that "Jesse Kriel was not only the best centre in South Africa, but the world … to justify the continued exclusion of Lionel Mapoe or Juan de Jongh in the midfield". And de Villiers wrote that Kriel's selection on the wing in Durban, at the expense of "a player of colour", to accommodate the inclusion of Jean de Villiers took South Africa "back to the late eighties, when blacks supported the opposing teams because of Apartheid".
http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/story/272113.html
Heyneke Meyer is taking South African rugby "into the gutters", his predecessor as Springboks coach, Peter de Villiers, has suggested in his latest hard-hitting column.
De Villiers, writing wrote amid conjecture that Meyer is about to be offered a new four-year contract, said "the shape South African rugby is in - with all the technical appointments that have been made over the past four years and the accompanying transformation policy … do the people in charge of our rugby have enough knowledge about the game to keep us ahead?".
"By allegedly offering Meyer a new four-year term, it appears the SA Rugby Union does not want to be a world leader," de Villiers wrote for The Times in South Africa. "It signed a contract with a man who has taken our rugby into the gutters."
South Africa claimed their first Test victory of the year, after four consecutive defeats since beating England at Twickenham last November, when they beat Argentina in Buenos Aires last weekend, when Patrick Lambie, replacing Handre Pollard to make his first international appearance of the campaign, was pivotal to the victory.
De Villiers, like most other rugby pundits praised the performance of Lambie, saying that he "read the game situation well, kept the scoreboard ticking over and instilled confidence in his teammates". But the former coach believes that Meyer "missed a trick by not including Elton Jantjies on the bench" as the Lions pivot "was the best South African fly-half through Super Rugby and his talent is being laid to waste".
"His ability to control the gain line is worth its weight in gold for the team, and his capacity to read the situation makes him a valuable asset," de Villiers wrote of Jantjies. "Elton also boasts the ability to generate considerable confusion in the minds of opposition defences. With the time he has at his disposal, he creates space for his runners, but one of his greatest assets is his work rate … "I would play Jantjies at flyhalf and shift Lambie to inside centre - that would prove a potent combination - but I don't know what is in Meyer's mind."
De Villiers' criticism comes just one week after he had written for The Times in South Africa, in the wake of the Springboks' defeat by the Pumas in Durban, that Meyer had "underestimated the intelligence of black people with a dishonest selection", saying the coach had taken South African rugby "back to the late 80s".
De Villiers wrote that Meyer had asserted that "Jesse Kriel was not only the best centre in South Africa, but the world … to justify the continued exclusion of Lionel Mapoe or Juan de Jongh in the midfield". And de Villiers wrote that Kriel's selection on the wing in Durban, at the expense of "a player of colour", to accommodate the inclusion of Jean de Villiers took South Africa "back to the late eighties, when blacks supported the opposing teams because of Apartheid".
