Throw in a bit of idiot, for sure. Who exactly wrote that little piece of journalistic brilliance? Greg Growden?
This is what Fourie actually said, courtesy of Die Burger, Thursday 4th October 2007, translated from Afrikaans by myself, an Afrikaans speaker. unlike whoever obviously did that little beauty:
" There is no way that our attention will be away from this match. We won`t be thinking about the semi-final against Argentina.
The whole tournament now becomes a mental battle with the start of the knock-out matches. And the stronger we are mentally, the better we`ll play.
It will again be hard and physical. Just like all the other island nations, Fiji will be hard and physical. We are used to that by now, having played earlier against Tonga and Samoa.
However, we relish that type of a physical challenge.
What Fiji likes to do, is to make the game loose, so that they can use their sevens skills. They have excellent runners with ball in hand, especially when the play becomes unstructured. But if you keep your structure against them, make things a bit boring, drive with the forwards and kick the ball out, then they struggle. If we can do that for the 1st 20 minutes, we`ll win comfortably."
Right, so please show me the disrespect in this, the original quote. The only thing I`ll disagree with, is the reference to keeping it tight for 20 minutes- I`d reckon more like 50-60 minutes. But otherwise perfectly spot-on.
Oh well, what some journalists won`t do to stir some controversy. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story eh guys?
