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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 903305" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>Here are my issues:</p><p></p><p>1. Ashwin Willemse was a quota player, in fact, he was one of the first guys to benefit from the quota project. He wasn't better than other wingers at that time, and he scored a measily 5 tries in 19 occassions for the Springboks. He was a good Super Rugby player yes.</p><p></p><p>2. Out of the 3 pundits, Nick Naas and Ashwin, it's only Ashwin that doesn't need the job at Supersport. He got R61 million from the Gold Fields BEE programme. While Naas is on the brink of Bankruptcy, and Nick has nothing else to fall back on.</p><p></p><p>3. Why go the race route?? Ashwin is the one that made this a race issue, and if you look at the discussions they had in the past, Ashwin is the one always pointing to how good players of colour played, he hardly ever says something good about a white player. While Nick and Naas compliments any player that played well, regardless of their colour.</p><p></p><p>4. I find this very troubling that the ANC, the Sports Minister and so many other people are already on the band wagon, defending Ashwin, and calling Nick and Naas racists. There is no evidence whatsoever to support these claims. Seems to me like this was a planned move.</p><p></p><p>5. Ashwin mentions that Nick and Naas played in the apartheid era. Yes they did, but what does this have to do with racism?? They had to make a living, and didn't get the big bucks Ashwin got when he played Super Rugby, In fact, Naas went to the USA to play American Football just to try and get decent money. They weren't part of the Apartheid politics, they just played rugby. And now when they are pundits on tv, they still only talk rugby. Out of the 3, Ashwin is the least credible with regard to rugby knowledge, so perhaps this is more of an inferiority complex.</p><p></p><p>6. In that "Revealed" article I posted, it mentions that Nick and Naas do the research and pick the clips to show, and then Ashwin gets the credit, and Ashwin regularly doesn't pitch up for work or attend functions, while Nick and Naas are example employees... Makes me think that Ashwin was caught out on live tv of not being knowledgeable and was there merely as a "coloured puppet"...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 903305, member: 40658"] Here are my issues: 1. Ashwin Willemse was a quota player, in fact, he was one of the first guys to benefit from the quota project. He wasn't better than other wingers at that time, and he scored a measily 5 tries in 19 occassions for the Springboks. He was a good Super Rugby player yes. 2. Out of the 3 pundits, Nick Naas and Ashwin, it's only Ashwin that doesn't need the job at Supersport. He got R61 million from the Gold Fields BEE programme. While Naas is on the brink of Bankruptcy, and Nick has nothing else to fall back on. 3. Why go the race route?? Ashwin is the one that made this a race issue, and if you look at the discussions they had in the past, Ashwin is the one always pointing to how good players of colour played, he hardly ever says something good about a white player. While Nick and Naas compliments any player that played well, regardless of their colour. 4. I find this very troubling that the ANC, the Sports Minister and so many other people are already on the band wagon, defending Ashwin, and calling Nick and Naas racists. There is no evidence whatsoever to support these claims. Seems to me like this was a planned move. 5. Ashwin mentions that Nick and Naas played in the apartheid era. Yes they did, but what does this have to do with racism?? They had to make a living, and didn't get the big bucks Ashwin got when he played Super Rugby, In fact, Naas went to the USA to play American Football just to try and get decent money. They weren't part of the Apartheid politics, they just played rugby. And now when they are pundits on tv, they still only talk rugby. Out of the 3, Ashwin is the least credible with regard to rugby knowledge, so perhaps this is more of an inferiority complex. 6. In that "Revealed" article I posted, it mentions that Nick and Naas do the research and pick the clips to show, and then Ashwin gets the credit, and Ashwin regularly doesn't pitch up for work or attend functions, while Nick and Naas are example employees... Makes me think that Ashwin was caught out on live tv of not being knowledgeable and was there merely as a "coloured puppet"... [/QUOTE]
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