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<blockquote data-quote="George Ford" data-source="post: 818363" data-attributes="member: 74118"><p>I am a rugby blooded South African who from a young age have been quivering for excitement to showcase my skills on the field and also raise 3 eyebrows when I see a lighty side-step and jerk (which would probably look like a jol to some) his defenders 1-on-1 all the way to the try-line. I take note & make mention of a David-vs-Goliath moment where the shorty tumbles down the big man, because you cannot run without your legs. I make sure my howl is heard when I see a huge tackle hit the carrier backwards and ditto for Lomu-like ram on a defender. All these moments I have come to learn and love the game of rugby as witnessed in my country of South Africa.</p><p></p><p>These are the things you often see happening as a junior, but less on senior level where the sport is tailored to be more structured and professional, but by this time you have now also developed a love for your union/region/province you stem from and represented as the game is now part of your DNA and your focus is now pursuing & contributing to the game where it is recognized and throughout all these years you experience a kind of enigma where you almost literally feel the whole country coming to a standstill when the Springboks are playing.</p><p></p><p>This is exactly the reason rugby is STILL labelled as the national sport, in spite of the majority of citizens enjoying football more as a past time, like most other countries. Because this sport actually unites the country as whole like nothing else. This despite this current government's agenda to again separate and segregate it's citizens with its policies & ideals. The quota system & transformation being one of them. Why SHOULD this system be implemented if this same kind of ideologies is what put the country in isolation previously? I think the current state of affairs in the country can almost directly be attributable to what has has transpired in the Boks season so far and is a clear-cut sign that all of it has only had a negative impact on the sport: players' exodus; sponsors withdrawal; and now our Boks are officially slipping down the rankings as a result of their performance. The players themselves do not feel that wealth in support & goodwill as they are carrying more weight than any other era of previous players before them to wear the Bok jersey. </p><p></p><p>There are still a lot that can be said, but what I have briefly touched on should already be enough to motivate that a racially based system has no place in the true spirit of competitive & professional sport. Why should I raise my kid in an environment where politics is enforced on the sport which I love. I would rather migrate to country where the sport itself is nurtured and not the agendas of its government.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="George Ford, post: 818363, member: 74118"] I am a rugby blooded South African who from a young age have been quivering for excitement to showcase my skills on the field and also raise 3 eyebrows when I see a lighty side-step and jerk (which would probably look like a jol to some) his defenders 1-on-1 all the way to the try-line. I take note & make mention of a David-vs-Goliath moment where the shorty tumbles down the big man, because you cannot run without your legs. I make sure my howl is heard when I see a huge tackle hit the carrier backwards and ditto for Lomu-like ram on a defender. All these moments I have come to learn and love the game of rugby as witnessed in my country of South Africa. These are the things you often see happening as a junior, but less on senior level where the sport is tailored to be more structured and professional, but by this time you have now also developed a love for your union/region/province you stem from and represented as the game is now part of your DNA and your focus is now pursuing & contributing to the game where it is recognized and throughout all these years you experience a kind of enigma where you almost literally feel the whole country coming to a standstill when the Springboks are playing. This is exactly the reason rugby is STILL labelled as the national sport, in spite of the majority of citizens enjoying football more as a past time, like most other countries. Because this sport actually unites the country as whole like nothing else. This despite this current government's agenda to again separate and segregate it's citizens with its policies & ideals. The quota system & transformation being one of them. Why SHOULD this system be implemented if this same kind of ideologies is what put the country in isolation previously? I think the current state of affairs in the country can almost directly be attributable to what has has transpired in the Boks season so far and is a clear-cut sign that all of it has only had a negative impact on the sport: players' exodus; sponsors withdrawal; and now our Boks are officially slipping down the rankings as a result of their performance. The players themselves do not feel that wealth in support & goodwill as they are carrying more weight than any other era of previous players before them to wear the Bok jersey. There are still a lot that can be said, but what I have briefly touched on should already be enough to motivate that a racially based system has no place in the true spirit of competitive & professional sport. Why should I raise my kid in an environment where politics is enforced on the sport which I love. I would rather migrate to country where the sport itself is nurtured and not the agendas of its government. [/QUOTE]
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