Hi Paul,

Thanks for the link. A good extension of what I had in mind in my original post.

“Rugby, at least to the uninformed me, seems to have a strong commercial and political undercurrent and it is very much a case of eat or be eaten.”

Truer words have seldom been spoken, especially in political ridden South African sports.

You seen to think though that I have a pessimistic view of the manner in which he achieved his success. On the contrary, I think it is genius. But I do feel that his strategy resembles a lot of what he blames SA rugby of doing.

The big difference of course lies in his achievements. His actions spoke much louder than his words. That is more than we can say of SA Rugby management and their political desire to destroy the only thing we as South Africans have going for us.