THE FINAL WHISTLE
MARK KEOHANE: SA’s rugby something of an advertisement for mediocrity and not a good news story
‘The Lions remain SA’s best hope of making a playoff statement, but even they have not been as good as a year ago’
A bit of perspective please, ladies and gentlemen. If not, the emotional crash will again feel colossal when doing a postmortem of SA’s Super Rugby season. The reality after five weeks is more damning than daring. What has happened to the Bulls? I asked this a week ago and the question simply has to be asked every week. Wrong coach? Wrong players? Wrong everything? The Bulls played the least impressive of New Zealand’s five franchises in the Blues and took a beating. They coughed up 31 unanswered second-half points. The only sight more depressing was listening to the hapless Adriaan Strauss give an all-too-familiar captain’s postmatch interview on trying to find a positive amid the slaughter. It will not get better for the Bulls, which dulls the round-one euphoria of the Stormers’ first half against the Bulls. Everyone has looked good against the Bulls, who on current form would struggle to beat the Kings, who in turn would struggle to beat anyone bar the Sunwolves. It is a dire ref...
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