SA Rugby, under the presidency of Mark Alexander, has continued to demonstrate its seriousness in tackling the many challenges the sport faces at a professional level. On Monday a blueprint for South African rugby, which places the wellbeing and needs of the Springboks at the top of the agenda, began to take shape after a second, lower key coaches indaba took place at SA Rugby’s offices. The gathering featured all the Super Rugby coaches and Bok coach Allister Coetzee, as well as Alexander. It was a follow-up to October’s historic Indaba, but more focused on operational outcomes rather than conceptual ideas, which the first gathering mapped out. The Springboks struggled to a 33% winning ratio and the bulk of SA’s Super Rugby sides toiled in 2016. There was also an acceleration of player defections to foreign clubs, while player conditioning appears to have gone backwards as well. Alexander’s administration is tackling these issues head-on by first changing the structure of the sport...
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