RUCK AND ROLL
GAVIN RICH: All hail New Zealand coaches as Mitchell transforms Jesse Kriel
You may have heard a strange clattering resonating around SA on Saturday evening. If you did, what you were probably hearing was the sound of the Jesse Kriel haters falling off their chairs. Kriel’s apparent inability to pass and his occasional blunders regarding other elementary tasks such as simply catching the ball and thinking had me thinking that the Bulls player should be shifted to the wing. The one thing Kriel has always had is pace and the ability to finish, and he is not small either. SA has a dearth of size on the wings. What wasn’t considered though by those of us who would either have Kriel move position or jettisoned out of the team altogether was John Mitchell’s ability to turn a raw athlete into a proper rugby player. Kriel would have had even his most acerbic and sworn detractors reconsidering their opinion of him with the flashes of brilliance he displayed with his passing game in the Bulls’ fine win over the Hurricanes.It was the same with the Bulls team in genera...
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