As die Leeus net verbeter op balretensie, dissipliene, vaste fasette en verdediging sal ons meer mededingend kan wees. Stating the obvious.

Stem saam. 

Crazy to think that most of the varsities have better coaches than we have as a URC team. 

I mean , Andre Pretorius is a lions man, surely he would be better serving the lions vs pukke !! 

Swys Se Bruin is an assistant to the Shimlas. 

UJ has Jonathan Mokwena , sure , not “the best” , but he has a decent track record with pukke . 

Cash is literally a fitness coach for crying out load !! 

It’s called the Peter Principle, when someone is promoted beyond their capabilities. Cash is a prime example , but the lions management are like ostriches with their heads in the sand . It’s a bloody disgrace.

Having said all that , I hope we win today and will support the players 

Transvaal wrote: Rass was weer die swak skakel met sy tackle op Nel en Nel hardloop toe amper deur ons hele span

Die span speel steeds sonder enige hart, met Dayimani se breuk het dit gelyk of EW hom kon tackle net voor die lyn, maar nie eers probeer nie, net so halfhartig gemaak of hy gaan tackle.

Transvaal wrote: VD Berg op vir Warner na Warner aanslaan by die ruck

Wat doen Warner nog in die span? Enigiemand met oë sal erken hy is nie goed nie.

Cash en sy assistente. Hul moet almal gaan. Die hele spelers groep kan hul ook maar volg

Hear hear 

Dankie tog dan dat ons dit nie meer blameer op kamma "50/50" calls van die ref nie.

I’ve tried not to watch too much rugby . As I would lose my sanity. 

I couldn’t watch this crap to the end (this is coming from someone that didn’t mis a game , ever) . 

It’s sad , again . I don’t blame the players , or cash . It’s the management. 

The situation is MUCH worse than we think and if we don’t wake up , it will be the end of Transvaal and the lions. 

And I’m specially mentioning Transvaal as we have so much history. 

But we Northern Transvaal has consistently done better. 

SA rugby should either help , or just close the franchise and give the spot to the free state. 

Then we can all pick a new team to support. 

Beslis 

Ek het self nooit 'n wedstryd gemis nie en vind dat ek nogsteeds wil kyk, net om altyd amper onmiddelik teleurgestel te word.

Leinster is volgende boys. Ons histories laagte punt is op die horison. Maar ek vrees niks gaan die bestuur meer kan laat besef iets is fout. So ek hoop maar eerlikwaar vir 'n amper honderdtal teen ons, want as dit hulle nie laat wakker skrik nie, dan sal niks. Maar dit is anyway seker te laat....

Swys het aansoek gedoen om Paul Roos te coach.

Dobson verdien krediet met wat hy met al die beperkings verrig het in n paar jaar. 

Spelers soos Manie Libbok, Orie en Evan Roos het pragtig ontwikkel.   Herschel Jantjies, Gelant, Senatla en Willemse het vorm gekry. Kitshoff is n uitstekende leier en uiteindelik het ons na jare n ordentlike 6 flank in Deon Fourie.

Dit lyk weer of die spelers gees het en geniet om te speel.

Wees bly jul coach bele in youngsters. Vat die slae, volgende jaar plyk julle die vrugte.

Sien Sean Erasmus is terug by HJS

But of course this is unlikely, the poor Journalist will be banned for life and there will not be a flood of career opportunities left for Cash. Sadly is seems as if this Circus will keep on playing to the same disasterous tune...

Our remaining games are as follows:

Leinster - AWAY (Currently 3rd)  25 Feb

Cardiff - HOME (Currently 11th) 13 Mar

Munster - HOME (Currently 5th) 19 Mar

Ospreys - HOME (Currently 6th) 25 Mar

Edinburgh - HOME (Currently 4th) 2 Apr

Sharks - AWAY (Currently 9th) 9 Apr

Connacht - HOME (Currently 10th) 23 Apr

Benetton - HOME (Currently 8th) 30 Apr

Dragons - AWAY (Currently 15th) 21 May

emiel1 wrote: That Cash is not up to the task is plain to see, but even if he resigns tomorrow, we have massive problems with poor and rudderless leadership at the the top, poor financial backing, no succession planning, piss poor contracting, hardly any standard systems in place for players to progress from junior to curry cup to international level etc. etc. In any case, this is only sport, and the way things are going in this country we will have far bigger problems to worry about in a year or two than the performance of our sports teams.

Very true, all of what you said.

Vaal Leeu 3 wrote: You are right but if he resigns the hands of those that is currently so reluctant to act might be forced. The assistant coaches e.g Fourie will be able to step up into the Head Coach role. Lets be honest, how much worse can it get?

Well I am honestly not sure whether Jaque Fourie is that good at coaching either. I can show many clips of yesterday's game where there was only a first line of defence and no secondary line, while our scramble defence was also not up to scratch (although scramble defence does admittedly depend on player effort so the last point isn't entirely his fault, though it is up to him to motivate the guys).

 Maybe (actually) I am clutching at straws...

A change is definitely needed and yes, probably anyone with some head coaching experience will do better than Cash. Ackerman was a fluke, let's face it. Maybe Fourie will do well, but why leave the future of our union up to a gamble? Let's get someone in with head coaching experience who has proven to do well. There aren't probably that many international/world class quality coaches willing to come to the GLRU (let's be honest), but then look at what we can get.

Like Niela said Stonehouse & Pretorius are two options. Maybe beg Swys or Johan Ackerman to come back and offer them one hell of a paycheck. Dave Wessels is still not employed (as far as I am aware). Heck, even go to SARU and beg them to assist with some coaches from their high performance unit. Get some consultants in like Brendan Venter, etc etc.

But all our management does is sit back and accept their pay, while not even seeming like they care about what is going on.

This should of happened when Ackers left, but we were riding a high and now we are here today. Swys leaving was unplanned and resulted in somebody being promoted within the structures, to ease things, but come on, there is something that keeps on biting who ever steps into the role. We need to start clearing from the top and getting the right people in place. If we don't, we can forget about it going better ever again. 

Look at the Bulls, they rode the high from HM, then Frans took over with the same core, continues winning and eventually he fell out of the bus, poor management, contracting, broederbond etc.  Step in Nollis/Pine/Mitchell, same story. Change management, got house in order, got sponsors, got coaches and now players also.

Cash was always just n temporary thing , to help assist with Swys dealing with his personal issues. 

I still think we would have done (much) better if Swys had stayed. 

But we threw out the baby , the bath water and the bath. 

I can only wonder how Altmann can allow this ,his investment must be worthless and clearly he isn’t going to throw more money in. 

We need proper financial backing , or we won’t compete. 

Hence my comment on SA rugby swapping us for the cheetahs , commercially it just feels more viable.

Point is , if we don’t change things with haste , we are in deeeeeeep sh!t

We are alredy in deeeeeeep sh.. my friend, hence no one, not even Allers is throwing in more money. Much better ways to part with your money...