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Ever since new Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer was appointed, there have been fears across the country from those expansive-minded folk that he will keep the Boks playing a kick and chase game that didn’t deliver dividends under Peter de Villiers. But the
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NEW Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer says that when it comes to picking a new captain, he will “first pick the team, and then the captain”. The 44-year-old Meyer spoke to Independent Newspapers in an interview following his appointment as successor to Peter
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This combo shows New Zealand All Blacks (R) performing the Haka during the 2011 Rugby World Cup pool A match between New Zealand and Tonga at the Eden Park stadium in Auckland on September 9, 2011 and Fiji's players performing their version of the... View Photo »
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New Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer believes that no player is bigger than the team, and will drop them if necessary. It was Theodore Rooseveldt who coined the phrase “speak softly and carry a big stick” to describe US foreign policy in the early 20th cent
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New Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer got his first taste of how tough it is going to be to marry the two main tasks he has identified when he attended the announcement press conference at the South African Rugby Union headquarters in Cape Town on Friday. Me
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Former Bulls Director of Rugby, Heyneke Meyer, was on Friday officially named Springbok coach. Meyer, who signed a four-year- contract, takes over from Peter de Villiers, who led the Springboks from 2008 to 2011. There was speculation over whether Meyer
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The Stormers beat the Kavaliers comfortably but struggled for synergy in their first hit-out of the season. This match was always going to be more a glorified training exercise than anything else. The young and largely inexperienced Stormers side racked
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The Stormers beat the Kavaliers comfortably but struggled for synergy in their first hit-out of the season. This match was always going to be more a glorified training exercise than anything else. The young and largely inexperienced Stormers side racked
About Peter de Villiers
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Peter de Villiers (born 3 June 1957) is a South African rugby union coach. He was controversially named as the coach of South Africa's national team, the Springboks in January 2008, the first-ever non-white to be appointed to the position. He played scrum-half during the apartheid era, when the Springboks faced widespread international boycotts... Full Article
