Richie McCaw celebrates his late try against South Africa
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Gavin Rich is rapidly losing patience with the denial emanating from the Springbok camp after another defeat on Supersport.
"If the Springboks are going to be in with any chance of retaining the World Cup next year, the current trend of living in denial is going to have to be brought to an immediate halt.
"When the team was in Australasia, four yellow cards in three matches was not considered enough reason to believe the team had a discipline problem. The Boks lost all three matches overseas by double figure margins, and yet when the Springbok coach was asked about it, he never came out with any kind of comment suggesting he acknowledged that there was a problem much less had any idea of how to fix it.
“When I watch the game again on video I cannot understand how we lost”, was not confidence inspiring stuff.
"When the Boks returned home all we heard from the coach and his assistants was that there were small things that had gone wrong on tour and that no radical change of approach was necessary. All it required, or so they said, was a few minor adjustments and that it was complacency that had tripped the team up in the away matches against New Zealand and Australia."
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