Could Kurtley Beale's match-winning penalty for Australia have hastened the exit of Boks coach Peter de Villiers?
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Peter de Villiers just handed his bosses some more rope if it is, as has been suggested, their mounting desire to hang him. Sport 24's Rob Houwing writes.
"Already back in the firing line because of a fresh salvo of unprompted, nutcase comments regarding the Bees Roux matter and a strangely “verkrampte” threat to take his Springboks into some sort of stubborn laager as understandable public derision rings out, the coach’s orthodox rugby credentials are swiftly unravelling as well.
"The facts confirm that more starkly than ever, following the national team’s gutsy but yet again broadly unsatisfactory Vodacom Tri-Nations showing against Australia in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
"The Wallabies had last won in the Free State metropolis when it was a one-horse town … 77 years on and the bogey has been laid to rest.
"Not only that but the Aussies snatched the secondary Mandela Plate for 2010, courtesy of Kurtley Beale’s quite brilliant match-tilting penalty at the death, and banished the Springboks to bottom finish in the Tri-Nations.
"From champs to chumps in one year – sorry, but in such situations the coach tends to have to take the ultimate rap, doesn’t he?"
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