Is Butch good enough?
Kiwi journalist Chris Rattue - who frequently likes to stick his neck out - has written a ridiculous attack on something he clearly has very little understanding of…
“Positive discrimination is alive and well in the Springboks camp and they will continue to pay a high price for it until new coach Peter de Villiers comes to his senses.
No, this isn’t a black and white issue. It’s the one in which the new Springboks boss continues to promote Butch James in the No 10 jersey, a move that can only be seen as an effort of giving every headbanger out there a belief that one day, they too might grace an international football field as their nation’s chief rugby playmaker.
Calling all disaffected props, loose forwards and hookers. You too can be a first five-eighths and win a world crown.
Most people wouldn’t give James a second thought as a world champion test pivot if they saw him plying his trade in a Super 14 fixture.
Matt Giteau, Dan Carter, Butch James … all together now “One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong” to steal a line from the old children’s TV song.”
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