Explaining the EXPLOSIVE growth of rugby in South Africa | Rugby Pod Stories
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ย. 2022
- Rugby is so important in South Africa, on numerous occasions its been used as a political tool to bring together a fractured nature. But how is it that the Springboks have come to dominate World Rugby?
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A lot of comments about SA winning a world cup on home turf like it's an easy achievement... Any English fans here remember 2015 😂😂😂
Absolutely spot on mate. I’m English and I cannot get my head around why we haven’t managed to do better. Tbf we have played in three finals, and the two we lost were to S.A 😝 I really enjoyed the ‘07 final as it was a close run contest and was thrilling. The ‘19 final was a bit of a wet fart after we played so well against NZ. Not to say SA weren’t very good, but they are slightly predictable in terms of the physicality at breakdowns and the scrum etc. I just candy believe EJ didn’t look at that and formulate a decent plan. They looked half asleep
2015 World Cup aka Rugby Championship 2: Electric Boogaloo
Well we have now win 2 in. Row away from home. The only team to do so and the only 4 time champs
@@pierre2898 and we had to take on a very polished french side in France en route to doing so.
Bottom line: If you do something daily from the age of 5, and you do that over many generations, you are bound to become good at it.
Rugby is not a sport. It is a religion! 🙂
Craven week transcends borders. Teams from Zimbabwe and Namibia play rugby at Craven week too.
Then blacks in the Eastern Cape play rugby at deprived socioeconomic level and coloureds in the Western Cape. Some of these stats are not registered in the rugby population. During aparthied there were underground black and coloured leagues that played. It's a community game.
Then Mandela's link to rugby wasn't just political, it was cultural. He would have been exposed to rugby at school and university, where Fort Hare(his alma mata) play to this very day. The Xhosa have a word for rugby called iboqo. This demonstrates the cultural impact of rugby as I can assure you there are no translations for rugby in the other 11 languages of SA.
Hey don't forget we've got the best world cup win rate considering we've only played 7 and won 3.
@@user-kz5of5bl4v ok cool 👍 so, for anyone out there interested in a history lesson, we only played 7 world cups because we were restricted by international sanctions against the apartheid regime. We therefore only played our first world cup in 1995, after the racist people of south africa voted, in a referendum, to end the apartheid laws, and to allow one person one vote. We still won 3 out of those 7 world cups, which is still the best winning ratio 🍻
There is much more to rugby than the World Cup. Many teams haven’t hosted the RWC in their own right either which is an advantage to the host.
It's pretty difficult to win on home turf.... Ask England in 2015
Bro, you Irish, you only win at home,thats why you are saying that dumb shit . other teams like the hbks win rugby world cups at away. The world cup is the pinnacle of rugby. It is the perfect playing field to determine who is actually the best where Ireland has proved to be world cup Semi-final virgins.
The Afrikaaners are just built for this game, the Dutch settlers that travelled across the world on those old boats weren't soft people by any account. they also keep the rest of the nation at a high level via the school's rugby.
also the language, Afrikaans, it's very good for communicating intent, so it would likewise be very good for coaching rugby, and it's just a good language to have in pocket for rugby matters in general.
then you've got the farm life that some youngsters experience and it makes their bodies that much harder for rugby.
there's a lot of factors as to why we are so good at this game. i can only see things getting better for the foreseeable as the full talent pool is sincerely getting utilized now. should be an interesting ride with Rassie.
excellent video. Although the image you used for steroid use was inappropriate. I guarantee that no one is shooting up dexamethasone, which is a corticosteroid. Using that would only lead to water retention, food craving and easily bruised skin.
People are much more likely to be using anabolic steroids, which actually improves performance.
It's very typical of the British to do because their media will make a big song and dance whenever an SA player is nabbed for substance abuse, not quite realising they've got a much longer list of professional players flagged for banned substances and that's a proven fact.
the number one team in my life time is undoubtedly the all blacks but the fact that SA has won the same amount of world cups as NZ means they have been doing something very right over the +- 25 years. I see a lot of comments from easily offended / jealous fans of other nations... 🤔
cool video
BRO Get your facts correct .!!!!!....There is over 7 million school kids and non league playing youngsters active in rugby in SA.The Cape Province has over 750 k rugby players. Even Russia.Georgia and Ukraine have more players than UK and France combined. South Africa has over 11 million players .It is like soccer in Brazil over 20 million players.
Were are you getting Ur information from.
Weird definition of domination.
We have diamond blood and gold veins that’s what makes SA good at rugby🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Put the biltong and spears down and win some games
🤣🤣🤣come on trolls, do your best.
Dominate? Winning a knock out style tournament once every 12 years or so is a terrible metric for measuring how dominant a team is. Overall win percentage over tier 1 nations is what truly tells you how dominant a team is. SA have never “dominated” world Rugby. All Blacks by far and away not only the single most dominant rugby team in history but literally one of the most dominant teams in all of sport full stop lol ESPN did a segment on it, they’re comparable with the New England patriots in terms of dominance.
South Africa was the most dominant team in world rugby for even longer than the ABs. 1905-1998 All Black only started becoming better than the boks after that.
South Africa was the most dominant team in world rugby for even longer than the ABs. 1905-1998 All Black only started becoming better than the boks after that.
I recommend you go and do some more research on the springbok win loss ratio. Yes, the ABs have the best ratio now, but at one point boks vs ABs had close to a 50:50 ratio. Also, the Boks had won a series in NZ, but NZ had to wait until 1996 to win their first (and only) ever tour in SA. When I say tour, I mean traditional tour, not tri nations //rugby championsip. In my view I think the next few years we will see the boks and AB games being a lot closer again, as they have traditionally been.
The ABs are more like the Buffalo Bills, very dominant until it matters
“Absurd amount of money on offer”………which is why they all play in France? Edited to say Europe.
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@@junaidnyker2162 I go to Montpellier since six years, there hasn’t been a single season when there’s been fewer than 10 South African players on the roster, except this year when there are only five. At one point all three du plessis brothers.
We talking springboks
@@junaidnyker2162 could you watch the video again and then come back to me?
Yes we do dominate all the pretends
How exactly have southafrica dominated? I think if you ask who the most dominant team in the world is globally both as a brand and at a performance level throughout history it is quite clearly the all blacks. Since the rugby ranking have been introduced, excerpt from wikipedia on the rugby rankings "New Zealand have been the most consistently ranked #1 team since the introduction of the world rankings in 2003, having held the #1 ranking for 75% of the time during this period. South Africa is second with 20% of the time, with England, Wales, Ireland and France making up the remainder." With 3 world cups which was the record up until the last cup where south africa equalled nz with 3. The all blacks have won the tri nations involving South africa, nz and aussie, now the rugby championship, 19 times compared to aussie and south africa 4 each and the freedom cup contested between nz and south africa 15 times out of a total 17. South africa and the all blacks have played 103 times with nz winning 61 times to south africas 38 with 4 matches drawn. Its not even close. South Africa are a clear and distant second place at best and all of this with a total 650k registered rugby players compared to new zealands 140k.
To put it into perspective, to be as dominant as the all blacks South Africa would need to win the rugby championship 15 years in a row from now on. Hold the world #1 ranking for over a decade from now on and win the next 23 games in a row vs new zealand. Then, maybe you might be considered 1st equal.
The ABs have won 61, the Springboks have won 38 in games between the two countries. Doesn't look like domination to me. And that includes games in South Africa before neutral referees, the South African refs were almost flagrantly biased.
Well to be fair they have won half of all world cups they have been in.
@@hannotn 61 to 38 doesnt seem dominant? yes it does. In professional sports that by all means is.
@@hannotn Oh i mean nz look dominant. Not south africa . Sorry I think we are arguing the same point lol.
@@jamesanthony9322 If you dont make it to the start line of a race, its no one elses fault but your own.
This racial prejudice is still going to change no matter what the coach says
I think that the prejudice has changed a lot in the last 40 years.
Yes, there are still a lot of white racists that suport rugby, but there are MANY more people that care about us doing it together. And in the end, racist or not, how can anyone argue against Mapimpi, Ox, Willemse, Am, or Libbok?
Viva Rugby! Viva! Viva Mzansi! Viva!
You know nothing
This is such a silly video, particularly to include Nick Mallet’s comments, which are grade A bollocks.
So poorly researched and skewed
Dominate who???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@@DkJones You don't dominate the ABs son you only just beat them with 14 men and a lot of help from the ref
Wikipidia. South Africa has the most registered players with 651,146 and England the most players overall with 2,139,604. [1]
Come on Poms, you should be doing better
BRO Get your facts correct .!!!!!....There is over 7 million school kids and non league playing youngsters active in rugby in SA.The Cape Province has over 750 k rugby players. Even Russia.Georgia and Ukraine have more players than UK and France combined. South Africa has over 11 million players .It is like soccer in Brazil over 20 million players.