If they want to fire Springbok coach, Peter de Villiers, then they should just do so without having to find a non-rugby related incident to do so. The headline in yetserdays Sunday Times newspaper was about an alleged sex tape featuring de Villiers. It is undertstood that they are people within the rugby fraternity who now want to use this tape against de Villiers so they can get rid of the first black coach to coach the Springboks.

It is no secret that there were many people who did not want de Villiers to be appointed the Springbok coach after Jake White stepped down. There were varying reasons for the disapproval of de Viliers, ranging from his lack of experience at the high level to the simple fact that he is black. The later did not sit well with some and I assume those are the ones putting together the story of this alleged sex tape. It looks like this is a simple matter of blackmail: “We will not release the tape if you step down as coach.” Now firstly, does this tape even exist? Obviously de Villiers has come out and said it does not. In the coaches own words, “I knew there were still people who do not want a black coach; I just never knew the extent people would go to discredit me.”

What I do not understand is, why go through all this sex tape stuff when you could actually find a rugby related reason to fire de Villiers if they wanted to. South Africa did not do too well in the Tri-Nations this year and finished last. Get de Villiers into the office and tell him that the team just did not perform well under your leadership thus you are fired. Yes, there are some who would disagree and say that de Villiers achieved a famous win in New Zealand this year coupled by a record victory over Australia in the last game of the Tri-Nations. It may be hard to fire de Villiers based on rugby but rather get rid of him for rugby reasons than putting together this whole sex tape drama.

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