Jake White is one of the foremost coaches in world rugby. He won the 2007 Rugby World Cup with the Springboks, having coached their U21 side to a World Cup in 2002. At a domestic level, he is one of the world's most experienced coaches, having worked in France with Montpellier, Japan with Toyota Verblitz and Australia with the Brumbies. After last working with the Sharks in 2014, he is now back in South Africa with the Bulls as Director of Rugby.
Let me take you back to 2013 when I was coaching the Brumbies. We were always on the lookout for emerging talent and we’d had a …
The gist was that they got a lot of leeway at home in those two areas but in Nelspruit, it will be far, far more difficult. It sto…
Anyone and everyone associated with rugby is throwing up reasons for the All Blacks’ loss of invincibility; from a new coach, to…
I know over in New Zealand there is a lot of hand-wringing over the South Africans leaving Super Rugby but it’s not as big an is…
In isolation, I’ve got no problem with the Dricus sideshow. They were in Perth, they are friends and as proud South Africans, sh…
You see, if you look at where they are today, it’s not because of what happened last week, last month or last year, it is becaus…
The flight back to South Africa gave me time to reflect on a pretty intense couple of days, and believe me, I’ve had a few over …
The Six Nations has given me bit of head space to reflect about rugby and its direction of travel. It’s funny, I remember Frik d…
You want to know what I think about that France South Africa game? Three words. Wow. Wow. Wow. It was simply unbelievable.
Jake White: Let me tell you a story. In 2007, I was in Marseille preparing the Springboks for the game against Fiji in the quarter…
The one thing that struck me about the Springboks versus Ireland game - and I’m working the basis of the article I wrote about s…
Off the bat, I’d say this is one of those Test matches where the only thing you’re going to win is bragging rights. What I mea…
Firstly, having seen the news about Malcolm Marx's knee injury, can I say how disappointed I am for him on a personal level. It’…
Before I talk about the upcoming World Cup, I have to talk about that game at Twickenham. For me, it was an outlier. Not the resul…
I remember having a debate with the great Johann Rupert. He had bet me that "the Pumas have beaten the Springboks before". I said:…
What caught myself, and a lot of fans out, was this perception prior to the game that just because New Zealand didn’t have the l…
This weekend’s Test at Loftus is a tough one to call. On the one hand the Wallabies are on a run of seven consecutive defeats, b…
I remember it as if it were yesterday. I looked around Twickenham, and could hear a cacophony of boos, that went straight through …
The World Cup winning coach says Eddie Jones has every advantage to go to France and lift the prized trophy
Italy are on an upward trajectory, but South Africa's World Cup winning coach can't see the Boks losing three in a row
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