Coach Peter de Villiers told Parliament on Tuesday he deserved a medal after four years at the helm of the world champion Springboks.
De Villiers was dragged in front of Parliament’s portfolio committee on sport after the Boks lost both matches of their Tri-Nations away leg, against Australia and New Zealand, last month.
According to Beeld, De Villiers added his team lacked killer instinct ahead of their Rugby World Cup title defence,
“At the moment we lack the ability to land a knockout blow when our opponents are against the ropes,” De Villiers said, according to the Afrikaans daily.
“There is an extreme fear of hazardous rugby and the standard of certain players is also a concern.”
De Villiers denied that he had sent key players to a training camp in Rustenburg during the Tri-Nations tour, insisting they had been sent there to rehabilitate various injuries.
“In a normal year we would risk five or six of those injured players in the Tri-Nations, but this is not a normal year,” he said.
The Springboks will face the Wallabies in Durban on August 13 and the All Blacks in Port Elizabeth on August 20 before the start of their World Cup campaign in New Zealand in September.
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