🇿🇦 Jacques Nienaber on the 7-1 on the bench and on who will play scrum-half if anything happens to Faf de Klerk:
“The team is not 15, it is 23. We always say that. When you do squad selection there are a lot of things that influence that from medical to past performances and a lot of analysis into New Zealand and where we think we can get the edge on them.
“Then the discussions stars between the coaches and it goes from a 5:3 to a 6:2 to a 7:1, then it goes back again. It is not a 10-minute discussion, it is hours and hours.
“Vincent Koch couldn’t train on Monday and we have a policy that if you can’t train on a Monday you are not up for selection.
“From a performance point of view, there is not a big gap. As coaches you always mitigate risk by prepping other people.
"In our case it will be Cheslin (Kolbe). He played sweeper in sevens which is the equivalent to scrum-half. He has always been a guy who, if we got a yellow card, would be the stand in half-back, not just this week but for a couple of weeks.”
On whether the 7-1 split on the bench is the best option to face New Zealand:
“I'm not going to say what the strengths and weaknesses of the All Blacks are, that would be stupid. But a lot of analysis went into it and at the end we went with a squad of 23. It could have been 6:2, 5:3, it doesn’t matter. You select a team that you think can get a result. The 23 we selected for a reason, and the reason is we think they can deliver and win us a back-to-back World Cup.
“How did the other guys take it? We explain to the whole squad why we are going a certain route. It is not about individual selection. It is for South Africa. As selectors we know there will be pressure on us if we don’t deliver a result but at the back of our minds we know this selection is for South Africa.
"The players take it like that. It is not about person or ego, not that they have egos, but you can’t think of that. You have to think about South Africa and the Springboks.”
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Today marks a great day in the history of WildEarth, namely our launch on Freeview channel 91 in the U.K. after a few years in the making. The story of WildEarth makes most thrillers look pedestrian and it’s fair to say our company has had more lives than the luckiest cat.
From Graham and Emily Wallington’s first idea of putting a camera on the back of a safari vehicle over a decade ago WE has evolved from a small YouTube channel into the largest Safari vehicle in the world 🌍 taking over 7million unique global viewers every month on daily virtual Sunrise and Sunset Safaris. This journey has not been an easy one, involving many hard and sometimes painful (including a few very poor) decisions, and multiple sacrifices, both personal and financial by many, but also one of the most rewarding in my life.
A common goal has continued to motivate and inspire those of us who have been on and continue on this journey, firstly that as many people as possible should be able to enjoy the pleasure of going on an African safari and a secondly a deep belief that by falling in love with nature people will be more compelled to conserve it. Nature truly has healing powers.
To our Explorers, partners and those of you who have supported us with advice, time and capital, thank you, and to our new viewing family joining us in the U.K.,welcome. When you discover channel 91 we promise to take you on a journey you will never forget!
We love our country 🇿🇦 and WE is proudly South African team employing amazing creative and talented South Africans, I am very proud of all of you for the sacrifices you make everyday as well as for your commitment and energy. This would not have happened without you. You know who you are.
WildEarth - taking African stories to the world 🌍
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The debt ceiling issues present a much greater risk than currently perceived.
Although prior concerns have proven to be mostly peripheral, today’s circumstances are quite unique.
To be clear:
The main problem relates to the potential consequences after an agreement.
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I didn't know this:
The United States has 393 million guns (46% of all the guns in the world)..
That means we have 1.21 guns per person, while the rest of the 7.4 billion people have 0.11 per person, or more than 10x less.
Pay attention to how the corporate media is branding @elonmusk as a "supervillain" because he wants to buy Twitter, open source the algorithm, and allow ppl to speak freely within the bounds of the law. They hate this because it threatens their control of the narrative.
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