Springboks boss says no training camp scam
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July 29, 2011, Friday
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SOUTH African Rugby Union chief executive Jurie Roux says 21 Springboks said to be injured and unable to play in Tri-Nations matches in Australia and New Zealand are not at a secret training camp as media has reported.
Roux made an angry rebuttal yesterday of South African media reports that the reportedly injured players, ruled out of matches against Australia last weekend and New Zealand on Saturday, are training at Rustenburg under Springboks technical director Rassie Erasmus.
Springboks coach Peter de Villiers was also confronted with the accusation that South Africa may be resting top players ahead of the World Cup, when his team arrived in Wellington from Sydney on Wednesday. De Villiers dismissed the reports as "mischief."
"We know that the long Super 15 season is the cause of this and we just have to abide by that," De Villiers said. "They're not training. It (the report) doesn't surprise me because there's always mischief everywhere."
Roux was more impassioned, insisting that the injured players, who may return to the Springboks squad for the home leg of the Tri-Nations tournament, had gathered to receive treatment.
"I'm not denying that they're at Rustenburg. I'm denying the fact that there's a secret training camp," he said. "I've got my players in a single high performance entity being rehabilitated, that's it. It is very simple, it is a unique thing to me that people are worried about this at all.
"I run a multimillion rand corporation where my biggest asset are my players. They're injured, I need to do something to get them ready for the World Cup."
Roux made an angry rebuttal yesterday of South African media reports that the reportedly injured players, ruled out of matches against Australia last weekend and New Zealand on Saturday, are training at Rustenburg under Springboks technical director Rassie Erasmus.
Springboks coach Peter de Villiers was also confronted with the accusation that South Africa may be resting top players ahead of the World Cup, when his team arrived in Wellington from Sydney on Wednesday. De Villiers dismissed the reports as "mischief."
"We know that the long Super 15 season is the cause of this and we just have to abide by that," De Villiers said. "They're not training. It (the report) doesn't surprise me because there's always mischief everywhere."
Roux was more impassioned, insisting that the injured players, who may return to the Springboks squad for the home leg of the Tri-Nations tournament, had gathered to receive treatment.
"I'm not denying that they're at Rustenburg. I'm denying the fact that there's a secret training camp," he said. "I've got my players in a single high performance entity being rehabilitated, that's it. It is very simple, it is a unique thing to me that people are worried about this at all.
"I run a multimillion rand corporation where my biggest asset are my players. They're injured, I need to do something to get them ready for the World Cup."
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