Snyman frustrated by inconsistency

Blitzboks head coach, Philip Snyman, has bemoaned his side’s inconsistency after they finished in a disappointing 9th place at this year’s Singapore 7s this past weekend.

They also finished in 9th place at the previous week’s Hong Kong 7s.

The Blitzboks won three of their four matches in Singapore – showing great character to beat the USA and Australia on Sunday, with only nine available players. But a big defeat in Friday’s opening clash with Great Britain meant they were already on the back foot.

“That first game against Great Britain really put us on the backfoot, first with the early red card and then playing with only five players later on after a yellow card [for Sebastiaan Jobb],” the head coach said.

“We need to address our discipline as it wasn’t up to standard with too many cards and too many penalties.”

He also said the lack of consistency is frustrating.

“I believe in this squad and the programme, but we need to be more consistent, which is why we’re not amongst the top three. We still made a massive step up from last season though. We have beaten Argentina twice and we played in two finals, but in the Asian leg in the last two weeks we came up short, which we need to address,” added Snyman.

“We are going to continue to work very hard and make a mental shift to see how we can be more clinical and consistent, because this team has shown they can beat any other team.” Written by Ntsako Mkhari