DE JONGH RIGHT TO GET RID OF ROLY-POLLIES

My dearest readers ... Quickly now, I knew one day it will happen again.

Some of us who are not Johnny-come-lately’s in sports journalism are not experiencing this for the first time.
What is Lwazi yapping about in his SONSA (State-of-the-Nation-Sports-Address) today?

I mean, a foreign coach reading a riot act to local players at the national team camp site and getting them into the right shape.
Here is my take today. You see, yesterday, we ran a story of Young Buffaloes gangling striker, Phiwa Dlamini coming out to say he will not play for Sihlangu again as long as Belgian, De Jongh is the coach.

Problem? De Jongh chased him away from camp because he had added four kilogrammes on his weight when they took weights for the second time. The first time he had weighed 84 kilogrammes, which it must be said is over-weight with a capital O on its own, then when the second weights were done, he had ballooned to 88 kilogrammes. A true roly-poly in the making! The last time I checked, Sihlangu was not a fattening ranch and De Jongh is a national team coach who will not allow sumo wrestlers in his watch.

Before De Jongh, we had one German native, Werner Bickelhaupt, whom I nicknamed the ‘Bulldozer’, whose strict persona had rattled our sissies’-boys posing as Sihlangu players and held no brief for any of the prima donnas at Sihlangu. It caused an outcry in the national team set up as discipline was treated as a swear word by our prima donnas and condoned by the national team management too.

Bickelhaupt was aghast to see national team players who had no respect for training, time, diet and tactical approach. He declared then that our national team will not go far with this bad attitude and lack of respect, which it must be said is induced at club level where the players do as they please.

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