Flawed rugby rationale.

Byline: D Wolpert

Flawed rugby rationale I am having difficulty with the rationale contained in some of Zeena Isaacs's recent rugby columns. A few weeks back she produced nonsense when she maintained that if we exclude the first halves of the local Bok Tests against the Wallabies, and the last five minutes of the Soweto clash with the All Blacks, and also factor in the yellow cards given to our players on the overseas leg of the Tri-Nations, then the Boks did not fare too badly in the tournament. Simply put, if we had wings we would all be able to fly.

In last week's column (Absa is right to raise issue of transformation in a sport it sponsors, September 23), Ms …