Matt Williams refuses to \u2018shut up\u2019 about Bomb Squad tactics as he speculates over Steven Kitshoff retirement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cSo what you can\u2019t measure, you can\u2019t make better. You can\u2019t measure talent but you can measure potential and the guy with the most potential will be the guy that will be there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to Schalk Burger one day and I said: \u2018Schalk you\u2019re close to being dropped now\u2019 and he said: \u2018But look at my game, I\u2019m better than\u2026\u2019 and he mentioned the names.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said to him: \u2018That\u2019s true but you are playing almost 30% below your potential so I\u2019m dropping you because you\u2019re not giving me 100%, that guy will still be weaker than you but he\u2019s giving 100% to the team\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natural fly-half<\/p>\n
This prompted a question from Paige who asked the former head coach about the player he coached with the most.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen players are coming into the Springboks, everyone has potential, but the player with the most untapped potential was Ruan Pienaar,\u201d De Villiers stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe messed up Ruan Pienaar in this country, me and the Sharks coach [John Plumtree], because they had a fly-half Thierry Lacroix [meant Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Michalak], they brought him in and made Pienaar a scrum-half.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Pienaar was a natural fly-half, he was such a good rugby player that you can play anywhere and he will be better than some of the players that play there.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut under pressure, he would fold in any other position except at fly-half. And when he played there for us we scored three more tries in a Test match.\u201d<\/p>\n
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