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Article: Wanted: Thinkers for Boks; De Villiers to keep.(Sports)
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- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- February 16, 2008
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BYLINE: Gavin Rich
Players who can think for themselves on the field and make the right decisions will be top of new Springbok coach Peter de Villiers' wish list as the latest edition of the Super 14 extravaganza chugs into action over the next couple of weeks.
De Villiers is in Toulon today as part of his mission to get to know the overseas coaches who are currently the day to day employers of the players he may have to rely on when in mid-year the focus switches squarely onto himself and what he can make of a Springbok team that will start the Tri-Nations as the reigning world champions.
And of course, as we have seen with John Smit, who may ...