With dunces in charge, pitiful Bafana remain a laughing stock

I had a dream, an extraordinary dream at that. I dreamt I was playing for the well-decorated and world-renowned Springboks alongside our current humble skipper, Siya Kolisi.

The only problem about my dream (which, I must emphasise, didn’t nevertheless dampen my spirit) was that I couldn’t quite recall who were the opposition nor the actual winners of the Test.

I felt great about the fact that I actually had this dream, even though I can’t remember whether I played in my favourite No 10 position, where I can picture myself embarrassing Naas Botha in the number of drop goals I would actually score when deployed in that role...