For everyone else's amusement
How to lose a Test in 10 ways
By John Scott
The Springboks gave a wonderful demonstration on how not to win rugby matches on Saturday in 10 easy lessons.
For the sake of aspiring youngsters who still want to play for their country but who were lucky enough to miss the Test against the All Blacks on TV, here they are:
1. If you happen to find the ball in your possession, run sideways or even back towards your own goal line. This will considerably reduce your chances of scoring.
2. Alternatively, run forwards if you absolutely have to, but straight into the opposing team's pack, who will be only too pleased to bury you under them.
3. On no account pass the ball out before you are tackled. Make sure you are caught in possession. This will also enable the wings to keep the crease in their nice clean shorts while they run up and down the touchline without the ball.
4. When one of your team kicks ahead, don't chase after the ball. Rather give the opposing team lots of time to gather it and counter-attack.
5. Mark time with your boots on somebody's head, preferably under your own goal posts. This is the best way to give the other side penalty points.
6. Try hard not to tackle opposing players as they run through you. Let one of your mates make the tackle, the one who is assuming you will make it.
All these are fairly familiar ways to lose. But in Saturday's match some of the Springboks showed a degree of innovation and finesse in the art of defeat that will long serve as examples to players who thought they had tried everything and still found themselves on the winning side.
7. When you receive a pass with the opposing team's goal line right in front of you, let the ball bounce off you, otherwise you run a serious risk of scoring a try.
8. If you are near your own goal line and have the ball in your possession but are at a loss as to what to do with it, flick it to an opposing player. With luck he will run over the line and dot it down.
9. Inexplicably you may find yourself with the ball in hand and the opposing goal line at your very feet. In this case there is only one thing to do - drop the ball. With practice, it can be done.
Finally, as coach Rudolf Straeuli pointed out after the match, the other team "had good players". Which brings me to the last lesson:
10. Make sure you compete against good players. It's quite hard to lose against inferior teams, sometimes, though, the Springboks have increasingly shown lately that they are equal to the challenge.
A little later in the afternoon M-Net screened a flash-back of Chester Williams scoring four tries in the 1995 World Cup quarterfinal. Hopefully not too many viewers saw it. They might start expecting today's players to change their match-losing tactics.
<img src="graemlins/angel.gif" border="0" alt="[Angel]" />
you wish , enjoy it while it last's ! 
I definitely see your point with the rest though, pity its so close to the world cup...