Selection for the Team Braai
All three assistant coaches want to run the team braai. Rassie picks on form.
Panel 1. Team braai. Selection meeting.
- Scrum Coach: Forwards control the fire.
- Attack Coach: Gas. Faster. Repeatable.
- Defence Coach: Nobody touches the meat until I say.
Panel 2. - Rassie: Gentlemen. Nobody gets picked on reputation.
Panel 3. - Rassie: Kallie has thirty-one years of form. You three are on the bench.
- Scrum Coach: With the salads?
- Rassie: Somebody has to finish the game.
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Panel 1
In a backyard the three assistant coaches argue around a braai stand: the Scrum Coach grips the tongs, the Attack Coach points at a gas bottle and the Defence Coach holds up a hand.
Caption: Team braai. Selection meeting.
Scrum Coach: Forwards control the fire.
Attack Coach: Gas. Faster. Repeatable.
Defence Coach: Nobody touches the meat until I say.
Panel 2
Rassie walks in with Oom Kallie, who carries his own braai tongs and a bag of wood and grins at the coaches.
Rassie: Gentlemen. Nobody gets picked on reputation.
Panel 3
Oom Kallie turns boerewors over glowing coals while the three coaches sit side by side on a bench holding salad bowls.
Rassie: Kallie has thirty-one years of form. You three are on the bench.
Scrum Coach: With the salads?
Rassie: Somebody has to finish the game.