Tag: Tank Lanning
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Why Rugby Needs to Come Back Home in 2023
Our track record of hosting premier global sporting events is unparalleled. Along with England, South Africa is one of only two countries to successfully host the FIFA World Cup, Rugby World Cup and Cricket World Cup. That’s massive.
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What SA Rugby Can Learn From the Road to Kariba
“Failing to plan is akin to planning to fail” was a saying first brought to my attention by my then Ikeys coach, Alan Solomons, a man who went on to coach the Stormers.
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Why Rugby Rage Needs a Whole New Card
Should red cards not be kept for the thugs who go out to intentionally maim another player via a punch, head-butt, or eye-gauge?
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The Unintended Consequences of Super Rugby’s Big Team Divorces
SA Rugby have just retrenched the Cheetahs and Kings. Or are they going through a divorce? Either way, both teams are out of Vodacom Super Rugby and as part of the settlement, the discarded franchises are off to Europe to play in an expanded Pro12 tournament, starting in September.
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Let’s Keep it Local, Bokke!
As seen in the recent series against the French, a series that saw coach Allister Coetzee pick only locally based players in the run on XV, the Boks can win without the overseas based players.
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What the Blitzboks Can Teach the Boks About Teamwork and Winning
The Blitzboks chase excellence in an environment conducive to doing exactly that. The Bok environment is almost the complete opposite, writes Tank Lanning.
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Rugby’s Brotherhood of the Bounce is for Real & for Life
Like all team sports, rugby helps you appreciate that life is not always fair. Your personal success is often reliant on someone else doing what they are supposed to do.
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How Rugby is Tackling Change and Changing Tackles
There is a big difference between adapting and tinkering, with the latter often about treating the symptoms rather than the actual issue at hand.
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An 8-Point Plan to Fix the Mess South African Rugby is In
I wonder if we as a country might have embraced the professional rugby era better had we not won the 1995 Rugby World Cup? Weird, I know, but bear with me.
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Basil Bey, the Rugby Legend Who Changed My Life
Tank Lanning writes South Africa has lost a rugby legend, a great mate has lost a father, and he has lost one of the first guys outside his family to really believe in him.