Ian Mcintosh was the first Springbok coach in rugby’s modern era to comefrom the “outside”. The boy from the bushveld of Bulawayo had never played for the Springboks and he was English-speaking. By the rules of South African rugby, he should never have got the job. But he did.He became coach at a time of crisis in the early nineties when the Springboks were foundering soon after their return from isolation. He helped take them to a new level and laid the foundations from which they would go on to win the World Cup in 1995, albeit without him. Mcintosh, renowned for his “direct rugby”, brings the same approach to this book. He is honest and straightforward about the game, the players, the officials and its politics. For the first time he tells….
How Louis Luyt finally sacked him as Bok coach. About his fal-out and make-up with the Rolls-Royce of fullbacks, Andre Joubert
About his stormy relationship with James Small
About his shock reaction to the axing of Gary Teichmann
And about his phone call to Nick Mallett