South African Rugby Union chief executive, Jurie Roux, was totally pissed off yesterday when the media asked him whether or not the Springboks are actually at some secret training camp, in preparation for the World Cup.

When the B-team arrived in New Zealand, coach Peter de Villiers was also questioned over the resting of top players, and he was not impressed:

We know that the long Super 15 season is the cause of this and we just have to abide by that. They’re not training. It (the report) doesn’t surprise me because there’s always mischief everywhere.

Roux was clearly annoyed by the questions and said that the Boks are together, but it was to receive treatment.

I’m not denying that they’re at Rustenburg. I’m denying the fact that there’s a secret training camp. I’ve got my players in a single high performance entity being rehabilitated – that’s it.

It is very simple; it is a unique thing to me that people are worried about this at all.

I run a multimillion rand corporation where my biggest asset are my players. They’re injured, I need to do something to get them ready for the World Cup.

What do you do with an injured player? You don’t send them off to Bali or Mauritius to have a holiday. You put him into your high performance center, you put him with the best doctor you can find … and you put him on a program to rehabilitate him to get back to the World Cup. What more would you expect?

I don’t understand the conspiracy. I don’t understand the confusion. This is a simple thing, if I don’t put him on a medical program, don’t have him rehabilitated for the World Cup I need to come to New Zealand for a job, which is the last thing I want to do

I sympathise with the media. I have no idea what the hell is going on in the Springbok setup and it appears that no one else does.

[Source: Sport24]