This post-match interview teetering on a hellish crossroads of genius, insanity, chemically-altered states of being, and too many concussions in the space of one life time. Brendan, what are you doing? What’s your secret? How? Why? As you’ll see from this video, these are all very good questions. Very good, very good, good questions.

I honestly don’t know what to say. I think I need to lie down, I’ll come back later with more of an opinion.

Update: Recent comments by the Saracens CEO (and various smart people in the comments section below) indicates that Venter’s interview was delivered in protest against stern fines leveled against him by the ERC for frank public remarks relating to his perception of referee bias.

You can read the whole shindig here.

And I promised an opinion: I’m quite pleased that I didn’t hear the phrase “All credit to the boys/opposition/All Blacks/Marky Mark/fans/etc even once. For that, I give full credit.

Update#2: A couple of readers have suggested that the interview was inspired by the film in which England football coach Dave Dodds is interviewed by the press and does nothing more than repeat the questions put to him.