Dick Muir Quotations

We had been holding our breath that Butch would come through but the knee injury just keeps recurring. We have to plan accordingly.

Tony Brown will make the world of difference for us. He is a clever and very experienced player and you need those qualities in such a key position when you are playing a team as shrewd as the Brumbies.

We have come across footage that confirms the incident.

John will get anything up to a half.

It is desperately frustrating. But we have no choice but to take it on the chin and move on.

He's in the mould of (retired Blue Bulls No 8) Anton Leonard.

I can honestly say that we as the coaching staff tried to impress upon the players beforehand that victory was not the most important thing in this first game. In this competition you can get lucky and win here and there, but if you don't start to consistently produce quality high-class performances, then you go nowhere.

Jake and I chatted at length and a compromise has been reached. We have agreed to carefully manage the players (in other words, they will not be run into the ground) and in return there will be no prejudice against them when Jake selects his squad for the end-of-year tour.

We are looking at increasing our depth with a few experienced players.

We obviously didn't finish where we would have liked to in the Currie Cup, but we can take lessons out of the season. Maybe in some ways it was good that we were knocked out early, because we don't have a false sense of where we are.