Cash van Rooyen has coached the Lions to 14th place in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship this season and in doing so has reportedly fallen out of favour with the squad.
The Lions are third from bottom with a 5-8 record in the trans-continental competition and, according to reports, a recent survey of the squad returned a disappointing appraisal of the management team.
IOL Sport reports that players were asked to give a grade and Van Rooyen scored a rating “between three and four out of 10.”
The conditioning coach, Stefan van Deventer “mostly got ones”, backline coach Ricardo Laubscher “allegedly got an average score of four” and some players “gave the Lions’ contracts and operations manager, Tracy van Ginkel a -3.”
Meanwhile, assistant coach Albert van den Berg and defence coach Jacques Fourie received a passing grade of “between seven and eight out of 10.”
An alleged lack of professionalism appears to be at the heart of the division in the camp with claims of shambolic management while on tour in Europe where players were “chowing hot dogs” and ended up having to play in their warm-up shirts in the absence of their official jerseys.
Meanwhile, recent reports suggest Van Rooyen is in line for a lucrative two-year contract extension at the Lions that is more lucrative than John Dobson’s at the Stormers.
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