Chasing the Sun 2 EP3 REVIEW: WILD F**** DOGS | Big Jim Show

You are highly valued in South Africa for your love of the game, well done Bro keep up the great commenting🦾🇿🇦

To see a non-South African speak so admirably about The Springboks and what they achieved is a breath of fresh air. FINALLY.

For more context on Tonga and South Africa praying together. Grant Williams said in an interview that Tonga asked if they could pray for the Springboks for the quarters, semis and final. I just love the believe that the Tongan team had in the Springboks that they would pray for us up until the final. Southern Hemisphere Brotherhood on full display. We the South!!!!!!!💪🏽💪🏽🇿🇦🇹🇴💫💛

retrospectively you wonder how much that pep talk to PSDT impacted his incredible performance in the final

Kurt-Lee Arendse’s story was important for me. …”rugby changed my life”…….He wasn’t offered anything but after meat packing every day he went to the gym.

For Rassie to be able to exert psychological pressure over such a truly diverse group of players is genius to me. He had them all ready to die for that jersey. They were conditioned to win years before the tournament even began. Massive emotional intelligence on display notwithstanding his supreme rugby IQ.

As someone who remembers Doc Craven, Rassie is, to my mind, his spiritual successor as a rugby historian and deep thinker on rugby's future.

I’ve always viewed sport as a sort of proxy for war, rugby especially: two nations vying to bathe their people in glory at the expense of the other - a more civilised way to satiate our need to fight with (hopefully) less casualties! But this series has elevated things to almost mythological status. Honestly, it’s like something out of some epic poem, like the Iliad or something: a bunch of super-humans performing deeds us mere mortals could never imagine doing ourselves, while at the same time being so unashamedly human. The unfolding narratives, the speeches, the adversities that they’ve all overcome, and the intensity and scale is unlike anything I have ever seen in sport. And just like the epic tradition, every character has their own finest moment. Each and every one of them was instrumental in the Springbok campaign. The Chasing the Sun crew have done an absolutely amazing job. This is the new gold standard for sports documentaries in my opinion.

I've always liked you Jim, but the fact that you don't get on with Owen, now I love you.

The African Wild Dog uses team work and stamina to run down 60 - 90% of the things they chase, making them the most successful hunters in nature I believe.

Big Jim, you are an absolute legend. What a gracious host, well-spoken and so knowledgeable.

The lengths the team went to prevent their practice sessions from being spied upon was another eye opener...

I’m in SA now visiting family, going back to UK soon… nice going back knowing there are good Brits like yourself back home

Watching this series, can you imagine a coach speaking this way to pro football players? They would throw a fit - "Don't talk to me like that!! Do you know who I am!!?" The respect these players have for Rassie - to allow him to talk to them "like a dad" - speaks a lot. Incredible characters. Incredible character.

Sir. I used to love watching you play. You were the Scottish Bakkies. Thank you for allowing your love of rugby to be so infectious. Love from a Scotland loving springbok.

Although we have 20:20 hindsight vision of the outcome of all the matches played, the series still leaves you wondering about the team’s ability to win. The use of the close up rugby action and hits and tackles by the film production team is also truly epic. Not only can one hear the bone jarring tackles, but you can almost feel them too! There is so much to take in that one needs to rewatch each episode again. Rugby coaching world wide will take a lot from this series, that ardent desire to win being the bottom line!

Love your passion for the sport mate. When you talk about the boks you sound like a springbok fan boy, when you talk about the ab's you sound like and ab fan boy, when you talk about the irish , welsh, ect ect you sound like a fan boy. Keep up the good work.

I may be biased, but as documentaries go, this has to be acknowledged as gripping stuff

Jim, could listen to your for hours mate. Can’t wait for the interview with PSdT. Please do more…

Jim you are loved in South Africa. Keep up the good work.