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The adjectives duly came out yesterday as South Africa tried to come to terms with Bafana Bafana's 3-1 loss to Mauritania on Saturday night.
Embarrassing, A Damn Disaster, Bungling Bafana Bite the Dust - the headlines screamed.
And rightly so, for what transpired at the Olympic Stadium in Nouakchott was tantamount to treason by all involved. In many a country, the entire squad would have been sent directly to an army base for some toughening up.
This is South Africa though, and while most of us will lament the defeat, life will go on as usual for the players and the technical team with very little reprimand, if any, from either the South African Football Association (Safa) or the government.
As it is, they will all be in action at Orlando Stadium tomorrow and a win in the friendly Nelson Mandela Challenge over Senegal will ensure the disaster of Nouach-kott is quickly forgotten.
It shouldn't though, and following that match here are five things we hope Shakes Mashaba and his boys would have learnt.
DON'T ROTATE CAPTAINCY
Mashaba probably thinks he is pioneering some new trend by rotating the captain's armband instead of having one man in the position. His reasoning that he wants to inculcate a sense of leadership in all his players just isn't cutting it. And on Saturday there was no semblance of leadership from any of his players - a few of who had been captains before. Instead...