Boks to score 50
2 Jun 2006
The bones, after an extended spell in rehab, are back and predicting carnage for those yesterday’s heroes, who on Saturday will parade as a World XV.
Bob Dwyer’s all-star European club XV, at least that’s the media spin, is really a combination of some great players who are long past their sell by date and some players who never quite cracked the great descriptive.
You only had to look at the World XV’s schedule to know that they’re here for the golf, the golf and the golf. They’ve been living it up at Sun City all week and their liver has taken more of a pounding than their calves. They’ve partied more than they’ve tried and rightly so when you consider the tradition of these World XV teams.
The aim in putting together such a team is simple. Pick name players, who inspire thoughts of greatness because of their past exploits. But make sure these players are exactly that — past players. No local team invites a World XV with the capacity to embarrass the home team.
The Boks will get just what they need prior to the two-test series against Scotland, which is a decent workout. They’ll be forced to make a few tackles, they’ll get to play expansive footie and they’ll score big on the field. The World XV will score bigger off the field, which means both teams leave Johannesburg victorious.
The five Kiwis will have to be monitored afterwards and it would be wise to ensure no handbags are left within the reach of this quintet. But the Carlos Spencer and Justin Marshall-inspired Kiwis will probably prove more of a nuisance in the pub afterwards than they will do on the field.
Individually, there are some in the World XV who will give it horns, but collectively they will be unable to find the structure needed to be successful against an established international team.
The Boks will play with the greater structure and purpose because they are the ones with everything to lose. The World XV have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to gain from the match.
The greatest beneficiary is the South African Rugby Players Association. Had they had half a commercial brain cell they would have dropped all the ticket prices to R150 and ensured they got 60 000 to the game. Instead they will be lucky to get 40 000 at what they’re asking. The former would have given them more dollars in the kitty.
It is ironic, though, how they now have no problem with ticket prices (as they are the ones who’ll see the cash), just like they have no problem with an additional match (as they are the ones to benefit). Cash … it’s a killer to the morality of SARPA.
But I digress.
The Boks, despite fielding a second-string pack, have put out their first choice back division (with the exception of Bryan Habana) and they will win comfortably enough. Of more interest than the scoreline will be Ruan Pienaar’s first introduction to the international arena, although he would have played tougher matches in this year’s Super 14.
For the record, the bones have picked a high scoring match, with the Boks to triumph 55-30.
528 Comments
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2 Jun 2006, 16:14 pm
nope
2 Jun 2006, 16:14 pm
vinnie you *****…
2 Jun 2006, 16:14 pm
dawn come answer the q???
2 Jun 2006, 16:14 pm
Come on ben – you cant type that slow.
2 Jun 2006, 16:14 pm
Aish. Now i know what Skim felt like yesterday.
2 Jun 2006, 16:15 pm
2 Jun 2006, 16:16 pm
Got a premature problem there Rudebud?
The smiley just rounded it off though…!
2 Jun 2006, 16:16 pm
Vinnie – at last an intelligent answer!….I knew you had it in you big guy!
Ok,I agree that the prices for rugby games could be cheaper but you have got to accept the fact that a football game involving Manchester United will always draw a huge crowd,no matter what the competition or even if it is a friendly.Based on the fact that football is the most popular sport in South Africa among the previously disadvantaged,I find it fitting that they adjust the prices according to the average working mans wage.
Now rugby,they could do the same and I am not going to argue why they have or have not done this,like I said before,that is for SARU\SARPA to answer.
2 Jun 2006, 16:16 pm
wheres dawn now, ag please babe, come play
2 Jun 2006, 16:17 pm
Vinnie
Faaarrrk !!! I missed 100 in the very same fashion… That’s it, i will leave that to you and Skim from hereon.
2 Jun 2006, 16:20 pm
lol. I just had a look rudebud!
Hang around and have another go at 300!
2 Jun 2006, 16:22 pm
My heart belongs to Ig.
2 Jun 2006, 16:24 pm
From what I hear its not just your heart.
You’re acing like a victim of domestic violence Dawn – wheres you will? You fire?
2 Jun 2006, 16:26 pm
It’s all a vicious rumour.
I deny everything!
2 Jun 2006, 16:26 pm
Haar vuurtjie is geblis!
2 Jun 2006, 16:27 pm
Ben, it took some time but you got there. Now the next question is. If SARU are looking in transformation (yes that dreaded f#$*ing word) in respect of supporters (I know the article this week was quoting ol’ Harold from the “states”), would this not be the perfect oppurtunity to lower the prices of tickets?
I mean paying R300 for a test ticket and R250 or R300 for a non test ticket just does not make sense to me. Perhaps Hennie le Roux just wants an increase.
2 Jun 2006, 16:27 pm
Of Ig s’n is geblaas…
2 Jun 2006, 16:28 pm
Vinnie, whatever you heard, I deny it.
2 Jun 2006, 16:28 pm
Maybe a combination of both
2 Jun 2006, 16:29 pm
Sy blaas en hy spuit die vuurtjie dood.
2 Jun 2006, 16:30 pm
As k@k praat ‘n siekte was….
2 Jun 2006, 16:30 pm
Wait, that was a bit nasty, I rescind post 220
2 Jun 2006, 16:31 pm
Was ek ‘n ryk doctor
2 Jun 2006, 16:31 pm
Wie denaai wat?
2 Jun 2006, 16:31 pm
Look.
I may get the heebies when he talks compuspeak eg the sql server and the internet options and the tools and the hard drive and the firewall. At these times I have to take a cold shower.
But. I have the utmost respect for his decision to diss me at every turn.
2 Jun 2006, 16:32 pm
Grrr… Wie gaan nou weer die Curriebeker wen?
2 Jun 2006, 16:33 pm
Ek ‘denaai’ enige iets met ‘n hart klop!
Red, die Leeus natuurlik!!!
2 Jun 2006, 16:33 pm
Dawn
Then your’e heart belongs to Jondood as well ?
2 Jun 2006, 16:33 pm
So by what Dawn has told us, Ig can put a hard drive past any fire wall.
2 Jun 2006, 16:33 pm
Hello ladies and Dawn.
2 Jun 2006, 16:33 pm
RedCard I do agree that it would have been a perfect chance to do so,but then again this is a benefit game for the Springboks to raise money and therefore by falling within the guidelines of SARU ticketing prices I believe that SARPA have done no wrong.If we have a gripe regarding taking the game to the people,then why has this not been raised during the Super 14,Currie Cup and Tri-Nations.All of a sudden just cos it’s a game that the players are going to be benefitting from does not mean that they should lose out.The timing of this argument is wrong,it should have been done at the beginning of the season when ticket prices were released.
If SARU were serious about bringing the game to the masses,they would re-adjust the ticket prices in accordance with the average working mans salary.
2 Jun 2006, 16:34 pm
Grrr… remains the legend. (F%$k Fleckie!)
2 Jun 2006, 16:35 pm
A night out in the village has kept me away from this comedy.
See nothing new here other than the Jerry show
2 Jun 2006, 16:35 pm
RedCard,
My problem is there are lighties in underpoverished areas that wont grow up with rugger and nobody there will think its cool and he’ll turn to football.
And just think back to when you were a kid – the good sportsmen, and i mean the really exceptional ones, were always good at every sport and evetually had to make a choice between what they wanted to play.
2 Jun 2006, 16:35 pm
Fleckie is a legend…
2 Jun 2006, 16:35 pm
Of course he is.
2 Jun 2006, 16:35 pm
Shot Ben, common ground. (and I dont mean Brakpan)
2 Jun 2006, 16:35 pm
Jondood is a very ******* distant runner up also ran nobody.
2 Jun 2006, 16:36 pm
Red
Thanks mate but I’m just the man who has to carry the legend around…
2 Jun 2006, 16:36 pm
red, vinnie and ben, relax – lets agree that ticket prices are high and that the roundball game is unimportant.
2 Jun 2006, 16:37 pm
It seems if one wants to discuss rugger I need to be online in the morning (SA) after that I get the bored buggers who are avoiding work.
2 Jun 2006, 16:37 pm
RedCard,you put up a decent argument without getting personal – not a bad effort!
2 Jun 2006, 16:37 pm
BokinOzzie
Here is a website that will keep you entertained for hours:
http://stupidaussies.curvedspaces.com/
2 Jun 2006, 16:38 pm
Bok
You catch on quickly…
2 Jun 2006, 16:38 pm
Dawn – Please don’t use that kind of langauge! I am getting pissed tonight at Peddlars…
2 Jun 2006, 16:38 pm
i can see dawn’s heart.. and at heart she is a ************** to…
2 Jun 2006, 16:38 pm
JA but ben,
The money isnt going directly to players. Its going to sarpa who are going to use it pay for computer training or soemthing. The tickets actually only cost R75.
Now my point is that this is a warmup game – the benfit game is next weekend for Corne Krige.
These guys get enromous salaries and then joe public who is on a fraction of that still pays for his Windows course so he can get a job after rugby. Thats ridiculous – nobody paid for my studies.
2 Jun 2006, 16:38 pm
Where is Grootblougat when I need my entertainment.
2 Jun 2006, 16:39 pm
Vinnie,
Peter Kirsten
Jonty Rhodes
Hercelle (f@#k he could most probably have made a success of basketball with his short arse as well)
Allan Donald
AB?
Correct you are.
The dude that is the co-holder of the 400m SA record once said to me kids should be discouraged from focussing on 1 sport until they leave school. Very true words.
2 Jun 2006, 16:39 pm
250 RudeBud!
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