Comments on: Monty’s boot saves Boks

By: norman

norman — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:36:26 +0000

the ellis park crowd should have demanded their money back for this ****
henning should never be allowed to come close to a rugby ground again
the refs society should be investigated onthe appointment of henning to this game when his record speaks for himself
all in all a disgrace

By: leeanthonyw

leeanthonyw — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:50:09 +0000

Did anyone see how much the entire World Xv backline was offside! They were offside alot, how can the ref yellow card rhe entire backline. I think the Boks did well, they beat a team that was spoiling the game

By: ciccino

ciccino — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:22:16 +0000

The greatest out come of this meaningless game is that Boks don’t have depth. Without first choice tight 5 we were murdered. Once our tight 5 started going back the rest of the team couldn’t find any rithm. I really believe that JW’s obsession over contituity by picking players who played for him but totaly out of form and not giving experience to other in better form will get boks to the situation where they will have only 15 international class players in the whole SA and the rest will be poor.The 2-nd or even 3-d all blacks team would have had a better game on Saturday.

By: Drunkmonkey

Drunkmonkey — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 05:28:17 +0000

should have been tappe saves the boks.

By: wpforever

wpforever — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:16:43 +0000

good on you Tana,Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit from the Queen and her corgis

By: ricane

ricane — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:05:30 +0000

cane, dare ya to say that to Mark Shaw, or even Jason Eaton

By: cane

cane — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:46:44 +0000

Pompies,
A favourite position in the Manawatu area, is to conduct the above lurid activity on the edge of a cliff.
i.e.
The sheep push back harder.

By: tokolosi

tokolosi — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:51:23 +0000

how did andre snyman play??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

By: pompies

pompies — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:13:05 +0000

He He I knew some Kiwi would jump on that one no pun intended.

By: ricane

ricane — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:05:36 +0000

wpforever post# 213;
don’t be insulting, I’m from Manawatu and our sheep have much better judgement than that!
Not speaking from experience of course

By: pompies

pompies — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:29:25 +0000

Point of thought with regards to this huge squad he has formed , did Sir Clive not use the same formula for his big Lions tour of the land of da long white cloud?

By: mcCawesome

mcCawesome — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:19:07 +0000

The 2 tests in SA for the AB’s are going to be a great reality test/check for this expanded AB squad, as I think Henry will continue to use this tactic until the Nthern Hemisphere tour. He is saying that that tour is like a dummy WC run, as there are 4 good test matches on 4 consecutive weekends (assuming we are playing England A; maybe 3, depending on the Welsh).
At this time, he will become more settled on his squad. However, in many positions, there is not much between #s 1 and 2 in a given position, and Henry is quite vocal about the need to have quality back-ups in each position (referring to the MacDonald decision at centre in the semi in 03).

By: pompies

pompies — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:06:29 +0000

I can take you a bet that if Henry loses his first game no maybe his second he will quickly rush in his big boys so to speak. An example will be when they go to Sa for there two test matches, this I’m really looking forward to cause there will be no excuses there after.From da Jaapies that is.

By: mcCawesome

mcCawesome — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:58:56 +0000

pompies,

your missing my point, although I am thinking you are just trying the tackler out (so to speak).
I am well aware of how many players we are allowed to put on the field. However, you wait for the 3 nations. The AB’s top 15 will be at least slightly different each time. A case in point is that Henry has already stated that he is going to try Muliaina at 13 this season. This can really only happen some time in the 3 nations.
My point in post 225 was that that this is not our 2nd 15 (as Pissant stated), and it is a fabrication of the facts to say so. Therefore, the point that Pissant was trying to make (that our 2nd stringers could only bear Fiji by 18 points) is a manipulation on reality.

By: southlandstag

southlandstag — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:50:54 +0000

The Junior AB’s got named on the sunday, they got together on the monday, would have had a light training, then spent the following couple of days training and then a day getting over to fiji and acustomising and then 1 training over there. The springboks have had alot longer than that to prepare and couldn’t even get a try against a team which had barely trained. I would hardly call it you b,c or d team considering you have players like fourie, de villiers, venter, wannenburg, van niekirk etc. in it. As for the maoris they have had the same time to prepare and are up against super 14 semi finalist who have had a whole season together. A team of new zealands best maori players, no matter how good they are, are not going to smash a solid team like that, winning a game is much more than having all the players, most is team cohesion and how well you play together

By: pompies

pompies — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:43:42 +0000

post 225 you can only field 15 players and when dem kiwi’s play da boks it is always their best players that are played why is this.Maybe TT can explain.Sorry I forgot it is da Queens birthday today he’s down on da farm with da sheep.

By: mcCawesome

mcCawesome — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:37:19 +0000

Pissant (post 206),

This was not our “B” team, it was closer to our “D” team.
While it sounds better to say so when arguing with tackler, it is not true to the facts.
39 players have been picked for the AB’s squad. At least 6 players are injured who Henry has said would make the AB’s (James Ryan, Sione Lauaki, Nick Evans, Andrew Ellis, Conrad Smith, and Angus MacDonald [Derrin Witcombe]).
This takes the total to 46 (including Witcombe).
When you also take into account guys like Ruben Thorne, Jonno Gibbes, and even Tana (which makes 49 players), who have decided not to play at this level or, in Gibbes case, has been put in the Maori squad for leadership purposes, this Junior AB’s team is about #s 50+ on the AB’s selectors minds.
Hardly our “B” team!

By: pompies

pompies — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:35:52 +0000

Na never mind he’s just a Kiwi wanabe plonker.

By: pompies

pompies — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:34:15 +0000

Post 213 tell us more.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:44:56 +0000

Pathetic, absolutely pathetic. The Boks could not even score a try against a team that spent more time in the Pubs than on the field training!

As for the much vaunted Bok pack, it got murdered.

The Boks are going to have to vastly improve if they are going to be competitive in the Tri Nations.

Tappe Henning was disgraceful-never allowed the game to flow and thus made sure he was the centre of attention.