Linston’s on the loose
14 Jun 2006
Linston Manuels will referee the Currie Cup warm-up match between Western Province and Boland on Thursday.
It was Manuels who denied Bulls winger Akona Ndungane a perfectly legitimate try against the Hurricanes that cost them the match and almost cost them a place in the Super 14 semi-finals.
After receiving counselling from Andre Watson and Freek Burger, Manuels served as a touch judge during the remainder of the Super 14, but has now been given a chance to get his career as a whistle-blower back on track.
Linston’s comeback match takes place at the Bellville Training Ground at 4pm and will take the format of three sets of 30 minute chukkas, in which all WP Currie Cup squad players will get game time.
The game will give the WP coaching staff their first good look at Argentine import Federico Peralta in a match situation. The Cape side is desperate to find a quality tighthead prop in the absence of Eddie Andrews (who’s on Springbok duty) and Neil Fullard (who’s out for the season due to injury).
Peralta is on trial with WP, but coach Kobus van der Merwe said nothing has been finalised as Peralta is still an unknown factor.
The search, however, is not limited to Peralta, as Van der Merwe has his sights on another Puma, Eusebio Guinazu. Guinazu is on tour with Argentina A in Portugal and negotiatons are underway with his agent.
WP are also currently negotiating with another tighthead, Brok Harris, who plays for the Leopards
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15 Jun 2006, 01:12 am
jou
15 Jun 2006, 01:12 am
dag
15 Jun 2006, 01:13 am
15 Jun 2006, 01:15 am
19 posts… hehehe
15 Jun 2006, 01:25 am
“We will fight them on the beaches. We will never surrender our quota-whistle advantage…”
(Linston Churchill Manuels)
15 Jun 2006, 07:21 am
I played a club game earlier this year, Linston was the referee, that mistake he made as a TV ref is nothing compared to how he f*cked up the game as the onfield ref. There wasn’t two minutes in that game that he actually knew what was going on. Totally nowhere!!
15 Jun 2006, 07:59 am
If he refs any of Bulls games we could see more then 31 men on the field during the game namely a few policemen running along his side and protecting him
15 Jun 2006, 08:13 am
From which union is he?
15 Jun 2006, 08:17 am
Skim,
Is jy n WP ondersteuner dat jy so geinteresseerd is in Giel se bonganer?
15 Jun 2006, 08:28 am
Linston is soos Butch James.
Onopleidbaar.
15 Jun 2006, 08:38 am
Simon
hahaha
excellent heading for the article
15 Jun 2006, 08:52 am
Heaven help us, he is going to stuff up another game in the CC you will see.
I just hope it is a province or sharks game, then they will also know what it feels like to lose a game because the ref has the IQ of a tree in the veld.
A ****** can do better.
15 Jun 2006, 09:33 am
“After being given councelling…..”
does that actually mean,
“After being given the tsjambok”?
15 Jun 2006, 12:18 pm
basher the bulls only made the finals because of refs so dont comp[laing to loudly
the sharks were done in in 3 games by coloured refs so what?
its history
15 Jun 2006, 12:19 pm
complain
15 Jun 2006, 12:20 pm
strange how theyll always talk about how the bulls were done in but never when its another team
15 Jun 2006, 12:42 pm
Sharks-lover,
The guy is incompetant, regardless of which team he screwed.
15 Jun 2006, 13:20 pm
Atleast the Sharks were not cheated like the Bulls, hell I feel sorry for any team that has old Linston as ref.
What does his family and friends say?
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