We did it for Pieter
24 Jun 2006
The French team have dedicated Saturday’s Test victory over the Springboks to team-mate Pieter de Villiers.
South African-born and Cape Town-raised De Villiers had a tragedy hit his family during the week. His younger brother passed away, with reports indicating it was from a car accident.
Said coach Bernard Laporte: “Being in a rugby team is very special. Today (captain) Fabian (Pelous) and his mates did it for Pieter, because we wanted to do domething for him. The committment was huge to get this victory.”
Laporte lavished praise on his charges for a job well done. “They had to work really hard for the victory today, but in the end they pulled it off.”
The win means France move to second on the official IRB World Rankings, with South Africa dropping to third. The result also ended White’s 13-match unbeaten run on home soil.
The French meanwhile maintained a proud record of never having lost at Newlands to the Springboks. The previous two encounters finished all square, while on Saturday they were full value for a convincing win.
By Andrew Hollely
17 Comments
24 Jun 2006, 18:47 pm
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24 Jun 2006, 18:47 pm
woo- hooo!!
2.
24 Jun 2006, 18:48 pm
on a roll…
3?
24 Jun 2006, 18:48 pm
I eata the shicken…
24 Jun 2006, 18:50 pm
Jake needs to eat the chicken….
24 Jun 2006, 18:54 pm
You don’t eat the chicken WWW, I do.
24 Jun 2006, 18:59 pm
Skim, I have a proud consecutive 3 post record, and I have never been beaten at Newlands either.
You are wrong, I EAT THE CHICKEN!
BTW what the hell is going on when other teams start getting unbeaten records at our bloody home stadiums?
24 Jun 2006, 18:59 pm
Course, I have never played at Newlands either…
24 Jun 2006, 19:02 pm
Pieter Rossouw?
Slaptjips is a legend!!
He eat the chicken!!
24 Jun 2006, 19:16 pm
I think that we should bring back kobus wiese. I know it sounds dumb but he is big and passionate bout sa rugby!!!! Hes only 40 and still in good shape. Screw matfield and botha he’s a bull and nothing more. GO WIESE
24 Jun 2006, 19:26 pm
Just FYI: regarding Pieter DeVillier’s brother – the car accident report is wrong, it was far more tragic than that and very sad, he hung himself and i can understand the family not wanting to release this info.
France were awesome today. The boks were shameful.
24 Jun 2006, 21:00 pm
the french didn’t have to work hard for this victory the boks were pathetic
24 Jun 2006, 23:21 pm
Kobus Wiese kan nie meer uit sy oe uit sien nie so vet is hy!
25 Jun 2006, 03:43 am
Seems like the Boks did it for Pieter too.
Nice of them. Now do something for your fans.
Thanks Percy for trying and Brent.
I aclled it a coupla days ago. It wasnt hard to see that if the French played well and the bok just ok ,we would loose. We would have to play very well ,and not only losse if the French were awesome. Its a wake up call.
No more blind faith Mr Stransky,Naas and co.,just coz its a home game.
the writing was on te wall.
All 3 midfielders had NOTHING to offer. I do expect WO to rise but he has not shown anything bok material in his games. I wont even talk about Barry,or Julies (Mr breadbasket knock on)
So much for Wayne never being in a losing bok side.We all new that was bollocks Jake.
Frace was good ,we were average with no atacking belief.
Wannenberg runs himself intoisolation and turn s over,where was Juan and Joe for continuity and offloading.
Oh,well rather now than later.
Jake and co must and will learn from this. Its not a bad thing ,it’s been coming anyway.
25 Jun 2006, 11:00 am
brains_trust
“You can understand the family not wanting to release the info” but you choose to do it for them anyway very nice of you. Where do you get off releasing other peoples business on this site.
Ig
All the **** you spoke in your previous post about calling Capetonians poofs and bulls supporters dutchmen being offensive but yet you leave that offensive posting up.
Vinnie and a few others were speculating about how the young man passed away when the news first broke and I posted that that was a matter for the family and not really one to be discussed on this blog and I stand by that.
25 Jun 2006, 12:39 pm
Cockerills eat boks, it gives them energy.
I didn’t see anything of the game, but at least Percy must be good shape.
Jake has now had a good look at the form of his players and most should be showing better form than this.
Time for the axe to fall. Not too heavily, but the players must be shown more commitment is required. They are the Springboks after all.
Congratulations Froggies.
26 Jun 2006, 08:41 am
DEE DAH – just pointing out the mis-information that we the public are being fed on a daily basis..
Yes it is sad that he decided to end his life and if the article said that it was a car wreck – that’s wrong.
if you want me to get worked up read about the 24 y/o that was kicked to death after a game near Ceres…
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