Boks should target Gregan
14 Jul 2006
Former Wallabies team-mate David Campese has publicly slammed George Gregan for living on past glories.
Gregan was limited last week as his pack was going backwards, but Campese vilified him in his Daily Telegraph column, saying the bald scrumhalf brings nothing to the Aussie attack.
“Please someone, anyone, tell me that Australia coach John Connolly has placed George Gregan on final notice,” Campese said.
“I said last week that he needed to step up against New Zealand. While he was playing behind a beaten pack, I just didn’t see the variety to his game to suggest he should stay in the halfback job.”
The former world record holder for 64 tries in his Test career believes that the Reds’ Sam Cordingley would be better suited to the position, as the retaining of Gregan is stifling the Aussies’ attacking potential.
“Gregan continues to run across field, crowding the rest of the backline and making them sitting ducks for the defence. Sam Cordingley would have at least taken bad ball and run at the opposition, hoping for a quick recycle so the Wallabies could try to get some momentum going in attack.”
Campese is obviously not the only person who thinks that pressure on the Wallabies scrum is a sure fire way of winning, as long as Gregan is behind it. There has been talk throughout the week on how the scrum may not be influential on the result and that Jake White should be focussing on other areas of the game. But when taking Campese’s comments into consideration, White may be onto something. Gregan is notorious for his poor performances when his pack is struggling, and perhaps there is a plan developed around this fact.
The inclusion of Ricky Januarie is also another factor. The nippy No 9 loves nothing more than to get in Gregan’s face, and if he can disrupt him enough, the Aussies, for all their talent and glamour out wide, will find life harder than first thought.
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14 Jul 2006, 12:56 pm
Ruffle,
Beware, just when you least expect it skim arrives.
Skims a legend in NZ.
14 Jul 2006, 12:56 pm
On a serious note, where in the UK gecko?
14 Jul 2006, 12:57 pm
I think Skim is eating chicken.
14 Jul 2006, 12:57 pm
aquarius,
this site is part of that spinning process. because you post an opinion you have got it off your chest and you feel better. but in reality nothing changes.
you can join a club like Capeflats will tell you, but too many decisions still get made in smoke filled rooms. the average joe simply has no voice. even the players have a very limited representation.
14 Jul 2006, 12:58 pm
London – 10 long years
14 Jul 2006, 12:59 pm
gecko,
do you end every sentence with an obligatory “Yeah” yet?
14 Jul 2006, 12:59 pm
i think skim is 13 years old, and has been watching too much nandos adds while playing with his ninja turles. in SA, that doesnt really constitute calling someone a legend…
14 Jul 2006, 13:00 pm
Bluebarb,
Unfortunately those same guys who played a few years back are in the smoke filled rooms.The players want to much these days while delivering such a little. They should be more grateful to the fact that they can “work” for 5 to 8 years and then retire to a life of luxury.
14 Jul 2006, 13:00 pm
bluebarb – no, but i still start every sentence with ‘ja but’
14 Jul 2006, 13:00 pm
“ey Gazza, you ohright, yeah?
14 Jul 2006, 13:00 pm
that said some people call bobby skinstad a legend, so…
14 Jul 2006, 13:01 pm
good, we’ll let you back without a visa then:)
14 Jul 2006, 13:02 pm
Which part of London? I was 45 minutes outside charring cross for 4 years. Place called greenhithe.close to bluewater.
14 Jul 2006, 13:02 pm
robbie fleck is also called a legend.
jorrie muller is also referred to as a legend?
14 Jul 2006, 13:03 pm
I’ll be back. The wife seems happy with a few years of mortgage free living in SA – and my kids have to be born there. But then probably head back here.
14 Jul 2006, 13:03 pm
ruffle,
those english yobs left you outside for 4 years?!
how rude!
14 Jul 2006, 13:04 pm
ruffle – mostly Pimlico, but then bought in Forest Hill
14 Jul 2006, 13:05 pm
bluebarb(114)
ya, its very distubing
14 Jul 2006, 13:06 pm
Gecko,
Many Yrs ago as a young man I visited England and Wales and I must say, that whenever I got out of London, I actually enjoyed it.Loved Wales, York, Bath etc.
14 Jul 2006, 13:06 pm
gecko
why would you come back to SA only to go back to that hole?
14 Jul 2006, 13:07 pm
yoda – the same reason I’d like to go SA (family, friends etc), the wife would want to come back.
14 Jul 2006, 13:09 pm
gecko
ah, i understand. is she english then?
hopefully for you she falls in love with SA after awhile, and that that…
better money in london though
14 Jul 2006, 13:12 pm
I came back three months ago and wouldn’t go back for the world. My wife thinks it still summer in cape town.I did enjoy my time in England though.Met great people.
14 Jul 2006, 13:13 pm
yoda – yip, she’s a Pom. Pity that, but well, what can you do.
I’m working on it – all the things she liked in SA, suddenly blown up photographs of it has appearred all round the house. The picture framer is making a fortune off me.
If she can just speed up her picking up of Afrikaans. Apart from ‘Tannie’ and ‘boepie’ – especially when I’m having my biltong in front of the telly – she just doesn’t get it.
14 Jul 2006, 13:13 pm
Money is not so great once you start settling down. At the start it is,when you compare everything to rands.
14 Jul 2006, 13:14 pm
Chicken go cluck cluck, cow go moo,
piggy go oink oink, how about you?
14 Jul 2006, 13:16 pm
gecko
do u come from cape town originally? how long have u been married?
14 Jul 2006, 13:18 pm
yoda ja, from Bellville.
We’re not married, but in no rush for the paperwork. After sharing a mortgage and a cat for years the paperwork seems irrelevant.
14 Jul 2006, 13:22 pm
Stan – waar was jy laasnag?
Chief Tshwane statue vandalised
14/07/2006 12:49 – (SA)
Pretoria – Just a week after the statue of Chief Tshwane was unveiled in front of the city hall in Pretoria, vandals have painted it in the colours of the old South African flag.
Tshwane metro police spokesperson Superintendent Alta Fourie said the statue, which was found painted on Friday morning, must have been vandalised on Thursday night.
“We found it vandalised this morning, and we suspect the incident happened overnight” she said.
Except for the orange, white and blue paint, the letters ‘BB’ were also painted on the statue.
Fourie said city council park rangers would be deployed in the area to prevent reoccurrence of the incident.
“We can fortunately not post the police officers at every statue in the city,” she added
She said the paint would be cleaned off the statue on Friday afternoon.
14 Jul 2006, 14:21 pm
Stan’s position in the keo All-time XV list at 14 was an easy selection: has there ever been a better right winger in the country?
14 Jul 2006, 14:27 pm
No need to…..gregan targets himself…..
14 Jul 2006, 17:31 pm
neewat gecko, ek sal nie my tyd en geld mors om die ding te gaan verf nie…
14 Jul 2006, 20:55 pm
Yeah Ruffle, as you say the money in Europe is good — until you have to spend it all in Europe.
Us, having done a five year stint in France, are going to cash up and move back to NZ. If we stay here the money won’t buy us half as much (literally, in the case of a house)
16 Jul 2006, 01:36 am
Gecko please explain what you mean. one minute rubbishing all on this site and then trying to convince the missus to go back to the republic to have your babies huh?? man you big hypocrite welcome boet and keep this site tucked away in your favourites for ever. Once a South African always a South African. And you if I’m not mistaken are in the top 50 for postings on this site, yeah rite.
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