Steyn: A beacon of light
19 Dec 2006
Francois Steyn has given the Boks new hope leading up to the World Cup.
The 19-year-old, who appears on the cover of the new SA Rugby magazine, was the success story of the end-of-year tour, playing wing, fullback and flyhalf. He was consistently the Boks’ best player and proved that Test caps often mean nothing at international level.
In SA Rugby magazine, on sale from 20 December, Steyn reflects on his dramatic rise to the top and reveals his goals for 2007.
Also in the new issue:
– Keo explains why Jake White has failed as Springbok coach
– Q&A with Jean de Villiers
– Finding the perfect 10: the Bok flyhalf debate continues
– Massive Super 14 preview
– Springbok, All Black and Wallaby tour reviews
– Nick Mallett gives Jake advice for the 2007 season
– NEW: Jonathan Kaplan column
– Barend Pieterse: I want to play for the Boks
– Springbok Sevens: Delight in Dubai
– World Cup countdown
– PLUS: See the All Blacks in pink!
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22 Dec 2006, 17:00 pm
(1515) en ek sien jy praat alweer kak.
the cheetahs should have smacked the moftus seuns plenty in the cc final but they will have another oppo in the super 14 to put things right,yihaa!
22 Dec 2006, 17:17 pm
(4)common sense,as your name suggests keo was and has been doing the right thing regarding joke!
giving him a right verbal slagging off.pitty too many of the blazers in the corridors of sa rugby are yes men.should have fired the plodder at begining of the year.had a shocking tri nations and the end of year tour was not much better.
so the boks finally broke the pommie hoodoo at twickers,big wank! look what happened prior to that against ireland and the like.
but alas it is far too late to sack the oke but i will be very surprised if they make it past the pool games and into the playoffs.
22 Dec 2006, 21:33 pm
The end.
22 Dec 2006, 22:05 pm
of what?
23 Dec 2006, 01:16 am
Sien Pieta praat oor daai Spur by die pavillion,Strand,ja-nee my valley daai…al n paar lekker Vrydae aande daar gesit en kuier, 1of2 Lazy Aged steaks al daar deur gewerk…met n Adelprach’ie
In London Spur ek nou maar in Putney, daar in Southside mall, nie te bad nie…ok nou nie SA nie, eet maar die Spare ribbetjie, Sondae £10 eet soveel as wat jy wil Spare ribs…
Weskusgermaan, dis ou Willie se seding daai..ek steel hom wyl hy nie hier is nie
So jy en Piksteal werk saam daar in Afrika lui ek af…?
*verwag nou nie eintlik n antwoord nie
23 Dec 2006, 01:18 am
Glo nie ek gaan veel geselskap hier raak loop vanaand nie …
23 Dec 2006, 03:19 am
#1751 emphasis on “should have” . Sadly, only the Bulls have a realistic chance of challenging
for a semi final place. The rest sadly will be all hype and fade towards the busy end of the S14. I am looking forward to Gurthro, Gary, Bands doing the business on all comers
23 Dec 2006, 04:50 am
Ruggabugga #1153, you wrote:
“NZ refs were just as bad, how was the game in NZ when the ref played 15 min. injury time so the AB’s could get a penalty and win the game.”
RuggaBugga you are, of course, refering to the ‘flour bomb test’, the 3rd test in 1981. Firstly RuggaBugga that ref was NOT a Kiwi, he was a neutral ref, a Welshman in fact.
Secondly there WERE 15 minutes of injury time due to be played in that match, because the game had had to be stopped a number of times due to the flourbombs being dropped on players from an airplane, one NZ prop being knocked out briefly by a flourbomb. So the 15 minutes of injury time was a genuine 15 minutes that was rightfuly added to take playing time to the full 80 minutes.
SA home-referees from the 1970′s have a disgraceful reputation that brought shame to SA, no other country has been acknowledged by the rugby world as resorting to such desperate measures to win.
RuggaBugga it’s a sad chapter in SA rugby but don’t try to gloss over it by claiming that other countries refs were “just as bad”. They were not. Ex-test players from a wide range of countries have written in their autobiographies that SA home refs of the 1970′s were by far the most dishonest in the rugby world at the time.
This is not another “anti-SA conspiracy” by the rest of the world, just a stating of the facts.
23 Dec 2006, 05:29 am
Mmmmmmmm…baie gehoor van die meelbom toets, self nog nie gesien nie…Pieta wats jou indrukke van post #1758…?
23 Dec 2006, 07:59 am
Piet slaap laat vanmore…loer gewoontlik vroeg oggend in…lyk my die kuierkie saam met vriende het langer aangehou as beplan…
23 Dec 2006, 08:43 am
Raait, hier gaan my tent penne alweer…tot later.
23 Dec 2006, 12:30 pm
Julle arme mense.
23 Dec 2006, 12:55 pm
It’s a slow day in hell Skim.
However, the chicken is done to perfection.
23 Dec 2006, 13:04 pm
Good Stuff.
I seem to forget important things.
23 Dec 2006, 13:15 pm
Skim,
I think Ig and the other protectors of public morals are on Holiday.
That means anyone who wishes to, may recount there love of chicken as much as they like.
Of course when they return from said holiday, they will Red Card anyone foolish enough to have taken advantage of their absence.
Tough choice isn’t it.
23 Dec 2006, 13:30 pm
I am struggling to contain myself……
23 Dec 2006, 14:36 pm
With reference to the loosies debates that have flared up sporadically, just this. Why are Richie McCaw and Jerry Collins so good? Because they have a great no 8 that sets them free to contest or carry the ball hell for leather without worrying if they should happen to miss a tackle, because he is there to cover for them. Rodney Soialo literally keeps the backdoor closed for them to go ape.
No. 8 is about 80 % defence and 20 % offense. He is traditionally your vital second tier that neutralizes all the leaks by shadowing the offensive ballcarriers accross the field behind his own backs, so what use is a huge lock like Danie Rossouw in this respect, as hard as what he tries. The fact that he shines offensively as ballcarrier and puts in some huge tackles on ballcarriers running at him does not make him an 8. (A great 7 yes, or at lock as aggressive cover for Bakkies.)
At no 8 it ia all about reading the game, and that vital sixth sense that cannot be taught or coached, which brings me to my actual point. Why do our coaches continuously try to re-invent the wheel and fix things that aren’t broken? SA has traditionally had great 8′s like Doug Hopwood, Morne Dup and the Teich. Not flashy at all, but they did their job.
And there are young guys coming through, like the blonde u/21 8 from the Bulls- I think he is a brilliant prospect, and he is big enough as well. I saw him in the U/21 final vs the Lions and he was sublime. His hands, anticipation, workrate and tackling were awesome. Does anyone know more about him?
23 Dec 2006, 14:41 pm
Kobalt,
I see your point, I don’t know who you are talking about but If you want a workhorse, there is no one better than Reyno van Der Merwe
23 Dec 2006, 15:07 pm
Skim,
I can’t agree more. It seems there is little room for honest hard players like Rayno when it comes to our selectors. Everybody wants these huge hulks like Danie Rossouw, Pierre Spies, Jean Smith and Robbie Diack as loosies. I know Heynecke Meyer’s motto is: “Give me a good big guy ahead of a brilliant smaller guy anyday.”
But then we end up with the kind of rugby we were forced to watch week in and week out in the 2006 Super 14. The NZ and Aussie players aren’t better than our guys. They are just utilized better by their coaches. So what if you happen to have 4 or 5 class locks- then you use them in spells and give all of them equal gametime and rest. You don’t try and make them what they are not, and screw up your entire gameplan in the process by allowing your opponents to beat you to the loose ball because your own players aren’t quick enough to the breakdown.
But I agree, Rayno must be the most underrated 8 in the country.
23 Dec 2006, 15:39 pm
Skim,
Rayno has been moved around a lot between 6,7 and 8. Maybe that has counted against him with the selectors- another Brent Russell. The graveyard is becoming more and more crowded.
23 Dec 2006, 16:02 pm
Last man standing?
23 Dec 2006, 16:47 pm
‘Loosies’ fifteen- all are current players and have been 6,7 or 8. (Frontliners excluded = Schalk Burger, Juan Smith, Danie Rossouw.
15. Ashley Johnson
14. Ryan Kankowski/Robbie Diack
13. Keegan Daniel
12. Joe vsn Niekerk
11. Pierre Spies
10. Bob Skinstadt
9. Kabamba Floors
8. Rayno van der Merwe/Ernst Joubert
7. Pedrie Wannenburg/Hilton Lobberts
6. Luke Watson/Wikus van Heerden/Roland Bernard
5. A.J.Venter/Selbourne Boome
4. Gerrie Brits
3. Rayno Gerber
2. Gary Botha/Reghardt Strauss
1. Ruan Vermeulen
Ironically, they’ll probably win more than they’ll lose.
23 Dec 2006, 17:22 pm
ig,keo,simon, ryan etc.
post asb n nuwe thread.
die ander rugby sites het alke dag lekker nuwe nuus.
as n muppit wil ek ook graag op hoogte wees van die nuutste nuus.
ek oorweeg dit om keo.co.za as my homepage te verander.
kom nou, ek weet dit is vakansie en als, maar ek werk ook nog. julle is dit verskuldig aan jul getroue lesers/deelnemers!
23 Dec 2006, 18:33 pm
kaballas, everyone needs a holiday. thats where keo&company are….
23 Dec 2006, 18:42 pm
i agree kobalt..in australia they pick teams at schoolboy level according to their weight. Thus players of simialer weight all play together.
Which forces them to look for creativity and gaps and broadens their rugby knowledge quicker than most. Back in South Africa the U9 laaities all wanna pass the ball to the big guy in the team and he runs over half of the team and thats the game plan. They don’t learn as quick as in australia.
Attack space and not the man. Jake white is also obsessed with size.Look at Matt Gitea….
23 Dec 2006, 22:10 pm
wp-boytjie
Frans Steyn is a perfect case in point. He’s not the biggest or the fastest, but he’s got flair and balls. He plays instinctively, intuitively, attacking space ’cause he hasn’t yet been forced into a rigid mindset/pattern/gameplan.
In April this year he was part of the U/19 Babyboks at the Worldcup in Dubai who were knocked by all and sundry as being the worst team ever to wear the green and gold to a man. By November he is a senior Springbok and the best thing since sliced bread in everyone’s eyes. Talk about meteoric rise. What’s changed? Very little.
It’s all about grabbing your chances with both hands. My dad used to say: ‘If you’re good enough, you’re old enough.’
I say: ‘Go, Frans, you good thing! SA rugby needs more of your type, especially the balls bit!’
23 Dec 2006, 22:37 pm
Steyn is a great player and I love to see him play the All Blacks but I hope the New Zealand teams sort him out during the Super14 season and hopefully he will be injured for the RWC because I believe he is a very dangerous player.GO THE ALL BLACKS…
23 Dec 2006, 22:45 pm
marvinb,
He’ll be there come crunchtime. Like the man said: ‘You can’t keep a good man down!’
23 Dec 2006, 23:06 pm
Kobalt
Steyn is 1.91m tall and 100kg. That is big for a back.
23 Dec 2006, 23:20 pm
David
In the world of the Rokococo’s, Sivivatu’s, Lomu’s, Tuquri’s, Shane Horgan’s, Traille’s, Yauzion’s and the like he is of average size, but his greatest asset is his heart. It probably makes him seem a bit larger.
And who knows, someone might just decide he’ll be a good loosie and move him. He has played in three pozzies already!
28 Dec 2006, 19:33 pm
Kobalt, Steyn is smaller than Lomu (quite a bit, but Lomu was a freak), and that’s that……
He is 1 kg lighter than Roco and heavier than the rest you mentioned.
And he runs the 100 (hearsay) in less than 11 sec, looking at how he runs when he plays it would seem very possible…….
2 Jan 2007, 18:17 pm
You guys still in 2006…?
11 Jan 2007, 18:52 pm
Well done SA Rugby.
of all the December Jan publications you are the first to actually have coverage of the games after the Ireland game. Maybe you had to wait a little longer before yours was on the shelf, but so worth the wait! I was at the 2nd England v Bok match and although maybe it has given us false hope I’d rather have that than have lost and have no hope at all!
23 Jun 2010, 11:40 am
pdv is messing around with our beacon f light.
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