Watch the Boks in Christchurch
21 Feb 2007
SA Rugby magazine is giving you the chance to win a double ticket for the Vodacom Tri-Nations Supporter’s Tour to New Zealand.
Simply e-mail a photo of you supporting the Boks or your Super 14 franchise to judge@hsm.co.za — as well as a few lines explaining what’s going on.
The best photo selected every month goes into the final draw for the tickets, while every photo published wins a year’s subscription to SA Rugby mag.
To those of you who entered last month, see page 37 of the March issue to see if you’re a winner.
47 Comments
19 Feb 2007, 22:14 pm
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19 Feb 2007, 22:25 pm
howzit chuck
19 Feb 2007, 23:44 pm
Evening men ;o)
20 Feb 2007, 01:43 am
would be great to see Bokke beating the poms in Paris, again!
20 Feb 2007, 03:46 am
Bietjie af van die onderwerp, maar ek sien in ‘Beeld’ die Aussies kla kwaai oor Kimberley en die toestande waaronder hulle moes speel.
Wonder of hulle nog sou gekla het as hulle met 20 punte gewen het?
20 Feb 2007, 03:49 am
More Pete, Afrika is nie ‘n plek vir sissies nie…maar ek sien die Cheetahs is oor die vingers getik!
Het jy my emails gekry?
20 Feb 2007, 04:00 am
More Koos, ja dankie.
20 Feb 2007, 04:01 am
Oor die vingers getik? Waarvoor, wonder ek?
20 Feb 2007, 04:16 am
Pete,sal netnou weer praat,eers gou ietsie gaan eet saam met die regering…nie al dag wat sy inkom dorp toe nie!!!
20 Feb 2007, 08:01 am
More more!!! Go die ROOI en als is sommer mooi!!!
20 Feb 2007, 08:14 am
More Piet en Kraven, ek **** Wynand Olivier is uit vir 4 tot 6 weke.
20 Feb 2007, 08:20 am
Mooi, dan kan hy dalk weer lus raak vir rugby….Soveel talent maar die koppie…..
20 Feb 2007, 08:21 am
More HBS
20 Feb 2007, 08:22 am
HBS
Ja, ek sien sy knie is geopereer.
weet julle iets van 8# hierbo?
Klomp moangatte, die Aussies.
20 Feb 2007, 08:52 am
What’s this the goeie more show.
20 Feb 2007, 09:01 am
Nie n idee oor #8 nie.
20 Feb 2007, 09:11 am
Goeie more Dawn!!
20 Feb 2007, 15:15 pm
Come on Muppits, send me your pics. The next five I get will get published!
20 Feb 2007, 15:24 pm
Simon, be careful for what you ask for.
20 Feb 2007, 15:25 pm
Chch can be quite cold in the dead of winter. But airfares are at their cheapest then in low season.
20 Feb 2007, 15:42 pm
Whats the cheapest ticket from Aukland to Chch? return
20 Feb 2007, 16:11 pm
Air New Zealand NZ$ 198 return. Not to shabby..
Aukland Christchurch Aukland
20 Feb 2007, 16:23 pm
Keo
Right next to your head there is an advert that says
“subscribe to the mag the proteas read”
20 Feb 2007, 17:10 pm
Weet iemand wat nou gebeur in die Boland ?
20 Feb 2007, 18:11 pm
Waterblommetjieeees.
20 Feb 2007, 18:57 pm
20 My girlfriend says that I am warm in winter!
20 Feb 2007, 19:03 pm
You may be warm, but I am smokin hot.
20 Feb 2007, 19:16 pm
27. Skim, not sure you got it
20 Feb 2007, 19:50 pm
I’m hip, I’m cool.
20 Feb 2007, 23:15 pm
jeez,,,im keen for this competition. will scratch around for some fotos. the comp is open to us over in kiwiland rite?
20 Feb 2007, 23:19 pm
Why shouldn’t the Aussies grizzle about Kimberley? Hell’s bells!
Kimberley IS a dusty, hot, boring old dump!
Should they pretend that it’s anything else?
20 Feb 2007, 23:20 pm
tackler if i win the ticket,,can i come dos on your couch?
21 Feb 2007, 00:05 am
You’d be several hundred kilometres away from Chch, though.
21 Feb 2007, 00:55 am
Western Province will next Monday make a decision which could define the future of the Stormers, as well as have a dramatic impact on the immediate future of Nick Mallett and current franchise coach Kobus van der Merwe.
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A Task Team assembled by the WP Rugby Football Union executive to look into certain strategic matters affecting the union last year presented a few proposals on the way forward when the full board of WP Rugby (Pty) Ltd, the professional arm of the union, met in Cape Town on Monday.
Among those proposals was one that WP director of rugby, Mallett, be given back his executive powers and made fully responsible for the recruitment, hiring and firing of coaches as well as the recruitment of players. Should this proposal be adopted, it would mean WP divorces ifself from petty political and personality issues when decisions affecting the coaches are made, with the director of rugby’s coaching acumen and knowledge being relied on to make the appointments.
At the moment Mallett has no hold on the WP budget, and he was overruled by the board when last year he recommended, following his own investigation into the Stormers’ Super 14 failures, that Van der Merwe be replaced.
It was an open secret at the time that Mallett’s choice of coach to take over was Alan Solomons, the most successful coach in Stormers history and the man who took them to joint first position on the log when Bob Skinstad was captaining the team in 1999.
Solomons would probably be Mallett’s choice for the job again were he to be given the powers to make the decision, and it is understood that Solomons has already been sounded out about his availability in the event of the Stormers imploding on their overseas tour.
In such an event, a Plan B will be implemented, with another coach, Solomons being the most likely candidate, taking over for the home leg which begins with a match against the Lions on Easter Saturday. Although the Stormers are reluctant to drop a coach in mid-season, the board understands the need to be seen to make changes so that the confidence of the public can be regained so that crowd attendances can swell when the Stormers play at home in April.
Rudy Joubert, the former Bulls coach and Springbok assistant, who was axed as director of rugby at Boland on Monday, could be another option.
However, for the time being it is business as usual at Newlands, and Van der Merwe can save his job if he achieves his stated objective of winning every match on tour.
“We haven’t targeted specific matches. We are not going to New Zealand with pre-conceived notions of some teams being strong and some teams being weak,†said Van der Merwe before departure for the five match away leg.
“We are taking the attitude that all the games will be damn difficult. We want to win all of them if we can. That is our aim.â€
If this unlikely scenario came to pass, Van der Merwe will undeniably save his job, for no South African team has ever been so successful on an overseas tour in the Super rugby competition.
However, failure could place him in a difficult position, as he was told at the start of the season that a top half finish was a minimum requirement for him to save his job. Should his team lose all their matches, and this week’s game against the Highlanders in Dunedin is probably their easiest, then the writing will be on the wall.
According to WPRFU chief executive Theuns Roodman, the decision on Mallett’s powers will be taken at a union executive meeting next Monday.
“Several recommendations were made (at Monday’s meeting), a lot of views were aired and heard. But no decisions could be made, the recommendations have to be discussed and ratified at union executive level,†said Roodman.
“A Special Meeting is scheduled for next Monday to ratify our financial minutes for the year, and the executive will meet before that takes place.â€
21 Feb 2007, 01:13 am
Nobody comments on the Parlaments call for SA rugby officials to resign.
Keo must be afraid of that issue
21 Feb 2007, 02:03 am
super, moet jy nie slaap nie swaer?!
21 Feb 2007, 06:38 am
#32. Tackler lives in Wellington, he wears a loin cloth and parks on Courtnay place, opposite the Nandoes. People here call him the “blanket man.”
true story.
21 Feb 2007, 07:28 am
Guys,you must realize that the politics are going to stuff up our RWC campaign.
There will be so much pressure on the selectors to send x ammount of blacks that it will disrupt us totally.
21 Feb 2007, 07:50 am
Counter,
That makes TT the most well known Man in Wgton.
21 Feb 2007, 08:05 am
which certainly explains his bravado on this site.
confucious say: smelly man in loin cloth has no enemies.
21 Feb 2007, 08:08 am
..or friends and waste time on blog spewing ****!
21 Feb 2007, 08:10 am
‘SA rugby needs more black administrators’
February 21 2007 at 07:28AM
By Angela Quintal
South African rugby lacks quality administrators and more black people should become involved in administration to speed up the sport’s transformation, according to South African Rugby Union (Saru) president Oregan Hoskins.
Briefing the national assembly’s sport committee, he said while he often received calls for tickets to Test matches or to be flown around the country, no one was phoning to offer their services free of charge.
Hoskins said he only began receiving a salary when he became president of Saru and had worked for free when he headed KwaZulu-Natal rugby.
The problem with South African sport in general was poor administrators. “I see it in my own President’s Council. We do not have quality administrators, black and white.
If black people were prepared to get involved in administration, rugby’s transformation would be speeded up and a lot of problems resolved.”
However, “quality people” were not prepared to sacrifice for the good of the game.
National assembly sports committee chairperson Butana Komphela again raised concerns about the lack of representivity in the Springbok and Super 14 teams.
He noted that at the weekend the Sharks fielded only three black players, the Blue Bulls none, the Lions one, the Cheetahs two and the Stormers one.
Komphela and other ANC MPs on the committee took Saru to task for its about-turn on Eastern Province Rugby and an earlier decision to compel its executive to resign.
The committee and government had supported this move at a meeting with Saru last year, but were shocked when Saru backed off.
While Hoskins tried to explain that it was more to do with legal advice received rather than a change of heart, Komphela would have none of it.
Referring to Hoskins’s predecessor, Brian van Rooyen, Komphela said: “He was not a pushover. They (the President’s Council) think you are a pushover.”
ANC MP Cedric Frolick told the Cape Times there was an enormous breach of trust between the committee and Saru, as a result of the change of heart. “Now you can see why there is tension between Saru and the leadership of the committee,” he said.
On transformation in rugby, Frolick said Saru itself had told the committee previously that 70 percent of black rugby players were there (in the Eastern Cape) and that they would sort out the problems so that these players could move into the top levels in rugby.
“They have walked out on that as well. So now you question their overall commitment to transformation.”
Hoskins himself was saying that the figures were not satisfactory, “but what are they doing about it?” Frolick asked.
The transformation charter was beautiful on paper, but a year later, there had been no implementation.
“If you look at the warm bodies taking to the field every weekend, it is not reflected there.”
21 Feb 2007, 10:09 am
Gaan praat jou stront op nander plek asb ?
21 Feb 2007, 12:32 pm
Simon, I’d love to oblige but the last time I watched the Boks in Christchurch they left me heart broken. We were 3 tries up almost before I had sat down. I was delirious and SA flags popped up all over the DB stand. Was the Marius Joubert’s famous een-twee-drie episode? Then the AB’s wore us down and beat us ….
21 Feb 2007, 13:47 pm
The articles used to apear at the top
21 Feb 2007, 13:51 pm
chch – ke?
21 Feb 2007, 16:25 pm
If I was SA Rugby mag. i’d insist that one of their 2007 issues also be in the picture.. Just now they give the prize to someone who doesn’t even ever buy their mag ever… Like me!
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