Bob’s unfinished business
12 Mar 2007
Is Bob Skinstad too old, too fat or simply too good?
In his most revealing interview since coming home, Skinstad tells SA Rugby magazine why he wants to make another contribution to the game.
“When I announced I was returning to rugby I read that I was too old, that I had a beer boep, that I was too fat and that the game had passed me by,” he says. “The only way to counter those reports was to start at the back and work my way up again.”
Skinstad, who picked up 8kg of muscle in two months, believes his experience gives him an edge over the younger generation.
“I knew I would be up against guys who were physically stronger and faster, but I also knew they were mentally younger. The gym can’t give you life experience and the quickest 40m time doesn’t give you wisdom.”
Skinstad also reveals what was said during chats with Dick Muir and Jake White last year, how living in London changed him and why his wife and five-month-old daughter have given his life balance.
Also in the new issue of SA Rugby magazine:
– Why the High Performance Centre has failed
– How John Plumtree has given the Sharks pack an edge
– How the Sharks went from Super 14 chumps to potential champs
– John Mitchell rates the Boks’ World Cup chances and gives Luke Watson some advice.
– Graham Henry explains why the All Blacks can still get better
– Can Sevens save Gcobani Bobo‘s career?
– Jonny Wilkinson‘s magical return
– Naas Botha on why age shouldn’t matter in rugby
– Jonathan Kaplan defends Super 14′s under-fire referees
– Nick Mallett gives his verdict on the early Super 14 rounds
– Rassie on the new ruck laws
– We reveal AJ Venter‘s other life
– Who knows Monty better: wife Tasmin or team-mate Butch James?
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12 Mar 2007, 15:19 pm
Staal jy kan al die ballsense in die wereld het maar as jy saam met 14 idiote speel help dit niks nie.
12 Mar 2007, 15:22 pm
fern,
waar’s walla??? Wonder wat sê die man nou?
12 Mar 2007, 15:24 pm
staal die manne raak maar stil,hy kosentreer seker op die krieket.as ek moet kies tussen bob en kabamba kies ek kambamba enige dag.
12 Mar 2007, 15:26 pm
delport gaan sy gat sien die naweek teen die crusaders.
12 Mar 2007, 15:26 pm
eishhh maar wat van Baywatch??
12 Mar 2007, 15:28 pm
wat?Baywatch op senter?Hy het klaar die hare om nonu tematch
12 Mar 2007, 15:29 pm
Geez, but there are some really DUMB people on this site.
The guy hasn’t even started for the Sharks in the Super 14 and he is the most talked about player! The crowd went wild when he ran for his ten minutes, and here he is gracing the cover of SA Rugby. Guarantee sales will go up.
He is a legend, even if you are a one-eyed supporter and will always have hordes of fans. He is a good buy for a franchise always leaps and bounds ahead when it comes to marketing even if he doesn’t take to the field.
ever wondered why ryk neethling is so much more famous than Roland schoeman even although Roland hands him his *** every time they compete…
12 Mar 2007, 15:31 pm
kevin, I am not talking about him, I am telling the world what a piece of sh*t he is.
12 Mar 2007, 15:32 pm
he is not a legend by any stretch of the imagination.
12 Mar 2007, 15:33 pm
Staal, Fern, etc is it true that the devide between North and South is so far apart that you guys can not see how great Bobby Skinstad was? And that he was born to lead the Springboks? And that Corne only got the job because Bob fell vitim to a motor car accident?
Or does the brandy blur your vision to the point that the only aspect of a loose forward you are cabable of noticing is how hard he hits his opposition?
12 Mar 2007, 15:38 pm
110 bboy,
i take notice of your opinion and even you have the right to say something. I will also defend your right to an opinion – but it is not to say that i have to second your opinion.!!
stop insulting me when i differ from you please.
What the hell has North & South got to do with this?
12 Mar 2007, 15:39 pm
blueblood
You probably said the same **** when the sharks bought Percy and made the wheelchair jokes about Ackerman.
Only real has-been playing super 14 this year is Bostik leonard at the bulls – now that is a **** buy. i’m just waiting for the plonker to dye his hair black again, he might then be a little more marketable!
12 Mar 2007, 15:39 pm
bobby was an average international player and a good provincial player, I will give him that.
But all this hoohah about him is pathetic. All the female rugby supporters think he is a rugby god who can do no wrong. These self same people fall into the Os Snyman category. We were watching rugby once and I asked a lady what team she supports. She asked me if bobby was playing and he was, so I said yes, and she asked who he is playing for and I said WP and she said “oh,then thats who I support”.
Pierre Spies is ten times better than bobby was.
12 Mar 2007, 15:40 pm
Even though he has been out the game for some time, I will still pick the legend Bobby Skinstad ahead of:
Donkey Rossouw
Pedrie Wanneberg
AJ Venter
Pierre Spies
Anton Leonard
Jaques Cronje
12 Mar 2007, 15:42 pm
Ag please, Pierre Spies ? Then why isin’t your almighty bobby playing for the Bokke? Why isin’t your ***** ****** super bobby star playing in the green and gold?
12 Mar 2007, 15:44 pm
111 Touchy touchy, did I strike a nerve?
My point is that you guys up north are prejudice to wards the great Bobby Skinstad.
Bobby is a lose forward. LOSE forward. All you guys can think about up north is strenth rather than genius and ball skills.
12 Mar 2007, 15:46 pm
115 bblood,
now you’re loosing it!!
12 Mar 2007, 15:47 pm
115 The master Jake White has not announced his squad yet.
You all know that if ever there was a couch to select Bobby for the Boks it is Jake.
12 Mar 2007, 15:52 pm
There’s no place to hide on a rugga field Bob
12 Mar 2007, 15:53 pm
117 Thank you Staal for keeping your aggresive friend Bluebeard onder control…I never thought Afrikaans people used the Lord’s name in vain.
12 Mar 2007, 15:58 pm
Bob will go to the WC. South Africa will beat New Zealand in the final. If ever there was a team that chokes in Rugby WCs its the All Blacks. Our forwards will jsut about outmuscle all the other packs, regardless of who our loosies are. No one will match our pack. We just need a solid flyhalf.This must be Steyn and he must be backed up by Butch. We need Percy as the kicker.Fourie Du Preez must be backed up by Ruan Pienaar.Centres are our main problem. At this stage I would take De Wet Barry as inside with Bradley Barrit as backup. Outside must be Jacques Fourie and Jean DV. Wings will be Paulse, Habana, Ndungane and Jaco Pretorius.
12 Mar 2007, 16:02 pm
Pommie, where is the transformation in that team? Unfortunately thats something we need to think about.
12 Mar 2007, 16:04 pm
pommie why Paulse???
12 Mar 2007, 16:08 pm
Ill add JP Pietersen as cover for Monty. Now weve got three potential starting players of colour. It is quite scary to think who will be left out at the expense of transformation.Ruan might get unlucky with Januarie coming in. Among the forwards weve got big problems because on merit only Kabamba gets picked at this stage.
12 Mar 2007, 16:09 pm
115 – Shame, poor old Blueblood is getting upset at the thought of Bob going to the WC07, and his beloved little Spiesie staying at home.
Spies is every bit as good as Bob was in his heyday. AT NIGHT WHEN HE IS DREAMING!
Most of you guys on this site are fucked up – Pick my team! No, pick my team! No pick my player cause yours is kak! Bloody stupid.
A player could have had the best 20 games in a row ever, then you’d still get a Blue Bull saying that their 40 year old charity case player is better.
Get a life please.
ps. Congrats to the Bulls and Sharks players – Outstanding wins over the weekend.
John Smit looked better. Murray played well. Fourie best in the world. Habana playing rugby again. Uys a lone ranger for the Stormers.
12 Mar 2007, 16:11 pm
123 Hes got loads of experience and an educated boot. Phillip Burger actually merits selection above him, but gavament wont allow our best team to go, you and I and the rest of the Rugby loving community out there know it.
12 Mar 2007, 16:12 pm
125 ruff,
where does this Uys come from? He can play a bit!
Stormers loosies were also very good but without support from the t-5.
12 Mar 2007, 16:13 pm
126 pomkie,
okay now i understand the selection.
12 Mar 2007, 16:13 pm
pomkie = pommie
sorry
12 Mar 2007, 16:16 pm
ruffneck go piss with the puppies. you havent been bloggin here for long so dont throw insults around. True some people let emotion govern their statements, but so be it, its harmless and actually leads to solid debate.
12 Mar 2007, 16:17 pm
I found that quite affectionate from you staal – for a moment there I thought you might be hitting on me! lol
12 Mar 2007, 16:18 pm
Uys is from Bredasdorp, played at Maties. Actually played flyhalf for Boland Craven Week if Im not mistaken.
12 Mar 2007, 16:20 pm
I like the way Bluebeard went straight to his basket as soon as his master ordered him to.
Staal, will he come out again to find a bone or is he waiting for your command?
12 Mar 2007, 16:20 pm
131 pommie,
not to worry we don’t endulge in that sort of thing north of the jukskei.
12 Mar 2007, 16:21 pm
only been blogging for about a year, so i probably dont qualify for the “act like an idiot to call yourself a true supporter club”. damn!
12 Mar 2007, 16:23 pm
well consider yourself lucky then I guess and go to bed.
12 Mar 2007, 16:24 pm
what an idiot
12 Mar 2007, 16:25 pm
135 Like water off a duck’s ***, Ruffneck! Pommie has no right to tell you off, this is a public blog site.
12 Mar 2007, 16:26 pm
The next thing you twats are going to say is that the moon is made of cheese. There is no doubt thta mr. Skinstad was, and I guess could still be, one of the most talented players to run onto a rugby field. Class I think not. It takes more than a couple of good games to be rated as class. Bob wasted a whole career because he had no class, he thought he was bigger than the game and what happened, the game spat him out. Taking him to the world cup can work and he has got a couple of months to prove he can still play at this level but going down memory lane when every thing was being built around Bobby he was pathetic. When it counted the most we had a split Bok team with Booby stuck in the middle(lets not forget the week before the Stomer played a home semi)hope he has grown up like every one claims.
12 Mar 2007, 16:29 pm
I am so glad Skinstad is back. Watching him comentate on sky sports was so frustrating coz he looked like he could still play top flight rugby. But i m afraid we do need a charismatic player in the Boks and i don’t know yet who will be sacrificed to allow Bob in the Boks.
12 Mar 2007, 16:31 pm
Educated boot.
I hate that phrase.
12 Mar 2007, 16:32 pm
The more I look at that cover, the less I like it.
12 Mar 2007, 16:33 pm
Hello all
wassup
as for spook comment #22 Mens Helath is just for **** no wonder you dont mind picking up a mag
hehehe
12 Mar 2007, 16:34 pm
Bobby might or might not make it but he is still a legend in his own mind
12 Mar 2007, 16:34 pm
IG howdy if you are around
12 Mar 2007, 16:35 pm
hallo Mr Lam
12 Mar 2007, 16:36 pm
Howdy Lam
12 Mar 2007, 16:37 pm
Players do not need to be charismatic lee, only fire and brimstone preachers.
Staal is correct, a loosie must be a hard *******.Skinstad has porcelain balls. He cannot handle it. It is all good and well when the game opens up and he shines with the team going forward,this can be done against the minnows.But this years S14 is an indication of what is going to happen at the WC. It is going to be hard.
Did you not learn the lesson the stormpies have been giving us week in and week out, the platform is set upfront and there is no place for powder puff’s.
12 Mar 2007, 16:38 pm
Stall wat se jy
gaan dit goed?
12 Mar 2007, 16:38 pm
Yeah, his hips is a wide as his shoulders
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