Cheeky snubs Boks
24 Aug 2007
Cheeky Watson, the anti-apartheid activist and father of Luke, will not be supporting the Boks at the World Cup.
When asked if he would back the team in France, Watson told the Cape Argus: “I’m answering diplomatically: I’d rather not comment on that issue.” When asked if he supported John Smit as captain, he simply said: “no comment”.
Watson said he would have liked to have seen a team sent to the World Cup that is more representative of South Africa and that there should be six players of colour in the Bok starting XV. He added that while white players are given plenty of chances to prove themselves, a black player is dropped after the first bad game he has.
When asked if he believed the current Boks supported democracy, Watson said: “The majority of the players who stand up there are holding on to the Bok emblem as if it’s their life blood. I don’t know if they’d hold the flag with the same passion.”
While Watson refused to call the Boks racist he said they took the “least line of resistance most of the time. There’s not a culture for standing up for what is right and wrong. It’s all about rugby and not about social and rugby issues.”
Watson insisted he would not like Luke to be playing at this World Cup, but he would shout his son’s selection “from the roof tops” if it was a transformed team.
645 Comments
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25 Aug 2007, 11:23 am
Mooi gaan Grrrr.
25 Aug 2007, 11:24 am
pietman
yes its true the emblem is upside down,it simply implies that jake’s team is confused like him.
25 Aug 2007, 11:25 am
Cab
16:45- 17:00
Pietman
Dude ek weet. En ek verstaan regtig nie hoekom ek so voel oor ‘n ou wat ek nog nooit ontmoet het nie… Ek ‘laaik’ hom net niks. Ek het dalk ‘anger management’ klasse nodig!
25 Aug 2007, 11:25 am
Cheers!
25 Aug 2007, 11:26 am
The issue about the administrators are that they do not have the skill, knowledge or attitude to run things properly.
The French Development Agency is all over Gauteng trying to equip the current muncipalities/councils and sort out the mess of the last 10 years. The guys at the French Dev Agency get paid huge salaries in Euros to help out.The only reason for this was EE and a brain drain which is not subsiding. The current rate at which emigration agencies are growing is frightning to see and experience.
25 Aug 2007, 11:27 am
602# ethiger
So it’s true?
Surely they have fixed it, no?
Why China, of all places?
Some ANC oke had a hand in it for a few extra bucks,I guess.
25 Aug 2007, 11:28 am
the eagle roars over the sunburnt mountain
where the hearts of the canyons pump
red sand into the raging bushveld
and the impala gives a satisfied **** having eaten his fill.
Jinx, no copying hey.
25 Aug 2007, 11:30 am
Grrr,
thankyou very much for that.
later, lets hope we win.
25 Aug 2007, 11:30 am
ethiger
Why don’t you give us your run-up 15 Springboks for the WC, the way you would have chosen them?
I am really interested to see how you think about team selections.
25 Aug 2007, 11:32 am
Typical SA:
Atlantis and the clothing factories closed down because of cheap Chinese imports. The government wants to create work but they stop factories from operating. They want black players… but there is no work for the parents!
The race card club, the merit club and the Australasian club on this site can say what they like but one thing is for sure…. A parent, not the union or the government, the parent… plays the biggest part in the development of a child!
If there are no factories for the parents to work in where will the training balls and nutrition for physical development come from?
The anc and the quota club want Africans in the national teams, but they don’t want to develop/invest: less than 200k development money but halve the cabinet is delinquent and together earn more than the green side on SARU balance sheet.
The hypocrites support china but abandon the local factory and its workers, they invest in a foreign soccer coach but the Springbok coach must pick a specialist analyst form the 36% unemployed in SA… etc. etc. etc.!
Typical SA!
25 Aug 2007, 11:35 am
610# 4teen
Dankie man.
Goeie verduideliking.
Maar n dom benadering wat onse leiers volg.
25 Aug 2007, 11:37 am
4teen
Most of SA’s minerals and irons have also been traded of to China for other things. China will soon own most of it in SA. The bubble will burst
25 Aug 2007, 11:38 am
pietman
yes you know us man we like big bucks,they asked a chinese fortune teller about the spingboks prospects in the world cup before they sew them,the teller after looking on his stuff decided on the emblem being upside down.
25 Aug 2007, 11:42 am
ethiger
OK ethiger, thanx man. Big bucks and no effort, I know.
Now your ‘transformation team’, #609?
Who are they?
Show me yours and I’ll show you mine, which would be twice as good as yours, I bet you.
Put your big bucks where your big mouth is!
25 Aug 2007, 11:44 am
pietman
here they are
1.guthro
2.bismark
3.bj
4.bakkies
5.matfield
6.floors
7.schalk
8.smith
9.ricky
10.pretorius
11.habana
12.julies
13.fouri
14.pietersen
15.steyn
so you can comment on them
25 Aug 2007, 11:46 am
614# ethiger
And remember, you need to have 10 ethnic blacks in there, not ‘coloureds’, as Stofile called them.
I don’t have that problem, my team will be selected purely on merit.
OK?
25 Aug 2007, 11:46 am
now you can show me yours
25 Aug 2007, 11:49 am
It’s amazing what some like Cheeky will say to keep the BEE shonky money coming in!
25 Aug 2007, 11:51 am
i am not stofile am i?I selected the team which i think is representative for now and capable of winning the world cup.
25 Aug 2007, 11:53 am
ethiger
Good my man, that is a really good team.
The problem is it won’t fly with your friends Komphela & co., I think. You think they would be happy with your choice?
Not if you read Stofile’s latest declaration of about a week ago (unless he changed his mind again).
He said specifically ten players of ‘ethnic’ origin.
I see you also didn’t include Luke! I agree with that 100%.
And I am not sure I would have started with Kabamba, but I can live with that.
Yes, ok, I will go with you on #615.
It is good, if you can get it past the politicians.
25 Aug 2007, 11:54 am
come pietman be a man and show me your team.
25 Aug 2007, 11:59 am
Cheeky and Luke should move to Zim this is their chance to proof that our racist system does not work. As coach and captain they will have the support of the whole nation & could obtain enormous victories for wannabe politicians that could or never will make it in rugby let alone on SPRINGBOK level, ********…
25 Aug 2007, 12:13 pm
622
why would they wanna move to zim,why don’t you move to iceland.
25 Aug 2007, 12:25 pm
Pietman,
Stop believing everything that is said. Elections are coming up. Strategies are simple:
* ANC: Pressure the Verkramptes
* DA: Beware the Swart Gevaar
Lots of hot air very little actual implementation
25 Aug 2007, 12:26 pm
Rugby has not produced one “legend” black player,and never will.Whites dominate rugby,as Blacks dominate basketball.
25 Aug 2007, 12:28 pm
6213 ethiger
No, I will go with your team.
Cannot improve on that one much.
Except maybe John Smith, for reasons of captaincy.
25 Aug 2007, 12:30 pm
624# saffa
Yes, I figured that much.
That’s politics, I’m afraid.
25 Aug 2007, 12:34 pm
626# ethiger
I just fear ‘our’ team might not satisfy the ‘transformists’ in government.
I think would like to see less ‘white’ faces’ there.
25 Aug 2007, 12:43 pm
The conservative,
Advice: Sh*t stir when the blog is full. Pointless sh*t stirring on a Saturday morning with only a handfull of lonely souls online.
25 Aug 2007, 12:44 pm
Folks i am gonna move this off the homepage, if you wish to continue this discussion it will be in the archives.
25 Aug 2007, 12:45 pm
pietman. if you go back and read all your comments you will see that you are a very angry and bitter man. Hatred and venom spew out of your mouth towards the watsons for whatever reason. Maybe you are simply jealous that journalists from around the world arent interested in your thoughts and opinions but only cheekys??? You are not even objective in your reasoning. just bitter and twisted. the only platform you have is this website. shame. did cheeky do something to you personally?
25 Aug 2007, 12:47 pm
jhs
Sorry, case closed.
We are about to check out.
Next time wake up earlier if you need my attention.
25 Aug 2007, 12:48 pm
ethiger
Catch you later.
25 Aug 2007, 13:18 pm
#631…
Don’t get personal if you lack the ability to reason against good knowledge of SA rugby and the Rugby history. Or in this case… the truth!
Pietman knocked you 6/0!
I see/read you like making profound personal assumptions… just remember:
Assumption, is the mother of all fruckups!
25 Aug 2007, 13:24 pm
ethiger, about your team (#615)
Do you think ricky is better than du Preez (the world’s best No9) or would you not select du Preez because he is white?
And you complain that other people are racists!
25 Aug 2007, 13:43 pm
If water is water, blood is blood,
White is Black, Black is human and
The righteous conquering evil everyday…
If they were “white”, how many dark players would earn their stay?
25 Aug 2007, 14:15 pm
how many players of colour are stuck playing provisional or club rugby for the rest of there careers tim dualane is currently a ‘medi assistant’ never heard of a white player do that
25 Aug 2007, 15:08 pm
#610 4teen, i don’t know why i bother but here goes: Atlantis was created by the previous government as a strategy to move people of colour out of rural towns. Factories were given tax holidays and other incentives to move there to create a colouredstan. When the tax holiday ended (i think it was 5 years), most companies having made the bucks upped and left. Chinese imports may now be a new problem, but not the original cause of what we see today and its not pretty out there.
25 Aug 2007, 15:17 pm
BTW guys the reason we have ‘idiots’ (wise men trying to sort out the **** that is SA sport) is because of the idiots (no quotes) who introduced separate development, group areas, butu education, job reservation, the immorality act, pass laws, independent homelands and disenfranchised 90% of the population, so, have *** and travel!
25 Aug 2007, 15:27 pm
#638…Interesting:
Why I know about the Atlantis thing was because of a Carte Blanche program where they interviewed workers and owners.
As you know it’s an investigative program and they also interviewed someone from the ministry. I if my duck are all in `n row his replay was sweet and short: We are putting some quotas in place to prevent this.
The investigation was not just about Atlantis alone but the clothing industry in general and the effect of Chinese imports.
Atlantis was know as the clothing “Mecca” in SA and they did there interviews there.
The last thing I heard was that all retailers selling Chinese clothing must indicate the land of origin to let the buyers decide if they are going to buy it.
25 Aug 2007, 16:23 pm
640 posts later and you guys are still at each others throats, Keo & Co. sure gets a whole lot of mileage out of these emotive politically charged and character assassinating threads, at least its obvious what really grabs all of our attention, when we can fling mud at one another thats exactly what SA rugby enthusiasts love more than ever, the more divided we are the happier we seem to be.
25 Aug 2007, 17:27 pm
#640 4teen all the people in the clothing industry were fvcked up beyond repair before chinese imports. Ask carte blanche to do a story on that, its not ecomonic, its political they are poor, uneducated and had no propects. Did you know that the garment industry in this country supplied many of the top nations with rugby jerseys? That was before globalisation and branding, now we get the Canterbury to pay people 1 dollar to make our stuff. Viva Bokke!
20 Feb 2013, 12:12 pm
@jhsmith-12: Looks like Keo cannot win
20 Feb 2013, 12:19 pm
@ryecatcher-643:
What are you up to Ryeman?
6 years between posts here?
20 Feb 2013, 12:26 pm
Back to the future part 4
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