Durban’s new Playboy
12 Feb 2008
Frederic Michalak is a model, a gay icon and music producer. But he wants you to remember him as a rugby player.
SA Rugby magazine visited the French flyhalf in Durban on the eve of the Super 14 to extract the man behind the hype.
“I’m here for the rugby and not for the party as some would have you believe,” he says. “I’ve always dreamt of playing Super Rugby and I’m not going to blow my opportunity.”
In the mag, Michalak reveals why he joined the Sharks, which Sharks players he rates and why this pre-season has been the toughest of his career. He also explains the meaning behind his tattoos, why he prefers children to adults and why he’s a big fan of hip hop.
In the new issue of SA Rugby magazine:
– Peter de Villiers on apartheid, Luke and Cheeky Watson, playing an expansive game against the All Blacks, and what he would have told Heyneke Meyer after the Bok coach announcement
– Nick Mallett on life in Rome
– Stofile: Mad Mike or Iron Mike? You decide?
– Neil de Kock sizzles for Saracens (but still dreams of playing for the Boks again)
– Super 14 focus: Big Joe, Jongi Nokwe, Conrad Jantjes and Wikus van Heerden
– Why the President’s Council should not be running SA Rugby
– Lost Pumas: Argentina’s battle for recognition
– Bob Skinstad joins our team of columnists
– Giant 2008 fixtures poster
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12 Feb 2008, 09:49 am
#192 – I would love to join you for a drink. I have also promised the Bullbellies a meet and greet….Jonty G, could you please send Katman my email addie if you have the time oh busy webmaster.
I don’t need knucklebusters…..I have whips and chains…
12 Feb 2008, 09:51 am
198 – Score predictions ( not picking players)
12 Feb 2008, 09:52 am
201
To quote the old nursery rhyme :
sticks and stones may break my bones
but whips and chains excite me…
12 Feb 2008, 09:52 am
Katman
Serious now, lets have a beer at the Springbok Pub (it thats what it called) the one in the raiway carriage! Make around three?
12 Feb 2008, 09:53 am
not personally, of course, you know what i mean, oh damn!
12 Feb 2008, 09:53 am
AB – Why would we fly to Durbs to watch Freddie play? Dear Saints, we have Peter Grant, Luke watson, the delicious Pieter Louw and many more “icons” to keep our metrosexual/bisexual/heterosexual/homosexual cravings fully satisfied….
12 Feb 2008, 09:54 am
There goes my spelling for a ball of Stormers!
12 Feb 2008, 09:54 am
#204 – You will not be able to MOOVVEEE in that pub from midday already dude.
12 Feb 2008, 09:55 am
ruck
I forgot about those boys! Must be the old age!
12 Feb 2008, 09:56 am
206 ruck
because in durban our *** icons play rugby, not “Ring a Ring of Rosies, All fall down – ooh, look at the pretty grass – why all the big blue bullies jumping up and down on our herads – I WANT MY MUMMY!!!!”
12 Feb 2008, 09:57 am
Fairy Tales for a new genreation :
1. Goldilocks Dies With Honour at the Hands of the Three Bears.
2. Snow White and the Six Dwarfs She Killed with Her Bare Hands and the Seventh Dwarf She Let Get Away as a Warning to Others.
3. There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe With a Big Spike on It.
4. The Three Little Pigs Build an Improvised Explosive Device and Deal With that Damned Wolf Once and for All.
5. Jack and the Giant Settle Their Differences with Flaming Knives.
6. Old Mother Hubbard, Lacking the Means to Support Herself with Honour, Sets Her Disruptor on Self-Destruct and Waits for the Inevitable.
7. Mary Had a Little Lamb. It Was Delicious.
8. Little Red Riding Hood Strays into the Neutral Zone and Is Never Heard from Again, Although There Are Rumours … Awful, Awful Rumours.
9. Hansel and Gretel Offend Vlad the Impaler.
10. The Hare Foolishly Lowers His Guard and Is Devastated by the Tortoise, Whose Prowess in Battle Attracts Many Desirable Mates.
12 Feb 2008, 09:57 am
ruck
I am bringing some rugby icons with! They usually manage a seat in the house! And you are all welcome to join us!
12 Feb 2008, 09:58 am
Where is this drinks business so I may also attend.
12 Feb 2008, 10:00 am
ok sharktime, how do i go about getting into your pool?
12 Feb 2008, 10:00 am
#210 – LOL. Say that to Bolla Conradies face dude, and the term “gang bang” will suddenly take on a whole new meaning for you..
And when out boys do cry for mummy, you can be sure EVERY mummy in the Western Cape runs to sooth them….
12 Feb 2008, 10:00 am
Balitoboy
Calm down and remember the S14 cup is with those you so enthusiastically describe. And if they took it in a game with you, what does that make the sharks?
12 Feb 2008, 10:00 am
again, goddit, dont worry..
12 Feb 2008, 10:01 am
Come on AB … I’m gonna be at that railway pub too.
12 Feb 2008, 10:02 am
I am surprised no-one has picked up on THIS in the magazine preview, the bit where the promo reads, Michalak explains why he prefers CHILDREN to ADULTS….(Japie M?)
12 Feb 2008, 10:02 am
Balitoboy
Sorry I misread that post, early morning effects.
Appologies!
12 Feb 2008, 10:03 am
#212 – Not Joost? PLEASE….I will join you, thank you for the invite.
12 Feb 2008, 10:03 am
216 AB
All in good jest, my friend. Maybe you want me to put a smiley face after my comments?
Besides, the roots of our fingernails are still stuck to the base of the S14 cup and the pain, oh the pain….
But at least we lost it to a fellow SA team
12 Feb 2008, 10:04 am
Dawn
See now I keep forgetting this morning! I even invited Katman for a drink! Forgetting that he hates my guts!
12 Feb 2008, 10:04 am
219, LOL freddy michaelak jackson.
12 Feb 2008, 10:07 am
AB – apology accepted – now can we have our bloody cup back please
12 Feb 2008, 10:08 am
ruck, mail me at katman1973@gmail.com
AB, The Springbok pub is going to be fooking packed. But I guess Forries and any other pub in the area too. I’m hooking up with Bod, so still waiting for confirmation on where.
12 Feb 2008, 10:08 am
#225 – LOL. Sinner.
12 Feb 2008, 10:11 am
#226 – Will do dude. We must take up AB’s kind offer 2.
AB: I hope you are not counting Cuzzy in as one of the icons you are bringing? And on that note, if you speak to him…tell him I say Good luck for tomm (dit is mos more wat sy vrou ingaan ne?)
12 Feb 2008, 10:11 am
katman wat vir my so eenkant gooi soos ‘n ou stuk lap.
12 Feb 2008, 10:11 am
Katman
I will mail you as well so we can get the logistics sorted.
12 Feb 2008, 10:13 am
Dawn
Mail Katman and join us!
12 Feb 2008, 10:14 am
interestng piece by Keo in weird font on the homepage..
12 Feb 2008, 10:14 am
Ha. I know where I’m not wanted.
12 Feb 2008, 10:17 am
Dawn
This is a formal invite from Rugby Supporters Voice to join us. Leave me a message there and I will mail you!
12 Feb 2008, 10:18 am
hello crackers!
only a couple days till our frenchie “icon” takes the western farce apart!
go sharkies!! i will be at the game, drinking beer and screaming my lungs out.
must say, though i am neutral, the bulls vs stormers game is also one i am looking forward to after all the hype on keo.
on a lighter note, we are all apes (we belong to the primate family, the great apes to be precise). some more than others it seems.
12 Feb 2008, 10:18 am
Dawnie, I’ve already decided to give you Saturday afternoon off. Don’t make me reconsider this.
12 Feb 2008, 10:18 am
Work your fingers to the bone every day to keep that house clean and those dogs fed and washing that Landie and this is what I get.
12 Feb 2008, 10:20 am
dawn
you shoulda known it when you first set eyes on the best 4x4xtar!
12 Feb 2008, 10:21 am
Dawn, I’m also thinking of getting you a ticket – standing, of course, together with your people. But you seem to be snapping away at the hand that feeds.
12 Feb 2008, 10:22 am
ha katman, got me smiling again!
12 Feb 2008, 10:23 am
Dawn, I can get you a ticket. I have 2 extra for the Crusaders game in 2 wks time as well. SO, you don’t even need to look at “the hand that apparently feeds you”
12 Feb 2008, 10:24 am
howdy ruckles!!!
you must be in a frenzy by now!
12 Feb 2008, 10:25 am
And I thought we were all Neanderthals, but then Neanderthals are also propbably part of the Ape family, only differntiated by their ability to use a keyboard and click the submit button.
12 Feb 2008, 10:30 am
#242 – Howdy Ranger…You betya. The blood is boiling. I am alternating my Stormers shirts, t-shirts, tank tops, and my I AM A STORMER Adidas gym top daily. (This leaves NO-ONE who encounters me anywhere, in any doubt as to who I support, and how excited I am about the S14)
Reckon The Quokka throwing/Steroid abusing/Drunk and disorderly Perth trash ******** will give yr boys a good game? I think so…gonna be a great one 2. (The Force are a force this year – me thinks)
12 Feb 2008, 10:32 am
hey super
apparently, fossil evidence of neanderthals and **** erectus living at the same time, in the same area, has been discovered. the neanderthals, though more powerful physically, were outcompeted by the direct ancestors of **** sapiens (us) and have been found with brutal wounds to the skull, indicating the possibility of the earliest genocide on record (by **** erectus). how this relates to the bulls vs stormers i will leave up to wiser minds than mine to decide.
12 Feb 2008, 10:32 am
Jammer baas.
Ek sal so graag wil gaan saam.
Ruck yes please organise me a ticket would kill to see this game.
12 Feb 2008, 10:34 am
ja ruckles, the force will be hard to beat. nervous as hell!
hope you have a good one on sat and i will be watching keenly for dissident behaviour in the railway stand!
12 Feb 2008, 10:38 am
Dawn, Here is my “alter ego” email addie….I can’t give my preferred one live, as I fear some of the Bulls fans I have aggravated might start harassing me…..but you can mail me stormerbabe@gmail.com
Ranger, you will see me first should there be any “trouble”. I have watched the Football Hooligans International documentaries carefully….I know what my firm expects of me, and I won’t hesitate to deliver.
12 Feb 2008, 10:43 am
ruck,
Ek sal you stalk as jy jou mail addie hier op Keo gee…
12 Feb 2008, 10:43 am
sounds like you and dawn will be starting your own “firm”. i have read about the rise of woman gangs so i know how dangerous this prospect is!
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