Matfield’s flank fling
11 Mar 2008
The world’s best lock has been playing flank. They do things a little differently at Toulon Rugby Club.
It would be unheard of in South Africa for Matfield trade shirt No. 5 for No. 7. He has no equal when it comes to lock play. His analyses of, and ability to read and torment opposition jumpers is legendary, while is skill and athleticism in loose play is unmatched.
There was, however, method to head coach Tana Umaga’s madness. Matfield, speaking to keo.co.za from his home in the picturesque suburb of Carquieranne, picks up the story of his three matches in unfamiliar territory.
“The whole purpose behind the switch was to enable me to get my hands on the ball more,” Matfield explains. “The coaching staff wanted me to be more involved in the loose, and they felt I had the necessary skills to succeed as a flanker.
“The adjustment was a fairly easy one to make. There’s not many differences other than packing down at a different place in the scrum. I still played the same role I always have in the lineouts – making the calls and being the primary jumper.
“I enjoyed the couple of matches I played there, but I think they realised I was best utilised at lock, so I’m back there for this weekend’s match [Matfield will be partnered by former Bulls team-mate Francois van Schouwenburg].”
Toulon currently top the log in Pro Division 2, four points clear of Stade Montois and a further 10 points clear of the ambitious Paris-based Racing Metro [two teams are promoted to the Top 14]. They have, however, dropped points on the road, putting them under pressure going into the closing stages of the season.
“It’s getting tight now but we’ve got a good, experienced side, so I’m confident we will cope with the pressure,” he said. “The key is to get a couple of away wins [they've lost their last three away games] because that’s been our weakness this season.”
Asked what he made of the Bulls’ indifferent form this season, Matfield sympathized with his former franchise but was in no doubt that their form graph would show an upward curve in the coming weeks.
“The key is to focus on the week ahead and not be overly fixated on setting goals for the [Australasian] tour,” he said. “You get into trouble the moment you start looking ahead and lose focus on the task at hand.
“I’m sure they’ll bounce back. They’ve played some good rugby this season – people lose sight of that. They dominated for 30 minutes against an excellent Crusaders side, and should have been 15 points up with 10 minutes to go against the Sharks. I think inexperience cost them in those matches, with guys like Bakkies Botha, Bryan Habana and Akona Ndungane missing.
“But they’re back now which is a huge boost. They’ve been playing some good rugby in my opinion. They key is getting some momentum on tour, which would allow them to make a big charge in the latter part of the campaign.”
By Ryan Vrede
242 Comments
11 Mar 2008, 14:30 pm
Umaga has lost his dragons!
11 Mar 2008, 14:42 pm
Nice one Wez.
Gee, Ryan. You doin’ a helluva lot of reporting lately!
Bladdy French. Screw everything up. I heard Toulon are looking for a wing. And Albert VD Berg’s been approached…
11 Mar 2008, 14:43 pm
I can actually see Matfield as a flank. Very athletic and fast, good hands and the extra weight.
When back at the Bulls maybe play him flank and Roussouw and Bakkies at lock.
With Spies and Wickus they can form a devestating combination.
Oh and he is at least 2m taller than little Lulu
11 Mar 2008, 14:49 pm
Tana he can also play centre or on the wing because he spend a lot of time there playing for the Bulls!
11 Mar 2008, 14:52 pm
#4 Pink
Agree. Uli Schmidt started that trend of hanging out on the wing. Did his best work out there.
11 Mar 2008, 14:53 pm
Xkreni, did you see that the Sharks used Daniel on a few occasions at the lineout? He [like most people] is taller than Loooooooke.
11 Mar 2008, 14:56 pm
The Lions also used Big Joe on Outside centre from a scrum against you Bulls. Jaco packed down on the side of the scrum. Pity it didn’t work.
11 Mar 2008, 15:07 pm
Bloody alliteration.
Ryan you behemoth.
11 Mar 2008, 15:08 pm
#8 Nou wat nou Dawnertjie ?
11 Mar 2008, 15:10 pm
“Flank fling.”
All the headlines are the same.
11 Mar 2008, 15:10 pm
Ja , Ryan digging deep the last few weeks to write something to keep the mob reading
11 Mar 2008, 15:12 pm
Sitting there in France, eating late continental breakfasts and sipping cappucinos, and pretending it’s work!
Bloody capitalist Monarchs.
11 Mar 2008, 15:13 pm
French don’t do cappacinos. Black unsugared coffee with the obligatory croissant more like it
11 Mar 2008, 15:15 pm
Isin’t Umaga that 200 kg oke from WWE?
11 Mar 2008, 15:16 pm
#14 ha ha. good one
11 Mar 2008, 15:16 pm
Bakkies and WO both pulled their hamstrings in training today.
11 Mar 2008, 15:16 pm
speaking of wwe i see vince macmahon is getting his star on hollywood boardwalk today. contributions to entertainment
11 Mar 2008, 15:19 pm
pompa
Looks like they pulled each other’s hamstrings.
11 Mar 2008, 15:20 pm
Ja there’s been alot of pulling going on in the Bulls camp!
11 Mar 2008, 15:22 pm
pompa are you talking kak or the truth?
11 Mar 2008, 15:23 pm
19
Maybe they should start pulling their heads out their arses and things will be better
11 Mar 2008, 15:23 pm
Pompa, are you serious?
11 Mar 2008, 15:26 pm
I am serious, read it on news24
11 Mar 2008, 15:28 pm
Pompa, regardles of the injuries. what is your story with the innuendo? I think it will take me 1 guess to know who you support.
11 Mar 2008, 15:28 pm
pompa is ‘n mannetjies gans
11 Mar 2008, 15:31 pm
Bulls land in Brisbane
11/03/2008 13:31
Pretoria – The Bulls have landed safely in Brisbane and completed their first training session during which Bakkies Botha and Wynand Olivier injured their hamstrings.
The extent of their injuries aren’t known at this stage but good news is that Fourie du Preez recovered from his hand injury that he picked up against the Lions and Derick Kuun’s rib injury is something of the past.
The Bulls play the Reds on Saturday (kick-off 11:05 SA time) before playing the Chiefs, Blues and Force on their overseas tour.
11 Mar 2008, 15:32 pm
Thanks Loskop. Damn I hope its not serious.
11 Mar 2008, 15:32 pm
#21 pauld
non controversial as usual i see
11 Mar 2008, 15:33 pm
#27 Kwagga
Bakkies is a loss. That clown Wynand certainly isn’t so no need to get your knickers in a twist
11 Mar 2008, 15:34 pm
pauld
i see your Stormers managed to sneak a win on the weekend!!
11 Mar 2008, 15:34 pm
#28 4an
Howzit boet. Yes , am just getting warmed up today. You should have seen me yesterday. Quite surprised I wasn’t banned by G-spot or whoever is the moddermaker these days
11 Mar 2008, 15:34 pm
Paul
Only reason I am worried is becuase we’ve fukc all to replace him with.
11 Mar 2008, 15:35 pm
#30 4Man
About bloody time too. Rassie has realised that you cant defend for 80 minutes. You need the tries. Stormers to finish mid-table
11 Mar 2008, 15:36 pm
#32 Kwagga
Your manager , Wynie , could replace him. Hell , I could.
11 Mar 2008, 15:36 pm
yeah but if wynand can’t play, who will play fullback? maybe ndungane.
11 Mar 2008, 15:36 pm
Wys jou maar net hoe inaccurate die media reports is. Vrydag aand na die game report Kobus Wiese dat dit lyk asof Kuun se toer verby is. 4 dae later en hy is reg?
As die injuries maar net so vinnig vir AP en Mossie kon verby gaan, dan het die Lions dalk nie met ‘n soveelste wooden spoon gedobbel nie.
11 Mar 2008, 15:37 pm
29. if WO does 250 things right, consecutively, he may be a rugby player one day. besides having no confidence, he’s got no clue. He should go and join Marius Joubert and ressurect his career while there’s still something. Or he’s facing a career threatening hamstring injury.
11 Mar 2008, 15:38 pm
You busy this weekend……………….damn that sounded woes skeef…….to play ruggas I mean
11 Mar 2008, 15:39 pm
shooter
I am Lions supporter, but my best buddy plays for the Bulls, so loyalty is divede between the two!
11 Mar 2008, 15:39 pm
Saturday was WO’s best game in ages. FL must not bring JP Nel back into the starting line up. Replace Kirschner with Mongweni. If only the Bulls had signed Shimange last season as hooker. Now Kuun has injured his ribs and they are in kak for a replacement.
11 Mar 2008, 15:39 pm
#39 Pompa
I hope your best buddy is not Wynand
11 Mar 2008, 15:40 pm
pompa, ja just having a stupid dig. I thought you were a lion
11 Mar 2008, 15:40 pm
#39 Who is your buddy Pompa?
We might as well take to the field with 14 players. We getting used to it by now. A 15th player might only get in the way..
11 Mar 2008, 15:41 pm
pauld
No THANK HEAVEN for that!!!
11 Mar 2008, 15:42 pm
#44 Pompa
Must be that meathead JP Nel then ?
11 Mar 2008, 15:42 pm
hello kwagga, game geniet?
11 Mar 2008, 15:42 pm
Kwagga
Jong ek weet nie of ek sy naam moet noem nie, daar gaan BAIE vra wees as ek dit doen!
11 Mar 2008, 15:43 pm
11 Mar 2008, 15:43 pm
Ek hoop Kuun toer saam met die Bulls. Wil graag sien hoe word hy hard gemoer deur Mealamu!!
11 Mar 2008, 15:43 pm
jp nel is my hero!
11 Mar 2008, 15:44 pm
pauld
Actually JP is not a bad oke but no its not him!
11 Mar 2008, 15:45 pm
I parked in a disabled space today and a traffic warden shouted to me. ‘Oi, what’s your disability?’
I said ‘Tourettes! Now f*** off you c***!’
11 Mar 2008, 15:45 pm
Shooter.
Ja erg baie. myself weer wan gedra na die tyd en Saterdag n ongeskikte kopseer aan my gehad maar alles ten goede.
Pompa
Skiet dan maar n bynaam ek sallie vrae vra nie. Die res van julle mag nie vir pompa kuk vrae vra oor sy pel nie gehoor?
11 Mar 2008, 15:45 pm
11 Mar 2008, 15:46 pm
#51 Pompa
You are making this tough. So far we have eliminated 2 members of the squad. Do we continue going through the other 20 names now ?
11 Mar 2008, 15:46 pm
Poma, are you WO’s hairdresser?
11 Mar 2008, 15:46 pm
Kwagga almal ken omterent net sy bynaam, nou behoort jy n idee te he.
11 Mar 2008, 15:47 pm
#52 bwhahahahahaha. my father in law pulled the same stunt only his response was “I cant read” Nearly shat myself!!
11 Mar 2008, 15:47 pm
Pompa, Meisiekind or Bakkies?
11 Mar 2008, 15:48 pm
Liefling? Are you Lieflings liefling?
11 Mar 2008, 15:49 pm
Nee dan dink ek ek weet. Sallie verder vra nie.
11 Mar 2008, 15:49 pm
No I am Mienkie’s liefling!!
11 Mar 2008, 15:50 pm
62
so it is WO. he’s the only one in that squad that you can refer to as mienkie!
11 Mar 2008, 15:51 pm
#62 G’n wonder jou nic is Pompa……..
11 Mar 2008, 15:51 pm
So you are Fat Boy, Captain Usless, Burger King: Grame Smith?
11 Mar 2008, 15:52 pm
63, 64
11 Mar 2008, 15:52 pm
No his boobs is to small Mienkie is 36DD
11 Mar 2008, 15:54 pm
#67 Ooeeee my swak fokkin hart…..
11 Mar 2008, 15:54 pm
Sorry Loosehead Im to thin to ne Greame Smith and I score more often than him!
11 Mar 2008, 15:55 pm
36DD of ek sê neeee!
11 Mar 2008, 15:55 pm
#69 Pompa
We should change your name to PIMPA. Sounds like you da man wid da ho’s
11 Mar 2008, 15:56 pm
Sorry spelling, this afrikaans man struggle with the taal of the enemy!
11 Mar 2008, 15:57 pm
#72
Ja Pimpa. You doesnt write this language so deliciously. Porridge tyre and manure pulling over the mountain which makes your chestbox pull close
11 Mar 2008, 15:57 pm
72.
All of the ho’s are just trying to make an honest living!
11 Mar 2008, 15:58 pm
“and I score more often than him!”
Comment by pompa : March 11, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
of course, its only human! i’m sure it quite difficult to say no to yourself. who would know any way!!??
i’m sure it sound something like this: ” mienkie, as ek jou nou innie hanne kry …. jeehaaa!!”
11 Mar 2008, 15:59 pm
I speeks this tale very diliciously since I was twice. It are our home tale…..
11 Mar 2008, 15:59 pm
Matfield would make a superb 7 under the new laws… he’s quick, he has good skills and he doesn’t like to get involved in the tight play anyway.
What’s to stop him wearing 7, but operating at 4 in the lineout anyway?
11 Mar 2008, 15:59 pm
74.
I is trying Deliciously hard to spell good.
11 Mar 2008, 16:00 pm
Later folks, must go do some work.
11 Mar 2008, 16:00 pm
#76 Ja , twice upon a time
11 Mar 2008, 16:00 pm
#78 Try wif your udder hand
11 Mar 2008, 16:01 pm
Kwagga
Sien jy is op ‘n roll hier……
11 Mar 2008, 16:02 pm
Waaroor gaan hierdie gesprek?
11 Mar 2008, 16:03 pm
Mirrag K9 wat gaan aan daar by jou?
11 Mar 2008, 16:03 pm
lol 52
11 Mar 2008, 16:04 pm
84
Oor Mienkie se 36DD’S
11 Mar 2008, 16:06 pm
Kwagga
By gaan daar niks aan nie…….Leeus maak my depressief!!!!!Fark!!!!
Pompa
Jyt nou my volle aandag.
11 Mar 2008, 16:06 pm
#86
Moet sê hulle voel nie so groot nie.
11 Mar 2008, 16:07 pm
#52 pauld
LMAO, but I doubt the cops in England understand Tourettes…as the whole country has it, even the women.
KWAGGA
you are good value for money today too. I think your Bulls are going to do alright oorsee ****. i hope Bakkies is not badly injured.
~77 Robdylan, thats what Vic has been doing, but they are playing him at lock again this weekend.
How’s Scotland punish England on Saturday…loved it, buggered up my Superbru, but it was worth it
11 Mar 2008, 16:07 pm
K9 Nee kyk ek sou ook my eie gat wou skop as my span games so weg donner!!
11 Mar 2008, 16:08 pm
Mienkie ek wonder, ek wonder as blond is daar bo is blond daar onder??
11 Mar 2008, 16:10 pm
Thanks 4 man.
11 Mar 2008, 16:11 pm
Kwagga dink jy Bakkies nonsens is al uitgesort, of kom hier nog k#k?
11 Mar 2008, 16:13 pm
#91 PIMPA
Hopelik is daar niks daar onder nie. N mooi glad geskeerde kolfblad wat baie bounce aan die boulers gee en redelik draai vat in die tweede beurt
11 Mar 2008, 16:14 pm
Pompa.
Nee hy is onskuldig bevind so daar is niks surprizes nie. Manne moet hulle koppe nou begin reg kry en besef hulle word dopgehou en ophou kuk aanjaag!!
11 Mar 2008, 16:15 pm
#94 Blink pitch met baie wip…….
11 Mar 2008, 16:15 pm
Puald
Daar is niks soos goeie bounce nie!! en nog lekkerder as daar n bietjie draai ook is!!
11 Mar 2008, 16:16 pm
#96 kwagga
en dan kan die manne met die langstele inle soos edwil altyd gese het
11 Mar 2008, 16:17 pm
Al wat pla is as die pitch begin kraak op dag drie en vier. Spel op die vyfde dag is feitlik onmoontlik
11 Mar 2008, 16:17 pm
Sorry ek is vulger, ek is eintlik is eintlik n soet getroude jong man wat nie oor ander mense se droee of nat pitches praat nie!
11 Mar 2008, 16:18 pm
Hou daarvan om myself te vestig en vir lang innings te bat. Net nie die bat oppie grond slaan nie………
11 Mar 2008, 16:18 pm
Kwagga
As die picth kraak moet jy net op die regte plekke boul!
11 Mar 2008, 16:19 pm
Kwagga,
As daai pitch nog blink….is die WAX nog daar…..
Hello mense!!
Net kom in loer moet nou weer gaan……jissie dink ek is nou lus om bietjie te gaan bat!!
11 Mar 2008, 16:19 pm
#102 bwahahahaha. Dis hoekom mens moet kante ruil!!!!
11 Mar 2008, 16:20 pm
#99 Kwagga
As dit gebeur dan moet jy van die paweljoen kant af begin boul
11 Mar 2008, 16:20 pm
Op die 5de dag is daai kraak baie groot…….onspeelbaar!!!!
11 Mar 2008, 16:20 pm
#130 Hallo Steyntjie!!
Jou bat goed ge-olie?
11 Mar 2008, 16:21 pm
#105 Vertrou myself nie om kante te ruil nie. Het al op n snoeker tafel pienk gemik en bruin gesink……..
11 Mar 2008, 16:21 pm
Kwagga my oog is so in…ek vat sommer die putter!!!…..hehehehe
11 Mar 2008, 16:21 pm
Manne ek jaag nou huistoe om te gaan “kolf/boul”
Cheers praat weer more.
11 Mar 2008, 16:22 pm
Maar die bal se naat is ook dan al sag……..nie lekker grip nie….
11 Mar 2008, 16:22 pm
#106 k9
op die 5de dag dan moet jy shane warne se sideways slider begin boul om die beste uit daardie wye kraake te kry
11 Mar 2008, 16:23 pm
#cheers pompa
#111 verander die grip en konsentreer op stadigge balle
11 Mar 2008, 16:24 pm
Pauld
Ek verkies die googly. Kom hoog in en skiet laag en vinnig deur…..
11 Mar 2008, 16:24 pm
Al wat ek se is boul die krake raak!
11 Mar 2008, 16:24 pm
#112 Goeie heupe in die boulaksie dan haal jy die beste uit n dooie blad uit..
11 Mar 2008, 16:24 pm
Pompa
Moenie te vinnig probeer boul nie. Lyn en lengte!!!!
11 Mar 2008, 16:25 pm
#114 K9
Moenie die chinaman vergeet nie. I like chinese , they only come up to your knees , they will muffdive you with ease etc
11 Mar 2008, 16:25 pm
#116 Haaaaahahahahaha
11 Mar 2008, 16:27 pm
Kort balle maak nie saak as jy goeie lengte het nie..
11 Mar 2008, 16:27 pm
England coach Brian Ashton has been forced to do the unthinkable – drop one of rugby’s most famous names, Jonny Wilkinson.
11 Mar 2008, 16:27 pm
K9
Sorry ons jonges dink dit gaan oor spoed, maar jy moet nogsteeds die pitch hard slaan met n bietjie swaai!!
11 Mar 2008, 16:29 pm
Like swingers fukol……
11 Mar 2008, 16:29 pm
#122 Pimpa
Smaak my jy’s n international bowler. Boul orals op die pitch
11 Mar 2008, 16:29 pm
hey, ouens. het enigeen van julle die e-mail adres van die boots & all span?
11 Mar 2008, 16:30 pm
boots@superrugby.co.za
11 Mar 2008, 16:30 pm
Pompa
Bounce hom van ‘n goeie lengte af…..selfs op ‘n dooie en droë pitch….
11 Mar 2008, 16:32 pm
Nee ooo magtig laat ek my fotos en my lemoene vat. Die pitch gaan rol. Voel hier kom n groot game!!
Cheers pompa K9 Pauld.
11 Mar 2008, 16:32 pm
Kwagga
Pitch hom net buite die wegpen en swing hom in…..
11 Mar 2008, 16:33 pm
Cheers Kwagga…..pasop vir ‘n rugbesering.
11 Mar 2008, 16:34 pm
#128 Sonie speel ek maar weer teen myself…….
11 Mar 2008, 16:36 pm
Bloody hell, los die site vir 20 minute en dan is daar oor die 80 hits!
Toe ke begin lees toe besef ek heokom die site so populer is.
Ek is nie baie populer nie, want ek lag kliphard in die kantoor en steur die ander.
Ai tog, die kolfblad is darem interessant, moet hom eers goed uitkyk voordat jy besluit wat jy gaan doen.
11 Mar 2008, 16:44 pm
Keo kan bly wees hy het nie n krieket site nie. Ons sal vir hom uitboul net die Fopbal. Regby , effens tru
11 Mar 2008, 16:44 pm
2.00m 115kg flanker
shades of FC Smit
11 Mar 2008, 16:46 pm
#134 G13G
But a lot quicker. FC only had 2 speeds. Dead slow and stop. Even that skinny runt from the Free State managed to tackle him in 1991 at the OVS stadium. Brian something
11 Mar 2008, 16:53 pm
I JUST ****** HATE IT WHEN MEN BOWL WIDES AND NO BALLS…….
11 Mar 2008, 16:53 pm
yes yes..but great back of lineout man old FC
that streaker still banned from CT?
11 Mar 2008, 16:54 pm
#136 – Or they just can’t HIT the blessed stumps.
11 Mar 2008, 16:54 pm
#136 Ruck
Been a while. Where you been ? Practicing your batting on a flat pitch ?
11 Mar 2008, 16:55 pm
#139 Ruck
The forward defensive position.
11 Mar 2008, 16:55 pm
yeah that steaker made a grreat tackle, piet van zyl wasn’t that mobile either, esp after AJ had given him a short one…
11 Mar 2008, 16:56 pm
#141 Cab
Yes that fat ignoramous was an embarassment
11 Mar 2008, 16:57 pm
lol Pauld…no-one knew what was cutting.
i still cant underertand how mchugh dilocated his shoulder, piet the ‘boep’ didn’t seem to do much?
11 Mar 2008, 17:00 pm
Mccaw also klapped Piet Van Zyl!
11 Mar 2008, 17:00 pm
You must love old Piet Van Zyl tho:
“Don’t forget that the incident happened when the referee closed his one eye and ceased to see the Springboks. I am therefore not sorry that I did what I did. If he, the referee, didn’t do what he did that incident would not have happened.â€
Causes an international sporting incident yet remains completely unrepentant. We are a THICK skinned bunched … he, he, he
11 Mar 2008, 17:00 pm
#139 – Harassing Bully boys up north…arrived back in cultured Europe/CT late last night…
11 Mar 2008, 17:01 pm
If it does not work properly, refs included, i moer it!
11 Mar 2008, 17:03 pm
Pauld: I prefer an attacking batsman personally. One that plays BRAVE CRICKET…the term coined by Tricky Micky.
11 Mar 2008, 17:03 pm
#143 Cab
I think McHugh got such a fright when he saw that Zeppelin headed his way that he dislocated his shoulder when he recolied at the sight of Vet Piet
11 Mar 2008, 17:03 pm
Tribute vir Piet van Zyl
Verskoon net die Brits vir hierie een.
POEM BY PIET
It was just the other Saturday and I was screaming in the stand
when the bladdy stupid referee went and lifted up his hand
“another penalty” he said “and yet again against the boks”
and something in my mind just snapped like the elastic in my jocks.
Piet Potch I said, ou boet you just can’t let this go
someones gotta get out there and kill the flippin ou.
I stumbled to the field vision blurred with all the dop
I fell clear over the advert board and landed on my kop.
No-one even checked me, no-one saw me coming
and then before I knew it I was up and running.
Now remember boet, a wing I was when I still played the game
and when I hit my sprinting stride it still felt all the same.
The crowd they went ballistic, I was sure it was just for me
forgotten were the injuries, even the shaky knee.
The ref he was still blowing, the fools hand up in the air
when I rounded past the scrum and lined him up from there.
I hit him like a whirlwind, all boep and balls and grit.
and down went the Irishman, that ugly little sh*t.
I heard him scream and whimper and even heard him cry
and then that bladdy kiwi lock went and hit me in the eye.
Corne was there too and I thought he’d come and help
and whip the bladdy Kiwi and make the bugger yelp.
but no, they went and left me to the mercy of the guards
and the jail and the courts, the whole nine yards.
would I do it again, you bet your broek I would
and so should you okes, you really really should
Coz the bokke are the bokke and no ref is ever ever fair
and they better just be careful to check that I’m not there
11 Mar 2008, 17:05 pm
#148 Ruck
You are the batsman and we are the bowlers. Smash us all around the park. Want to see your stike rate up in the high 90′s please
11 Mar 2008, 17:05 pm
Province
11 Mar 2008, 17:07 pm
Beurtkrag has kicked in here again….. running the Notebook with 3G now till the battery farkkkkks out as well……
I hate Eksdom….. really I do…..
11 Mar 2008, 17:10 pm
eishkom
11 Mar 2008, 17:13 pm
#153 – Well I was impressed to see the Spar in Lynwood Pretoria has a generator – and they advertise it well.
11 Mar 2008, 17:14 pm
#155 Ruck
SparKrag
11 Mar 2008, 17:18 pm
Ruck,
Lynnwood….. at least you chose well where to stay in Pretoria…….. the Eastern side of Pretoria is the best….
I see you were talking about Lynnwood Ridge earlier as well….. did you stay there with friends / family ?
I grew up in Lynnwood…… Kings Highway to be exact….. dad still lives there…
11 Mar 2008, 18:07 pm
Is this Super 14 prediction competition still happening?
11 Mar 2008, 18:10 pm
#150 well quoted from the 2002 SA Rugby Magazine.
11 Mar 2008, 18:57 pm
Saffa _Guy # 150
Good laugh. Who wrote it?
11 Mar 2008, 19:09 pm
evening…
11 Mar 2008, 19:14 pm
Howdy doody
11 Mar 2008, 19:15 pm
Eishhhhhhhh Power is still off…..
I hear Eksdom’s schedule giving the dates & areas where loadshedding will be is an absolute farking ballsup…… for instance they have the East Rand area – Ekhuruleni, as being somewhere in the Freestate in stead of East of Josi…
If it was up to Eksdom ALL our foreign visitors would land at Welkom in stead of O R Tambo International….
Arseholes !
Fark, wonder how many babies are conceived in these Load-shedding episodes……
I’ve sent handbriekie and the daughter to Nando’s……. otherwise we’ll never freegin eat tonight !
11 Mar 2008, 19:19 pm
why is it that nothing exciting ever happens on a Tuesday?
11 Mar 2008, 19:29 pm
Yesterday don’t matter if its gone
for Ruby Tuesday
11 Mar 2008, 20:19 pm
well – at least we ain’t spendin em with Mory…
11 Mar 2008, 20:23 pm
why is everything so dead? Is it a power problem?
Where’s the dwarf and his bunch of happy henchjournos? Can’t we even engage in a light verbal sparring joust with them? I mean, desperate times, and all…
11 Mar 2008, 20:24 pm
sparring joust… listening to me mixing my metaphors like a real cretin. Soon you folk will mistake me for a bulls supporter.
11 Mar 2008, 20:36 pm
sorry robbie d I been busy with a house plan
perhaps you still here
11 Mar 2008, 20:38 pm
I am… you an architect, skoppie?
11 Mar 2008, 20:39 pm
Nope a builder, trying to fathom the architects drawing
11 Mar 2008, 20:42 pm
ah. Try turning it upside down?
11 Mar 2008, 20:43 pm
must be a power problem in the rest of the noordelike country else they’d be here vloeking for all they’re worth
11 Mar 2008, 20:44 pm
which part of the country are you in?
11 Mar 2008, 20:46 pm
I tried every which way still can’t work out my A-A section from my B-B, sorted most out by series of defaults though.
11 Mar 2008, 20:46 pm
Kaapschtadt
11 Mar 2008, 20:48 pm
You in Tekweni?
11 Mar 2008, 20:49 pm
Skoppie, never realised that you are in Cape Town?
11 Mar 2008, 20:53 pm
Yeah boerboel south peninsula, ex Springs and Parktown and Muldersdrift, C.T since ’78
11 Mar 2008, 20:56 pm
Since ’78 is a long time! I was in Stellies since ’73 and then left in ’77 after my degree and came back in ’92.
If you say builder you mean single houses or large buildings?
11 Mar 2008, 20:59 pm
Did any of you watch 3rd degree with Debsy Patta?
Interviewing Simba Makoni. The new dude on the block to lead Zimbabwe. Standing against Mugabe in the 29 March elections. Quite an interesting specimen. He’s an industrialist who although being in the Politburo of Mugabe swears he tried to reform from within ZanuPF until it became untenable and he had to stand against Bob. He will get HUGE support from the ANC I bet. Speaks well but I would like to hear more.
The region needs a break and I pray something fundamental shifts in the right direction. It will release pressure and the aftermath will even take our focus off other issues like the petrol price.
May it rain on Africa.
11 Mar 2008, 21:00 pm
I am in Poland right now
11 Mar 2008, 21:03 pm
houses and small contracts, retaining walls, renovations, additions and the like, what about you, where were you between ’77 and ’92, I was also afwesig ’75 – ’78
hiya jinx, roberto’s time is almost verby, just another couple ticks on the clock and a new dawn should start to reign (rain) on Zimbabwe.
11 Mar 2008, 21:03 pm
Nope Jinx, but Zim need a change, that’s for sure
11 Mar 2008, 21:04 pm
Skop, I was mostly in the Nothern Cape. I’m an engineer
11 Mar 2008, 21:05 pm
Polska, wtf you doing in that forsaken Caucasian iceland wilderness robbie-d?
11 Mar 2008, 21:05 pm
Oh and just more than 2 yrs in PTA where I built my first house! And now I’ve just renovated the umpteenth one, and it is the last one.
11 Mar 2008, 21:08 pm
Jeez I needed an engineer tonight, structural, civil, what kind of engineer Boerboel?
11 Mar 2008, 21:08 pm
waiting to get our of here! I’m helping some of my colleagues design a provisioning solution for an oil company, if that means anything to anyone
11 Mar 2008, 21:09 pm
So where you now Bb? how bigs your latest project, and how you know for sure its the last one?
11 Mar 2008, 21:09 pm
Evening gents
You will make a packet building in the new Zim.
Skop, agree Bob is history. A very sad case who did so much in Zim in the early years before destroying everything. A new chapter beckons and I feel the sparks will get the energy flowing in a new positive cycle again notwithstanding the huge challenges.
11 Mar 2008, 21:10 pm
I used to dive Robd,
off aberdeen .
11 Mar 2008, 21:10 pm
Jissus Jinx,
long time no see.
11 Mar 2008, 21:12 pm
Provisioning solution? you mean like self sufficiency or sustainable survival?
11 Mar 2008, 21:14 pm
Skop, last 15 yrs I’m building roads, lat contract R80m. I’m also involved in township development so you gather I’m a civil engineer. Have done structures also earlier in my career.
It’s my last renovation becasue I’m gatvol. But you know, 6 months from now I might find something interesting gain.
11 Mar 2008, 21:16 pm
I don’t know Zim at all sounds like a beautiful country that got truly f’d up good and solid by bobby m, closest I got was Caprivi in good old SADF days.
Most my artisans and laborers are Zim guys much easier and more willing workers to work with than local yokels, guess when they get their country back they’ll be off back home.
11 Mar 2008, 21:17 pm
Boerboel
Interesting. A man that builds roads is one who can stand alone.
11 Mar 2008, 21:20 pm
I mean like identity management!
11 Mar 2008, 21:21 pm
Well R80m is bit beyond my league Bb, sounds like you always got your teeth sunk into something, where you been renovating you latest house?
I just survive from one little project to the next, maybe one these days I’ll build my own place after upgrading everybody else’s.
Naand Duiwel
11 Mar 2008, 21:23 pm
Managing who’s, what identity?
11 Mar 2008, 21:23 pm
hallo SS.
11 Mar 2008, 21:23 pm
Skop, in the Strand
Jinx, building with huge equipemnt
11 Mar 2008, 21:24 pm
Robd,
the San river is well known
i’ve you have a flyrod.
11 Mar 2008, 21:26 pm
The people who put in the petrol, I guess!
hello Duiwel
11 Mar 2008, 21:26 pm
Is Ig still about?
11 Mar 2008, 21:28 pm
hzit Robd,
see what a diffirence a good
flyhalf makes’ey.
11 Mar 2008, 21:28 pm
Skoppie jou dom bouer! Pleks julle en die Argitekte meer na ons QS’s luister, sal die boubedryf ook ‘n beter naam kry. Hehehehehe
11 Mar 2008, 21:30 pm
Nice place with view over the sea in the Strand Bb?
So you a peoples manager robd? Personnel psychology expert?
You Cd out on the shelves yet jinxie?
11 Mar 2008, 21:30 pm
Robd,
you simply have to get a flyrod
and have a look at the San river.
Its one of those things that simply
has to be done.
11 Mar 2008, 21:31 pm
Isigidi, nou raak dit interesant. Het nie geweet jy is QS nie! Ek, jy en Skop kan besigheid begin, Jinx kan dit verkoop.
11 Mar 2008, 21:32 pm
Right, got to duck,
annerdag all
mooistap.
11 Mar 2008, 21:32 pm
Wies jou QS’s dan Isi, gee die geheim asb?
11 Mar 2008, 21:32 pm
Cheers Duiwel, mag die engele met jou wees vanaand
11 Mar 2008, 21:34 pm
So long duiwel was just about to ask how the fishies are biting, seeing springs just about in the air over there should be like manna from heaven for you.
11 Mar 2008, 21:34 pm
Boerboel ek ontwikkel so op my ace. Bou en verkoop maar ek’s stadig maar seker besig om my gat te sien met hierdie ekonomie van ons.
Baie lee huise en nokkol kopers. Krediet wet maak kuk in my bedryf. Ek gaan vang sommer vis!
11 Mar 2008, 21:34 pm
ja,ja,Boerboel,
mag hulle my liewers net ignoreer.
11 Mar 2008, 21:37 pm
Neewat SS,
die wind het noord gewaai vandag
kon skaars 10m cast,
nie n byt nie,
gesien hoe kom n groot goue forel,argentyns,
tweekeer op my catswhisker af net om weg te swem.
Moet waai
annerdag.
11 Mar 2008, 21:37 pm
Isi, ja, die boubedryf het skielik verander. Eendag fokkol huise en baie kopers en nou net mooi andersom!
Ek koop van tyd tot tyd ‘n ou huis, maak hom reg en verkoop dan. Die een wat ek nou het is 50 jr oud. Ongelooflik hoe die ou mense gebou het.
11 Mar 2008, 21:38 pm
So jy kan vir my enige tyd laat raad gee Isi, jy en Boerboel, ek hoef nie Pennypinchers se Billcost te gebruik nou weer, net vir jou vra hoeveel bakstene ek nodig het hier op keo?
11 Mar 2008, 21:42 pm
Ig is with me
11 Mar 2008, 21:42 pm
Hi manne, sorry, gesprek is lekker, maar ek moet nou eers gaan.
Ek kan julle een tip gee, die geld lê nou in lae-koste behuising en die volgende stoot kom in die sogenaamde gap-housing mark.
11 Mar 2008, 21:43 pm
Skoppie daai programmetjie was al menigte ou se doodskoot, veral as daai Pennypincher mannetjies hom operate.
Kyk eers die material list baie goed deur. Vinnige opcheck is om die deure en vensters van die planne te tel, jy sal nie een keer kry dat dit reg is nie. Bly weg!
11 Mar 2008, 21:44 pm
Never had the patience for fishing.
skop, I work in IT. Just trying to make it sound glamorous
11 Mar 2008, 21:44 pm
tot weer Duiwel.
Bb/Isi ja, Die boubedryf is nou skielik stillerig na omtrent 4 jaar se styging daal dit nou skielik weer af, en die eskom besigheid help slegs glad ook nie, hulle staak nou baie nuwe projekte.
11 Mar 2008, 21:45 pm
Isi, ek stem, bereken liewer self!
11 Mar 2008, 21:51 pm
the Frogs are playing him at flanker because, FOR A SECOND DIVISION SIDE, he is the fittest and fastest guy around in the forwards. Even fitter and faster than the regular flankers. But ultimately his body size is not suited to ground work.
Its a concern that he is being played out of position, because this is going to screw with his game – he is getting used to the slower speed of the game at that level, and when he comes back, will take siome time to adjust to Bok level again. Watch him struggle in the internationals for a while after coming back.
11 Mar 2008, 21:51 pm
dankie vir die gooie tip Boerboel, sal dit opmerk,
Nag aan jou, goedgaan.
Isi ek werk die goed gewoonlik selfs uit maar partykeer raak ek bedonderd om die planne deur te check en gee dit aan daai PP billcost ouens toe, agterna, check ek dit weer selfs oor, en ja gewoonlik is hulle besonders mis met hulle rekeninge, vandag het die een ou sommer die bakstene uitgelos, net die lintels ens gegee sonder die bakstene in te sluit.
11 Mar 2008, 21:56 pm
Still dunno what a provisioning solution in the IT industry is but nevertheless I’m sure its mighty sophisticated and important, for you to be over there in cold miserable Poland,
hows it been there robd, must be interesting I guess?
11 Mar 2008, 21:58 pm
Skoppie ek ken Billcost baie goed en indien reg gebruik is dit ‘n goeie quick tool.
Indien jy eers al die defaults opgestel het, meet jy ‘n huis in ‘n kwessie van ure.
My sekretaresse manupileer die pryse en doen maandeliks ‘n materiaal prys inflasie. Help met vooruitskattings en hoef ek nie die kak te glo wat die regering ons wil verkoop rondom inflasie nie.
Cheers Boerboel
11 Mar 2008, 21:59 pm
I don’t like it. Warsaw is grey and depressing. Can’t wait to go home to God’s own country on Friday
11 Mar 2008, 22:01 pm
Victor made his choices, for better or for worse, sometimes money isn’t everything, should weigh up whether you going to be happy in the end after all, and also consider the consequences of the decision, nothing ever stays constant always curve balls to alter a course of action, its hardly ever what it seems at first glance and there are pro’s and cons to every choice.
11 Mar 2008, 22:03 pm
Not a huge Big Vic fan, to be honest.
11 Mar 2008, 22:05 pm
I wonder how much bad blood there really is between Vic and John S. Its an open secret that he thought he would be the next bok captain and that he left because his big scheme plan came apart.
Now he must come back and play under John S again!
Must be a bitter pill to swallow. He really must miss home terribly me thinks.
11 Mar 2008, 22:12 pm
Well Friday not too far off robd, you leave your loved ones behind when you traipse over there? I’m sure Poland’s a hard cold country, all that steel and tough industry they get up to, I think I got some of those Pole genes in my blood somewhere.
Ja Isi op my vlak werk wat ons gewoonlik doen kan ek die kleine jobs net gou selfs uitwerk, ek het klaar min of meer pryse gestel vir nat bouwerk ens op n m2 basis en my klein excel program doen dit reguit op my kwitansie toe, maar anderste vir die grote projekte het ek n meer volledige program nodig, miskien moet ek aan julle kom raad soek.
11 Mar 2008, 22:17 pm
I really wonder if naming JS as captain so early in the program was such a wise move by PdV, he may very well be third or fourth best hooker by the time the 3N comes round, and in this new faster game I have my doubts he will hold out for 80 mins, same goes for quite a few of the old guard.
11 Mar 2008, 22:21 pm
Skoppie prys per m2 op oppervlak is gevaarlik. Gou ‘n voorbeeld.
2 gebou elkeen 100 m2
Gebou 1 se mates 10m by 10m = dus 100 m2 en 40 liniêre meter (omtrek) mure
Gebou 2 se mates 50m by 2m =100 m2 maar 104 m se liniêre meter (omtrek ) mure.
Catch my drift?
11 Mar 2008, 22:21 pm
yeah, SS. Family is back in leafy West Kent
11 Mar 2008, 22:28 pm
Guys I’m off to la-la land.
See ya!
11 Mar 2008, 22:37 pm
236 ja heeltemaal reg Isi presies,
maar nogtans werk meestal bouers hier rond om waardes per m2 gemiddeld, ek werk meestal rekeninge uit nie op floer oppervlak mates maar op vertikale vlakte, in ander woorde ons meet eers die liniere mates uit en dan die m2 daarvan werk ek die koste uit, maars jy’s heeltemaal reg dis gevaarlik om net ‘rule of thumb’ te gebruik, al is dit soms in my soort besigheid min of meer naby genoeg om gou waardes uit te werk.
11 Mar 2008, 22:40 pm
sien jou weer Isi,
So I thought you were a eThekwini boytjie robd, meantime all along you hiding out in West Kent, like near to Tunbridge Wells, that area?
12 Mar 2008, 02:36 am
J Smit is also not playing under the new laws, which doesn’t give you a agood comparison of apples against apples. He may really suck at the new laws (lets face it, he ain’t the fastest)! Then again, he takes pressure off in the scrums..
12 Mar 2008, 09:34 am
Ryan, surely you are doing this to test me?
“….while is skill and athleticism in loose play is unmatched.”
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