Bok wrecking ball
20 Aug 2008
Schalk Burger is a rugby phenomenon, but what makes him the player he is?
In the latest issue of SA Rugby magazine, Jake White, Richie McCaw, Rudolf Straeuli, Derick Coetzee and Henning Gericke all offer unique insights into arguably the greatest Springbok of all-time by explaining exactly what sets him apart from the rest.
White, during a detailed discussion, reveals that Burger “averages 21 tackles per game – seven more than the average for an elite international flank. He’s got great ball skills, an unbelievable feel for the game in the sense that his running lines are so good that he gets into excellent positions long before the opposition even realise he’s there.”
McCaw says, “He just flies in [to the rucks]. Every time you play against him, he’s everywhere. His work rate is amazing.”
In a revealing Q&A, we also ask Schalk if opensiders are born or made, what he defines as failure, if he’s received offers from overseas clubs and if he misses having Jake around.
Also in the new issue of SAR:
– The Springbok scrum no longer strikes fear into their opponents. Former Springbok front rankers John Allan and Guy Kebble explain why
– BJ Botha was a shock omission from the Boks’ Tri-Nations squad, but the tighthead prop, who 
recently signed for ulster, believes he can force his way back
– Player depth remains a top priority but South Africa can no longer afford to neglect the development of local coaches. SA Rugby magazine investigates Saru’s plan to implement a new coaching programme in 2009
– The increased involvement of the TMO has been the most hotly debated point of this year’s Absa Currie Cup. SA Rugby magazine assesses the positives and negatives of the system
– Craven Week is supposed to be a festival of South African schoolboy rugby where winning isn’t a matter of life or death. but for a group of determined talent scouts, it’s merely an opportunity to snap up the next 
Frans Steyn or John Smit. SA Rugby magazine finds out how a respected talent scout goes about his job, and how others, with less integrity, will do almost anything to get that important signature
– At just 19, Robert Ebersohn has already lent the Free State Cheetahs backline some much needed attacking flair this season
– Last year, a disillusioned Gcobani Bobo was released by the Sharks to play for the Springbok Sevens team. Now he’s an automatic selection for the Stormers, captaining Western Province, back in the Bok set-up and revelling in his amazing change of fortune
– Former Springbok flyhalf Gerald Bosch has played a major role in the development of Wallabies utility back Berrick Barnes
– Outside centre has been an All Blacks weakness since Tana Umaga retired at the end of 2005. But the problem of who to play there has finally been solved by the emergence of Conrad Smith
– Andre Pretorius’s career has been plagued by leg injuries, especially during the last four years. The latest setback came when he played for the Boks against the Barbarians last year, limping off the Twickenham turf after 33 minutes with a crocked foot. The Lions flyhalf has not played in a match since, yet despite calls for him to retire, he believes he will have a big 2009 season
– SA Rugby magazine is on sale from Wednesday, 20 August. To subscribe, e-mail subscriptions@hsm.co.za or phone (021) 416-0141.
667 Comments
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20 Aug 2008, 14:52 pm
Yes pale toe butch is not performing at all, but his time is past like Monty. They are at the end of their careers. But Steyn is not, he is in a dip.
20 Aug 2008, 14:53 pm
Or do you want Steyn to retire?
20 Aug 2008, 14:53 pm
Back from lunch with my comrades.. and in the restaurant I was thinking what a lovely and efficient short skirted fetcher we got when she brought me my Windhoek.
20 Aug 2008, 14:53 pm
#293 reality: a professional disagreement?
i don’t have the energy to go into a debate with someone of your obvious intellect.
20 Aug 2008, 14:56 pm
#303 ministerterrorlekota:
Was she taught by Jake White’s sons?
20 Aug 2008, 14:57 pm
#303 ministerterrorlekota: welcome, your excellency!
yes, i especially like it when short skirted fetchers bend down to get their hands on the ball(s).
20 Aug 2008, 14:57 pm
#281 reality: will become the greatest flyhalf,matter of time.
20 Aug 2008, 14:58 pm
jeez guys, put away the handbags. We all love rugby. Spread the love. Terror.
20 Aug 2008, 14:58 pm
#300 Rooinek07: No, its not me missing the point at all. Yes that is what i said- i’am qouting it just for you:
“I dont understand how some can say he is overrated????? He has been one of the great the past few years. one “average” game and you want to trow him to the wolves?? How “BELOW AVERAGE” has Butch and Juan been since the WC, but now SB is useless. iesh, i dont know.
SB is so good, have you seen him passing the ball to himself?”
Nowhere have i said that he is one of the gratest. But iam saying it now.
20 Aug 2008, 14:59 pm
#307 grant10:
We need one of those
Havent had one for about 10 years
20 Aug 2008, 14:59 pm
#305 Dust: No doubt in my mind.
20 Aug 2008, 15:00 pm
where’s Ned?
now there was a guy who had a grasp on the situation.
his dad has dstv.
20 Aug 2008, 15:00 pm
#296 tight head: exactlw,well put. When you helter skelter without the ball…..looks ridiculous!
20 Aug 2008, 15:01 pm
#298 reality: Frans at 10, and we can!
20 Aug 2008, 15:01 pm
#303 ministerterrorlekota: by the way, very unpatriotic of you drinking windhoek beer. what will our comrades in cosatu and the ancyl have to say?
but then johnnie walker blue label isn’t a local brew either, so they can’t say much.
20 Aug 2008, 15:01 pm
#302 reality: No but Steyn is a no15 not a no10. Why they do nto play him at no15 Ino one understands.
The next best position for him is no12. But he is being stuffed around so much he wil eventually leave SA. Rupert is assemblying a mean team for the Tigers and once he zeroes into a player he makes offers that players cannot refuse.
The day politics wil kreep out of SA Rugby we wil all be better off then it will be the best player for the position not the best player with other agendas in mind.
20 Aug 2008, 15:01 pm
#306 the peanut gallery: Thanks to this flippant remark I now have a truly horrible picture in my mind of Lucky Looke in a skirt.
20 Aug 2008, 15:01 pm
#300 Rooinek07: In my opinion, he is one of the best players, and not as average as some of the people has claimed him to be. Thats all.
20 Aug 2008, 15:02 pm
#302 reality: to a villa in France?
20 Aug 2008, 15:02 pm
#309 palletoe: ok, soutpiel is saying that it was the ARTICLE that called SB the greatest.
he is clearly not the greatest, yet if ever will be, and thus he is OVERRATED by the ARTICLE.
not by you.
great he is. greatest he is not.
20 Aug 2008, 15:02 pm
#312 rangerman: my dad has etv, and does that make him a *** expert?
20 Aug 2008, 15:03 pm
Peanut you have no intellect!
20 Aug 2008, 15:03 pm
#315 the peanut gallery: For starters I know for a fact that right honourable Julius Caesar Malema will kill for a Windhoek.
20 Aug 2008, 15:05 pm
#310 Dust: we have one, just mess him around at 12,13,14,and 15!! Watch Frans Steyn, just a matter of time!
20 Aug 2008, 15:05 pm
#308 ministerterrorlekota:
Ja Minister
I was at Kasselsvlei (in Bellville South – for those up north and for you Minister in case youve forgotton your roots -) this past Saturday watching these young blokes play the type of rugby that PdV wants the senior side to play
Wonderful running team stuff – ran rings around their bigger opposition
But they have a culture there of running rugby
Our senior team cannot simply implement a new style over one season – it will take years
20 Aug 2008, 15:05 pm
#323 ministerterrorlekota: oh for a sa brutus.
20 Aug 2008, 15:06 pm
#321 palletoe: no, it makes you one.
ask Ned.
20 Aug 2008, 15:07 pm
#327 rangerman: ned se moer man.
20 Aug 2008, 15:07 pm
#317 ministerterrorlekota: don’t say that. you’ll have g13g running home to his dirty mags and a roll of…….
oops better stop. there are some sensitive souls here.
20 Aug 2008, 15:08 pm
#309 palletoe: palletoe, are you just pretending to be this stupid?
Look, forget it. You carry on thinking Schalk is underrated even though people are calling him the greatest Springbok of all time.
Regards
20 Aug 2008, 15:09 pm
#321 palletoe: no, but it makes you an expert on chuck norris.
20 Aug 2008, 15:10 pm
#328 palletoe: hey, come on now, Ned posted a heartfelt opinion in #266.
he sounds like a kenner.
20 Aug 2008, 15:12 pm
#330 Rooinek07: you two are talking over each other.
20 Aug 2008, 15:12 pm
#325 Dust: Dust to dust ashes to ashes… the expanse of my roots are scribbled on the walls of the cango caves. Yes, the force of running rugby runs strong in young peter pumpkin eater. However, it is of grave concern to me that he seems to underrate the power of having a strong base which to run from. On saturday we ran rings indeed.. never forward in a straight line… always rings. I will pray for direction on saturday.
20 Aug 2008, 15:13 pm
#332 rangerman: yeah, good old ned, posting from that breading ground of rugby greats, kenya.
20 Aug 2008, 15:13 pm
#330 Rooinek07: you still here? i wasnt refering to the article. 4 fark steaks. I SAID, THAT HE IS NOT AS BAD A PLAYER AS SOME OF U HAS CLAIMED HIM TO BE. refering to other post. get it, got it? good.
20 Aug 2008, 15:15 pm
#331 the peanut gallery: #332 rangerman: Sometimes i cant help but just sit in my office and laugh.
#333 rangerman: i know!
20 Aug 2008, 15:17 pm
#333 rangerman: No, I don’t think so. I understand everything palletoe is saying but sadly, he’s not intelligent enough to understand anything that I’m dumb enough to tell him.
I should have guessed . . . I mean, the warning signs were there. The oke chose a nic that he can’t even spell.
Regards
20 Aug 2008, 15:19 pm
#332 rangerman: he’s not a kenner, he’s a kenjy. ken jy fokkol van rugby?
20 Aug 2008, 15:20 pm
” 303 ministerterrorlekota
Back from lunch with my comrades.. and in the restaurant I was thinking what a lovely and efficient short skirted fetcher we got when she brought me my Windhoek. ”
I think somebody is only blogging for a fight ?
20 Aug 2008, 15:21 pm
#338 Rooinek07: Enough now, you are missing the point.
20 Aug 2008, 15:22 pm
ag you guys!
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20 Aug 2008, 15:22 pm
#334 ministerterrorlekota:
So you’re the $%#^@ responsible for the grafitti in Cango?
Shame on you
May a Windhoek never be fetched for you again
May your favourite players always run in circles
20 Aug 2008, 15:22 pm
#340 FARTICUS: And a good afternoon to you too. You sound like a fetcher fan?
20 Aug 2008, 15:23 pm
#335 the peanut gallery: Do they eat them?
I didn’t realise that that was the “breading” ground. Sounds more like Samoa where up to 50 years ago the favourite meals were missionary on the spit and par boiled nun with vegetables in season.
20 Aug 2008, 15:23 pm
#340 FARTICUS: something stinks
20 Aug 2008, 15:24 pm
over
20 Aug 2008, 15:25 pm
Why no lock cover on the bok bench?? Unneccessary tempting of fate! Like test cricket with 4 seamers and the strike bowler breaks down in the first over?? Just not clever. Johan Muller sitting in the stands? Daft!!
20 Aug 2008, 15:25 pm
#345 Objective 101: ok, so i spel kuk sumtimes.
20 Aug 2008, 15:26 pm
#347 Dust: and out
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