Four Saffas on Sanzar panel
15 Dec 2008
South Africa have four representatives on Sanzar’s inaugural nine-referee merit panel to take charge of next year’s Super 14 campaign.
The elite panel includes South Africa’s four top officials – Marius Jonker, Craig Joubert, Jonathan Kaplan and Mark Lawrence.
Sanzar took the ground-breaking step of creating an elite referees panel founded on merit ahead of nationality back in November.
This means that SA refs will now be able to take charge of games involving their fellow countrymen against the Australasian sides. The decision was made to ensure the best games would be officiated by the best referees.
Changes to the panel may be made during the season depending on the outcome of regular assessments by the selectors.
Merit panel (Alphabetical order) – Stuart Dickinson (Australia), Matt Goddard (Australia), Marius Jonker (South Africa), Craig Joubert (South Africa), Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa), Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand), Mark Lawrence (South Africa), James Leckie (Australia), Steve Walsh (New Zealand).
Shadow Panel (Alphabetical) – Paul Marks (Australia), Chris Pollock (New Zealand), Ian Smith (Australia).
Reserve Bench (Alphabetical) – Phillip Bosch (South Africa), Keith Brown (New Zealand), Vinny Munro (New Zealand), Nathan Pearce (Australia).
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15 Dec 2008, 23:13 pm
#445 cab:
Yep Cab i agree.
SA had a very good year even though a couple of things didnt go your way you can still see that you guys are a better team and i think you guys look even better than you did in 2006 and 2007 which is what you want,upward trend.
#446 poppa69:
yeah didnt you like those Keo posts of the weakest AB side in years,this AB side has probably won more tournaments and cups than any have in one year,impressive year for the ABs,especially as to what happened the year before and players leaving.By far the 2 best teams are SA and NZ, good stuff
16 Dec 2008, 00:08 am
#451 Hurricane: All this talk of losing players does make me laugh.
Look at NZ’s team from that QF with France:
New Zealand: MacDonald, Rokocoko, Muliaina, McAlister, Sivivatu, Carter, Kelleher; Woodcock, Oliver, Hayman, Robinson, Williams, Collins, McCaw (capt), So’oialo.
You lost McAlister, Kelleher, Hayman and thats it.
Collins played S14 and Henry said he wouldn’t have picked him on form, Oliver was old and needed to be replaced and Keith Robinson retired.
All in all you have 9 players left from that team, England have 4 left from their World Cup team.
Who really lost players? most of the guys you lost were backup squad players
16 Dec 2008, 04:14 am
Biggles
Why do you have no comment on that nasty spear tackle on Dan Carter ? I am
& 
that you are so unconcerned for his well being ! I am giving your Christmas present to the neighbours dog 
16 Dec 2008, 12:24 pm
#452 Big Hit:
Why are you such a tosser.
By the way you are wrong.
Nick Evans played the QF as well as leonard at Halfback,both are missing as well,and leon Mcdonald is injured as well.So before you open ya trap,do a bit of homework.
BY the way AIs are over now,how did your team fair?? NZ is the best team in the world,dosnt that piss you off loser
16 Dec 2008, 12:31 pm
#452 Big Hit:
” England have 4 left from their World Cup team”.
England……………A **** Team at the WC………………….A **** Team now…………what exactly is your point Big-ot?
16 Dec 2008, 14:43 pm
Heaven help us if James Leckie and Matt Goddard are “merit” selections. Aussie tokenism.
16 Dec 2008, 15:31 pm
#447 Sheriff: yeah but Sheriff, I have never EVER been a fan of Lauaki’s, one only had to look at his super 14 performances to see he didnt warrant selection… his handling skills are atrocious at the best of times… still, he would probably waltz into the English side
#451 Hurricane: very impressive year for the AB’s.. and I for one, had the last laugh at Keo and his cronies… Seems they too fell under the false illusion of probably the easiest WC win in history (just awaiting the howls from those SA supporters that are so blind to this fact… seriously ?).. also, they relinquished the No. 1 ranking pretty quick too…
They are a good team SA, and yes they hold the world cup.. but , almost losing to Scotland is a much truer indication of where they are at (yes, that includes game plans), guess we will really see once the B&I Lions tour.. if both NZ and Aust can beat them at home , then its safe to say that the Lions will too… now waiting for the , but we beat both Aust and NZ in their countries too, yeah true, but its taken a decade to get one in NZ.. a muh more accurate reflection of the state of SA rugby, I believe, and lets not start on the S14, which invariably lives in Canterbury…
16 Dec 2008, 15:44 pm
#452 Big Hit: perhaps the players you lost were all at home polishing their OBE’s for winning a sporting tournament, is England really that starved of sporting success ?? oopppps sorry, more a rhetorical question, we all know England have hardly won anything…
16 Dec 2008, 15:53 pm
#457 poppa69: Hi poppa69 how you mate hope well. Why are you still going on about that the Boks won the easiest world cup. If that was the case how come NZ never won it? You really have to ask youself that. Your team went out in the 1/4 final don’t you remember. The worst that NZ has ever done in a world cup. Just have to think about that before you say anything. If your team could not get past the 1/4 stage then it was hardly a easy one for your team now was it.
16 Dec 2008, 17:12 pm
#459 Puma: true that Puma.. why we never won it, just ask anyone, we choke
It was more an attack on keo and his plagiarising staff, having served it up to my team all year, so just wanted to remind them that he who laughs last, laughs loudest… something Big Hit also found out after the AI’s …
16 Dec 2008, 17:13 pm
#459 Puma: yeah but cmon Puma, they were reffed out of trying to win that cup, surely you agree ?? if that was SA on the end of Barnes performance, would you too not be up in arms ??? hell, look at the reaction when you guys are poorly reffed in the 3N’s ???
16 Dec 2008, 17:16 pm
#461 poppa69: Howdy mate. How you. Have not seen you here for a long time.
Yes agree that was really terrible that ref. I could see with one eye that was a forward pass. Anyone could. Thats why we really need better refs from now on. Yes we also went on about the refs in the S14 and 3N and the eoyt. Hoping that will be a end to bad refs next year.
You up late poppa?
16 Dec 2008, 22:32 pm
#457 poppa69:
Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos
16 Dec 2008, 23:04 pm
#463 whatever:
Having problems with someone speaking their mind on here i see,followed up with name calling is very grown up
17 Dec 2008, 02:56 am
#464 Hurricane: you wellyboots always speak your mind don’t you, England centre Danny Hipkiss:
“I have played for England in the Wellington Sevens and the English guys don’t really go down too well – you get some serious abuse.”
#453 Rugby_Princess: its not tiddlywinks
#454 Hurricane: Evans was a sub, so was Leonard. Evans left because he was hardly ever in the team, hardly a loss to the first team.
#455 cane: your team was the **** one Q-Finalists, ours made the RWC final
17 Dec 2008, 02:58 am
#460 poppa69: I’ll have the last laugh in 2011, don’t you worry
17 Dec 2008, 03:00 am
#461 poppa69: blah blah blah, you weren’t reffed out of it, if you were reffed out of it the referee would’ve been blowing his whistle every 5 seconds, you kiwis whinge because he didn’t blow his whistle enough, meaning you wanted to be reffed into it and have the game handed to you on a plate. No excuses, you were ****, you lost, end of story.
17 Dec 2008, 04:32 am
#465 Big Hit:
You are so one eyed ! this will realyl wind you up then
DUBLIN – Leicester’s Harry Ellis was cited today for an alleged dangerous tackle on Perpignan’s Dan Carter following the All Black star’s debut for the French club in a European Cup tie yesterday. But in the process he had to survive what seemed to be a `tipping’ by England halfback Harry Ellis, which saw Carter land on his head from a height of some six feet. `Tipping’ is regarded as one of the most dangerous of all illegal forms of tackling yet Ellis avoided even a yellow card, which would have seen him sin-binned, from Irish referee Alan Lewis. However, Scottish match citing commisioner Iain Goodall cited Ellis “for an alleged dangerous tackle on Perpignan player Dan Carter”.
17 Dec 2008, 04:40 am
#468 Rugby_Princess: it was a direct quote from the ugly cretin Umugger who’s currently masquerading as a coach. The amusing thing about that tackle is that Ellis lifted Carter by his tiddlywink and put him on his head, should get extra ban for that, no place in rugby for grabbing a mans lunchbox however small it is. No doubt if Carter did it there would be no ban forthcoming
17 Dec 2008, 08:45 am
#469 Big Hit:
Envy is a terrible burden for you & Ellis both !!
17 Dec 2008, 10:50 am
#465 Big Hit:
Big Hit
Who cares if some players were subs and some were not,overall we lost alot of All Blacks that played in 2007,put the famous big hit spin on it but those players were always in the top 22 mix.Evans is a huge loss,you dont know much do you.
#466 Big Hit:
In 2011,what you have to wait till then,what a shame.In the meantime we are laughing at you.And the thing is laughed when you lost the RWC final as well,your team to me have been a laugh for the last 5 years and we all know this comedy act of Englands isnt finished yet.
#469 Big Hit:
You are such a silly little jealous person Big Hit
17 Dec 2008, 11:00 am
#467 Big Hit:
Big Hit
France tackled 5 times more than NZ in that game.5 times is huge.More than 20 mins of that game was played in Frances quarter.And no penalties were given through out the second half,hmmm go figure.Anyways i know thats your highlight of the last 5 years is a NZ loss to another country so all is good.
Anyway 2008 was a good year wasnt it Big Hit,good rugby played by some countries
17 Dec 2008, 23:07 pm
#472 Hurricane: lmao, if you can’t score a try and the ref doesn’t hand you 3 points on a plate you make your own 3 pointer by kicking a drop goal, watch Wilko he’ll show you. The ref didn’t stop you scoring, France did.
18 Dec 2008, 01:03 am
#473 Big Hit:
You honestly dont get it do you,even when the facts are in your face.
The other week you were crying cos the ref was against little England boo hoo,but when NZ is involved with dodgy reffing its out fault.
Wilko is a joke only cos he cant score tries and all he has is the drop kick to fallback on.Look at the RWC stats for players.He has drop kicked twice as much than anyone else at RWC.He has kicked twice as much penalties than anyone else in the RWC,but what he conversions say is ****.he has kicked bugger all conversions compared to the rest,now what does that tell you.England are the ones that wait for the refs to hand them points as you guys cant do it yourselves.Have a look at the stats at the RWC,its quite interesting,you can paint a picture from those stats very easily.
18 Dec 2008, 03:31 am
#474 Hurricane: England 14-9 France World Cup semi-final
1 try, one penalty and one drop-goal to seal the deal. Its easy when you know how.
18 Dec 2008, 06:34 am
#475 Big Hit:
Shame you cant use that easy theory when England play NZ,7 wins in a 100 years,your theory may work against others but not NZ.
18 Dec 2008, 15:30 pm
#476 Hurricane: Actually if we had Jonny and a number of others who were missing or NZ actually made it to the final and semi of the last two RWCs you’d see the theory in practice against the women in black (no Lomu to bail you out anymore).
18 Dec 2008, 22:36 pm
#477 Big Hit:
we havnt had Lomu in years,whats he got to do with it.
If you are talking about RWCs then you dont know what you are talking about.Havnt we faced you guys 3 times in RWC and won all of them,i am sure Lomu didnt play in all of them,so again you are being silly
19 Dec 2008, 19:13 pm
#463 whatever: farktard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
19 Dec 2008, 19:26 pm
#467 Big Hit: yeah whatever …. seems you were the one sprouting excuse after farkin excuse in the last month or so …. huh, what happened Big *** ??? seriously, this was your full strength side, or so you kept spouting… shame then they never manned up huh, but they would be just like you , come to sydney, meet me any time you like, and I’ll show you how to “man up” … you complete and utter Farkwit…
19 Dec 2008, 19:30 pm
#465 Big Hit: whats your world cup final stats Big Hit, 3 finals for one loss… hmmmm weve won one final and lost one… so even in that respect you dont man up…. coming runner up just means you are first loser, and believe me, you have that trophy sewn up each and every time…
20 Dec 2008, 16:01 pm
#478 Hurricane: he bailed you out in two of them, in other one you needed a Scottish referee
20 Dec 2008, 16:02 pm
#482 Big Hit: one of stodders clan
20 Dec 2008, 16:05 pm
#480 poppa69: sorry but manning up doesn’t mean doing a silly little dance in front of me
20 Dec 2008, 20:11 pm
#484 Big Hit: a silly little dance huh, Id dare you to say that to anyone performing it in front of you… better than all the fat, oafish english sobs singing the same 4 words.. “swing low, sweet chariot” …. guess the intelligence level doesnt leave much for anything else does it Big ***…
20 Dec 2008, 20:21 pm
#484 Big Hit: also, 6 wins in 33 attempts … wow , thats a pleasing record, and the last win against us was when, thats right 5 years ago… no wonder you are so bitter…
20 Dec 2008, 22:53 pm
#485 poppa69: swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing loowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaariiiiiiiiott!!! your boys were lucky Rolland was there to protect them we were taking it to the ABs hard
21 Dec 2008, 21:56 pm
#5 gerhard: what! he stole the SUPER 14 TROPHY LAST YEAR… he’s utter kak
23 Dec 2008, 02:09 am
#487 Big Hit:
lol,so what happened in the bok game?What excuses do you have there?
Nz is better than England,you can be at home and NZ touring for weeks and having a long season to come against a fresh English side at home as i have said,you should have given the ABs a good run,but at least do it within the rule book.England were no there for the win,all they were playing for was to stop NZ from giving England a battering at home again.So hence all the offsides,diving over the ball and spoiling.If Rolloand played advantages you would have been steam rolled by even more that SA gave you and thats a fact
2 Jan 2009, 12:05 pm
No ROOS!??!
How could that be???
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