Benjamin dropped for bad mouth

Benjamin dropped for bad mouth

12 Dec 2009

Ryno Benjamin was excluded from the Springbok Sevens team for using foul language.

Benjamin was withdrawn from the George event for disciplinary reasons on Thursday, and coach Paul Treu revealed the reason why.

‘He used foul language against me and at some members of the management team and the senior players heard it,’ said Treu. ‘This is something we as a team have addressed and the important thing now is for us a team to move forward.

‘This why we have someone here like Gavin Swanepoel [life coach], who is with the squad to assist with any situation like this. If there are any players who need assistance and help, we have the people here to assist our players.’

Meanwhile, the Boks face Fiji in the Cup quarter-final at 14:57 on Saturday in a repeat of last week’s Dubai quarter. The Boks beat Zimbabwe 29-5 and drew with Kenya 12-all in their second and third matches on Friday, but Kenya finished first in their group due to points difference.


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  • 1.steeve: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:39 am

    foul mothed dragon

  • 2.kaksioek: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:40 am

    Drawing with Kenya … man. I know Kenya have improved, but you’d expect better. Hope they pull something out of the bag against Fiji.

  • 3.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:44 am

    Ryno Benjamin you have let the team down. You have let your supporters down. Ryno my favourite player too. One of our very best 7′s players. Now get your discipline back. Hope Ryno has learned by his mistake. The team needs him.

    Good on you Paul Treu, Don’t take that nonense. Paul Treu a true gentleman and a great coach.

  • 4.RaynoG: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:45 am

    Beautiful day for a joint

  • 5.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:45 am

    sorry meant nonsense.

  • 6.TheTackler: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:46 am

    Djou ma se…

    Foeitog, Ryno.

  • 7.RaynoG: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:46 am

    Sorry meant rugby

  • 8.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:47 am

    @kaksioek: 2 – Fiji going to be just too strong for us.

  • 9.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:48 am

    @TheTackler: Well Tackler trust you to be there quick on the gossip threads :roll:

  • 10.Valkyrie: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 09:52 am

    @TheTackler: plonker

  • 11.GreenLion: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 10:03 am

    WTF?

  • 12.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 11:50 am

    @kaksioek: Kenya are a very, very good side. They can and have beaten all the big guns in 7s including Fiji, SA, NZ.

    They are on the verge of getting consistency too. These “upsets” like Russia vs Aus will be more common due to 7s being an Olympic sport.

    In the next few years I’d say watch the likes of Russia, China, USA who have great Olympic programs.

    Funnily enough Kenya has a great Olympic legacy too – they will only get better.

  • 13.Kobus Kitty: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 11:54 am

    I’m sorry, I can’t take 7s seriously if Benjamin is one of the “star” players in the team. Yuck

  • 14.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 11:57 am

    @Heavens Game: Agree. Remember Kenya has some brilliant runners. They are among the best runners in the world at any distance.

    In 7′s speed is very important. Skill too but if you have the speed you can win many of these games.

    Feel good to see Kenya doing well.

  • 15.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:03 pm

    @Puma: Yeah – more middle distance – but those middle distance runners still run fast and sustain it.

    It is good – Zim also has some speedsters, I saw a try from a highlights package of their winger just blowing away the Fijians last week.

    The Boks are very good too – they seem to have a good balance but their defense seems to lapse too often.

  • 16.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:09 pm

    @Heavens Game: 15 – Yes last year the blitz bokke defence was superb. We do have many new players. So maybe with more time together they will get better. We have some speedsters in our side too.

    The Kenyans yes, are fast from the 10km up to the marathon. Then even in those distances you have to have speed training. Kenyans are tall too which helps in this game. They are just born to run. This is the game for them and feel really good they are doing well. Proud of our African brothers up north.

    Never saw the Zim game so cant say.

  • 17.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:12 pm

    @Puma: Kenya play with a great style of rugby and the way they play with a good spirit wins them a lot of fans.

    Kenya seems to be everyones second best team i.e. after their country.

  • 18.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:15 pm

    Kenya is predominantly good at the middle and longer distances but also won a bronze in the 4 X400m relay at the Olympics in 1968 and followed it up with a gold in the same number during 72.

  • 19.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:20 pm

    @Robzim: We all know they have an athletic legacy – 7s is the perfect code for them. Olympic time 2016, I reckon they are going to be formidable.

    I watched a documentary on the training regime for their runners, at altitude – quite hardcore. If that rubs off on their 7s side and more people start playing the game…

  • 20.Nanashi: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:36 pm

    Boks played poorly against Kenia, even when we were behind there was no urgency, would stand for 15 seconds deciding who we were gonna pass the penalty to.

  • 21.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:40 pm

    @Heavens Game:

    It is cool.
    I think they might do well against the Aussies this afternoon as long as they can keep their discipline.

  • 22.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:43 pm

    @Robzim: It will be good – good game on now Zim vs Russia

  • 23.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:44 pm

    @Robzim: Extra time

  • 24.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:45 pm

    Russia wins

  • 25.Yetirat: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:55 pm

    I always wonder if Treu couldn’t be better utilised somewhere in union…

  • 26.cane: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 12:58 pm

    Oz Vs Kenya.
    NZ Vs Pomgolia.
    SA Vs Fiji.
    Samoa Vs Argentina.

    Anything could happen here………and probably will.

  • 27.charo: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:00 pm

    apart from todd clever, are there any real yanks in this usa team?

  • 28.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:01 pm

    @cane: How you Cannie? Hope well.

    Yip, anything could happen in those games. All are good teams.

    Fiji looking the business tough. Playing really well. Also Kenya could beat Oz. Somehow don’t see our Blitz Bokke beating Fiji.

  • 29.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:02 pm

    meant though.

  • 30.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:04 pm

    SA dream team?

    Kankowski
    Schalk Britz
    Spies
    Aplon
    Habana
    Juries
    Kockott

    Ebersohn
    Koster
    Mapoe

  • 31.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:05 pm

    @Heavens Game: 17 – Heavens, Yip, think this is the game for them to excel in. Feel good to see them playing well.

    You right think Kenya is everyones 2nd side.

  • 32.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:08 pm

    @Robzim: Hi Rob, That could be some team. Brent Russell was great at 7′s too.

  • 33.Valkyrie: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:09 pm

    @Robzim: at last someone has found a rugby code for kanko to excell in.i think treu should call him up immediately because he will become a superstar in this form of the game.

  • 34.Puma: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:09 pm

    @charo: Not sure Charo, They never looked that good though.

    Is Todd Clever still going to play for the Lions next year?

  • 35.Valkyrie: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:13 pm

    anybody knows how rassie’s favourite,sireli, been doing thus far in the competition?

  • 36.charo: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:16 pm

    @Robzim:

    rob, wouldn’t have kockott there, rather brent russell or joe pietersen.
    would also have jpp for koster.

    still, a bloody good team

  • 37.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:17 pm

    Sireli played for about 4 minutes against Australia.
    Looked quite trim and “walked” over for a try during a runaway victory.

  • 38.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:18 pm

    @Valkyrie: yes kankowski would excel in sevens, he is powderpuff in union

  • 39.charo: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:20 pm

    @Transformation:

    don’t know if richie mccaw would agree after that classic hand off while scoring against crusaders

    8)

  • 40.cane: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:21 pm

    @Puma:

    “”Also Kenya could beat Oz.”"

    Could !

    I think they will Cougar.

    7′s will become a great Olympic Sport. More variable results than 15′s even now. And by the time it gets to the Olympics, many more Teams will be contenders.

  • 41.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:26 pm

    @charo:

    #36

    Hi,

    Yip, maybe, there are also a few others, I think one can easily pick two sides of about equal strength.I wonder if they are going to look at including the top guns when sevens becomes an Olympic sport.

    Maybe they should, that gold means a lot and is getting scarce in this place these days.

  • 42.charo: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:28 pm

    @Robzim:

    hope they do proper genetic testing this time.

    would be a disgrace if a bunch of females won the gold medal

  • 43.Valkyrie: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:30 pm

    @charo: i hope they start with meisiekind.lol

  • 44.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:36 pm

    @charo:

    #42

    They better.

    The other day I watched some underwater rugby at a local swimming pool. They play it in the 5m section, 5 a side.
    The best player was a girl, she seemed to be able to hold her breath for about 4 minutes at a time.
    Closest thing to a real mermaid I ever saw.

  • 45.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 13:44 pm

    @charo: hey charo, how’s the gold coast?

  • 46.nama1: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 14:54 pm

    Maybe Ryno should not come down to Namaqualand as often as he does. He probably thought he was just speaking Algemeen Beskaafde Afrikaans.

  • 47.Karma-zaf: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 15:04 pm

    My ultimate 7′s team would be…….

    1. Pierre Spies.
    2. Ryan Kankowski.
    3. Jean Deysel.

    4. Brent Russell.
    5. Francois Steyn.

    6. Bryan Habana.
    7. Jean DeVilliers (c).

  • 48.Valkyrie: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 15:15 pm

    @Karma-zaf: that team is too white and will only exists in your dreams mate!is habana the token black?lol.

  • 49.nama1: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 15:17 pm

    @Karma-zaf: #47
    Are you for real?

  • 50.Valkyrie: Reply to this comment
    12 Dec 2009, 15:21 pm

    @nama1: he should change his nick to karma-dof!

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