Currie Cup latest (Tues)
21 Sep 2010
Keo.co.za brings you the news from the Currie Cup.
Cheetahs change two
Naka Drotske has opted to start Riaan Smit at fullback and WP Nel at prop against the Pumas.
Nel replaces Kobus Calldo while Smit comes in for Hennie Daniller. Daniller is being rested after playing every Currie Cup game to date.
Cheetahs – 15 Riaan Smit, 14 Philip Snyman, 13 Robert Ebersohn, 12 Meyer Bosman, 11 Jongi Nokwe, 10 Louis Strydom, 9 Tewis de Bruyn, 8 Ashley Johnson, 7 Philip Van der Walt, 6 Hendro Scholtz, 5 David de Villiers, 4 Francois Uys, 3 WP Nel , 2 Adriaan Strauss (c), 1 Coenie Oosthuizen.
Subs: 16 Skipper Badenhorst, 17 Kobus Calldo, 18 Izak van der Westhuizen, 19 Kabamba Floors, 20 Tertius Carse, 21 Sias Ebersohn, 22 Corné Uys.
Basson’s a Bull
Bjorn Basson has signed a new deal with the Bulls which starts from 1 November.
The Springbok wing was committed to Griquas and the Cheetahs until the end of 2011 but the Bulls paid a transfer fee to get the player released from his contract. Griquas CEO Arni van Rooyen confirmed the move on Tuesday but refused to reveal the amount paid for the player.
Botha ready to rumble
Gary Botha has recovered from a head knock and will be available for the Bulls this weekend.
The Bulls skipper as well as lock Fudge Mabeta have been cleared for the game against the Leopards. Flank Deon Stegmann will undergo a fitness test on Tuesday, and could well feature in Potchefstroom.
Province lose Liebenberg
Tiaan Liebenberg will play no further part in the Currie Cup.
The WP hooker injured his ankle against the Cheetahs three weeks ago and coach Allister Coetzee is not expecting him back any time soon. Liebenberg’s injury was supposed to sideline him for six weeks, but WP management have confirmed he won’t be fit for the play-offs.
Back-up flyhalf Lionel Cronje missed last week’s game with a hamstring problem, and won’t be risked against Griquas this Friday.
Black players don’t want quotas
Sarpa chief executive Piet Heymans says Saru should consider changes to its competition structures to ensure that promising black players don’t disappear between U21 and senior level.
‘The players’ position is that they want equal opportunities. If they are good enough, they want to play. No player wants to be viewed as a quota player and everybody wants to be there on merit. Black players are not in favour of quotas. Their plea is for equal playing opportunities and game time,’ said Heymans.
‘Saru should be creative with the competition structures and see if there is a way of making the transition from junior to senior level easier. The bigger provinces should also be more willing to loan players they aren’t using to smaller provinces. It is happening already, but the system can be utilised even better.’
The Vodacom Cup will still be played next year, but an age limit may be applied from 2012 onwards. One possibility is to make it an U23 competition, while there is also a school of thought that it should make way for a super club competition.
Heymans said it is wrong for Saru to criticise the provinces without doing something about it.
‘As governing body of rugby, Saru have the ability to do something about the [transformation] issue. The question is just whether the leadership is strong enough to really do something about it.’
WP’s timing spot on
Allister Coetzee believes Western Province are building momentum at the perfect time.
Province suffered a mid-season slump when they lost three consecutive matches against the Sharks, Cheetahs and Lions.
However, with three rounds remaining before the play-offs, WP have won their last two games against the Leopards (59-17) and Pumas (62-10) comfortably and displayed the kind of form they had during their six-match winning streak at the start of the season. They are currently second on the log with 38 points.
‘Things are coming together nicely for us and it is especially important at this time of the season,’ said Coetzee. ‘This is the period when you want to be playing well and putting good performances together.
‘We face three tough games now [against Griquas, the Bulls and Sharks] before hopefully we go into the play-offs, so this is the time when we need to step up our performance.’
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21 Sep 2010, 14:47 pm
@Slartibartfart(Slartifartfast)-449: Plus IRB StampCar of the Year
21 Sep 2010, 14:49 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-441:
And Luke was before Solly. Are we even now are are we merely expressing opinions in a sport where opinion fuels debate no matter what colour a guy is?
You have an opinion, I have one too. Just becasue you are black and Apartheid was bad, doesn’t mean you are right because you shout the loudest.
Your facts are opinions, live with, deal with it.
21 Sep 2010, 14:49 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-450:
Nothing ever belonged to the masses…
21 Sep 2010, 14:50 pm
@Falken(Falken)-443: He doesn’t know where he belongs. See the story is like this:
A whitey – English or Dutch – got bored, got frisky with some of the locals in exchange for education or a naartjie, and he is the result. Instead of hating the whites, he should rather thank them, becaused according to the revolution theory…. I’d rather not go into that.
PS. Wh0rua, I’m just pulling your leg….
21 Sep 2010, 14:54 pm
@Slartibartfart(Slartifartfast)-453: Oh ja, it belongs to the minority
21 Sep 2010, 14:58 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-450:
Hahaha! If it wasnt for your slight knowledge of Rugby i would have sworn that you are either Julius Malema or Earl Rose!
21 Sep 2010, 14:59 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-455:
No private ownership until the arrival of whitey…system won’t work now in modern world and implode, as is happening throughout Africa an SA with restored land as we’re speaking our **** on Keo…
21 Sep 2010, 15:00 pm
@Falken(Falken)-456: Maybe their love-child?
21 Sep 2010, 15:00 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-450: Yea of course, cos thats how ‘your’ kind does things…you’ll never have the will or fortitude or willingness to work to get anything, you want it all handed into your little cupped hands for free…and every failure in your life is someone else’s fault, the big bad whitey…will your great great great grandchildren still be blaming apartheid? I’s SO boring
Do you drive a car? Live in a house? Watch movies at a cinema? I see you surf the Internet….you wear Levi’s? Or Soviet? You use a flushing toilet? You drink water out of a tap? You wear a watch? Do you read and write using the alphabet?
If none of the above, please feel free to slam us whiteys all day, but if you do, then shut your big empty head, say thanks and carry on enjoying the lifestyle we brought you, ******!!
21 Sep 2010, 15:02 pm
@Slartibartfart(Slartifartfast)-457: System was working until that inbred whiteys from Europe stole the land! ALL the land for all of the people! So F off to Orania bloody inbred boerjar
21 Sep 2010, 15:04 pm
@Atreides(Atreides)-459: Why do always brag about stuff that whiteys brough here? The inbreds stole most of this ideas and inventions from the Arabs and Jew (SO he is also white), Chinaman and Eastern Cultures! So SHUT THE F up!
21 Sep 2010, 15:05 pm
@Slartibartfart(Slartifartfast)-457: If everyone of us hated whites left, I wonder what would happen. Oh wait, there are over 50 examples in Africa we could look at…whoops, track record doesn’t look too hot!!
Within 20 years they”d be loudly and self righteously demanding handouts and aid from the West while slating them in the same breath…I can never understand the cupped hands turning into a middle finger once it gets what it wants….
21 Sep 2010, 15:05 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-460:
Eish!! Swearing at me won’t make an unworkable archaic system work! It is failing…AS WE SPEAK!!!
21 Sep 2010, 15:06 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-461: Oooh hit a nerve did I? You doidn;t answer he question…do you enjoy the fruits if the West or not? You can;t bite the hand that feeds you boy
21 Sep 2010, 15:07 pm
@Atreides(Atreides)-462: Handouts? look at the East Block and their track record!
21 Sep 2010, 15:08 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-460: Dude. This is an argument you can write a thesis about. White people in Africa: Good or bad? Not dissing you but you seem to have little to no grasp of the actual issues. So you end up slinging insults, leading to the same old retorts from the same old suspects. Its boring. If you feel so strongly about the subject, do a bit of research (you do have access to the internet afterall) and come back swinging.
21 Sep 2010, 15:08 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-461: And it’s not bragging…just your tiresome childish mentality of entitlement DOESN’T WORK ANYWHERE IN THE REAL WOLRD
21 Sep 2010, 15:09 pm
@Atreides(Atreides)-464: Fruits of the West?
21 Sep 2010, 15:09 pm
@Taahirah(Taahirah)-466: That would be refreshing. He makes it way too easy
21 Sep 2010, 15:09 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-468: Still not answering the question.
21 Sep 2010, 15:13 pm
Land restitution blah blah blah…AND THEN??? Another African basket case…like Zimbabwe…once THE agricultural powerhouse… Sometimes I despair.
21 Sep 2010, 15:14 pm
@Slartibartfart(Slartifartfast)-471: Entitlement over merit.
21 Sep 2010, 15:15 pm
@Slartibartfart(Slartifartfast)-471: Then your kind can leave nSA for greener pasture!
21 Sep 2010, 15:16 pm
@Atreides(Atreides)-472: Entitlement for transformation and equality
21 Sep 2010, 15:19 pm
162 and counting
21 Sep 2010, 15:20 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-473:
Your answer sums up the failure that is Africa, Mnr Hoerewa…cut the nose to spite the face…
21 Sep 2010, 15:21 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-475:
162 bloody agents!!
21 Sep 2010, 15:22 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-474: Newsflash, it happened 16 years ago…..
You are a dyed in the wool racist..you hate whites purely because they are whites, and the reasons you give are so vague and undefined that they can never be satisfied…so your ingrained bigotry is safe.
21 Sep 2010, 15:22 pm
13159 and counting
21 Sep 2010, 15:22 pm
And still you living here on this Gd forsaken continent where there is no law and order!
21 Sep 2010, 15:26 pm
@Atreides(Atreides)-478: Compared that to 350+ years of white entitlement and segregation
21 Sep 2010, 15:26 pm
O snap 13315 its like a snowball now!
21 Sep 2010, 15:26 pm
Can anyone direct me to a rugby site!
21 Sep 2010, 15:30 pm
If anyone wants to claim a right to this land! Why not go to ABSA for a bond!
21 Sep 2010, 15:32 pm
@Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-484:
Maria Ramos is a bloody agent!!
21 Sep 2010, 15:32 pm
@Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-484:
21 Sep 2010, 15:34 pm
Cheers Guys!
21 Sep 2010, 15:34 pm
And Racists
21 Sep 2010, 15:35 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-487:
Cheers Mr Ossewa Hoereboer wa!
21 Sep 2010, 15:36 pm
Afriforum’s gonna start a campaign called “Stop Mighty Hoerewa”
21 Sep 2010, 15:37 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-481: Shame noonoos….can’t let go of the past and point your nose forward? Newsflash: That’s how it was the world over …conquest, colonisation and annexure…the strong dominated the weak, and right or wrong, that’s just how it was. And of course if you were one of the weak, you’re going to be bitter…but the wheel has turned so show us what you can do!!
Honest question: what would make you feel better? You keep bringing up the past. What mechanism or action would placate you? If we all left? Or is everyone supposed to keep feeling sorry for you? I can’t imagine living a life where I’m pitied, and have to be given special opportunities as a ‘quota’…it’s demeaning and insults the intelligence of those involved. God helps the man who helps himself.
21 Sep 2010, 15:38 pm
@Frankly speaking(Frankly speaking)-490:
I received the SMS already…boikot Hoerewa!
21 Sep 2010, 15:39 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-488: Dont hate the player hate the game!
21 Sep 2010, 15:44 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-473 & @Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-481: Thank you for wonderfully racist posts. Your mother must be proud!
21 Sep 2010, 15:51 pm
@Mighty Horua(Mighty Horua)-488:
So long, *** boy!
21 Sep 2010, 15:52 pm
@Frankly speaking(Frankly speaking)-495: *** = g@y
21 Sep 2010, 15:54 pm
@Frankly speaking(Frankly speaking)-495:
21 Sep 2010, 17:11 pm
@Atreides(Atreides)-462: wait for it , next we will be told how black people are responsible for the inventions of the world
21 Sep 2010, 17:28 pm
@sharks_lover(sharks_lover)-498: what are ‘inventions of the world’? Moron!
22 Sep 2010, 07:22 am
@sharks_lover(sharks_lover)-498: I guess hotwiring a car can be seen as an invention???
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