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Currie Cup latest (Thurs)

23 Sep 2010

Keo.co.za brings you the news from the Currie Cup.

Smit snubs Lions

John Smit has committed to the Sharks after turning down a lucrative offer from the Lions.

Smith has re-signed for the coastal union and will play for them in the 2011 Super Rugby competition. Insiders say Smit was offered a large sum to join the Lions, but turned the offer down.

The Bok captain is currently recovering from an operation and will not feature in the Currie Cup play-offs or South Africa’s Grand Slam Tour.

Van Heerden lends Lions bite

Former Bok flanker Wikus van Heerden will start against the Sharks.

Josh Strauss moves to No 8 to accommodate Van Heerden while Warren Whiteley falls out of the match 22.

Lions – 15 Jaco Taute, 14 Jannie Boshoff, 13 Waylon Murray, 12 Doppies La Grange, 11 Michael Killian, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Jano Vermaak, 8 Joshua Strauss, 7 Wikus van Heerden, 6 Derick Minnie, 5 Franco van der Merwe (c), 4 George Earle, 3 Ross Geldenhuys, 2 Martin Bezuidenhout, 1 JC Janse van Rensburg.
Subs: 16 Edgar Marutlulle, 17 Wayne Swart, 18 Johan Snyman, 19 Trevor Hall, 20 JP Joubert, 21 Burton Francis, 22 Deon van Rensburg.

Sharks stay the same

John Plumtree has been afforded the luxury of maintaining the same 22 for the Sharks match against the Lions.

Without any injuries in the squad, Plumtree admitted it was the first time in a while he didn’t have to worry about making any changes for the contest at Ellis Park on Saturday.

Sharks – 15. Louis Ludik , 14. Odwa Ndungane, 13. Stefan Terblanche (c), 12. Andries Strauss, 11. Lwazi Mvovo, 10. Patrick Lambie, 9. Charl McLeod, 8. Ryan Kankowski, 7. Willem Alberts, 6. Keegan Daniel, 5. Alistair Hargreaves, 4. Steven Sykes, 3. Eugene van Staden, 2. Craig Burden, 1. Patric Cilliers
Subs: 16. Kyle Cooper, 17. Wiehahn Herbst, 18. Michael Rhodes, 19. Jacques Botes , 20. Rory Kockott, 21. Andre Pretorius, 22. Riaan Swanepoel.

Mapoe worth a million plus

The Cheetahs have put a R1.5 million price tag on Lionel Mapoe.

Despite losing the legal battle to the Cheetahs, Mapoe still refuses to return to Bloemfontein and the Sharks are willing to pay a transfer fee.

However, the Cheetahs, who initially said they won’t accept any transfer fees for the wing, have demanded R1.5 million. This is R500 000 more than what the Bulls paid for Griquas speedster Bjorn Basson.

Bulls did it by the book

The Bulls are confident that they signed wing Bjorn Basson legally from Griquas.

This was according to High Performance manager Ian Schwartz after the Cheetahs announced they will take legal action against Griquas as they were not communicated in the transfer process. The Cheetahs, who pay a part of Basson’s wages, want to keep the wing.

Schwartz believes there should be no reason why the transfer should be stopped as they did it legally. The Bulls paid R1 million for Basson, who will join them on 1 November.

Eagles threaten to strike…again

The SWD Eagles’ players have threatened to boycott Friday’s clash against the Valke unless they are paid.

The players are angry as Saru has stopped all its funding to the union until the political infighting is resolved. Without Saru’s funding, the Eagles can’t afford to pay all their players.

The Eagles are second on the First Division log and this weekend’s match in George is supposed to be broadcast on TV.


110 Comments

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  • 51.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:23 am

    Can you guys see my “just checking” post @ 51??

  • 52.RedLion is born again: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:28 am

    Stormerboy no … can you see my :lol:

  • 53.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:30 am

    Smilies are ok, it just the “reply” function that flags moderation. I sent Roy an email about it yesterday, but no response. Your post is numbered 53 on my page, what number is it for you?

  • 54.RedLion is born again: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:31 am

    Roy you lazy boy.

    Fix the replies and get rid of that communist restriction of free speech ****.

  • 55.katman: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:31 am

    298 of 451 voters know that the Lions will prevail over the Sharks. That’s a whopping 66% of a fairly substantial sample.

    >^..^<

  • 56.katman: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:32 am

    RedLion, I think keo is on his own there. Jake Snake has run off with his cash, so now he can’t pay the elves. Cut the little guy some slack.

  • 57.Brigadier Van Zyl: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:38 am

    I still don’t understand, how in the interests of “keeping the channels open”….the Sharks allow Mapoe to train with them?

    he’s contracted to the Cheetahs at the minute and a tribunal found in favor of the Cheetahs.

    regardless of what he is being paid and the Cheetahs not accepting the Sharks transfer offer…there’s nothing else for Mapoe to do but return to work.

    I bet the sharks are having some second thoughts….surely they can’t be encouraged by this sort of attitude towards an employer?

  • 58.Frankly speaking: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:40 am

    If this moderation k@k isn’t fixed soon, I’m gonna withdraw all my Keo $’s

    ANyone with me? :)

  • 59.Brigadier Van Zyl: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:40 am

    why is every other comment of mine…”awaiting moderation”?

  • 60.John Galt: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:41 am

    Ho Hum, here we go round the mullberry bush…

  • 61.Brigadier Van Zyl: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:41 am

    holy craap…even my smilie was moderated

  • 62.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:41 am

    @Bigadier: It’s because you click on the “reply” button.

  • 63.Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:42 am

    Brigadier Buurman-57:

    the sharks
    started this
    nonsense
    with
    aj venter
    and is still
    getting away
    with it

  • 64.RedLion is born again: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:42 am

    :smile:

    Katman, those who voted for the Lions are smart people indeed.

    I wonder if tigtening the belt for Keo would mean Roy getting the bullet – personally I would have just fired Ryan.

  • 65.Don't click on the reply button or you will be moderated: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:44 am

    Let me just make it official. It saves me having to respond each time.

  • 66.Zandberg Jansen: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:46 am

    Had internet problems the last few days – Everybody is talking about moderation??????Wat moet gemodereer word..klink soos eksamens!

  • 67.Brigadier Van Zyl: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:46 am

    66. I just don’t see any logic from the Sharks.

  • 68.Brigadier Van Zyl: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:50 am

    question: why are the Sharks fans such stuck up unethical twats.

    question: how many purhcases till they win a trophy?

    fast becoming the Pakistan of SA Rugby.

    Breaking news…..Sharks have beaten WP by 15 points in 2 weeks time!!!

  • 69.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 09:52 am

    more lip service from this moron! Everytime sh*t starts to hit the fan for you, you bring up the Kings to hoodwink people, not a chance! How did the Afriforum get hold of an sms sent to YOUR phone Hoskins, huh? Bloody Agent! :twisted:

    SARU committed to Kings
    2010-09-23 07:58

    Cape Town – The South African Rugby
    Union (SARU) has reaffirmed its
    commitment to the establishment of the
    Southern Kings franchise in the Southern
    and Eastern Cape rugby regions.

    The Executive Council of SARU met in
    Newlands on Wednesday and appointed a
    subcommittee, consisting of the newly
    appointed SARU chief executive Jurie Roux,
    Deputy President Mark Alexander and
    Southern Kings chief executive Stefan
    Pretorius to finalise the Memorandum of
    Understanding between the three SEC
    unions and SARU and the SEC franchise
    business plan.

    The subcommittee was instructed to
    finalise the draft business plan within one
    month and to present it to Saru at the next
    Executive Council meeting.

    The presidents of Eastern Province, Border
    and SWD met with the Executive Council
    and during these deliberations SARU again
    reaffirmed its commitment to establish a
    franchise in the strategically important SEC
    region.

    SARU president Oregan Hoskins praised the
    positive manner in which these discussions
    took place.

    “Our next step is to draft a comprehensive
    business plan so that we can move
    forward. The establishment of a franchise
    in the SEC is a top priority for us and I am
    delighted we are now starting to put
    concrete steps in place to make this a
    reality,” explained Hoskins.

    The Executive Council also approved a
    Southern Kings proposal to play friendly
    matches against the five South African
    franchises in 2011.

    The SARU Exco also discussed the issue of
    transformation at length. SARU is not happy
    with the current pace of transformation
    and the issue was referred to its
    Transformation Committee for further
    deliberations.

    “The Executive Council agreed unanimously
    that we must tackle the issue of
    transformation aggressively and in a more
    urgent manner. We discussed several
    options in this regard, but in order for us
    take decisive steps, we decided to refer it
    to our Transformation Committee for
    further deliberations,” said Hoskins.

  • 70.Don't click on the reply button or you will be moderated: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:01 am

    Interfering bladdy agent!

  • 71.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:01 am

    transfrormation committee?

    surely an oxymoron?

    certainly a bunch of morons at the very least.

  • 72.Don't click on the reply button or you will be moderated: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:03 am

    @REDLION 65:

    You can’t fire your nominee for “Keo blogger/sportswriter who has a tux and is able to make it to the dinner” of the year award!….

  • 73.Frankly speaking: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:04 am

    Transie

    Don’t be chacharrag towards Regan now… ;)

  • 74.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:10 am

    it was Oregan’s afriforum speaking secretary what did get the mini-pos off of his phone.

  • 75.PissAnt: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:14 am

    Okay here is what I don’t get from the states…

    Firstly, they had Mapoe on R100K per year according to reports.

    Ebherson, of similar skill, and age and also an ex-Sevens player, is on R700K a year reportedly…

    Now the states wants R1.5mil for a player they paid one seventh of the salary they played another player in the same union and cannot figure out why he is unhappy and want to leave.

    Just who does their calculations on the market value of players?

  • 76.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:22 am

    What’s going on here

  • 77.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:26 am

    pisser

    I thought Mapoe was on 250k?

    which was his original contract no?

    ebherson’s R700k is his new contract?

    or his original one?

    are you comparing naartjes with naartjes?

  • 78.PissAnt: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:36 am

    Reports in the media suggests otherwise.

  • 79.Mighty Horua: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:40 am

    65% of the votes for the LIONS

    ROARRR! :lol:

  • 80.RedLion is born again: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:54 am

    Tannie Dawn, please ask Keo to fix his site…

  • 81.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 10:55 am

    pisser

    so ebersohn’s original contract with the cheaters was R700k a year?

    impressive for a union that usually pays its players in mealie seeds and john deere spares

  • 82.carol: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 11:03 am

    Red Lion – click on Webmaster at the bottom of the page and you will get straight through to Roy, unless he has been allowed to go on holdiay and Simon is running the ‘joint’, then it may not be fixed for weeks!! Heheheh

  • 83.Die kat kom weer: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 11:33 am

    Mapoe should adhere to the contract or the Dirtbinners must pay quite elementary.

  • 84.Tegejo: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 11:49 am

    From Rugby365

    John Smit’s season-ending injury means there will be a new skipper in charge when the Springbok ship sets sail for Europe later this year. rugby365.com’s Timmy Hancox casts his eye over the potential Bok captaincy candidates.

    Whilst Smit’s injury will give the long-time Bok captain a well-earned – and necessary – resting period, it does suddenly leave Springbok coach Peter de Villiers with a serious conundrum; Victor Matfield aside, who is the next Bok skipper in waiting?

    At the same time, recent reports have suggested that several of the senior members of the squad are likely to be rested after a long season and with a World Cup next year – all of which will no doubt complicate De Villiers’s plans; is rest important or do one of Matfield, Schalk Burger or Juan Smith need to cancel their holiday plans and head to home affairs to get their passports in order for a flight to Europe?

    That said, there are also a number of candidates in the Currie Cup who have proven themselves to be excellent leaders.

    Veterans Stefan Terblanché and Gary Botha are successful skippers for the Sharks and the Bulls, respectively, but are they good enough – or in Terblanche’s case, young enough – to warrant a place in the Bok mix?

    World Cup-winning Bok coach Jake White once singled out Wikus van Heerden as Smit’s potential understudy as national captain, but Van Heerden has only just returned to full fitness for the Lions and is clearly short of a gallop to force his way into Bok contention.

    New Ulster signing Johann Muller has had a taste of leading the Boks, and also done the job with aplomb for the Sharks, and could easily be one of the darkhorses in the race for the job – although De Villiers has not used him much during his coaching tenure.

    But those potential candidates aside, all of whom have their own strengths and weaknesses, here are rugby365.com’s five possibles for the Bok captaincy:

    VICTOR MATFIELD:

    Pros:
    - A wealth of experience with over 100 Tests and the current second in command in the Bok set-up.
    - Matfield has led the Bulls to three Super 14 titles in the past four years – he is a leader, of that there is no doubt.

    Cons:
    - With the priority being the defence of the World Cup title next year, Matfield is one of the stalwarts in dire need of a rest to ensure he is peaking in New Zealand.
    - Also, whilst Matfield has enjoyed plenty of success as captain of the Bulls, that win in Dunedin aside (in 2008), he has not enjoyed as much success whilst in charge of the Boks.

    SCHALK BURGER:

    Pros:
    - He guided the Stormers to their best-ever Super Rugby finish this year (runners-up to the Bulls) and is well liked and respected in all rugby circles the world over.
    - Captaincy does not seem to affect his overall game – in fact, he seems to welcome the pressure of leadership.

    Cons:
    - Burger can be hot-headed at times and, sadly, is always a yellow-card candidate who may need a captain to calm him down – rather than the other way around.
    - He also needs rest after a very, very long year.

    JUAN SMITH:

    Pros:
    - Cool, calm and collected much of the time with a leadership style that can be assimilated to that of the legendary Gary Teichmann – preferring to lead thorough his actions with the view that less is more when it comes to talking.
    - He has the respect of his teammates – having been there and done it all in a Bok jersey.

    Cons:
    - Your best player doesn’t always make the best captain – will the weight of one of the toughest jobs in South African rugby affect his game? After all, captaining Free State is way different to captaining your country.
    - Does he have the personality to lead his country – especially when it comes to all the off-field commitments – and does he actually want the job?

    CHILIBOY RALEPELLE:

    Pros:
    - He has done the job before and is a player who has been earmarked as a potential Springbok captain in the future.
    - Ralepelle thrived under the leadership role at age-group level and has all the qualities to do a great job.

    Cons:
    - Bismarck du Plessis should be the starting hooker and is likely to be first choice ahead of Ralepelle on the tour.
    - Can his body hold up? Will he finish the tour – unlike last year when he limped home early?

    ANTON VAN ZYL:

    Pros:
    - Yes, he is a pick from left field, but his great work with Western Province indicates that he is one of the best captains in the country.
    - Fresh ideas and a fresh face could just be what the doctor ordered!

    Cons:
    - Is he good enough to warrant a starting spot in the Bok line-up?
    - No Springbok experience – his first Test in charge would also be his debut for his country.

    * Who do you think should lead the Boks on their end-of-season tour? Let us know below what YOU think!

  • 85.grant10: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 11:57 am

    luke watson should captain the boks

  • 86.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 11:59 am

    85 Grab10Mofs: Why?

  • 87.grant10: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:14 pm

    great inspirational leader Luke….leads from the front….unlike the plod.

  • 88.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:15 pm

    heavens’ crackpipe.

    I would love to do a comparison of Lukas Whatsembi’s stats this season and last with sa number 8s

    tackles made
    turnovers
    rucks hit etc
    metres gained

    whenever I watch bath play he spends a lot of time conducting the orchestra.

  • 89.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:20 pm

    88. Grunter. FarkLOL!!!

  • 90.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:22 pm

    87 Grab10: yeah he’s a successful Cappie…He has wonalot…

    When…?

  • 91.Tegejo: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:26 pm

    G10 – Dont make me vomit!

    Luke was the cancer of WP. Look how well they’re doing since his departure…. Lets not open that wound again!

  • 92.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:26 pm

    hg I’m serious.

    I’m looking for a power point presentation from you on the subject…

    something to stuff up granties inbox.

  • 93.grant10: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:28 pm

    LW best loosie by a country mile……..

  • 94.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:36 pm

    92. Grunter: HG is very busy, what with janitorship and faithfully exposing the truth on Keo…

    …Time for PPpresentations is lacking

  • 95.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:36 pm

    lets see the stats then budgie.

    stop being subjective and emotional.

  • 96.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:38 pm

    janitors game

    hardenthefuckup..

    just give us the stats then.

  • 97.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:43 pm

    96. Grunter: Janitor’s game is sure Tony Yengeni’s favourite Malt and Cigar partnerincrime can make the time or find a lackey to do it…

  • 98.gunther: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:49 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-99:

    i’m struggling to find the stats for last years GP.

  • 99.iori Yagami: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:50 pm

    Juan Smith. Anton van Zyl?? WTF

  • 100.tole: Reply to this comment
    23 Sep 2010, 12:51 pm

    Wens dit wil nou ent kry. Mapoe moet gaan en ook HV & ND saam met hom neem.

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