Mallett slams northern standards
3 Dec 2010
Barbarians coach Nick Mallett says top Super Rugby sides would give the European Test teams a run for their money.
England beat Australia recently while Scotland shocked South Africa, but it’s been clear that southern-hemisphere rugby is streets ahead of the style embraced up north. Mallett, a former Bok coach who now coaches Italy, said the north has got a lot of catching up to do.
‘Even your international teams would struggle to beat the top four sides in Super 14 rugby,’ Mallett said. ‘There are far too many average games in northern-hemisphere rugby. You can lower your guard in any of the domestic games and even in the Heineken Cup.
‘There isn’t the same speed, intensity, precision of execution demanded as in the Super 14. There is no easy game in the Super 14 and the fact that they have to play over three months against high-quality teams every week, with perhaps seven or eight internationals in them, demands a really good effort just to win a game.
‘Okay, if you reach the semi-final of the Heineken Cup and have a match like Toulouse vs Munster, that starts getting up to that Super 14 level. But too many games aren’t at that standard at all.’
Mallett added that the top Super Rugby sides would run the European unions close should a fixture ever be organised.
‘A good Sharks or Stormers side would give a really good game to Wales, England, Ireland, Scotland or France. I’m not saying they would automatically beat them, but it would be a bloody close game. There is not a lot of difference between a well-drilled Super 14 side in the top four and the northern-hemisphere Test teams.’
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4 Dec 2010, 14:57 pm
why you think SA and NZ have such long proud traditions in rugby, yet cant win an olympic medal between the two of us, very simply, we not athletes, we’re idiots, perfect for rugby. Look at Panty he’s a born and bred tighthead. thicker than a sack of hammers. absolutely perfect.
4 Dec 2010, 15:06 pm
@skopiskoobidoo :
I think I finally found the biggest fool on Keo. Your posts really are a load of trash. All you can do is sling mud. I pity you, at least a little. Last time I acknowledge or read one of your posts.
4 Dec 2010, 15:08 pm
NZ bred world class middle distance athletes like Peter Snell in the 60′s and John Walker in the 80′s just before Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett and Steve Cram hit the middle distance records for six, but that was before the African renaissance where Kenya, Ethiopia, Morocco and Tunisia/Algeria wiped the middle distance and long distance slate clean
4 Dec 2010, 15:09 pm
yeah so what we had nash and zola bud and the black tranny with the ballas sticking out her cossie, but in the whole, shite.
4 Dec 2010, 15:11 pm
athletes are bolt, karl lewis, or some ukrainian weightlifter who picks up a nissan hardbody – whats our claim to fame, zola fkn budd and gerrie ‘een keer’ coetzee? ag liewe fokmaarvoort.
4 Dec 2010, 15:15 pm
@Alucard : Pity yourself and don’t do me no favors about reading my posts, they mean nothing, unlike yours which are so filled with absolute ingrained rugby intelligence from the highest echelons of Aryan bred supreme rugby related learning
Yip I’m the biggest fool on keo and proudly wear my noddy crusty badge with prejudiced pride for all you highfalutin @rseholes who think your sh’t smells like princess paraphernalia pomegranate pies when nobody’s smelling or looking
stop being such an idiot big cheese about absolutely fokol, what you think you know is precisely fokol and what you actually know is even less.
4 Dec 2010, 15:20 pm
@Black Panther :
QF1: W pool C vs RU pool D
QF2: W pool B vs RU pool A
QF3: W pool D vs RU pool c
QF4: W pool A vs RU pool B
SF1: W QF1 vs W QF2
SF2: W QF3 vs W QF4 (SA vs NZ)
Pool A: NZ, France
Pool B: Scotland, Argentina, England
Pool C: Australia, Ireland
Pool D: The group of death: SA, Wales, Fiji, Samoa
4 Dec 2010, 15:23 pm
out to laze in the afternoon sun before watching PdV’s second string Bokkies take Poefie Boy Mr. Assured Azure Blue St. Nicholas’s fancipantie Baa Baas team to the whitewashed Twickystickyham cleaners.
Go PdV. Fokmavoort right over those fanciarseholed Azurri Bloues ballas.
4 Dec 2010, 18:15 pm
@Tacitus :
But the Bokke have to play under neutral referees and the RS S14 sides do not.
4 Dec 2010, 18:25 pm
Who cares about the Olympics? They are a great example of marketing and corruption out of control. Can you seriously tell me that apart from the sevens, that you would normally cross the road to see any of the events that they parade as the number two sports event in the world?
The event should be re-named for what it is the world’s best pharmacologically sponsored and enhanced show!
The 2010 opening and closing ceremonies cost more than it would have to build 100 hospitals and 100 schools.
5 Dec 2010, 08:27 am
I’ve always maintained that Super Rugby is right up there with test rugby. The only naysayers are the Kiwis, which is very little surprise since they have not won for a while…
5 Dec 2010, 08:32 am
“179. skopiskoobidoo :
December 4th, 2010 at 2:27 am
Hey Countess Dracularis gone wrong I don’t care one lily livered hoot what ethnicity you are, your an idiot second to none, and whats more you think you know rugby, or the Boks, or the coach way more (lot like less) than you do.
You a dumb idiot fool actually, and whats worse is you a underhand piece of frek drek garbage along with these other lecherous treacherous lousy louts that you hang around with and slap each others anti Springbok coaches backs in your pathetic attempt to discredit their value or their input
I hope Boks smack your fancy pants Mallets Baa Baas for six out the ground at Sticky Twickyham tomorrow, just so I can see the lecherous underhanded creep treacherous lout chomping that you and this other little lily livered creep Herr Goebeldygwat chew on while you try and undermine and ingrate your pathetically ponsified pale faced hatred all over again. Piece of twatassed dooby doolittle pisswilly little dumbass lout of a dubious dwindling drearyassed dweeb.
If PdV’s Boks give Mallets Baa Baas a hiding tomorrow, I want to see the likes of you pisswilly little creep come up with your next bout of incredulous creepass crowing and cry baby cringing, you schmuckaby baby little lout, twatassed twittering two timing tango twisting two faced twit.”
You must be feeling like a right twat this morning. Mallett knows who the real moron in international rugby coaching is, doesn’t he..
5 Dec 2010, 11:25 am
@Great White Shark : @827
Super Rugby titles = 15
NZ won = 10, Runners-Up = 6.
Mildly amusing to hear a Safa preach to others about not valuing the Super tournament given that SA throw their toys out of the SANZAR-pram every time the Boks lose.
8 Dec 2010, 04:40 am
Indeed — the whining about “let’s ditch Oz and NZ and go and play in Europe” is a frequent bleat. Especially when they keep getting the wooden spoon.
8 Dec 2010, 07:06 am
@TheTackler : now you can’t even perform Ka Mate Tackles hahahahahaaa
Lawyer stunned by haka
trademark row
SUSAN PEPPERELL – Sunday Star Times
A leading lawyer wants trademark issues
around the “Ka Mate” haka performed by
the All Blacks kicked into touch.
Chapman Tripp partner and intellectual
property lawyer Matt Sumpter says as the
Rugby Union and Ngati Toa scrummage
over the use of the haka, applying the law
isn’t helping.
Earlier this year the Intellectual Property
Office accepted the iwi’s application for
trademark registration for four phrases in
the famous haka performed by Te
Rauparaha – Ka Mate, Ka Ora, Upane
Kaupane and Whiti Te Ra.
The application is going through a formal
process before a decision, but Sumpter,
writing in the latest Law News, said he was
surprised the property office accepted the
claim.
“As a rugby fan it is a fascinating issue. It
can’t be resolved in a way that makes
everyone happy.”
Sumpter told the Sunday Star-Times that
trademarking went too far and the
registration process was no use if phrases
like “Ka Mate” were already in the public
domain.
“My view is that this should be off-limits. It’s
a famous cultural icon that should be free
for everyone to use.”
But he recognised it was a sensitive issue
that pitched the law against cultural rights
and New Zealanders’ expectations.
“This haka is important to Ngati Toa, who
understandably believe it deserves
protection. But for many people “Ka Mate”
forms part of our cultural identity and it
should not be locked away with its use
policed by lawyers using aggressive cease
and desist letters.
“In the end, the law finds it hard to fit the
square peg of cultural rights into the round
hole of intellectual property protection.”
Sumpter said that begged the question of
whether NZ needed specific protection of
Maori cultural property.
Ngati Toa has said it wants trademark
registration to prevent any offensive use of
the haka.
Sumpter said the onus was on Ngati Toa to
demonstrate what was in the public domain
and what wasn’t.
If no agreement is reached, a contested
hearing will take place before the
commissioner of trademarks, who could
then issue a decision, open to appeal in the
high court.
Union community rugby general manager
Brent Anderson said the parties were still
negotiating, but would not say if that
involved any financial settlement. No
meetings are scheduled before Christmas.
8 Dec 2010, 18:49 pm
@Tacitus : tac quit while you’re behind, you don’t know enough about rugby outside of SA to make those claims, all you see is blue.
8 Dec 2010, 18:52 pm
@cab :
classic posts as always
9 Dec 2010, 16:37 pm
@Transformation : @ 215
~sigh~
And you goys thought you had a Global monopoly on PC-manipulated intrusion of sporting bodies….
This is an old issue actually, just re-surfacing itself. The Kapa o Pango was born on the back of these concerns 10years ago and we will inevitably only see this version ‘owned’ by the ABs themselves. As long as it keeps wining up the Poms, it has my total support.
9 Dec 2010, 16:38 pm
@Black Panther : @ 218
make that “winding up”
just for the avoidance of any doubt.
9 Dec 2010, 16:41 pm
@Black Panther : who objected to the throat slitting?
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