The new face of Super Rugby
20 Dec 2010
Find out everything you need to know about the expanded competition in the bumper 156-page issue of SA Rugby magazine.
We kick off our Super Rugby preview section with an idiot’s guide to the new format (if you still don’t know how it works after reading this, we can’t help you). That’s followed by three pages on each South African team (how they are shaping up, player signings/losses, fixtures, previous log finishes, numbers that matter etc) and one page on each of the Kiwi and Aussie sides.
Also in the new issue:
– The Springboks failed to make any progress on their end-of-year tour
– Is Victor Matfield too conservative to be Bok captain?
– The All Blacks capped off an outstanding 2010 with their third Grand Slam in five years
– The Wallabies were frustratingly inconsistent on their end-of-year tour
– If England are to seriously challenge for the World Cup, they will have to stand up to the big beasts of the game
– Behind the swagger lies a secret diary that is driving England wing Chris Ashton to new heights
– Why the Barbarians are still relevant in the professional era
– Yet again the World Cup schedule helps the big nations and hinders the smaller ones. Why can’t the IRB make rugby’s showpiece event fair to all?
– Plus: Why Stuart Abbott is back in SA, Tim Noakes on the Boks ‘doping’ controversy, Heinrich Brussow’s injury battle, SA players in Europe
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4 Jan 2011, 15:15 pm
What an innings from Harbhajan
a world class spinner wouldve got Harbhajan by now!
4 Jan 2011, 15:20 pm
Why dont Lazy Smith have a bowl?
4 Jan 2011, 15:29 pm
@Mighty Horua : 1700 don’t worry, it makes quota_sux feel better denigrating black people in whatever way he can.
living amongst those semi-r_etards in forest hill who are either fisherman or security guards eats into his very being…there’s even a mental facility right there in forest hill to house them chop-chop
4 Jan 2011, 15:30 pm
pick Tahir ….. Morkel also very overrated … Lobsy won’t make the Warriors team … pick Parnel – he’s a lefty – variation and can bat a bit …
1 Smith
2 Amla
3 Kallis
4 Faf du Plessis
5 AB (keeper)
6 Duminy (2nd spin option)
7 McClaren
8 Steyn
9 Parnel
10 Morkel
11 Tahir
4 Jan 2011, 15:32 pm
Steyn has deserved to get at least 7 wickets today.
Unbelievable spell of controlled swing bowling at pace.
How Tendulkar is still in after the first over of the day is still beyond me.
Great contest – best batsman in the world v best batsmen in the world.
4 Jan 2011, 15:34 pm
trans … the crime rate is higher in Summerstrand than Forrest hill … you can only blame scum in the NMMU hostels for that!
4 Jan 2011, 15:39 pm
@John Galt :
Have you finally accepted that the sun has all the colours of the rainbow in its emitted bright light and that after after wanting to drop the likes of Prince(top-scored in the 2nd.innings in Durban)? and others like him?
4 Jan 2011, 15:40 pm
@E.T. : What cult have you joined? I hope they haven’t overcharged you for the sandals.
Your hero worship of “The Master” and your demonising of “Mafia Smith” is disturbing, if not tragic.
Smith is captain of the Proteas, a side my emotional disease forces me to support for a reason. Coming out to bat at the SCG with a broken hand to try to save a test match even with a series won rather than being nice to the little figurine you have bobbling about on your dashboard, is why.
Every top team has a clique of seniors who run the show. Sometimes it is based around the coach and sometimes around the captain. Without this core the team will never succeed.
I support the use of all reliable technology in all international matches.It is a moot point here because the players don’t have access to it.
4 Jan 2011, 15:46 pm
@E.T. :
Did he middle anything in Durban or yesterday or for the last 2 seasons for that matter?
And he’s getting on bit, whats he? 33 34? He aint no Kallis or Tendulkar so its time for him to be put out to pasture.
Bring in Ingram.
4 Jan 2011, 15:50 pm
@E.T. :
And if by your ‘colours of the rainbow’ shpeel you’re intimating something racial, if you have a look at the side I would pick, my team has the exact same ratio as it is now.
Douche bag.
4 Jan 2011, 15:53 pm
Steyn takes another. Well done my boy!!
4 Jan 2011, 15:57 pm
@stormer in a teacup :
Certainly not the drunken cricket Mafia cult that all of Smith, J.’Carless’, Boucher and De Vil. with undrlings like Harris and the like belong to.
Their forte seems to be to extort sponsored, expensive cars for the purpose of drunkenly crashing them into walls and then playing with the help of steroids to hide the damage of contused ribs til the series seems to be heading to a total stalemate.
4 Jan 2011, 16:07 pm
@John Galt :
@1709
Try to be gutsy by saying that to him and see how he middles you in the knackers? If Prince is old then J. ‘Carless’ is ancient at 36 hence the need for the Tina-Turner-I got-it-from-Durban-fake hair-implants.
@1710
Is the analytically challenged and prejudiced one struggling to spell the simple word “spiel”?
There I have done for you. Say thank you mutt.
4 Jan 2011, 16:14 pm
@E.T. :
Thats your argument? Seriously? Kallis vs Prince?
Wow.
I’ll help you out, its easier this way.
Kallis last 7 tests, 5 hundreds including a double ton. Career avg over 56.
Prince? I could very easily look it up as well but its no use, you know the answer already.
Goodbye and thank you Shloser.
4 Jan 2011, 16:17 pm
It is hilariously amusing to witness the essence of this notion of “if you can’t beat them then join them” as the hypocrites join the enormously HUGE and GLOBAL Sachin Tendulkar Fan Club.
They would obviously wish it were not so and can clearly not ignore the mastery of THE Master as he continues to drum home the point like Pele and Sobers and many, many more that SKILL is just that and belongs to any and ALL.
4 Jan 2011, 16:18 pm
Steyn, yet another 5for.
Whats that 19 wickets this series? Against the best batting lineup in the world. Take a bow Sir Dale.
4 Jan 2011, 16:20 pm
@John Galt :
Is that your deliriously wicked reflection of your level of understanding?
Do you not ONLY read a reference to age and none else?
Your HOLE gets deeper. Now stay there safely.
4 Jan 2011, 16:23 pm
@John Galt :
Sadly your forebears took that option of “Sir” away from him in 1961.
Did you or your parents play a role in that?
4 Jan 2011, 16:36 pm
Amazingly, for too many, India have bettered every SA innings bar the very first in he first test and that against the seeming best fast bowlers in the modern game presently.
Also that very first innings failure can be ascribed to Indian administrators’ and coaches’ arrogance in not asking for at least one warm-up match.
4 Jan 2011, 16:37 pm
Kallis vs Prince is like Tendulkar vs Hudson
4 Jan 2011, 16:39 pm
SA played with 1 less bowler = Kallis … huge difference … also in India it was 1 – 1 … these 2 teams are just to close to each other … both should be nr 1 in the world . … .. .
4 Jan 2011, 16:42 pm
LIES and HISSES that is all that is left for the challenged as they struggle to hide their real intent.
But they STINK!!
4 Jan 2011, 16:45 pm
There is only one MASTER at a time and only one CHAMPION TEAM at a time.
4 Jan 2011, 17:14 pm
there was the comparison between Ponting, Tendulkar & Kallis after 145 Inn… Kallis was on top … and then he also has 250+ test wickets …. Kallis = MASTER!
4 Jan 2011, 17:30 pm
Like a fool under the threat of the crocodile in the fast flowing river some will scrape at the proverbial bottom of a barrel whilst clutching at a straw in that life-threatening situation.
4 Jan 2011, 17:35 pm
Is it the question of another despicable black-eye if bottles are being thrown onto the field at certain Indian fielders?
How LOW can the Cape Dutchies go?
4 Jan 2011, 17:40 pm
Clearly their are some “madar chods” down C.T. way.
4 Jan 2011, 17:41 pm
To them I say “terregaan”.
4 Jan 2011, 17:46 pm
@Boo_Habana : the problem with summerstrand is it’s close proximity with that ghetto called forest hill! That place is a relic of the old regime should be flushed down the toilet it deserves to be in!
6 years ago i used to stay in the townhouse complex just next to forest hill and i took a walk with a friend to the garage and next thing while i was paying for the goods i bought, some scruffy r_etared-looking hoodlum who i could see was progeny of those scummy fishermen came to us to ask as where we’re from and that we should watch our back as forest hill was ‘theirs’ hahaha
he was lucky we were in a good mood
4 Jan 2011, 17:46 pm
what a day of high drama ! Bloody theatre at newlands…..magic test cricket at its best! 2 great teams not giving an inch….this is the real deal…..go proteas!!
And please newlands crowd….dont let us down with kak behaviour!
4 Jan 2011, 17:55 pm
@grant10 :
Hey! G10, please just assure me that it was not you in that SA flag speedo with a bare-cheasted JR on your rhs that the cameras were catching and showing to the whole -wide- world- of-sport?
The question is in the spirit of the SodaJoe established tradition, so blame him ultimately.
And a belated everything of the best for 2011 and beyond!!
4 Jan 2011, 18:00 pm
The turbaned Singh magic starts to work its wonders again?
Shades of Durban 1st innings?
4 Jan 2011, 18:01 pm
Throwing bottles onto the ground?
Naughty Cape Spanish.
That’s why they close the bars at Newlands in the early afternoon.
4 Jan 2011, 18:02 pm
New ball notwithstanding I would have tried Harbas. after 4 overs already, what with the bounce in the pitch.
4 Jan 2011, 18:04 pm
@gunther :
If you are not there my good fellow how can you know it is not Cape Dutch? I can say I definitely saw Burger there yesterday.
And to you best for 2011 except when you oppose me.
4 Jan 2011, 18:09 pm
@gunther :
You should too know that as fellow strugglers and supporters of the great Hassan Howa, your labelled group will never throw bottles at the people of the GREAT MAHATMA whose legacy is still visible in Durban and is known as the PHOENIX Centre.
4 Jan 2011, 18:11 pm
Happy that mafia RAT, Hairys is out to the Harbas. magic again.
4 Jan 2011, 18:13 pm
Come now ET.
There was no bottle thrown.
Anyway he was in the wrong place.
Most of the Cape Spanish are in the snake pit.
And they prefer to throw bricks
4 Jan 2011, 18:19 pm
@E.T. : LOL
Not me mate! All the best for you in 2011 my friend!
4 Jan 2011, 18:21 pm
and all the best for u 2 Gunther
4 Jan 2011, 18:30 pm
@gunther :
Hey! Mr. G. I can only re-state what commentator HD Ackerman said or maybe speculated and my station broke immediately away for an ads break.
4 Jan 2011, 18:32 pm
@grant10 :
Thank you, thank you and thank you again.
I can breathe easier now again and live to fight another day on the correct side with you and all else who so do.
I trust your liver is allowed to recover somewhat now please.
4 Jan 2011, 18:47 pm
Grantie
All the best to you and yours chum.
That goes for you as well my extra terrestrial pal.
4 Jan 2011, 18:48 pm
@E.T. : 3 days on the wagon….had a tremendous last 6 weeks….business went through the roof….played hard….great times indeed…..now slowing it all down…want 2011 to be a great year…my bday on thursday so that will be a bash…..but thereafter work and select play only!
4 Jan 2011, 18:48 pm
cheers et
have to run
4 Jan 2011, 18:49 pm
@gunther : cheers mate
4 Jan 2011, 18:55 pm
Did you see the look of horror on Paul’s face when shouldering arms and being trapped LBW! You see Mr Harris – Newlands is tailor made for spinners – IF – you can actually spin a ball. I know it is not your fault, but I really think this may be your swansong! I have even seen JP Duminy spin a cricket ball and he is a make-shift spinner. Enjoy your last test mate! JP and Imran are waiting in the wings.
4 Jan 2011, 18:57 pm
As I said earlier – The Turbanator will spin India to victory, IF we don’t bat sensibly tomorrow.
4 Jan 2011, 19:06 pm
@nama1 : Harris’s record suggests something quite different to his supposedly “being average”.
He’s ranked 15th best in the world, three places behind Vettori and with only Steyn and Morkel ahead of him in SA. (Kallis only ranks 22nd and Chucker Botha a lowly 54th)
And his record places him as SA’s best-ever spinner since Tayfield. Substantially ahead of the likes of all those aforementioned SA legends, both pre and post isolation.
Harris is a great.
4 Jan 2011, 19:21 pm
@TheTackler :
Rankings are just that! To be a great you have to consistently take wickets, especially on spinner friendly tracks like Newlands. There is no doubt that he can stem the runs for a while, but taking wickets wins test on a regular basis. Harris is pretty ordinary and the rankings say a lot if they have him ranked 15. Anyways take the top three teams in the world and average 4 bowlers per team, that doesn’t even get him in to the top three teams as a specialist bowler. He makes it into the fourth best team. Explain that to me? How does that make him a great. The top four bowlers and six batsmen is what really matters in the rankings, if you want to throw the ranking system into your argument.
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