Return of the king
7 Feb 2011
Fourie du Preez will be the Boks’ key player this year as they seek to defend the World Cup.
In his most revealing interview yet, Du Preez talks to SA Rugby magazine about why the Springboks struggled in 2010, his big-match temperament, who should replace him as Bok scrumhalf when he retires from international rugby, why he wants to play in Japan, and who he thinks should be the next Bok coach.
We also speak to Heyneke Meyer and Bryan Habana about what makes Du Preez the best scrumhalf in the world.
‘If he doesn’t play the Boks are in serious trouble and the Bulls wouldn’t be the side they have been in the past couple of years, says Meyer. ‘People point out that he is integral to their game plan, which is true. There isn’t a better box-kicking scrumhalf in world rugby. But that doesn’t take into account his full value.
‘As the link between the forwards and the backs he is the most influential player on the park. Your decision-making has to be so sharp there, especially at international level where space and time are at a premium. No player can match his decision-making under pressure.’
Also in the new issue, on sale this week:
– Bryan Habana needs creative players around him if he’s to start scoring tries at Test level again
– Francois Louw refuses to believe that his World Cup dream is over
– Local businessman Robert Gumede on why he’s invested in the Lions, transforming the game, and the players he’d like to bring to Joburg
– Stirling Mortlock on what the Rebels hope to achieve in their debut Super Rugby season, why Danny Cipriani will excel, and his desire to get back into the Wallabies squad
– Alcohol addiction and excessive partying cost kiwi referee Steve Walsh his job in 2008. SA Rugby magazine finds out how he turned his life around
– JP Pietersen is confident he can regain the form that made him one of the world’s best wingers in 2007
– While the Test nations up north are coming to terms with the new law interpretations, the club structures and mentality will forever contrast the philosophy down south
– It’s been just over a year since Gareth Thomas became the first openly gay professional rugby player. In this candid interview, the former Wales captain talks about his new life, changing perceptions, and being portrayed by Mickey Rourke in an upcoming Hollywood movie
– The Olympic Games will transform sevens rugby
– Referees must stop interpreting the laws and start applying them consistently
– The three Pacific Island rugby nations will never be able to compete with the world’s best
– Jacques Cronjé on his World Cup snub, maturing, and going head-to-head with Sébastien Chabal at Racing Métro
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603 Comments
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8 Feb 2011, 10:51 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-447:
molinos de viento? cargo
8 Feb 2011, 10:52 am
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-432:
xhosakid id ghanaian?
@Transformation(Transformation)-438: kwame nkrumah is no hero here – up your game.
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-441:
love your elegant, feminine style.
must have had a classy upbringing.
outta here finally.
8)
8 Feb 2011, 10:56 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-449:
la cerveza no es alcohol.
más como la comida
8 Feb 2011, 10:57 am
@charo(charo)-452: i never said he is a hero in ghana! i said i admire him ie his theories on “pan africanism”…stop twisting sh*t!
8 Feb 2011, 10:57 am
“Bryan Habana needs creative players around him if he’s to start scoring tries at Test level again”
Oh so De Jonge, Fourie, Aplon don’t count. Lets face it, Habanna needs to go on a speed programme and ease off the Gym work.
8 Feb 2011, 10:58 am
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-444: And right there he goes and does exactly what instructed to do. Everytime your and I are here, you post the same thing? Just following orders, or trying to get a posse going?
I keep telling you Spooner. The bad ol days, and your crew from RT are no longer here. No KKK lynch mob to call huh? Either you come up with fresh posts, cause your ol school groove ain’t kicking it!
But keep trying, I’m actually enjoying watching you try SOOOOO HARD!
8 Feb 2011, 10:59 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-454: Who cares! Can we start talking some rugby already, this political stuff I can read about from more traceable sources.
8 Feb 2011, 11:00 am
@charo(charo)-452: My upbring is better than yours. Something turned you into the arse you are. One day you’ll break down in tears and tell us all about it. Until that day. CHOOSE A FINGER.
8 Feb 2011, 11:02 am
@gunther(gunther)-433: That must be very distressing news for Capo, boo habana, and ET. I wonder whether it applies to relationships with others only, or between themselves too. But even more worrying is this new Malawian legislation outlawing flatulence. Whether you’re a “loop’n’poeper” or a “poep’n’loper”, you could face some serious sanction in Blantyre and Lilongwe for your gaseous indiscretions. If this were every introduced here, the aforementioned three would literally have nothing left to do.
8 Feb 2011, 11:03 am
Picks for the S15 Semi-final:
Winner of Aus – Tahs
NZ – Saders
SA – Sharks
Best runner-up: Bulls/Blues/Stormers
8 Feb 2011, 11:05 am
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-456: I know if I keep plugging away with it you will soon EXPLODE with racist bile in an uncontrollable (childish) rage like you used to in the not so old days… I know it’s still there, bubbling just under the surface…. your temperature gauge is rising as we speak, huh Hater? You don’t fool us with your recent alias semi-sweet talk… I know just which buttons I need to push to reveal your insecurities, spotted leopard
Bwhahaha! It’s coming, like a volcaaaaaaaano!
8 Feb 2011, 11:05 am
@gunther(gunther)-445:
Thank God. Cos some of your pals are dodgy
8 Feb 2011, 11:06 am
If ET has been banned, I’m sorry for him, but maybe everyone else should take a second to think that racism is a two way street and revisit their own contributions. The recently raised and unchallenged comment about racism only applying to whites seems to be the thinking around here. The lack of criticism from some quarters here was deafening. Capo went on to write even more vile hate speech, unchallenged again but those who would hijack a thread about about vajazzles, and turn it into a KKK meeting. Pathetic!
Hardly surprising when the same peoples MO is to call anyone who doesn’t agree with them , a racist. But these claims are as baseless and desperate as Shabir Shabir shake being told to move his car outside of court, and subsequently calling the policeman a racist.
So it’s good to see a bit of equilibrium around here where the baseless accusations are actually being challenged. Where hypocrits have previously run free they are now being brought to task for the glaring inconsistencies in their own prejudiced writing.
Of course the old RT chestnut still raises it’s head, mainly because the focus must shift away from truth to fiction when you have nothing concrete to base your accusations on.
Maybe it’s a bout time we all stepped back for a bit of reflection on our own contributions.
8 Feb 2011, 11:07 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-459:
I believe they are allowed to practice by themselves.
as long as they dispose of the evidence in hermetically sealed bags.
I am told that if you sit on your hand until you are numb…
it feels like somebody else is doing it
8 Feb 2011, 11:07 am
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-461: You’re just stupid. News flash. I won. It’s over.
8 Feb 2011, 11:09 am
@gunther(gunther)-464: Or try left arm over the wicket for a change.
8 Feb 2011, 11:11 am
@gunther(gunther)-453: bien entonces que aproveche
8 Feb 2011, 11:12 am
Anyway, I don’t quite understand how this thread went from Grantie verjazzling an Alsatian on the Clifton steps last night to this schoolyard brawl.
8 Feb 2011, 11:14 am
@Ratel Brussow(Morne Steyn is under-rated)-457:
when was the last time you saw your mates charo & wooden spoon talking rugby on this blog?, yet you want to lose it with me? get off it! “scroll on by”!
8 Feb 2011, 11:16 am
@JockBok(JockBok)-463:
We can look at OUR OWN contributions Jock, and be judged by them, NOT BY THE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY OTHERS! ONLY OUR OWN. Keep that in mind when you pull out your paint brush.
8 Feb 2011, 11:19 am
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-465: What did you win sweetie-pie? A prize for being the biggest imbecile? For having the biggest chip on your shoulder? For being the saddest victim?
Now, in the immortal words, “I’m outta here”. I shall leave you to continue to make a huge T I T of yourself. Keep on exposing those racial insecurities on a public forum, it’s amusing to watch
8 Feb 2011, 11:20 am
Oh transie, you should know every action has a reaction….
8 Feb 2011, 11:21 am
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-471: I know you gotta run and report back. Have a good day Spooner.
8 Feb 2011, 11:22 am
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-472: tell your friend ratel that…
8 Feb 2011, 11:26 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-469: They not my “mates”. I appealed to you because I thought you could rise above it.
“Lose it”? Buddy what world do you live in?
I don’t know much about Ghana, I didn’t understand why you said they “knew their place”, I realise it was probably a historical thread reference. I don’t really care about all that. I would like to know more about the country as friends who have traveled there say it is great and has the highest percentage of conserved land anywhere in the world. However I’m not interested in being ‘informed’ about the country from a rugby thread. Sorry if that offends you.
Now does anybody actually care about rugby?
8 Feb 2011, 11:30 am
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-470:
That’s what I’m saying. You contributions are all about the KKK and RT today. Did you ever stop to think that maybe your paint brush is tarring me?
I happen to like the guys I know from RT, but your reaction to this in the past is tainted by your own predujices. In other words your opinion is not shared by me. But you float it around Keo like you’ve chased off the evil men from RT and their not being here is better for everyone.
Well it might be for you, but it’s not for me. No-one died and made you Queen of keo cyberspace. You don’t talk for me.
8 Feb 2011, 11:37 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-466:
I think that is banned as well.
It creates too much rough for the batsmen.
8 Feb 2011, 11:39 am
I see it’s the ‘hottie with many nics and her chief lackey’ show… oh well… no rugby blogging going on here then time to move along!
8 Feb 2011, 11:41 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-467:
Nací tratando de tomar ventaja.
Al igual que mis compañeros de Lavender Hill.
8 Feb 2011, 11:44 am
@Ratel Brussow(Morne Steyn is under-rated)-475: okay Ratel…you don’t understanda the context of charo’s jibe and my response to it. he is the one who is always making comments about ghanaian natives being more superior morally than black south africans, and that boasting how thet curtsy around him. you don’t know the background to this whole thing.
he’s outta here for now, so let’s talk rugby
8 Feb 2011, 11:45 am
@JockBok(JockBok)-476: WHERE WERE YOU WHEN SPOONER POSTED THIS:
444. wooden spoon(wooden spoon) :
February 8th, 2011 at 10:37 am
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-442: bwahahaha and we will always remember the vile racist miscreant anti social Hater and Lilith, no matter how much you try airbrush those leopard spots”
Fark off then Jock. My posts are in response to being attacked by your chommie Spooner, NOT DIRECTED TO YOU! but you can’t see that. Your problem! And if you miss the RT crew, then go and join them.
No one died. They just ran away. So stop b1tching about it. I don’t hold you responsible for Spooners filth, I just expect that you stay out of it. AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS TALK ONLY TALK FOR ME! So don’t go brushing me with Capo paint. Practise what you preach old man.
8 Feb 2011, 11:46 am
@gunther(gunther)-479: Usted es el uso de una lengua extranjera no me impresiona. Un chimpancé entrenado puede traducir mierda en Internet.
8 Feb 2011, 11:46 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-478: go bryce, don’t let the door hit you
8 Feb 2011, 11:49 am
@gunther(gunther)-451: me no hablo….
Only woodstock Spanish.
Cargo Pant?
8 Feb 2011, 11:51 am
@gunther(gunther)-479: donde es lavender hill?
8 Feb 2011, 11:51 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-480: @gunther(gunther)-479: Habanna debe a su velocidad si va a ser de alguna utilidad en la Copa del Mundo. La confianza cerebro seguirá recogiendo él, aunque Mvovo y Basson están jugando mucho mejor de rugby, por lo que le permite poner en un programa de velocidad y lo llevan a cabo el gimnasio.
8 Feb 2011, 11:55 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-484: @Transformation(Transformation)-485: @gunther(gunther)-479: ???? ???? ???? ?????? ?? ?? ????? ??? ??? ?? ???? ???. ?? ???? ????? ???? ????? ?? ????? ??? ???? ???.
8 Feb 2011, 11:57 am
@Ratel Brussow(Morne Steyn is under-rated)-487: What Keo doesn’t do Hindi!? Let me try phonetically: D?kh? mujh? aj?ba bh???’?? k? ?ka kisma m?? b?ta kara sakat? hai?. Aba ham?? gambh?ra h?n? c?hi’? aura ragb? b?ta karat? hai?.
8 Feb 2011, 11:58 am
@Ratel Brussow(Morne Steyn is under-rated)-488: Better, now lets talk rugby, in English!
8 Feb 2011, 11:58 am
@JockBok(JockBok)-476: good post. I agree entirely. Some people have got far too big for their boots here.
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-481: There you go with the victim mentality again. Needless to say, that post was in REACTION to your post:
442. rossoneri(rossoneri) :
February 8th, 2011 at 10:34 am
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-440: Please don’t lie. We both know how far up certain arses you were creeping in the bad ol days on this blog. You will always be someone elses toilet paper, but that is your tragedy.
So guess who aint such a shining example of decency after all
Please Hater, as I said, we all know what you are really about. Don’t pretend otherwise.
8 Feb 2011, 11:58 am
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-481:
I was being general in my first post, not really pointing fingers just commenting on how some people think they have dominion over this site. It was quite annoying to see how a thread about vajazzles had descended into racism accusations. As per usual.
But in my opinion, you contributed greatly to the demise of this thread. And you started this f.cking RT thing again, and joined in on the KKK sh.it
The way you gloat over this RT thing like it’s some sort of huge victory, and then seek to accuse everyone else you don’t like of being their chums is very annoying. Pathetic and annoying.
Why do you keep calling me old man? Is it not possible to have a post without a personal insult. Not that being an old man is an insult, just the way you use it and I’m not actually an old man.
8 Feb 2011, 11:59 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-484:
rayban?
barcelona shirt?
8 Feb 2011, 12:01 pm
@Ratel Brussow(Morne Steyn is under-rated)-486: i’m not quite sure what is wrong with habana – that’s if anything is wrong. Bjorn at the Cheetahs & Griquas played with more verve and freedom and seemd to be enjoying his rugby in contrast to bryan who seems to want to justify his “celebrity” status by doing domething incredible everytime he gets the ball instead of just doing the basics and then the rest will fall into place.
8 Feb 2011, 12:01 pm
@gunther(gunther)-492: collar up of course….
8 Feb 2011, 12:02 pm
@Ratel Brussow(Morne Steyn is under-rated)-487: It’s code. For non WP haters only.
8 Feb 2011, 12:06 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-485:
los vascos región del cabo
8 Feb 2011, 12:07 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-490:
That’s what bugs the beejeezus out of me. Like there is one right opinion and anyone who doesn’t agree is immediately classed as a racist, or in keo speak, a friend or spy of RT.
8 Feb 2011, 12:09 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-494:
steady now.
I rock the popped collar occasionally.
especially if I’m Ralphing the Lauren.
Habana is trying far too hard.
Back to basics for him.
(throw in a bit of rugby talk ((calm down lilly)) for Ratel)
8 Feb 2011, 12:13 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-497:
it could be worse.
you could be unmasked as apartheid spies.
or the mysterious third force in rugby.
be thankful for what you have.
8 Feb 2011, 12:15 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-493: The thing is, his pace used to allow him to do something amazing every time he touched the ball. There’s no doubt he’s much slower than in 2007. He needs a specialised programme.
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