Return of the king

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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  • 301.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 21:57 pm

    Carol

    The small landing strip presented by the hollywood takes many novices by surprise.

    Much like the 17th at Sawgrass.

    However in my previous life I was a helicopter pilot in Nam.

    So difficult approaches don’t bother me.

  • 302.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 21:57 pm

    @carol(carol)-300:

    Oh dear. I’d be next on the menu of I tried to take it 8O

  • 303.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:00 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-301:

    My Swaar pilots a Huey from Nam….. at the Waterfront :)

  • 304.carol: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:01 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-301: Tell me, have vajazles hit Cape Town yet?

    Now that WOULD baffle a novice!! :-)

  • 305.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:01 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-301: Or the 17th at Erinvale. Had the misfortune of hitting 2 drives deep into the Helderberg nature reserve on Sunday morning.

  • 306.carol: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:03 pm

    @JockBok(JockBok)-302: Shame, you would be the ‘Bet Lynch’ at the Kilt wearers convention!!

    Bold and Brassy!

  • 307.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:05 pm

    Jockster

    I thought they had been banned?

    Carole

    The vajazzle?
    I’m not sure which one you are talking about. But I hit cape town years ago and I’ve been hard at work ever since.

  • 308.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:07 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-307: I had to google it myself. Not sure if your google safe search is on or not.

  • 309.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:08 pm

    @carol(carol)-306:

    Lol. It’s be more like Del Boys suitcase.

    Mind you, I’d give Bet Lynch’s ear-rings a run for their money withe my dangly bits…

  • 310.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:10 pm

    Katman

    Ranger would be proud.

    Think of it as giving something back to the environment.

    The homeowners at Erinvale get quite snooty if you try and retrieve your ball from their little slice of paradise ( ahem ) don’t they?

    When confronted I always proclaim proudly that I’ve managed to hit bigger houses than theirs.

  • 311.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:10 pm

    @carol(carol)-304:

    But it’s going to make your eyes water when you remove it.

    Hell, it makes my eyes water just thinking about it.

  • 312.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:13 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-307:

    Yeah, it’s not allowed to fly tourists anymore I think. The competition kicked up a stink about it being unsafe, and an emergency landing at Ysterplaat never exactly helped their case.

    But they still use it for movies and special occasions. I was on it a couple of years ago, sitting in the machine gun seat at the side, imagining Melkbos beach was paddy fields…

  • 313.carol: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:14 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-307: Get Katman or I am a Stormer to ‘explain’!! :lol:

  • 314.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:14 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-310: The best is to tee off before 7 on a Sunday morning, and then send a towering drive into their erf. I you’re lucky you get some good pinball action between the carport roof and the glass sliding door. That’s one way to stir up the old domestic disagreement. “I told we we shouldn’t have bought this stupid bloody golf house!”

  • 315.carol: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:15 pm

    @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-311:
    I may give it a miss!! :-)

  • 316.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:15 pm

    Geez, I had to google that as well 8O

  • 317.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:15 pm

    @carol(carol)-313: You mean the punani bling? What’s to explain?

  • 318.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:18 pm

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-314:

    Lol. My mate’s got a house at Arabella. He says it’s quite surreal having a braai on a Sunday and Sean Connery walks past…

  • 319.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:18 pm

    @carol(carol)-315:

    Have you ever wondered where the little crystals that fall off might go to?

    Might take you long moments to find them.

  • 320.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:19 pm

    Dear God.

    Thank goodness Madame Gunther is out of town.

    It pretty much renders the pear necklace superfluous.

    I wondering what would happen if you got a vajazzle stuck in your teeth.

    My dentist charges like chilliboy on the juice.

    I think I’m going to take out out the disability-by-muff clause in my insurance policy.

    Why risk it?

  • 321.carol: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:19 pm

    @JockBok(JockBok)-316:
    Hummmm….Hope you were not put off your supper!! :-)

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-317:
    :-)

  • 322.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:20 pm

    @JockBok(JockBok)-318: “Hash anyone sheen my ball?”

  • 323.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:22 pm

    @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-319:

    The morning after a night at Teasers ‘Darling, how did you get that glitter on your chin?’

    8O

  • 324.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:22 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-320: I thought you had a passion gap?

  • 325.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:23 pm

    :twisted: the things you people are on about! I blame carol!

  • 326.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:23 pm

    @carol(carol)-321:

    Nah, I’m having tuna tonight….

  • 327.carol: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:24 pm

    Cheers boys…

    I hope I leave you enlightened!! ;-)

  • 328.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:25 pm

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-322:

    I know the term is used far too often, but fark mate, that was a genuine ROFL :D

  • 329.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:25 pm

    Katman

    The best is when you hit a low scud of a hybrid into a courtyard with pool.

    Like fish in a barrel.

    Speaking of punani bling I had a very good curry at the Bombay Brasserie in town the other day.

  • 330.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:26 pm

    @carol(carol)-327:

    Well you certainly gave us something to think about :)

    Nighty night…

  • 331.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:26 pm

    @carol(carol)-327: Cheers Carol. Happy Vejazzling.

  • 332.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:29 pm

    Katters

    I did indeed have a passion gap.

    I have since had it filled to fulfill my contractual obligations to Pick n Pay.

  • 333.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:33 pm

    Clearly you are going to have to fly the bald eagle before you even consider letting loose with the vejazzler?

  • 334.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:33 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-332:

    I hope you have no ambitions of working at the bakery counter again…

  • 335.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:34 pm

    @carol(carol)-327:

    You most certainly have, young lady!

    Guess my opening line around the watercooler with the girls at work tomorrow?

  • 336.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:34 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-329: I played Kleinmond once with a friend, and neither of us knew the layout. So we finish on a green and finally, after walking around for a good few minutes, find the next tee box. It’s a shortish par 3 – about 140m. But some idiot has built a fcking house almost level with the green and about 20 degrees to the left (which is not a huge margin for directional error, if you’ve seen my game). So we both send up a little prayer and tee off, neither hitting particularly good shots, but miraculously missing windows and other sensitive stuff. As we’re about to leave the tee box, something tells me to look around. And lo and behold, roughly 140m in the opposite direction, is another green. Wide open, apart from a few bunkers. Needless to say, we called mulligans and never mentioned the other shots.

  • 337.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:35 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-333: What? You’ve never heard of a “diamond in the rough”?

  • 338.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:39 pm

    Katman

    Did you go and fetch you balls?

    Or did you make a tactical retreat?

    I am a stormer

    I would keep any arts and craft that you have been doing on your main chap on the down low.

    At least until you have sussed the lie of the land.

  • 339.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:41 pm

    @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-335:

    Morning ladies. Would you like to see my vajazzle?

  • 340.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:42 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-338: We made like good retreating French infantrymen, and left them behind.

    This was a day on which I hit about 7 balls away, and my friend just about doubled that, So 2 more pond Top Flites weren’t going to break the bank.

  • 341.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:42 pm

    Katman
    :)

    More like a cats eye.

  • 342.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:44 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-338:

    You have to have pretty eccentric workmates.

    Sharing is caring.

  • 343.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:45 pm

    Speaking of vejazzle… Search Youtube for the Audi Superbowl ad for 2011. There are two teasers (part 1 and part 2 – watch these first) and then a 60 second commercial for the new A8. Kenny G features, and proceeds to mock his vejazzle style of muzak silly. Very funny.

  • 344.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:47 pm

    Jockbock

    I have been exiled to cold storage as punishment for chasing Mrs Rosenberg through the Kosher Deli waving my pork sword around.

  • 345.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:49 pm

    @JockBok(JockBok)-339:

    Love to see the look on their faces.

    Fortunately, they’re all broad minded.

    Well, most of them.

  • 346.gunther: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 22:53 pm

    Well from Alsations to Labial Adornment I think we have covered every gambit of life’s rich menu.

    With that I shall make like a Rhinestone Cowboy and a gallop off into the glittering sunset.

  • 347.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 23:04 pm

    @gunther(gunther)-346:

    All that glitters is not Goldberg.

    Rosenberg perhaps, but only if you change your pork to macon…

  • 348.JockBok: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 23:08 pm

    @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-345:

    It’s the ‘innocent’ ones you need to look out for. They’ve probably got more pant bling than Mr T.

  • 349.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 23:14 pm

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-343:

    “If anyone calls me Kenny Z, I’ll fck ‘em up.” hahaha

  • 350.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    7 Feb 2011, 23:16 pm

    @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-349: Hilarious. And although he makes truly superkakka muzak, he does seem to have a sense of humour about it.

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