251 Comments

• 1.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:37 pm

  Camping Dragons

• 2.HHS:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:37 pm

  That popped collar makes Keo cooler than bread.

• 3.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:37 pm

  or Dragons in Tents

• 4.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:37 pm

  so f*cking what keo?, get a life!

• 5.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:39 pm

  Nandos or KFC???

• 6.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:40 pm

  Those camp boys are camping!

• 7.TheTackler:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:43 pm

  Are they happy campers?

• 8.Staal:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:43 pm

  KeoTV? huh?

• 9.Blitzbok:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:45 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-4: bwahahahahaha

  Hows it feel racist fool? bwahahaha you boast how great divvy is!!! but he has rasie coaching his team for the world cup. because your quota azzwipe is *****!!!! bwahahahahahaha

  Oh you must be stewing you hate. you are too good to be true, what an utter chop. good luck shitface

• 10.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:45 pm

  @Staal(Staal)-8:

  Hehe, ja neh…

• 11.Big Hit:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:46 pm

  Why is Keo acting like Erasmus is a good coach?

• 12.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:48 pm

  @Big Hit(Big Hit)-11:

  He is featuring quite prominently in the latest SA Rugby mag issues

• 13.Cheetah 4 Eva:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:52 pm

  Keo is such a leech!! You are really pissing the keolings off with your ttreachery! Dingbat!

• 14.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:52 pm

  @Big Hit(Big Hit)-11: Cause he is …

• 15.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:53 pm

  @Cheetah 4 Eva(Cheetah 4 Eva)-13: Excuse me … you’ve seriously mistaken me for someone who cares

• 16.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:55 pm

  @keo(keo)-14:

  Unfortunately in modern rugby a great rugby mind is not enough.

  Rassie cannot deal with the media and there are those who questions his hands-on coaching ability.

• 17.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:56 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-16: that is why he is in Rustenburg giving the boys a technical lesson they haven’t had for four years.

• 18.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:58 pm

  @keo(keo)-17:

  You know what I mean.

  There are very few better in world rugby let alone SA rugby that can match Rassie in a video room or on a white board.

  Being a rugby ‘coach’ however in the sense I refer to here involves more than that.

• 19.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 14:59 pm

  @Blitzbok(Blitzbok)-9: hehehe look @ you, you think pdv can be in 2 places at the same time? bwahahahahaha

• 20.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:00 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-18: There are few better indeed and that is why I said it is the reason he is in Rustenburg … (and not in Sydney).

  I know Rassie’s weaknesses as a head coach, but technically he offers so much and I can’t say the same for PDivvy

• 21.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:01 pm

  @keo(keo)-17: so the f*ck what, isn’t this what he had started with jake and left it to take the job @ wp boohoo

• 22.Staal:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:01 pm

  ya well i am amazed… just checked that clip of you Keo…

  daai wange is rond. You’ve been packing away the Nando’s?

  Leave some for Ollie please.

• 23.Blitzbok:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:02 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-19: just face it your quota coach has failed. needs someone to bail out again! bwahahahahahahaa

• 24.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:03 pm

  @Staal(Staal)-22: Hey bud … 3 kilos down and 3 to go … remember TV puts five on you (LOL)

• 25.Staal:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:04 pm

  @keo(keo)-24: maybe the widescreen?

• 26.Big Hit:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:04 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-18: as coach of one of the better (best?) resourced SA provinces, what has he won?

  The Stormers have flattered to deceive for years with him at the helm and even now the only top class component of their play is Nienaber’s defence.

• 27.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:05 pm

  Hel ma hier gaan n paar manne vir hulle self nou bekak!!!

• 28.Staal:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:06 pm

  @KWAGGA ROBERTSE(KWAGGA ROBERTSE)-27:

• 29.Taahirah:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:06 pm

  @keo(keo)-17: Is it save to say Rassie is your snitch?

• 30.Blitzbok:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:07 pm

  @Big Hit(Big Hit)-26: well rassie is better than crash dummy de villiers. all de villiers is good at is garggling tobasco sauce gotta keep that signature voice in form fr the world cup bwahahahaha

• 31.Staal:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:07 pm

  while on the subject….

  i honestly hate junkfood!

• 32.bcoet:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:07 pm

  @keo(keo)-15: Dont worry … from the sensationalism we know you dont care about the world cup campaign

• 33.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:08 pm

  @keo(keo)-20: @PissAnt(PissAnt)-18:

  You two should find a room!!

• 34.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:08 pm

  @Blitzbok(Blitzbok)-23: calm the f*ck down, rassie did these “technical analysis” briefings with jake too before leaving to join wp, relax cat you’ve won nothing

• 35.toddke:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:09 pm

  @keo(keo)-24: Sounds like you need one big “dump” and the last 3 will be gone.

  Keo – what is the inside scoop on the next coach selection? How is the SARU circus going to handle this one? Announce it before, during or after the WC? I am assuming Alistair Coetzee will be hard to beat to the post?

• 36.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:09 pm

  @keo(keo)-24: what is your BMI?

• 37.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:09 pm

  @keo(keo)-20:

  I agree with that, PDV’s greatest weakness is his appreciation for the very basics of the game before all else, forget the technical abilities someone like Rassie has which is on another planet completely.

  You have punted in recent columns Rassie possibly being groomed to take over this job – I don’t think the position PDV or any other Bok coach before him occupied would suit him.

  We can now only sit back and wonder ‘what if’ a Rassie was included in this coaching setup in 2008 or 2009 already, as with Allister at WP, Rassie is in his ideal position to make a massive contribution to rugby or team he is responsible for.

  I also believe SA rugby will not make such allowances for the next Bok coach to act as ‘DOR’ effectively, even though they should.

  We are lagging very far behind in world rugby – with only natural talent and skill keeping us in the top 5 or 6 in world rugby.

• 38.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:09 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-33: Hey ou balsak!! You well?

• 39.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:09 pm

  @Taahirah(Taahirah)-29: It is never safe to assume anything

• 40.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:10 pm

  @keo(keo)-24:

  Campers would find you ‘cushion to push in’!

• 41.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:11 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-37: I have recorded the fact and not punted it … I don’t think the position would suit him … he has to be involved but where his strengths are his greatest asset to the team – and that is not as head coach …

• 42.Blitzbok:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:11 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-34: ag shampies back to the jake debate you stupid ******* ****!! Your a racist fool.

  rassie never coached jakes team you thick *******. but what does it matter because here and now bleater duh failures is being shown up…. again!!! he ran to plum too

  bwahahahahahaa

  down the quota goes and your big mouth too, priceless!

• 43.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:11 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-36:

  What is BMI – Black man index?

• 44.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:12 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-36: lean, mean and working towards being a machine

• 45.fantasticbarnsmell:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:12 pm

  whats the Nandos connection with Wellington? idgi

• 46.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:12 pm

  @keo(keo)-41:

  Okay, definitely on the same page then.

• 47.Staal:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:12 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-43: LMAO…… what the hell!

• 48.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:14 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-43: Aaah sheeeet!! ET will storm this thread within the next five to ten odd minutes. Brace yourself….

• 49.wp_boytjie:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:15 pm

  @Blitzbok(Blitzbok)-42:

  Rassie coached Jake’s side.

  John Smit reffered to it in his book too ……

  idiot

• 50.John Galt:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:16 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-4:
  So, let me get this right.
  You spend your life on a blog, commenting on posts from a man who doesnt have a life? Doesnt say much about you does it tranny boy?

  @keo(keo)-41:
  Postive news out of Rustys then Keo? Or at least we hope so.

• 51.Staal:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:17 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-46: it’s a bit like Muihr – he’s got mean PPPresentation skills.

• 52.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:18 pm

  @Staal(Staal)-51:

  Hehe

• 53.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:19 pm

  @Blitzbok(Blitzbok)-42: hahahahahai’ll leave you to it then ask you boy with the scoop keo, he will tell you rassie was THE expert that worked with the boks over the tri-nations when jake was getting klapped 33-7 by the all blacks with his 2nd stringers. rassie was doing the same job he is doing now and eddie jones came in to oversee it’s implementation as white knew he was in way over his head…otherwise he would’ve gone to the world cup alone

  i know all of this is not in your collection of vhs tapes

• 54.trupisero:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:19 pm

  This one time, at rugby camp…

• 55.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:20 pm

  @keo(keo)-44: for a bloke like you who is 1.68m you probably should be around 76kg but we all know you’re now a porky 85kg hehehe

• 56.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:21 pm

  Blitz and Trans

  Fakkit but you two keep kakking each other out yet the ‘hahahaha’s’ and the lol’s are flying like crazy.
  Sort of reminds me of two hyenas moering each other…..

• 57.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:22 pm

  @wp_boytjie(wp_boytjie)-49: no leave him alone he knows it all

• 58.Staal:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:24 pm

  some crazy nic’s here. well done!

• 59.Gunther is friends with bra Julius and his family trust:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:29 pm

  @KWAGGA ROBERTSE(KWAGGA ROBERTSE)-56:

  it’s like mud wrestling without the titties…

• 60.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:34 pm

  @KWAGGA ROBERTSE(KWAGGA ROBERTSE)-56: ;0 bwahahahaha

• 61.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:35 pm

  @KWAGGA ROBERTSE(KWAGGA ROBERTSE)-56:

  It is foreplay…its campers innuendo!

• 62.pompies2:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:36 pm

  @keo(keo)-17: What’s a technical lesson? You’ve been shown to not know your arse from your elbow when it comes to rugby, so even if a technical lesson touched your sensitive bits you wouldn’t know.
  Remember, you were always told what to say, not think the **** up.

• 63.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:37 pm

  @John Galt(John Galt)-50: what does this comment say about you john galt? where is dagny?

• 64.Gunther is at camp Snoordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:37 pm

  keo… you seem to developing a bellville accent.

  and that’s not good.

• 65.pompies2:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:38 pm

  @keo(keo)-17: Besides, since when do head coaches give technical lessons?

  A bit of perspective…….Whan Proudfoot gave the stormers technical scrum lessons for 6 months, he couldn’t do squat when it came to his 8 scrummagers against the 8 of the crusaders.

• 66.Taahirah:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:41 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snoordraad(gunther)-64: Snoordraad?
  One 2 many o’s? Or am I missing something?

• 67.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:44 pm

  @Taahirah(Taahirah)-66:

  rectified

• 68.Taahirah:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:46 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-67: What a relief.
  Thought it might have been one of those ones which went over my head again.

• 69.Jer1cho:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:47 pm

  I completely agree with Keo on this subject. It has nothing to do with the fact that Rassie is coaching because PDV can’t. He was appointed to the Boks for a reason. He gives that extra insight, as well as extra input concerning the way the Springboks play. The situation is the same as when Eddie Jones was appointed.

  If you look at our top players, and our top team, then you realize that this team IS good enough to knock anyone over in a one off game. Maybe it’s a good thing that the dirt trackers are doing their thing. By the time New Zealand face us in the Semi-Final, they will already have been practicing for the final, as they won’t regard us as anything more than a speed bump. Also, make no mistake, we WILL get to the semi-final.

  The veterans we have know what it takes to win, and know that as a unit, they can break any team. If they are already working towards that goal, refining their game, as well as their tactics, then I don’t give a toss about what is happening with the dirt trackers. Thanks Keo!

• 70.RugbyGuru_0_:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:52 pm

  Oh please, this whole thing is blown up! We all know that pdivvy is not a coaches asss worth! Rather write a story about john smit fitness and form, I mean he is our captain! Go watch the try that aussie prop scored, look who is walking from aussies 22 meter line back to defend! Its so k@k funny!

• 71.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 15:55 pm

  @Jer1cho(Jer1cho)-69: just this month in SARugby mag, Gavin Rich wrote this article:

  http://www.keo.co.za/2011/07/21/expert-analysis/

  next thing it is a crime and proof that Div knows nothing, when rassie is tasked to give the same input he gave to jake to pdv

• 72.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:00 pm

  @Blitzbok(Blitzbok)-42: read & weep

  ‘Not a lot differs in the role that I’m taking on now compared to what I did in 2007,’ says Erasmus. ‘In that Tri-Nations the top players didn’t go on the away leg and I worked with those guys for about a month in Cape Town while Jake was away. It will be similar this time, but that will be the only time you should see me on the field doing any kind of coaching.” rassie erasmus

  bwahahahaha

• 73.Brigadier Van Zyl:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:00 pm

  who actually ever thought that the players were not in rustenburg working on technical aspects?

  that is my point withregards to this and the previous keo.co.za article.

  was twakkie supposed to openly admit to the nz press that …”yes” this is a “B” team all the other players are back home preparing.Openly contravening SANZAR regulations?

  Incedently….nothing is made of Henry resting key players and admitting the trinations counts for zilch this year.

  very poor from this website

• 74.Brigadier Van Zyl:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:03 pm

  oh….and if Butch hasn’t sorted his defensive technique by now…no amount of imput at this stage will help.

  “Butch defends his channel like no one else in the game”…was Keo’s quote.

  Only because the opposition don’t fancy having their head pulled off. Albeit, the yellow card is decent enough reward in many circumstances.

• 75.Taahirah:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:03 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-72:
  I think its fair to say you won this one, Transie.
  No need to rub it in!

• 76.Jer1cho:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:03 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-71:

  I meant more because PDV has the Tri-Nations to commit to, so he is not involved in the training camp. I don’t agree that PDV is a bad coach in a rugby sense, but I do feel that he gives the senior players way too much power. He doesn’t seem like the kind of coach that can take the Bull by the horns.

  Streuli was too tough, PDV is too soft, and Jake White was somewhere in-between. I think Rassie will be the guy that helps the coaching team we have now to be ‘somewhere in-between’.

• 77.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:06 pm

  @pompies2(pompies2)-62: Now now take a deep breath … everything will be OK

• 78.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:07 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-53: Spot on

• 79.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:07 pm

  @keo(keo)-20:
  you sound angry and a bit like your going crazy man. you come across like old valkyrie does. this is not ‘such’ a good thing. where’s the balanced objective reporting?

• 80.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:08 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-55: 1.7, ideal (feeling strong weight) 72 … in at 75 but graph going in the right direction

• 81.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:10 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snoordraad(gunther)-64: No worries bud, I’ll have 2 months in Auckland and then back to the city in November … I’ll come back sounding like a right cuz

• 82.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:11 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-72: and we published that article a month before 21 players picked up groin injuries (what foresight)

• 83.Brigadier Van Zyl:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:12 pm

  @keo(keo)-80:

  75kg???

  next time we expect to see you on keo tv on a cycle bike like the ozzies used to have on the side of the pitch a few seasons back.

  jeez that was funny.

• 84.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:16 pm

  @Taahirah(Taahirah)-75: i humbly fallback

• 85.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:17 pm

  @Brigadier Van Zyl(Brigadier Van Zyl)-83: Interesting … something to consider … keep the ideas coming

• 86.Taahirah:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:19 pm

  @keo(keo)-85: Since you asked.

  Can you have maybe the Stormers cheerleaders perform a routine in the background?

  Kind Regards

  Taahirah

• 87.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:24 pm

  @keo(keo)-82:
  if pdaddy and john win the wc will you be the bigger man and do a ‘mea culpa’ on keotv for ******** with the apple cart so soon before the wc? i think you know as much as we do that pdaddy is in fact in on the whole deception and a part of the big heads planning for our wc defense.

• 88.Taahirah:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:25 pm

  @deon stegmann just released his autobiography – deon stegmann the legend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-87: Keo be the bigger man?
  Never!
  Ok, that was lame.
  Im sorry.

• 89.RL:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:40 pm

  Keohane what the hell is wrong with you, yes it is good for the Boks to do a training camp at altitude …… but there you are talking about licking chicken bones while wearing a midget sized French top with a chicken logo on it ……. WTH is wrong with you capies, supporting the All Blacks and now the Frogs?

  

• 90.RugbyGuru_0_:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:46 pm

  Keo, i think you keoling with scott gibbs should have rugga talk show on TV, think it might be more watched than all out rugby, you can have live threats during the show that appears on the bottom of the tv, like 5fm with there show. Good idea?

• 91.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:51 pm

  The way KEO licked his hands and fingers looks like he tucked in a few stray chickens.

• 92.Hondo:
  27 Jul 2011, 16:54 pm

  @keo(keo)-80:
  Still heavier than Aplon,,,,

• 93.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:11 pm

  @keo(keo)-81:

  keo..ehat happened to my idea for rugby chick of the week?

  surely we can get durex to sponsor it?

• 94.BringItHomeBoks:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:12 pm

  At least a bit of humour and support from Keo himself.

  Mark – tell Ryan Vrede (despite his surname he is trying to stir ontvrede!) to get off his Pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist wet dream and support what the Bok coaching staff (not just PDiv) are trying to do!

• 95.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:16 pm

  Keo

  can we have a Keo.co.za iPad app or sort out Keo.co.za so it can be read properly on an iPad. its frustrating being on this website using the iPad.

  Please though don’t put a photo of yourself until you have lost those 3 kgs…you won’t fit on 16:9 aspect ration!!!

• 96.kevin w:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:19 pm

  Well the keo website numbers were down … and now a bit of a sensational story and keo himself even posting.

  Have to get the numbers up, it’s all in the money. Just like SANZAR.

• 97.mshiniwami:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:21 pm

  First of all this KeoTv concept is rubbish to be kind. The individual who are proponents of the snippets are pretty sh#t at it.Gte people who know TV,This sh#t makes SABC 2 rugga live look like brilliant television.

  Rassie as head coach indeed isnt suited for the role, when he was head coach of Stormers they had a reasonable season in 08, fell off in 09 and when Coetzee took over they have achieved their best results. Even Drotske has achieve better results than Erasmus at Superrugby level with LESS talent.

  Rassie is technical adviser,video analyst, strategy formulator. Rugby slowly heading towards NFL type system with defence/offensive co ordinators, special teams coaches etc etc…largely introduced by Woodward in 2003 campaign RWC

  (Bill Bellichick of the New England Patriots prior to their dominance in early to mid 200o’s surrounded himself with the best young coaches as co ordinators-Mangini,MacDaniels,Saban,Crennel,Weis etc-so a smart man gets the best around him to build a team-before their Bok tenure Gold was seen as some kind of Forward Guru and Muir at Sharks was seen as a genius inventive coach after taking Sharks from Putt to championship contenders, now its Rassie to contribute to Bok cause & Niebauer on defense…PdV is preparing to give us the best shot possible.Im in no way professing he is the Bellichick of rugby-even though Bellichick is known to be a bit “quirky” himself.)

  Let him do what he feels is appropriate,its his head on the line. Better to fall by your own sword than some know it all journos who have nothing to lose but all the hyperboles/sensationalism to get hits for advertisers.

• 98.mshiniwami:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:25 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-72:

  Tshela leyonja!!!

• 99.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:28 pm

  @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-97: The Keo Gridiron “Guru” name drops… again…

  The more things change, the more they stay the same…

  Ho hum

• 100.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:33 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-93: just got to find the right one … auditions start soon …

• 101.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:33 pm

  sooooooooooooo

  a journalist exposes a clear cut case of

  B S

  and

  FRAUD

  only to then be accused of

  “treachery” (Cheetah4Eva).

  Where’s your PRIDE, people ?

  There is only ONE local here who said right from Day 1 that he “agreed with the principle of the weakened TriN squad but WHY LIE about it ?!”

  The very same blogger who gets castigated for telling it like it is about the Bok skipper, and always has.

  So why is it that the guy who said “I hate the ABs” is also the very same local that I would rather have a beer with than all the other BSers ? Respect to you, G10, respect !

• 102.keo:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:33 pm

  @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-97: thanks for watching

• 103.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:36 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-101: Liar.

• 104.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:39 pm

  @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-97:
  to be fair, i don’t think the concept is rubbish. i think they just need to tweak a few things, like maybe a pretty chick plus some really good livewire presenters and it might take off.

• 105.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:39 pm

  @keo(keo)-100:

  I’m thinking a weekly one.

  With a prize for the winner as voted for by the fans.

  Ryan can lend them his lipstick.

• 106.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:40 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-101:

  if they don’t lie, they get sued.

  enjoy your beer with grantie.

• 107.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:41 pm

  Boy George

  you’re more a unifying blogger here than anyone else on Keo because

  EVERYONE

  Kiwis

  Aussies

  AND

  Safas

  thinks you’re a ****.

  At least we can all agree about ONE thing.

• 108.Bludeks:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:42 pm

  As they say “In a democracy everybody gets to move the mouthpiece”. However, is it possible that we could have some meaningful and intelligent comments,
  Is there any one of your miserable lot who could do a better job than say Erasmus?
  The toilet is a more appropriate medium on which you could express your views.

• 109.Big Hit:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:43 pm

  It’s fairly obvious why PDV doesn’t admit it, it’s against SANZAR regulations. If he were to take G10′s advice and tell the world it would likely put at risk the future of the financial stability of the SARU who would probably be liable and endanger the SANZAR agreement (which in turn would put SH rugby as a whole at risk).

• 110.Big Hit:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:44 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-106: bang on

• 111.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:51 pm

  @Big Hit(Big Hit)-109:

  precisely.

  why is it so hard to understand.

  you can debate the moral aspect all day (and blackie does) but, given what they wanted to achieve, there is no other way.

• 112.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:53 pm

  Gunther

  actually, you might be right

  I’d give my left testicle to share a bottle of absinthe with Peaches. I’m curious to know what made van Gogh sacrifice body parts in the Pursuit of Truthiness.

• 113.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 17:58 pm

  I’ll do an audition just to head-butt Vrede for being a Meyer lap-dog!

• 114.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:01 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-107: Liar. You just don’t get it, do you, sheepshagger.

• 115.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:01 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-106:
  what? one creeping deeper than the other into each others arrses? its like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. what will give?

• 116.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:02 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-112: “I’d give my left testicle to share a bottle of absinthe with Peaches”… Liar.

  Ho Hum

• 117.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:04 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-106: They lied and will take a hefty fine anyway… Simple

• 118.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:04 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-112:

  I have a feeling that Dawn might drink us under the table.

  I didn’t realise you were so absinthe-minded.

• 119.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:07 pm

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-117:

  it’s not about a fine.

  they would face a lawsuit.

  and no they won’t because it’s too late to prove which players where and weren’t injured and to what extent at the time the tour party was chosen. impossible to prove in court anyway.

  simple.

• 120.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:07 pm

  @Big Hit(Big Hit)-109: SARU are “liable”… Simple.

• 121.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:07 pm

  I have it on good authority that the 4 All Blacks rested for this weekend’s match is at some resort in NZ undergoing ‘social therapy’ from their wives and girlfriends.

  Get on the phone to SANZAR now!

• 122.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:07 pm

  Boy George

  did you know that the Keo language filter makes no distinction between ‘f@rt’ and ‘knut’ ?

  But the bloggers don’t make the same mistake. They ALL know you are a

  KNUT

• 123.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:08 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-111:
  what the ffuck does panter know about moral high ground? teddy-g will never do this, teddy-g will never do that waa waa waa all day long, and for what now that teddy-g’s taking a leaf out of pdivvy’s (sorry jakes) book? i tell you…panter couldn’t find the moral high ground with a compass, satnav and a deep space satelite all rolled into one.

• 124.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:09 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-119: Um, and a certain interview…

  And a “secret” training camp for the “injured”…

  Jeez, Newscorp’s legal counsel must be sh.yte…

  Come now…

• 125.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:09 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-122: Liar. Simple

• 126.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:10 pm

  moral high ground…haaaaaah!

• 127.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:11 pm

  PA

  are you referring to the same 4 ABs ‘rested’ from the 30 man squad, or different ones ?

• 128.kevin w:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:11 pm

  HA HA HA SUCKERS … go to the keo homepage … 17 comments, 22 comments, 13 comments – then KEO drops these stories and is even posting himself. Amazing how this storyline all of a sudden has the numbers up and hits coming. In the high hundreds which this site has battled to get consistently for a while. CHING CHING

  Come on keo, where’s the evidence, name dropping that you’ve been “chatting” on the phone. Name these players that are talking to you and giving all the details from a ‘secret’ camp. I’m calling it BS to get hits and until i get a quote with a name attached i’ll be calling keo a master of muppets.

  Strange no other websites or journalists seem to be running wild with this story of a secret world champion camp without caoch and captain.

• 129.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:12 pm

  @deon stegmann just released his autobiography – deon stegmann the legend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-123: Panter shagge.d the moral high ground (along with a coupla his fave bleating woolly friends with benefits *wink, wink* ) long ago while “defending” scallywags…
  Ask him

• 130.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:12 pm

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-124:
  what interview? what secret training camp? all you saw was keo licking his lips and you buy that? you must be a fox news kinda man.

• 131.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:13 pm

  @deon stegmann just released his autobiography – deon stegmann the legend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-123:

  chill winston.

  blackie is one of the good guys.

  we have discussed his moral high ground issues and have been assured that they stem from his childhood experiences of severe floods on the banks of de nile.

• 132.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:14 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-127:

  4 so-called first choice selections Henry is about to rest for this weekend. A NZ reporter I had a chat with reckons we will see even more players left at home when they come to SA.

• 133.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:15 pm

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-129:
  haha ja, moral high ground must be the red light district in downtown auckland.

• 134.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:15 pm

  I reckon Dippy Divvy is actually a Kiwi Pakeha with dark, fake tan… Thats the only way I can fathom how someone, supposedly Saffa, can lie or be a hypocrite with a clear conscience…

  Dippy must be a Kiwi…

  Simple

• 135.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:19 pm

  @deon stegmann just released his autobiography – deon stegmann the legend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-133: “Downtown Auckland”….??? “District”…. WTF? Take any green field with a few hills anywhere with a coupla Merinos… Thats Carly “I think this song is about me” Simon Panty and his “moral” high ground…

• 136.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:19 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-132:
  put that to keo as well for comment. but it’ll be different because they didn’t lie? well they didn’t exactly tell the truth either.

• 137.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:20 pm

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-124:

  you are’t very clever.

  to sue saru, they would have to prove that the injured players were not injured even in the slightest (and as I have told you before all rugby players carry some sort of niggle during the season) at the time the squad was picked.

  A “training” camp two weeks later proves nothing.

  Were the players taking contact etc?

  It’s impossible to prove that the players WEREN’T injured at the time.

  does being injured does not mean you can’t attend a training camp.

  geddit?

  nobody is going to try that case.

  does it look bad?

  sure.

  is it against the spirit of the rules?

  probably.

  will it work out for the best?

  who knows.

  but nobody will get sued.

  had the announce a plan to rest 22 players en masse they would have undoubtedly faced legal action for failing to honour their contractual obligations.

  are we clear because you are cutting into my drinking time.

• 138.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:20 pm

  @deon stegmann just released his autobiography – deon stegmann the legend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-136:

  In Henry’s own words, he could not give a toss what anyone thinks about his resting or management of players

• 139.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:23 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-137: “You aren’t very clever” Wow. Be the judge, legal Meister….

  The rest… legal counsel from Kwikfit…? ( if it still exists… in SA of course)

• 140.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:26 pm

  PA

  oh, so you DO mean 4 players from the same 30 man AB squad.

  The Keo Kiwi Kommunity have unanimously voted that the AB squad to tour SA on the away leg will closely resemble the Wairarapa Bush Reserves Non-Injured team. However confirmation of those players available is proving tricky as the squad is rumoured to be training in camp in Westport. Well I smell Buller sh*t.

• 141.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:27 pm

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-139:

  do you understand at least?

  actually I know the guy who started kwikfit.

  I sold him a ferrari once

  

• 142.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:28 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-137:
  i dont think he’s going to come round to agreeing with you. i think saru’s legal people made sure of their row of ducks before this ‘accident’ occurred but your taking a dead horse to water trying to convince him.

• 143.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:28 pm

  @deon stegmann just released his autobiography – deon stegmann the legend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-130: Hey Numbnuts… you sounding like Dippy, SARU and Grunter… all in one package now… Hellsteeth

• 144.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:32 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-141: Understand… a lie…? Yes. Why the lie? No.

  Just sink a few boolies chap… Then lying is shouldn’t be a problem whatsoever… You just can’t remember it…

  But then again I’m not sure Dippy remembers his fibs.

• 145.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:35 pm

  @deon stegmann just released his autobiography – deon stegmann the legend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-142: Ag feck off… like your man Stegmann from the Bok side… Never ever have I seen a more useless player in a Bok jersey… since Botha Rossouw…. But then again you probably enjoyed his autobiography… if he wrote one, that is.

• 146.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:37 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-140:

  As much as I am trying to understand your comment, I can not I am afraid.

  The only difference between PDV and Henry at the moment, is Henry does not worry about offering ‘injury’ excuses, he simply does not give a rat’s ***. Both doing the same thing tough. Managing players.

• 147.Wezwp:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:40 pm

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-145: who’s idea was it to take Stegman anyway?

• 148.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:42 pm

  The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic…. JFK

  Looks like lying is contagious…

  From SARU… to Dippy… to Bok “Supporters” and “Patriots” to those right here on Keo….

  Lying swines… You can’t justify lies by pointing fingers elsewhere…

  Wake up… take the red pill…

• 149.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:42 pm

  Outtahere

• 150.Heavens Game:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:43 pm

  @Wezwp(Wezwp)-147: Dunno… Some lying numbnut of a Bok Coach?

• 151.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:44 pm

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-148:

  What lies? SA Rugby wrote to SANZAR when these claims were first made, included doctor’s notes and all!

• 152.grant10:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:45 pm

  the truth shall set you free

• 153.Wezwp:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:46 pm

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-150: more like the selectors buddy. you have to believe the blue bulls have a huge influence.

• 154.deon stegmann just released his autobiography - deon stegmann the legend...:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:50 pm

  free? are you free or are you dom?

  love that ad.

• 155.Wezwp:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:55 pm

  please vote yes on the poll ppl.

• 156.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 18:59 pm

  PA

  the ONLY difference ?!

  come now, you’re clearly 1 of the rugby-smarter blokes on this here forum.

  So you’re telling me that an AB 30-man squad including 1 Test debutant (Hoeata) is no different than a Bok 30-man squad selected disproportionately from a group shaven of 23 ‘injured’ players ? that resting 4 players is ‘no different’ than 23 when a match day squad is 22 players ?

• 157.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:01 pm

  Sigh

  I can’t turn my back for a second and you twerps are kukking HM Keo out for allsorts.

• 158.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:10 pm

  So OK he a bit portly but he is trying.

• 159.Blitzbok:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:16 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-72: who gives a stuff about jake shanty town **** boy? this is about your krusty faced de Villiers. who hasnt done a days coaching in his life! jake had success without rassie or anyone else divvy has had no success without someone else fekking doing his job for him!!! i couldnt care less about jake though. your only pointing jake out because you are a racist *******. yes thats the truth! exposed yourself last year ya *** wcoulnt stop whinging even called mallet a white *******. divvy was supposed to show him up, too bad! bwahahahehehehohoho! you lose again d!ckhead. good luck with that

• 160.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:17 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-156:

  Are you trying to quantify the crime here?

  If so you win, you are only resting 4 whilst the Boks are resting 21. Does it make it less of a crime?

• 161.kevin w:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:27 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-160: Come on PA … you have to look at it in the context of graham henry and the AB’s … I mean in 2007 he claimed he could send 2 squads capable of winning the WC.

• 162.Blitzbok:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:30 pm

  @kevin w(kevin w)-161: 0 WCs * 2 squads = 0 squads with World Cups hehehe

• 163.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:32 pm

  @Gunther is at camp Snordraad(gunther)-141:
  Look if Keo is desperate I will be ‘Rugby Bird of the Week’ my vital statistics are….

  Total Cholesterol 4.3
  Triglyceride 0.6
  Plasma Glucose 4.8
  Blood Pressure 112/69
  Body Mass Index 20.5 kg.m2

• 164.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:32 pm

  @kevin w(kevin w)-161:

  I am not talking about 2007 (when he pulled his top players out of the Super 14 for half the tournament which btw is also a SANZAR competition and falls under the same rules about selecting and playing your best) I am talking of right now, 2011, and the players he will rest this weekend and the ones he will keep at home when they tour SA later in the 3N.

  Both coaches are breaking the SANZAR rule, but it seems to be a case of one breaking it more than the other which is silly.

  Either everyone plays by the rule or you bend it to your heart’s content or what your specific demands are which is what both PDV and Henry are doing.

• 165.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:34 pm

  PA

  that’s 4 players rested from WITHIN the 30-man AB squad.

  Not

  23 players OUTSIDE the 30-man Bok squad.

  You can see night as day all you like but you’re gonna have to turn the lights on 1st.

• 166.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:38 pm

  PA

  please explain how GH is breaking the SANZAR rules in 2011 by selecting his 22-man matchday teams exclusively from the same 30 man squad ?

• 167.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:40 pm

  Actually, wonder if ET can tell me if that is good or bad?

• 168.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:42 pm

  NZ have set up help hotline for when they lose the RWC. those New Zealanders who need help please call 1800 10 10 10 10 10.

  tackler can also use this hotline now that he is a primate of the island with the long white cloud.

• 169.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:44 pm

  That number translates to

  1800 won nothing, won nothing, won nothing, won nothing.

• 170.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:45 pm

  @carol(carol)-167:

  depends on the BMI.

• 171.Big Hit:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:51 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-168: i’m sure I read somewhere the number is 1800 91 95 99 03 07

• 172.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:53 pm

  each 10 represents a rwc year.

• 173.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:56 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-165: @Black Panther(Black Panther)-166:

  Didn’t PDV name his ‘squad’ for the tour and selects and rotates exclusively within that group too?

  But then your question really is about the initial squads selected isn’t it?

  Tell me, when Henry and PDV got their players back after Super Rugby, how would they have measured the player’s ‘well being’ specifically to actual injuries, current conditioning and actual minutes played so far?

  Because surely this is what it comes down to is it not? Managing players to ensure they are 100% come RWC time?

  So if we really have to go into a pissing contest I have to ask why Henry was allowed to ‘systematically introduce’ players to Super Rugby during this year’s competition flying in the face of the same SANZAR ruling? (all of this is well documented)

  Or are we again only ‘quantifying’ this ruling when it comes to tests versus Super Rugby?

  Of course you visit this blog enough for me not to tell you PDV has no such luxury.

  This is a silly topic for a very simple reason, all international coaches will manage their players to be in top condition for the RWC, given the individual circumstances in each country, all of them will do it differently too.

  If you want to throw the ‘rule book’ at PDV, the same ‘rule book’ can be thrown right back at Henry and NZ.

• 174.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 19:59 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-170:
  Well that would be 20.5!

• 175.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:00 pm

  What exactly is Nando’s anyway?
  Roasted Kiwi or something?

• 176.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:02 pm

  i say coaches do what you need to. do to win the world cup. this not soccer….it is a contact sport and player mangement is essential.

  although combinations is vital at the highest level and they need to be tested in tough games….the tri nations is the best place for it.

• 177.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:03 pm

  @carol(carol)-174:

  got to be a hottie!

• 178.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:05 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-176:

  I was asked why the Boks did not have any warm-up games like NZ or Aus prior to the 3N…

  My answer was simple.

  Playing against Samoa or Fiji will teach you very little, playing your RWC warm-up’s against the best in the world however, will teach you quite a lot…

• 179.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:07 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-177:

  Mmmm…… only to a certain age group!!!

  Are you the man to give Keo some fashion tips, not sure he has quite got the ‘look’ right yet!

• 180.Bill Reyts:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:10 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-178:

  ….and that is?

  We are not quite up to it I guess…

• 181.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:11 pm

  Wallabie

  We look fwd to welcoming Australia here to Eden Park next weekend and have set up a hotline for the players after the match

  it’s 0800 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

  which roughly translates as 15 years coming to Eden Park, won

  NOTHING.

• 182.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:14 pm

  @Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-180:

  Well ‘warm-up’ matches is supposed to answer any underlying questions shouldn’t they?

  At this stage every single coach has his match day 22 wish-list penciled in for quarters, semi’s or finals – so the only questions that would be left is ‘if the **** hits the fan, have I got a decent enough back-up player in the wings?’

  Now if you want the answer to that, would you want your ‘second choice’ prop, flyhalf or any player answering that question against a Fiji or Samoa, or against the very best in the world (showing he is capable)?

• 183.XhosaKid:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:14 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-181: When was the last time Australia won in NZ

• 184.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:15 pm

  I am out folks, been fun, may check in two hours from now.

• 185.Bill Reyts:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:20 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-182:

  I don’t think too many answers here mate. Looks very bleak. Who from this squad could make the touring team. The coach takes the B team and the real coach is coaching the guys at home. Hmmm

• 186.ET.:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:25 pm

  @carol(carol)-167:

  Those numbers/figures mean absolutely nothing without having units of the measurement accompany them; more than one set of units can be applied so it is very important. For example the blood glucose probably reads 4.8mM and is good but here in the US that will be measured as perhaps 120 mg per dl of blood(normal 70-120mg/dl). The cholesterol is better reflected as measurement of HDL relative to LDL and even more etc.
  I assume all your figures are good and acceptable otherwise your doctor would have indicated the contrary.

  BMI means little other than aesthetic value; it is a low value measurement. Per cent (%) body fat tells much more wrt your potential health(for the female gender it should never be more than 25% as beyond that gets you the pathological tag of obesity – males 20%).

  Your blood pressure(understood the world over as mmHg) is impressive especially since you are at least 40 plus years old( most S.African males in their 30s are probably higher despite their sport).

  To put that bp into perspective despite being older than you mine just measured 3 days ago by my wife was 110/65 mmHg with a resting pulse rate of 55 bpm. But in the last 10 days up to yesterday I have been swimming anywhere from 1.5 to 2 miles a day. There is no better exercise than swimming but if you can add some jogging and/or cycling to that all the better for you as variiety is the spice of life.

• 187.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:26 pm

  PA

  fark, I would never have slotted you in with the other Desperate Dans here. Wow.

  The small difference is that the 4 players from the AB squad have been rested AFTER the 30-man squad was selected. Krusty somehow found cause to list 23 players as ‘injured’ BEFORE he announced his 30-man squad. Which if we didn’t all know was 1st Class BS at the time, well we sure do now that the World knows the 23 ‘injured’ are in training, full time.

  And you’re evidence in support of GH flouting the same rules – McCaw with a metal pin in his foot ? The same injury that put World football stars D.Beckham & W.Rooney at World Cups.

  Look, you’re doing a great job arguing a point that others here are simply not intelligent enough to verbalise. But, surely, with Krustys Fraud now all there in the open for all to see, even you should know when to quit when you’re ahead.

• 188.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:31 pm

  Xhosa

  Australia last won in NZ in 2001 – 11 x consecutive defeats.

  And at Eden Park in 1986.

  Thanks to my heckler, Wallabie, for bringing that to our attention.

  0800 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

• 189.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:32 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-181:

  don’t get ahead of yourself there…just be careful you don’t trip against the books in some other stadium in another town….you may not get to auckland!

• 190.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:35 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-187:

  Mate all this will probably be summed up in one statement.

  As a South African rugby supporter I absolutely hate the World Cup.

  These arguments about the gimmicks surrounding it simply deviates from this one very simple, but powerful point, the RWC has allowed SA supporters to accept mediocrity.

• 191.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:37 pm

  @carol(carol)-179:

  I will leave the fashion tips to the younger generation…you know them….those modern day guys called metro sexuals.

  But for Keo’s eating manners at the table…now that is what really needs to be sorted! Keo needs the old fashioned spoon klap on the knuckles for forgetting his table etiquette.

  carol…once a hottie always a hottie for any age group!

• 192.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:38 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-189:

  He already there

• 193.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:39 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-189:

  Books = Boks

• 194.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:40 pm

  hey Wallabie

  got any more new material that I can use in my routine ?

• 195.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:43 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-194:

  Yeah…I do!

  NZ are going to win the 2011 World Cup!

  another one

  What is the similarity between the AB’s and impotence…they both can’t get a to a semi!

• 196.semperfimamba:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:45 pm

  So what KEO so what ….who gives a damn if there is a camp? Is it coz ol PDV didnt just say so or are you sensationalizing this issue?? Could is be possible that some of the players are not in full contact drills and could possibly be studying how best to win the RWC, after all isnt that whats important?

  Not whether the public was told….man you jurnos sometimes y’all amaze me.

• 197.wallabie.:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:49 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-194:

  Okay I take it you did not like my material!!

• 198.ashampoopaloo:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:54 pm

  keo is a bit of a schmuck blowing up Rassies credentials while at the same time trying to tear PdV down

  PdV appointed Rassie as his wing man – not the other way around.

  PdV is still the main kokodoer while Rassie is simply the sidekick.

  In 2007 Jake had Smal and Coetsee as assistants but lost 49-0 and Annus horribilis in 06 to follow on with a thrashing in the 3N to follow in 07 before he realized Batman needed a Robin and fast so he got hold of Jones who bailed his sorry arse.

  PdV followed almost identical course.. Annus horribilis in 010 and realizing his assistants offer him pretty much stuff all, same as Smal and Coetsee did for White, he has enlisted Rassie as his technical man, almost identical scenario to White and Jones.

  Somehow Keo is punting Rassie as the tech guru and downgrading PdV to a nothing nobody, its all to do with prissy little ego back slap agendas and alliances.

  Bottom line is PdV got more humility and balls than all these hyped up super duper rugby poefta brains chucked together. He ain’t gonna concern himself with what schmucks like Keo or White or Tank Lanning or Gavin Rich or Jones and the rest of the toffee nosed idiots got to say for themselves.. he’s getting on with the business of getting his A team focused and ready for the WC, and that entails tech analysis sessions with Rassie in Rustenberg… who the fck cares whether its shrouded in some cloak and dagger type secrecy shenanigans to get around the Sanzar protocol statutory agreements.

• 199.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:54 pm

  HM Keo and his minions are hacks

• 200.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:55 pm

  PA

  see now, I TOLD YOU that you were smarter than most here.

  I look at GHs teams this week and last and whichever players have been selected or rested, I still see an AB team that I recognise.

  I grew up mythologising the Springboks as our 1 true rival. I don’t recognise that same team here.

  If it’s all about winning the NZ vs SA Keo-blogging wars with smoke’n'mirrors well that’s acceptable for what it is. And if SA are happy to subordinate the History of the Springbok jersey all in the cause of 1 key victory every 4 years, then that is their choice too. But let’s not pretend it’s something that it’s not. My guess is that no less than 25 of the 30-man touring Bok squad wouldn’t otherwise get anywhere near a full-strength team from SA in any other year. And why should anyone have to accept that, Safa or not ?

  The likes of Boy George can call Krusty the Emperor with No Clothes all he likes when it suits him. But if ever a fan like him truly deserved Krusty as his national team coach, then it is him. You on the other hand should know better.

  I’ve been saying here for past 2 years that I hope the Springboks, and every other team for that matter, turn up to the RWC in NZ with a full-strength team at peak fitness because I believe every Big Stage deserves it’s Stars. I’ve lost count of the times the locals have been willing McCaw and DC to suffer injuries and thereby increasing their teams chances. These are not sports fans, let alone rugby ones. they are the same numbskulls who cheer for the opposition to win when their own team is not good enough to complete the task themselves. Good luck to them if that’s what makes them tick.

• 201.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 20:56 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-186:

  Thanks for that, I was a ‘medical experiment’ a few weeks ago, results posted but I have no idea what they meant!!
  I am the wrong side of 40, you are correct!!

  That is a long way to swim…..Respect!

• 202.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:02 pm

  @wallabie.(wallabie.)-191:
  But surely you would not turn up even on your own blog looking like you just walked out of the sports shop?

  Keo does very scary ‘slurping’….Do you suppose he has ever seen people eating like that, he must frequent some real dives!!

• 203.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:02 pm

  Wallabie

  Did you hear the one about the red-headed Australian who won the Bledisloe Cup ?

  Fanta Claus.

• 204.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:10 pm

  Why do tv chefs chuck parmesan on everything

  The stuff stinks

• 205.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:10 pm

  @Dawn(Dawn)-199:

  What should Keo wear for his ‘broadcasts’….he wore a white shirt and looked like he had no body on one, could not hear what he was saying just watched the head with no body!!

  Now the ‘I have just come out of the gym’ look when obviously he goes nowhere near a gym!!

• 206.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:11 pm

  @Dawn(Dawn)-204:
  Ok if you like the smell of sick!!

• 207.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:14 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-200: blah blah blah who gives a sh*t about what you grew up doing? take your own advice & “quit while u’re ahead”.

  http://www.keo.co.za/2011/01/21/nz-latest-mccaw-to-be-rested/

  graham henry broke sanzar rules even BEFORE super rugby started, even before mccaw metatarsal(sp) was an issue ted has booked him off the 1st 2 weeks of super rugby, the year before it was brad thorn. i don’t remember you b*tching about “respect for rugby union” then – i wonder why?

  super rugby is a Sanzar competition & mccaw was pulled from it by henry…chew on that.

• 208.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:14 pm

  Remember the Keo Night Owls?

  Where are they now?

  Suppose the World Cup may bring Soda Joe out of hibernation…..

• 209.Robzim:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:16 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-186:

  That’s quite impressive ET-1,5 – 2 miles a day and the HB is also quite low.
  Do you just swim distance or do you do intervals etc?

  But please do not try and lure Carol into becoming a swimmer.
  She got a terrible “head up” and “closed eyes” style and might drown if the water is deeper than 3 feet and she “drifts away from the wall.

  Her cycling and running is impressive though.

• 210.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:18 pm

  What is cereleac

  What does fennel taste like

  Why does red wine vinegar go into everything I hate vinegar

  What happens to all the food they cook cos they sure don’t eat it!

• 211.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:19 pm

  @Robzim(Robzim)-209:

  Is my swimming really that bad ? Heheheheh

• 212.Robzim:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:21 pm

  @carol(carol)-211:

  I was kind.

• 213.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:21 pm

  @Dawn(Dawn)-210:
  Celeriac, bit like celery.
  Fennel sort of strangely ‘Herby’ hard to explain, smells nice.

  I LOVE vinegar, especially Balsamic!!

• 214.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:23 pm

  @Robzim(Robzim)-212:
  Just because you can do the face in the water sort of speedy Olympic swimming, I prefer the swimming where you can admire the view!

• 215.I am a stormer:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:23 pm

  The Boks are precisely in this predicament because too much emphasis is attached to the World Cup where the minnows are allowed on the same stage as the big boys. Every 4 years.
  Every single test that the Boks play is important. Every single test that the Boks play in, they should have a chance of winning.
  You only have to listen to what John Smit has been saying today. The Boks have given up already. To me, the Bok jersey has been sullied.

  So what if the Boks are in a training camp in Rustenburg. Who is to blame for this? I look no further than Sanzar themselves and SARU as well for agreeing to this folly. By agreeing to an extended Super 15 and the first Tri-nations match being staged 2 weeks after the S15 final.

  History is merely repeating itself from what happened in 2007.

  Expect the same sort of thing in 2015.

• 216.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:24 pm

  And what’s with all the rhubarb!!!!!!

• 217.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:25 pm

  @Dawn(Dawn)-216:

  Don’t start me….What is wrong with rhubarb?

• 218.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:30 pm

  Must be honest I’ve never tasted it. Have never seen it here.

  Same with fennel

• 219.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:31 pm

  AB team for this weekend’s clash:

  All Blacks team:

  1. Wyatt Crockett (4)

  2. Andrew Hore (51)

  3. Ben Franks (8)

  4. Samuel Whitelock (14)

  5. Ali Williams (62)

  6. Jerome Kaino (38)

  7. Richie McCaw – captain (95)

  8. Adam Thomson (18)

  9. Jimmy Cowan (45)

  10. Daniel Carter (80)

  11. Zac Guildford (5)

  12. Ma’a Nonu (57)

  13. Conrad Smith (46)

  14. Cory Jane (22)

  15. Mils Muliaina (95)

  Reserves:

  16. Corey Flynn (13)

  17. John Afoa (31)

  18. Jarrad Hoeata (1)

  19. Liam Messam (7)

  20. Piri Weepu (45)

  21. Colin Slade (2)

  22. Sonny Bill Williams (4)

• 220.Puma:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:35 pm

  @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-215: Just a quick post. Flew up to Joburg this morning and only back now. So not enough time to read posts or even that I want too. Just too many.

  I agree think saru agreeing to this daft new S15 format was total madness. They to blame here. Also I don’t agree with a Tri-Nations in a world cup year. Just makes for far too much rugby. Then takes the gloss off of playing Oz or Nz if we do in the wc.

  We can see the affects of the S15 right now. Even our B Boks are coming home with injuries. Now if that were our top Boks I would be angry. With saru of course. They are the ones that got these players into the mess by accepting the daft new format of the S15.

• 221.I am a stormer:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:37 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-219:

  You beat me to it. Interesting that they went with last years centre pairing.

• 222.ET.:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:38 pm

  @Robzim(Robzim)-209:

  The heat here in the last 10 days(up to w-e) has been quite crazy with even a 114 degrees F here and the many other 100s consecutively.

  Once you establish the rhythm and the discipline it becomes as easy as driving an automatic and since I have access to a pool all year round(heated in winter) and the sea even when in Florida I have run out of excuses.
  I have been at this for 15 yrs. now and never did less than 1/2 mile at anytime except when lightning threatens.
  I used to swim often in the summer at UCTs Woolsack pool but there are many there at anytime and that cannot be done in winter. My pulse rate then, even with swimming and small time squash(followed by two quick beers) was 72bpm but once I came here(with the less distractions of friends clearly)I established a regimen to where it is now.
  I have no desire to do 2 miles a day at least 5 days a week as it is not necessary for those benefits when I can get same at 1 mile a day and feel really good.

  Robbo I just do the distance and nothing else. It is just head in the water and confidence at arriving at the correct breathing rhythm at whatever thhe demand and using mostly the crawl and breastrokes. Now and again out of boredom I swim at a faster rate for about 5-10 lengths. I spend up to 70 or so mins in the pool when not disturbed.

• 223.Puma:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:38 pm

  @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-215: saru also agreeing to send our best Boks in a world up year to the Tri-Nations. Madness. They should have negotiated no Tri-Nations for world cup year. Greedy bunch. Just thinking of the money. Players are played into the ground. Should be thinking of the players

• 224.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:39 pm

  Team line up

  Instant thread killer

• 225.Puma:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:40 pm

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-219: SBW coming on later with fresh legs?

  We gonna ge a massive klap I think.

• 226.I am a stormer:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:41 pm

  @Puma(Puma)-220:

  Yeah. Tri-nations every 2 years. I’ve said it before.

  And not in a WC year. Then we wouldn’t have 2 nothing articles and a fatty on TV together with close to 800 posts already.

• 227.Puma:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:41 pm

  @carol(carol)-214:

  Carol,

  Get Rob to train you for the Midmar mile…hehe

  Okay out of here now. Catch up tomorrow.

• 228.Puma:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:43 pm

  @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-226: Agree.

  Cheers buddy. Out of here now. Jeez so tired. Hectic day today.

  Going to shower then off to bed. Catch up tomorrow.

• 229.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:47 pm

  @Puma(Puma)-227:
  Hi Puma
  Midmar Mile, is this the ‘Comrades’ only in water?
  Could I do it in a canoe instead?
  Catch you tomorrow!

• 230.ET.:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:50 pm

  @carol(carol)-201:

  I admire your attitude to exercise (I hope correct eating too) and just wish more would engage in that past-time and especially of your gender.

  I am glad I gave some units with examples of normal ranges too and bp is extremely important as that one can give you NO symptoms often(the silent killer it is, hypertension). Any measurement of 145/80 should see one go to a doctor for assessment and possible medication(good ones exist for this and high cholesterol levels).

  You would surely, with that healthy attitude, been regarded as an excellent subject for that investigation.

  Just keep up the good effort. It ensures quality of life for a long time.

• 231.carol:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:52 pm

  @Dawn(Dawn)-224:
  You mean you do not want to discuss the merits of The All Black line up…..?

  Do you still have the ‘hots’ for Daniel Carter?

• 232.Transformation:
  27 Jul 2011, 21:52 pm

  @Dawn(Dawn)-224: hi pocahontas

  when are u coming to visit by the EC we’ve got lots of snow around these parts

• 233.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 22:05 pm

  Naah carol dan is so last year.

  Am scouting at the moment, no-one lined up in the crosshairs at the mo!

  Transie. Wazzup. I don’t like cold at the best of times!

• 234.Dawn:
  27 Jul 2011, 22:19 pm

  Dan.

  Instant thread killer

• 235.PissAnt:
  27 Jul 2011, 22:51 pm

  Sad news RE Joost

  http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Doctor-confirms-Joosts-fears-20110727

  Best of luck buddy. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

• 236.Black Panther:
  27 Jul 2011, 23:22 pm

  Hey Transie

  just so that we’re both on the same page….I really couldn’t care less what Keos no1 Apologist thinks either. Yet again you deliver a cut’n'paste job here to somehow represent what appears to be your ‘own’ opinion.

  The difference betw you and me is that I castigated GH in 2007 for pulling players out of the S12. You simply don’t have enough spine to criticise Krusty for an even greater crime because you’re always so caught up in winning every little battle that you end up completely losing sight of the war. Keeping boxing shadows at midnight, Colonel van Trapp.

• 237.Hondo:
  27 Jul 2011, 23:54 pm

  The Tri Nations’ TV sponsors are those who are calling the shots
  If the rating of the Special Transmissions, Per Per Views and series subscriptions are dropped compared to last year, SANZAR partners will take hits.
  Pro Rugby is all about money, so it makes a good business sense that Aus and SA feels they’ll recap their losses by advancing to the quarter final and beyonds at the RWC
  Time will tell

• 238.Slumtown:
  28 Jul 2011, 01:15 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-4: lol Transie – Keo´s got you here everyday wasting hours of your life commenting on his blog while the ad revenues roll in for him thats what – maybe you should be the one getting a life lol. No malice intended – just saying you know?

• 239.Slumtown:
  28 Jul 2011, 01:29 am

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-235: sad indeed man. Who cares if the guy cheated on his wife etc etc. Those are small trivial things. Losing your life in this way is hectic. I wouldnt wish it on anyone.

• 240.Clyde Wombat:
  28 Jul 2011, 04:15 am

  This esteemed wb site has made the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald website: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/de-villiers-lying-about-bok-camp-journalists-say-20110728-1i108.html

• 241.ET.:
  28 Jul 2011, 05:04 am

  @PissAnt(PissAnt)-18:

  ” There are few better in world rugby let alone SA rugby that can match Rassie in a video room or on a white board ”

  Is the apple larger than the tree?

  So you are saying that “world rugby” fits in somewhere in ” SA rugby”?
  Yet in 42 days S.Africa, the country bumkins, will be playing in a World Cup of Rugby, a competition of this Planet Earth which we often refer to as the world.

  These stupid things happen when you do NOT have a feel or grasp or command for a real first world language let alone stupidly attempt to use it for all the world to see your ‘blooper’ and thus your folly.

• 242.optiplay:
  28 Jul 2011, 05:39 am

  @keo(keo)-77: Keo .Good for to come out and chat with the guys. Well done>

• 243.Transformation:
  28 Jul 2011, 07:21 am

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-236: hahaha every time you start the namecalling i smile

  this wasn’t 2007, GH pulled McCaw for 2 weeks in the 2011 super rugby season, where was your sanctiomonious mug then? Duplicitous much?

  You’re here talking about ‘bigger crimes’, please. The letter of the Sanzar contract says ‘the best available players have to play’, well richie was ‘rested’

  deal with it!

• 244.JockBok:
  28 Jul 2011, 07:35 am

  @ET.(ET.)-241:

  Lol. You are a twaat. You misunderstand PAs simple sentence and demonstrate your poor knowledge of the language you then go on to chastise PA for using incorrectly.

  It is just too funny to see you try and fail in your ludicrous attempts at writing in a style that you actually feel highlights your higher ‘intelligence’. But meanwhile, you can hardly grasp basic punctuation and just prove to all and sundry how much of a fraud you are.

  If any more was needed.

  ‘Corpus mentis’

  

• 245.Gunther is at camp Snordraad:
  28 Jul 2011, 08:19 am

  @JockBok(JockBok)-244:

  Corpus

• 246.Atreides:
  28 Jul 2011, 09:00 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-243: Our laws are not their laws!! They are above such trivial nonsense.

• 247.mshiniwami:
  28 Jul 2011, 09:38 am

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-99:

  No Guru at all bud, just making an analogy.Whether you choose to approve or not couldnt bother me in the least bit.

  Ho Hum, Fee Fi Fo Fum blah blah blah-any more nursery rhymes/poems??

  The more things change, the more they stay the same indeed…

• 248.JEZ:
  28 Jul 2011, 10:30 am

  It takes a special kind of bitter and twisted little napoleon to draw parallels with Rustenburg and Kamp Staaldraad.
  Of course when Keo was in the Bok set up he was responsible for all the good stuff and the bad stuff was either Harry’s, Andre’s or Rudolf’s fault.
  Some people never grow up and can’t drop a grudge. Judging by most bloggers they mostly see through the Keo’s motives.
  I think we should all give him a cuddle and tell him he’s wonderful.

• 249.Lorenzo:
  28 Jul 2011, 11:36 am

  LOL…great stuff!!

• 250.Black Panther:
  28 Jul 2011, 13:46 pm

  Captain con Trapp

  so let’s just get this right

  You’re saying that McCaw – with a steel pin in a broken metatarsal – having to be re re-habed, during the S15, is in some way equal to resting 23 players, with various niggles, for Test rugby ?

  THAT is an argument you’re willing to back with allegations of ‘duplicitousness’ ?

  rrrrrrreally ?!

  my God. Stoopid is as stoopid does, Forrest Stumped.

• 251.Atreides:
  28 Jul 2011, 15:44 pm

  @Black Panther(Black Panther)-250: Didn’t GH schedule his rest period at the beginning of the S15 before that injury though?

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