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• 401.ET.:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:18 pm

  So finally Gunther the scraps ‘boytjie’ has nicely settled into his role of taking the crumbs falling from the tables of discontent.

  Have your replaced that melted ice-cube already and is that too the very, very, miniscule, microscopic tip of your ” iceberg “, as you once again confuse your adjectives with the nouns?

• 402.Helen:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:18 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-395:

  ET, you are just pathetic.
  Desperate to make sense, sound intelligent and be taken seriously. None of which will happen here.
  I will not speak to you again, you are so painful and delusional.

• 403.stormersboy:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:19 pm

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-400: Bubbles….check. Grapes……..check. European name…….check.

  For the finer details you may want to check with ET. As long as it’s ages beyond 30 years.

• 404.Gunther:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:19 pm

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-400:

  course it is.

  just clumsier.

  like extrabollock.

• 405.cane:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:20 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-393:

  “your buddy Fern’s……………………..”.

  On one thing, I can assure you ET.

  Fernly and I are NOT buddies.

• 406.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:22 pm

  Goeie bliksem maar hierdie ding is soos n donnerse sonbesie wat nie sy lemoene wil vat en boggerof nie.

• 407.stormersboy:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:23 pm

  @Helen(Helen)-402: It’s a no win situation babes. He is one of the least self aware people you are ever likely to come across. He is best ignored. Mocked from time to time for one’s own amusement, but mostly ignored.

• 408.Gunther:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:24 pm

  @stormersboy(stormersboy)-403:

  extratesticular rocks the pinotage.

  champagne is out of his area of expertise.

  he is the sodastream king.

• 409.Gunther:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:26 pm

  babes.

  cough.

• 410.stormersboy:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:26 pm

  @Gunther(gunther)-408: yes and the king of mixed beverages, the Katemba.

• 411.stormersboy:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:28 pm

  @Gunther(gunther)-409: It’s european. It goes with my Tom Jones limited edition medalion.

  Chicks dig it.

• 412.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:28 pm

  @Gunther(gunther)-408: Sweeto en cheap koekkies…….

• 413.>^..^< katman:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:28 pm

  @Gunther(gunther)-408: PPHHHFFFWWWRRRT

  (let it breathe a while)

• 414.Helen:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:29 pm

  @stormersboy(stormersboy)-407: Thanks sweetie! You are such a honey!

• 415.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:30 pm

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-413: Well out!!!!!

• 416.ET.:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:32 pm

  @cane(cane)-397:

  You try too hard, poor soul.

  If the medic asks you where “here” is wrt your pain what would your response be but a blank look on your face?
  Do you realise that is fictitious(mere word/s) and you in cyber and in real life surely must be fictitious too?

  Go to bed now.

• 417.Gunther:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:32 pm

  @stormersboy(stormersboy)-411:

  it’s true.

  your manners are beautifully continental.

  completely wasted in Urbanville.

  the mansac of course fits right in

• 418.Gunther:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:33 pm

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-413:

  

• 419.>^..^< katman:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:35 pm

  @KWAGGA ROBERTSE(KWAGGA ROBERTSE)-415: ET can make you a soda stream in any flavour you can think of. He recommends the monkeygland merlot.

• 420.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:39 pm

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-419: Hehehehe You have now opened the table for a serious talking to in his royal nutsack’s finest English.

• 421.Helen:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:40 pm

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-419: hahahaha… that is funny!

  ET can apparently also make a mean soup sandwich in his waffle iron

• 422.Helen:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:41 pm

  Yeeha! ET is defeated!

  Well done Kwagga and Kat.
  Apparently ET is just like a Xmas tree. The balls are only for decoration

• 423.Helen:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:42 pm

  It has been 16 minutes since his last post.., Can it be, can it be??

• 424.stormersboy:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:43 pm

  @Gunther(gunther)-417: I’m grateful you didn’t call it a man-purse like those ignoramus’ down the street, They think they are so clever with their horseshoe games in the front yard and half complete vehicles in the driveway….

• 425.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:44 pm

  @Helen(Helen)-421: Rather prepare him a nice scrumtious and healthy ‘go f**k yourself’ sandwich and send him on his way.

• 426.stormersboy:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:45 pm

  @Helen(Helen)-423: Unfortunately he has just had to dash back to the lab to wash the petri dishes from the lecture and look up some more confusing phrases from his “How to sound sophisticated, for dummies” book.

• 427.KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:46 pm

  Time for something cold with a skuimpie on top.

  Have a good one everybody!

• 428.Gunther:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:53 pm

  @stormersboy(stormersboy)-424:

  

  what do you carry in those mansacs?

  yourvagina?

• 429.Gunther:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:58 pm

  where has extraball gone?

  don’t tell me his phallus of fizz has run out of gas.

• 430.ET.:
  17 Aug 2011, 16:58 pm

  As always the wolf-pack of those long gone days of ‘apartheid’ can only live in the fantasy world(much like their rugby efforts), the world of their fictions and in archives of the world of their delusional falsehoods.

  Only truths will stick but not even your best bostick can help your so lame, limp, daily, childish guess-work. Show something original if not new.

  But what can one expect from those with fathers and mothers, and some of them even, who can only claim to have given the world ‘APARTHEID’ that they now appear to hide from like the plague but falsely so?

• 431.ET.:
  17 Aug 2011, 17:04 pm

  When counter notions or simple ideas fail, in true Nazi fashion, as in Cabaret, vulgarity survives and rules their delinquent world.

  You may run short on vulgarity for Saturday, save some of it.

  TNs 3P 3L, meaning the mini-coach carrying your hopes is about to topple over.

• 432.President_of_the_Sharks_rugby_experts:
  17 Aug 2011, 17:06 pm

  @Helen(Helen)-414: will u2 get a room ??

• 433.stormersboy:
  17 Aug 2011, 17:09 pm

  @Gunther(gunther)-428:

  That and a spare pack of kotex. For those not so confident days.

• 434.>^..^< katman:
  17 Aug 2011, 17:11 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-430: You’d give your extra testicle to be part of a wolf pack. Not going to happen though.

• 435.Atreides:
  17 Aug 2011, 17:19 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-430: Lo it took you 20 minutes to come up with that? Were you rubbing yourself in syrup while you typed it?

  As you were, boy

• 436.Tuna:
  17 Aug 2011, 17:21 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-430: Who pissed in your sippy cup this morning? Get a life.

• 437.Sheriff:
  17 Aug 2011, 17:26 pm

  Did anyone see Carol?

• 438.ET.:
  17 Aug 2011, 17:40 pm

  Herd mentality is well-known to the Germans of yore, and thus your ilk who share some of those genes.

  It has always been individualism of the so few that has given the brilliance of a Michelangelo or even mundanely the rugby brilliance of a Cliff Morgan or Barry John or Hugo Porta

  Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. Even the great man of Caprese, said it.

  You all happy with the elapse of time while I flit in and out from doing better things?

• 439.David:
  17 Aug 2011, 18:05 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-438:
  Hi ET,I admire your choice of flyhalf examples. I see that Leeds have finally managed to register a win, and a good one at that.

• 440.mpundulu:
  17 Aug 2011, 18:27 pm

  From a NZ publication: Practice in a gherkin field set him up, writes Dylan Cleaver.

  Read it one of two ways: Dan Carter’s omission from the 2004 Rugby Almanack’s list of five promising players was either an embarrassing oversight for the august publication, or evidence that the Cantabrian’s ascension was so rapid there was no time for him to be “promising”.

  If anything, another young Cantabrian, Cam McIntyre, was touted as having a long future in the black No 10 jersey, particularly when Carter’s initial foray into first-class and test rugby were as Aaron Mauger’s understudy at second five-eighth.

  “I was just going with the flow. I didn’t really know where I was going to play, where I was going to end up,” Carter said of his positional swap.

  Pick your top 20 greatest All Blacks of all time.

  “I’m really thankful for the way it turned out, getting that opportunity to play a lot of rugby at No 12.

  “It’s not easy playing first five at Super rugby and NPC level. It’s quite a demanding position for a young player. It really worked in my favour getting experience … off the old masters in Andrew Mehrtens and Carlos Spencer.

  “When my time came to pull on the 10 jersey, I’d had some experience at the highest level.”

  Funny how the wheel of fortune turns. McIntyre has carved himself out a nice little career at French club Castres, while Carter recently inked a deal, reportedly worth $6 million, that will keep him in New Zealand rugby until the end of 2015. It should see him overtake nearly every rugby record.

  “It’s not a given to play for the All Blacks and there’s a lot of young talent coming through in the next couple of years,” Carter said. “They’ll be in their prime so that’s a challenge I’m looking forward to.”

  Perhaps.

  Carter is peerless in the No 10 jersey, has been for the past six years and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

  Not bad for a kid from tiny Southbridge who dreamed of being John Kirwan until he stopped growing at 6 and didn’t start again until he was 12.

  “One of my earliest memories was the 1987 World Cup,” Carter recalled. “I was only 5 and remember John Kirwan scoring that length-of-the-field try and scoring a try in the final.

  “I’d always be out in the back yard pretending I was JK.”

  That he had a back yard at all was a remarkable piece of foresight on the part of Mr and Mrs Carter. It was a gherkin field, but sick of repairing broken windows as they watched their son use a gap in the roof as makeshift goalposts, the Carters ripped out the gherkins, laid some grass and erected a proper set.

  “The beauty of living in a small community is that all your mates are not far away. We lived on a block and I had seven or eight mates that used to come around to my house – because we had the posts – almost every day after school.

  “We’d play games of rugby, league and having kicking competitions, everything. I still get along with a few … we keep in contact so it’s pretty cool.”

  By then the diminutive Carter had abandoned JK and turned to Graeme Bachop. “I tried to perfect my pass like his, because he had an awesome pass.”

  After making the South Island secondary schools team out of Ellesmere College, Carter decided Christchurch Boys’ High was where he needed to be to take his rugby further.

  He made South Island schools again but suffered one of his few selection setbacks, spending more time than he would have liked on the bench as one Brendon McCullum directed traffic at No 10.

  “That year, 2000, he was playing some awesome footy, so I spent a fair bit of time on the bench. He was a natural sportsman, good hand eye.”

  It was a minor blip.

  The New Zealand Colts followed, as did selection in the Canterbury NPC squad.

  “It was actually quite intimidating being in that Canterbury environment. There were so many All Blacks, guys I looked up to at high school, like Justin Marshall, Andrew Mehrtens and Reuben Thorne. Suddenly I was sitting alongside them in the changing rooms. I found it pretty daunting, to be honest, but I picked up a thing or two.”

  Or three. Within a couple of years he was recognised as the best No 10 of his generation and was nudging his way into “Best of All Time” discussions.

  He might not be the dynamic attacking force he was in his 2005-06 pomp, where he could shred defences at will with his running game, but he is a more astute tactician and an ultra-consistent goalkicker.

  “The more you play, the more experience you gather about the different situations you get put in. You learn to adapt to those situations quicker.

  “I’ve played a lot of rugby now so I’m pretty comfortable in pressure scenarios … I pride myself on my all-round game and having that experience helps. I feel I’m in a good place and playing some good footy.”

  The best illustration of Carter’s influence can be seen when he is not there. The All Blacks struggled in’09 when he was recovering from a snapped Achilles suffered while playing for Perpignan in the Top 14.

  Last year in Hong Kong the All Blacks went from a sure-thing in their final Bledisloe Cup test of the year to disappointed losers.

  Most gallingly, the All Blacks suffered in the World Cup quarter-final against France four years ago in Cardiff when an ankle injury first rendered Carter ineffective, then finally forced him from the field.

  “To be injured and sitting in the stands, I just felt so helpless.

  “You could feel it going down the drain and with nothing you could do about it, it was just about the toughest place to be.”

  It is the only gap on Carter’s CV. While he has shone brighter perhaps than any other rugby star in the past two World Cup cycles, the tournaments themselves have not been that kind.

  He was used as a late substitute for Mauger in the 2003 quarter-final against South Africa and not at all in the semifinal loss to Australia. Four years later he played just 195 minutes before the All Blacks were knocked out as he battled the coaches’ rotation policy and a troublesome ankle.

  Without a credible back-up No 10, New Zealand needs 2011 to be the year Carter rights his World Cup wrongs and confirms that the shekels being paid into his account over the next four years are a bargain.

  Carter’s greatest hits
  1 v Lions, Wellington, 2005 – The apex of first five-eighth play. Carter was so good it was mesmerising. He scored two tries, one a sideline-hugging chip-and-chase, nailed four out of five conversions and landed five penalties in a 48-18 win.

  2 v South Africa, Wellington, 2006 – A year after his Lions triumph, Carter produced another Westpac Stadium classic, scoring 25 points and running the All Black cutter faultlessly in the 35-17 win.

  3 v Australia, Brisbane, 2008 – One try and four superb conversions were Carter’s contributions in this enthralling 28-24 win to the All Blacks. Australia were as good as they had been for a long time and it is no exaggeration to say the All Blacks would have finished a distant second were it not for Richie McCaw and, in particular, Carter.

  4 v England, London, 2006 – Young England midfielder Anthony Allen was making his debut and Carter ensured it was a miserable one, fending him off to score from 35m out in this 41-20 rout. Carter had an exceptional match, scoring 26 points.

  5 v Australia, Sydney, 2009 – for sheer bloody-mindedness, this comeback from his serious Achilles injury makes the list. The All Blacks had been in a terrible funk, losing twice in South Africa and were favourites to go down in Sydney too, but a Carter penalty, his fifth success from six attempts, with two minutes remaining sealed the 19-18 win.

• 441.mpundulu:
  17 Aug 2011, 18:28 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-438: Never forget Phil Bennet

• 442.ET.:
  17 Aug 2011, 18:40 pm

  @David(David)-439:

  Hey! David. that “finally” seems a bit harsh as since the season began they have played 4 and won 2(Carling included).
  Grayson seems to end a good season poorly with his sudden too late loanees or begin a good one (hopefully) equally poorly(injuries to too many strikers).

  I have seen 3 of the 4 games and will see Sunday’s game against WHU too.

  What was good about yesterday’s win was the 4 academy players in the team.

  Norwich are said to be buying up to 8 players and 3 I can already name as Arca( most expensive), Pilkington and Vaughn.

  I often watch Sky news and saw Norwich do an expensive promo with Nigel Mansell.

  Also saw Schalk Brits say ABs to win RWC and England to do well.

• 443.ET.:
  17 Aug 2011, 18:42 pm

  @mpundulu(mpundulu)-441:

  I never do(because of ’74) but I cannot name all as just examples of brilliance. I have to stop somewhere and those three are my very best, historically.

• 444.JL1:
  17 Aug 2011, 18:52 pm

  Hey at last Keo, an IPad version, not a great one but one at least

• 445.mpundulu:
  17 Aug 2011, 18:58 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-443: in the old era Morgan, John, and Bennet were the business mate. They had it all, Barry John was probably more related to Carter in todays game.

• 446.JockBok:
  17 Aug 2011, 19:00 pm

  @JL1(JL1)-444:

  I bought the one for my ipod touch thinking it would make posting easier than from a mobile.

  It doesn’t have the function to blog and crashes constantly.

• 447.mpundulu:
  17 Aug 2011, 19:00 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-443: It’s amazing that Wales could produce those three effectively in a row. Look at them now!

• 448.JockBok:
  17 Aug 2011, 19:02 pm

  Hehe, ET getting his arsse handed to him never loses it’s appeal.

• 449.JockBok:
  17 Aug 2011, 19:04 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-442:

  Why bother watching. Surely science has already revealed the outcome to you.

• 450.David:
  17 Aug 2011, 19:13 pm

  @ET.(ET.)-442:
  Norwich finished their signings last week with Ayala. None of the 8 additions seem to have cost more than 2 million each.
  Sorry about Leeds jibe. Must of missed your first win.

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