Massive blow for Boks
18 Aug 2011
Juan Smith is out of the World Cup.
Smith sustained an Achilles injury during the Cheetahs’ Super Rugby campaign and has been in a race to regain fitness ever since. However, on Wednesday an emotional Smith confirmed to the Volksblad that he was withdrawing himself from the squad.
‘I am not 100%,’ Smith said. ‘I won’t be able to give everything and realise I should put my team, team-mates and the Bok fans first. I must stop lying to myself – what I’ve been doing these last three weeks – and realise that I’m not ready.’
The 30-year-old flank conceded that he has trained through considerable pain in recent weeks in the hope of representing the Springboks at his third World Cup. ‘The pain level that I have been practising with was seven out of ten,’ he explained. ‘I really cannot describe how disappointed I am…immensely.’
Smith has been central to the Springboks’ success in the last eight years, his powerful ball carrying and physical defence lending immense impetus to their cause. Springboks coach Peter de Villiers has consistently expressed fears about losing him and now has to attempt to fill the huge void he leaves.
De Villiers has intimated that Danie Rossouw will be the player to step in in the event of Smith’s unavailability. He isn’t short of talented options outside of the Bulls man, with Willem Alberts and Jean Deysel competent replacements. He could also opt to use Schalk Burger in the position, combining him with Heinrich Brussow and Pierre Spies in the back row.
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18 Aug 2011, 16:22 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-444:
Hahaha. We had Poles on the last job. I never want to see vodka again
18 Aug 2011, 16:22 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-442: are you denying growing up in rhodesia?
come on answer me?
18 Aug 2011, 16:23 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-403:
A member of the Desperate ‘Housewives’ Brigade clutching at mere paper straws again?
I knew ALL Cab’s phrases and have never spoken Zulu ever. Not all that much difference among all those mere regional dialects. What much more than the clicks separates the two regional dialects?
Who even cares about a regional language when in a foreign country.
Certainly not me.
18 Aug 2011, 16:24 pm
@youknowwho(youknowwho)-449: Of course they are… But if its Hearts supporters we talking about… Whosapussy then? For me its those Hearts skirts, hands down…
18 Aug 2011, 16:25 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-451: Classic!
18 Aug 2011, 16:25 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-406:
oh really – yeah pity they didnt teach isizulu at high school – grandma used to speak xhosa fluently coming off the plaas of the EC.
@ET.(ET.)-434: .
every word 100% true, im sure it was you, did u have an afro in those days?
18 Aug 2011, 16:25 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-452: 1 plus 1 = ? Transie?
18 Aug 2011, 16:27 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-442:
What’s truly NEW here?
18 Aug 2011, 16:29 pm
@ET.(ET.)-453: No, you triple-testes painted gibbon, you made your name tottie again. No amount of “clicks “ and “dialects” going to reverse that now. Stick to your fabricated struggle stories – less chance of being caught out, and no one reads them anyway.
18 Aug 2011, 16:29 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-457: chimurenga”
18 Aug 2011, 16:31 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-457: you didn’t grow up in ian smith’s rhodesia?
mutali, bulawayo, salisbury? name it
18 Aug 2011, 16:32 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-460: There’s always chimurenag in Zimbabwe… They chimurengar’ing themselves now
Now do you “wan’t” to tell me the answer? 1 plus 1? Fking dunce
18 Aug 2011, 16:33 pm
a lot of the sharks supporters are zimbos. bladdy hell they lost a great one to australia, pocock, **** he’s fetching might even be better than brussow. ray mordt one of the greatest boks was a when-we, not sure about nick mallett?
18 Aug 2011, 16:35 pm
@cane(cane)-402:
Are you looking for PEACE after the incessant ‘whupping’?
18 Aug 2011, 16:35 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-461: If I did then the how does that “add up” to running around on “Parent’s cane farms”
Sheezus, what a farken numbnut
18 Aug 2011, 16:37 pm
@cab(cab)-463: You forget Lion killer Andy MacDonald the prop
18 Aug 2011, 16:40 pm
@ET.(ET.)-458: I catch mega everytime… Watch… tail between legs squealing like a little gundwane
18 Aug 2011, 16:40 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-462: yes or no HG, just yes or no…
rhodesia or not?
didn’t you got to varsity in the free state?
simple answers needed, no bullshit
18 Aug 2011, 16:41 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-466:
lol, oh right, and we’ve also had Garvey and a former Bok captain Teichman. The rugby schools must have been good in zim, even Beast and Mujati.
18 Aug 2011, 16:41 pm
@cab(cab)-463: what is a “when-we” cabbie
18 Aug 2011, 16:41 pm
@cab(cab)-456:
Two wrongs does not make you right.
Never ever lived in Vaalieland and never ever had an afro(cannot).
‘ Maar soos hulle se, ‘n hond k a k ook hare.’
18 Aug 2011, 16:42 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-468: Free State and Natal plus a pretty decent institution pesheyo…
1 plus 1?
18 Aug 2011, 16:43 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-465: that was a grappie with cabbie and u know it…bulawayo?
18 Aug 2011, 16:44 pm
@cab(cab)-469: Prince Edward and Peterhouse.
18 Aug 2011, 16:45 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-473: Run gundwane run
I see you blaad’sheet…
18 Aug 2011, 16:45 pm
459</a
Pure and poor anger from a very delusional Desperate 'Housewife'
Try BOSTIK.
18 Aug 2011, 16:45 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-472: ahhaaaaa, now we getting somewhere….when did you leave rhodesia?
18 Aug 2011, 16:47 pm
@cab(cab)-469: Yeah some very good schools…
The moffies went to Peterhouse…
18 Aug 2011, 16:48 pm
these blogs always follow same pattern
article written
okes talk rugby
when you check by comments after 400 its degenerated into trash talk
whats up guys
isnt it too boring to talk abt the rugga?
18 Aug 2011, 16:50 pm
Papoose is right, better talk rugga, later.
anyways its a shame with juan being out, seems like we steadily picking up a few injuries heading into this thing unfortunately.
18 Aug 2011, 16:51 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-467:
He is so boringly stupid and such a brown-noser that I now just feel such pity for the empty shell that is him?
Can you imagine such hero-worship of the ABs at the airport from a supposed sworn ‘Bok Fan?
He says one thing from one side of the cheek and acts out something quite different from his bottom cheeks.
18 Aug 2011, 16:51 pm
Digging deeper holes to sell the game
DAVID LONG Last updated 12:52 17/08/2011
OPINION: There will be Champagne corks popping at the offices of adidas this morning.
They’ll be relieved that they’re no longer the All Blacks sponsor everyone loves to hate and they can now happily – and quietly – get on with their business of charging extortionate money for All Blacks jerseys and forcing their coloured boots on our players.
Telecom’s “Abstain for the All Blacks” campaign has rightly been slammed by all and sundry. It’s a terrible idea and will have Kiwis mocked around the world if it goes ahead.
Not surprisingly Graham Henry and the All Blacks players saw sense and refused to have any part in the advertising campaign.
It’s unfortunate that the players have become the gate keepers to some of the ridiculous ideas exploiting our most famous brand.
They are the ones who’ve refused to allow the haka to become a marketing gimmick and thankfully, they see the black jersey for what it is, a symbol of New Zealand, that belongs to all of New Zealand.
Already we have seen Coca Cola launch that ridiculous online book where people can leave messages of support to the All Blacks.
Does anyone in their right mind think Owen Franks is going to read Sandra from Palmerston North say “Go Abs we’re all proud of you”?
There is the awful Coca Cola’s “unsung heroes of New Zealand” campaign where Josh Kronfeld and TV personality Drew Neemia (no, I’d never heard of him before either) scour the country to find Kiwis who’ve done great things for their communities and give them World Cup tickets.
Other terrible ideas from the past have been the painting of the All Blacks on Air New Zealand planes, having DNA from the players put into posters and bits of mud from grounds around the country put into test tubes and presented to the players.
For the vast majority of these campaigns – and Abstain for the All Blacks is the worst example of this yet – it’s about multi million dollar companies wanting to be seen as being one of us.
They like us, they’ll be cheering the All Blacks on at the World Cup and give out a ‘we’re all in this together’ message.
But the New Zealand public are smart enough not to be fooled by all of this.
They know when a corporation is trying to force an unnatural emotion on the country.
Like calling the Westpac Stadium in Wellington the Cake Tin, it’s something that evolved and no matter how disappointed Westpac may be about this, it will always be known as the Cake Tin.
Yes, big corporation, give your money to the NZRU, but don’t pretend you’re one of us.
The trouble is that the NZRU get stuck in the middle when their sponsors come under flak.
They have to show their support to sponsors when they’re in the firing line, even though they may cringe privately.
So please Telecom, drop this stupid campaign before New Zealand becomes the laughing stock of the world.
Having *** or not won’t have any impact on whether we win the World Cup.
Scoring more – on the field – will have far more to do with it.
18 Aug 2011, 16:51 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-477: Ag come now Mega, or Chumi…. I have intimated my “almer maters” with ET ages ago on this site and I have given a little bit of history on sharksworld on a thread that asked for it… You been a disingenuous little biyatch now… Obviously had your cage rattled by this horrid “Rhodesian” now you’re intent on trying your luck
Squeeze a pimple, man!
18 Aug 2011, 16:51 pm
@ET.(ET.)-476:
You’re back?
18 Aug 2011, 16:53 pm
@ET.(ET.)-481: who was at the airport? bwahahahahahaha
18 Aug 2011, 16:53 pm
@ET.(ET.)-481: Cage has been rattled, ET now Mega is giving me his bazookas… He’s swearing at me big time… I am a “Rhodesian”
18 Aug 2011, 16:55 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-483: clutching @ straws now
“rattle” you’re dreaming.
18 Aug 2011, 16:55 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-472:
When he gets to just “yes or no” stakes then it is desperation time for him. It means that all the cut and paste cannot now help him.
18 Aug 2011, 16:57 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-483: so why act dumb as if you’re not from ian smith’s former colony?
18 Aug 2011, 16:57 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-487: You… you… “Rhodesian”
Bwaaaaahaaaahaaa…
Rolling…
Shaking…
Giggling…
18 Aug 2011, 16:58 pm
@ET.(ET.)-488: Yup, mate… Chumigundwane is getting the hell in… watch
18 Aug 2011, 16:59 pm
@ET.(ET.)-488: hey philly steaks…
corpus plenty?
18 Aug 2011, 16:59 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-483:
Absolutely true and at the time you were there they were impeccable and even better the to close it all with the LSE.
18 Aug 2011, 17:00 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-489: And if I am from “ian smith’s former colony”?
But then again I didn’t know ian smith had his very own colony
And again, as I pointed out, for certain people, numbers and math is opaque…
18 Aug 2011, 17:02 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-494: he presided over it, duh…bulawayo, mutali, salisbury?
18 Aug 2011, 17:02 pm
@ET.(ET.)-493: LSE…? Bunch of Commie Fcks… Gaddafi lovers…
Reaching now….
18 Aug 2011, 17:03 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-495: You don’t get it…
Its okay, my boy
18 Aug 2011, 17:03 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-494: cheers, gym calls…
18 Aug 2011, 17:05 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-497: will never be you “boy”
ET is your rentboy, your own philly based arsecreep
cheerio suckers
18 Aug 2011, 17:06 pm
What a pathetic attempt to deflect and confuse again and again.
Does it really matter whether the venue was the airport, walk to the bus, walk from the bus to the beach-front hotel or even the practice venues?
The cardinal point is the self-stated demonstration(and with such pride) of the hero-worship of mere AB mortals.
Another ploy is turning furiously back into those pages of a dirty song-book when nothing new can be even vaguely offered.
Cornered like a RAT, by one HG, no less.
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