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, 13:22 pm
@grant10(grant10)-197:
My mistake. Saw Louw was at 6 and assumed it was Flo.
18 Aug 2011, 13:22 pm
@mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-192:
As you’d already know… before the 3N started Henry said Thompson would be used/groomed in this tourney as the back-up for McCaw which yes will more than likely see four out of five of the loosies being blind-siders and 8′s… exactly the same as Aus…
18 Aug 2011, 13:22 pm
@grant10(grant10)-197:
dunno but nick koster has withdrawn due to long-term bicep injury
18 Aug 2011, 13:25 pm
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-198:
Which others?
18 Aug 2011, 13:25 pm
Yip. Francois Louw in the mix.
18 Aug 2011, 13:26 pm
When is the Bok squad announced? 23 August?
18 Aug 2011, 13:28 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-205:
hey… is he really…? just looked at the team and his name’s nowhere… unless he’s coming in for koster… but they’ve said nick fenton-wells is in for koster…???
bud
18 Aug 2011, 13:28 pm
@Sasuke(Sasuke)-206:
monday
18 Aug 2011, 13:28 pm
@Sasuke(Sasuke)-199: ja….as far as I know….but not sure he is with WP….thought he was off to Bath>??
18 Aug 2011, 13:28 pm
Pieter Louw is a better fetcher than Flow.
18 Aug 2011, 13:29 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-210:
the bulls should koop him.
18 Aug 2011, 13:29 pm
What a huge pity this grand player will not make it but he is a classic example of the decrepit player ; broken down due to advanced age
The pathological repair process in these players, as opposed to a 20 year old, takes so much longer to recover from anatomical trauma notwithstanding this specific injury.
We will probably see him play sometime next year in his farewell game if ever at all.
18 Aug 2011, 13:30 pm
@David(David)-201: you had me excied there….I am going to game so thought that was a bonus!
18 Aug 2011, 13:31 pm
This is not good at all! He is very underrated as a player, one of the best no 7 in the world!! We are fudged!!!
18 Aug 2011, 13:31 pm
@ufo(ufo)-203: oh hell….I didnt know that either….what is our loose trio then…
P Louw
Kolisi and ????
18 Aug 2011, 13:32 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-205: Did FLO leave for Bath already. @ufo(ufo)-203: Really? unlucky?
18 Aug 2011, 13:32 pm
@ufo(ufo)-207: It was announced on the radio when i was driving a short while ago, haven’t seen the team sheet, but wasn’t imagining it.
18 Aug 2011, 13:34 pm
The radio Buletin announced that he’s been called in to replace R Kitshoff who had been released to the Namibian World Cup Squad.
18 Aug 2011, 13:38 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-211:
What do they know about fetchers?
18 Aug 2011, 13:38 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-217: will be great to have F Louw back….Lions will be a tough ask …
18 Aug 2011, 13:39 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-217:
hard to tell with the dodgy reception you get in french cars.
you thought you were listening to the province team announcement meanwhile they were trying to tell you that Robert Mugabe and Paris Hilton are very much in love and set to wed at a lavish ceremony at the Ermelo Holiday Inn.
18 Aug 2011, 13:40 pm
@grant10(grant10)-220: Absolutely. They have really hit their straps this CC. And that bearded freak gets better and better each game. Just goes to show the effect that winning a few tough ones can have. Suddenly there’s a glimmer of a “winning culture” at the Lions.
Amazing what a few months can do.
18 Aug 2011, 13:41 pm
okay…here is the story.
Nick Fenton Wells at 6
Kolisi at 7
P Louw at 8..
Nazeem Carr [ what a prospect this kid is !! ] called up to bench from u 21 s …
18 Aug 2011, 13:42 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-218:
PLouw replaces Kitshoff. That’s where I made the mistake.
18 Aug 2011, 13:43 pm
In the meanwhile, typically, life goes on in rugby-mad S. African pubs even in supposedly quiet Margate as is revealed below:
” Man dies after ‘racist’ pub attack
A Margate woman has related how she watched helplessly at the weekend as a group of “bullies” brutally assaulted her boyfriend because he had refused to give one of the men a cigarette. Their victim has now died.
Lungile Madanca, 24, and 26-year-old Lwandile Mampofu were at a pub in Margate at about 1am when the assault happened. She said it had started when Mampofu refused to offer a cigarette to one of the attackers.
Mampofu suffered multiple head injuries. He died about seven hours later at Port Shepstone General Hospital. ”
Strangely, not less than 3 weeks ago I mentioned both Margate and Port Shepstone to that neo-racist Rangerman, telling him that he was not aware what was happening in his own Natal backyard.
Unfortunately while most from this set of people wail about silly rugby the TRUTH never lies as racists ply their trade.
18 Aug 2011, 13:44 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-221:
18 Aug 2011, 13:45 pm
@grant10(grant10)-223: Can Nick Fenton Wells fetch beers?
Yes Nazeem!!!
18 Aug 2011, 13:46 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-221:
I’m driving Japanese today.
18 Aug 2011, 13:48 pm
@David(David)-224: Those fools at Cape Talk. Definately said Francois “Jan Pickard’s Grandson” Louw.
Pity. We could have used the to Pieters in tandem tomorrow,
Just like the old days.
18 Aug 2011, 13:49 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-228:
How does she feel?
18 Aug 2011, 13:49 pm
@grant10(grant10)-223: Thanks G.
18 Aug 2011, 13:50 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-230: Compliant. Familiar even. And good value for money
18 Aug 2011, 13:51 pm
Juan hasn’t played much rugby since 2009, the Boks can’t possibly lose something they didn’t have?
Johnson, the chief entertainer is back though, looking forward to watch his comical fakes, what a great entertainer he is
Where is Chilibo, bring him on too
18 Aug 2011, 13:53 pm
ET, shut it.
18 Aug 2011, 13:53 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-232:
smaller than you are used to though?
18 Aug 2011, 13:54 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-228: Honda Accord?
18 Aug 2011, 13:59 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-235: Sure, but a tight fit is always a welcome change.
@Sasuke(Sasuke)-236: Toyota.
18 Aug 2011, 14:00 pm
@Sasuke(Sasuke)-236:
tazz.
18 Aug 2011, 14:00 pm
Wat nou? Did white people attack the guy?
18 Aug 2011, 14:00 pm
@grant10(grant10)-195:
How am I the player when I blog during their matches, or while they warm up?
18 Aug 2011, 14:01 pm
@ET.(ET.)-225:
Inadvertently left out from this death report were the alleged killers:
” Petros Opperman, Dovin Christian van der Walt and Jakes Nicholas Putter were arrested in connection with Mampofu’s murder. ”
Do we dare to deem they are not rugby lovers, all? With rugby names like those who needs friends.
A ‘Bok frontranker and a ‘Bok wing had two of those surnames.
18 Aug 2011, 14:02 pm
@ET.(ET.)-225: tragic ….. where does this say it was racially motivated?
18 Aug 2011, 14:03 pm
@Sasuke(Sasuke)-227: not sure …have not seen him much mate…..Nazeem Carr is a class act….absolutely class….going to be a huge player!
18 Aug 2011, 14:03 pm
ET, shut it alweer.
18 Aug 2011, 14:04 pm
Meantime, cue Josh and Fudge.
18 Aug 2011, 14:05 pm
@ET.(ET.)-241: okay….sad
18 Aug 2011, 14:05 pm
@grant10(grant10)-215:
nick fenton-wells… sorry was in a meeting see you got it anyway…
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-217:
would never think you make anything up bud… just needed to know… this is good news for us…
18 Aug 2011, 14:05 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-238: *cough*prat*cough
18 Aug 2011, 14:06 pm
@Agile T*t-Tyrant(Anairetes agilis)-240: bwahhahahhahahah :LOL: Blackberry maybe?
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-237: @Gunther(gunther)-238: Cool. I am looking for a Tazz just to commute to work. i am sick and tired of public transport. Looking for something that is light on fuel.
18 Aug 2011, 14:06 pm
they didn’t kill the oke because he was black … they killed him because he didn’t want to give them a cigarette ….same with farm murders … they don’t kill farmers because they are white, but because the murderers are f*cking animals!
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