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RYAN VREDE says the Springboks’ World Cup journey will end in the quarter-finals.
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19 Sep 2011, 14:31 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-182:
Haha spot on.
@poppa69(poppa69)-188:
You might beat us in a rugby game, but I’d advise not getting into a fight with Bakkies, Schalk, Bismarck etc. They’ll fark you guys up good and propper.
19 Sep 2011, 14:32 pm
@Tecumseh(Tecumseh)-196:
Yawn, you need a new style fuckwit.
19 Sep 2011, 14:33 pm
gees, guess all the whiteys are getting upset because the brown fellas are doing a war chant..
if you dont like it, dont watch it…simple..
19 Sep 2011, 14:33 pm
Heavens game: I disagree with his context, I believe both wins were a foregone conclusion against Japan and Fiji.
19 Sep 2011, 14:34 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-163: yes and I agreed
19 Sep 2011, 14:34 pm
@hendrikp(hendrikp)-201: Bakkies? the bloke who picks on little fellas, often from behind..
who were his last two victims?
Aplon and Cowan?
gees hes tough alright… why hasnt he ever done it to Thorn for example?
19 Sep 2011, 14:34 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-200:
19 Sep 2011, 14:35 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-183:
Of course in context of the match yes. Like vs Tonga Cowan persisted and failed with his box kicks whereas if he got it right he could’ve built on that.
He also overplayed the box kicks where he could’ve taken their disorganised defence on more so even though it was only Tonga Cowan’s own performance wasn’t as neat as the coaches had hoped for.
So in that context Ellis’ service and decision making was good, albeit vs Japan.
Kahui was good vs the Boks already in PE, Kaino has been immense in the AB jersey so to see them keeping at that level regardless of opposition is good for you guys.
That’s the same for us with the trio of JS/Spies & Du Preez’s personal performances coming good. Spies didnt run through their whole team on his own, but he did have some strong carries.
JS didn’t do Bismarck turnovers but he worked relentlessly and looked like he was hungry for more when he did go off.
Du Preez’s class is starting to shine through and if you’re a Bok fan you’ll see it, if you’re not you’ll deny it.
19 Sep 2011, 14:36 pm
@hendrikp(hendrikp)-164: lets hope so – I find it odd that Storrmers struggle scoring tries with the same 2 individuals in the same 2 positions. One game with F Steyn at 12 (his best position btw) and even bloody Odwa on the wing and we look better? Agreed everybody across the board played better but for the first time in a long time the backs looked dangerous again.
19 Sep 2011, 14:36 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-203: i don’t know why they are getting so upset.back in the good old days they had their own rituals …tossing blacks out of high-rise buildings or pushing them down staircases.all nations should have a ritual that they indetify with.
19 Sep 2011, 14:37 pm
Hey HG, I thought you’d be over in Basildon.
Not like you to give up the opportunity to have a legal pop at a few pikey’s and earth warriors
19 Sep 2011, 14:37 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-200: thats just pathetic katman..
looking for me to bite are you? is that how you get your jollies? you guys all wonder why I say the things I do, its because of comments such as yours..
19 Sep 2011, 14:37 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-206:
Maybe because Thorn doesn’t have small man syndrome.
19 Sep 2011, 14:39 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-203:
We’d love not to watch it. Unfortunately that would mean wearing a patch over both eyes because it’s EVERYWHERE.
19 Sep 2011, 14:40 pm
@Tecumseh(Tecumseh)-166: speak for yourself
19 Sep 2011, 14:40 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-200: I have a vision of that move, Paul Blart – Mall Cop in my head now….
19 Sep 2011, 14:40 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-212:
You are just living proof that Kiwis, when irritated, lose their minds and cool heads far too quickly.
Relax for a change.
19 Sep 2011, 14:42 pm
Jockbock 193: hehehe. I agree there’s too much black culture marketing and we should have parity and market English and Afrikaans south African culture to the overseas market.
19 Sep 2011, 14:42 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-181: hahaha well said.
19 Sep 2011, 14:44 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-189: @poppa69(poppa69)-181: chaps, take what katman says at #190 and digest it properly without personalising the issue.
i enjoy the haka, i was excited to see it live here in PE and got it on video for posterity BUT the way it seems it is done by random people in malls, streets and everywhere, surely stands to dilute the “specialness” of the ‘routine’.
to liken the haka to the vuvuzela is to cheapen the war cry, the vuvuzela is a frivolous plastic horn fans take to the stadium to cheer their team on when one of their players either pulls a fancy move or they’re dominating the opposition or have scored, it has NO significant meaning.
it is similar to those ratchet-looking things some fans carry to rugby games in NZ or the guys that wear buckets on their heads in Palmerston North or some place like that.
19 Sep 2011, 14:44 pm
@Tecumseh(Tecumseh)-210:
Hehe, you’re trying hard today Capo hey?
I can imagine you this morning during breakfast.
Hmmm, what to do today?
Drink 3 bottles of Virginia? Nah, did it yesterday.
Slap the wife about a bit? Nah, did it last night.
Go do some bodybuilding? Nah, those weights are too heavy.
Pomp the neighbours poodle? Nah, prefer the Jack Russell down the road.
Go onto Keo and try and pick a fight. Helll yeah….
19 Sep 2011, 14:44 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-200: probably the same as your father saying that you are not a good afrikaner if you don’t toss a black person through a window of a high-rise building or push one down a staircase back in the good old days of apartheid.
19 Sep 2011, 14:44 pm
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-209:
Habana is a winger. End of the day he relies on his inside backs to get him some good ball, and at the Stormers they never gave it to him. The 4 tries that he scored were oppurtunistic. Him looking for work. He deserves credit for that. If he’d played against Fiji he’d also have had a good game. Unfortunately for him he didn’t.
Jean does need to step up yes. I think his days are numbered considering Frans wants to play 12 and played well. Sort of feel like Jean needs a good rest, because he tries to push things too much now. Needs some time away and come back to a game-plan that revolves around moving the ball around rather then always being a crash-ball type player. He’s definitely not useless though. End of the day they conceded far less tries also.
19 Sep 2011, 14:44 pm
Hendrickp 195: I’ve got my own private views on the haka being thrown at every single airplane that arrives in NZ but hey it’s their way. You just have to suck it up during the WC and then things will be back to normal.
19 Sep 2011, 14:45 pm
Hohoho….
19 Sep 2011, 14:45 pm
Lionel cronje signed with bulls for next year as well… Plastic outfit
19 Sep 2011, 14:46 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-199: Especially after promising to behave – however I must say I think the poor fool meant it in a positive way implying it was something sacred and to be respected and not used as a pop culture virtual trinket.
19 Sep 2011, 14:46 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-212:
Seriously, you don’t think that is funny???
Wow, I’d say taking yourself and everything else so seriously is why you have so many fights.
Don’t you have stand up comedians in NZ?
19 Sep 2011, 14:48 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-228: nope, about as funny as saying all SA duchys rape their farm workers…
is that funny?
19 Sep 2011, 14:48 pm
Good thing these Keo twiddle de dees are punting up Aussie and AB’s chances – I would be extremely worried if they were punting ours… Best way to keep it nice and tidy.. have Keo and his mob of PdV haters picking EVERYONE ahead of Boks and we might actually show the schmucks who takes the cake in the end..
19 Sep 2011, 14:49 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-203: f off mate – usual bs banter about all and sundry being racists because theyre South Africans. It has nothing to do with brown fellas as you so pathetically put it.
Typical english colonialists exploting the natives sacred customs for commercial use more like it.
19 Sep 2011, 14:49 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-221: seeing that you are the only one responding ,that’s probably what attracted you to this great country.your a rse probably got to sore after all that english activity so you guess by heading south you will at least be on the other side of the action.
19 Sep 2011, 14:50 pm
How about a match-up
Beast vs Tony Woodcock = Probably an even fight.
Bismarck vs Mealamu = Bismarck would have to find somewhere to hide the body.
Jannie vs Franks = Franks probably, but his brother wouldn’t let anything happen to him
Bakkies vs Thorn = Tight contest. Bakkies pips it, but probably gets disqualified.
Victor vs Williams = Victor to wipe that smile off his face
Brussow vs Richie = McCaw too much of a poofter to fight back
Schalk vs Kaino = Not even a contest. First round knock-out.
Spies vs Read = Probably about even because Spies is a little soft.
And then in the backline we’d bring guys like Butch James & Francois Hougaard. Sonny Bill Williams wouldn’t get any more fights after this. Then again when has he ever had a genuine fight? Besides of course 43 year old gospel singers who are on a sickness benefit.
19 Sep 2011, 14:51 pm
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-231: if the shoe fits mate, pretty obvious seeing as its only the NZ haka that is such a bone of contention…
funny that IN NZ they see fit to do an impromptu haka, by the reaction here youd think they were doing it IN SA..
19 Sep 2011, 14:51 pm
@wpstormerbok(wpstormerbok)-208: du preez is tentantive and seems to be protecting his ‘reconstructed’ shoulder. he got bumped early in the game and he let got of the ball like a girl. he hardly EVER takes the ball into contact from ruck, always kicking or passing.
19 Sep 2011, 14:51 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-230:
Correct. And that’s how its looking in the rest of the rugby world with everybody seemingly punting Aus to get past us in the QF without having to break a sweat.
That’s why I’m saying the Aussies have fallen for the media hype and will succumb to it like the AB’s in 2007.
19 Sep 2011, 14:52 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-229:
Is it a joke? I don’t get it. Not very funny i’m afraid, bit sick actually.
But with the overkill of the haka being discussed and security guards being ‘warriors’ of a sort, that is very funny. I’m still laughing at it.
If you want to take offence, you will of course, but fark me dude, there’s difference between joking and the kind of malice that Capo spouts in every post.
Precious, much?
19 Sep 2011, 14:54 pm
@Tecumseh(Tecumseh)-210: yes like Ozzies taking kids who looked abit too white away from their Aborigine families? Or driving them into “homelands” in the middle of the desert with nothing but booze for company? Or maybe making a ton of cash of their poor dumb tribal artists who didnt know what an internet connection was. Yes we Saffas are the most racist of the lot arent we? You lot only respected the Maoris in the end because they were warriors who gave as good as they got. And still you shagged them too. Took their land just like us. It s ajolly good old English colonialist tradition isnt it? Who of those 3 countries have handed political power back to the original inhabitants of the land? At least we didnt abduct black babies and try and make them whiter. WTF? But no its always us dirty Saffas – the neegah haters. You keep on believing that mate.
19 Sep 2011, 14:54 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-229: THE FUNNY THING IS THAT AFTER THE SYSTEMATIC RAPE OF THOSE FARMWORKERS THEY ACTUALLY TRIED TO CONVINCE THOSE COLOURED PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD STAND TOGETHER IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE BLACKS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE OR LESS SIMILAR.SOME DESPICABLE PEOPLE THOSE AFRIKANERS.
19 Sep 2011, 14:55 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-235:
Think that was more than a bump, looked to me like the tradiational shoulder charge from Fiji.
I agree he needs to start taking the space around the fringes on more and I believe he will, especially after coming through a game against the brutal islanders.
It’s a game by game thing for him, he’s pacing himself nicely and will be confident enough to take hard contact after the next two rounds. Maybe even sooner.
19 Sep 2011, 14:55 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-237: keep laughing Jock…
be a different story if they were jokes about Scotsman Im sure..
so fark off…
19 Sep 2011, 14:56 pm
@Tecumseh(Tecumseh)-232:
Carry on, your patheticness in it’s desperation is actually quite funny to observe.
19 Sep 2011, 14:56 pm
@Tecumseh(Tecumseh)-239: Havent met one yet I like, seems their children (aka Katman, Jockbok, Hg etc) have got the “family values” well and truly ingrained..
just cant help themselves these “superior” white dutchies…
must be all their machine guns that make them so tough huh?
19 Sep 2011, 14:57 pm
Wpstormerbok: this year like Fourie du Preez, Cowan has really struggled and I’ve mentioned it numerous times on this blog. My central point in order that the two of us don’t belabor this point is that one’s response of both the Fiji and Japan games must be measured, it’s critical that the AB’s if France puts forward their A team show how they’ve grown and if their in form. I think the boks need to demonstrate where they are against Samoa, tactically if I was the boks I’d drop that game. I just don’t think the boks and AB’s were tested in core areas.
Jerome kaino has been growing for a number of years, I’ve thought for sometime that kaino and Juan smith are the two top blindside flankers around. Fourie du Preez I thought would have a more commanding game especially with the bok pack being so dominant, so he’d have more room and time to execute but I didn’t see that.
19 Sep 2011, 14:57 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-212: Poppa 3, Poppa 3, kom in.
19 Sep 2011, 14:59 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-229:
Wow. Because that’s not racist.
If someone has a go at you, don’t take it out on other Arikaners.
@Tecumseh(Tecumseh)-239:
End of the day we’re all human. Sure many did this. But what about those that didn’t?
Should we all now stand together against the swart gevaar because of farm murders?
Maybe you should go talk to somebody because you clearly have some issues you need to sort out. Talking about it might help you deal with them.
19 Sep 2011, 14:59 pm
@Tecumseh(Tecumseh)-222: Spoken like a true tikkop.
Anyway, I’m sure my dad tipped your dad well enough.
19 Sep 2011, 14:59 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-241:
I can tell you a few if you want Pops….
For example, did you know copper wire was invented by two Jocks fighting over a penny?
Fark man, no one is laughing at your culture. Relax a bit.
19 Sep 2011, 15:00 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-234: What utter bs – so you are implying that other Pacific Island nations are not brown fellas as you so aptly put it? So we dont have an issue with their war dances because? And we do have issues with the Haka because theres maybe 6 brown fellas out of 12 performing it? You dont even know what youre saying.
19 Sep 2011, 15:01 pm
@hendrikp(hendrikp)-246: arent you all the same, you afrikaaners?
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