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23 Sep 2011
MARK KEOHANE says the All Blacks will clobber France in Auckland on Saturday.
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MARK KEOHANE says the All Blacks will clobber France in Auckland on Saturday.
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GREGOR PAUL, in the Herald on Sunday, writes world rugby will get its integrated season after the 2015 World Cup and Super Rugby won’t break to accommodate an international window. Read More
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23 Sep 2011, 15:10 pm
@Kea-Cat(KEA)-147: Skitterend!
@Helen(Helen)-144:
@Helen(Helen)-141: “probably a first generation pakistani”
23 Sep 2011, 15:14 pm
@Kitchener(Kitchener)-149:
now now kitchey.
we’ve talked about this before you old fraud.
it’s called transferance.
now clean yourself up before you crawl back up Crouchies magic tunnel.
your face has more icing on it than Princess Di’s wedding cake.
Speaking of old CrouchBugger….
does he know that you are punching his judy?
23 Sep 2011, 15:15 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_(RugbyGuru_0_)-150:
Really? That’s jolly interesting. Tell me, old sport, which was the particular comment or statement I made that made you think I was trying to convince anyone of my nationality? Please be specific. Thanks awfully.
23 Sep 2011, 15:17 pm
@Kitchener(Kitchener)-149:
Have to say, this was a classic return serve.
23 Sep 2011, 15:17 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-152:
You’re trying too hard, Gunther old chap.
23 Sep 2011, 15:17 pm
@Kitchener(Kitchener)-153: What exactly is a kitchener? Are you on the chopping or the mopping side of things?
23 Sep 2011, 15:19 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-156:
A “kitchener” is something that knocks the stuffing out of Boers before graciously accepting their surrender.
23 Sep 2011, 15:20 pm
@Kitchener(Kitchener)-155:
that’s rich.
coming from a chap who likes to pretend he is a pom.
as you were old poppet.
23 Sep 2011, 15:23 pm
@Kitchener(Kitchener)-157: So mopping then?
23 Sep 2011, 15:25 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-158: jy fight altyd met iemand hier… wat gaat aan?
23 Sep 2011, 15:26 pm
Bitchener, I’m not trolling your comments from the other day, it was painful enough reading it the 1st time
23 Sep 2011, 15:27 pm
@Kitchener(Kitchener)-157:
Hier gaan jy gemoer word – en die slag is ons meer as julle
23 Sep 2011, 15:30 pm
@Kitchener(Kitchener)-157:
Correction, a kitchener is something low enough to accept the surrender of a people whom his army outnumbered 20 to 1 and took four years to subdue when he estimated it would take 3 months. Now pray tell, you sorry pretender, where the grace is in that?
23 Sep 2011, 15:31 pm
His culture is not genuinely S.African so as is always the case he tries to impress genuine S.Africans by out-S. Africaning them wiith something that is so close to their heart like fighting.
When he wants to say hairy, ‘dan skryf hy “harrige”.
23 Sep 2011, 15:38 pm
@conan wishes he was a springbok #4 locks girlfriend…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-129:
That is three words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By72eQtjglM
23 Sep 2011, 15:40 pm
@Couchcoach(GI POT)-163:
I say chaps, a bit of advice . . . if the answers upset you then rather don’t ask the questions.
23 Sep 2011, 15:44 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_(RugbyGuru_0_)-161:
Oh, okay then . . . it’s just that you started your sentence with the words “I see” which rather implied that your were basing your unsubstantiated accusation on something I said today. So you were just squealing for the sake of it, then?
23 Sep 2011, 15:45 pm
@Staal(Staal)-160:
23 Sep 2011, 15:45 pm
Now all of a sudden…suddenly bitchener can read afrikaans. Identity crisis
23 Sep 2011, 15:47 pm
Listen you waste of space, I’m referring to the other day when you and your lover jockbock were flirting for everyone too see. Don’t you remember that or do you throw yourself at any man
ts ts ts
23 Sep 2011, 15:48 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_(RugbyGuru_0_)-169:
Here we go again . . . but do try not to be such a coward this time, old chap . . . which comment or statement of mine made you think I can understand Afrikaans? Please be specific.
23 Sep 2011, 15:50 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_(RugbyGuru_0_)-170:
Oh dear, I see from your use of emoticons that you’re just a young child. Please accept my apologies. I wouldn’t have been so hard on you if I’d known you were just a young lad . . . although do mind your manners in future.
23 Sep 2011, 15:50 pm
Coward? Was I the one who disappeared? Go read Keo’s thread “fourie on fire in form 15″
23 Sep 2011, 15:52 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_(RugbyGuru_0_)-173:
Just answer the question. Which post or comment? Just a number will do . . . assuming you’re man enough to give a proper answer.
23 Sep 2011, 15:53 pm
Are you trying to know my age? Do you want me to be young? You sick wannabe pommie pedaphile
23 Sep 2011, 15:59 pm
@164
Look who’s talking.
23 Sep 2011, 16:00 pm
SA rules.
All this foreigners here trying to belittle us.
Jealous!
23 Sep 2011, 16:10 pm
Maybe I should stop with the emoticons, I don’t like the bitchener looks at this wink
hungry predator eyes I tell you…
23 Sep 2011, 16:13 pm
@Couchcoach(GI POT)-162:
23 Sep 2011, 16:16 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_(RugbyGuru_0_)-170:
Wtf are you blabbing about?
23 Sep 2011, 16:16 pm
Eish folks, the personal battles on this blog is muuuuuch more fun than Keo & Co’s ramblings…..bring on the beer and the popcorn!!!
23 Sep 2011, 16:17 pm
@chch(chch)-165:
two more words…only a kiwi would ‘correct’ that…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLB6bBYyra4
23 Sep 2011, 16:20 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-180:
I was wondering the same thing myself.
23 Sep 2011, 16:37 pm
@chch(chch):
while we’re doing the youtube thing thought you’d like this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmGSNYSpRzU
23 Sep 2011, 16:42 pm
Jolly old dee…. and bug.gering bug.gers.
Kitchy deserves a bit of a Keo blogrogering but some of his counter punches are quite good it must be said
23 Sep 2011, 18:42 pm
“He has been the best flanker in the world for 10 years now,” Dusautoir said (of Suarez McAwe) at the French team hotel on Friday. “I think he has one year less experience than me yet I have only half the caps.
“So I can just respect this guy because he leads the All Blacks really well and he’s still a great player.
“I’m sad because we are going to waste his party tomorrow.”
23 Sep 2011, 18:59 pm
I wouldnt be too ready to write Scotland off Keo…
Remember the last time the boks met scotland the winners were wearing blue shirts, cilts and blew bagpipes!
My calls for the weekend:
New Zealand to beat France
Scotland to beat Argentina
England to beat Romania
Ireland to beat Russia
Fiji to run Samoa close
and Wales to beat Namibia on monday
2 weeks of Rugby World Cup gone and it has been great bring on the rest of the tournament
23 Sep 2011, 19:12 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-186: I hope so mate. I really hope so!
23 Sep 2011, 19:31 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-188: Allez Le Bleu
23 Sep 2011, 19:49 pm
@Sannie Bill Who??iams(Xkreni-WP)-114:
scum
23 Sep 2011, 20:51 pm
The touring Springboks have given a $120-a-head mayoral dinner in Taupo the thumbs down, instead choosing to concentrate their energies on a coaching clinic with young players.
Planning for the mayoral dinner to be held at the Bayview Wairakei Hotel, near Taupo, tonight has been in the pipeline for the past 18 months.
All 25 tables, selling for $960, or $120 a head, had been snapped up by local firms, with the incentive of having Springbok players, their wives and management staff, at each table.
But the players pulled the pin this week, leaving the touring management party only to take up the invitation.
With no prospect of players attending, Taupo Mayor Rick Cooper said he had no choice but to cancel the evening and refund those who bought tickets.
“It’s disappointing,” he said. “We had spent a long time planning this to happen.
“The incentive for those who paid to go to the dinner was to sit down with two Springboks at each table.
“When I realised that was not going to happen I decided to cancel the dinner as the guests were not getting what they paid for.”
Mr Cooper said the South African touring party had attended other functions in the town. There was also an open training session that attracted 500 people, including many school children, last Monday.
Springbok spokesman Andy Colquhoun said the players wanted to go to the dinner but it had been decided to give them two full days off this weekend without any official engagements.
“We’re not trying to hide. We’re getting near to the nitty-gritty part of the tournament. We want to give them a good break to recharge their batteries so we can focus on the games to come.”
Some of the players had been feeling unwell since attending the Ka Mate haka powhiri in cold, wet conditions at Opotaka, near Taupo, last Sunday, he said.
Mr Colquhoun said six players, and coaching staff, would hold a coaching session and skills demonstration for 100 junior players at Owen Delany Park this morning.
The rest of the squad plan to spend the weekend either deer hunting, sky diving, fishing or playing golf.
- The Dominion Post
Poor PR, Springboks!
23 Sep 2011, 20:54 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-191:
Now what odds would you have got at the TAB for that ?
at $1:20, that would be a steal.
23 Sep 2011, 20:55 pm
Thanks Keo.
I’ve just selected France to beat the All Blacks.
The semi finals may just be exactly the same as they were in 1995 with a repeat of that year’s final as well.
Vive Le Bleu!!!
Do it for Serge, JPR, Cabannes, Sella and all those legends.
23 Sep 2011, 20:56 pm
an excerpt fromm the buildup to tonights Big One:-
“Flanker Julien Bonnaire perhaps reflected the fine line the French tread whenever they play the All Blacks when he said they did want to look like “chevres”. Translation: Nanny goats.”.
mmmmmm, tatsy. Anyone got a Spoon ?
meh heh heh heh heh heh
*GULP*
~~~~~~~~~~burrrrrrp~~~~~~~~~
23 Sep 2011, 20:56 pm
Who would’ve cooked? Suzie?
23 Sep 2011, 20:59 pm
They DID want to look like goats?
23 Sep 2011, 21:00 pm
Well done to the boks for avoiding a prime poisoning opportunity.
Good ol divot.
23 Sep 2011, 21:00 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-191: Why would the Boks want to sit at the same table with rural kiwi men who have been intimate with sheep … not for $900.00 bucks, el-cheapos.
23 Sep 2011, 21:05 pm
Poppa must be devastated. He went to a lot of trouble to organise himself a waiter gig at that dinner so that he could stick his thumb in his pooper and run it round Matfield’s coffee cup rim.
Plus he needed the cash.
23 Sep 2011, 21:08 pm
A dumb waiter?
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