Comments on: PdV: Bruising clash a boost

By: aliboy(aliboy)

aliboy(aliboy) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:30:44 +0000

@Esoteric(Esoteric)-116: Esoteric - that was 23 years ago. Don't you think your argument is just a little lame. As for the game and the refereeing, Owens did have a bit of a shocker, but you could not say that he was favouring the Samoans with all his decisions. There were plenty of poor decisions that saved the Boks from time to time as well. It just depends whether you were watching the game with one eye or both eyes. I was a neutral observer and saw Owens make bad decisions both ways, with some of the bad calls against Samoa coming at times where they were in strong try scoring positions. I think this is why the Samoans have been feeling hard done by. At the end of the day the right team won, and deserved to do so, but trying to argue that the Samoans benefited from Owens poor performance doesn't stand up to a non-biased revue.

By: Black Panther(Black Panther)

Black Panther(Black Panther) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:42:12 +0000

Well atleast Bok fans are whingeing about the ref after a win this time, makes a refreshing change.

But OH the mirth about the opposition being “physical”….and “dirty”……. from BOK fans ?!?

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By: Esoteric(Esoteric)

Esoteric(Esoteric) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:10:33 +0000

@Black Panther(Black Panther)-110: NZ would know that very well wouldn't they. I'm sure that I posted about it earlier. Rugby's most famous dive In 1978 Wales were leading New Zealand's 12-10 and looked like they were heading for what would be only their fourth ever victory over the mighty All Blacks. But New Zealand won a penalty for a push in the line-out, and subsequently kicked the winning points. Twenty years later the All Blacks' lock forward Andy Haden admitted he had dived to win the penalty, although the referee insisted he had whistled for another offence.

By: WhatIf(WhatIf)

WhatIf(WhatIf) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:37:43 +0000

Samoan thugs got the better of the refs decisions. Just look at the game again and you will see how he overlooked several indiscretions (offside, not releasing, off the ball nigles, dangerous tackles, shoulder charges). Quite honestly Samoa were not nearly good enough today – and spent too much time trying to upset the Bokke and the game. Happy to see the back of these miserable whingers! I do not like the way that they play. Perhaps they can blame their loss on Apartheid! There is a bitterness about these Samoans that is unlikeable. Look at Fiji and you will see a major attitude difference.

By: Alucard(Alucard)

Alucard(Alucard) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:41:18 +0000

@Black Panther(Black Panther)-110: You are a worthless rat. Attacking a players face is a red card. Those are the rules you retarded gimp. Stick to what you know, whatever that may be, and keep your mouth shut about rugby. But then you support NZ, so you are accustomed to spear tackles, shoulder charges, and all kinds of illegal play being deemed acceptable. Gutter rats wouldn't know any better I suppose.

By: Alucard(Alucard)

Alucard(Alucard) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:38:42 +0000

New Zealand would have lost today. Only Keo and his utterly thick clan of gutter rats would expect the Boks to nail a quality side for 80 minutes. Rugby has it’s ebs and flow, we controlled that first half, but equally were impressive in keeping the Samoans, a highly quality side, to one try in that second half. Particulary as the Samoans had many penalties which they used as a platform to attack from. Very poor show by the ref in that second half. Numerous ruck infringements went unnoticed while the Boks were pinged, forward passes and knock ons that were never called, yet the Boks were constantly called on everything. It made it hard to compete and allowed Samoa to get into the game and really test us. yet we held firm. What more could you possibly want? New Zealand’s leaky defence would not have held up, but then again, they would have had all the calls go their way, plus their illegal tactics at the collisions and rucks would have been allowed. But in a straight up fair fight, they would not have beaten Samoa. Too little respect by our thick south african supporters who would rather attack the boks than give credit to the best Samoan side in history! Without Rassie and Nienaber? We would have been savaged!! Credit to them for completely reconstructing our game.

By: Black Panther(Black Panther)

Black Panther(Black Panther) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:00:47 +0000

@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-111: 14 years after the Original

By: wooden spoon(wooden spoon)

wooden spoon(wooden spoon) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:57:51 +0000

@Black Panther(Black Panther)-110: As has been pointed out already on the udder thread, tell that to your own Adam Thompson:

http://www.youtube.com/user/kockslapper?blend=1&ob=5

A little scrumhalf made him “tumble” to the ground like a soccer player BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

CONTORTIONISTA!

By: Black Panther(Black Panther)

Black Panther(Black Panther) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:16:03 +0000

The Boks even had to resort to playacting to get Williams sent off. An open-hand to brussows face seemed to trigger a Ronaldo-esque fall to the ground in order to milk the RC. The first time we had to endure such theatrics was also from a Bok player, Joost v.d.Westhuizen in 1996 when he was handed off by J.Marshall and fell to the ground like he’d been shot. I suppose desperate times require desperate measures. Dont they have a word for that ?

By: Black Panther(Black Panther)

Black Panther(Black Panther) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:09:05 +0000

mmmmmmmm, time for breakfast

Ive had enough goat to last me a lifetime, the furry bits give me hairballs.

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By: nikoli(nikoli)

nikoli(nikoli) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:58:25 +0000

From the little I saw boks had a good first half but **** second. Too close for comfort & will have to do much better to progress. 150 odd tackles gotta hurt. Skop & charge sucks & won’t get us there imo

By: boktillzero(boktillzero)

boktillzero(boktillzero) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:28:32 +0000

Gosh they sound salty about losing like they even had a chance to begin with even against wales they had some gripe.
Samoa let the the public’s perception (to be more specific New Zealand public) delude them about their abilities. They were fooled into thinking they could actually beat the boks and pull an upset if they “bullied” the boks – it nearly worked but like wales it wasn’t good enough.

some of the Samoan players reverted to dirty tactics and they think the ref was hard on them ? if anything nigel was very lenient. there were at least two red card offenses and even more yellow ones

that’s exactly why they lost. They decided to live up to their reputation rather than play rugby

By: wooden spoon(wooden spoon)

wooden spoon(wooden spoon) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:26:25 +0000

KIWI TROLL ALERT!

By: Black Panther(Black Panther)

Black Panther(Black Panther) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:25:54 +0000

@Kiefpant(Kiefpant)-94:

typical smallmindedness from the Carly Simon Brigade

show me WHERE I have been “shooting (my) mouth off” about NZs performance ?

“I too think NZ are favourites”

too ? actually, I made Australia my ‘favourites’ long before the Cup started. Exactly – shows how much i know, huh ?!

How rather hilarious that Chip Nation automatically regards any BALANCE re Samoa-specific comments as somehow equating to being ‘pro-NZ’.

The Boks have an incredible habit of making minnow rugby-nations look decidedly World Class, like Tonga in 2007. Now they have to put up or STFU because theres now way of avoiding Real Teams from here on in.

The Boks went SCORELESS for an entire 2ndH against Samoa. Noone I spoke to yesterday gave the Samoans a chance “within 20pts”. Pat yourselves on the back for proving us all wrong.

By: wooden spoon(wooden spoon)

wooden spoon(wooden spoon) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:16:42 +0000

@TheTackler(TheTackler)-103: come now yarpie-revver - SA were lucky to beat Wales, we can agree on that, but to say that SA "really didn’t deserve to beat tenth-ranked Samoa"? That's an extreme exaggeration. Even for your usual yarpie revving self.

By: TheTackler(TheTackler)

TheTackler(TheTackler) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:10:07 +0000

@hendrikp(hendrikp)-16: Aussie whipped the Boks home and away in the 3N. Clearly they're the better side. SA squeaked past Wales and really didn't deserve to beat tenth-ranked Samoa (ranked below Argentina and Scotland).

By: TheTackler(TheTackler)

TheTackler(TheTackler) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:05:57 +0000

Naah — the ABs would shred Samoa by 40. Easily.

By: optiplay(optiplay)

optiplay(optiplay) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:45:44 +0000

@Black Panther(Black Panther)-64: This Samoa side would have beaten the ABs by 20 points or more. Be happy they were not in your pool.

By: frunobulax(frunobulax)

frunobulax(frunobulax) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:44:29 +0000

@ufo(ufo)-99: It was a demonstration of why Div can't drop Smit. In the Senior Bulls-dominated leadership John is the only player Victor will defer to, and he has to play diplomat for 60 min to the refs who believe all Boks are thugs. And as retirement looms those Bulls have become harder and harder to control.

By: ufo(ufo)

ufo(ufo) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:37:41 +0000

@Jinx2(Jinx2)-95: spot on bud... during the one stoppage it was schalk who called the guys together and geed them up... big vic just stood there...