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6 Oct 2011
RYAN VREDE gives his thoughts on the make-up of the Springbok 22 to play the Wallabies on Sunday.
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Heinrich Brussow will play in Japan after failing to make an impression on Bok coach Heyneke Meyer. The Volksblad newspaper reported that Brussow will take up a club career in Japan after the Cheetahs complete their Super Rugby commitments. The nature of his Japanese club contract is such that he is not available for national selection, as it is with all the South African players in Japan. He will continue to play Super Rugby for the Cheetahs. Meyer has not rated Brussow since taking charge and the player has been described as a penalty liability and not a good enough all-round player. It ... Read Article1 Jun 2013
The Bulls are South Africa's best team and they proved it in Bloemfontein. The Cheetahs have been outstanding all season and they were as good on Saturday night as they have been at any stage. Still it wasn't good enough to beat the Bulls, who won 30-25 after leading 30-13 with 10 minutes to play. The Cheetahs finished brilliantly and deserved the bonus point, but the Bulls consolidated their top two league placing thanks to an imposing first hour. Pierre Spies was impressive as team and pack leader, Arno Botha was ever present and the No 9, 10, 12 Bulls axis of Francois Hougaard, Morne ... Read Article11 Jun 2013
Brendan Venter's appointment as Sharks Director of Rugby is a good one. But the decision to end John Plumtree's Sharks coaching tenure is not. Former Springbok and Italy coach Nick Mallett turned down an invitation for the role of Sharks Director of Rugby and Venter, formerly the head coach and Director of Rugby at Saracens, will start his job at the outset of the Currie Cup season. Plumtree remains the Super Rugby head coach until the end of this season's tournament but his contract has not been renewed. Plumtree is highly rated in Europe and will in all likelihood link up with a European ... Read Article20 Jun 2013
Dan Carter is one of five changes to the All Blacks, while the French have made eight changes to the side kept scoreless in Christchurch. The All Blacks have already won the Test series after the crushing 30-0 triumph in the second Test and coach Steve Hansen will give Test debuts, either as a starting option or as substitutes, to all the uncapped players in his squad. Blues duo Steven Luatua and Charles Piutau are among the substitutes, as is Crusaders flank Matt Todd. Carter teams up with Piri Weepu in the halves and Rene Ranger finally gets a start ahead of Julian Savea. Victor Vito ... Read Article27 May 2013
Kiwi Vern Cotter is Scotland's new head coach. Cotter will only take up the position in a year's time. He will see out his contact with French club Clermont. Cotter's appointment means that New Zealanders will coach Scotland, Ireland (Joe Schmidt) and Wales (Warren Gatland). New Zealander Robbie Deans has been at the helm of Australia for the last five years and current Blues coach John Kirwan coached Italy and Japan. Kiwi coaches have also been at the helm of Samoa and Fiji in recent years. Read Article5 Mar 2013
MARK KEOHANE writes the Varsity Cup in its first year rocked. Since then it's just another professional tournament. The Varsity Cup may have the innovation of doing a few things differently, but what was supposed to be a celebration of student rugby somehow just seems like another tournament, in which the traditional power houses remain the traditional strengths in the tournament. Much has been made of the Port Elizabeth-based Nelson Mandela University display this season and equally there has been bewilderment at how poor Shimlas have been. But it seems the old one two of Stellenbosch University ... Read Article12 May 2013
Marcus Watson scored in extra time to beat the Blitzbokke in the London World Series Sevens Cup quarter-finals. The teams were level 14-all at full time. Watson's try came four minutes into extra time. England won 19-14. England had the chance to win the match with the last play of the game in normal time. They were awarded a penalty and opted to take a drop kick for goal. It missed. Watson then rounded off a move after England had retained possession for two minutes. South Africa suffered further embarrassment when they lost for a second time in the tournament to the USA and were eliminated ... Read Article8 Jan 2013
Limpopo will play in the Vodacom Cup as a separate side for the first time this year. The region, which is a sub-union of the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, has been granted a place in the tournament in its own rights to help foster rugby in South Africa’s far north. They join the 14 provincial unions as well as the returning Pampas XV from Argentina in the tournament, which kicks off in the second week of March and concludes in mid-May. The Polokwane-based Limpopo team will play in the North Section of the competition, along with the Blue Bulls, Golden Lions, Griffons, Leopards, Pumas, Valke ... Read Article6 Oct 2011
RYAN VREDE gives his thoughts on the make-up of the Springbok 22 to play the Wallabies on Sunday.
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6 Oct 2011, 15:10 pm
@once more unto the breach, dear springboks, once more…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-497: Slightly insane… but then so were great leaders… like Churchill, Mao, Stalin…
He may have his faults, but definitely unique
6 Oct 2011, 15:11 pm
@carol(carol)-487:
The French won it for the Boks actually in RWC ’07
6 Oct 2011, 15:12 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-498: Should be “RWC would not have”…
6 Oct 2011, 15:12 pm
@David(David)-494:
Probably the day after the WC final around here.
6 Oct 2011, 15:13 pm
Hi ho, back to work I go…
6 Oct 2011, 15:14 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-496:
They hadn’t anyone to swoon over since Guscott retired.
6 Oct 2011, 15:17 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-439: And thats why he will win it with this team. He has remained loyal to his team, made a few faux pas but never ran with his tail between his legs. Everyone knows the relationship he has with the players and talk of “fat boys club” running the show etc but those players have also repaid his loyalty and never once in the last 2,5 years has there been any talk of a revolution etc. If he was that s..t the players would have been trying to get him replaced long ago. For those who would say yeah but the fat boys club are only protecting themselves well then what about the governance structure above PDV, surely if he (and the FBC) was that bad his boss or the gov’t would have stepped in and fired him.
The next question would then be yeah but what happens after the RWC. Well we have a full front row still available for the next RWC, a good lock pairing Bekker and VD Merwe , a great LF trio in Brussouw,Alberts,Elstadt. Looking at the back line there is Hougie, Steyn/Lambie/Jantjes/De Jong/Sadie/Mvovo/Taute etc. So how bad has it really been under PDV taking into account all these things?
6 Oct 2011, 15:19 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-504:
First we’ll both have to weather the distress of our top players being signed up by the European clubs, then it’ll be back to the usual “ours is bigger than yours”, discourse.
6 Oct 2011, 15:23 pm
Butchie i hope you get some game time on Saturday champ…you’ve had plenty of time preparing that book, i expect some good stories in it.
6 Oct 2011, 15:26 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-496:
This tournament is just not the same without Monty..
The vital spark has just gone!
6 Oct 2011, 15:27 pm
@David(David)-506:
Will Carling was the last ‘looker’!!
6 Oct 2011, 15:28 pm
@carol(carol)-510: you mean Lambies not much to perve at?
6 Oct 2011, 15:28 pm
337 wooden spoon
I don’t feel guilty about criticising dmit in the slightest, that is you who thinks I should feel that way. I was more than willing to give him every benefit of the doubt but it is now completely clear who the best player is. Smit is not rubbish but he is not Bismarck – what can you not understand? The springboks should be about selecting your best players, this is the only fair criteria. Now who is best is often a fine personal judgement and if smit was competing with any other hooker in sa I’d say take smit with the experience – but smit is not even in bismarks league when it comes to offering what the Boks need on the park – Bismarck has become a monster – there is daylight between him and everyone else – and yet his time on the world stage at his very peak will come and go and everyone must accept that as fair? It’s a disgrace that is what it is.
6 Oct 2011, 15:29 pm
@Hondo(Hondo)-502:
How so ?
6 Oct 2011, 15:30 pm
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-512:
Sadly not…!!
6 Oct 2011, 15:32 pm
Ryan…
I have just watched your T.V clip, have you run out of shirts?
You look half dressed!
6 Oct 2011, 15:32 pm
@David(David)-508:
Yip I think most around here are a bit over all that, i’ll be taking a KEO holiday win lose or draw this time around.
6 Oct 2011, 15:33 pm
@cab(cab)-513: Well then the blame must lie with Mo.hammed Dippy Ali… It seems our Great Leader might have made a glaring error that is a blight on his God Given talent as Coach.
Fingers pointed to the Heavens…
6 Oct 2011, 15:34 pm
@carol(carol)-516: Don’t fall for his come-to-tent eyes.
6 Oct 2011, 15:35 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-517:
one way or another there will be a fair amount of wailing and grinding of teeth.
6 Oct 2011, 15:36 pm
@David(David)-506: hehe gues tindall ain’t no hearthrob let alone jonno
6 Oct 2011, 15:36 pm
@carol(carol)-516:
He’s just showing off his tan.
6 Oct 2011, 15:37 pm
@cab(cab)-513:
How dare Dippy depend on Barney…?
Can Dippy not stand on his own two feet and select Bismarck to start?
Or maybe the crafty Jakkals who points at the heavens and smites in the car park must have a devious plan…
Oh ye of little faith: ” If you look at the Bible, Joseph started out in the pit and ended up in the palace. There was a moerse lot of kak in between.”
6 Oct 2011, 15:39 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-523: LOL now that is how scripture should be presented
6 Oct 2011, 15:40 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-521: Mark Cueto is nice, and Richard Kahui is very nice.
6 Oct 2011, 15:40 pm
@AVID FAN(AVID FAN)-509:
Your nic spelled backwards is NAF DIVA.
Obviously not intentional?
6 Oct 2011, 15:40 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-521:
Yeah, they’re rather a dour looking lot, I agree, but looks didn’t win at Crecy, Agincourt and Waterloo which the French will be reminded of shortly.
6 Oct 2011, 15:40 pm
@bananaboy(bananaboy)-507: By hook or by crook, by method or by luck… There is talent in spades available for the Boks. Thats for sure.
6 Oct 2011, 15:40 pm
@cab(cab)-513: agreed not in Bismarcks league…but he hasnt picked himself as captain and run on 2 on Sunday, he’s doing what he’s told. PDV, Gold & Muir should take all the flack.
6 Oct 2011, 15:41 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-466:
@Gunther(gunther)-473:
@Gunther(gunther)-499:

gawd no, you have to stop.
6 Oct 2011, 15:41 pm
Also Vincent Clerc and Aurlien Rouserie (sp?) In fact I think I’m really developing a thing for Rougerie (sp?)
6 Oct 2011, 15:42 pm
@John Galt(John Galt)-526: Good spot John. Obviously not.
6 Oct 2011, 15:42 pm
@stew(stew)-524: Sura 4:1 of Mo.hammed Dippy Div Ali… The Very Last Testament
6 Oct 2011, 15:44 pm
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-525: hey we are talking about the english team!
you fancy the AshSplash i’ve seen you
hehehe
6 Oct 2011, 15:45 pm
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-512:
i dont feel right if women are perving at lambie.
the kid’s got such a baby face, man.
@stew(stew)-524:
6 Oct 2011, 15:47 pm
@once more unto the breach, dear springboks, once more…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-535:
That’s what attracts the cougars!
6 Oct 2011, 15:49 pm
@David(David)-536: you reckon carol is a MILF and a cougar @ the same time?
6 Oct 2011, 15:51 pm
“Ninety-five per cent of people all around the world are conventional people, they go with the crowd. They only do what other people do. They can’t be their own person,”
“I’ve got a job to do. I think I’m a strong individual, a strong character. I don’t care what people think about me, I don’t care what people say about me. It’s what I think about me and myself – and I love myself a lot.
“It’s about me and my team and my country. If I’m respected in my team, I don’t care about what other people think.”
Sura 9:9 Mo.hammed Dippy Div Ali
6 Oct 2011, 15:51 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-519:
I suppose there is no laundry service if you are staying in a tent.
He has obviously run out of clean clothes!!
6 Oct 2011, 15:51 pm
okes who come on here calling Skop…Justrugby and I traitors and less than patriotic….
here is a message…..
go fark yourselves…..
If being critical of selections and questioning the motives of the fat boy is treason, then farken shoot me at dawn….
Because I tell you right now the oke that is the farken real treasonable p rick is not me but the very same fat boy who is happy to gamble with the boks future in this wc with his personal quest for glory….
It is a damn disgrace that we are doing this to both Bissy and Beast….a farken calamity.
Treason my ar se man….
Fark that!
I am no ones pom pom rah rah girl….
6 Oct 2011, 15:52 pm
@carol(carol)-511: what? Old bumface?
6 Oct 2011, 15:52 pm
“The small things like judicial hearing will not take away the fact that we won. Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize. No matter what they did wrong in their lives, no one can take away the fact that they won it.”
Sura 1:11 Mo.hammed Dippy Div Ali
6 Oct 2011, 15:52 pm
@David(David)-522:
Hummmm..you reckon?
6 Oct 2011, 15:53 pm
What did peter davies the SS presenter do wrong, someone said something about the gym?
6 Oct 2011, 15:53 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-537:
Hey, I didn’t say that. Stop stirring.
6 Oct 2011, 15:53 pm
“I won’t change my style, if I change my style I will change Peter de Villiers, and then I would have to tell God that he made a mistake when he made me.”
Sura 6:7 Mo.hammed Dippy Div Ali
6 Oct 2011, 15:54 pm
“We will give them a psychological advantage and we cannot allow that. We’ve read in the papers here that they believe South Africa are ripe for the picking. They’re comparing us with some fruit from a Welsh fruit farm but they need to know that when you pick fruit, it isn’t just apples and pears; there are prickly pears as well. We want to be a prickly pear for them this Saturday.”
Sura 8:5 Mo.hammed Dippy Div Ali
6 Oct 2011, 15:54 pm
1 st farken time ever I have seen having a point of view being construed as being unpatriotic…..p ricks!
Anyone watched a game with Justrugby and Skop, and Robzim for that matter, will know where our support lies, in no uncertain terms……
Just because we have a different perspective we are unpatriotic…..
S crew that man!
6 Oct 2011, 15:55 pm
@grant10(grant10)-540: no, you just a little girl.
6 Oct 2011, 15:55 pm
“Speaking to IRB referee’s boss Paddy O’ Brien is a complete wast of time…People don’t want to see other teams being successful. That is my biggest problem at the moment. We can’t go public about certain things because we don’t have all the evidence, but the body language of certain officials when things went against us in that game made us worry…. The officials were so happy when decisions went against us on the day. I am talking about the number one rugby team in the world. Shouldn’t they really get the other guys to that level?…. Or do they want to break things down so that the game can become mediocre and everyone has a chance to win it. We don’t want to dwell on that point, but if that is the case, then I feel I am wasting my time by talking to them. I will then have to reconsider talking to them.”
The First Commandment: Mo.hammed Dippy Div Ali
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