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• 201.David:
  7 Oct 2011, 09:59 am

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-197:
  I’m surprised you mention ethics and Keo in the same sentence. This is the man who recently told the world about a meeting with PdeV and the current players he wanted to get rid of, that I would have thought was confidential.

• 202.Brigadier Van Zyl:
  7 Oct 2011, 09:59 am

  personally, I’ve a good feeling about the ozzie game.

  PS: didn’t we lose in durban with our strongest side with butch at flyhalf?

• 203.Rugby-1:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:00 am

  This headline just made my day – Keo backing the Aussies thank the Lord. The Boks are guaranteed to win this Sunday

  Yet another helping of humble pie for you this weekend Keo, no wonder you are stacking it on

• 204.Brads:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:00 am

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-195:
  Agreed, I should have less angst.

  However, on a blog, if you are inclined toward the concept of cutting and pasting, then at least give some editorial comment to support it.

  It annoys me when bloggers post whole blocks of text from newspaper articles and just wait for the reaction.

• 205.mako:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:00 am

  @101.ufo:

  Great post mate, couldn’t have said it better. I like your attitude!

  As for those who think we are going to lose, you guys buy the beer next week!

• 206.wors:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:00 am

  Keo, with all due respect, I hope you are not speaking or come close to any of the players with this negativitity, because of they don’t BELIEVE that will win, they won’t. You are a great journalist and I like this website, but you are way too negative.

• 207.Transformation:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:01 am

  @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-181: not to mention the othe 2 tries BEAST fluffed because he didn’t want to pass and went cluttered into an Aussie player with FOUR players – habana, mossie, spies, jdv – screaming for the ball on the inside. did you see beast do the same STUPID thing against Samoa? they show it on supersport all the time, if tendai had brains he could’ve changed direction and beat the defender but no, from 5 metres away he’d decided he is colliding with that play and bang he got tripped and went no further! pissses me off!

• 208.Brads:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:02 am

  @Rugby-1(Rugby-1)-203:
  Do you live in a commune by any chance?

• 209.Namblack:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:02 am

  @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-177:

  I’m not saying the Boks do not have a better pack it just that the expectation is that they will steamroll the Aussie pack something I still need to witness.

  If the Aussie pack can stand their own against the boks (Something far fetched only in the mind of Saffas) they have a good chance of beating them with a superior backline.

  It`s because of these simple non-statistical analyzed reasons that I give the Aussies my vote.

• 210.stormersboy:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:03 am

  Is it just me or is anyone else also tired of the “MY HOOKER IS BETTER THAN YOUR HOOKER” **** that everyone is posting here?

  Jeez you’d swear that we are from two different countries…..that are at war.

  Catch a wake up man and get behind South Africa!

  Nothing that is said here is ever going to influence the team selections or strategies.

  Everyone is so intent on being right that we’ve all lost the big perspective.

  Some days it makes me embarrased to be a South African reading some of this nonsense…

  We used to have onje of the highest education standards in the world (yes i know for some) but you wouldn’t know it reading this blog….

• 211.Transformation:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:04 am

  @Tacitus(Deucalion)-199: if he is rubbish as he has been, then what?

• 212.bananas:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:05 am

  @ufo(ufo)-135: okeydokey ufo, lets hope JS and ALL the other Boks prove you right on Sunday !

• 213.ufo:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:06 am

  @mako(mako)-205:

  thanks mako…

  @stormersboy(stormersboy)-210:

  you’re absolutely correct Bud and that’s… a concrete cold fact…!!

• 214.Gunther:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:06 am

  @stormersboy(stormersboy)-210:

  Chill winston.

  The game rangers have managed to dart the @ss shampooer.

  Once the ringleaders are asleep the rest of the toytoyers should disperse fairly quickly.

• 215.David:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:08 am

  With apologies to a true exchange, which took place in the UK.

  Keo meets the editor of a popular tabloid in the pub and asks “Are you still peddling cr*p to the masses?” to which the reply was, “Yes, I am, are you still writing it?”

• 216.ufo:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:10 am

  @bananas(bananas)-212:

  cool man… win or lose i’m comfortable with the selections and will skree my lungs out for every single one of them… 1-22… if we win great… if we lose not so great…

  more than anything i hope the result is determined by the teams and not the ref or any other extraneous incidents…

  if both teams play to their full potential… i believe the boks will take it… but it’s a mighty big if and… just my opinion…

• 217.rossoneri:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:10 am

  Ok. Have not watched the video yet, but Keo has basically put the kiss of death on the Aussies now. Boks to win it.

• 218.Transformation:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:11 am

  @stormersboy(stormersboy)-210: what does level of education have to do with rugby banter?

• 219.mshiniwami:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:12 am

  @capebull(capebull)-188:

  No Burger didnt play.Rossouw was at 7

• 220.Gunther:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:13 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-218:

  education has everything to do with banter.

  that’s why langers and extraball are so poor at it.

• 221.danuk:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:14 am

  @Brads(Brads)-179: what is pre-rated?

  These are key areas where the match will be contested, thus the concept of a match. I just think these are the areas which will determine the outcome, so if the boks come out on top in these areas then the Aussies will loose, and if we don’t then we will loose

  No excuses, just simple logic

• 222.Brads:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:15 am

  @David(David)-215: Thats a keeper

• 223.Jeraldjay:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:15 am

  @Tacitus(Deucalion)-199: Hear, hear.
  If the general is on song we are in the mix.
  What a great servant of SA Rugby this guy has been. Unassuming, never windgat. And some folk on this sight want to replace him with Hougie….. just like that.
  Believe me, I noticed it in the Samoan game, he is starting to express himself
  and will be ready on Sunday.

• 224.once more unto the breach, dear springboks, once more...:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:16 am

  @stormersboy(stormersboy)-210:

  gun to your head (nigerian drug dealer holding the trigger) we’re gonna blow you away man, which would you rather?:
  1. lick bismarck’s crack, or
  2. suck & swallow john’s ccock

  you’ve got 3 seconds man, you better choose!
  tick, tock….

• 225.Namblack:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:16 am

  My take is that if the Boks lose the Smit/Bismarck issue will have nothing to do with it. I do not think these two players have that much influence on the outcome.

  The Steyn/James issue to me will have much more consequences.

• 226.wpstormerbok:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:16 am

  Again I wonder how Keo & his team go about when making predictions.

  Do you guys analyse anything?

  5/6 in favour of Aussies. Fine, but take a closer look at it.

  In 2008 when both teams could choose their best possible side, it was 1-1. Home victory each.

  In 2009 the Boks had the edge as we were at the peak of our powers with key players available. 2-1 To the Boks with an away victory as well.

  But in 2009 the Aussies finally promoted Genia & Pocock into the starting team and as a result beat the Boks the weekend after we ran them to pieces when Robbie Deans finally had to let go of a struggling Luke Burgess.

  In 2010 the Aussies turned the tables with an away victory.

  But again the Boks were without two players who were influential to our success during 2009.

  In 2011 the first match we all know we were never gonna win. The return match the Aussies won but even this result should be viewed in context of the Boks’s preperation with the subs and changes we made, not to mention our lack of match fitness.

  I’m not making excuses for anybody as you’ve seen I’ve given both sides their due and factored in why results went against them.

  On this basis the outcome you get is that SA wins their homegames & likewise Aussies beat us when playing at their home base.

  But now moving on to the competition we’re in now and factoring in everything that’s been mentioned above.

  Now add the relative performances of both teams during the Cup, which team has been improving and which team has been declining?

  Which team has the better defensive record in IN THIS COMPETITION taking into account the calibre of opposition?

  Which team has met the kind of pressure waiting on them and dealt with it successfully, how man Aussies can say they’ve won a RWC QF?

  In the environment of RWC Pressure, which team has the more reliable kicker?

  Now, you can say Aussies have a better attack, but to counter that the Boks have the best defence in this competition which has won them crucial games so far where as the brilliance of the Aussie attacked failed to get them the right result when met face on with solid aggressive defence.

  This doesn’t mean that the Boks WILL win, but it does suggest that they have a better chance than the Aussies have.

  You guys at Keo get paid to do this and it seems you’re sleeping on the job.

• 227.Esoteric:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:17 am

  @mako(mako)-170: Agree, cheers for sharing.

• 228.Transformation:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:19 am

  @Gunther(gunther)-220: ExTraball has an MB ChB from UCT, what level of education should he aspire to to qualify for nuanced rugby banter?

• 229.danuk:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:20 am

  @Brigadier Van Zyl(Brigadier Van Zyl)-202: Agreed, I like language coming from the boks and especially the fact that the Wallaby strategy is based on the results this year

  About Butch … Not a bad player or guy, unfortunately Keo banging on about Morne being **** and Butch being fantastic is the problem.

  For me Morne is a better kicker and Butch a better distributor/defender. Morne’s tackling is not great and Butch is inclined to get a yellow card and is a slightly less dependable kicker.

  Big question for me is how JDV will go

• 230.once more unto the breach, dear springboks, once more...:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:23 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-228:
  honestly transie?…honestly?

  they give these things to retards if they have the time (to eventually get through) and money to pay for it.

• 231.Gunther:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:23 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-228:

  Ahh does he now?

  Let’s not confuse “qualifications” with an education.

• 232.Esoteric:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:23 am

  I am happy with the team, my only hope is that PdV makes astute substitutions and doesn’t suddenly decide to try and play players out of position.

• 233.ufo:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:24 am

  @danuk(danuk)-229:

  jean is an intelligent guy… he knows frans took his chance with both hands…

  he knows he had lost his starting spot..

  and he knows people will criticise him should he not deliver as frans did…

  i expect a man-of-the-match TYPE performance from him…

• 234.once more unto the breach, dear springboks, once more...:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:25 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-228:
  and i say that as a generalisation and not specifically about et or anyone else.
  i dont want the wrath of ‘oh gawd!’ coming down on me hehe

• 235.wpstormerbok:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:26 am

  @danuk(danuk)-229:

  I see the Aussies have gone with Pat McCabe instead of Barnes has he performed well against JdV & J.Fourie last time out.

  Will be interesting to see how we deal with his hard running this time around.

• 236.Caper:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:27 am

  What absolute rubbish! We’re gonna lose against the Aussies, because of a weak 10-12 channel, defensively? Nonsense!

  We lost against Australia in Durban, BECAUSE Butch was there and not Morne Steyn. Butch may be solid on defense, but Quade Cooper isn’t exactly a ‘physical presence’. Every player on the field needs to step up defensively in order to keep those elusive backline players under control. When Morne played against the Wallabies we klapped them – by playing to our strengths.

  As much as I hate to admit it, the Boks look at their best when we dominate set pieces, get momentum through big ball carriers and Morne Steyn is on target – not when Butch sets out backline ‘alight’.

  Boks to take it by 5, but I don’t say that with much certainty.

• 237.stormersboy:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:28 am

  @Gunther(gunther)-214: True. It’s just really redundant by now,

• 238.Jeraldjay:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:28 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-228: Knowledge of the game and watching LIVE rugby is what it about. Soaking the atmosphere reading players body language.
  Loving the tradition of the game. Watching a Bok test match is 1st prize but watching Currie Cup rugby with all the Boks available in their respective teams is the ultimate experience.

• 239.>^..^< katman:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:30 am

  @wpstormerbok(wpstormerbok)-235: They only picked McCabe because he is (supposedly) big and tough. He has all the finess of Gurthro Steenkamp, but they want someone to pull a Jamie Roberts on Morne. I think they made a mistake. Barnes is a far better player.

• 240.wpstormerbok:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:30 am

  Another thing Keo fails to break down is the benches.

  Robbie Deans has so far appeared somewhat clueless to what exactly his bench means in his tactics.

  He usually makes subs when they can’t have a realistic impact on the match, against Ireland he sent on Palu with 10 minutes to go.

  Even when Deans sees a player struggle or his team lacking a spark he’s very hesitant in making subs and most time he leaves it too late.

  Whereas PDV has made this a strength, willing to bring on subs as early as the 50th minute and his subs are more often than not IMPACT players who provide energy and impetus to his team.

• 241.Gunther:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:31 am

  @stormersboy(stormersboy)-237:

  How’s the weather?

• 242.Transformation:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:31 am

  @once more unto the breach, dear springboks, once more…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-230: are you suggesting ET is a re_tard? hehehe

• 243.Transformation:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:32 am

  @Gunther(gunther)-231: i guess Slough Comprehensive is the only “education” worth anything.

• 244.wpstormerbok:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:33 am

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-239:

  Definitely agree, I was really happy to see Barnes not starting.

  He’s solid in defence, has the ability to take a gap and as a bonus has a neat boot on him.

  Deans plan to use him as an impact player to come and do drop kicks is a mystery to me, i thought impact players are meant to break the game open?

• 245.John Galt:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:33 am

  The biggest stumbling block for Saturdays game is not who plays, but rather how the Boks play.
  This bok side is about the strongest Ive seen recently and apart from 1 or 2 personal biases toward some players, I think very happy with the side, as Im sure most of us are.

  The Boks didnt win the WC2007 with a kicking game.
  The Bulls never won thier S15 trophies with an all out kicking game. Tactically their kicking game was superior but they scored a million tries by holding onto the ball along the way.
  The Sharks havent one the odd CC recently with the kick chase gameplan either.

  The only time the kick chase gameplan worked was in 2009 when the ELVs dictated that not having the ball was more beneficial to holding onto the thing.(hugely ironic as these ELVs were supposed to speed up the game and promote exciting running rugby) But I digress.
  The Samoa game should provide the perfect example of how to play and how not to play. First half, we kept posession, there was utter forward dominance and had our finishing been sharper, we could have been home and dry already. Second half, we went into our shells, kicked everything away and came within a ball hair of losing the game.

  If we kick posession away onto the likes of Beale, AAC, Ioane etc we will not win this game.

  Bokke, dominate at ruck time, hold onto the ball and let Morne and Fourie kick only when it is tactically necessary. Otherwise, lets suffocate these Ausies as only we know how.

• 246.Gunther:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:34 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-243:

  not at all.

  you have lovely rugby banter.

  but then again you went to Dale

• 247.once more unto the breach, dear springboks, once more...:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:34 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-242:
  please refer to post #234

• 248.Transformation:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:36 am

  @Gunther(gunther)-246: you wish i went to Dale xhosakid is a Dale boy, get it straight

• 249.>^..^< katman:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:37 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-242: ET is just damaged goods. The struggle wasn’t kind to him. He got left behind enemy lines, and no one had the decency to go back for him. So he’s still fighting, like those crazy Japanese soldiers, forgotten on their Pacific islands. Broken boy soldier, our Educated Twat.

• 250.wpstormerbok:
  7 Oct 2011, 10:38 am

  Deans even has Ant Fai’inga again on the bench.

  He made some telling tackles from the bench in Durban, but is Deans really going with the same plan that worked last time out?

  Now when Div does it he’s called dumb.

  From a selection point of view Div won that battle no doubt as we’ve picked a bench to go and win a match where Deans’s bench is aimed at defending a lead.

  And they say the Boks play a defensive game?

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