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13 Oct 2011
MARK KEOHANE says the Springboks have to start getting it right between World Cups.
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23 May 2013
Willie le Roux and Lappies Labuschagne have finally been rewarded with spots in the Springbok training group. They are two of eight that are first timers in Springbok training groups this year. The others are Gio Aplon, Trevor Nyakane, JJ Engelbrecht, Lionel Mapoe, Wiehahn Herbst and Demetri Catrakilis. The group of players will assemble in Durban for the second training camp of the year, before the final squad for the Incoming Tours is selected. Players not considered due to injury include: JP Pietersen, Jaco Taute, Frans Steyn, Johan Goosen, Duane Vermeulen, Pat Cilliers and Frans Malherbe. ... Read Article24 May 2013
MARK KEOHANE, in his weekly KEOtv offering, is picking the Bulls in Durban and another Stormers shambles in Cape Town. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m3yMKuy8yM Read Article25 Apr 2013
Jan Serfontein, the player of last year's under 20 World Championship, will head the baby Boks defence in France. Serfontein and Kings wing Sergeal Petersen are two Super Rugby regulars to make Dawie Theron's squad and brilliant flyhalf Handre Pollard is another to play in a second successive tournament. Theron's squad lost a three-match series 2-1 to Argentina in Argentina. Serfontein, Petersen and Western Province's Cheslin Kolbe did not play in those matches. Bulls loose forward Ruan Steenkamp is captain. Serfontein and Pollard are the only two squad members from last year's ... Read Article14 May 2013
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has selected several uncapped Blues players in his training group. Hansen confirmed 38 names and this included many from the potent Blues backline. The Highlanders, despite only winning one match in this year's Super Rugby competition, have six players in the group. An obvious area of weakness is at hooker where Hansen has selected veterans Andrew Hore and Keven Mealamu and Canes Dane Coles. Options are limited and it certainly is a concern for New Zealanders. No overseas-based players were considered, as it is NZRFU policy. Among the uncapped players ... Read Article15 May 2013
French coach Philipe Saint-Andre has included three South African-born players for the three-Test series against the All Blacks in New Zealand. Racing Metro flank Bernard le Roux and Clermont prop Daniel Kotze join Antonie Claassen in a squad that includes eight new caps. Fijian-born Clermont winger Noa Nakaitaci is among the newcomers. Saint-Andre has rested flyhalf Francois Trinh-Duc, but included Toulon's Frederic Michalak. France play world champions New Zealand on June 8, 15 and 22 in Auckland, Hamilton and New Plymouth respectively. French super club Toulon's foreign dominance ... 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 Article13 Oct 2011
MARK KEOHANE says the Springboks have to start getting it right between World Cups.
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MARK KEOHANE, in his weekly KEOtv offering, is picking the Bulls in Durban and another Stormers shambles in Cape Town. Read More
Willie le Roux and Lappies Labuschagne have finally been rewarded with spots in the Springbok training group. They are two of eight that are first timers in Springbok training groups this year. Read More
The Rugby Football Union has turned down a proposal from their Welsh counterparts to stage the 2015 World Cup pool match between England and Wales in Cardiff. Read More
Marcus Watson scored in extra time to beat the Blitzbokke in the London World Series Sevens Cup quarter-finals. Read More
French coach Philipe Saint-Andre has included three South African-born players for the three-Test series against the All Blacks in New Zealand. Read More
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has selected several uncapped Blues players in his training group. Read More

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13 Oct 2011, 23:29 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-528: The silver lining is that we finally got rid of PdV the clown. Had we got to the semi Saru would’ve given him another 4 year contract. 8 years of skop en jag and his pathetic drivel at every press conference.
13 Oct 2011, 23:46 pm
@Bod(bod)-546:
duh,
he struggled with the flipper because it was a disguised-googly.
13 Oct 2011, 23:48 pm
@cab(cab)-547:
He won the Boks the Lions Series, all on his lonesome. 1st & 2nd Tests.
How the tables turn.
13 Oct 2011, 23:52 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-552: Panther, Panther, Panther
There is a huge difference between a googly (disguised…. que?) and a flipper…. maybe not in Black Craps cricket terms, but certainly in the rest of the cricket world.
No wonder Dan the Man (Vettori, that is) never knew the difference…
14 Oct 2011, 00:44 am
BOD
you’re right, I’m not really a cricket man esp the technicalities.
So correct me if I’m wrong (but just betw u and me, don’t tell Von Trapp)
‘a flipper has the same action as a leg-spin googly
14 Oct 2011, 00:45 am
fken iPhones
“same action but instead of spinning away from the bat, it carries straight thru instead” ?
14 Oct 2011, 00:47 am
@Bod(bod)-554:
Dan is one of the best spinners around.
Of course he relys on variation of pace and fight over anything else.
Googly my understanding is a wrongen, dont know if you spell it like that and the flipper looks as though its a leg spinner but comes quicker and does not turn, so straightens, am i right?
14 Oct 2011, 00:59 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-557:
Aaaaahhhh….. finally I can talk to my NZ bretheren without getting heated. Must have something to do with the fact that we are not talking the oval ball here.
Spot on… In laymens terms, a googly is a leg spinner that turns into a off spinner and visa versa. It gets more complicated when one intoduces whether the spin is wrist or finger induced…. thereafter you get a new term called the”doorsra”….. but lets not go there!
The flipper you have spot on again…. its a top spinner out of the top of the fingers that has loads of topspin, keeps low and travels at a rapid pace, despite looking very sedate out of the hands
Now I am all Warneyed out…
14 Oct 2011, 01:06 am
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-555:
Excuse my ignorance, but Von Trapp = Gunther…. n’est se pas??
14 Oct 2011, 01:27 am
Captain Transie von Trapp
14 Oct 2011, 01:33 am
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-560:
Vale!….. Way past bed time, I am outta here
Cheers
14 Oct 2011, 01:35 am
@Bod(bod)-558:
Now i get what the Doorsra is, ty learnt a bit today
14 Oct 2011, 01:36 am
@Bod(bod)-561:
cya Bod
14 Oct 2011, 02:07 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-474:
Haha..you live in SA but you know so little about what is going on right under you nose.
Fancy blaming JS and in the past JW for manfully accepting responsibility for a team that was supposed to be run by a professional body instead of that snake pit that receives huge amounts of money to do – WHAT? SFA that what!
14 Oct 2011, 08:50 am
Hey Hurrypain, whose this Meads oke. ANother vuilgat (dirtyhole) NZder like Richard Loe? Or is he a molehill mounting beekeeper like Uncle Ed?
14 Oct 2011, 09:40 am
@Inevitable(Inevitable)-564:
fuckadilly is a headcase.
who spends most of his life in portable toilets chasing his tail.
14 Oct 2011, 12:48 pm
Looks like bias against South Africa runs in the Lawrence family:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=4302
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