KeoTV: Boks need four-year focus
13 Oct 2011
MARK KEOHANE says the Springboks have to start getting it right between World Cups.
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13 May 2013
Duane Vermeulen is out of the June Tests. Stormers strong man Duane Vermeulen returned home from the Stormers Super Rugby tour because of injury and conservatively won't play again until July. It could be that he is out for the remainder of the Super Rugby season as well because of knee ligament damage. Stormers loose-forward Rynhardt Elstadt is also out for at least six weeks as the Cape-based franchise's season went from bad to worse in Sydney. Vermeulen, Meyer's first choice No 8, will be nursed back to action for the Rugby Championship in August. His injury means a likely Bok start ... Read Article19 May 2013
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. Super Rugby will shift to a March start and won't break for test matches, the June window will be shifted to July and all players will have a 14 to 16-week off-season. Other innovative plans are being discussed, such as building a world series of tests in years that fall between the World Cup and British Lions tours. The revolution that All Black coach Steve Hansen called for last week is coming. The players ... 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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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
Duane Vermeulen is out of the June Tests. 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, 18:36 pm
Damn why so many fat SA women on my screen?
It hurts my eyes.
13 Oct 2011, 18:39 pm
@ET.(ET.)-451:
hehe, lets give them the benefit of the doubt and blame it on a long cold winter.
13 Oct 2011, 18:39 pm
@ET.(ET.)-451:
Says the Seppo…
13 Oct 2011, 18:42 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-450:
I witnessed it live and his innings and those of Gayle and Kohli(80 in 36 balls with 7X6 and 4X4) and others were just spectacular.
@Robzim(Robzim)-447:
You do realise I am just taunting you.
OK lunch is done for now but I will peep in from time to time.
13 Oct 2011, 18:43 pm
50 over game?
13 Oct 2011, 18:43 pm
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-453:
Is that your official name? Thanks for the info, Seppo.
13 Oct 2011, 18:45 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-452:
OK I will accept your word for it. But Newlands and its surrounds look quite good.
I am gone.
13 Oct 2011, 18:46 pm
@ET.(ET.)-454:
With you, one is never 100% sure, lol.
Ingram gone, JP still looking good.
13 Oct 2011, 18:47 pm
@ET.(ET.)-457:
Cheers
13 Oct 2011, 18:51 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-439:
Anything over 150 should be tricky batting under lights at newlands.
13 Oct 2011, 18:54 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-460:
Yip, think so too- but then they better start pushing it now if the want to make 150
Perhaps the pitch is playing a bit show?
13 Oct 2011, 18:55 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-461:
slow even
13 Oct 2011, 19:03 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-461:
The groundsman reckons it should be quicker he has left extra grass on the wicket.
Seems a bit two paced.
13 Oct 2011, 19:08 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-463:
Do you get a good tea at Newlands?
Homemade cake is vital in a decent cricket tea!!
If the opposition is bowling after tea make sure they get some heavy fruit cake as it will slow the bowlers and fielders down, it works a treat.
13 Oct 2011, 19:10 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-462:
National Curry Week in England, I know you enjoy a good curry.
13 Oct 2011, 19:14 pm
@carol(carol)-464:
The newlands tea is poor.
Not a fruitcake in sight apart from trevor quirk.
Jp Duminy on fire.
13 Oct 2011, 19:16 pm
Bugger.
13 Oct 2011, 19:18 pm
Double bugger.
13 Oct 2011, 19:18 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-466:
Lucky you, summer on it’s way as we slide gently towards winter here!
13 Oct 2011, 19:20 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-468:
Not enough fruitcake obviously!!
Get Mavis to send some down!
13 Oct 2011, 19:24 pm
Boks cant get it right with Quota Coaches
13 Oct 2011, 19:25 pm
@carol(carol)-469:
October can still be a nice month there
This winter seems to have gone on forever here.
Looking forward to the cricket season.
13 Oct 2011, 19:43 pm
That’s a decent start.
13 Oct 2011, 19:43 pm
Crissakes now we talking garbage f’ng morose boring skittle sticks for the next g’dam 4-5 months or so, just get that poefta sport its own f’ng morose garbage web site I don’t wanna know fck’all about who is batting which garbage averages or wtf is going on in that pathetic grown mans tiddly winks sport…
I am still the absolute MOER in that that cancerous creep clown who wanted his bloody name up in lights fck’d Boks up the way he did
4 whole years gone down the f’ng plug hole all because some godforsaken bloody bigger than the game heroic seeking schmuck wanted to be the pinnacle of SA rugby all for himself….
Got wtf he deserves but he sank the entire team and his coach along with him…
2 bit half baked self seeking schmuckarse..
13 Oct 2011, 19:45 pm
@carol(carol)-464:
I don’t know about the cake, but I got food poisoning from a Nando’s chicken fillet at Newlands
13 Oct 2011, 19:46 pm
Now the Boks are playing f’ng CC rugby.. what a f’ng anti climax let down…
That self aggrandized piece of garbage toting lardass schmuckass should be marched out to the courtyard and blindfolded and shot from 20 paces at dawn.. for high f’ng treason…
13 Oct 2011, 19:51 pm
fck off to a skittle sticks site.. I don’t wanna know fanny f’all about your boring poefta skittle sticks game…
take that half arse schmuckaroo showpiece and shove it where it fits best
skittle sticks is for skittle sticks poeftas… it don’t belong anywhere near here…
13 Oct 2011, 19:55 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-476:
Coetzee’s desperately chasing a title. And with the Boks back in the WP side and a possible semi against the Lions, he’s going to play them no matter what.
13 Oct 2011, 19:56 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-474:
thats the spirit skop.
not much of a fan either.
and then biff came into my life…
now its murderous…
13 Oct 2011, 19:59 pm
PdV is on Boots n All in a few minutes. Should be interesting.
13 Oct 2011, 20:00 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-478: I couldn’t give too snotty faced hoots who wins this 2nd tier CC competition… what grates me to the pits of hell is that Aplon is playing at pivot and FB in a watered down Currie cup crematorium when he couldn’t even get a run in the WC except against Namibia … .. and garbage arsed schmucks like Smit, FdP, Spies and some others fck’d the Boks up to hell and gone .. while we wasted an entire 4 years chasing lardass shadows and overrated pathetic prestige all for the sake of WHAT exactly !!!! ????
13 Oct 2011, 20:01 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-478:
the funny is…the lions will probably lose.
13 Oct 2011, 20:03 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-475:
Oh, the special Nando’s Weight Loss Lunch…..!! Yerguuuuuu
13 Oct 2011, 20:03 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-480:
ask that moron why the fck he tied his arse to some over the hill lump of f’ng lard to drag him all the way to the arse end of the earth and OUT the other side to f’ng Hell…!!
13 Oct 2011, 20:04 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-477:
Ahhh, the relaxing sound of leather on willow…
and of course sport and cake combined…Heaven really!
13 Oct 2011, 20:08 pm
@carol(carol)-485:
typical bloody pommie poefta pastime.. only screwball screw loose sycophants see any value in smacking a little ball of cork around the f’ng meadow….
croquet is g’dam more exciting than that miserable geriatric gentleman’s gregarious googly giggle of a game
13 Oct 2011, 20:18 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-486:
So, how do you feel about baseball and Americans?
13 Oct 2011, 20:32 pm
Agree keo, let’s hope that SARU can pull their head out and do the best for the team as well
13 Oct 2011, 20:34 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-484:
I haven’t really being concentrating, but Div appears to be blaming everything on the Aussies cheating. He’s quite bitter about it even.
It’s a shame none of them have the balls to ask the real questions. It’s all laughs and backslapping going on.
Wow, here’s Arnold asking him about Smit now…
13 Oct 2011, 20:49 pm
@Helen(Helen)-362:
MOMENTUM SHIFT ?!?
~~~~~~ all chins and all bellies, including a pork one, wobbling ~~~~~~~~
…………………………~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
13 Oct 2011, 20:51 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-490:
‘Momentum DRift’
I couldnt read right through the tears
13 Oct 2011, 20:53 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-491:
*phew*
got in just before von Trapp, Mike Katt and Boy George called me ‘a Liar’.
that would have devastated me.
~ ~ ~ pork belly ~ ~ ~
13 Oct 2011, 20:59 pm
So while Keo & co is catching up, the All Black team has been announced to play Aus (No real surpirses):
1. Tony Woodcock (81)
2. Keven Mealamu (90)
3. Owen Franks (29)
4. Samuel Whitelock (23)
5. Brad Thorn (57)
6. Jerome Kaino (46)
7. Richie McCaw – captain (101)
8. Kieran Read (34)
9. Piri Weepu (54)
10. Aaron Cruden (7)
11. Richard Kahui (15)
12. Ma’a Nonu (64)
13. Conrad Smith (53)
14. Cory Jane (29)
15. Israel Dagg (10)
Reserves:
16. Andrew Hore (60)
17. Ben Franks (14)
18. Ali Williams (71)
19. Victor Vito (12)
20. Andy Ellis (24)
21. Stephen Donald (22)
22. Sonny Bill Williams (12)
13 Oct 2011, 20:59 pm
@wallabie.(wallabie.)-398:
you lost them when you said
“the other 95% he does not take himself serious”.
Computers says NO
13 Oct 2011, 21:03 pm
We all know what Black Panther is after…
Just don’t feed the troll.
Simples.
13 Oct 2011, 21:05 pm
Quite a few Crusaders fans at the cricket in Cape Town. Funny that they left NZ during the RWC to watch Australia play a T20 in Cape Town. Am I missing something?
13 Oct 2011, 21:08 pm
I see Steve Hansen agrees that Lawrence failed to pitch up for the game last weekend.
Now there is a NZ who may know something about rugby, unlike some of the sour ones on here.
13 Oct 2011, 21:08 pm
Vokkit skop you working on my gat now with all this vloekery.
Some people like cricket. Rugby don’t last whole year.
And to top it all bp ejaculating all over keyboard again.
Way to empty the fecking room.
13 Oct 2011, 21:12 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-304:
Even the IRB say RWC’11 has been “exceptional” and “probably the Best Ever”.
13 Oct 2011, 21:14 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-497:
I dont mind you tasting a little sweet’n'sour
its the fur-balls I could do without.
~ ~ ~ burrrrrrrrrp ~ ~ ~
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