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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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Jean de Villiers will be given the rest of the week to recover in time to face Samoa in Pretoria. Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer wants his captain to lead the side in the Boks final international of the month. If De Villiers does not recover from the chest injury, Jan Serfontein will start at inside centre. Morne Steyn again starts ahead of Pat Lambie. Willem Alberts will also be given the next 48 hours to prove his fitness. Adriaan Strauss retains the run on No 2 jersey while Bismarck du Plessis is nursed back after nine months out of the game. Boks - 15. Willie le Roux, 14. Bryan ... 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
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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
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MARK KEOHANE says the Springboks have to start getting it right between World Cups.
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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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