KeoTV: Finals shootout
14 Oct 2011
MARK KEOHANE calls it for the Wallabies. RYAN VREDE says he’s dreaming.
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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 Article14 Oct 2011
MARK KEOHANE calls it for the Wallabies. RYAN VREDE says he’s dreaming.
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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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14 Oct 2011, 23:38 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-500: Yeah, but the wrongs perceived or otherwise in 2007 were only from NZ…Only. 2011 is not the same… you have quite a few commentators from different nationalities calling into question the competence and even honesty of not only refs but the organisation of reffing on the whole…
And its only going to get worse after this weekend… Guaranteed.
Its either Rigged or farken Incompetent…. No two ways about it. A pity because the atmosphere around the tournament has been very good.
14 Oct 2011, 23:41 pm
@victoriabok(victoriabok)-495: Ja, thats him… Charlie Dempsey… Wonder if he got involved with Rugby World Cup 2011 after his retirement from football….
14 Oct 2011, 23:41 pm
Whateverrrrrrr.
The fact that Bryce won’t be reffing anytime soon speaks volumes.
14 Oct 2011, 23:43 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-501: Oh, there were as many critics of Wayne Barnes and that missed forward pass from every nation interested in RWC back in 2007, pilgrim. But it’s not changed a thing. Barnes is back — even with NZ’s Paddy O’Brien as his boss. Bet your house on Bryce Lawrence being back too. Just like Stu Dickenson was back and back and back again until it was he himself who called it quits.
14 Oct 2011, 23:43 pm
HG, Victoriabok
corruption?
surely the 95 host nation having people sweep water of the field of play so the semi final could even take place (due to the small matter of the host nation being eliminated if the game was abandoned) was a gold watch worthy performance…
so perhaps we should have all been up in arms then, and we may not have had the situation we now have… any thoughts?
14 Oct 2011, 23:43 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-503: Speaks volumes, it certainly does… Early retirement with a nice little nest egg stashed in a HK, Singapore or Macau Bank account.
14 Oct 2011, 23:44 pm
Bryce might very well be reffing in the unlikely event of the final being played between France/Wales and Australia. Don’t exclude the possibility!
14 Oct 2011, 23:45 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-499:
and here I was being fooled into thinking you in ‘his corner’… you got his back or some such malevolent menopausal maneuver of mutual admiration…
the ebony and ivory fallout has erupted and when two star crossed lovers have collided and expunged the others expectations then hell hath no f’ng fury like that of a woman or a poefta so scorned where his or her vested interest of emotional co dependency has been shattered into a far flung myth..
poor f’ng dears.. you know what they say about familiarity.. it breeds CONTEMPT..
Well now you know… ONE further lesson learned for dumb fck fools such as you .. just like that awe inspired lesson of learning to LOSE with humility and dignity you haven’t quite learned yet..
Now you know for absolute certain that.. FAMILIARITY breeds CONTEMPT..
14 Oct 2011, 23:47 pm
In that scenario we definitely won’t be seeing him.
14 Oct 2011, 23:49 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-505: Yeah, maybe… But its high time the rigging stops… Now. Before irreversible damage is done forever to the game of Rugby…
From
- Threats of boycott
- Unfair citings
- Poor at best, rigged at worst, referee ratings and selection
- Incompetent at best and corrupt at worst referee performances
- Slap on the wrist for blatant cheating of teams like England
And on… and on
Wait till tomorrow and the next day… Kings Park Durban and Wayne Barnes circa 2007 will have nothing on what we are yet to see… Nothing!
Its going to be like watching a Car Crash in slo mo… We all know whats going to happen.
14 Oct 2011, 23:49 pm
Never mind corruption he just looked winded, portly and out of his depth.
14 Oct 2011, 23:53 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-487: The rest of the rugby world really doesn’t give a brass razoo about the conspiratorially-lunatic views of a mere quarter-final loser, you know? They didn’t care when it was the #1 ranked NZ griping in 2007 and they sure as hell don’t care now it’s only the #3 (or #4) ranked yarpies grizzling in 2011. Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag and smile, smile, smile, pilgrim. Grow a chin.
14 Oct 2011, 23:53 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-508: Ja, well why dont you take your own advice, fuknut…
Don’t try get familiar with me, contemptible creature or I will treat you with the contempt you deserve.
14 Oct 2011, 23:55 pm
Wazzup tackler we be moanin’ mon.
Let us!
14 Oct 2011, 23:55 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-511: He is a very porky chap — even more rotund than the hefty John Smit, albeit a tad shorter. Maybe he was once a prop and knows the dark arts of the front row? Hardly any refs even have a faint clue.
14 Oct 2011, 23:56 pm
Just face FACTS.. Rugby has NEVER been a fair reflection of a sport where the ref is all squeaky clean as a whistle straight and fair as a dye in a aerospace engineering facility.. it has ALWAYS been as crooked as a bloody rigged resplendence of non respectability where the ref can with one little wrong puff on his penny whistle send any team down the chute and out the tournament with his petty innermost pangs of bias pretty much protected and intact…
gotta ride the rough with the smooth in this archaic game of barbaric bamboozling where the team with all the supremacy gets fckd over wholly by the team with all the smarts..
The moral of the story is simply don’t get caught with your pants down or else the ref and his penny whistle will give you a right royal rogering where you least expected it and when you quite surprisingly thought all was fair in love and war it quite categorically ain’t.
14 Oct 2011, 23:57 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-512: Is that a Null hypothesis…?
+++++++++++++++heavingburpingbellyguffaws+++++++++++++++
Feeling scorned, Hypatia… Keo’s very own Lady of Scientific “expertise”?
14 Oct 2011, 23:58 pm
Am out for now…
14 Oct 2011, 23:59 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-517: If the operative hypothesis is unproven, it is indeed.
15 Oct 2011, 00:01 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-513: get fucked you miserable cn’t you such a despicable schmuck.. when all and sundry were warning you how pathetically you were opening up your wide puffed up arrogance for a fall.. you were so sure of your dumb fck self.. now you still haven’t learned no lessons .. whether they be of contemptible familiarity, or of dumb fck ignorant hero worship, or that pseudo pathetic lesson of learning to lose with humility and dignity which you most certainly don’t have the vaguest clue of what that lesson is all about YET !!
Pathetic morose mind fckd miserable moron dunce of all dunces that you dumb fck moegoe still are…
15 Oct 2011, 00:02 am
@ET.(ET.)-477: xakely
15 Oct 2011, 00:02 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-519: The alternative, you mean… or just the hypothesis… “Operative” has nothing to do with it…
Go find another Wiki, because the page you’re using is doing you a disservice.
15 Oct 2011, 00:03 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-520: asham, eat your vindaloo and be quiet.
15 Oct 2011, 00:04 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-520: And you need to learn respect for your superiors… Like Barney… and definitely me.
aus
15 Oct 2011, 00:05 am
> 502.Heavens Game said:
> Ja, thats him… Charlie Dempsey… Wonder if he got involved with Rugby World Cup 2011 after his retirement from football….
No, the ******* vrekked in 2008, at least he’ll be warm where he’s now
15 Oct 2011, 00:09 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-522: Noaksie foams at the mouth. Hypothesis = he has rabies. Procedure = test for rabies. Outcome = he does not have rabies. Operative Hypothesis unproven. Null Hypothesis applied = Noaksie isn’t rabid.
Form new Operative hypothesis = Noaksie had over-active saliva glands. Procedure = test salivary output and compare to standardised averages. Outcome = he does drool significantly more than average (3 standard deviations) New operative hypothesis proven.
He’s a heavy drooler.
15 Oct 2011, 00:13 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-526: Scientific method according to Tackler… Arseaboutface… Evidence beyond doubt.
15 Oct 2011, 00:16 am
aus (out) for sure… will be back with new evidence tomorrow to help Galileo Noakes on his Quixotic expedition…
15 Oct 2011, 00:19 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-523: @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-524:
two pathetic schmucks thinking and believing they are superior
how pathetically mind bewilderingly boring
imbeciles who think by some magnificent excuse or accident of nature that they are bestowed with superior intellect to another
dumb fck imbecilic dunces.. the pair of them sparring and parrying, cutting and thrusting their pathetically inordinate and inarticulate intellects as if they have some vestige of relevancy to assume their superiority.. which is an absolute falsity of non intelligent self indulgent pathetically aggrandized worth..
15 Oct 2011, 00:22 am
Ryan those glasses are the worst!!
COME ON WALESSSS!
15 Oct 2011, 00:29 am
Peter Fitzsimmons has just published this hilarious letter to New Zealand in the Sydney Morning
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/teams/australia/5790180/Please-choke-Yours-Sincerely-Peter-Fitz
Hes calling the game with Buck Shelford on Maori Television in New Zealand.
“Buck” shelford has been in the papers saying he wont take any **** from Fitzy on Sunday. He reckons that his All Black team loved to give him a touch up during a test match. Fitzsimmons reckons he used to win the fight lose the game.
Thats why more people have watched live RWC rugby on Maori TV the youngest and smallest channel in NZ than any other NZ broadcaster including Sky.
They have simply got the best commentary teams.The rest are the same old same old .Maori TVs Baabaas approach has been a winner
Gavin Hastings has been the quality voice of the NH on the channel , Mark Ella, Pat Lam, Kees Meeus have been the most knowledgeable .Keith Quinn who every other broadcaster had politely called “yesterdays man” has bought his A game from over 250 tests experience and is calling the Wales v France semi with Fitzsimmonds.
Its the broadcasting equivalent of Samoa winning the Rugby World Cup
15 Oct 2011, 00:52 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-528: Evidence? Hehehehe… Noaksie couldn’t tell evidence from a mongrel dog until he got a bite on the leg. And then he’d mistake it for a crocodile.
15 Oct 2011, 01:21 am
Have all the Immortals left the building ?
15 Oct 2011, 02:39 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-516: “straight and fair as a dye”? A colourant?
Or a “die”? (a machine tool)
15 Oct 2011, 03:52 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-532: He’s a Professor, you’re a mongrel and get mistaken for a crocodile all the time.
In the end its part of the master-plan and needed to be done. There was no other way for AB’s to get past in-form Boks. In 87 SA were banned, in 2011 the ref had to do it. Doesn’t matter if he doesn’t ref again, his package will take care of it .. no doubt all tax free too.
15 Oct 2011, 03:52 am
Vrede those sunglasses don’t suit you ek se.
Aus did beat NZ for the tri nations, no reason why they can’t repeat, especially as Carter is MIA.
Both matches too close to call though. At least they get decent reffing, unlike the Boks.
15 Oct 2011, 04:17 am
LOL! All this talk about Noakes and noone has bothered to read that he is renneged on the spurious and unfounded matchfixing allegations. His new spin is
“My letter] was merely to indicate that this particular game would prove a landmark case in the future history of the Rugby World Cup since it appeared as if refereeing decisions determined, in no small measure, the outcome of the game.”
Sheeesh! What a douche. Oh well Saffer fanboys. Stand proud. The epic 6 day whinge continues
15 Oct 2011, 05:22 am
@Nuk3Fr33k1w1(Nuk3Fr33k1w1)-537: Yep. Noaksie sobered up and realised he’d fired off a missive chockful of high-grade bollox and now he’s had to claw back what’s left of his tattered reputation after pressing SEND. Poor old Noaksie, hey? Professor of Metacrapology.
15 Oct 2011, 05:28 am
@TheBoksAreBack(bringbacktheboks)-535: What “in form Boks”? They lost 5 of their 6 3N tests, squeaked past lowly Wales by only one point, got out of jail against even lowlier Samoa and got their hopes all apple-pie-in-the-sky high by clobbering the easiest of easybeats — wee Namibia.
Doesn’t add up to “in-form” in this pilgrim’s form guide.
And, yes. The Boks are back.
Back home. Early.
15 Oct 2011, 06:16 am
Have the Immortals returned yet ?
Surely Immortals never sleep, dont they have injustices to resolve ?
15 Oct 2011, 09:19 am
Off to the Garden of Eden to watch the Mortals
how positively boring.
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