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14 Oct 2011
MARK KEOHANE calls it for the Wallabies. RYAN VREDE says he’s dreaming.
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Heinrich Brussow will play in Japan after failing to make an impression on Bok coach Heyneke Meyer. The Volksblad newspaper reported that Brussow will take up a club career in Japan after the Cheetahs complete their Super Rugby commitments. The nature of his Japanese club contract is such that he is not available for national selection, as it is with all the South African players in Japan. He will continue to play Super Rugby for the Cheetahs. Meyer has not rated Brussow since taking charge and the player has been described as a penalty liability and not a good enough all-round player. It ... 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
Brendan Venter's appointment as Sharks Director of Rugby is a good one. But the decision to end John Plumtree's Sharks coaching tenure is not. Former Springbok and Italy coach Nick Mallett turned down an invitation for the role of Sharks Director of Rugby and Venter, formerly the head coach and Director of Rugby at Saracens, will start his job at the outset of the Currie Cup season. Plumtree remains the Super Rugby head coach until the end of this season's tournament but his contract has not been renewed. Plumtree is highly rated in Europe and will in all likelihood link up with a European ... Read Article20 Jun 2013
Dan Carter is one of five changes to the All Blacks, while the French have made eight changes to the side kept scoreless in Christchurch. The All Blacks have already won the Test series after the crushing 30-0 triumph in the second Test and coach Steve Hansen will give Test debuts, either as a starting option or as substitutes, to all the uncapped players in his squad. Blues duo Steven Luatua and Charles Piutau are among the substitutes, as is Crusaders flank Matt Todd. Carter teams up with Piri Weepu in the halves and Rene Ranger finally gets a start ahead of Julian Savea. Victor Vito ... Read Article27 May 2013
Kiwi Vern Cotter is Scotland's new head coach. Cotter will only take up the position in a year's time. He will see out his contact with French club Clermont. Cotter's appointment means that New Zealanders will coach Scotland, Ireland (Joe Schmidt) and Wales (Warren Gatland). New Zealander Robbie Deans has been at the helm of Australia for the last five years and current Blues coach John Kirwan coached Italy and Japan. Kiwi coaches have also been at the helm of Samoa and Fiji in recent years. 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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14 Oct 2011, 22:03 pm
@Thucydides(Thucydides)-449:
lol, fair enough on the scandinavian tannies, sounds alot more tempting then re-hashing a fkup of note.
14 Oct 2011, 22:03 pm
@cab(cab)-437: When Noaksie expresses his “emotional” opinion, he still prances about wearing his “scientist” hat. To the gullible and the ignorant, it gives his emotional ranting a veneer of scientific credibility. But only to the gullible and the ignorant, mind you. Astute people see clear through him.
(Why are the corners of Noaksie’s mouth always so spittle-flecked? Rather like old Tutu, come to think of it. Slow rabies?)
14 Oct 2011, 22:08 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-452:
well thats true too, he should have either made clear it was a personal opinion or perhaps made the comment anonomously – but why cant a scientist have a non-rational subjective opinion on something. You blurred it nicely for the rev-up.
14 Oct 2011, 22:08 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-439: Even the Pope — and the hundreds of millions of Catholics — once believed that the sun rotated around a flat earth. And they’d excommunicate anyone who disagreed. They were all wrong. There’s no comfort in numbers when you have to cope with facts.
14 Oct 2011, 22:09 pm
Boks lost the plot a LONG time ago… Boks should never have compromised with Smit over Bismark.. and the hero worshiping even from coaches to players is downright sickening … Spies is still seen as some bloody awe inspiring godhead and Burger some kind of indestructible machine..
Smit is so f’ng PASSE that he cannot even get the ear of the ref any more his own psyche of supremacy has been so utterly shot to ribbons through the incessant spate of LOSS over bloody LOSS he has painfully been leading his team down the bloody drain the past two years…
now they make Burger the absolute man for all seasons ball carrying link and then wonder wtf ACTUALLY happened when Wallabies ride rough shod OVER him when he goes to ground clutching a ball he cannot hang onto and it spills out the WRONG side of the ruck into Samo’s hands who gratefully hands it to his skipper to score the ONLY try of the match which turned out to be the WINNING one AGAINST the run of play…
14 Oct 2011, 22:12 pm
@cab(cab)-453: The article reads “EXPERT… says bla bla”. He trades on his so-called “expertise” and his professorial title, does Noaksie. Just like Tutu, trading on his old clerical title. They spout complete off-the-cuff bollox mostly, but happily pose as “experts”.
14 Oct 2011, 22:14 pm
lol, oh fk old noakes will definitely respond.
he’s right about burnout tho to an extent, tho dunno how ‘hard’ scientific it is, but look at how the SH players are coming down with inkury after a long season.
14 Oct 2011, 22:14 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-454: Yes, and what we may have here is Noakes being rugby’s very own Galileo… The Catholics of Rugby can huff and puff as much as they like but his valid points and questions remain.
Its all out there, Genius.
PS: Don’t forget the null hypothesis. Better run along and go Wiki what that means… chop, chop now
14 Oct 2011, 22:14 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-447: when I require the fckd up pseudo advice of a pitiful little runtcuntqueer then I may consult little pathetic imbecile schmucks the likes of you.. till then you pathetic poefta ponce.. go fck yourself and anyone else you happen to dilly dally frilly fally fancy…
14 Oct 2011, 22:15 pm
Why is eberyone repeating themselves?
14 Oct 2011, 22:16 pm
they dropping like flied in your adopted country, believe richie’s now got sore toosies again.
14 Oct 2011, 22:17 pm
Or is it just extraball.
14 Oct 2011, 22:17 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-459:
shut up you sad old ballsack.
everyone is tired of your impotent tjanking you sad old fairy.
nobody cares ou spuitpoep.
14 Oct 2011, 22:18 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-456:
where you and Noaksie in the same alma mater or the same med science class at UCT .. seems you have an inner urge to discredit him for some upperty intelligentsia gamesmanship reason ?
14 Oct 2011, 22:19 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-463: get fucked fckface I don’t heed your pathetic little squeals of pseudo clever prick ponsified poeftaheid too kindly.. so get fucked schmuck and duck while the going’s still good…
14 Oct 2011, 22:22 pm
A long time ago, Tackler’s forebears thought the World was Flat… Along came Galileo who changed that world view….
Current day, and many Tacklers and other assorted naive, dumbfks think that Rugby and Kiwis are incorruptible… Along came Noakes who may be changing this world view too…
To Null hypothesise or not to Null hypothesise….
“His rant was unscientific — you don’t prove a negative.”
BIG FARKEN BELLYCHORTLES!
14 Oct 2011, 22:25 pm
so who says the world is round… Galileo ???
Its flat as a f’ng pancake.!!!
14 Oct 2011, 22:26 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-465:
pipe down poepbroek before you embraboer yourself anymore.
you sad old shithouse builder.
14 Oct 2011, 22:27 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-464: I believe tackler and noaksie had a run-in on keo many moons ago, tackles clearly still hurting from coming off second best in the skirmish
14 Oct 2011, 22:29 pm
the question is wtf did we not get barnesy rather than brycie?
14 Oct 2011, 22:32 pm
466.Heavens Game said:
>14 Oct 2011, 22:22 pm
>think that Rugby and Kiwis are incorruptible…
Speaking of corrupt Kiwi’s, can you still remember the Kiwi official who screwed us out of the Soccer World Cup, when he was told by the Kiwi Soccer Association to vote for SA, yet he voted for Germany and resigned sholrtly afterwards?
14 Oct 2011, 22:32 pm
Whoosa man?
Whoosa being Nullified?
The World’s Oldest Three year Old being shown up for being the flip-floppety fibby fib fibber he is… Strike One
Keo’s very own Wiki Scientific “expert” Nulled… Strike 2
Cabs fcked in the piesang anyway… So no strike there….
And ExtraTwat shown up for the “Tokoza” walk-the-streets “Freedom fighter” he truly is… Strike 3.
You’re OUT.
And I’m out for now.
Back laters to null hypothesise and generally educate for free. Ta ta
14 Oct 2011, 22:33 pm
@victoriabok(victoriabok)-471: Fukaduk… Thank you very much
Good man!!!
Will be back later. Def out for now.
14 Oct 2011, 22:33 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-469: thats what happens when you get pseudo intellects trying to out maneuver and outwit each other in some intelligentsia war of screwed up intellectual game of one-upmanship that simply do not matter for any real rhyme or reason..
just for the sake of being mistakenly ‘cleverer’ than they think they are… par for the course in intelligentsia ravaged circles..
14 Oct 2011, 22:37 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-472:
you a f’ng hit and run specialist.. you come out your hidey hole with a little klutz of a chukka thinking you scoring a home run.. meanwhile you been bowled out for a f’ng duck.. then you run.. thinking your bases are covered and your wicket is secure.. but you just a whole hypothesis of balderdash.. big wind of empty gushing sound … that is you dumb fck dunce in a nutshell…
14 Oct 2011, 22:43 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-456: If you think our reaction to Bryce Lawrence is bad, can you imagine what the fallout would have been if Andrew Mehrtens hadn’t missed his drop kick from in front of the posts in the last minute of the 1995 WC final after Ed Morrison had strangely disallowed Ruben Kruger’s obvious try. Mandela’s Happy Rainbow World Cup would have been ruined. War would have been declared. Ed Morrison would have been killed after accidentally falling out of a 2nd floor window of the local cop station, whilst “under questioning by Louis Luyt”. And New Zealand would have been nuked.
G-d bless Andrew Mehrtens. But then he is a Saffa, after all.
14 Oct 2011, 22:45 pm
The Null hypothesis very simply states that the hypothesis cannot be proved.
It never sets out to prove or disprove anything.
14 Oct 2011, 22:52 pm
apparently peter de villiers has been reported as saying he is now willing to pick bismarck and that either spies or burger should be made captain, i think the Wee One realised he hitched his ride to the wrong wagon and wants a 2nd chance, but am afraid its all over now. He showed a great deal of loyalty but he needed to be more courageous, it was a massive call such was smit’s influence and smit’s selfishness in this case was partly to blame too, but the result is now carved in stone, and while smit has an RWC and 100+ caps to cling too poor old DeVilliers goes away with nothing. He wasnt a bad coach at all, but everything was so loaded against him that he had to make alliances, which ultimately sank him. I dont blame him at all, one man can only take so much, but he also does not get the rewards from daring to be great.
14 Oct 2011, 22:57 pm
well in this case its one big F’ng NULL and VOID nullified Nil of an argument.. Boks are O.U.T. Out !!! Thanks kindly and respectfully and gratefully worshipful to Mr. F’ng holier than thou awe inspiring leaderless leader of aura inspired Losing mentality and presige…
ALL that garbage leadership couldn’t get us BEYOND the bloody quarters.. SO WTF was all that hair pulling exercise of f’ng gnashing and wailing in aid of … all that f’ng useless experience returned ONE big fat exclusive aura inspired Null and Void LOSS…!!! For fcksake.. we could have had a youthful inexperienced go getting team like Aussie did and perhaps done better than that..
14 Oct 2011, 22:58 pm
@ET.(ET.)-477: You have to refute the null hypothesis.
Rather than trying to prove your hypothesis (the alternative), in simple terms, you show the null (negative) hypothesis is likely to be wrong…
Stats 101…
In other words it is science, to all intents and purposes for this little non-discussion, my little “Tokoza” walking ExtraThuvu….
Maybe Noakes was actually being too scientific for dumfcks such as yourself when he was asking the IRB to refute his Null Hypothesis….
(Please note: “Refute” does not equal to “prove”. The Null hypothesis by its very nature can never be proven.)
Bahla, ithuvu lempukane… again! Haibo!
14 Oct 2011, 22:58 pm
@cab(cab)-478:
The highway is for gamblers better use your sense
take what you have gathered from coincidence
the sky too is falling under you
and its all over now
baby blue
14 Oct 2011, 23:01 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-481: The sky has fallen on you too, chicken little….
14 Oct 2011, 23:01 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-481:
yeah its a complete fkup, but im still bitter about it all, and everyone is now just moving on.
its bladdy poor stuff allround, bismark must surely be wondering wtf its all about.
he must actually publich a blerry book or two here.
14 Oct 2011, 23:04 pm
@cab(cab)-478: Smit was simply one big fat lardass of an albatross weight around his poor neck too f’ng HEAVY. !!
Aura inspired f’ng lardy dah cappy f’ng marvelous that could only LOSE every time he donned the green and gold and led this f’ng team from the f’ng REAR arse end.. it was a LOSS staring Boks in the face.. as it turned out once again unfortunately in the end..
De Villiers gets NO second chance.. he made his alliances and his compromises and he FCKD it UP..
ALL he had to do was kick Smit OUT and his path would have been paved with Gold.. instead he let the f’ng Aura enriched weight of f’ng LEAD sink his hopes and dreams and even his poor unsuspecting soul…
14 Oct 2011, 23:05 pm
Enjoy the warmth, humid, loaded with nourishment centres of the cow-dung pats you thrive in.
Few, if any, are at your low questionable levels.
14 Oct 2011, 23:06 pm
And whats more, whether you refer to him as Barney, Plod, Fatboy or whatever else, John Smit has and will be elevated to the Bok pantheon as one of SA Rugby’s greatest Captains… Whether you like it or not.
He has history and facts on his side, not garbled gobbledigook to the contrary…
A true great, OUR Barney.
14 Oct 2011, 23:07 pm
And whats more, if the IRB don’t act soon to disprove otherwise, then RWC 2011 will forever be known as the Reffing World Cup… or worse… the Rigged World Cup.
14 Oct 2011, 23:08 pm
Like Mallet fckd up with Teichman.. PdV fckd up with Smit
Only this time the fckup was in reverse..
Mallet should have kept Teichman for the sake of the team.. and PdV should have booted Smit OUT for all the f’ng cancerous weight of selfish lard that he was worth…
14 Oct 2011, 23:08 pm
Is it possible that HG has rendered extraball null and void.
14 Oct 2011, 23:10 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-484:
i dont care about smit’s arse, i want to know why he wrote this whole fkn book explaining in intricate detail of the type of team player he is knowing his own linitations, down-to-earth, etc etc – and then as sure as nuts he does not put the team first by stepping aside but starts over what EVERYONE knows to be the best hooker in the world.
In his book smit goes onto recount an anecdote about ollie le roux acting as if the Natal team of the time was his team as the senior player and all that, well what the hell kind of a Springbok team was THIS?
14 Oct 2011, 23:11 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-489: ExtraThuvu, Dawny, ExtraThuvu… He should know what that means… especially as a Freedom Fighter who has walked “Tokoza” township with his very own manyathelas…
14 Oct 2011, 23:12 pm
agmefok, i hate this ****, out.
14 Oct 2011, 23:12 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-486: HG, I see you mentioned earlier in the thread about refs controlling a game where the winner will meet the ref’s national side… hate to burst your bubble but that is exactly what barnes did in 07, knowing England where through from the earlier game..
try another angle… 2007 2 penalties conceded by the French in 80 minutes of rugby, with NZ having 70% possession (like SA in this years 1/4)..
dont recall you ever mentioning that game as being fixed? rather that the ABs chked and the ref got it right that day..
stop moaning and suck it up big fella…
14 Oct 2011, 23:12 pm
@cab(cab)-483:
Bismark and Matfield will let rip in some book or publication sometime or other..
if Keohane is really smart he’ll climb on the Bismark wagon and cut the likes of Butchy boy and Watson adrift.. far more juicy inside stories where Bismark is concerned of how he got sidelined by an overrated hopeless cappy raccoon than the cushy little nonentity hero worshiping that Butch or Luke can drum up still…
14 Oct 2011, 23:19 pm
> 471.victoriabok said:
>think that Rugby and Kiwis are incorruptible…
> Speaking of corrupt Kiwi’s, can you still remember the Kiwi official who screwed us out of the
> Soccer World Cup, when he was told by the Kiwi Soccer Association to vote for SA, yet he voted
> for Germany and resigned sholrtly afterwards?
Charlie Dempsey, that was the old coot that screwed us out of a World Cup
14 Oct 2011, 23:20 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-480: lmao @ “Extrathuvi” yo yo yo…i’ve seen insults on this forum but this takes tge ExTra cake…
hahahahahaha
14 Oct 2011, 23:26 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-493: There we go. Maybe the possible rigging goes back further than 2011… Except in 2007 it wasn’t as clearly obvious as now.
Not just with the SA vs Aus match, but the Georgia vs Arg, the France vs NZ and I am sorry to say the Wales vs SA match too… amongst others. What price the NZ vs Aus match? And even the Fra vs Wales match to come?
And dont forget the absolute filth allowed in the Samoa match which SA happened to win. Funnily enough even the Samoans thought something was not right there.
IRB has a reffing directive according to some commentators. Why do they disobey their own directives?
There are many, many gremlins running around at the moment to the extent of “something is happening here… what it is, aint egg-sa-cally clear”
Its only going to get worse if the IRB don’t nip this in the bud right now.
14 Oct 2011, 23:26 pm
Yep, he’s gone. Nulled and voided.
14 Oct 2011, 23:29 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-496: Lol. See now, I have practically sha.t the farker right out from my very own g.at… One ExtraThuvi… The Big One, Hayi!
14 Oct 2011, 23:33 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-497: wasnt as clearly obvious? is that your delusion perhaps? France went something like 50 minutes without conceding a penalty, not ONE in the entire second half, yet that wasnt obvious? lmao
face it, if Smit had opted for taking the kick at poles you guys may have been lining up against us this weekend, as it was he decided to kick for the corners…
now the shoes on the other foot your claiming the injustice of it all, why the sudden flip flop?
I do recall mentioning BEFORE the tournament that it will happen to SA one day in a WC, and I’d love to see the reaction if it does… sometimes we get to have our cake and eat it too
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