KeoTV: Finals shootout
14 Oct 2011
MARK KEOHANE calls it for the Wallabies. RYAN VREDE says he’s dreaming.
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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
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MARK KEOHANE calls it for the Wallabies. RYAN VREDE says he’s dreaming.
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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
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Marcus Watson scored in extra time to beat the Blitzbokke in the London World Series Sevens Cup quarter-finals. Read More
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14 Oct 2011, 15:58 pm
@fantasticbarnsmell(fantasticbarnsmell)-295: True. I over-generalized a bit.
@Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-296: My bad, sincere apologies! 8)
14 Oct 2011, 15:58 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-298:
god where do you drag this stuff up from?
14 Oct 2011, 15:59 pm
You dumfck sheep need to wipe the scales from your eyes. At the very least the officiating has been incompetent… At the very worst there has been a corruption driven fix… In the middle we have some rigging similar to political gerrymandering.
I would tend towards the middle.
14 Oct 2011, 16:01 pm
On da udder hand France have beaten NZ 7 times since 1987.
Some big wins in there too: 43-31 in RWC 1999 and 42-33 in 2000.
14 Oct 2011, 16:01 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-303:
Funny don’t remember hearing any of this type of stuff from Saffa’s at the last WC.
14 Oct 2011, 16:03 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-304:
as you know though we still own them big time head to head and a few weeks back we thumped them, they won’t beat us at an Eden park final.
14 Oct 2011, 16:05 pm
I’ll be happy it the racist NZ’landers lose tomorrow! but its a long shot!
14 Oct 2011, 16:09 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-297: Sure, stats are stats, you have to agree that this Welsh side looks good though, while ABs is hardly at the peak of their power. So why not? Surely they have at least some chance.
I’d say why bother with SA-Namibia or NZ-Japan type of games, nothing will change there in hundred years.
14 Oct 2011, 16:09 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-306: Well, here’s one for you:
On the 2nd and 9th of June 2007, a mere handful of months out from the 2007 RWC, NZ obliterated France 42-11 and 61-10.
In their very next encounter on 6 Oct 2007 (when it mattered most) France turned up the heat and won 20-18 to send NZ crashing out of the World Cup at the quarter final stage.
You have to admit, enough just to be the teeniest bit nervous, that the French can turn it on at any time – and seem to do it against you chaps with relish (and a fair degree of consistency).
14 Oct 2011, 16:19 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-309: Ja, but there does seem to be an almost prophetic feel that this would be the AB year..but of course it might turn to the pathetic by Sunday 12:00…
14 Oct 2011, 16:24 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-309: “at any time” it is a bit rich, once in 8 years, so we’ll have to wait till England. Until then they as usual will spread their legs wide on each and every November tour.
(when it mattered most) turned up the heat …. Er … I got confused. So we can say Aussies turned up the heat when it mattered most last weekend? Frogs and Ozzmob game stats were like Siamese twins.
14 Oct 2011, 16:33 pm
Tomorrow is going to be interesting…
14 Oct 2011, 16:33 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-305: Let me point out some differences:
- The awarding of the RWC to the host nation for 2007 was not under any question whatsoever. The winning bid for 2007 was considered the best bid from all perspectives, unlike the 2011 WC.
- The RWC 2007 did not have a situation where referees were selected for matches in direct contravention of the IRB’s own directives.
- The RWC 2007 did not have refereeing question marks nearly as bad as this WC throughout the whole tournament. The only big question mark was by one Nation about Wayne Barnes – this illustrates that Kiwis sitting back in smug sang froid about last week are hypocrites of the highest order.
- The best team won RWC 2007 with no help from any official, i.e. The head of referees in 2007 was not from the same nation who hosted the WC. The head of referees was also not from the Nation who eventually won RWC 2007.
Whats it going to be like being told for 4 years that you chaps won a rigged World Cup as opposed to the Boks been told they were merely lucky.
I for one would rather have the lucky tag than rigged any day of the week 365 days of a year.
14 Oct 2011, 16:39 pm
@Transformation(p0ppa69)-307: look here arsehole if you’re bored go play in traffic!
14 Oct 2011, 16:41 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-313:
There is another option
Not winning a rigged rwc…
14 Oct 2011, 16:45 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-313: you are getting close to Panty as the MASTER of spin on Keo…keep going
14 Oct 2011, 16:46 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-315: If the IRB dont do anything to quash the Chinese whispers very soon then RWC 2011 may forever be known as the “Rigged World Cup”.
The Black Sox of Rugby? Don’t bet your life against it.
14 Oct 2011, 16:49 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-316: Careful… You and I might be accused of being….um… unoriginal….
++++++++++++++++bellyfarkenguffaws+++++++++++++++++
14 Oct 2011, 17:01 pm
Wow, bloody conspiracy grows by each day.
Rigged world cup, for sure. Just because one team fans cannot cope with “Wayne Barnes” upon themselves while were happy to see him unleshed on others.
No probs, time heals. 4 years heal a lot.
14 Oct 2011, 17:04 pm
@Nils(Nils)-319: Lucky vs Rigged… I know which I would prefer.
14 Oct 2011, 17:08 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-320:
He is from Latvia,the won’t even beat our Varsity Cup Champions,propably give some Vodacom Cup sides a run for their money on a good day.
14 Oct 2011, 17:09 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-320: Whatever, mate. For me is just sour grapes but no probs, everyone is entitled to their own ones.
14 Oct 2011, 17:10 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-321: Hehe.
14 Oct 2011, 17:13 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-323:
Even a good clubrugby “closed” 3rd side will give them a run for their money.
You know those sides,guys who retire from provincial go straight into those teams.Played the Blakeway brothers the year after they retired from provincial rugby in one of those closed sides.
14 Oct 2011, 17:13 pm
@Nils(Nils)-322: And Kiwi’s know everything there is to know about sour grapes, huh?
From Soozie to Barnes…
But you have a problem with this logic because it isn’t just dumfck “yarpies” who are starting to ask some uncomfortable but quite valid questions.
And this story may possibly blow wide open after this weekend….
14 Oct 2011, 17:14 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-321: and surely there will be whinge about the ref, should we somehow win.
14 Oct 2011, 17:15 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-324: Farken mad bug.gers those….. Remember watching a DHS OB vs Glenwood OB (?) and those two boets were slugging the living shy.te out of eachother in opposing sides.
14 Oct 2011, 17:17 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-325: (yawn)
We complained about Barnes, you about Lawrence, both crashed out, fine, our those 4 years have passed, now your turn gents.
14 Oct 2011, 17:19 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-327:
hahaha.
Reminds me of the first clubgame I ever watched.
Was down in Deben on pass and my dad took me to Quins.
So we stand next to the field and watch a 3rd side game.
Lineout forms,Quins throw in.
As the opposing hooker turns his head to the hooker throwing in,the ball is thrown straight into his face and a huge brawl breaks out.
I k@kked myself a bit.
That rugby is slower than u21 rugby and about just as hard as 1st team rugby.
What the okes lack in speed they make up with in mongrel and physicallity.
14 Oct 2011, 17:20 pm
Mr vrede you are the jinx man here i hear. Thanks for tipping NZ.
14 Oct 2011, 17:23 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-325: The funny thing is, that’s all you’ve got and what’s even more funny – that poisoning thing (I do not care who did it) had nothing to do with the ref. So basically one “whinge”. Fair defeats in 91, 99, 03.
Anyway, sooner or later okes will calm down and understand that it’s not the whole world against them, it’s how they perceive the world. sun will come up anyway tomorrow.
14 Oct 2011, 17:24 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-329: Yeah, some funnyshit in First Div club rugger in Natal… used to have crowds in the thousands watching club games in the 1980′s and early 1990′s, now they cant get more than a man and a dog… But those were the days when Boks and Provincial players had to, and wanted to, play for their Clubs.
Many brawls… lovely stuff in those days of yore.
14 Oct 2011, 17:25 pm
@Nils(Nils)-331:
Sun does not come out much in nz…
14 Oct 2011, 17:27 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-332:
What happened on the field stayed on the field.Club rugby had a lot of soul.
I realised early that these old toppies was moering me like I said I was gonna ***** their daughters,so I started telling them that anyway:-)
14 Oct 2011, 17:27 pm
@Nils(Nils)-331: So 95 and 2007 were not “fair” defeats… The ones the Boks won…
Hmmm, thank you for confirming what I already know and making my point about Kiwi hypocrisy at the same time…
14 Oct 2011, 17:30 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-335: HG, Frogs won that game in 2007. I understand you simply cannot read what is written but just what you want to see to be written.
Alright with me, I do not care.
14 Oct 2011, 17:31 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-334: I remember one Club game having:
Honiball
Lood Muller
Dennis Laatz
Gary Teichman
James Small
Jeremy Thompson
Pieter Muller
Errol Stuart
Hentie Maartens
…. and a few more I forget, in a game played at a packed out Woodburn stadium in PMB on a chilly Friday or Saturday night….
Many games like that.
14 Oct 2011, 17:33 pm
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-3:
Mr Noakes while you are at it can you get them to review the 1995 semii final…including the gold watch presentation. The boks should not have been in that final.
How about the penalties that went against thw wallabies this last weekend. Why did the conversion not be taken again and why were the boks given the penalty that led to their first conversion. Science and phsics will show you that to run into someone over and over again…you wont go through them if they are dominationing the tackle.
14 Oct 2011, 17:35 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-337:
Woodburn is the hardest fields I have played on,I think they graded the fields before a game.
You just know when you fall it is gonna be a major roastie.
We had guys like
Jouba
Vleis
Guy Kebble
Kabous
Robert du Preez
Warren Britz etc.
14 Oct 2011, 17:35 pm
@Nils(Nils)-336: Well I do care about Rugby, and the fact that its very moral countenance is being questioned saddens me:
- from fcked up citings
- to farcical fines about gum guards
- to bad ref appointments
- to unfair rest periods
- to extremely bad ref performances
- to threatened boycotts
…and now match fixing??? And you just think it is “sour grapes”….
Obviously you aren’t steeped enough in the traditions of this great game and don’t care enough about it.
14 Oct 2011, 17:37 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-339: Farken Durban Crusaders, hey…? I thought Jouba played for Quins.
Now that was a shy’te place to go and play… That and Newcastle… Fark me, the tannies on the sidelines used to scream blue murder….
14 Oct 2011, 17:40 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-340:
He hasnt got a clue what real rugby is about or how we grew up with the game.
I have seen so many highschool mavericks get mown down in clubrugby and cannot make the grade.Men against boys.
We had a 10 at school who had a flashy inside step,second time he tried it the flanker cut his lights and water and he was stretchered off concussed.
Played 3rd div rugby after that.
Bwhahaha!
14 Oct 2011, 17:42 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-341:
Jouba was a Quins boy.
I hated saders.nice field to play,easy to get the okes on the verandah dopping riled up.Use to look at them and spit:-)
14 Oct 2011, 17:46 pm
@Helen(Helen)-15:
Go and get robots to ref…you then find rsa penalised more often…then someone will say their robots software was corrupted by the anzacs.
14 Oct 2011, 17:48 pm
Boks expect everything on a plate. You dont find a gap and use it…its your fault!
We should call thia mans bluff (noakes)and show the world the pretender he is….got his degree from a protractor.
14 Oct 2011, 17:49 pm
If the boks dont win…its a conspiracy…yet their fortune is made very finely along conspiracy!
14 Oct 2011, 17:50 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-342: Hehehe…. Many times that happened. Club rugby used to be a great sifter of men from boys and a good rung in the ladder up to representational rugger… You don’t have that anymore to the same extent and it is a big gap…
(Can remember hitting a local Quins hero when playing on the Bluff, many..many years back. Had to get changed quickly and farken leave in a hurry afterward… the chap’s wife or girlfriend threw a couple of half full dumpies at me as we were coming off the pitch after the game… The crowd was baying for blood… Those were the days
)
14 Oct 2011, 17:52 pm
I think I might finally agree with Ryan on something, Wales and AB’s.
Imagine Wales win the WC
14 Oct 2011, 17:54 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-343: A naughty, naughty man Jouba…
Yeah, Saders used to rate themselves very highly… But they could back it up unfortunately…
Had many a beer in that pub and late post game thrash…. having a slash off that packed balcony was great fun… especially when it was packed below too
14 Oct 2011, 17:55 pm
@wallabie.(wallabie.)-345: Fukkoff Capo.
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