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• 101.justrugby:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:25 am

  @grant10(grant10)-94:

  Bob Bolus !!

• 102.Bismarck Burger:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:25 am

  @justrugby(justrugby)-97: All he needs to do now is sort out the peace in the middle east..

• 103.Gunther:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:26 am

  so much of humour.

  yet so sad at the same time.

• 104.grant10:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:26 am

  @Robzim(Robzim)-98: yes….Brussow may as well go play for Sale Sharks or Montbaum !

  Already AC starting his kak with Schalk at openside this weekend.

  I may need to move to Bloem….

• 105.>^..^< katman:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:27 am

  @Gunther(gunther)-90: I dunno. Could never look past the mini-mullet. If Jouba was the Rolls Royce of fullbacks, then Gerbrand must have been the Nissan Sentra.

• 106.Hurricane:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:28 am

  @grant10(grant10)-100:
  naa i dont take offence to it at all Grant.
  Thats your call, but i believe your best team whoever it is, would not have stopped the ABs the way they played against OZ.

• 107.Robzim:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:29 am

  @justrugby(justrugby)-97:

  Pity he could not build up a better “working relationship” with Bryce L.
  I always thought he was supposed to be the second best ” manager of referees” (after Shaun Fitzpatrick).

• 108.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:29 am

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-72:
  

  although the recent cannibal looks more like a maori than a papuan:
  http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3882319/Cannibal-suspect-Henri-Haiti-sports-tattoo-of-man-eating-tribe.html

• 109.Brigadier Van Zyl:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:29 am

  dagg is good, very good…almost as good as frans steyn.

• 110.DocNZ:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:30 am

  You cant compare Dagg to Cullen . We know the class of Cullen , Dagg has basically just started, make the same call in about 4 years time. This site is funny, always has been , random topic is created. A few posts later the bulls are planting flowers , and someone is having nightmares about the throat slitting, lest we for the 95 RWC and a mazda’s spark plugs.

  Love it .

• 111.Bismarck Burger:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:30 am

  @Gunther(gunther)-103: Indeed

• 112.Robzim:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:32 am

  @justrugby(justrugby)-101:

  Bob Bolus , hehehe- he was fairly useless, but I would go for the hooker Tjoepie van den Heever .

• 113.Mike H:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:32 am

  @grant10(grant10)-24:

  HAHAH yes u can tell he’s in a bad mood these days.

  Bulls dominance of SA rugby coming to an end, not sure thats so good for the Springboks though but we might start playing some attacking rugby then

• 114.Bismarck Burger:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:32 am

  @DocNZ(DocNZ)-110: KEO rocks.

• 115.justrugby:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:34 am

  @Robzim(Robzim)-107:

  Guess 2nd best was not good enough !!

• 116.grant10:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:34 am

  @Hurricane(Hurricane)-106: I truly believe we would have beaten you boys…..we would have needed to be bold though….I would have started with alberts at 8,,,,bissy at 2….Hougaard at 9 [ fdp was injured imo ] and butch at 10…..

  We would have missed F Steyn and Brussow but F Louw would have sufficed imo….

  sadly we will never know…

  good luck vs france….you guys deserve this…been a great wc…

• 117.Mike H:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:35 am

  @Gunther(gunther)-56:

  Damb Gunther u’re a good laugh mate

• 118.Gunther:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:35 am

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-105:

  with lowered suspension.

  he was majestic on the counter.

  brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it.

• 119.justrugby:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:36 am

  @Robzim(Robzim)-112:

  LO I remember him, one of my favourites who seldom gets a mention was Fafa Knoetze , fark that oke boxed above his weight, could step both ways as well , also a tackling machine !!

• 120.Hurricane:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:37 am

  @grant10(grant10)-116:
  Yeah mate we will never know.
  And thanks but we only deserve it if we win it

• 121.Mike H:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:38 am

  @grant10(grant10)-116:

  The Aussies being in the Semi was a farse. They sucked all tournement. Cooper was shocking in both quarters and semi’s.

  We were deserved semi-finalists.

  Next time the f’ing kiwi head of ref’s should abide by his own rules and not allow a ref of a likely nation playing in the next round to ref a knock-out match.

  **** i’m still pissed.

  The Ab v Aus semi was a joke!! **** game. WP Ab’s but the Aussies sucked.

• 122.DocNZ:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:38 am

  Naas ?

• 123.Mike H:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:39 am

  @Hurricane(Hurricane)-120:

  I’d say you deserve it even if you don;t win.

  The French sure as hell don;t deserve to be in the final.

  This is not a great world cup because there haven’t been great clashes.

  **** Quatrters, **** Semi’s

  **** Reffing

• 124.justrugby:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:40 am

  @Hurricane(Hurricane)-120:

  Great statement !!!!! my sentiments exactly,

• 125.grant10:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:40 am

  @Mike H(Mike H)-121: a semi between boks and kiwis would have been an all time classic…

  sadly we can only speculate…

  my heart in a farken million pieces I tell you…

• 126.Transformation:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:40 am

  @DocNZ(DocNZ)-110: exactly doc, this whole “so and so is no [insert name of past legend who played in the same position]” is nonsense to me because can any of the same people say that when cullen started his all black career he had class and a decade of rugby written all over him? can anyone realistically say that when richie mccaw played his first game against ireland that they saw that here is a guy who will be the 1st ever all black to reach a hundred test, all blacks’ most successful cappie and 3 time irb player of the year?

  unnecessary put-downs imo

• 127.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:40 am

  @Hurricane(Hurricane)-95:
  why don’t you watch the game again hurricane, its there…in black.

  @grant10(grant10)-94:
  that lubbe guy who played 1 or 2 tests for the boks?

• 128.Gunther:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:40 am

  @DocNZ(DocNZ)-122:

  Olivier?

  mmm…

  worth considering.

• 129.>^..^< katman:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:41 am

  @Gunther(gunther)-118: That’s disgusting, Goenta. What you guys did on the counter does not belong on this site.

• 130.Heavens Game:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:41 am

  Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win the heavyweight championship of the world

  The over-weight heavyweight knocked out the undefeated Tyson on Feb. 10, 1990, in Tokyo. The image of Tyson fumbling for his mouthpiece after getting knocked down in the 10th round is unforgettable. That was the first time Tyson had ever been knocked down in his professional career. Tyson was counted out, and Douglas was the champion of the world.

• 131.Heavens Game:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:42 am

  Rulon Gardner beats “the unbeatable”

  This wasn’t even a blip on anyone’s radar during the 2000 Summer Olympics. It was a foregone conclusion that Alexander Karelin was going to win gold in the heavyweight division of Greco-Roman wrestling. That was until Gardner, the big bear (now even bigger) from Afton, Wyo., stepped onto the mat and took down the internationally undefeated Russian to take home the gold. Karelin had been undefeated in 13 years of international competition and had lost only one wrestling match in his entire life — when he was 19 years old in the 1987 Soviet Championships.

• 132.Mike H:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:43 am

  @grant10(grant10)-125:

  Ye it was set up to be a Aus v NZ semi to create a Great Clash supposably, look how rubbish that turned out.

  Such a let down game. Should have rather slept in.

  Well the Ab’s will get their WC win and we’ll have nothing to gloat about anymore and maybe we’ll start trying to win every game rather than just WC’s.

  But then again that’s a double edge sword as well because teams take time to develop and build conbinations.

  Anyway lets see where SA rugby goes from here. It’s going to be tough for us. But we have promising youngsters if we can get a good coach to pick the right ones and mould them and identify a good captain (that will be key).

• 133.Gunther:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:43 am

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-129:

  

  I am undone.

• 134.Heavens Game:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:43 am

  The New York Giants stun the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII

  The 2007-08 New England Patriots may have been the best team in the history of football. They finished the regular season undefeated and only three teams even got close to beating them. Their average margin of victory in the regular season was 20 points.

  There may not be a better or bigger catch in Super Bowl history than the David Tyree reception on third-and-5 when he miraculously pinned the ball to his helmet with one hand as he fell to the ground. That catch, which has its own Wikipedia page, led to the game-winning touchdown. The Giants, who limped into the playoffs with a 10-6 regular season record, did the unthinkable by beating the proverbial giants 17-14 to win Super Bowl XVII.

• 135.grant10:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:44 am

  @au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-127: edrich Lubbe….wally missed all the kicks agains Lions in 97 series….cost Carel the job….

• 136.Robzim:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:44 am

  @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-130:

  Are you saying the All Blacks might have a “glass jaw”?

• 137.justrugby:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:44 am

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-129:

  

• 138.Mike H:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:45 am

  @grant10(grant10)-125: And at least u and I can be nice to one another now as Smit is gone and I actually agree with much of the other things you say and the things i feel real passionately about are gone.

  Now to find a new hero hahahah

  Wonder if Burger will be the next bok Captain?

• 139.Hurricane:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:45 am

  @au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-127:
  And??
  One minute i hear the ref called the game really well and then i hear he let the ABs away with blocking etc.
  I see it all the time and not only by the ABs.
  Look at all the guys standing on the side of the ruck, blocking as well isnt it?
  Stopping anyone getting to the halfback for the kick.

• 140.>^..^< katman:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:45 am

  @Gunther(gunther)-133: Well, do yourself up then. There are bloggers with the minds of children here.

• 141.grant10:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:46 am

  @Mike H(Mike H)-132: yes on all counts….

  strats with the right selection of Head Coach….

  And I will support the oke….

  but I have a feeling we gonna make a mistake ….again….

• 142.Heavens Game:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:46 am

  The Miracle on Ice

  The Americans were so overmatched that it was funny. The Soviets were led by legends while the U.S. was led by college kids. The Soviets beat the U.S. in an exhibition game before the Olympics, 10-3. Viktor Tikhonov, head coach of the U.S.S.R., went on to say that that game “turned out to be a very big problem” for his team because it led the Soviets to grossly underestimate the Americans. In five group-play games before the medal round, the Soviets scored a total of 51 goals, while the U.S. barely slipped into the medal round.

  When the Russians and the Americans met in the medal round, it became much more than just a game. On the shoulders of these young college kids, rested the American hopes in the midst of the tense Cold War between the two countries. In dramatic fashion Mike Eruzione, an IHL player for the Toledo Goaldiggers (yes, that’s a real team), scored a goal to put the US ahead, 4-3, with exactly 10 minutes left. The Americans held on just long enough to hear Al Michaels ask “Do you believe in miracles?”

  YES!

• 143.Brigadier Van Zyl:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:46 am

  david pockoks performance is directly related to the inept reffing on the day.

• 144.Gunther:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:48 am

  @>^..^< katman(katman)-140:

  Indeed.

  You have already corrupted MiniMe.

• 145.Brigadier Van Zyl:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:48 am

  @grant10(grant10)-135:

  not true, percy missed plenty in that 2nd test, as did honiball, Lubbe did miss a couple though.

  who did he play for, he was a selection right out of nowhere,wasn’t he?

• 146.Hurricane:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:48 am

  @Mike H(Mike H)-132:
  What was wrong with the Semi final?
  I thought the ABs played one of the best games for intensity in a long time.
  The way we hit the rucks and ran at the ozzies trying to break them down was impressive.
  Besides SA not in that game, what was so dissapointing?

• 147.grant10:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:49 am

  @Mike H(Mike H)-138: yes…

  We have a clean slate…

  the era of the aura is thankfully in the history book……

  new cappie?

  Not sure….just please let us not make anyone a cappie for 4 years, etc….1 series at a bloody time….and cappie must be a definite starter….none of this leave the best on the bench to accomodate a politician masquerading as a rugby player….ever a farken again!

• 148.grant10:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:51 am

  @Brigadier Van Zyl(Brigadier Van Zyl)-145: i think he was at griquas at the time?

  I was at the newlands test with justrugby when that pom scrumhalf sold joost that outrageous dummy…..it still hurts!

• 149.DocNZ:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:51 am

  HG is trying so hard to get under the collective Kiwi skin , he is praying right now that the AB’s loose on Sunday so that he can laugh and gloat and rub it in , really sad . The kind of thing a person would do after he bet a lot of money on the boks to win …….. Voodoo much ?

  Mike H .
  Get over it already it has been almost 2 weeks , you still have 4 more years to go….

  Jorrie Muller ?

• 150.Transformation:
  20 Oct 2011, 09:51 am

  Dagg comes up trumps.
  Thursday, 20 October 2011 12.43 p.m.

  By LYNN McCONNELL

  Israel Dagg’s success in the All Blacks fullback role was no real surprise to the men who put him there, the New Zealand selectors.

  His ability to make an impact was delayed a little because of the injury he suffered which kept him out of last year’s northern hemisphere tour.

  Despite that, and the thigh injury which almost scuttled him for the 2011 season, the selectors were prepared to give him as much time as possible before the Rugby World Cup team selection to be available.

  It was almost last gasp stuff but Dagg had shown why he was so highly regarded by the coaches.

  “He’s a young man who has no fear about doing what is right at the moment,” All Blacks assistant coach Steve Hansen said.

  “His instincts for rugby are brilliant. If he trusts those then he is always going to be a great player.

  “If he starts questioning his own instincts then you are going to see him start doing things that aren’t normal for him and he’ll probably lose his form,” he said.

  It was the role of coaches to bring out the best in gifted players while realising that all members of a team were different and saw the game differently. Finding the common denominators became important in moulding a team.

  By comparison, an upfront player like lock Brad Thorn had few special requirements.

  “He’s easy to coach. Just give him something to push, something to tackle, give him something to catch and he’s happy. Give him three feeds a day, just make sure they’re big ones,” he said.

  One of his most valuable qualities was the 20 years of professionalism he brought to the team.

  “He’s the first guy doing the stretches, he’s the first guy making sure his dietary requirements are right and he’s the first guy into recovery. And he knows he has to because he’s 36 years old. But it’s something he’s done all his life and I think that is why he is still playing at 36.”

  That example of professionalism would be one of his legacies for All Blacks rugby.

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