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20 Oct 2011
RYAN VREDE says All Blacks fullback Israel Dagg has been the best player at the 2011 World Cup.
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23 May 2013
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. The others are Gio Aplon, Trevor Nyakane, JJ Engelbrecht, Lionel Mapoe, Wiehahn Herbst and Demetri Catrakilis. The group of players will assemble in Durban for the second training camp of the year, before the final squad for the Incoming Tours is selected. Players not considered due to injury include: JP Pietersen, Jaco Taute, Frans Steyn, Johan Goosen, Duane Vermeulen, Pat Cilliers and Frans Malherbe. ... Read Article24 May 2013
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
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 Article20 Oct 2011
RYAN VREDE says All Blacks fullback Israel Dagg has been the best player at the 2011 World Cup.
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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
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
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20 Oct 2011, 11:21 am
@grant10(grant10)-295: Stuff the thinking that the coach has to be a Sth African. Ewen McKenzie would be good for the Boks. The Aussies are already sniffing around him and for good reason.
20 Oct 2011, 11:21 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-294:
You sound surprised? Upset even?
Why? He is democratically elected. He can do whateverthehell he wants and you will damn well be happy about it.
20 Oct 2011, 11:22 am
@grant10(grant10)-295:
And HM !!
20 Oct 2011, 11:23 am
@Connag(1112Connag)-301:
Agree ……….I said during the S15 that SARU must put out feelers as to his availability.
20 Oct 2011, 11:23 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-294: zuma might not even get a 2nd term, he might be gone by the time the renovations are complete.
20 Oct 2011, 11:24 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-294:
R400mil is small change when you’re trying to outdo Mobutu Ek se ook So as the continent’s biggest spender!
20 Oct 2011, 11:25 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-305:
Hmmmmm…. are you saying Tokyo is behind these renovations and is framing Msholozi?
20 Oct 2011, 11:25 am
@Helen(Helen)-298: AC has spent too much time with jake the snake…..
Not my cup of tea…..
already choosing schalk as an opensider
makes my blood boil….
Rather eddie moans for me …..
Rassie a nutcase of distinction as well……he will hate the media glare….
Mitchell…mallet…b venter…..h meyer…
in that order…my wish list..
20 Oct 2011, 11:25 am
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-302: It’s not ready to show the world yet, but I’m working on a song called Bring Me My Shotgun.
20 Oct 2011, 11:26 am
Zuma should live like his subjects.
Then he could save R23.7mil by not putting a wall around the toilets
20 Oct 2011, 11:28 am
@justrugby(justrugby)-304: Personally I don’t think its a case of SA coaches being bad, as no coach outside of SA has the politcal **** that goes with the job. If we can select the best, we will always be there or thereabouts. Ewen, however is a good coach NSW with all their politics is now realising it was fukcup letting him go.
20 Oct 2011, 11:28 am
@Connag(1112Connag)-301: i agree
pro era
best of the best
i dont care where the oke comes from….
in fact i would suggest a foreign oke may be the best tonic for us
untainted and all that
20 Oct 2011, 11:28 am
@grant10(grant10)-308:
better invest in that Namibian jersye then
20 Oct 2011, 11:30 am
outta here
cheers all
20 Oct 2011, 11:30 am
@grant10(grant10)-312:
Hey, Martin Johnson may be looking for a job soon!!
20 Oct 2011, 11:30 am
@Connag(1112Connag)-301: @justrugby(justrugby)-304: look it is worth a stab, but i don’t know how successful it will be with this in mind:
John O’Neill says Ewen McKenzie’s work at the Reds is “seriously good” by: Jim Tucker From: The Daily Telegraph July 08, 2011
RUGBY supremo John O’Neill has for the first time anointedEwen McKenzie as the Wallabies’ coach-in-waiting because his work at the Reds is “seriously good”.
O’Neill yesterday clarified the Australian Rugby Union’s desire to re-sign Test coach Robbie Deans for two more years and his top rating of McKenzie in succession plans.
It is huge recognition for all that McKenzie has achieved in less than two years by turning serial losers into a force equipped to trump New Zealand’s Crusaders in tomorrow night’s blockbuster final.
“Ewen’s credentials are now seriously good. Winning this final would be a wonderful notch on his CV,” O’Neill said of the sellout Suncorp Stadium decider.
“The revival of rugby in Australia has been Reds led.
“The renaissance has been quite extraordinary from an organisation that is now a leader, where a few years ago it was at an all-time low and with a business that was insolvent.
“No one can preordain outcomes but to the question: Are we confident Ewen McKenzie is in our plans as a successor? Yes we are.”
O’Neill and Queensland Rugby Union chairman Rod McCall have been party to the discussions, with McKenzie to synchronise his coaching at the Reds with Deans’ tenure.
McKenzie has agreed to a one-year extension to coach the Reds until the end of 2013, which means he can build this year’s rise into long-term success.
O’Neill indicated the QRU had made the first $750,000 repayment on the $3 million loan from the national body that was needed last year to refloat Queensland rugby financially.
“The rebuilding job has not been for the faint-hearted,” O’Neill said.
“Now you have a Reds semi-final attracting a fantastic average audience of over 265,000 on Fox Sports, a sell-out final and a team playing rugby how it can be played.”
O’Neill said the momentum building in Australian rugby in a World Cup year is significant.
“This is the year when you turn momentum into reality,” O’Neill said.
“The Reds are doing that and it’s easy to drill down to see what Robbie Deans is building at the Wallabies.
McKenzie expressed his disdain for bookies who have made the Crusaders $1.65 favourites for the final.
“I find that disappointing,” McKenzie said. “I don’t want to be underdogs. I’d love to go in as favourites, which for me is just another little thing in our search for credibility.”
20 Oct 2011, 11:30 am
@grant10(grant10)-314:
Rat’s I missed you! !
20 Oct 2011, 11:31 am
Here you see my full name. I’m a Kiwi cheat, literally a ******** beyond all proportions.
Here is my story, as summarised by a Rugby Union expert:
http://blogs.sport24.co.za/David-Mac/bryce-lawrence-lord-of-the-whistles-17-Oct-2011
(However, the extra cash will come in handy, maybe lots of prostitutes, booze, cars, drugs, you get my drift. If cheating is profitable, go for it!)
20 Oct 2011, 11:32 am
@justrugby(justrugby)-286:
if saru goes foreign the perhaps mckenzie or woodward.
if we stay local then saru or tac needs to remind heyneke of his christelike pligte.
20 Oct 2011, 11:32 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-294:
well. Juju is a trained carpenter.
You can’t buy that kind of experience.
They have inherited the apartheid procurement mentality.
Whether it is presidential bidets or nuclear power stations.
It must be bespoke.
Anyway we’ve only seen the bill for the renovations.
Where will the entourage stay whilst they are being carried out?
Mshlozi could have finsihed his second term before the are finished.
That’s five years at the One and Only Presidential Lodge.
Five years of lobster thermidor and eggs benedict.
The presidential arteries are going to look like Hospital bend at 4 o’clock on a friday afternoon.
20 Oct 2011, 11:33 am
Its been a while since I blogged here (read regularly) now all of a sudden I have a different name. I am agent 1112Connag?? Some new names I see and some good humour…Helen like your style.
20 Oct 2011, 11:35 am
@grant10(grant10)-280:
CSV is short for “Christen-Studentevereniging” – Christian Student Association.
And “kringleier” is Afrikaans for “group leader”.
So Tacitus is saying, in essence, that he was a youth pastor
20 Oct 2011, 11:36 am
@WP Till I Die(WP-Forever)-322: A sky pilot?
20 Oct 2011, 11:37 am
@Gunther(gunther)-320:
“Juju is a trained carpenter.” I thought he was a neuro surgeon???
20 Oct 2011, 11:38 am
How is it possible that we can have R21 bn’s irregular spending in a year?
Even the Nats would have had diffculty doing that … they would probably have maxed at R15 bn, oh yes and no one would have known about it (I’ll give them that)
I have nothing to say. Not even ‘no comment’
20 Oct 2011, 11:42 am
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-325: So many noughts!
20 Oct 2011, 11:43 am
@Helen(Helen)-307: i’m saying Mangaung is not a done deal.
20 Oct 2011, 11:44 am
@WP Till I Die(WP-Forever)-322: bwahahahaha
20 Oct 2011, 11:45 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-71: Put a blanket on him!
20 Oct 2011, 11:46 am
@WP Till I Die(WP-Forever)-322:
Yeah right, apparently he was once the main attraction at the “Strandverhoog, ATKV Strandoordt, Hartenbos. He performed just after Thys die Bosveldklong or Worsie Visser (I cannot remember , but they are (were) both the same so it does not matter)
My friend, who was a lifesaver on that beach at the time, witnessed it all.
The poor bloke is still therapy today.
20 Oct 2011, 11:46 am
@Connag(1112Connag)-321:
Welcome Connag!
You a dude or a do you have tittts?
20 Oct 2011, 11:47 am
Wp till I die
No man. Nothing as big as that. You exxagerate significantly in that translation.
20 Oct 2011, 11:48 am
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-325: I have seen many, many posts by Black Panther talking about results between the Boks and the AB’s has changed since neutral refs. Well if the NZ refs since 1992 is an indication of what their standard of refs in the past, the Boks must have been so much better than than AB’s to have the ledger in the BOks favour. Based on the POB, Honiss, Walsh and Lawrence they have always been cheats.
20 Oct 2011, 11:48 am
@Helen(Helen)-331: What do you want me to have?
20 Oct 2011, 11:48 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-327:
My money is on Tokyo coming out smelling like roses next December as deputy pres to Motlanthe.
Zuma and Juju will fight until neither have any credibility left. Juju can afford it, Zuma not
20 Oct 2011, 11:49 am
The issue remains: Why do only under achievers and no hopers want the Bok coaching job?
20 Oct 2011, 11:49 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-328: hehehe are you saying Izzy’s All Black strip is vlambaar?(sp)
20 Oct 2011, 11:50 am
@Helen(Helen)-335:
In fact Tokyo smells’ ever so faintly of Givenchy.
Old school revolutionary.
20 Oct 2011, 11:50 am
@Connag(1112Connag)-334:
I want you to have an answer.
20 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-330:
I heard about that!
It was just before they announced the results of the Mnr Boeppens Contest, wasn’t it?
20 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
@Gunther(gunther)-338:
Tokyo will be Motlanthe’s Apprentice.
20 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-337: Why are you talking to yourself?
20 Oct 2011, 11:52 am
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-329: Hey Rossi, I’m glad you’re here. Regarding our conversation on patriotism yesterday, I’d like you to have a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtK2oTa0ss&feature=related
Skip the first 50 seconds, unless you want to hear a truly dreadful rendition of God Save The Queen. But then take a listen what true patriotism, in the rugby sense of the word, can mean. When applied at that level, it takes your appreciation for the game, and your emotional investment in it, to another level. I’m not advocating blind nationalism here – lord knows I hate our government as much as the next guy. But surely this emotion beats tagging onto someone else’s glory (and/or heartbreak)?
Just saying.
20 Oct 2011, 11:52 am
@Connag(1112Connag)-334: Helen I have been around here for longer than I care to remember. I change computer lose passwords or rather forget, but I remember chatting to Cab years ago, maybe as long as 8 years ago.
20 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
This rwc was so rigged by the kiwis it makes pro wrestling look like reality tv.
So the Boks are out,not the end of the world for me.
We all know the truth.
20 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
@Helen(Helen)-335: Zuma won’t mind, he’ll get the golden handshake he wanted all along and get all the perks former presidents get and that will be him. he’s never been a thought leader at any point and those that wanted mbeki out used his legal “troubles” and being sacked by mbeki as launch pad for a campaign. he is despensable to them.
20 Oct 2011, 11:54 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-346: dispensable
20 Oct 2011, 11:54 am
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-342: i meant to reply to you silly!
20 Oct 2011, 11:55 am
@Connag(1112Connag)-344: I’m a dude, how about you?
20 Oct 2011, 11:55 am
@Gunther(gunther)-338: givenchy you say…nice
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