Reason to smile
7 Nov 2011
Schalk Burger, the 2011 SA Player of the Year, should be the cornerstone of the Springbok side in 2012 and beyond.
Burger, who first played for the Boks in a 2003 World Cup match against Georgia, enjoyed an outstanding tournament in New Zealand, exhibiting the same abrasive energy that marked him as a 20-year-old debutant. He also made use of the experience he’s accumulated over 60-plus Tests, as well as some recently acquired skills, to leave a lasting impression.
The next Bok coach will face the challenge of building a new team and a new leadership group. Burger is certain to be one of the pillars, if not a strong candidate for the captaincy itself. Some tough decisions will need to be made by the coach, and the ageing veterans may need to make way for the promising youngsters, but a clever man-manager will realise that Burger is the kind of player he can build his new team around.
Also in the new issue of SA Rugby magazine, on sale this week:
– We analyse the Springboks’ World Cup campaign and rate all the players
– Why the Springboks must adapt their game plan in order to achieve consistent success
– Richie McCaw has a phenomenal playing record, but McCaw the player is even more impressive
– All Blacks coach Graham Henry has found peace at last
– We review all 48 matches of the 2011 World Cup
– The minnows made progress at the recent World Cup despite an unfair playing field
– Jon Cardinelli chronicles some of the World Cup adventures enjoyed by the SA Rugby magazine team during a seven-week sojourn to New Zealand’s rugby-mad North Island
– The SA U18 Sevens’ success at the Commonwealth Youth Games bodes well for the 2016 Olympic Games
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791 Comments
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8 Nov 2011, 14:06 pm
@ufo(ufo)-750:
self-editing?
that’s the thing about legends, they don’t waste their time with arsecreeps like fuckadilly the fucknut frikkadel.
It was more likely one of his “workers” who rebelled at the thought of being forced to eat lentils for the 30th day in a row.
8 Nov 2011, 14:13 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-751:
hehehe…
just keeping it brief…
yeah… they are both legends of world rugby, let alone bok rugby… and nothing anyone says to discredit them will alter that fact…
8 Nov 2011, 14:31 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-751:
A site a quick-witted chap like yourself and a few others might like whilst there is no more rugby and you’re not too busy owning Gwantie and the rabod old dog…
http://www.27bslash6.com/foggot.html
8 Nov 2011, 14:41 pm
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-753: lololololololololololol am busy reading it, hilarious.
8 Nov 2011, 14:44 pm
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-753:
that guy is offf the reservation.
8 Nov 2011, 17:00 pm
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-753:
8 Nov 2011, 22:59 pm
@cab(cab)-749:
It’s not a complete injustice. It’s happened many times before where players A is selected over player B, and certain types of fans throw tantrums about it. And it will happen many times more, in every country.
That’s the way rugby is, a team game, with a coach having to make tough decisions and balance much more than just who the fans think is currently playing better.
8 Nov 2011, 23:02 pm
Oh and another thing to Ollieshampoo, Grant and all you other lunatics. It’s *YOU* guys who are carrying on, rather pathetically, about Smit. You’re incapable of letting go? Just so I know, how long can I expect you guys to bear grudges?
For the sakes of your keyboards, which must be covered in spittle and dented in the extreme, perhaps time to move on?
8 Nov 2011, 23:22 pm
@Number15(Number15)-758: I will hold that grudge against the fat boy and the spineless jelly fish till I die !
Just for the record
8 Nov 2011, 23:23 pm
@Number15(Number15)-757: stop making excuses you spineless jellyfish
9 Nov 2011, 01:37 am
@grant10(grant10)-759:
That’s because you’re a sad **** with no life…
Fancy waking up every day for the last two months and posting 1000′s of repetitive posts of vitriol on a topic as unimportant as a game of rugby… every day!
And forcing your daily negativity upon the hundreds of other bloggers who really don’t give a shite what your opinion is anymore!
You’re the least respected poster on Keo alongside the rabid old dog and boy that takes some mean feat!
It’s no wonder your wife left you!
9 Nov 2011, 02:14 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-761: wow ouch
9 Nov 2011, 02:44 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-761:
Bryce.
All good with giving a bit of a serving to some of these guys but private life matters should not be used.
I was having a laugh until i hit the last part of your post.
9 Nov 2011, 03:21 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-763:
Jolting a bit of common-sense into over-emotional online buffoons with serious mental issues before they slip further down the abyss… it’s an unconventional thankless job Hurricane, pays terribly but can be extremely rewarding…
I will soldier on unselfishly…
9 Nov 2011, 03:30 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-764:
I’d actually on numerous occasions suggested to Roy that an ignore button (like I have for my subscribers on my site) might be the way to go until, upon contemplation, quickly realised the further disastrous consequences it might have to the patients dwindling mental health.
A site where the only other bloggers the patient would have to communicate with (after being ignored by the previous 474 inhabitants) would be the dribbling ramblings of a rabid old dog and the nauseating dutiful acceptance of his blood brother till the very cyber end JustBuggery…
It would just not be cricket…
9 Nov 2011, 05:07 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-764:
Well i suppose someone has to do the dirty job Bryce
9 Nov 2011, 16:48 pm
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-765: How’s this schmuck face reckon he is the epitome of mental equilibrium.. pathetic little snot nosed arsholes the likes of these pontifical holier than thou prats who think they represent the higher echelons of human intelligence or moral standard are the pitiful kind of garbage that need to get a very quick rectifier straight to their self absorbed gargantuan ego’s and piffle arse fatfuck opinions of themselves…
same goes for this Smitty arsecreep here@Number15(Number15)-758: would just love to see these Sharkievarkie Smit van Winkel gatkruip pretenders be so leniently compromising and hail hero worship accepting if it were some other punkass self righteous prat who buried the Bok trying to use his overrated influence to further his own self aggrandized self absorbed vainglorious cause..
9 Nov 2011, 22:32 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-767:
So, just to be clear, you do or don’t like Smit?
10 Nov 2011, 00:09 am
@Number15(Number15)-757:
That is a fair point, but the non-selection of Bismarck was a complete injustice. You are correct that fans have subjective views, but this was a completely berserk decision. In fact, PdV had selected Bismarck to start at hooker two years ago already, forcing Smit out to 3, and resulting in the best set of results under his tenure, so what happened that Smit was able to start ahead of Bismarck when he was 2 years older after a set of terrible results with a pattern of six straight defeats under Australia.
It was a terrible decision and a total injustice. I tell you what I will ask you a very simple question: Do you believe even as a Smit supporter that Smit was a better player than Bismarck?
It was a complete injustice to Bismarck, and in fact to anyone who is passed over for someone that is not as good as them. Its pisspoort Smit had his moment in the sun, and instead now Bismarck time will have come and gone, he will never be in the this sort of commanding form in 4 years time.
10 Nov 2011, 00:36 am
@Number15(Number15)-758: @bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-761: @bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-764: And there we have it. The TRUTH to a TEE.
Yes!!!
10 Nov 2011, 00:40 am
Dingbats abound on this farken thread
10 Nov 2011, 00:50 am
its really pretty simple, we;ve all got an opinion, you want to proclaim Smit better than Bismarck, go convince someone else, not me, total bullshit.
10 Nov 2011, 02:44 am
@cab(cab)-772:
I’m yet to see one person on this entire site stating that… the argument is whether he is the sole reason the Boks lost the 2011 RWC… much like blaming the ref… is as much subjective ignorance as one expects from fools on this site!
That kind of ‘illogic’ is what will keep the Boks from learning from their actual short-comings and the real reason they lost…
-two missed penalties
-having only one solution to Pocock namely including Brussouw
-failure to adapt to the ref’s ‘non policing’ of the break-downs after the second half and protect own ball with powerful cleaning out on own ball and counter-rucking on opposition ball
-heading into the last 20 minutes with over 70% of possession and territory (unheard of) not one attempt to take the several drop-goal opportunities… just persisting with blunt attack from backs and forwards against the best defensive stats in a RWC 1/4 final
-within the above they failed to even try and rolling maul from 5 out
-winning 30% of Australian LO ball, they resisted reverting back to a more tactical kicking game.
One would have thought that with Bismark, Alberts, Hougaard all coming onto the field with 30 minutes to go they’d be just the tonic for some impact… they simply were not, they missed tackles, failed to breach the advantage line and they made not one line-break… and the foolish swinging ball left-and-right continued until they lost!
But if you want to continue on like the rabid old dog and that other over-emotional fruit-cake… continue on…
10 Nov 2011, 03:25 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-773:
Right on the money Bryce.
10 Nov 2011, 06:20 am
right OFF the money bullshit artists unite
The SOLE reason Boks lost the 1/4 final vs Australia is for ONE reason ONLY
Compromised selection of Smit over Bismark and only secondly favoring Spies over Alberts and FdP over Hougaard. The gamble FAILED as it was BOUND to do..sentimentalist bullshit cowardly COMPROMISED Selection of Smit starting ahead of Bismark is what Fckd the Boks out the world cup…that and THAT ALONE,., and nothing ELSE but!!
Carry on defending that punk of a self centered captain of yours, the favoritist outright BLINDNESS of selecting that self centered bullshit is EXACTLY what destroyed Boks out the WC .., and THAT is IT..,
Stupid sentimentalist TRASH compromise excuses and led by these moron Smitty gatkruip idiots like this Bryce the pathetic arsehole Aussie wannabbee Myce and his SharkieVarkie arselicks like HG and No.15 seeking condoned excuses and justifications for selecting the has been cn’t Smit which was the SOLE reason Boks lost the 1/4 final vs Australia and NOTHING ELSE but THAT!!
10 Nov 2011, 06:39 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-775:
I’ve had a fantastic day today… my site’s subscriptions have topped 60k investors today, the rain has cleared, the organic vege garden is going nuts and I’m off to Milawa for a food and wine festival in a few hours… how has your day started?
Oh yeah same old same old 1000 tortured, dribbling, rabid posts of diatribe for breakfast!
Toodles…
10 Nov 2011, 06:52 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-776: hey martha farker…..i divorced at 26 hears old p ussy…….have had the most amazing life ever…..so you want to compare lives do it off line p ussy…..not here…..
You need a corrective snotty on the nose……I would gladly oblige……
you a big windgat sitting 1000s of kms away…..cowardly dingo dog…
10 Nov 2011, 06:53 am
@grant10(grant10)-777: and PS
Plod cost us the WC and that will be his legacy to bear…..live with it….p ussy
10 Nov 2011, 07:02 am
pathetic cowardly arselick cowards UP that selfish fatfucks backside looking for ALL manner of excuses and justifications outside of the ONE SOLE reason why Boks lost staring them in their condoning cowardly compromising faces…
There were MANY ifs and buts and coulda’s and shoulda’s about that game, legions of them.., like a blind as bat cowardly creep IRB stooge ref for one, or a useless strategy of having the blunt instrument non effective battering ram Burger do ALL the solo runs and ball carries to never never land, or the missed drop by Lambie, the forward pass by JDV, the missed collect by FdP over the line from a Bismark charge down, the inability of Burger to carry the ball over under the posts having FAILED again to carry it through the Aussie defensive line and have it ripped off him on the ground, the non effect of Brussow who was injury ridden before he started and who failed to protect same numbskull Burger from getting manhandled in front of his own post gifting Aussie the softest try against run of play they could possibly have dreamt of, thousands of shoulda, woulda and coulda reasons WHY Boks lost that game…, EXCEPT for the ONE SOLE shoulda woulda reason… And THAT sole reason was the ONE reason that ACTUALLY would have brought the bacon home…
Had Boks NOT gambled and COMPROMISED by playing their WEAK starters first, SMIT, SPIES, FDP, and elected to play their STRONG vanguard from kick off BISMARK, ALBERTS, HOUGAARD, It would have been an absolute whitewash and Aussie would NEVER have been ANYWHERE in that game…
THOSE are the telling shoulda woulda and coulda’s that WOULD have resulted in a RESOUNDING bok victory, and NONE of the other compromised cowardly arsecreep excuses would have EVER come into effect…
Suck it up and JUSTIFY the lame f’ng cowardly and COMPROMISED decision to play a slow ineffective self seeking Smit over a rampaging raring to go balls to the wall Bismark till nanny wipes your pathetic sniveling Smitty wet eyes and chickensh’t arses,,.. The FACTS remain what they are…, the WRONG decision to play Smit ahead of Bismark is what stuffed the Boks out the world cup.., that decision ALONE is what destroyed the Boks chances and NONE nor ANY of all the other prevailing excuses or compromising justified shoulda coulda or woulda reasons whatsoever!
10 Nov 2011, 07:04 am
Going to the crickey today?
10 Nov 2011, 07:09 am
every single day for the rest of there lives the ‘Plod at all costs brigade ‘ will have to live with the FACT that pdv [ spineless jellyfiskh ] and there Fatboy collectively colluded a dismal quarter final exit……equalling our worst ever WCresult……this with the best squad ever!
Bloody torpedoed by ego, self glory seeking and in PDV s case a complete lack of strength of character……
That is the ultimate truth and reality.
10 Nov 2011, 07:11 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-779:
@grant10(grant10)-778:
Not the best start to the day again for you two then we see?
10 Nov 2011, 07:19 am
@grant10(grant10)-781:
Quite the contrary… it seems it’s only you two raving narcissistic lunatics that cannot deal with it…
John Smit, Victor Matfield and FDP rode off into the sunset as the most successful, not too mention most capped Boks we will ever see… and that my over-aged EMO friends is exactly what the history books already read and will continue to for the rest of your miserable lives…
See you tomorrow morning first thing for another ‘great’ wound-up start to the day for the pair of you… oh that’s right… I’ll be participating in a rare vertical tasting of Brown Brother’s Patricia range… what a shame!
As you were…
10 Nov 2011, 08:20 am
long as these fatfunk punks and the prima donna prats got their hundreds of caps and their self centered prestige stashed away nicely inside their prima donna treasure chests who the fck cares about the bok its all about them and their fatfunk prestige and personal ambitions which is exactly w
10 Nov 2011, 08:31 am
@Gunther(gunther)-780: no Gunther
I enjoyed yesterday immensely……got there 2 overs before lunch……so missed first 2 wickets…..but had a great afternoon cricket….
10 Nov 2011, 08:33 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-784: 00which is exactly wrong with bok rugby about self centered personal ambitions and not about the team., this is what stuffed boks out the WC that alone and punkeyed half arse excuses of supporters such as this Smitten arselick Bryce myce is exactly0what is wromg with bok supporters0
10 Nov 2011, 08:33 am
@Gunther(gunther)-780: plan to go early Sat morning and get my spot under the oaks…
10 Nov 2011, 08:39 am
and whats wrong with this phone be2use it cant spell
10 Nov 2011, 10:08 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-773:
If Bismarck is better then Smit, and you as a supporter of Smit acknowledge that is uncontestable, then that is exactly why so many ppl are so furious.
That is the entire matter is a nutshell.
At the top level its a matter of millimetres and by not selecting your best players to play as long as possible, you give the team a competitive disadvantage, and yes one player can make a difference, a massive difference even. And for that there are two ppl to blame, PdV for not selecting Bismack and Smit for not standing aside for the team as he did two years ago.
13 Nov 2011, 23:42 pm
Hi guys new kid on the blog so be gentle, looking forward to some good rugby banter
14 Nov 2011, 00:06 am
@happyfeet(happyfeet)-790: Welcome. You will get lots of banter here, not much related to rugby though. If you have a thick skin, you will do just fine. PS you may wish to comment on the recent threads if you want to see any action.
Which provincial team do you support?
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