just need to say that because I choose to be positive doesn’t mean I’m blindly loyal… there’s that wise saying about changing what we can… accepting what we can’t… and recognising the difference… 

would i do things differently if i was in charge…? definitely… (rightly or wrongly)… but i’m not… so I don’t take it so seriously that it detracts from the enjoyment of supporting my team and watching the rugby they play…

I love rugby and my teams… but they are not the be all and end all in my life and I try to keep them in perspective and my passion in check…

hey bananaboy… 

exactly… that’s what it’s all about imo… being realistic about our chances but positive in our outlook…

yeah… like you I want the rugby to start already…!! 

enjoy it…!!!

extra testicular… 

hehehe… you’re hilarious… you try so hard… a little too hard… but keep trying… godot is coming tomorrow 

You are truly unique…..truly…

Quite confusing then.
Is it not that the both of you are mere featherweights then and should consider slugging it out at that level? It should be an amazing battle but very equal since one sees the glass half full and the other sees the same glass half empty
Do you both not realise that whether that same glass is half full or half empty the number of millilitres(mls.) of juicy, flowing garbage is exactly the same?

Silly, but stupid, catch phrases plus silly writings, from one to the other, do not hide stupid ‘thinking’, deficient attitudes and woeful ideas being written here daily. They are just empty phrases and remain so.

My fellow S.Africans you are funny but sad delinquents caught up in your cultural inheritance and frustrated by the ever increasing daily uncertainty of life in the land of your birth(but just that and no more).

Do you ever see how immature and stupid this SPAT is? Can you ever imagine your friend, the fattened version of a lithe and agile ‘Black Cat’ Cele, ever indulging in this type of C R A P when their is so much more for him to enjoy in life or even real problems for him to find solutions for?

If all this, or even too much of it, flies over your heads it actually is fine and may well be the better outcome. It at least gives you both sufficient time to KISS and make up. But it is all still one way and that is eventually downhill.

Keep on supporting your team, I reckon they have a gr8 opportunity if they settle on the right tight 5 (without injuries). I reckon the Sharks and the Bulls have to pull out all stops this year to convince but I am also staying positive.

Anyways after such a long break from SH rugby I just want to see some decent games.

from now on please just accept that my rugby only comments are purely from the heart and not meant to be negative or aimed at anything other than the subject matter at hand.

I dont consider you a lightweight …at all

Nor do I consider myself a heavyweight…

PS

When did I ever call you a lightweight?

I have chosen on Keo to put 2010 and 2011 firmly behind me and only make rugby observations and comments….so far so good…

I have been baited a few times but wont respond….

I will only make my rugby observations and discuss rugby issues…..

I am sorry if you believe I consider you to be a lightweight……my opinion should not carry much weight anyway , this is just a forum of opinions……dont take it serious because I promise you I certainly dont my man…

AlIenate me? wHY? bECAUSE YOU BEING TRUTHFUL? iMPRESSES ME MORE THAN ALIENATES ME MY MAN?

aS TO HOW i PRESENT MYSELF ON A BLOG? wELL MATE i DONT REALLY CARE TO BE FRANK….

fark sorry caps…

Facts are I am always honest , frank and truthful……and call things as I percieve them…. I am not blindly loyal or supportive of anything ! I am highly critical of wp / stormers because I support them , I dont like what I have seen and heard about WP / Stormers last few weeks and will not pipe down and keep quiet just because I support the okes….

Same as Boks…I hated what went down in 2010 and 2011 ….what was I supposed to do….just keep quiet and accept the Fat Boys club and the inevitably of the cr ap man management and ego driven selections?

I am and always will be a SA…Stormer and WP fan…..does not mean I am blindly loyal and indifferent to the royal stuff ups and stupidity that has been a hallmark of our teams for a while now….

Blind support and non questioning loyalty leads to the Nazi regimes ….I far prefer independent opinion and personal analysis…..far healthier imo…

The fact that he has to do trails to “convince” the selectors at the Sharks should answer your question….

Decision pending…………………..

The names mentioned have not done nothing for the union…Jannie did have a few storming games for the Lions, especially the game vs Crusaders when the Lions won against all odds….

However….they all seemed good when the Lions were poor…the Lions are building to a new standard….and I trust Mitchell if he says they don’t have the skill to make it…..then they don’t…or they might just not be working hard enough which is another favorite reason to let people go…

hey grant…

yeah i know where you’re coming from…

but imo… it is indeed ALL about loyalty and support…

of course i’m not oblivious to the bad things happening and the consequences of those things…

but as i’ve said on keo before and as i say at any given opportunity in the real world… attitude is a choice… whether it’s rugby, wp or bokke, life in south africa or life in general… i believe in looking for and building on the positive… sure the hits hurt me just as much as they hurt you and everyone else who cares… but if we all succumb to the doom and gloom ‘this is farked that is farked everything is farked we are all farked’… well then… we may as well all follow the example on one jimmy jones…

i choose to be positive… every day… i make a conscious choice to be positive… (sure, sometimes i slip and let rip… but am always ashamed of myself afterwards)

i choose to see the glass half-full… i choose to walk on the sunny side of the street…

the perception that you have created about yourself here on keo is that you’re a glass half empty person who would rather focus on the negative, the faults and the doom and gloom…

that doesn’t make you wrong or me right.. or make you right and me wrong… it just makes us different… in how we see things… in fact i’m sure many people here on keo would agree with your perspective… and poke their fingers down their throats and gag at my approach…

while you often say you’ll stop supporting the boks or the stormers… and support namibia and puke on the jersey etc etc… for me that just never enters my mind… i’ll keep on supporting wp/stormers/boks 100 percent no matter what… and hope things eventually improve… and i’m not going to start hating players for just doing their jobs… good or bad…

sure… you and many other people may call me naive, stupid or lightweight… i really don’t care… life is simply waaay too short to linger on the negative…

this is not meant to insult you grant… and i know i risk alienating you… but like you, i’m just calling it as i see it honestly and without any agenda… we’ve met several times and i know you’re a really stand-up quality man… but that’s not how you present yourself on keo…

this was not a planned post… just responding to your post and explaining my POV… i hope you see it as constructive…

That off my chest, surely the real ‘news’ story would have been the Lions doing nothing.

Yes, we all agree, the financial position is precarious, but they’re no orphans in that regard. Surely they should be commended for taking decisive action and off-loading a truck-load of free-loaders who offer nothing while swanning about in the lower divisions…and on obscene salaries.

The Lions have done the commendable thing.

They’ll be rewarded in time, mark my words.

don’t put the thunder before the lightning bud…!! or you could find yourself flying a kite in a storm…

AC to leave on a high when Stormers spit in the eye of all the haters, unite in adversity and win the S15…!!

Unlike all the kenners on keo… this simple supporter believes AC has not been given any credit… let alone due credit…

and it’s not like WP are the only union with issues… this year all SA unions have issues…

But let everyone write us off and dismiss us before the season has even started… underdogs is a position from which we will willingly take on the season…

if we don’t do well… you will say ‘I told you so’ and we never stood a chance…

If the Lions, Bulls n Sharks don’t do well…. what are your excuses going to be?

My loyalty and support remains resolute…

If anything the guppies will keep him around as a ready replacement for the aging Odwa but then he will be in competition with 3 other good wingers.

The Lions are looking to have no fewer than 45 senior contracted players, 3 per position. That sounds like a nice small and workable number and much better than the reported 70-90 contracted players they had last year.

The Sharks have a small squad of around 45 senior contracted players and the Cheetahs about 40 senior contracted players so it seems that the Lions are following similar business structures to these unions.

What will happen is more u21 and Varsity cup players will be playing in the VC, CC and Super rugby competitions which is not really a bad thing.

maybe he is the lions fun guy…?

more correctly known as Leonus fungii

kev de klerk & co been keeping him in the dark and feeding him sheet…

which doesn’t leave ol’ mitch too mushroom for manoeuvring…

and the fun gal sightings are not restricted to the prematch dancing girls… but also the fungal rot infesting their finances…