White targets SA young guns
1 Feb 2012
Jake White plans to use the Brumbies’ alliance with the University of Canberra to lure young South Africans to the ACT franchise.
The University of Canberra has been announced as the official naming-rights sponsor of the Brumbies for the 2012 season. The deal is for one year, but according to reports from Down Under White intends to use this relationship to improve the Brumbies’ player depth. Talented young rugby players will be handed the opportunity to study in the Australian capital as well as the prospect of graduating to the Brumbies’ senior side.
‘I would love to attract some boys to come and play rugby in Australia,’ White told The Canberra Times. ‘Every day I get calls from dads [in South Africa] asking where I suggest their kid can play. It shouldn’t be underestimated a lot of South Africans will see this link and see it as an opportunity [to come and try to play for the Brumbies].’
White wants university delegates to travel with the Brumbies when they tour South Africa in April. It is on this tour that the university may look to recruit promising schoolboys with the long-term aim of including them in the Brumbies’ Super Rugby squad.
The former Springbok coach explained that it is not his intention to dilute South Africa’s pool of young talent. White said that the aim was to give these youngsters an opportunity to play Super Rugby, and that down the line the player and possibly even the Boks could reap the benefits.
‘Nothing would hurt me more than to tell a South African dad to bring his kid here and he doesn’t leave Canberra a better player,’ White said. ‘I don’t want these boys to come here and to be a Brumbies fan, I want him to come here with an opportunity to play for the Brumbies.
‘There’s no reason why it can’t happen, I get excited because we’re sitting on something great, but we can’t just offer an opportunity to study. It’s going to promote rugby in Canberra and increase the standard of rugby we have here.
‘It won’t happen in year one, but it will be sustainable for South African and New Zealand boys to come here and study.’
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1 Feb 2012, 20:12 pm
great white long last lost hope you should pack up and pack for perth,., or melbourne,., or sydney ,,, or canberra,., or darwin,., or goolongone ,., or wherever your colony hopping instincts might take you,., cause this place is all colonized out,., that little kitchener pipe dream is all collectively clambered and closed out,., and it ain’t coming back no more, no more, no more, no more
So just like all good colony hopping colonizers like Bruce and Bryce and Clyde and Jeckyl and Hyde before you better hit the road jack and take this other confused clouded colonialist colleague named dracula (in reverse) with you, perhaps jake the confused soutie fake might have a place big enough in his colony hopping knapsack to stash the two of you up there where like attracts like and everyone lives in blissful closed clamorous colonial harmony together forever.
1 Feb 2012, 20:26 pm
Hondo you should have packed for perth long time back too, that’s if you haven’t done so already
I knew a good soutie colonialists son from SharkieVarkie country called Sydney (dammit he pegged the other day) who had a popular hit number around the circuits called ‘Africa’s not for sissies’ check it out maybe its on u’tube, and its oh so alarmingly apt, all those colony hopping sissies should join jake and go fake it someplace else.
Just like exasperated testes in Philly Dilly country.
1 Feb 2012, 21:03 pm
@ashampoopaloo-51:
Is that the answer. Everything can be solved by suggesting that one leaves.
That’s the mentality that makes Africa the Down Syndrome continent of the world.
Like you and others that share your limited sagacity and ability for rational thought, people will continue to treat you with little or no interest because you are simple.
Pick up a magazine or two and get some perception of the world. You might be out of Africa but you still carry the baggage of African inscience like an STD.
1 Feb 2012, 21:31 pm
what you doing here great white lost hope if you so desperately despise this place, just fck off and carry your dreams of another colony to colonize with you, then you can be happy like a SharkieVarkie in piggysville no more desperate pipe dreams to seek someplace else.
I been all over this planet, probably more places than you,., so I don’t need no magazines to tell me anything I don’t know already,., its you poor forlorn lost colonialist that don’t have a place you can call home, so I’m suggesting you make a plan and go get one where you don’t have to lower your esteem and you can rub shoulders with all those you think you got common ancestry with, over here you a lost cause amongst the minorities, just go where you can feel warm and fuzzy at home, like Hondo and Bryce and Clyde did already, c’mon go ahead, what’s stopping you,., you can be just as happy as a piggy in shitstreet just as good as them..
1 Feb 2012, 23:08 pm
@ashampoopaloo-54:
Did you manage all this travel by exploiting cheap African wages and making gravey train superprofits?
Doos!
1 Feb 2012, 23:11 pm
jWhites clever and this a brilliant ploy
Otago team under mains was closely associated with Otago university. my gf at the time who knew nothing about rugby came back from otago an avid supporter and wanting to learn more about the sport. all through the mid 80′s and early 90′s otago where a power and the majority of their players were from Outside of Otago attending the uni. the crowds were immense (for otago), mainly students and were loyal supporters until the Otago rugby board screwed them over and started being a bit an4l and draconian. the uni students never forgave them and that was the begining of the end for Otago and has brought them to the current situation
2 Feb 2012, 00:02 am
@whatever-55:
What you trying to insinuate you little fakface prick? Your pissarse SharkieVarkie last of the great white lost colonialist brother in colony hopping bewilderment suggested I read some magazines to acquaint myself with the great wide wonderful world, so I simply put the feeble idiot poephol straight that I probably travelled far and wide enough to know a colony hopping arsehole like you from a colonialist prick like him.
So happens I did all my travelling long before I ever ventured in the building or construction industry, I was travelling the globe before you were even out of nappies or perhaps even before you were conceived, same goes for the apartheid riot police twat who thinks he’s a worldly wizened schmuck, which he ain’t, long before he was riding shotgun on the back of his Caspir aiming his R1 at urchins in the township street I was traveling the middle East, UK and Europe.
I also did fair amount of travelling to India, and far East when I dealt in import business through the 90′s, before I became a builder in the house construction industry.
So whatever you trying to insinuate or pin on me you ludicrous dumb f’ng colony hopping doos, it unfortunately for you don’t fit.. Idiotic derelict schmuckarse..
2 Feb 2012, 01:16 am
@ashampoopaloo-57:
Obviously picked up a dose of something that affects the brain in your travels. Reminds me of Idi Amin………….
2 Feb 2012, 02:33 am
This is a very clever partnership.
The University of Canberra has been establishing itself as a sporting university for many years now, with solid physiotherapy and nutirition/dietetics curricula, and among the most recognised teaching and sports management curricula in the country.
(This is in contrast to the other major Canberra uni, the ANU, which is primarily a languages and scientific research university)
Sure if this arrangement all goes to plan, there may be a few talented SA youngsters picked up to play rugby for the Brumbies and possibly even the Wallabies, but the bigger outcome would be a much larger group of young South Africans returning home with strong qualifications in the management of elite teams and players.
Cannot really complain about that.
2 Feb 2012, 03:33 am
@DonutDunning-59:
For sure… and it’s not confined to South African’s either…
White certainly going about growing the game locally with partnership with the UC… this coupled with his recent rule of contracted Brumbies only being permitted to play local club rugby rather than in Sydney (as they all do) certainly shows he has ‘big picture’ mentality…
I still expect them to end up bottom of the national conference this year with 16 players having left… only a miracle coaching performance will see it otherwise…
2 Feb 2012, 07:48 am
@ashampoopaloo-54:
Na. You’re still small of mind. I have travelled extensively too but as with people like you, you will no doubt argue that you are more seasoned. It’s that whole ingrained African knee-jerk reaction to everything to cover up for a feeling of perpetual inferiority.
Boasting of your alleged exploits shows it all too clearly. Shame for you.
Just another bitter African that still doesn’t fit in.
@DonutDunning-59:
That’s why Jake White is still such a good coach. Thinking ahead like this shows the character of the man. He is streets ahead of his peers.
2 Feb 2012, 07:59 am
@ashampoopaloo-57:
“..he was riding shotgun on the back of his Caspir aiming his R1 at..”
Huh????? I was riding shotgun on the back of my Casspir? I must be THAT good.
2 Feb 2012, 08:27 am
you flatter yourself great white no hoper, I ask again wtf you dubious nobody with nowhere in Africa to call home doing here if you are so man of the world enlightened and you despise this continent as if its the pit of Shady Hades itself, fck off to never never goolongwanaland, you’ll be far happier over there where all the indigenous population were systematically and conveniently killed off by your raving raucous rebellion Rambo’s and where you can look over your pitiful punk eyed shoulder and cast your despicable despising dissent of all things African from there.
As to your assumption that you are in anyway remotely of a broad minded disposition, you may have been carted around to your mercenaries destinations like Afghanistan or Baghdad or East Timor under the guise of your soldier for hire enlightenment, but that most definitively don’t determine you are in any realm whatsoever further advanced down the track of evolution than you pitiful last lost great white brotherhood protector possibly ever are.
You still as thick and closed minded as you were when you were employed by PW and his cronies. No further down any evolutionary tract are you now than then, whatsoever.
2 Feb 2012, 08:46 am
@ashampoopaloo-63:
Nowhere to call home you say. Are you insinuating that just because I am of European decent, Africa (as you call it and not South Africa) is not my home?
If I didn’t pump thousands of dollars into this economy you and your cousins would be sitting around a wood fire in the bushes again. This country would be another Nigeria. The ANC steal as fast as the dollars come in….that hole under the State coffers gets bigger every year. Your cousins are stealing right under your beesneus and you look the other way, as they tend to do. Pilfering is the way forward for your lot…it’s also ingrained.
Now your other cousins in Africa decided not to vote one of your ANC fatcat cronies as the new Chief of the AU. The tide is turning..Nigeria,Kenya,Gabon and Sudan voted against the fatcat….so even Africans don’t trust South Africans anymore. Aich!!!!
2 Feb 2012, 13:43 pm
This article by Keo does not reveal all what white said.
He also said he did not want to be drawn into to declare which nation these students should play for. Brumbies have great facilities and it would be a shame if some saffas don’t make use of it. Jake white knows some saffa students will stay and some will go back…numbers game! But at least the kids got the best coaching at junior level. You guys tell me if there is a great junior level coaching program in saffa land??
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