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6 Feb 2012
Highbury Safika Media is looking to hire a Cape Town-based junior sports writer.
The successful applicant would be expected to contribute to all of HSM‘s sports magazines as well as keo.co.za. He or she would need to have good writing skills and an excellent sporting knowledge.
If you think you’re the right person for the job, e-mail your CV and examples of your writing to simon@hsm.co.za before 8 February 2012. Should you not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application for this position unsuccessful.
98 Comments
2 Feb 2012, 07:40 am
What is the salary?
2 Feb 2012, 07:42 am
If it involves drinking lots of Windhoek Lager……
2 Feb 2012, 07:53 am
skop,skop…let it be skop!…
2 Feb 2012, 07:56 am
Fantasy Rugby anyone? http://superrugbyfantasy.foxsports.com.au
After deciding your team, join the league named ‘keo.co.za’. The league code is 150-3348
Just a bit of fun for the Keo regulars. Good luck to all.
2 Feb 2012, 07:57 am
Slop has his own column here already.
2 Feb 2012, 07:59 am
Who got fired?
Or has Vrede finally packed his bags for New Zealand?
2 Feb 2012, 08:02 am
@au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…-3:
I guess it would make you proud to have your lover doing something that you
could both boast about at your next Women’s Book Club meeting.
2 Feb 2012, 08:03 am
Well if they hire fuckadilly they are going to have to install another shortarse urinal at Gnome Towers.
Will he able to upload his articles from his nokia 3310?
2 Feb 2012, 08:08 am
how much you paying Simon? But better realize I’m no ‘junior’ writer, you want some hard core no frills left field sarcy head high journalism give me a call, and you don’t need my CV you got 5 years of curricular activity to determine whether I fit your bill or not. Otherwise employ a ‘junior’ if that what you looking for.
2 Feb 2012, 08:09 am
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19-1: Salary would be discussed at the interview.
2 Feb 2012, 08:11 am
@Simon-10: I wanna earn more than Keo and be able to ban all WP-supporters from this site.
These are my conditions.
Take it or leave it.
2 Feb 2012, 08:11 am
My vote goes to one of the following 3
1 Gwant10
2 Justbuggery
3 Asshampoop
For pure comedic value of course.
2 Feb 2012, 08:11 am
a junior sports writer?
How about starting with just getting A sports writer?
Skop, you will have to insist on a new Nokia.
2 Feb 2012, 08:12 am
Ryno Gerber signed a short term deal with the Bulls.
See, Im more than competent.
2 Feb 2012, 08:12 am
@stormer in a teacup-5:
well who would be the most suitable of all bloggers on keo?
@Great White Sharks gonna get ya-7:
no. if i had to play the naughty way then skop would not be my kind of man. i also would not belong to a book club, but its all moot as i am thoroughly onside in my sexual orientation.
no offense skop.
@the artist formerly known as gunther-8:
he would be like debra patta on acid… with a loaded magnum. hard hitting journalism would take on a whole new meaning.
2 Feb 2012, 08:13 am
@ashampoopaloo-9:
Ja like he’ll even consider hiring someone that’s bipolar.
2 Feb 2012, 08:13 am
Warning to all who are interviewed…
If you do not declare your love of Puke Twatson, no job pal.
2 Feb 2012, 08:14 am
@Simon-10:
could you at lest give us a ballpark figure?
2 Feb 2012, 08:14 am
@ashampoopaloo-9:
Ja no, if you want to hire an 1di0t Simon, definitely give this guy a call.
2 Feb 2012, 08:14 am
@au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…-15: well, as long as they don’t consider Eternal Tripe…
2 Feb 2012, 08:15 am
Dawn would be perfect. All her one line sentences would make for easy reading.
2 Feb 2012, 08:16 am
@au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…-18: 2c per word and a case of Windhoek on the 25th
2 Feb 2012, 08:18 am
full or part time?
2 Feb 2012, 08:20 am
Where is Vrede? Did the dwarf fire him because of his over the top punting for Luke – for reasons unknown to us (and him apparently him too)
2 Feb 2012, 08:23 am
@Taahirah-11: Then you’d have to man up and get a real name. One that isn’t a girly one.
2 Feb 2012, 08:26 am
Why don’t you get a buddying journalist from the ‘previously disadvantaged’ community??
Now that would be cool.
He could learn his trade from the ‘greats’ – Mark Keohane; Ryan Vrede; Simon ….. and some of the others whose names I cannot remember!
2 Feb 2012, 08:27 am
@hendrikp-6: @RL-24: Guys, settle down. I understand the desperation to know if I was signed by a rival website on transfer deadline day. But I’m still here. New Zealand can wait. I work in Cape Town and earn more money than a Man City player. Why leave? And for the record, I didn’t ask anything about Luke at the press conference.
2 Feb 2012, 08:30 am
@Ryan-27: so what you are saying is one more season of the Vrede show on Keo tv.
2 Feb 2012, 08:32 am
@RL-28: What I’m saying is a couple more seasons of irritating the living **** outta you. That is more satisfying than any facet of my job.
2 Feb 2012, 08:34 am
@Ryan-27:
Hehe that actually made me laugh.
True, my guess would’ve been Mark asking the Luke Watson questions… didn’t see any of it but read there were questions asked. It’s a very Keo-like thing to ask.
2 Feb 2012, 08:35 am
@Ryan-29:
2 Feb 2012, 08:35 am
@Ryan-27: I think you meant to say ‘I earn more money than a Man City supporter.
Can I apply?
I can be your fact checker.
And thanks for clearing up the Luke Watson thing. What did you ask?
I’m genuinely interested.
2 Feb 2012, 08:36 am
@Ryan-29:
Long as you guys stay out of North Shore I’m happy. One more strange Keo-TV video at the SA shop, and I’m jumping from Harbour bridge.
2 Feb 2012, 08:37 am
@RL-24: Correction: For reasons we “wouldn’t understand”
Check yourself buddy.
2 Feb 2012, 08:37 am
@Ryan-27: Keo dollars don’t count as real money…
2 Feb 2012, 08:37 am
@stormersboy-32: ” I think you meant to say ‘I earn more money than a Man City supporter.”
Classic.
2 Feb 2012, 08:39 am
Will you be holding psychometric evaluations and judging presentations by the candidates?
Have you made a HSM jacket for Pissant and guaranteed him the position only to appoint the poodle-****** at the last minute for ‘non-rugby’ reasons?
No but seriously on this site there would be no better than Morne (PA) you could give him a part-time freelance job, let him keep his current employer (even so he spends more time writing on rugby)… but he has to be able to keep Ruggaworld
2 Feb 2012, 08:39 am
Hey Ryan, why don’t you recruit the guys in the office to face off against the Keo regulars?
Guys from ‘The Rugby Club’ all play… including Phil Kearns, Rod Kafer, Tim Horan, Greg Martin & Brendan Cannon…
http://superrugbyfantasy.foxsports.com.au
After deciding your team, join the league named ‘keo.co.za’. The league code is 150-3348
Just a bit of fun for the Keo regulars. Good luck to all.
2 Feb 2012, 08:40 am
Ps he’d probably do it for beer and a braai-pack per day…
2 Feb 2012, 08:40 am
@stormersboy-32: He didn’t ask anything. Keo was sitting on his shoulders to be able to see over everyone else and he had to hold Keo’s notepad between his teeth.
2 Feb 2012, 08:40 am
Without Ryan there wouldn’t be any Blue Bulls articles, and then what would the likes of Tacitus do?
Stormers bashing gets boring after a while if there’s no Blue Bulls to compare them to.
2 Feb 2012, 08:42 am
@hendrikp-17: Yes, if you don’t have a poster of Luke on your bedroom wall, don’t bother applying.
2 Feb 2012, 08:44 am
I wonder how much shorter than Keo you have to be to qualify as a “junior”?
2 Feb 2012, 08:45 am
@Taahirah-11: lol.
2 Feb 2012, 08:45 am
@Simon-42: hahahahahaha
Classic.
How about Butch?
I read his book.
You can quiz me if you like
2 Feb 2012, 08:47 am
@Simon-42:
Now that we’ve established that…
I don’t think you’re going to find a credible candidate on here
Best advertise elsewhere.
2 Feb 2012, 08:47 am
My wife publishes the odd article, mostly in magazines on psychology related matters to do with kids and stuff.
I think she’d be the perfect writer for this site,
Plus she’d class up the joint a bit too.
2 Feb 2012, 08:49 am
On a serious note:
(1) Mshiniwami
(2) Pissant
(3) willievz
Though I doubt any of these guys would be interested in a junior post.
2 Feb 2012, 08:49 am
little Hendrina hendrapoepy living like a luke bashing displaced japie in New Zealand calling the desperate devious shots from over there. At least Luke is still an African and a proud as punch one at that, what can fak’d out displaced half relevant nincompoop expatriated exiles like this dutchy dewdrop delinquent who thinks he might still have any thing relevant to suggest about anything African let alone who keo.co.za employs or represents, from his displaced convenient sissies chicken arsed hideaway hidy hole in somebody else’s island country over there?
Him and his east Timor great white brotherhood protection racketeering mercenary, should start another colony for displaced dewy eyed delinquents who couldn’t quite cut it in the real world over here.
2 Feb 2012, 08:49 am
@trupisero-20:
et couldn’t write his way into a toilet cubicle. he’s got some sort of hunter s thompson slash stream -of-consciousness thing going sure, only thing is its not good, often incoherent, poorly written, badly spelled, very rambly and shot through with bad grammar.
i really, really would not pay money or even subscribe for free to any journal or other that he would/could write for. its mostly 1980′s sounding udf kind of slogany nonsensical stuff. yes, there is a message deep inside the medium somewhere or perhaps a medium deep inside the message… but there is also a lot of white noise and static.
@trupisero-22:
well, as long as they dont make me buy the windhoek..?…
2 Feb 2012, 08:50 am
@hendrikp-38: Hi H.
The thing with that game is you have to change players and do all the analysis.
It’s just too much work to be able to consistently give it the required attention each week.
I can barely remember to put my Superbru picks in by Friday morning.
I’d love to but I know better.
2 Feb 2012, 08:52 am
@ashampoopaloo-49:
Changed my mind… hire this guy.
He obviously needs a job.
2 Feb 2012, 08:52 am
Simon
Willie and Pissant are some of the bloggers who consistently write decent rugby-related posts.
Don’t think these guys would necessarily qualify as junior but you could do a lot worse than getting them involved in some capacity. Their opions are usually well thought-through and doesn’t change from one day to the next.
You can also consider Katman. He is a bit biased towards the Lions but at least he is funny.
2 Feb 2012, 08:54 am
@stormersboy-51:
It’s easy enough… not like testrugby (which is run by SharksWorld) which requires a lot more work.
You just pick a starting-15, and sub in your bench players if anyone in the starting-XV is on a bye or being rested. Simple enough.
2 Feb 2012, 08:54 am
@hendrikp-52:
Pity he can’t speak english.
2 Feb 2012, 08:56 am
Before putting forward more candidates…
Maybe Simon needs to establish that the person needs to have relevant qualifications.
2 Feb 2012, 08:56 am
I don’t think I meet the criteria. I don’t curse enough and I don’t bash God.
It seems to me that sooner or later each writer here does that. I would rather be unemployed than lower the bar.
2 Feb 2012, 08:56 am
@stormersboy-47:
wow! you would expose her to this crowd?
you are a brave man.
2 Feb 2012, 08:57 am
@Great White Sharks gonna get ya-55:
Pity he’s got something jammed very far up his behind…. last thing I want to read is F this and F that.
Also the thoughts he puts forward regarding SA rugby are not only radical but very stupid.
2 Feb 2012, 09:00 am
@au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…-58: Believe me….
This crowd would not stand a chance.
it would be all over rover
Good night nurse
6 love
fARK SORRY CAPS…
2 Feb 2012, 09:02 am
@hendrikp-54: k
I’ll have another look at it,
2 Feb 2012, 09:02 am
@stormersboy-60:
2 Feb 2012, 09:08 am
@hendrikp-56: He or she would need to have good writing skills and an excellent sporting knowledge.
2 Feb 2012, 09:10 am
@hendrikp-52:
I agree, Post 49 has settled it for me.
Anyone who manages to mention East Timor?! in a rugby post is worthy of writing for anyone.
2 Feb 2012, 09:11 am
@Ryan-27: really, mor dough than a Citeh player? that bloke must be gareth barry or milner.
2 Feb 2012, 09:16 am
@stormersboy-60:
wow!
i like the sound of her already
by all means, please…get her on board.
2 Feb 2012, 09:18 am
@Simon-63:
more than 20k or less than 10?
2 Feb 2012, 09:19 am
@John Galt-64:
Please leave Embedded Tool out of this…
2 Feb 2012, 09:20 am
@hendrikp-38:
They’d get a huge hiding… although it wouldn’t take much to out-smart Kearnsey and Marto…
2 Feb 2012, 09:20 am
WTF?
More than a bit of ego-mas.turbation on this thread…
Mostly Stormersaders here… go figure.
2 Feb 2012, 09:21 am
@Simon-63: That’s unfair. You and the rest of the gang have neither, yet expect the junior to have both.
You wouldn’t recognize a well written informative article, even if it gave you a broekstoot.
2 Feb 2012, 09:24 am
@bryce_in_oz-69:
You playing Bryce?
2 Feb 2012, 09:32 am
familiarise yourselves so we can avoid any moaning about “get the jarpies” when the season is on!
SANZAR is to trial new disciplinary rules during the 2012 Super Rugby competition, CEO Greg Peters announced on Thursday.
The changes follow a cross-country Working Group meeting with representatives across all areas of the game held in September last year, which conducted a ‘clean sheet’ review of the SANZAR judicial process.
The objectives of the review were to provide a system that is fair, consistent and simple with fewer full hearings and consequently reduced costs.
“SANZAR has long held the view that the disciplinary process could be enhanced to provide for a more consistent and simplified outcome,” said Peters.
“We believe that these changes are an important step in the right direction”.
1 On-field Referee Referral to Citing Commissioner
Instances where a referee thinks an act of foul play has occurred but is not sure if a red card is warranted, or is unsure of the identity of a player
Where a player makes a complaint to a referee who did not see an incident
Can be in addition to a yellow card or penalty
Referred to the Citing Commissioner for review
2 Citing Commissioner issues an “Off-Field Yellow Card”
Instances where a Citing Commissioner observes a serious act of foul play that is close to but not quite a red card
The Off-field yellow card is logged on the player’s disciplinary record in the same manner as an On-Field yellow card
3 Duty Judicial Officer
Performs an initial assessment of citings, red cards or three yellow cards
Duty Judicial Officer may hold a brief teleconference with the player and/or his representative
Determines whether or not to offer the player a preliminary indication of penalty
May refer to a full judicial hearing
The player must accept he committed an act of foul play to be offered an indication of penalty
If player does not accept the indication of penalty the matter will be referred to full hearing
4 Judicial Hearings
Where a full judicial hearing is required it will be held by videoconference or teleconference with ‘in-person’ hearings only taking place in exceptional circumstances
Other processes for the hearing will be the same as previously
5 Appeals
SANZAR has a right of appeal the outcome of a judicial hearing on the following grounds:
- Where there is substantial unfairness, or the penalty imposed on a player is clearly excessive or inadequate
- Where there has been a fundamental error by the Judicial Officer in reaching his decision
Normal rights of Appeal apply for players
The SANZAR trial has been approved by the International Rugby Board (IRB) and will form an important part of the IRB’s own full review of Regulation 17 that governs the disciplinary process internationally.
2 Feb 2012, 09:33 am
@hendrikp-59:
His ideas are as outdated as Mugabe’s underpants.
2 Feb 2012, 09:34 am
@Simon-63:
Hmmm. Upped your recruitment standards then, have you?
2 Feb 2012, 09:35 am
@hendrikp-54:
Test Rugby was a Kiwi invention long before Sharksworld was around…
@hendrikp-72:
It’s a good game… although like Test Rugby takes up too much of my time… I prefer the Ruggaworld games they’re as simple as putting in scores and the prizes are awesome…
2 Feb 2012, 09:38 am
@bryce_in_oz-76:
Okie dokie.
2 Feb 2012, 09:38 am
It’s flattering, but I’m not interested, thanks. I’ve grown but this site hasn’t.
2 Feb 2012, 09:38 am
@stormersboy-60:
We knew you’d be back Grant10…
2 Feb 2012, 10:02 am
@bryce_in_oz-79:
2 Feb 2012, 10:21 am
Called my clever cousin in Lavender Hill
He’s applying.
2 Feb 2012, 10:34 am
Make an offer to Tacitus man!
He is the only un-biased blogger on this site. Can give a fair and honest account of all Bulls Players.
2 Feb 2012, 10:38 am
I coached U16B rugby at SACS for 2 years and once won letter of the month about 5 years ago.
Does that make me suitably or overqualified for this role?
2 Feb 2012, 10:59 am
I’m not sure Rehaan earns as much as a Man City supporter but he certainly dresses like one.
A symphony of man made fibres.
2 Feb 2012, 11:00 am
Dear Hilbilly Safucka Media
I am looking for the job and wish to apply.
I can rite nice and no lots of the rugby.
My hobbies is church and watching soccer on TV.
Yours truthfully
Finfan
2 Feb 2012, 11:01 am
@hendrikp-77: Thanks for creating. I have just joined up. I enjoy the fantasy league much more than the predictions but it does take alot of your time.
2 Feb 2012, 11:04 am
if I was young I would have loved this gig.
being paid to watch and write about sport.
my guidance counsillor at school was so-not-on-the-fcking-ball!
have a sneaky suspicion that he wasn’t exactly 100% hetro….so sport didn’t play a big role in his life.
2 Feb 2012, 11:22 am
@Sasuke-86:
Cool. Look forward to it
I enjoy Fantasy more as well… predictions are boring as hell.
2 Feb 2012, 11:27 am
@Brigadier Van Zyl-87: Hey, don’t be so hard on yourself and your guidance councilor. The world needs maternity wear designers as much as it needs sports writers.
2 Feb 2012, 11:29 am
No mention of money.
I will definitely consider applying for this role but will need to clear R1800 after deductions.
That way I can pay for my rent, groceries, education and auto mobile. The remaining R300 will have to pocket money for now.
2 Feb 2012, 11:35 am
It will be an honour to work for Highbury Swastika Media…
2 Feb 2012, 11:37 am
@Brigadier Van Zyl-87:
When did you realise… at a sleep-over when he came out of the bedroom in his Khaki’s with buttock-cheeks cut out and dothed you ‘Brigadier’?
2 Feb 2012, 11:59 am
“good writing skills and an excellent sporting knowledge.”
Well that makes all the writers, bar Keo, redundant.
2 Feb 2012, 12:20 pm
“a symphony of man made colours”
2 Feb 2012, 13:51 pm
Has Cardinelli finally cracked under the emotional stress of sharing a U-Haul with Vrede for a month? It’s called Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome…
2 Feb 2012, 18:36 pm
How about hiring a Saffir who lives in a country that doesn’t play rugby. Was born in one province, grew up in another and yet calls even another, home.
Has a doctorate.
You can call my piece, Afar to the heart.
Comeone Keo, you have my email address.
2 Feb 2012, 18:47 pm
@bryce_in_oz-39:
Haha, damn straight, 6-pack of Heinies and a braaipack, would included, would about do it!
7 Feb 2012, 11:48 am
Keo, why waste money? Just buy an intelligent Thesaurus app that will change random words within a downloaded or archived document with workflow to automatically publish to the Web.
Did you not realise these existed? Then you can move Jon and Ryan to the Department of Redundancy Department!!!
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