Peters slams Loftus security

Peters slams Loftus security

12 Mar 2012

Sanzar CEO Greg Peters says steps will be taken to ensure all Super Rugby grounds are more secure after Keven Mealamu was hit by a bottle at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.

A plastic bottle was thrown at Mealamu at the end of the fixture against the Bulls, and the culprit then managed to make his way on to the field to confront the Blues captain. The two men had a heated exchange before Bulls wing Bjorn Basson managed to convince the local fan to leave the field.

The incident has been dealt with by the Bulls, who have apologised to the Blues on behalf of the union. A charge of assault has also been laid against the man in question, but as far as Sanzar is concerned, it is an incident that should never have happened and can’t happen again in future.

Peters said he had written to the Bulls for a full report. ‘These incidents are thankfully infrequent but you don’t want any of them,’ he said.

‘We understand police are handling the incident. That’s a separate process, but we will also be making sure that the security provisions the Bulls have in force are reviewed, to ensure they are absolutely the best they can be, because protection, welfare and safety of our players is paramount.

‘If there is anything that can be learned from this incident, it is that we shall be making sure all our grounds are as safe as they possibly can be. You don’t want players having to look over their shoulders and be worried about what is going on behind them.’


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  • 1.Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 07:21 am

    Typical blue bull supporter behaviour,and people wonder why I don’t go to moftus.
    Atleast there is always 2 box tickets including food and booze available for me for any game at Kingspark,including tests.

  • 2.Citizen: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 07:31 am

    Its everything at Loftus, not just the drunken fans, the swearing, getting crushed at the gates trying to use their stupid card readers to allow the fans in. Its a mentality thing in Pretoria an attitude of belligerence and arrogance that crosses over to women and children in the fans.The ‘fans’(certain sections of the crowd to be sure) lets use this phrase loosely as they could more easily be called ‘zealots’ have absolutely no respect for anyone other than their own bigoted views and actions..The bottle throwing idiot on the field is a symptom of all that is wrong with certain (boozed up) Blue Bull fans..I’m certainly not going back to the stadium anytime soon.

  • 3.Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 07:37 am

    Tacticus has found a new idol.This idiot is a hero in 99% of the bulls fans eyes.

  • 4.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 07:42 am

    Oh dear…

    At least this incident has allowed some of the girls here to get a few things off their chests.

  • 5.Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 07:45 am

    @the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-4:
    So just wanting to watch rugby without drunk idiots and swearing is a outburst to you?

  • 6.welcome to my life, hugh...: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 07:56 am

    next up bryce… :grin:

  • 7.stew: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:10 am

    Disgraceful behaviour – has to be dealt with harshly , the Bulls union needs to make an example not good for rugby

  • 8.HongKongSlong: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:20 am

    Isn’t the surprising thing about this not that it happened, but that it only happened now?

  • 9.BULLET: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:23 am

    Please can we ban the supporter from all venues in SA. We dont want this turning into football.

  • 10.BULLET: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:23 am

    Also, ban the people he came with / was watching with. They should have stopped him as well.

  • 11.garth: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:24 am

    That’s why I moved out of Pretoria. Some crazy mtr-fkrs living there.

  • 12.BULLET: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:26 am

    Remember when Van Zyl tried to tackle the one Kiwi. What venue was that?
    It was shamefull.

  • 13.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:27 am

    @BULLET(BULLET)-12:

    The almighty KINGS PARK!!!

  • 14.BlueBlood: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:32 am

    This happens so seldom I don’t see the big deal at all. Punish the oke and that’s it.

    I watched Ross Kemp on gangs with the Polish football hooligans. Now that’s bad.

  • 15.garth: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:35 am

    @BlueBlood(BlueBlood)-14: Why does it always happen in SA and nowhere else? Why is it always an Afrikaaner?

  • 16.BULLET: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:36 am

    Dawn – I thought it was. Horrendous that!
    Blueblood – lets hope that we dont go that way. II say punish him so bad (life ban) that people cringe at the thought.

    These players are role models to kids, and should be treated with mutual respect no matter how much we hate to see our teams losing.

  • 17.BULLET: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:37 am

    Garth – Its probably got more to do with booze than anything else.
    Now I dont want beer to be banned from the games, but I would rather see booze banned than rugby turning towards hooliganism.

  • 18.garth: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:40 am

    At the very least they should ban glass bottles and hard spirits. They also need to make an example of this twot.

  • 19.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:40 am

    @garth(garth)-15:

    You got a big wooden spoon out today

  • 20.garth: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:44 am

    @Dawn(Dawn)-19: No man. It’s fcking embarrassing.

  • 21.Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:48 am

    Piet van Zyl is a blue bull supporter who travelled down to Kings Park to watch the test,his clothing proved that aswell.I say errect high fences at moftus to keep these animals at bay.

  • 22.HongKongSlong: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:48 am

    Banning booze at soccer matches in Europe hasn’t stopped Holiganism over there. Its a mentality thing. Alcohol is sold freely in Europe at rugby matches and a lot of fans get very drunk at some of the games, they just don’t behave like animals whilst under the influence. I think a big part of it comes from people who have actually plaid the game, have a large amount of respect for the opposition, after having a played a game for 80 minutes and tried to beat the **** out of each other, they then meet up in the bar and have a beer and a chat to each other as friends afterwards. Soccer is pure hate for the opposition in a lot of instances. There are always exceptions.

  • 23.munkiboi: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:54 am

    @garth(garth)-18:

    glass bottles are banned. article says this was a plastic bottle. probably a coke bottle with klippies mixed in.

  • 24.Namblack: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:54 am

    LOL.

    Not so long ago everyone on this blog vowed that if Bryce Lawrence was ever to put foot on soil in SA he will be a dead man. Most people were actually serious.

  • 25.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:59 am

    I’m suprised Kevvie didn’t headbutt him.

  • 26.Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 08:59 am

    I reckon they must let the bulls play all their games away.

  • 27.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:04 am

    Lol at fernley who thinks he’s liberal and sophisticated because he has a plot by the dam and he is schnacking some indian sheila’s roti.

  • 28.welcome to my life, hugh...: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:04 am

    @Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-26:
    :lol:
    tjop…

  • 29.Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:06 am

    C unther,I have a stand at the dam,not a plot.

  • 30.Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:14 am

    I have never claimed to be liberal,sophisticated,have manners or class.I don’t and still I am better than the common bulls supporters.

  • 31.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:23 am

    Woohoo!!

  • 32.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:25 am

    Look, my communitycan be broken down roughly as follows:

    500 000 people – common Jack Parrow types.
    500 000 people – poor, but churchgoing, salt of the earth types
    1000 000 people – professonal, educated middle class folk
    500 000 – yuppie, liberal “forgot their roots” type of people.

    That’s the 2.5 million left in SA.

    Then there’s another 500 000 or so overseas, pretty much spread between all 4 groups.

    The Bulls have their fare share of categories 1-3, but very few of the last category, who are mostly Stormers fans.

  • 33.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:26 am

    @Tacitus(Deucalion)-32:

    fare = fair.

  • 34.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:31 am

    @the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-27: hahahahaha :lol:

  • 35.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:32 am

    this thread is just the start i needed to my day!

    kak funny! :D

  • 36.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:34 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-35:

    Indeed.

    Have you got a CD name for that Queen Latifah number?

    Please?

  • 37.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:34 am

    Fernley you make the average Bulls supporter look like the Daily Lama.

  • 38.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:35 am

    @Tacitus(Deucalion)-32:

    Where do I fit in???

  • 39.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:37 am

    “I have never claimed to be liberal,sophisticated,have manners or class.I don’t and still I am better than the common bulls supporters.”

    Classic!

  • 40.welcome to my life, hugh...: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:38 am

    @the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-27:
    naughty gunther…
    thats a white card penalty with the issue to be referred to the citing commisioner for suspected foul play :grin:

  • 41.BWA: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:38 am

    Keven watch out on Saturday, Dawn told me that she’s going to throw you with her papsak ….

  • 42.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:38 am

    @Dawn(Dawn)-36: the album is called Black Reign, came out in 1993

  • 43.Biscuit: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:40 am

    @Tacitus(Deucalion)-32:

    Your community?
    Which one is that? I am not sure if I am included or not?

    Is it Afrikaner? Previous Advantaged?

    Also curious about your definition of middle class?

  • 44.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:42 am

    @Transformation(Transformation)-42:

    Dankie

    Off to Kalahari I go

  • 45.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:43 am

    @Biscuit(Biscuit)-43:

    All I want to know is where I fit in!

  • 46.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:45 am

    @Biscuit(Biscuit)-43:

    No, you don’t form part of it.

    Your community has a different breakdown.

    It’s roughly like this:

    500 000 common Fernly types
    500 000 professional middle class people
    500 000 upper class Sandton, southern suburbs types.

    That’s the 1.5 million left in SA.

    Then there are about half a million or so living in Canada, Aus, NZ and England. Apparently the New SA wasn’t all their liberal sensibilities thought it would be, and they grabbed the earliest available first class ticket outta here after 94.

  • 47.Biscuit: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:47 am

    @BULLET(BULLET)-17:

    I agree and disagree.

    I have witnessed very bad behaviour (violence) close up (a few metres from me without being involved) at Newlands, Loftus and Ellis Park.
    Seen it in Durban but not close.

    Have also been subjected to abuse (not banter which is cool) at the same 3 venues

    I can say w/o a shadow of a dount.
    1) Everytime there was alcohol involved
    2) On none of the occassions it was beer fueled. It was always spirit fueled. How do I know? I could see what they were drinking and in the case of the abuse I could smell it.

    Ban all spirits inside the stadium. People entering already hammered should be chucked out

  • 48.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:48 am

    @Tacitus(Deucalion)-46:

    And me?

  • 49.Taahirah: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:48 am

    Sad thing is this idiot will end up spoiling the experience for the rest of us.

    prison style fences to be erected.

    Sad.

  • 50.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2012, 09:51 am

    @Dawn(Dawn)-48:

    You’re part of yet another community.

    Not sure about it’s breakdown, but you’re from the classy part of it, I’m pretty sure.

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