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25 Apr 2012
MARK KEOHANE names the two youngsters who should be in the Bok squad to play England as well as the two overseas players who could solve Heyneke Meyer’s No 7 selection headache.
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23 May 2013
Willie le Roux and Lappies Labuschagne have finally been rewarded with spots in the Springbok training group. They are two of eight that are first timers in Springbok training groups this year. The others are Gio Aplon, Trevor Nyakane, JJ Engelbrecht, Lionel Mapoe, Wiehahn Herbst and Demetri Catrakilis. The group of players will assemble in Durban for the second training camp of the year, before the final squad for the Incoming Tours is selected. Players not considered due to injury include: JP Pietersen, Jaco Taute, Frans Steyn, Johan Goosen, Duane Vermeulen, Pat Cilliers and Frans Malherbe. ... Read Article23 May 2013
MARK KEOHANE, in his weekly KEOtv offering, is picking the Bulls in Durban and another Stormers shambles in Cape Town. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m3yMKuy8yM Read Article25 Apr 2013
Jan Serfontein, the player of last year's under 20 World Championship, will head the baby Boks defence in France. Serfontein and Kings wing Sergeal Petersen are two Super Rugby regulars to make Dawie Theron's squad and brilliant flyhalf Handre Pollard is another to play in a second successive tournament. Theron's squad lost a three-match series 2-1 to Argentina in Argentina. Serfontein, Petersen and Western Province's Cheslin Kolbe did not play in those matches. Bulls loose forward Ruan Steenkamp is captain. Serfontein and Pollard are the only two squad members from last year's ... Read Article14 May 2013
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has selected several uncapped Blues players in his training group. Hansen confirmed 38 names and this included many from the potent Blues backline. The Highlanders, despite only winning one match in this year's Super Rugby competition, have six players in the group. An obvious area of weakness is at hooker where Hansen has selected veterans Andrew Hore and Keven Mealamu and Canes Dane Coles. Options are limited and it certainly is a concern for New Zealanders. No overseas-based players were considered, as it is NZRFU policy. Among the uncapped players ... Read Article15 May 2013
French coach Philipe Saint-Andre has included three South African-born players for the three-Test series against the All Blacks in New Zealand. Racing Metro flank Bernard le Roux and Clermont prop Daniel Kotze join Antonie Claassen in a squad that includes eight new caps. Fijian-born Clermont winger Noa Nakaitaci is among the newcomers. Saint-Andre has rested flyhalf Francois Trinh-Duc, but included Toulon's Frederic Michalak. France play world champions New Zealand on June 8, 15 and 22 in Auckland, Hamilton and New Plymouth respectively. French super club Toulon's foreign dominance ... Read Article5 Mar 2013
MARK KEOHANE writes the Varsity Cup in its first year rocked. Since then it's just another professional tournament. The Varsity Cup may have the innovation of doing a few things differently, but what was supposed to be a celebration of student rugby somehow just seems like another tournament, in which the traditional power houses remain the traditional strengths in the tournament. Much has been made of the Port Elizabeth-based Nelson Mandela University display this season and equally there has been bewilderment at how poor Shimlas have been. But it seems the old one two of Stellenbosch University ... Read Article12 May 2013
Marcus Watson scored in extra time to beat the Blitzbokke in the London World Series Sevens Cup quarter-finals. The teams were level 14-all at full time. Watson's try came four minutes into extra time. England won 19-14. England had the chance to win the match with the last play of the game in normal time. They were awarded a penalty and opted to take a drop kick for goal. It missed. Watson then rounded off a move after England had retained possession for two minutes. South Africa suffered further embarrassment when they lost for a second time in the tournament to the USA and were eliminated ... Read Article8 Jan 2013
Limpopo will play in the Vodacom Cup as a separate side for the first time this year. The region, which is a sub-union of the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, has been granted a place in the tournament in its own rights to help foster rugby in South Africa’s far north. They join the 14 provincial unions as well as the returning Pampas XV from Argentina in the tournament, which kicks off in the second week of March and concludes in mid-May. The Polokwane-based Limpopo team will play in the North Section of the competition, along with the Blue Bulls, Golden Lions, Griffons, Leopards, Pumas, Valke ... Read Article25 Apr 2012
MARK KEOHANE names the two youngsters who should be in the Bok squad to play England as well as the two overseas players who could solve Heyneke Meyer’s No 7 selection headache.
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MARK KEOHANE, in his weekly KEOtv offering, is picking the Bulls in Durban and another Stormers shambles in Cape Town. Read More
Willie le Roux and Lappies Labuschagne have finally been rewarded with spots in the Springbok training group. They are two of eight that are first timers in Springbok training groups this year. Read More
The Rugby Football Union has turned down a proposal from their Welsh counterparts to stage the 2015 World Cup pool match between England and Wales in Cardiff. Read More
Marcus Watson scored in extra time to beat the Blitzbokke in the London World Series Sevens Cup quarter-finals. Read More
French coach Philipe Saint-Andre has included three South African-born players for the three-Test series against the All Blacks in New Zealand. Read More
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has selected several uncapped Blues players in his training group. Read More

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25 Apr 2012, 16:10 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-98:
25 Apr 2012, 16:10 pm
@Taahirah(Taahirah)-91:
yissus very snaaks.
at this rate I’m going to have to sell tickets.
kontant only.
25 Apr 2012, 16:11 pm
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-97: You should watch this one. You’ll like it.
25 Apr 2012, 16:11 pm
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-97: He wants Goosen and Esther Beth in, along with Jacques Cronje and Big Joe. And don’t dare suggest otherwise, or the little fella will mock the snot out of you. He knows his ruggafooty, Lil’Keo.
25 Apr 2012, 16:11 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-92:
Let’s see your team Mr. Expert.
25 Apr 2012, 16:12 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-100:
Muffin/croissant top
25 Apr 2012, 16:12 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-101:
25 Apr 2012, 16:13 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-104:
Magtag he is onbeskof
Never come across such a rude arrogant twerp since HG
25 Apr 2012, 16:13 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-98: If by “anti-establishment” you mean to suggest that I believe people under the age of 30 can play Test rugby, then yes – I am anti-establishment
25 Apr 2012, 16:13 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-106: At least Baguette Botha still looks lean and mean.
25 Apr 2012, 16:14 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-109:
Jy is net lus vir kaksioek man.
25 Apr 2012, 16:16 pm
too early for Goosen. May crack in big spotlight. sweats too much for my liking.
Steyn
Lambie
Elton
25 Apr 2012, 16:16 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-111: No, I just genuinely disagree with Keo’s opinion. But let’s just be friends …
25 Apr 2012, 16:18 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-113:
Friends indeed.
But come on now, you know HM will do the right thing.
If there is one guy that can and will build a team, it is Heyneke.
25 Apr 2012, 16:19 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-112:
Sweats too much? LMAO!!!
25 Apr 2012, 16:20 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-114: I want to believe … but not in a bunch of over-the-hill Bullies.
25 Apr 2012, 16:20 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-112: We’re talking about giving him game time, not a back rub.
25 Apr 2012, 16:23 pm
Greyling/Beast (if he makes a successful comeback in time)/Kitshoff
Chiliboy/Bismark (Chiliboy better than Bismark at the moment IMO)
Jannie (nobody else really)
Etzebeth (outstanding)
Bekker/Kruger (if Bekker is injured, Kruger looks pretty good)
Brussow/CJ Stander (Brussow hasn’t impressed me much this year, CJ Stander is a great player though perhaps less of an out-and-out fetcher. The law interpretations have changed though)
Elstadt/Marcell Coetzee (both hard men, Alberts has been a bit kak this year)
Spies (I think he has played better this year and Vermeulen is now injured)
Hougaard (dynamic)
Goosen (class)
Willie le Roux/JJ Engelbrecht (Willie has been great for the Cheetahs, JJ has been very impressive with limited game time. Habana is playing better, but too little too late)
Frans Steyn
JP/Taute (will both look better in a Bok team. JJ Engelbrecht has actually been great here when coming on for the Bulls, and may be worth a shot too)
Aplon (dynamic, great boot)
Lambie (solid)
25 Apr 2012, 16:23 pm
here’s one on the guppys new great white hype Pieter-Steph du Toit aka PSdT.
Pieter-Steph du Toit, the 19-year-old lock who made his debut for the Sharks in Super Rugby this weekend has, as reported yesterday, been included in this week’s Bok planning group. The young man from Swartland Hoër in Malmesbury is the grandson of a Bok legend from the same region, legendary Boland strongman Piet “Spiere” du Toit.
Piet du Toit was a hugely powerful player, plucked from the obscurity of the Stellenbosch under 19s, where he was playing flank, and turned into a powerful front ranker by Doc Craven. He went on to play 14 tests at tight head prop, between 1958 and 1961 and is still widely considered to be one of the strongest men ever to wear the green and gold – at least relative to other who played in the same era. Du Toit senior played his last test at the age of 25 and then went on to become a successful wine farmer , acquiring the Kloovenburg estate in the Riebeeck Valley in the late 50s. His son Pieter (Steph’s dad) runs the estate today.
Spiere, alas, passed on in 1996, at the age of just 60.
25 Apr 2012, 16:27 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-112:
are we auditioning for the boks or a pompfliek?
25 Apr 2012, 16:29 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-118:
Not bad.
Don’t agree with all, but at least you showed that you are a bit more open-minded than….who was it again? PW?
25 Apr 2012, 16:31 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-121: Cheers. I honestly believe a team like that would beat the sort of team Keo is proposing. But we all have our little ideas …
25 Apr 2012, 16:33 pm
Later.
25 Apr 2012, 16:34 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-117:
mean Goosen hasnt got nerves of steel for test rugby yet.
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-118:
where is the OVS hooker Strauss??. I think Taute could be a bolter.
25 Apr 2012, 16:35 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-124: Yeah, Strauss should be considered. Never seems to make mistakes.
25 Apr 2012, 16:36 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-118:
agree with your other thoughts to especially about Jannie!!. But I would still choose someone like Cilliers over him.
25 Apr 2012, 16:38 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-126: It may be worth a shot. I don’t know enough about scrummaging to make a decision on that. Jannie seemed to come good last year, but then seems to have lost it again this year. He would probably be more motivated for the Boks. Something seems to be wrong in Durban.
25 Apr 2012, 16:43 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-127:
IMO, he simply doesnt dominate enuf. Solid but nothing more. Natal is going through bad patch at moment. S15 campaign all over the place. Jannie goes missing in the loose as well.
25 Apr 2012, 16:45 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-128: But we don’t have a 3 in SA that dominates, so I’ll take solid!
25 Apr 2012, 16:46 pm
One of the nicest things things about reading through this thread, is that there is a serious lack of provincialism in it for a change!
Nice work guys
25 Apr 2012, 16:47 pm
Weren’t the same journo saying things like ……”we need to be gentle with Goosen and not rush him in…ect”
Keo and Co do more u turns then a fleet up taxi’s before a metro road block
25 Apr 2012, 16:48 pm
Is this Kebble lighty a LH or a TH? I really hope he is a TH… we need more than a few of those.
25 Apr 2012, 16:49 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-104:
Did you catch the Santam response to Nando’s on radio this AM?
25 Apr 2012, 16:50 pm
@Dazzler(Dazzler)-132: LH, I’m afraid:
According to the WP Vodacom Cup coach, John Dobson, Kebble is a tremendous prospect who has the ability to go all the way to the top.
“Ollie is a special player. Although he prefers loose head, he has the ability to pack down on both sides of the scrum. He is definitely more mobile and skilful than his dad,” quipped Dobson.
“I have no doubt that he has the potential to become a Springbok,” he added.
25 Apr 2012, 16:52 pm
@FFF(FFF)-131:
25 Apr 2012, 16:57 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-134:
Well if he has the ability, maybe they should start grooming him as a tighthead. He’s only 19 after all…
25 Apr 2012, 16:59 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-133:
Nando’s accepted the challenge and already delivered this afternoon, a day early.
Nice to see
25 Apr 2012, 17:01 pm
@Dazzler(Dazzler)-137:
Every month for a year ………….. thats what you call duel publicity
25 Apr 2012, 17:02 pm
Cheers all
25 Apr 2012, 17:03 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-66: sweetie you’ve been on your knees for a decade already
25 Apr 2012, 17:03 pm
@FFF(FFF)-138:
Clever marketing by both parties… they both come out of this the heroes.
And of course great that the kids benefit too. This is what PR should be all about!
25 Apr 2012, 17:04 pm
@Michael(mikeybrass)-71: my humblest apologies. How careless of me. Oh well then that team must be a goer
25 Apr 2012, 17:06 pm
@FFF(FFF)-74: He rates Lambie more a fullback than a 10
25 Apr 2012, 17:07 pm
@Dazzler(Dazzler)-141:
Would no be surprised if it was the same agency……..
25 Apr 2012, 17:11 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-113: and good on you … how dull a day if we all shared one voice. Different opinions make for even more different opinions which make for a more informed individual
25 Apr 2012, 17:12 pm
That ‘experience’ which carried the Boks at the 2010/2011 Tests Seasons yielded a cumulative 28% success rate against the Big Five (NZ, Aus, Poms, France, Ireland)
The way to go
25 Apr 2012, 17:13 pm
@FFF(FFF)-144:
Doubt it, a friend of mine is on Nando’s marketing team and she didnt mention it, but you never know… I’ll ask her!
25 Apr 2012, 17:13 pm
@FFF(FFF)-131: I said integrate him into the system and let him play Sup Rugby without fear of failure. That was before the start of the comp. Yet he has shown in his Sup Rug debut season that good enough is old enough.
25 Apr 2012, 17:15 pm
@Dazzler(Dazzler)-147:
does she work for Black River FC @ Jupiter
25 Apr 2012, 17:18 pm
I’m with Keo on Etzebeth, but not Goosen (yet). Keo’s forgotten a number of other stand out youngsters, such as Marcell Coetzee, CJ Stander and Siya Kolisi. All loosies ironically! I wouldn’t go oversease for more loosies and I wouldn’t bring back Matfield either. Bekker and Van der Merwe have enough experience for the Poms and there are good youngsters coming through like Etzebeth and Juandre Kruger. My match day 22 would be: Lambie, Basson, De Jong, Frans Steyn, Morne Steyn, Fourie Du Preez, Spies, Brussoux, Bekker, Flip Van der Merwe, Alberts (if fit)(Duane Vermeulen), Jannie Du Plessis, Bismark Du Plessis, Beast Mtwarira – reserves, Hougaard, Jantjes, Ralepelle, CJ Van der Linde, Gurthro Steenkamp, Etzebeth, Duane Vermeulen (if fit)(Marcell Coetzee).
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