Du Preez available for Boks
8 May 2012
Fourie du Preez has made himself available to the Springboks for the Test series against England in June.
Du Preez is currently contracted to Japanese club Suntory Sungoliath until March 2013. The club has given Du Preez their blessing to play Test rugby, and Du Preez himself has declared that he would like another crack after effectively retiring from the international game at the end of 2011.
However, Du Preez clarified that he would not stand in the way of promising youngsters based in South Africa.
‘I will always be available to play for the Springboks, but I’m well aware that we have a wealth of talented scrumhalves in South Africa, particularly someone like Francois Hougaard, whose time has now come to establish himself as the No 1 scrumhalf. It’s time for the next generation to step up, but I’d be happy to help if the coach calls on me.’
Before moving to Suntory at the end of 2011, Du Preez had enjoyed a long and successful stint at the Bulls, and was integral to their three Super Rugby title wins in 2007, 2009 and 2010.
He’s already played an important role in the development of Hougaard at the Bulls, and it could be that his return to the Bok fold helps Hougaard become the best No 9 on the planet.
‘I’d be happy to share my experience with the next generation of South African rugby talent and I would like to thank Suntory for granting permission to do so,’ said Du Preez.
‘That said, my contract with Suntory ends in March 2013 and I intend to show the club the same commitment I did to the Bulls and the Boks throughout my career.’
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9 May 2012, 06:48 am
Skopskiet
You are being dishonest when you say your don’t hate burger… of course you do…. We’ve all seen your posts… they are so personally insulting about not only the players but his character too… if this wasn’t an anonymous blog you’d be facing libel charges…
You have also said he is not good enough to play in a currie cup team and suggested that possibly he’s adequate for vodacom cup… you’ve named many of your team sheets that don’t even include burger on the bench for the stormers so terrible a player is he to you…
Your poison hatred of him means you ignore truth and fact when discussing burger… you have not once acknowledged danie rossouw given away a lineout penalty that james o’connor converted which actually cost us that game… and won’t acknowledge that pocock (illegally but not penalized) toed the ball through having entered the ruck from the side… because in your feverish hatred of burger you’d rather lie about the facts than give up an opportunity to slander him… again…
Rugby… all sports… are about entertainment and fans or supporters (you’re a fan I’m a supporter … because you are only for a team when it suits you but I have supported wp and the boks without exception for over 40 years…) and fans and supporters choose favorites they they think are good and/or special… Yet you mockingly dismiss anyone positive about schalk burger as stupid blind hero worshippers… yet you bang on and on… often illogically… about others players who achieve nothing for years… who then have a good game and you come on keo begging everyone to see you were right…
and you’re not “just saying it as it is…” because you ignore every fact that gets in the way of your hating…
your irrational hatred for burger is manifest in that you even extend it to people who choose to support him by insulting and demeaning them too…
You think by shouting loudest… and longest… and most repetitively… and most profanely (until you get banned again)… that your hate-based fact-free opinion will be interpreted as truth… and the sheer weight of your ponderous words will intimidate people into agreeing with… or ignoring you…
Don’t tell us you are not a hater and then go on to spew hatred in virtually every word you type…
9 May 2012, 06:49 am
Skopskiet
You bang on about stormers doing so well because schalk is neither playing nor captaining them… he was injured in the 12th minute of the season… a new season in which allister was first put in charge and was going to do this his way using his exceptional interpersonal skills to get the best out of his team…
You give no credit to him and jaque and matty and even fleckie… or to the spirit and camaraderie that has developed in the team…
Your hatred focuses only on another factless, spurious negative with which to try again to demean schalk burger as much as you possible can… with every fibre of your being craving to bring the man down…
In your opinion it is because of schalk’s absence that we have won… and because of jean’s leadership (and I agree he is an excellent leader)…
But when jean was injured… we still won… so duane took over captaincy… and we won… and then duane was injured… and andries took over… and we won…
Now your burger logic of focusing on the negative would mean that both duane and andries are better captains than jean because their record is 100 per cent… while ‘jean lost’ to the crusaders…
Absolute rubbish of course…
Fact is the team has continued to win despite all their injuries to key players and leaders…
Far from proving burger’s absence is the miraculous reason for the teams success… it demonstrates to rational people that the team is so tight, so focused, so determined, and so committed to each other that they play for each other no matter who wears the armband or plays for the team…
And it would have been no different had burger played the whole season…
So don’t say you are not a hater skop… you produce the evidence day after day, post after post, banning after banning…
You’re not a hater because I have hung a cardboard sign around your neck… you’re a hater because of what and how you have said things on keo for years…
You can’t change that by simply protesting you’re not… and then going on to hate in your next post…
9 May 2012, 06:53 am
i apologise to everyone else for the above posts…
it’s the last time i will respond to him
9 May 2012, 06:56 am
@ufo(ufo)-102:
Now that you are feeling better and got it off your chest. A very good morning to you!
9 May 2012, 06:58 am
nice to know some players want to come back and play for the Boks
9 May 2012, 07:00 am
@mushu(mushu)-105:
Yeah I heard Naas offering his serves as well. Very nice to know…
9 May 2012, 07:00 am
services
9 May 2012, 07:04 am
@Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-104:
hehehe…
thanks bill…!!
and to you bud…
gonna be another awesome day in cape town…!!
9 May 2012, 07:04 am
@Ufo. Spot on. We all see through those posts. Skop’s posts are only taken seriously by Skop himself.
9 May 2012, 07:09 am
@ufo(ufo)-108:
Yeah a scorcher here in Pta too…
9 May 2012, 07:10 am
@stormer in a teacup(stormer in a teacup)-109: @ufo(ufo)-108:
Weather forcasts for Saturday
9 May 2012, 07:17 am
@stormer in a teacup(stormer in a teacup)-109:
thanks… but no pleasure in it…
@Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-111:
perfect weather for saturday… no rain… early 20 temp… light wind…
a perfect day for rugby at newlands…
very excited about it…
but very nervous of the cheetahs…
9 May 2012, 07:18 am
early 20s temp
9 May 2012, 07:18 am
@cab(cab)-65: @bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-92: fellas, it might that he sounfs better in afrikaans but in eeeengleeesh he loses the plot.
9 May 2012, 07:20 am
@ufo(ufo)-112:
Are you going to the game? I’ve got my tickets for the Bulls game and will wear my Stormers jersey with pride. Nogals the away shirt. Will fit in quite nicely. I miss going to Newlands, but hope to be returning soon…
9 May 2012, 07:24 am
@Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-115:
absolutely bill…
will wear my late-80s wp jersey… full cotton…. long sleeves… no sponsors logos… disa on the chest…
love it..>!!
9 May 2012, 07:25 am
when you do return or visit…
please let me know…
9 May 2012, 07:27 am
anyway guys…
got an 8 o’clock to prep for…
chat later…
have a great one…!!
9 May 2012, 07:29 am
@ufo(ufo)-117:
I come to CT regularly on business. Will do…
Have a good one mate…
9 May 2012, 07:30 am
Also outta here… Work calls
9 May 2012, 08:40 am
Nicely spoken Fourie but you are back because Meyer wants you back. Maybe it’s not a bad thing either. Hougie is always a good option as an impact player/utility back and this series is not going to do him any harm. Senior players are dropping like flies and Meyer has made it clear he is looking for a mix of senior and junior. The fact is we do not have a world class scrummie if you take FDP out the equation. We have a few comming through but not yet. I just hope FDP is not made captain. My pet puff adder has more charisma than he does.
9 May 2012, 08:54 am
Skoppie,skoppie,skoppie,i am glad you are back to your old name the other one was a bit of a mouthful,and i see you are **** stirring again i personally could not care less about your fixation with burger or du preez,but can you wind some people up,and you are good at it.Personally i agree with what you are saying the stormers seem to play better without him and as far as a bok selection?.As far as du preez`s selection for the boks i wouldn`t know i have not seen any of his play since he went to japan have you! so i cannot comment on his selection.There is an old saying a new broom sweeps clean and i think HM beeing that new broom must seriously think of leaving the old guard ie;bakkies, danie, jaque fourie,fdp,victor,jdv,and habana out of bok selection.It is a time now for die jonge mense to come forward and stake their claims,but this is only my view.
9 May 2012, 09:31 am
UFO@101
And all Gods Chillun say Amen.
This constant vitriol is tiresome
Well done.
9 May 2012, 09:50 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-89:
Up until the Bok RWC test against Fiji the idiot was on the bandwagon calling for duh Villiers to resign. A few minutes after the Boks beat Fiji skopshyte proclaimed duh Villiers to be the saviour of Bok rugby.
This is why other bloggers don’t take his drivel seriously.
9 May 2012, 09:54 am
just to see how dumb skop is, listen to the time whackhead simpson pranked him : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U1xk9XWGGU
9 May 2012, 10:01 am
Magtag maar jul is agro hier vandag!
Relax – life is like a box of chocolates…..
9 May 2012, 10:05 am
@grant10(grant100)-125:
He smaaks Gene de Villiers
9 May 2012, 10:09 am
Fourie du Preez plays no different to any other scrummie and is no worse either. In fact he box kicks and runs from the fringe of the scrums more often than most scrummies, and like George Greegan he tries to influence the referee. That is the job of the scrummie in the modern era.
What is he doing that you armchair experts don’t like?
9 May 2012, 10:30 am
skopskiet – Referring your comment on the RWC 1/4.
It was very sad to see the real competitors come onto the field far too late to make an impact. The whole RWC campaign was a major disaster. I agree on Louw he had had no game time to get ready for the 1/4s, J Smit was an mbarrassment, Spies has the build but no grunt, FDP was an embarassment!!
Bissie was 27/28 last year and should have played first hooker at the RWC in his prime. He will now be 32 at the next RWC so thank you PDV for ransacking the Boks RWC hopes. If there ever was a RWC to defend last year was it, The Boks had the players to defend it but not the coaching staff!!
By the way Pakslae had a great RWC!!
I reckon the Boks first choice 9 should be Hougie with Ruan on the bench!!!
9 May 2012, 10:34 am
@race of tan(race of tan)-129:
Don’t forget that the coach had a major bearing and should shoulder a lot of the responsibility for the players insipid performance.
Young Steyn came fresh out of Europe and having had little influence from duh Villiers he subsequently blew the opposition away before he was injured.
9 May 2012, 11:26 am
Stay in Japan, man.
9 May 2012, 18:37 pm
I guess an article on Jake White – who seems to be doing wonders with the Brumbies (top of the Auzzie Log) would get one particular blogger ejaculating on hte spot!! (the – matfield, burger, du Preeez, Smit lover)
9 May 2012, 21:56 pm
where should I answer these twits.. here.. or on a more prominent current thread seeing as this one is already pushing the history channel..?
This Ufo and his sidekick Pissant along with all their yes men ra ra hero worshiping two faces.. I wanna see any of them condone a player who fumbles a ball and gifts the opposition a try in a do or die scenario in a WC quarter final .. if his name was not Schalk Burger, John Smit or Fourie Du Preez..
C’mon you big cotton picking ja broer hero worshiping back slappers
Let that player have been Luke Watson or Juan de Jongh or Gio Aplon or Chili Boy who let that gimme pisseasy try in for a gift 7 points from NOTHING.. and lemme see you big two face ra ra hero worshipers come with all your highfalutin ‘Love’ for the poor sod. ! If it perchance had Luke Watsons name on that gimme pisseasy open sesame try gift to Aussie in a WC 1/4 final.. you can rest ASSURED this website would have been bathed in BLOOD…
But seeing its hero worshiped blue eyed god incarnate can do no wrong water walker Schalkie … NOT a bloody PEEP is heard from the two faced peanut gallery.. and to TOP it FdP f’ng BUTCHERS a try in the Aussie goal zone.. something Hougaard would have lapped up with EASE…
and Pissant and Ufo CONTINUE in their unabashed infatuated hero worship blindness… and use their feeble fckup of an EXCUSE to label me a ‘HATER’
whatafucking JOKE like a pathetic pig in a poke.
Yeah I ain’t gonna lecture you on the merits and demerits of Love vs Hate right here.. but you imbecilic nincompoop wanna sling pathetic ‘hatred’ induced labels around due to me calling your f’ng Love infatuation a HAS BEEN who fck’d Boks out the WC.. then you stupid imbecilic idiots dunno the BEGINNING of where Love or Hatred either begins nor Ends.. MORONS UNITED..
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