Pocock joins White’s Brumbies
29 Jul 2012
David Pocock has signed a three-year deal with the Brumbies.
Pocock announced the deal on Sunday. The 24-year-old openside flanker will move to Canberra after spending seven years at the Western Force.
Pocock said he was excited to start a new chapter of his career at the Brumbies.
‘The Brumbies have a good coaching and management team of Jake White, Laurie Fisher, Stephen Larkham and Tony Thorpe, so the opportunity to learn from them and challenge myself was appealing,’ Pocock told the Australian media.
‘Over the last seven years I have travelled long distances to visit my close knit family in Brisbane and with the Wallabies schedule there is more and more of my time required on the east coast with training camps et cetera.
‘Being based in Canberra will make it easier to travel to Brisbane and Sydney.’
Head coach White was delighted with the signing of the Wallabies star, who will fill the gap left by young openside flank Michael Hooper.
‘To have a guy like David Pocock want to be involved with the Brumbies is very encouraging,’ said White. ‘The attitude and commitment of Brumbies players in 2012 has been outstanding. I’ve been impressed with the way the boys have taken on pressure and turned it into results. I see David thriving in this environment. He will fit in here perfectly.’
22 Comments
29 Jul 2012, 09:45 am
Joke Article
CTRLC – CTRLV
Thanks Supersport…again!
29 Jul 2012, 09:49 am
@BULLET-1: How can you call it a ‘joke article’ and credit SuperSport if both websites sourced it from media in Australia and New Zealand???
29 Jul 2012, 09:50 am
One was posted a few hours ago.
One was copied and posted a few minutes ago.
29 Jul 2012, 09:54 am
@BULLET-3: Did you miss the part that both websites sourced it from overseas media? And not from each other?
29 Jul 2012, 11:21 am
Is White their official sponsor? It’s hard to recall a single Brumbie article where they weren’t referred to as Jake White’s Brumbies.
29 Jul 2012, 13:49 pm
is there no more honour left in this game
29 Jul 2012, 15:26 pm
Jake is a class act. Great Brumbies performance this year with a young team. He has created the culture. Next step is to bring in some firepower, and who better than the Zimbabwean leader of the Ozzie national team?
Go Jake.
29 Jul 2012, 16:26 pm
Guess Jake believes in fetchers after all.
29 Jul 2012, 16:35 pm
He says he believes in playing to your strengths. The Brumbies strengths may be different from the Boks.
29 Jul 2012, 17:12 pm
Will Pocock fetch the beers for Jake?
29 Jul 2012, 17:13 pm
@sparticus-8: Ha ha similar thoughts Sparticus
29 Jul 2012, 17:23 pm
yeah this pathetic dumbfck so confused the all time protagonist of no fetchers required NOW wants an entire f’ng army full of them
Luke Watson syndrome has overtaken Jake the snotty nosed Fakes brain.. he now sees Luke Watson scrumming down BOTH sides of his belly wobble scrum..
Pocock and Hooper playing open side or they gonna switch from blind to open to No.8 ?
29 Jul 2012, 19:15 pm
I’m pretty sure the Brumbies did well this season. Good enough.
30 Jul 2012, 02:13 am
Did JW not say , as a joke, the only fetchers he needed was his son…. was just a joke right?
I am surprised people mock him, he did wonders for SA, one of the best coaches the Boks ever had. Unfortunately the SA government want a piece of the action so as usual stick their dirty corupt noses into sport, and because our rugby tops the list of highest revenue in all our sports this so called government are green with envy even with their pockets are already so full of tax payer money which falls out as they walk.
People should be taken a dig at the government with their effing racist poo that that they full of, now called “transformation”. Thats what people should be anoyed at—-inequality…..double standards in the so called ” rainbow nation”.
How can anyone mock him, he stood up for what was correct, showed the light in political intrution. Only fools and rednecks would disagree.
30 Jul 2012, 02:15 am
@fitz1ella-12:
Come on rock for brains, stop sniffing that dry cement!
Hooper announced about 6 months ago he is going to the Waratahs.
Jake White, World Cup winning coach was right about luke Watson. He was not good enough and not needed.
30 Jul 2012, 08:13 am
Good…no, make that excellent, buy!
Go Jake!
30 Jul 2012, 19:07 pm
@Greenies-14:
Cry me a fckin river,you and your scummy Jeppe boy Jake who threatened a journalist he would send one of Brett Kebble’s killers to teach him a “lesson”.Add to that cheating on his wife then now a “new born” Christian.
Funny sh*t,holier than thou. I suggest you use some1 as your point of departure for your infantile rants
30 Jul 2012, 19:10 pm
@myth geskop-15:
What bullsh*t
Right about Watson how? Not god enough? on what ground especially looking at his form in 2006 where he was the best flank in superrugby & CC rugby.Worse also because Schalk had a career threatening injury as well.Thatd be like saying Hooper after the season hes had this year & Pocock injured-leaving him out would have been an astute selection.
Talking nonsense
30 Jul 2012, 19:24 pm
@mshiniwami-18: @mshiniwami-17:
Go Mshini.. teach these white nosed White arse lickers the real lesson of who and what the two faced Fake ACTUALLY is and represents..
I reckon I give him max another 2 years at Brumbies .. if that.. before they work out the wheat from the chaff .. and Jake the two time fake takes a hike from Brumbie country.
30 Jul 2012, 20:11 pm
A-holes, Jake built the strongest Bok side ever. He won us a world cup. What the hell is wrong with you w ankers that you have to rip into everything and everyone great in SA rugby. Watch him reach his potential in the land of OZ, where he can do his job without the intereference of a bunch of incompetent, useless politicians. Take your reverse racism and shove it right up your pathetic free loading, underachieving secondhand sadza ejection ports.
31 Jul 2012, 06:18 am
U tell ‘em, mate!
I will never, EVER, support a team which is built up around a quota system.
31 Jul 2012, 07:02 am
They don’t call JW the ‘magician’ over here for nowt…
- Revolutionised the Canberra club rugby scene in just one
- Revolutionised the Brumbies advanced conditioning and nutrition system in just one season
- Taken ‘talent-spotting’ to another level attempting to contract Hooper before he’d even played a game for the Brumbies not too mention a few others from all across the national league and union systems… and those 6 players can thank him solely for their Wallaby inclusion
- Taken the youngest and least Super-capped team in the entire competition to one point outside of the play-offs from the wooden spoon end in just one season
- And now convinced the Wallaby skipper to join his franchise rather than take the millions offered to him by the Rebels
Yep… magician indeed!
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