Bulls backlash buries Griquas
10 Aug 2012
JON CARDINELLI watched the Blue Bulls overcome a slow start to hammer Griquas 35-20 at Loftus Versfeld on Friday.
Griquas played some exciting rugby in the opening quarter, fullback Wille le Roux showcasing his vision and superb distribution skills in the build-up to the first try.
Le Roux beat two defenders before releasing Rocco Jansen down the left-hand touchline, and linked up with his left winger again later in the move to complete the score. At 10-3, Griquas had raced to a handy and unlikely lead.
They managed to go to the break with a 13-9 advantage, but it was during the latter stages of the first half that the Bulls started to assert themselves.
The hosts dominated the contact point and stuck to their plan to kick for territory. They enjoyed a wealth of possession and it was only due to some fine Griquas defence that they were denied more points in the first stanza.
The Bulls failed to take full advantage when Le Roux was sin-binned for a reckless tackle, but continued to hammer away at Griquas’ defensive line. Eventually, the pressure began to tell, with Arno Botha breaking the line and setting up Akona Ndungane for a momentum-shifting try.
From that point, Griquas began to miss tackles regularly. The hosts were more ruthless in the second period, punishing Griquas via the boot. Flyhalf Louis Fouche kicked seven penalties and two conversions to finish with a personal tally of 25 points.
There was a glimmer of hope for the visitors when they scored on the hour, lock Martin Muller finishing a multi-phase move that was sparked from an excellent lineout.
Unfortunately for Griquas, they then conceded a seven-pointer at the other end of the field. Another two penalties by Fouche stretched the deficit to an insurmountable 15 points.
164 Comments
10 Aug 2012, 18:29 pm
Blue dragons set to draw a small crowd tonight; their star No 7 is on Springbok duty.
10 Aug 2012, 18:34 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-1:
Looks like there’s not much interest in the Currie Cup this early in the comp.
Or maybe a case of not much interest in the Bulls.
10 Aug 2012, 18:44 pm
Probably a bit of both.
Is that the same vuilg*t JP Nel I see at No 13? The same one who went to Japan?
Shame if it is, I never liked that one. TOO dirty.
10 Aug 2012, 18:47 pm
Anyway, outta here.
Catch up tomorrow.
10 Aug 2012, 18:49 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-3:
He’ll be playing against his previous province. There’s never a shortage of niggle with him around.
10 Aug 2012, 19:50 pm
A near empty stadium for the first match of this CC season. The main sponsor elected to not have a launch of the comp this year. Says a lot.
One of the vodacom cup or the currie cup will have to be canned & soon.
10 Aug 2012, 20:02 pm
stegmann still giving away penalties.
fouche’s put on weight looks good for tackling or taking the ball up.
blommetjie’s fumbly under the high ball.
bulls doing well to stay in it and keep the score close but giving away possesion to much/or to easily at times.
10 Aug 2012, 20:08 pm
nice break by botha and good support line by akona, try.
bulls look like busting this game open.
10 Aug 2012, 20:20 pm
that makes no sense
why request tmo assistance for an inplay infringement and then just award the same penalty you were going to all along.
these changes do offer promise for dealing with the cheating kiwis though but only if applied by scrupulous officials.
10 Aug 2012, 20:23 pm
That was an ugly horse collar tackle by the bulls 9
10 Aug 2012, 20:24 pm
also the tmo is suposed to advise on the level of the penalty to award.
which the tmo did not in this case.
10 Aug 2012, 20:29 pm
Ya bakkies. That was a yellow card offence. CJ O’Stander on now
10 Aug 2012, 20:30 pm
did bloemmetjie’s seriously expect to stop the griquas lock.
ridiculous.
what was he doing out of position anyway.
10 Aug 2012, 20:31 pm
The Bulls are not interested in these mickey mouse competitions .Only the super 15 counts.
10 Aug 2012, 20:34 pm
Oh my. Is ‘weight for fit, wait for ***’ Tac’s son? Can we please have a Bulls supporter with half an objective eye to run with the feed and not this Captain Snor?
10 Aug 2012, 20:34 pm
@viewer-12:
probably yes.
the intent didnt look dangerous but he did go high
not good use of the new extended laws in that instance
i guess a lot of it is new and officials are stil learning
this can either be the end of the kiwis if applied honestly
or they’ll find ways to ‘conveniently’ give poor tv replays to the tmo to use in nz.
10 Aug 2012, 20:35 pm
t i t
10 Aug 2012, 20:36 pm
That 9 scores but he should be facing a multi-week suspension, imho
10 Aug 2012, 20:39 pm
good tackle blommetjies
10 Aug 2012, 20:40 pm
bulls scrum poor all game
10 Aug 2012, 20:44 pm
kruger not scrumming well at loosehead
10 Aug 2012, 20:44 pm
Bulls’ superior fitness now sinking the griquas in the final quarter
10 Aug 2012, 20:46 pm
yip
a good first outing all in all
and a win is a win
10 Aug 2012, 21:05 pm
Polevaulting is technically probably the most difficult event in Track and Field.
Frenchman cleared the pole by about a meter but touch in when he came down and out he went. Same happened to the Aussie.
Carnage.
10 Aug 2012, 21:10 pm
10000m final for ladies- no saffer in sight- Elana was the last female world class long distance runner on the track we produced- what is happening?
10 Aug 2012, 21:14 pm
@Robzim-25:
5000 meter even
10 Aug 2012, 21:15 pm
@Robzim-24:
And Aussie Hooker was the gold medalist in Beijing.
10 Aug 2012, 21:17 pm
@Robzim-25:
i dont know and cannot tell you.
i know very little about the oloympic events save for a few of the disciplines.
i had no idea some of the sports i’ve seen were even olympic events.
10 Aug 2012, 21:17 pm
It is good to start with a win pity we could not get a bonus point,but i will take the win.It was an ok performance nothing startling and i hope they will improve as the season progresses,as that type of performance will not win them the CC.It is a pity that cj stander is leaving as he showed what a player he is when he came on and it saddens me to think they are letting him go.Botha and steggman played well maybe steggman MOTM.The bulls lineouts were iffy our locks are average and our front row are no world beaters,but if they can gel as a team who knows what they can acheive.GO BULLS.
10 Aug 2012, 21:20 pm
@IAAS-27:
He looked completely out of sorts as if he had no confidence. Very unlike an Aussie. The commentator did say that he had e terrible last 18 months though so its probably more a mental thing than anything else.
10 Aug 2012, 21:20 pm
@Robzim-24:
revaulting poles on the track and field?
ja, they are an odd bunch.
10 Aug 2012, 21:25 pm
@Robzim-30:
one of the sports i cannot find any info on is the rugby?
cane said their would be sevens rugby played at the olympics but i could not find any info on this?
10 Aug 2012, 21:27 pm
@wait for it, wait for it…-28:
You must just hang in there- next time around 7 a side rugby will be part of the spectacle.
Personally I love the olympics – the only sports I think is a bit “dodgey” are shooting and syncronised swimming. Women who wear heavy makeup when they get wet in a pool just do not do it for me.
10 Aug 2012, 21:35 pm
@Robzim-33:
You prefer their make-up not to be wet for you?
10 Aug 2012, 21:35 pm
@Robzim-33:
hahaha
how ironic, those were two of my favourites. i appreciated the fat american woman’s skill but her weight put me off her. something about women shooting guns makes my wires trip.
and the russian and chinese syncronised teams gave me naughty thoughts. as well the egyptians (so thats what they look like under those cloaks).
10 Aug 2012, 21:37 pm
@Robzim-33:
oh i see, sevens rugby not in yet.
cane’s in for a surprise
he’s expecting gold haha
10 Aug 2012, 21:40 pm
@boogieloo-34:
mmmm… there is a place and time for everything i suppose.
10 Aug 2012, 21:43 pm
Another WC record after 27 years. Massive run by USA women in 4 x 100 relay. I though Jamaica would’ve been a lot closer.
10 Aug 2012, 21:45 pm
@wait for it, wait for it…-36:
I wonder if the top players will be available in 2016 for selection as an Olympic gold is probably equal to a world cup win.
Imagine a 7′s team like (for example):
Habana
Africa
Aplon
Hougaardt
Spies
Brits
Kankowski
Cane might have to settle for silver.
10 Aug 2012, 21:45 pm
A disgraceful record been wiped from the record books!Well done USA!
10 Aug 2012, 21:46 pm
EVENTUALLY
The old GDR steroids built ladies 4 x 100 record is BUST by team Usa
astronomical relay by US girls NEW WORLD RECORD !!
Magnificent relay speed and technique most brilliant relay run by 4 committed flat out speedsters
10 Aug 2012, 21:53 pm
Frenchie gunning for Gold in Pole Vault
And both Russian and Pole ladies hammer for Gold and silver break old WR
10 Aug 2012, 21:58 pm
Each American,on average,ran one and a half meters faster than the East German counterparts.Staggering!!!
10 Aug 2012, 21:58 pm
@fitz1ella-41:
Now it is only Florence Griffith Joyner’s records that need to be removed.
Or was she clean?
Who will ever know for sure?
10 Aug 2012, 22:03 pm
Turkey one and 2
WTF.
I thought they were only good at weight lifting and wrestling
10 Aug 2012, 22:04 pm
Hitler draai in sy graf om!
10 Aug 2012, 22:07 pm
The brother is on fire!
10 Aug 2012, 22:09 pm
@Robzim-44:
What did you make of her nails?
10 Aug 2012, 22:12 pm
@carol-48:
lol… she was cool but her nails left me cold.
10 Aug 2012, 22:12 pm
The BNP will be watching Mo later on with clench fists.That’s now the Cottswold chapter.
10 Aug 2012, 22:13 pm
The nice Kenyan who won the 800M being interviewed now…..
Charming smiley person…
10 Aug 2012, 22:14 pm
British commentators already questioning the Turks victory.What a sicko.Typical British arrogance!
10 Aug 2012, 22:14 pm
@Robzim-49:
They were really spooky…
Rather like stormerforlife!
10 Aug 2012, 22:14 pm
@stormerforlife1-52:
Hello Dog Breath
10 Aug 2012, 22:15 pm
@stormerforlife1-52:
Got a problem saddo?
10 Aug 2012, 22:15 pm
@stormerforlife1-50:
That is uncalled for – you have no idea.
10 Aug 2012, 22:16 pm
Hello BNP pu.ssy.
10 Aug 2012, 22:17 pm
@Robzim-56:
Indeed poor deluded chap has no idea.
He has preconceptions…..
10 Aug 2012, 22:18 pm
@stormerforlife1-57:
Get a grip!
10 Aug 2012, 22:19 pm
ok, lets see what SA can do here. I do not expect much.
10 Aug 2012, 22:20 pm
Saffas in the relay now
10 Aug 2012, 22:24 pm
Great race there….
10 Aug 2012, 22:24 pm
Nothing wrong with my statement as per post 50.It’s a well-known fact that the BNP is most active in the rural areas.They will watch with hatred in their eyes.
10 Aug 2012, 22:24 pm
stone last- oh well, it was expected. fantastic run by the Bahamas though.
10 Aug 2012, 22:26 pm
@stormerforlife1-63:
Just do not generalise- u are better then that.
10 Aug 2012, 22:27 pm
Robzim’s defence of the BNP is very interesting.
10 Aug 2012, 22:27 pm
@stormerforlife1-63:
You are talking absolute nonsense, I have never met, seen or ever known anyone interested in the BNP!
You live in SA I assume?
What do you know about rural Britain? Nothing…… Please stop showing your ignorance!
10 Aug 2012, 22:29 pm
@stormerforlife1-66:
I think you are confused and suggest you go and rest now!
It is all a bit too much for you
10 Aug 2012, 22:30 pm
@stormerforlife1-66:
dont talk kak please- i have never defended the BNP and u know that- no apologies though for defending the person who you are accusing very unfairly.
10 Aug 2012, 22:31 pm
I live on this side of the world.Unfortunately for you I am one person you will never fool with this BNP mumbo jumbo.How is your leader with the sweet eye doing?
10 Aug 2012, 22:33 pm
The sweet lady doth protest too much it seems.
10 Aug 2012, 22:33 pm
@stormerforlife1-70:
Time for bed, you are a bit confused.
10 Aug 2012, 22:35 pm
Confused about your love for the BNP?
10 Aug 2012, 22:38 pm
What’s your take on Britain’s foreign-aid contribution?Don’t hold back now.
10 Aug 2012, 22:38 pm
@stormerforlife1-73:
You would love me to be a racist…but I am not…..!!
Have no idea why you think this.
Now relax and change the record, we are finding you very dull tonight
10 Aug 2012, 22:40 pm
@Robzim-69:
Rob, poor old SFL being very dull, catch you on ‘the other side’
10 Aug 2012, 22:43 pm
Should Cameron spend British money on his cancer patients or poor African or Asian kids?You can run off but you know what you are.
10 Aug 2012, 23:19 pm
@fitz1ella-42: Nee, nee, nee Skoppie. Pay attention, you know there will be a quiz afterwards. The hammer ladies both broke the Olympic record, not the world record. You could see the yellow line there just shy of 80m, whereas the winning throw tonight was just over 78m. Nice try at the dramatic stuff though.
10 Aug 2012, 23:20 pm
Is the dog molester high again? I’m sure his parole officer would be interested.
11 Aug 2012, 00:26 am
@fitz1ella-42: Dont be so moron abuelo. The usa girls are full on roids as well. The same goes for florence grifith jr.
11 Aug 2012, 01:53 am
@stormerforlife1-73:
So, what does BNP stand for and why do you accuse Carol to be one?
11 Aug 2012, 05:08 am
@nama1-81: British National Party. They are portrayed to be the British Nazis, but they actually aren’t that bad. Unfortunately if you don’t support one of the 3 main parties in Britain, or the Green party, you are deemed to be a racist.
11 Aug 2012, 06:50 am
@HongKongSlong-82:
Bullsh*t.
11 Aug 2012, 06:51 am
@carol-51:
agree! – humble too.
15points and you call that hammer??. Dont think its a big beating in my book.
11 Aug 2012, 08:23 am
You guys this is rugby not olympics!!! But I’m a olympic fanatic aswell… Regarding the bulls… Would love to see cronje get n good run next week and sadie coming in for beyers, beyers moving to wing/fullback with visser fullback/wing… Blommetjies unfortunately the unlucky 1…. Stander in for botha and hatting in for hess… Then bobs ur answer
11 Aug 2012, 10:56 am
Great start to the currie cup
11 Aug 2012, 11:14 am
@BrumbiesBoy-1: the crowds will only pick up closer to the business end. When the weather is also fine! I wonder how newlands will look today? Will the faithful be able to withstand 100% rainfall today?
11 Aug 2012, 11:34 am
Yeah, I know, was just taking the pi*s out of the Loftus mob!
Weather not good in CT today?
11 Aug 2012, 11:48 am
@BrumbiesBoy-88:
Horibaal kak weather in Suth Africa’s greatest city today.
11 Aug 2012, 12:07 pm
Yeah, en ex just sent me a pic taken today, I think…looks like Surfer’s Paradise has just moved to Sea Point!!
11 Aug 2012, 12:30 pm
@Robzim-39:
considering the number of players we have it shouldn’t be difficult to develop an olympic sevens squad but having said that, we already have a sevens squad and they’re not doing too well. probably a combination of coaching and admin.
11 Aug 2012, 12:36 pm
if this Heyneke Meyer got any brains in his domkopf he’ll pick Willie le Roux as his No.15 option … Way better all round prospect to all the other boring mediocre possible candidates he’s considering like Lambiepambie and the niknak man.
So Olympics winding down to the last hurrah all the big events done and dusted
Ladies 800
Men’s 5000
Men’s javelin
Ladies 4 x 400
Men’s 4 x 100
Men’s marathon to go then its all over
Been a pretty remarkable olympics, some huge performances in every sphere
WR’s in the pool and on the track and on the cycling track, in the weightlifting and elsewhere.
Most notable track feats
Men’s 800 new WR by Rudisha first man to go under 1.41
Ladies 4 x 100 WR smashing the old GDR ancient time
Ladies 100 hurdles Pearson pushed to the limit by Harper to go to new olympics time
Men’s 10,000 a British political refugee and a Yankee doodle dandy beating the great Kenenise Bekele out the medals
Bolt and Blake owning the men’s Sprinters. In that 200 race I had the distinct impression they had conspired to orchestrate that outcome, Blake not wanting to upstate his world renowned buddy and Bolt deciding he gonna leave his 19.19 record as sacramental for some other day, neither pushed as hard as they could.
Ladies and men’s pole vault all showing new hero’s and heroines displacing the old guard
Men’s 400 hurdles Felix Sanchez eventually getting his ultimate desire an Olympics Gold at 34 yrs of age
Ladies 400 flat Sanya Richards going one better than Beijing to just oust GB champ and Trotter of US and Montsho of Botswana.
Men’s 400 two outright juniors taking the great Usa 400 tradition set by Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson, Jeremy Warner and LeShawn Merrit by the throat and heralding a new 400 dawn, all top 4 finalists from Caribbean countries, Grenada, Dom.Rep., Trinidad, and Bahamas. 19 yr old james of Grenada first non Usa athlete under 44 secs with young 18 yr old Dom.Rep athlete following closely in his wake.
800 athletes also a new young breed, Rudisha 23 yrs old owning the WR at 1.40 + with Amos of Botswana at astonishing 1.41 + time at 18 yrs old at his first big event and the young 17 yr old Kenyan only less than a second behind.
Drama and excitement all over the London olympics, in terms of outright personal and team achievements perhaps the most exhilarating olympics yet.
11 Aug 2012, 12:42 pm
@xtremebull-85:
agreed mostly.
i thought botha had a good game but ja stander looks good too, hope he comes back. blommetjie’s needs more coaching and perhaps a little extra weight imo.
i didn’t much of serfontein but only because i wasn’t looking. stegmann played well but still giving stupid penalties. kruger wasn’t good at loosehead and the scrum needs work.
still, a good start to the season and bulls must build on it. regarding the coaches, is pienaar going to coach the bulls super squad too? i heard ludeke’s taking up heyneke’s dor role.
11 Aug 2012, 12:52 pm
for anyone who’s interested, the new ‘tmo’ law ammendment trials are in full swing and were tested in last nights game. i think the cc is the first to use it.
there was one instance of the ref referring to the tmo for an event occuring infield during play. it resulted in a halfcocked resolution because i feel the tmo did not weigh in with advice on the likely sanction but still a good use and outcome all the same.
if this is officially ratified by the irb then its bye bye nz rugby.
11 Aug 2012, 12:57 pm
The spirit and determination in the Caribbean athletics shown most dramatically when the tiny islands of Bahamas can produce a 4 x 400 relay team to take out the might of the great USA in the final on the LAST straight to take Gold and shove the overwhelming favorites USA into second place, says it all about sheer guts and determination where it counts.
11 Aug 2012, 13:11 pm
pretty soon fitz1ella will be telling us how great the Olympics are compared to the “pifling pifflyarsed mother hubbard colonies fuckadilly” sport that is supposedly rugby.
How banal.
11 Aug 2012, 13:26 pm
@94 bakkies. I’m getting familiar with the new regs but I assume the TMO could have pointed out that high tackle & recommended a yellow. If so, a worthwhile innovation. I agree with you, there was no intent but I class it as reckless nonetheless.
11 Aug 2012, 13:41 pm
yeah its a fact.. for anyone who cannot see how far more exhilarating and encapsulating an Olympics medal achievement is compared to a piffle arse end of sporting excellence any rugby equivalent like a RWC or S15 achievement is, is as thick as the neanderthal moronic colonialist sport they’re so attached to.
Chalk and cheese.. they not even fit to be uttered anywhere in the same breath
its like comparing tiddly winks to chess.
11 Aug 2012, 13:48 pm
@fitz1ella-98:
If you want to see some true real racing that involves endurance, speed, power, balance, technical skills, guts and tactics watch the women mtb on the Gold channel. The men’s event tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 will be even better with Burrie Stander who will be on contention for a podium finish.
11 Aug 2012, 14:11 pm
@Robzim-99: can’t get it now I try watch the men’s tomorrow. though we still got a vary vague medal potential in the men’s marathon tomorrow if one of our marathon runners can equal the feat of Josiah Thugwane at Atlanta, another feat of outright guts and endurance and BMT on the biggest sporting stage.
11 Aug 2012, 14:19 pm
As the world digested the scale of David Rudisha’s world record 800m run to win Olympic gold, Sebastian Coe said it was “the most extraordinary piece of running I have probably ever seen”.
The London 2012 chairman and double Olympic gold medallist said that, if Usain Bolt retaining his 200m title was “good”, then Rudisha’s charge around two laps of the Olympic Stadium track was “magnificent”.
“That is quite a big call but it was the most extraordinary piece of running I have probably ever seen. It was the performance of the Games, not just of track and field but of the Games,” said Coe, who has known Rudisha for around three years.
After the race the Kenyan said he had wanted to make the watching Coe “proud”. The pair had exchanged text messages before Rudisha blitzed the field with a 49.28sec opening lap and won in 1min 40.91sec, taking a 10th of a second off his own world record.
“He had the balls to go in there and think I am so much better than anyone else that he could do that. In Olympic finals you are not supposed to gamble with the till but he did,” Coe said. “It comes from consummate physical and mental confidence. If you look at the field, that is arguably the greatest 800m ever run.”
If Coe, who held the 800m world record for 18 years from 1979, was effusive in his praise for the Kenyan, then Rudisha was equally gushing about the former middle distance runner’s influence.
Rudisha said: “He was the man I wanted to meet in my career. I watched a lot of his races on YouTube. I was inspired by him. He told me he had seen something special and gave me a lot of confidence.
“He invited me to the Olympic Park in February and we looked around it together. I said then that I would go home and train hard to come back and win here. I am proud that I have not let him down.”
Coe said they had talked at their first meeting about how Rudisha – a “modest guy” – could break the world record, which he first did in August 2010.
“I have known him for three years and we talked at length three years ago about how he would break the world record. I said I thought the best thing was to commit early, then concentrate on the second lap rather than trying to pull it back on the second lap. I think I was proved right.”
After the race Coe congratulated him but also told him he could take another half a second off the world record.
Rudisha was also congratulated by Frank Lampard, attending as a guest of Coe, but had to break it to the Chelsea midfielder that he was an Arsenal fanatic.
Coe said that it would be hard for Rudisha to double up and also run the 1500m, a feat that was becoming increasingly difficult because of the way the races had evolved. “I have not seen his physiology but he doesn’t look obviously like a 1500m athlete. He looks more like the 800m has chosen him, he is not someone you look at and think he would run a great 1500m.”
Coe, an International Association of Athletics Federations vice-president, said he had been in discussions with the governing body about making it easier for athletes to race in both.
If Coe was effusive in his praise for the winner of the 800m, he was altogether less impressed with the 1500m winner, Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria. He said it was “bizarre” that none of the other runners wanted to take the race to Makhloufi, who controversially withdrew from the 800m.
“They went through at English schools’ pace for 800m. It picked up a bit at 1200m but then, surprise, surprise, they allowed a sprinter to win an Olympic title. I thought they threw it away rather cheaply.”
The London 2012 chairman said he was encouraged that, as he left the stadium, as many people were talking about Rudisha’s achievement as they were about Bolt’s historic double.
He said that he hoped that the charged atmosphere in the stadium and the memorable performances witnessed by the crowd would re-elevate track and field to its mid-1980s heyday.
“I really hope that this inspires a renewed interest in track and field. I sense that people are interested in the way they were when I was walking out of Crystal Palace in the 1980s,” he said.
Coe paid tribute to Bolt’s impact but said that the IAAF had also to market other stars of the sport. “We have the Muhammad Ali of track and field in Usain but we have to make sure the other sterling talents in track and field are recognised.”
11 Aug 2012, 14:22 pm
well its about time Fitz1ella realises his opinion is not superior to anyone elses, he doesn’t speak for Frikkie, Johnny and Sipho. Rugby is far more entertaining than this olympics diving, fencing, judo, synchro swimming, kayaking, marathon, round and round the track we go nonsense. Rather take a RWC any day over an olympics. Celebrate diversity Fitz1ella, not everyone has to share your views so stop trying to ram them down Frikkie’s, Johnny’s and Sipho’s throats.
11 Aug 2012, 14:26 pm
@How kak must you be to lose a home semi?-102: Dont give it attention boet
11 Aug 2012, 14:32 pm
well facts remain facts and opinions remain opinions but its about time that the rugby loving fraternity realize that rugby is just a mediocre colonialist throwback sport played on a mediocre colonialist throwback stage and nowhere near to the utmost thrilling and exhilarating human endeavor toward athletic or sporting excellence that the Olympics is…
11 Aug 2012, 14:37 pm
no rugby player possesses half the courage and the utmost dedicated discipline that a 15 year old female high diver does who can stand on the edge of a 10 mt diving platform and then extend herself into a triple backward somersault with a piked twist and enter the water in perfect aesthetic symmetry ..
show me one rugby player with half as much guts and dedication as that.
11 Aug 2012, 14:51 pm
Yawn.
11 Aug 2012, 14:54 pm
skoppy
so the south african kayak chick thanked sascoc for all the financial support they gave her.
so you were wrong again
just a rebel without a clue looking for a cause
11 Aug 2012, 15:25 pm
All this blah-di-blah about about rugby, etc the colonialist throwback sport being played on the colonialist throwback stage yet in the next breath he praises the Olympic Games which just happen to be held in the colonialist capital of the world…
Go figure….
11 Aug 2012, 15:34 pm
fact remains SA making a big song and dance about winning 5 medals in this Olympics compared to the one in Beijing when it was down to only 8 competitors with any kind of big brash balls
Cameron Vd Burgh, Chad Le Clos, Bridget Hartley and the men’s lightweight cox-less four so far the only SA sports people with any of that big world stage BMT, we may be surprised by Sem’enya and the marathon runners yet.
Remains to be seen if Caster can emulate all the expectation she’s shouldering, somehow I reckon the big Russian chick with the big kick gonna take her out in the final, will be a big showdown tonight perhaps Caster proves me wrong but the Russian the only one in the field with the physicality to take Caster on.
11 Aug 2012, 15:38 pm
@wait for it 93
I dunno if its true but ludeke is temporary in heinekes position till further notice… Rumour had it slaaptjips rossouw will be taking over the reigns with nienaber being backline/defending coach… Only time will tell mate… Rumours beg to differ in reality.
11 Aug 2012, 15:43 pm
rugby and skittle sticks not worthy to be classed Olympic sports.. go figure which sports are ratified as proper identified sporting codes worth Olympic accreditation and which not.. baseball, skittle sticks, american football, rugby league and rugby union do not, same as all those other neanderthal type maiming sports like MMA and free for all brawls which showcase human ambivalence to his evolutionary development or the reverse thereof.
Just face facts rugby ain’t a real high skill high temperament high excelling sport., same as skittle sticks ain’t, they’re just over played overrated archaic colonialist throwback pastimes disguised as so called ‘sport’.
11 Aug 2012, 15:54 pm
@ Louis schropnel, caster’s apparent hermaphrodite condition seems to give her a distinct advantage. Its between her & the technically gifted russian
11 Aug 2012, 15:55 pm
@xtremebull-110:
nice. i like rossouw hope he has success as head coach if he gets it. what about forwards coach?
i can assume nienaber is keen to expand his career from primarily a defense coach to both backline and defense but will say carlos spencer is on the market. maybe a short term consultant type contract? although backline/try scoring play is not a problem at the bulls maybe he could bring an extra 20% inovation.
11 Aug 2012, 16:01 pm
A lot of the female track athletes seem to be ‘roided up. A mix of male hormone treatment &’roids. Apparently a tell tale is a pronounced jaw. They exhibit an abnormally low body fat % & atypical physical proportions.
11 Aug 2012, 16:01 pm
@viewer-112: N
11 Aug 2012, 16:04 pm
@viewer-112: Now we really know about that now,do we?Unless you have access to the medical records of the iaaf you should just shut the fark up.
11 Aug 2012, 16:06 pm
@viewer-97:
no argument here, agreed.
the minute you start bringing subjective referee/judicial commisioner type interpretations into it you open the door to dishonest kiwi style rugby.
rules are rules and the players should be penalised first and thereafter allowed, with the help of his legal representatives, to bring his subjective arguments during the judicial hearing process.
i think in this instance it was a case of the tmo and ref being to new at it and a little unsure of what to do next. they both looked and sounded not too steady at where they were going with their information . its new laws and they are getting to grips with it.
11 Aug 2012, 16:06 pm
@viewer-114: Apparently you are a peos
11 Aug 2012, 16:09 pm
Caster’s **** will be bulging out of his pants during the podium medal ceremony
11 Aug 2012, 16:10 pm
@viewer-114:
i suspect, that if properly investigated a lot of the sportspeople will be found to be on some sort of performance enhancer which is not legal.
i read a recent article in which carl lewis (if i remember correct) admitted to failing dope tests numerous times and it being covered up by the american authorities.
11 Aug 2012, 16:11 pm
@stormerforlife1-115:
You should do something about that stutter
11 Aug 2012, 16:11 pm
* Dickk.
11 Aug 2012, 16:12 pm
@IAAS-38: one of the jamaican runners tweeted that usa runner jeter is on something, by all accounts her improvement into her 30s is unusual and she has links with balco.
@Robzim-44: it is widely accepted flo-jo was roiding, there was even a runner who stated he sold her performance enhancing drugs, great to get the east german records off but sadly the usa’s record is not particularly clean either
11 Aug 2012, 16:15 pm
@viewer-119: …straight down your throat.
11 Aug 2012, 16:18 pm
@ big hit. Its strange. When the authorities go after them its all or nothing. There’s no middle ground. Carl’s doping was covered up in the 80′s. He’s considered a saint today. The “unlucky” ones are brought down to their knees
11 Aug 2012, 16:23 pm
why was ben johnson caught and paraded?
11 Aug 2012, 16:23 pm
@124you implicitly acknowledge that there’s a dickk next to his pusssy
11 Aug 2012, 16:23 pm
@viewer-125: Like Ben Johnson…
11 Aug 2012, 16:24 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19-126:
Snap
11 Aug 2012, 16:25 pm
i dunno the cape so help please
katman says he lives within walking distance of nuweland,he also says he lives in bishops court.
is that possible?
11 Aug 2012, 16:25 pm
roids or not that USA girls WR in the 4 x 100 last night was out the utmost highest echelon of running supremacy, the Jamaican sprinting queens of Shelley Anne Pryce and Veronica Campbell and Sherone Simpson were nowhere near in sight of Jeters and Felix and their two sisters who blitzed them and the old GDR WR outa sight. The slickness of the passing and the sheer speed of each one of the 4 in that USA ladies relay team was a sight of absolute sprinting excellence to behold.
11 Aug 2012, 16:26 pm
Maybe because Ben Johnson was Canadian. The Americans like to call us Canadians friends, but are very quick to throw us under the bus when the paw-paw hits the fan.
11 Aug 2012, 16:27 pm
@131
so you say roid use is fine?
11 Aug 2012, 16:27 pm
@ fern. Its the exact opposite reason motivating the protection of lance armstrong. Who knows
11 Aug 2012, 16:28 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19-130: No, the bisops court was just yanking some scum’s chain. I’m in claremont.
11 Aug 2012, 16:29 pm
Bishops court about 2 Km from Nuweland, maybe less as the crow flies
11 Aug 2012, 16:29 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19-130: Thet say CT’s on a weather alert so if he asks nicely maybe Poooeps will lend him his canoe…
11 Aug 2012, 16:30 pm
oh ok cause feck it is pricey there
douw steyn is building a 7400 m sqaure mansion in gauteng
cost is between 140 and 200
11 Aug 2012, 16:37 pm
will be a shock to the athletics world if someone ‘discovers’ Bolt and Blake maybe ‘on something’
the GDR women were blatantly taking hormonal stimulants and substances, same as Florence Joyner and her peers were., these days the penalties are so much stricter and harsher that if anyone is getting away with any illegal substance they’d be doing it far more subtly and less conspicuously and susceptible to outright bans, so they would have to do it with a great deal more introspection and high risk gambling than before.
11 Aug 2012, 16:40 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-137: We are in the middle of a frikkin hurrinadotropitsunami type storm here. Absolutely terrible. I know the Newlands pitch drains well………but I am keen to see what the damage is there. I’m in Durbanville, so can only imagine it has been worse in the Southern Suburbs in the Rondebosh, Claremont, Newlands area.
11 Aug 2012, 16:46 pm
That’s not nice but sure the game will still go ahead?
Good luck!
BrumbiesBoy out.
Monday.
Totsiens julle.
11 Aug 2012, 16:50 pm
Douw steyn, well known braggard, insurance industry bigwig & hotelier.
11 Aug 2012, 17:00 pm
So now when can we see some proper sport?
I’m talking more huiling poefdas on the podiums.
Since when has a worship of athletic prowess been anything other than the most vainglorious superficial excesses of humanity? There is nothing at all exceptionally athletic about the human animal insofar as other animals are concerned – instead the area he/she excells is in the area of the mind and intellect – landing a 1 ton spacecraft on mars is an achievement not posing for tge cameras cos u blessed with an abundance of fast-Reich muscle fibers in your poephol thanks to some genetic lottery.
The fastest man alive ain’t got nothing on a three-legged cheetah but the cheetah has the kop of a 1 year old.
11 Aug 2012, 17:06 pm
Viewer your bek is big and you talk a lot of kuk
11 Aug 2012, 17:09 pm
I dig men’s pole vault though.
11 Aug 2012, 17:11 pm
I be surprised if anyone goes to Newlands later.
It’s a deluge.
11 Aug 2012, 17:15 pm
The fastest man in water would get passed by a slappende vissie – so what is this bullshit huhah great athletic prowess all about other than huiling for a little gold trinket and to be worshipped as a legend – who in their gdam right mind would worship a peanut-brained, albeit lovable, showoff like bolt?
Fkn idiots supreme.
Where are tge rugger buggers – sone proper character ekse – teamwork and courage and fortitude and commitment – mental abilities unlike any vissie or cheetah or any other animal displays.
Janee put the proper sport on ekse – why I gotta watch some maar little fella run laps around a tartan track – around and around and around ..
11 Aug 2012, 17:26 pm
shooting
archery
synchronized swimming
etc
those are about as real a sport as darts
11 Aug 2012, 17:31 pm
@cab-147:
11 Aug 2012, 17:33 pm
golden lions 10 – fs cheetahs 6
11 Aug 2012, 17:44 pm
Godgerd ud swear Seb Coe was the reincaranation of the 2nd coming – he certainly seems to think so – never have I heard so much puffed-up self-congratulatory tosh over so little – ud swear the okes actually done something useful and solved the problems in the middle-east instead he looks a fkn danger to operating a toaster.. Nee fok – waar is die rugby manne met dok jannie wie speel voorentoe..?
11 Aug 2012, 17:46 pm
cab
snoekskiet is going to be coming hard at you.
11 Aug 2012, 17:49 pm
The inept Olympic officials, after cheating the Korean female fencer out of a spot in the finals (by ordering another reset with the time up on the clock), almost cheated the German female hammer thrower out of a legit bronze medal yesterday. Said their measuring equipment couldn’t read her 77m throw, so they offered her another throw as consolation. Took a lot of protest and pleading for them to make a plan and measure the damn thing.
11 Aug 2012, 17:53 pm
katman seems there is somerigging and protection for some athletes at the olympics going on…
11 Aug 2012, 18:00 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19-154: I don’t know about that. But it’s just plain embarrassing when she throws a legit throw, and we can all see it sail through the air and land at least 2m over the 75m mark, for them to then say their electronic measuring device has a problem.
I mean, for all records they measure again with a good old metal tape. Why could they not just whip this out for her last night?
11 Aug 2012, 20:39 pm
Yip around and around and around they go ,,, and guess what ,,, what a verassing … Round they go again.
11 Aug 2012, 23:56 pm
@cab-156:
Come on Cab.
Even you can see it. The man going round and round and round and….. the track, do it on his very own… without the help from somebody else.
We are talking about the guys/girls who are “clean.”
Don’t just try to differ from Skop just for the sake of it.
It makes YOU look like the fool because in this case he is absolutely right.
Question to you and some others: Who of the following two sportsman are known throughout the world: Richie Mc Caw or Ussain Bolt?
… or Brian Habana or Caster Semenya?
…or Hashim Amla or Phellps?
12 Aug 2012, 00:19 am
@nama1-157: Spot on.. Richie McCaw and John Smit are no name bit part player in any world reality.. ask anyone in Afghanistan who Usain Bolt or Yohan Blake or even Mo Farah is.. and they’ll tell you they’re Olympic athletes who competed and were triumphant on the world stage..
Ask them who the fck these down and out non essentials are like McCaw, or Matfield or Pisswilly in the wind is and they gonna wonder who or what such nonevent nonentities are who you so fck’d up about..
12 Aug 2012, 00:45 am
@fitz1ella-158:
Sure Skop.
In the big, wide world out there, rugby is played amongst how many counties?
16/20 in the RWC now?
How many countries take part in the Olympics? More than a 100?
12 Aug 2012, 01:00 am
@nama1-157:
“Who of the following two sportsman”
Let’s make that SPORTSPERSON.
Sorry Caster.
12 Aug 2012, 08:55 am
The leftback at Huddersfield fc’s 10th team has more reknown then most of these Olympians – noones heard of any of them save for bolt.
Let’s face it Boone really cares – they far prefer other sports to watch – WTF in their right mind going to watch sone oke playingvring a rosies 40 times in one night.
Nama – you telling me you watch track-and-field kak throughout the year or rugby?
PS – yip u right on Bolt he certainly could do it again but I think they gotta have goals and he’s already accomplished them all – also seems to be greying a bit – wonder if it’s not his last big runs.
12 Aug 2012, 09:03 am
The British invented proper sports which are interesting – hence tge popularity of football which dwarfs these little Olympiad games. Despite these colonial masters – cricket is tge most popular sport in the subcontinent and growing. Rugby is a sport that allows for a range of body types, skills and mental abilities – which combined perhaps ensure it is tge greatest game ever devised by any inhabitants of the cosmos – let us give thanks and praise – or if not simply keep watching rugby every year and pretend to feign interest in atletiek ring a rosies whenever the hype assembled and there’s an excuse for great huiling every 4 years.
12 Aug 2012, 09:09 am
Ibaint heard one single guy on this forum say – hey guess what there an atletiek meet in Gothenburg this weekend I’ll be glued to the screens – why?
Noone is intrerested – u get a better turn out for the local pub xv vs the outer Hebrides special school.
13 Aug 2012, 11:34 am
I’m sitting here and watching a re run of this Bulls – Griekwas game on my coffee break and try tell me this game of exhilarating kick chase mayhem is more riveting than next weekends IAAF meeting in Gutenberg you gotta be kidding me, plus yourself, even the spectators agree, there about 2205 people sitting at Loftus watching this colonialist throwback to barberous idiocy unfold before their eyes, while there will be at least 20,225 Swedes at Gutenberg watching some dedicated conditioned athletes strut their stuff around the track and on the field.
No scandinavian scoundrel gonna waste his time and money watching some behemoths enact their ode to barbaric brainlessness while they got the opportunity to witness some aesthetically superior sport of real athletic prowess. Not a chance in a million years unless they quite happy to turn the clock back in their evolutionary cycle of progression, and set off on a regressive course back to neanderthal barbarism.
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