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.
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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
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