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7 Sep 2012
MARK KEOHANE says there has to be drastic changes to the Springboks’ game plan if they hope to compete with and beat the All Blacks consistently.
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18 Jun 2013
MARK KEOHANE, in Business Day Newspaper, writes the Boks gained more the battle in Nelspruit. Rather a scrap than a sensational effort against a courageous but limited Scotland. The Springbok coaching staff gained more because of the struggle against Scotland and there certainly won’t be complacency against Samoa. South African rugby supporters tend to be reactionary and very different in their reactions every weekend. When New Zealand struggled to beat France in the first Test in Auckland and South Africa were brilliant in patches against Italy many on social networks expressed confidence ... Read Article1 Jun 2013
The Bulls are South Africa's best team and they proved it in Bloemfontein. The Cheetahs have been outstanding all season and they were as good on Saturday night as they have been at any stage. Still it wasn't good enough to beat the Bulls, who won 30-25 after leading 30-13 with 10 minutes to play. The Cheetahs finished brilliantly and deserved the bonus point, but the Bulls consolidated their top two league placing thanks to an imposing first hour. Pierre Spies was impressive as team and pack leader, Arno Botha was ever present and the No 9, 10, 12 Bulls axis of Francois Hougaard, Morne ... Read Article11 Jun 2013
Brendan Venter's appointment as Sharks Director of Rugby is a good one. But the decision to end John Plumtree's Sharks coaching tenure is not. Former Springbok and Italy coach Nick Mallett turned down an invitation for the role of Sharks Director of Rugby and Venter, formerly the head coach and Director of Rugby at Saracens, will start his job at the outset of the Currie Cup season. Plumtree remains the Super Rugby head coach until the end of this season's tournament but his contract has not been renewed. Plumtree is highly rated in Europe and will in all likelihood link up with a European ... Read Article8 Jun 2013
Rene Ranger was among the few highlights in New Zealand's 23-13 win against France in Auckland. The All Blacks led 17-10 at half time but France dominated field position for most of the match and enjoyed the greater quality in possession. However they couldn't translate the advantage in the set phase and at the breakdown into points. New Zealand defended well in a match of poor quality. France lead early through Wesley Fofana's try and it took Ben Smith's break to start up New Zealand's international season. Smith has been the form New Zealand back in Super Rugby and he looked a class ... Read Article27 May 2013
Kiwi Vern Cotter is Scotland's new head coach. Cotter will only take up the position in a year's time. He will see out his contact with French club Clermont. Cotter's appointment means that New Zealanders will coach Scotland, Ireland (Joe Schmidt) and Wales (Warren Gatland). New Zealander Robbie Deans has been at the helm of Australia for the last five years and current Blues coach John Kirwan coached Italy and Japan. Kiwi coaches have also been at the helm of Samoa and Fiji in recent years. 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 Article7 Sep 2012
MARK KEOHANE says there has to be drastic changes to the Springboks’ game plan if they hope to compete with and beat the All Blacks consistently.
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8 Sep 2012, 00:11 am
@rangerman-397: read it AGAIN.. you STILL haven’t digested ANY of it
you want I copy and paste some MORE just for YOU .. ?
post f’ng graduate thesis and the f’ng moron is STILL as thick as two f’ng self deluded ignoramus bricks .. going cray-fishing in delusions of neanderthal oblivion
8 Sep 2012, 00:13 am
does anyone take fitzy seriously?
8 Sep 2012, 00:14 am
@Mostofyou-400: its not a boast corpus.
i read plenty though i was a terrible academic to be honest.
my achievements =, the ones that count to me, do not require validation from anyone,
you understand?
8 Sep 2012, 00:14 am
@Mostofyou-398: for your fucked up sake you stupid ignorant dumb fck twat .. its the outright morons such as you pseudo intelligent academic aapies who need the biggest kick up your highfalutin fucked up non evolved jacks…
8 Sep 2012, 00:16 am
@fitz1ella-401: dont be intimidated.
you are surely QBF.
in the school of bullshitting.
8 Sep 2012, 00:17 am
@Humphrey-402: only those who are eager to realize whats what.. which excludes and precludes the likes of you…
and you @rangerman-403:
and most definitely you .. @Mostofyou-400: outright delusional ignorance personified
8 Sep 2012, 00:19 am
does a madman know he is mad?
it seems not.
skop wake up.
8 Sep 2012, 00:20 am
if it were a competition I wonder who would win between fitzy and ET for being taken the least seriously?
both seem to possess major issues with validation, so in fact the better game may be to play which one has the bigger chip?
8 Sep 2012, 00:20 am
@rangerman-405: QBE
8 Sep 2012, 00:20 am
@rangerman-405:
yeah its all out there for YOUR sake.. but poor delusional you are too ingratiated unresponsive to even realize or recognize it…
read it AGAIN.. its clear as goddamn daylight
8 Sep 2012, 00:20 am
@Heavens Game-245:
Is there ever a week you do not make an arse of yourself? You cannot even adequately handle the restricted Dogfood pedigree.
When I came on here it was Jokertotheright(Mostofyou)- what’s in the bracket cannot be changed.
And Keo software then became dysfunctional about 3/4 times getting worse all the time which now leaves the nick Mostofyou(untouched by me since inception)
Most guesses here are 99% wrong.
8 Sep 2012, 00:22 am
@Humphrey-408: haha, they could both be as effective as david koresh but i fear it would end the same way for them.
8 Sep 2012, 00:23 am
@rangerman-403:
And you become part of the 99% and still guessing as who used the term “boast”?
8 Sep 2012, 00:23 am
@rangerman-407: you know they poisoned Socrates for being a mad man
now you read his ‘stuff’ for your honors graduate thesis which you NEVER assimilated NOR digested.. so you can go cray-fishing off Inhaca or spear fishing up the Tugela
such is the fraudulence of so called SANITY… Idiot deluxe..!!
8 Sep 2012, 00:24 am
@fitz1ella-410: come now, its mostly for your sake isnt it?
whatever lets you get those three hours of sleep bud.
8 Sep 2012, 00:27 am
@fitz1ella-414: seriously.
wake up.
@Mostofyou-413: did you seriously suggest that not going to a competition where you whack a piece of rubber over a net was a bad thing?
think of your contribution to preventing global warming?
8 Sep 2012, 00:30 am
for you @rangerman-415: honors degree graduate
read it and LEARN the lesson of your infinitesimal existence
Plato makes no attempt to prove intelligent design beyond the evidence of order, symmetry, and beauty in nature. Nor does he dwell much on the implied cause or agent (the “Demiurge” of the Timaeus) that “fashions” the ordered universe from the eternal pattern, but points rather to something far more fundamental and abstract — the Idea of the Good — which exceeds all categories of Being, yet whose essence informs all animate beings, linking the many into a Oneness, and the finite to the infinite (cf. §16c). His concept of mixture — that we are beings of diverse qualities — also offers a path to solving the problem of imperfection, a riddle which defeats common theistic explanations of creation and pushed Darwin into agnosticism (if God is perfectly omniscient, omnipotent, and merciful, why didn’t He create a perfect world free of defects, disparity, and suffering?). One leaves this unfinished dialogue better understanding that the ultimate burden of proof lies in neither mathematical formulas nor expert scientific opinion, but within the totality of our composite being, knowledge of which constitutes our truest pleasure and happiness.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
The twenty-three hundred plus years since Plato wrote this dialogue is but a nanosecond in eternity, and modern science has not yet evolved to the point where it can incontrovertibly prove or disprove intelligent design — or the dominant materialist paradigm. Hence the value of occasionally walking under a starry sky where, supported by the wondrously-complex living creatures beneath our feet and overhead, we can reach inwardly toward the Good — through the beauty, symmetry, and truth that we can perceive.
8 Sep 2012, 00:35 am
@fitz1ella-417: ah there is the proof.
well done.
wake up.
8 Sep 2012, 00:36 am
dont veggies have rights too?
8 Sep 2012, 00:36 am
@rangerman-416:
PW probably knew SA was already in the dogbox, sending Extraball would have irritated and pi-ssed off the guys at the “Far East World Cup of Badmindton” so much, they would have banned SA to prevent ET from coming
8 Sep 2012, 00:37 am
poppycock fantasy cut and paste stuff supposedly resounding evidence.
8 Sep 2012, 00:39 am
@victoriabok-420:
a badmington world cup sounds like a whole lot of fun.
who could resist such a spectator spectacle.
of course they could have been trying to save on the extra pocket in his boxers.
8 Sep 2012, 00:40 am
@Humphrey-421: no no no.
thats proof right there.
it deserves its own website or something.
8 Sep 2012, 00:43 am
we could call it
we
insist
knowlege
is ours
wiki for short.
8 Sep 2012, 00:44 am
@Mostofyou-411:
> When I came on here it was Jokertotheright(Mostofyou)- what’s in the bracket cannot be changed.
And Keo software then became dysfunctional about 3/4 times getting worse all the time which now leaves the nick Mostofyou(untouched by me since inception)
You forgot to mention ET and Pri-ckBoks going South, the other two you’ve also used
Did all the years of cleaning out rat poop in the lab give you Hanta virus?
8 Sep 2012, 00:48 am
@rangerman-422:
> of course they could have been trying to save on the extra pocket in his boxers.
Or to save the country the embarrasment of the extra ball flying out of his 80′s style running shorts while he was playing
It would have looked something like this
http://www.milism.net/shorts/VigaRunningFront.jpg
8 Sep 2012, 00:56 am
again these idiots rather concern themselves whether it has parenthesis or ‘who’ said ‘what’ than take in the LESSON of its absolute universla timeless relevance and pertinence
it is simply an exercise in validation whether I tell you in this language or that.. using either Plato or Socrates or Aristotle or Zoroaster or Goethe or Archimedes …
what difference does it matter if Buddha or Christodoulou or Lao Tzu told you what cuts within this universe.. the truth of the matter remains exactly the same whether it comes from me or whether it is verified by a language you hold as authoritative by your scholastic accepted ‘norms’ of ‘civilized sanity’ you hold so dear…
Acknowledge the truth .. cause only realizing and recognizing THAT could ever set you free.
8 Sep 2012, 00:58 am
@The pedigree is dog food-249:
In typical selfish, confused but yet arrogant(Div’s rugby life started when you got to know him), ‘verkrampte’ pinkie fashion you go of on a tangent of irrelevant garbage. How raw are your fingers from all that sucking of those ‘fects’?
I live to expose closeted racist attitudes and insensitivities like yours and your Beauzim. On a sports blog one uses sport analogies to effectively expose that. You cannot do that(too empty a life), hence you are so off track and cold and up a creek.
All those emotive words signify your paucity of ideas and thus thought. Where have emotive words like freedom, black, yellow, victim, brown,fighting,scars, ‘apartheid’, white,educate(you? what a joke), “PW Botha fuckedupmylife appeared in my posts here?
Shame what little respect you have for yourself has now been deminished to non-existence. Whose ‘daughter’ would you like to be, Prof. Eddie Roux, Braam Fischer, Neil Aggett, Rick Turner or A.N.Other? But tell us what have you done since you seem to know what so many blacks have done and you do not know any of them. And yet I have made no claims as you do even as it seems via ‘family’: how do you even get to connect the two points?
You are empty and worthless to a worker’s cause accept to pay a measly wage which of cause you will dispute.
I trust by now, close to 1am., you have dried those wet thighs of yours. Keep them dry for I will make you wet them again dummy, if you dare.
8 Sep 2012, 01:07 am
And the delusions of one poor Trompie indicate severe infection with the spirochete bacterium, Treponema pallidum.
With that I hit the sack in anticipation of an epic rugby day just hours later now.
Victoy is certain!
8 Sep 2012, 01:12 am
AND……Back to the rugby.Tonights game between the Aussies and the Boks will be harder to pick thana broken nose.Both teams desperate for the win,and both teams with a flawed game.What will be interesting is with current laws and interpretations will the SA forward orientated game be enough to strangle the more expansive backs of the Aussies.I cant honestly pick a winner,but am leaning slightly towards the Aussies with home game advantage.The All Blacks/Pumas game is going to be a whole lot closer than Ab’s fans are predicting,taking terrible weather conditions forcast and the fact that the Aussie game was’nt as perfect as they are chest beating about.What i saw was incredible potential wasted by rushing passes and individual greediness.All in all two cracking games of rugby to be saviored tonight…..I CANT WAIT!
8 Sep 2012, 01:25 am
@Mostofyou-428:
wow
Over my head
8 Sep 2012, 05:06 am
@LITELOCK-430:
Ah yes the proverbial broken nose… gives one character in the Grizz Wylie sense but looks mightily ugly. Ahh old Grizz a tough nutt with a temper and a humility that the Abs should look to emulate tonight against the hardmen of the pampas.Yes no backward steps by the Abs will be the way to stiffle the Argies coupled with a willingness to utilise the pill should get Abs over the line.
On to the Bok v Aussie game, who the fark knows what will eventuate in that game. Bok pack could overpower the Aussies leading to a Bok win or Aussie backs clicking with Digby receiving Mom .
8 Sep 2012, 05:49 am
Anyway, howzabout the rugby this weekend?
8 Sep 2012, 06:11 am
Time to skin some sheep. GO BOKKKKKKKKKKKE!!!!
8 Sep 2012, 06:21 am
For fark sake Bokke w!n today. . .
8 Sep 2012, 06:26 am
130 kph winds in Wellington today, shame the game will be ruined.
8 Sep 2012, 07:03 am
@NZINCHINA-436:
Luckily Hansen went with his Wellingtonian former and present players in the backline, cause they should be able to conform to the conditions. Funny how we haven’t seen Trans call Hansen a Boofhead or whatever lately.
8 Sep 2012, 07:15 am
Te Rangi there were plenty predicting the demise of the black machine this year and that Hansen was clueless, perhaps the bloggers are the ones who are clueless, Tranny is a professional rugby blogger he should have known better.
8 Sep 2012, 07:27 am
The odds makers are still firm on the Wallabies to win today at 2:3 (or 3:2 against the Boks)
Probably because it will be the 1st Boks Test of the season where they will not enjoy a referee on the taking, however, the Wallabies are woeful and Deans’ on the down spiral, it all adds up.
The entertainment of the day will be watching HM banging few water bottles in the booth and Kirchner’s ‘counter attack’ runs, Habana actually can do better on the hard pitch of Perth
Boks by 6 to 9
8 Sep 2012, 07:31 am
@NZINCHINA-438:
Yeah China…Hansen has done a good job sofar in bringing on the younger guys, and getting fringe players like Messam and Ben Smith to realise their potential. Will be interesting to see how he manages Ab captains workload over the Rugby Championship. Trans is a on to it dude admittedly.
8 Sep 2012, 07:35 am
Yes he’s very serious about KEO, any piece of analysis that is off the mark is immediately pounced on and questioned, very professional he must be very good at his day job.
8 Sep 2012, 07:49 am
Agree, his analysis is far more succinct than those Keo scribes.
8 Sep 2012, 07:54 am
Rangi with the terrible weather the game could be a lot tighter 10 points would be do the trick.
8 Sep 2012, 07:54 am
I don’t get it.
Where did we come from then.
8 Sep 2012, 07:57 am
And what time is kickoff
8 Sep 2012, 07:59 am
@Dawn-445:
one and a half hours to go.
8 Sep 2012, 08:01 am
And the ABs game?
8 Sep 2012, 08:02 am
@NZINCHINA-443:
Scoreline will come down to how Cruden plays I think…..if he plays well 20 points.
8 Sep 2012, 08:05 am
@Dawn-447:
Thats the Ab game sorry…..ummm Bok game an hour after the conclusion of the Ab/puma game I think
8 Sep 2012, 08:18 am
130 -150 kph winds? Rain. Well Wellington rain. Not like here where we can get 6-8 cm (2-3 inches) an hour for thirty six hours on end. I wonder if there will be a game like the first ever 3N match, where the Kiwis played against the wind, and led the Dingoes by about thirty at half time.
Don’t kick against the breeze! Isn’t true that D Clarke kicked against the wind and it went over the goals at the other end? Against France isn’t it?
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