Etzebeth banned, Botha to join Boks
10 Sep 2012
Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth has received a two-week suspension for his headbutt on Wallabies No 5 Nathan Sharpe.
The transgression was not punished by the referee in last Saturday’s Test, but Etzebeth has been subsequently suspended following a disciplinary hearing on Monday. Etzebeth will miss the Boks’ match against the All Blacks in Dunedin.
Nigel Hampton QC stated that this was not an attempt just to push the opposing player away by using his head without contact being made. ‘The player brought his forehead forward and downward with a degree of speed and force into the nose area of the opposing player making contact with that player,’ he said. ‘This was a deliberate act done as a part of an episode of escalating “tit for tat” pushing and shoving between the two players. As to sanction, intentional striking with the head into the face of another is not to be countenanced under any circumstances.’
Bok coach Heyneke Meyer has confirmed that veteran lock Bakkies Botha, who is currently playing for Toulon in France, will join the squad. Meyer clarified that Botha will not be considered to start against the All Blacks. Flip van der Merwe and Andries Bekker are existing locking options that didn’t start in Perth.
The Boks picked up three injuries in last Saturday’s match. Jannie du Plessis tweaked his hamstring, Pat Cilliers strained a ligament in his elbow and Bryan Habana sustained an ankle injury.
Team doctor Craig Roberts said that Habana should be fit for the Test against the All Blacks in Dunedin, but Du Plessis and Cilliers are in doubt and front-row replacements are likely to be summoned from South Africa.
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11 Sep 2012, 11:45 am
@cane-496:
cane, i am beside myself
this news made my week.
nothing can go wrong from here on in.
boks to win the championship
11 Sep 2012, 11:48 am
@Atreides-495:
its there boet, we all know it
just like we know who only plays by it.
@cane-499:
11 Sep 2012, 11:51 am
@Atreides-500: I’m usually quite calm but people like that really annoy me !! I’ll try not to feed him
11 Sep 2012, 11:52 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-502: We just suck at doing it subtly. It’s always like Bismarck cocking his fist at someone or Beast getting binned for that ridiculous shoulder charge – kiwis are masters at it, if beast had been richie he would have made it look accidental
11 Sep 2012, 11:54 am
There’s always some angst-ridden schoolgirl type on here trying to work through their mommy issues, or their inability to get laid or make friends
11 Sep 2012, 12:04 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-501:
Your enthusiasm is infectious Bakkies.
I’m almost pleased to see your hero back as well.
11 Sep 2012, 12:11 pm
@Atreides-504:
blegh!
i’d hate to see the day we play dirtyy like the kiwis.
i would prefer we up our skill levels and play harder and smarter but not dirty.
11 Sep 2012, 12:12 pm
@cane-506:
you wont be too pleased come saturday, caner
11 Sep 2012, 12:16 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-507:
“dirty like the kiwi’s”.
Come on Bakkies,
SA just swaped one convicted headbutter, for The King of Headbutters.
11 Sep 2012, 12:25 pm
@cane-509: Convicted headbutter lol…you’d swear he destroyed Sharpe’s face
Calm down and have a glass of water. Even that quim Hampton admitted there was pretty much nothing in it, but they had to act to save face.
11 Sep 2012, 13:08 pm
@cane-509:
convicted by who, caner?
the defense rests…
nigel hampton ‘qc’ (sniggers)
11 Sep 2012, 14:23 pm
Jirrre maar julle okies is vokken wind blaas japies. Ken die bal maar daar is niks up die troeteldeure bo level plekkies. 7 beers short of a 6 pack
11 Sep 2012, 14:25 pm
@Atreides-505: moenie so tough wees boooooooitjie, booohooooboytjietjietjieTJIE
11 Sep 2012, 14:29 pm
@Atreides-504: ‘We just suck at doing it’
full stop, playing ruggerbie, nou koek jy met gas, baas. Kyk binne, wereld kampione of gereformeerde piesang klap dom vokker ruggerdebby
11 Sep 2012, 14:42 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-507: again Bakkies, go back to the SA/Aus thread, you’ll see my posts pointing out the filthy Bok cheating the moments they happened..
why have you not countered any of these? why arent you up in arms at the filthy cheating scum boks who did everything you think is only done by us kiwis?
Danie Craven must be turning in his grave at the way SA has become the wimps of rugby, even their supporters are running scared and seeing ghosts everywhere…
11 Sep 2012, 14:47 pm
@poppa69-515: Whooaa Pop’s…..having a late night that side? Why all the anger?
11 Sep 2012, 14:48 pm
@Skeppie-516: what anger? just addressing Bakkie s how he continually addresses us…
11 Sep 2012, 14:49 pm
Let all Kiwis at least be truthful on the Bakkies head butt.
BB running in to join a ruck.Cowan pulls jersey from behind.preventing him from reaching ruck.Bakkies gives Cowan head butt
NZ tv shows this full incident exactly once
Show BB reaction countless times.BB may be a thug but at
least attempt to be fair..Convenient editing of the truth makes you complicit
in the lie.
11 Sep 2012, 14:50 pm
@poppa69-515: Look, he is agitated enough by the opposition players cheating, ref cheating, officials cheating and recently NZ stadium lighting system and camera work cheating.
You wouldn’t wish him a definite seasure with potentially lethal consequences if he had to deal with own boy cheating, too, would you?
11 Sep 2012, 14:51 pm
Damn spelling. Seizure.
11 Sep 2012, 14:51 pm
@Skeppie-516: he is returning serve
11 Sep 2012, 14:51 pm
@poppa69-517: Ok Pops just worried about your generalising.
11 Sep 2012, 14:57 pm
@Skeppie-522:
I do wonder if the Bokke his weekend will be wearing the now famous (or should it be infamous)
“justice 4″ armbands?
11 Sep 2012, 15:00 pm
@poppa69-523: I doubt it unless the powers that be are planning to ban a player for hitting a ruck legally.
11 Sep 2012, 15:02 pm
If that incident makes BB a thug,what kind of vermin does it make
Cowan?Oftten guilty of off the ball stuff.
11 Sep 2012, 15:03 pm
@poppa69-523: Ag, wind your neck in and go take your pills, Fatty.
11 Sep 2012, 15:04 pm
@ryecatcher-525: imho, bakkies has PLENTY of incidents. once a bakkies, always a bakkies.
11 Sep 2012, 15:05 pm
@Heavens Game-526: aww whats the matter, is the fact your team is rubbish, has no coach and cant play rugby upsetting you?
ag shampies
vatso coward..
11 Sep 2012, 15:07 pm
I do wonder why all these tough SA specimens are all getting injured?
why is this? surely if they have that physicality then they should be injuring rather than being injured..
another wonderful myth exposed..
11 Sep 2012, 15:07 pm
@Nils-527: It’s a bit of a fallacy, sure Bakkies is not the cleanest player ever but he is also not the dirtiest, certainly not as dirty as he is made out to be.
11 Sep 2012, 15:10 pm
@poppa69-529: ja waar swaar. dumb ruggerd. And after – dementia by 40, vok punch dronk ouens all over. National disaster
11 Sep 2012, 15:11 pm
@poppa69-528: Hehehe… Like that coward yesterday?
You know, the one caught out lying through his teeth.
The one who ran away from Keo with the “Poor me, I am a helpless victim”…
No doubt spending the night crying in his pillow…
That coward?
11 Sep 2012, 15:16 pm
@PielNeus-531: Hey, Doggy… Did you check out my Chubby Ringhals being dangerous to your Ou Blespoes? Straight up the Keurboom and “volgens deur die neus”?
You could actually be the very progeny of that unfortunate incident.
11 Sep 2012, 15:19 pm
@Heavens Game-532: man, for an old tjoppie you sure have a high opinion of yourself..
actually I hung around, it was you who went away.. but thats not surprising, we know you go to France often… like when your sharks got man shamed by the Chiefs, you disappeared real quick..
good to see coward..
11 Sep 2012, 15:20 pm
@Heavens Game-532: vokkof seun, jy ry phinda soos a vokken naaier maar die dik ding kan jy wys piepspeler, jou klein spektrekker kan a long time onder grond survive, sluik die armpit slimytit
11 Sep 2012, 15:21 pm
@Skeppie-530: gouging, biting, attacking the head of the smallest players on the field..
ja, I real rugby player that one..
hes a thug, plain and simple, and continues the fine SA tradition of thugs..
11 Sep 2012, 15:24 pm
@PielNeus-535: Been there done that… Long time met jou ou Blespoes already, unfortunately.
11 Sep 2012, 15:25 pm
Toulon will not release Bakkies.
11 Sep 2012, 15:28 pm
@Skeppie-530: True. His already bad reputation has added punishments for him.
11 Sep 2012, 15:31 pm
@poppa69-534: Sniff… sniff snort… Yes, they were manshamed by the Chiefs admittedly… But a pity they couldn’t Manshame the Blues… like most other teams did all season long… At the end of it all Fatfuck Weepu’s rump was looking as big and swollen as yours after your average night out in Kings Cross…
Brave to the Bone, our Poops and Piri Piri… And my, my do the two of you takatapui like that bone… obviously
Especially when there are a couple of Big Chiefs to hide behind and reflect in their glory…
11 Sep 2012, 15:33 pm
@ryecatcher-518: complicit in the lie? so a shirt pull should always be met with a head butt from behind?
classic
your answer explains so much though, really highlights why your rugby is op die vlak van die tien jarige skoolseuns
11 Sep 2012, 15:34 pm
@Heavens Game-540: hehee those same Blues who have 3 super titles, and have not lost five, count them, one, two , three, four , five finals..
cough cough choke choke
the sharks, undisputed chokers..
11 Sep 2012, 15:43 pm
@Heavens Game-540: boytjie shame jy het net a good working poephole ja. Werk so goed spuit soos perd bene oppie prary
11 Sep 2012, 15:45 pm
HG – I got to go now coward..
didnt the Blues also manshame the Sharks in a final?
havent they got a kiwi coach now?
hahahahaha gees that must hurt..
bye mamparra
11 Sep 2012, 15:53 pm
@poppa69-542: Super rugby titles… When? Super 10… Come now Fatty, you reaching now… The right thing for Super Rugby now is maybe replace the Blues with Manawatu or something more respectable…
They as much a farken embarrassment as having Piri Piri Weepu, the Fine Young Cannibal being a Rigged World Cup winning scrummie, or god forbid, first five eighth… Which he was in that farce called a final when the better, braver team on the day actually didnt win thanks to Saffa Craigie…
11 Sep 2012, 15:54 pm
Poppa.Did not say that.Read again.Merely being contemptuous
of one eyed Kiwi reaction.Cowan is a scumbag.Sorry.
11 Sep 2012, 15:55 pm
@poppa69-544: Run, Fatty Run… Never look back…
Never let them say you were scared…
You are just being discrete… a better part of valour.
Farkenpussy
11 Sep 2012, 15:59 pm
@PielNeus-543: Nee, ek kan nie… Geen Poffader oppie jou prary nie… Nooit… Never.
Now, Doggy, go dry them wobbly thighs before you embarrass yourself even more.
11 Sep 2012, 16:03 pm
Poppa.As does your reaction minimising the impact on a player
being prevented from doing so.
As does your baby black captain applauding a card given to an opponent.
As does Kieran Reads provocative grand standing to spectators
Explains so much indeed..
Strange how I enjoy other Kiwi bloggers comments.Explains so
much about you.
12 Sep 2012, 03:28 am
Ryecatcher
as does your coaches defense of Schalk Burgers shameful eye gouge
as does your coaches insinuation after a loss in 2010
as does your union presidents offer of a gold watch to a referee
complicit indeed, and you all lap it up as it hides the real reasons your team loses. i.e because they ate kak.
HG. 2003 was our last one, when have you guys won one? oh that’s right, you haven’t. obviously you don’t know your rugby, not unusual for a Neanderthal zimbo trying to be a saffa
hahahahahaha.
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