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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10 Sep 2012, 14:20 pm
Wait until after Saturday you”ll get far better odds.
10 Sep 2012, 14:20 pm
@gunther-149:
silly kiwis,
dont they know… the smells a dead giveaway…
10 Sep 2012, 14:21 pm
@willievz-146:
He’s a curioshop Maori.
Can’t speak the language and has no guts, other than the ones that hang out of his billabong tshirt.
Strictly for display purposes.
10 Sep 2012, 14:21 pm
love it, their rugby team is playing like a bunch of cupid stunts and so they are all trying to appease themselves the only way they know how..
such beautiful irony
10 Sep 2012, 14:21 pm
@katman-129: Nah he is pretty tall and seems like and out and out loosehead.
10 Sep 2012, 14:22 pm
i’ll do both, thank you very much.
you kiwis need to get a handle on yourselves
10 Sep 2012, 14:23 pm
@gunther-153: hilarious stuff, you really are very funny gunther..
10 Sep 2012, 14:23 pm
@NZINCHINA-138: Come on China, do you really think that was a headbut?
10 Sep 2012, 14:24 pm
aaron smith should watch his step, with bakkies on the field he is bound to get his neck broken
10 Sep 2012, 14:24 pm
@gunther-153:
ok, they come in three flavours then?
did not know that.
10 Sep 2012, 14:27 pm
@poppa69-135:
Poppa … you’ve got me there with that comment. I cannot take it anymore. Your blogging game plan is just too much! The intelligence and planning of your posts is just too much! And the last comment ….. just like a Sonny Bill pop pass!
You win. You are the best. You are the number one blogger in the world.
All us dumb, arrogant South Africans can only watch you in your blogging world number one intelligent blogging glory.
I won’t try to hold you back any longer. Go forth now and conquer the universe.
10 Sep 2012, 14:28 pm
africas not for sissies apparently, shame no ones told their rugby team
10 Sep 2012, 14:28 pm
Here comes the PAIN!
10 Sep 2012, 14:29 pm
seems like the olympic medal dik measuring from the kiwis has quietened down?
10 Sep 2012, 14:30 pm
the kiwi advocate looks like the type of pakeha perv who likes the fine leg of the maori lass.
he’s got dirty old man / sugar daddy written all over him.
how old is the doos.
10 Sep 2012, 14:30 pm
@The Analyst-161: awww cheer up, TRC will be over in a couple of weeks and then youll have the NH teams to look forward to losing to..
10 Sep 2012, 14:32 pm
Skeppie if you think there was nothing in it fair enough.
10 Sep 2012, 14:34 pm
Its rugby now Silverback and our dicks are longer there as well.
10 Sep 2012, 14:35 pm
@NZINCHINA-167: There really wasn’t, it was clearly a little fakie that accidentally made contact, if he was looking to actually headbut Sharpe I am sure he would have done a better job, as it was he must have just touched him by a millimetre. Look the decision to ban him is probably correct technically and what he did was stupid and he has only himself to blame but it’s a tough pill to swallow.
10 Sep 2012, 14:36 pm
@NZINCHINA-168: isnt it funny how their base attitudes come out when you give em a bit of stick?
guess they havent really moved on from the past huh?
classic to see though, they spout all this moral superiority then disprove it very quickly..
gots to laugh..
like watching their rugby team, I laugh and laugh and laugh
10 Sep 2012, 14:38 pm
@poppa69-170: That doesn’t say much, though. You laugh and laugh and laugh when people contract AIDS too.
10 Sep 2012, 14:38 pm
@The Analyst-161:
never gonna happen.
its the price you pay for owning someone mentally.
they’ll never leave until they feel they’ve overcome and are better.
problem is, we dont really own them so much no more. we’ve tried to let them go a long time ago but all they’ve done is sell themselves to their empty invalidatory efforts at getting back at us for owning them.
they cant do it fairly though and they know it, to their souls.
shame
10 Sep 2012, 14:39 pm
Very tough pill to swallow he’ll learn from it hopefully, drafting in Bakkies seems like a dumb Meyer move though his coaching box antics suggest hes not going to make it on the big stage.
10 Sep 2012, 14:41 pm
you see this sort of thing in abusive relationships all the time.
the abused become dependant on the abuser.
will stick around no matter what.
10 Sep 2012, 14:41 pm
Glad to see Bakkies back. Sin-bin is fresh painted and ready for him.
10 Sep 2012, 14:42 pm
@katman-171: Ive never laughed at anyone with Aids katman, thats just your embellishment…
I find it rather sad that a truly preventable disease isnt being prevented…
thats really sad, and a poor indictment on your country..
but yeah, your rugby team, now that I laugh at, often, consistently and with full hearty voice.
10 Sep 2012, 14:45 pm
@NZINCHINA-168:
ooooh pandapoo, such tough talk from our resident chink exile?
10 Sep 2012, 14:46 pm
Pops it would appear that quite a few are keen to racially abuse you.
10 Sep 2012, 14:48 pm
not tough Silverback just the truth my friend
10 Sep 2012, 14:48 pm
In the land of the China the man with a three inch **** is king.
10 Sep 2012, 14:49 pm
@NZINCHINA-178: yeah, what to expect, quite the norm from the masters of their craft..
even charo is getting in on the act now..
10 Sep 2012, 14:50 pm
@poppa69-176: “Ive never laughed at anyone with Aids katman”….? Sure Pooper?
Look, most purveyors of this site know you got more than a few screws loose and a couple of problems, but lying/fibbing wasn’t one of them… Either that or you seem to forget:
122.poppa69:
1 May 2012, 10:45 am all the little ******** lined up in a row, eager to get the first hit in… what a laugh.. HG – I heard your banshee is now shacked up with GBS, and after seeing photos of him, you must be one hell of an ugly runt.. was it the full blown aids you have that made her leave? or are you just an HIV carrier? didnt your boyfriend tell you beforehand that he had it? Im guessing you probably dont know, but that might be the effects of the syphillis.. oh dear, how sad.. LMFAO
Either that or “LMFAO” has nothing to do with laughing…
You pitiful idiot.
10 Sep 2012, 14:52 pm
@poppa69-176: I forget, you reboot your cranial hard drive every 30 days. So let me assure you, AIDS, rape and various other terrible events have, on more than a few occasions, been a great source of hilarious mirth and glorious victory to you. I know this must be like finding out you sleepwalk, but it’s better that you know these things.
10 Sep 2012, 14:53 pm
@Heavens Game-182: oh looky, caught another one
that LMFAO is at the fact your banshee had done the runner, I find that hilarious, but completely understandable..
shouldnt you be in France?
10 Sep 2012, 14:54 pm
@Heavens Game-182: I think, in Kiwiland, it means “Look My Feet Are Oral”.
10 Sep 2012, 14:54 pm
I wonder what happened to that Kiwi accused of rape after the U/20 final in Cape Town.
Poops comment after that incident was “Well, when in Rome”
Then says it was a “tongue in cheek” comment and should not have been taken seriously.
10 Sep 2012, 14:55 pm
@poppa69-170: You really are a strange little man, trawling along sa rugby web sites is a pathetic attempt at boosting your own ordinary little life..
Most bloggers here are respectful of NZ teams, there are a few one eyed characters but this is a SA site . Lets leave it at that eh .. now run along and lick Reeches a*ss.
10 Sep 2012, 14:55 pm
@Jeraldjay-186:
He meantto say foot in mouth but the electric shock treatment means it doesn’t always come out right.
Filth really.
10 Sep 2012, 14:56 pm
@katman-183: haha oh look, he of the moral superiority has arrived to give us his version of events, again.. and not one reference to my culture this time? did you forget bigot?
10 Sep 2012, 14:56 pm
Funny guy your obsession with all things regarding the p enis etc is a little worrying are you sure KEO is the right forum?
10 Sep 2012, 14:59 pm
Pops Charo is a good ole boy from way back
10 Sep 2012, 14:59 pm
@NZINCHINA-178:
racially abusing pops?
naah, it’s called “returning serve” my little china
10 Sep 2012, 14:59 pm
I wonder why no-one is discussing rugby at the moment?
10 Sep 2012, 14:59 pm
@J.B. Cowper-32: “(so long as we can find neutral N/Hemisphere refs not in Paddy’s pcoket).”
As far as I can recall, every single NH ref has been lambasted in direct corellation with the scoreline.
10 Sep 2012, 14:59 pm
@Heavens Game-182: That is disgraceful, cant we get him banned for such a disgusting post. ? There is banter but this is almost hate speech material boyo .. You really are scum poppa.
10 Sep 2012, 14:59 pm
Erm actually you brought it up my china.
Another busy night for you on keo I see.
10 Sep 2012, 14:59 pm
@Jeraldjay-186: yet many continue to laugh at NZs domestic violence issues, but that seems to have stopped once I pointed out that SA led the way… plenty seemed to delight in making jokes of that..
dont tell me all the tough Saffas cant handle the sane type rubbish they dish up???
at least you guys have plenty of wooden spoons to do the serving..
10 Sep 2012, 15:00 pm
This is great news. Bakkies still has legs at 32 and would have been my first choice anyway. imagine Botha at 4 and Etsebeth at 5, that would have been awesome. Anyhow, none of this really matters coz Meyer’s and his team are a noose around the Springbok neck. NZ by 15.
10 Sep 2012, 15:01 pm
@katman-185: Another prize “humourous” Pooper Aids comment:
“32.poppa69:
28 Jan 2010, 20:10 pm @Dusky: the way you assault monkies Dusky? so we have you to blame for the outbreak of Aids, your claim to fame huh?”
There are many more… Poops and his Aids humour go a long way back on Keo…
Rape is also a Pooper stock favourite…
10 Sep 2012, 15:01 pm
@Doughnut-195: yeah like HG is an angel.. fark me, I knew Saffas were dumb but you seem to like the biscuit…
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