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, 15:02 pm
@NZINCHINA-173: I don’t think we have much choice, not too many other options at 4 at the moment. Flip is not the answer for me.
10 Sep 2012, 15:02 pm
Silverback began the ***** talk not I
10 Sep 2012, 15:04 pm
@poppa69-176: Poor indictment of the whole world poops, not as if Aids is taking a nosedive anywhere on the planet, it just so happens that it is harder to educate in 3rd world countries as in some of the greater economies, that being said, why discuss HIV at all on a rugby forum…
10 Sep 2012, 15:04 pm
@Heavens Game-199: well, if it means more people become aware that the disease is PREVENTABLE, all good
but hey, anyone who mocks families like you do shouldnt really be so self righteous now should they?
10 Sep 2012, 15:04 pm
@Doughnut-195: Here’s another prize example from our Poops… A real funny guy when it comes to Aids or Rape humour…
21.poppa69:
11 Apr 2011, 12:55 pm kaksieok being SA , do you rape babies to cure them of aids? I bet you nose how. and I bet you nose that in SA you rape lesbians to convert them. I’m sure you also nose how to wield an axe? or you nose that killer bees is good to kill cops do you also still nose how to oppress people with a different hue of skin. I’m sure you nose it all..
10 Sep 2012, 15:05 pm
@NZINCHINA-202:
it was about olympic medals my little panda.
10 Sep 2012, 15:05 pm
Skeppie Meyer is the coach so you have to respect his calls at this stage, Botha it is then.
10 Sep 2012, 15:07 pm
@Heavens Game-205: yep, instead of bemoaning the facts in my post, why isnt your country doing more to educate people about these myths?
10 Sep 2012, 15:07 pm
@poppa69-200: Only one holier than though personality around here, and that is me…I am also the only one that is right in that regard… HG is a supreme troll, like yourself, fitz1ella and a few others…
10 Sep 2012, 15:09 pm
@poppa69-197:
Don’t blame us Poops blame the movie “Once Were Warriors”
After that movie the world paints all kiwi’s with the same brush.
10 Sep 2012, 15:09 pm
@Heavens Game-205: Do you ever leave Keo? Are you actually quoting posts from more than a year back, do you archive this ****?
10 Sep 2012, 15:09 pm
@poppa69-204: Poops, I would just go take my pills and STFU if I were you…
You have just been demonstrably shown to be a stark raving insane fantasist at best, a liar at worst.
Now go calm yourself down before you farken post another real prize “joke”, yeah?
10 Sep 2012, 15:11 pm
Was it I thought you were talking about something else, it was a no contest Bakkies did a spreadsheet and calculated that despite SA having 40 million more people than NZ and a Gdp 10 times larger we spent 10 cents more per athlete so actually SA came out on top so you can relax Silver.
10 Sep 2012, 15:11 pm
Okay we all expected this but hell man, Etzebeth has let the team down and himself.
10 Sep 2012, 15:13 pm
@Heavens Game-212: haha okay mate, I dont need to quote posts from you , you know what you said to me at a time that wasnt good for me, but you thought it hilarious.. and continued with it, yet now you need year old posts to somehow gain the high ground? haha
I knew you were gutless, a true coward..
..
10 Sep 2012, 15:14 pm
@thesaint-211: Simple Google search, schmuck, before you run away with your own clearly obvious inadequacy…. Ask me nicely and I might show you how.
And I am certainly not on this site as much as probably 80% of you posters…
10 Sep 2012, 15:14 pm
Would have Bakkies start really. Like for like replacement and he brings with him experience. So not sure why he can’t start unless he is not up to this level we play in sh. Bekker and Flip just don’t rate either of them at the moment. We in trouble then with our Locks. Etzebeth is a massive loss.
Another huge loss will be if Jannie and Cilliers are ruled out. Then who for th? Please Meyer don’t bring W. Kruger, he is not up to this level.
10 Sep 2012, 15:15 pm
“like” the biscuit or “take” the biscuit … You compound our opinion of you the more you goon, i dont know what HG posted to make you reply with that foul tirade but any further references to aids should see you off this forum.
Banter is acceptable as thats why we all come on here, good luck for saturday poppa lets hope you can learn some grace for the much expected victory.
10 Sep 2012, 15:16 pm
@Jeraldjay-210: thanks for proving my point…
10 Sep 2012, 15:17 pm
@Puma-214: How would you feel if you were the only one taking the fight to the opposition? This kid is 20… where are his mentors? Lying on the wrong side of the ruck like the ‘Beast’, being a pansy like Alberts or doing their best to avoid every ruck like Strauss and Du Plessis, it should shame the Springbok team that the only ones doing something are the youngsters and the debutants… piss poor….
10 Sep 2012, 15:17 pm
@Doughnut-218: I learnt grace from Saffas in 2009 mate…
10 Sep 2012, 15:17 pm
@poppa69-208:
“yep, instead of bemoaning the facts in my post, why isnt your country doing more to educate people about these myths?”
So let’s get this straight. The country (SA) must stop bemoaning the facts in your post? I don’t even know that we have an official foreign policy on the garbage you write here. We should though. Officially, you should be branded an insignificant cnt with Cultural Inferiority Complex who should be neutered upon capture. But I guess we have bigger fish to fry than a lone loony across the pond.
10 Sep 2012, 15:18 pm
@Heavens Game-216: Case of the pot calling the kettle black mate… I don’t think either one of you can claim the high ground when faced with charges relating to morals…
10 Sep 2012, 15:19 pm
@katman-222: yep start doing something about it… education is the key Katman, but I guess it is only for certain people huh?
I know your type
10 Sep 2012, 15:21 pm
@Puma-214: well said … lets hope he learns some smarts. He was goaded and reacted.
It is upto HM/Boks to regain some respect from umpires, i remember JW having a similar task in 2004. I dont think there is much going on with the exception of Biz and Shalk .. lets just hope Bakkies can keep it on the field.
10 Sep 2012, 15:23 pm
@poppa69-224: Did you lose all your logic ability along with your morning bowel movement? Seriously, Giulietta, we must stop pointing out the offensive rubbish you post and start an AIDS education programme? Are those two things in any way related, outside of your whacked out head?
10 Sep 2012, 15:23 pm
@Puma-217: Bekker is most definitely up to it, no use branding a guy as inadequate after a Test in Argentina when 18 out of 22 Springboks played bad… Bakkies is a thug end of story… going on his knee before a game, to just go on and try to behead smaller players (read Aplon, Cowan, Philips etc…)
10 Sep 2012, 15:23 pm
@katman-222:
10 Sep 2012, 15:24 pm
@poppa69-221: ummm …did saffa bloggers go on silverfern and shove your face in it ? Or did they keep their rantings and ravings to keo ? I think we both know the answer ..
Anyway let us continue to banter on rugger … I personally feel HM will turn the tables at RC 2013 … provided he makes it that far !
10 Sep 2012, 15:25 pm
@thesaint-220: HUH? What are you saying here? Are you suggesting head butting is okay then? NO man it is bloody wrong, I know it was only like just touching, but it was WRONG. He let the team down and mostly himself. Now he was our best Lock and he is OUT. Bloody hell man, who do we have now? Flip and Bekker? They both useless and Kruger is just okay. I would start with Bakkies he comes with experience as well. Even if he will be jet lagged I would have him start. Have no idea why Meyer will want to start with Flip or Bekker. We have no hard men out there. Bissie is a massive loss and now we don’t even have Etzebeth. Bakkies should start. Like for like replacement for Etzebeth and has experience which we need.
Are you thesaint that used to write all those kak articles on rugby-talk? Then cried whey you left?
10 Sep 2012, 15:26 pm
@Puma-230: last paragraph – whey = when
10 Sep 2012, 15:27 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-48: Cheating players, cheating refs, cheating officials and cheating lights.
And now – CHEATING CAMERAS.
And I was wondering what is that distant strange whingein-like noise (that usually happens to get stronger on Saturdays) in the southern wind blowing.
I hope you’ll stay here for a long long time, you are a such a tonic to make my day. Really.
10 Sep 2012, 15:28 pm
@thesaint-223: Listen here, numbnut… I posted not to prove any sort of moral superiority on my part… I posted to show Poopers little Fibs about “not laughing at Aids”…
Poops lately has been trying his best to show he is this poor little innocent victim…
He is not… No matter how farken poor Forrest Gump he tries to portray himself.
10 Sep 2012, 15:29 pm
@Doughnut-229: you guys have had injuries to key personnel, so it may be a blessing in disguise, because you are learning who can step up and who needs more time.
10 Sep 2012, 15:30 pm
@Doughnut-225: Yip and he was our best Lock. Huge loss. Hope he learns from this. I think he will. Never saw him do anything like this or even close to it in the S15. Just a tough as they come player who we want without this foul stuff.
Hope Bakkies can start we need him now.
Even a bigger problem is we might not have a decent th. Hope Meyer don’t bring W. Kruger.
10 Sep 2012, 15:30 pm
@Heavens Game-233: again HG, after your antics towards me, I really couldnt care less..
gutlkess coward is all youll ever be
10 Sep 2012, 15:31 pm
Keo has the makings for the perfect suspense/psychological thriller.
Poops who everyone thinks is a Kiwi living in Sydney but is actually from Mitchells Plain, Western Cape thinks his a Maori and dressed in full regalia kills each blogger one by one.
10 Sep 2012, 15:32 pm
Where can I watch highlights of the game ? Best site ?
10 Sep 2012, 15:33 pm
@Nils-232:
nils old chum, you wouldn’t know it if reechee had his deeck knee deep up you’re arse.
or you had your head all the way up his.
scummy cowards
10 Sep 2012, 15:33 pm
Heyneke Meyer should just start doing what he promised he would do, and that is to play the best player at that stage. Using the Japan excuse to omit Ryan Kankowski, Jacque Fourie, Peter Grant and such and then bypassing the Europe excuse and selecting Pienaar and Flo. Then having the audacity to claiming his team has been picked from form players then include Jacques Potgieter, who would struggle to make any other SAFFA team, including the Bulls (CJ Stander & Van Tecklenburg superior to him in every regard), Morne Steyn, Pierre Spies (when he was fit), Jano Vermaak (No gametime in S15), and Kirchner. He is lying to the SA Rugby Public in their faces… same level of humanity as some trolls here on Keo…
10 Sep 2012, 15:34 pm
@thesaint-220: He was sucked in by Sharp. Should have known better to leave it alone. He will learn. Still very young I suppose.
10 Sep 2012, 15:35 pm
@poppa69-236:
you’re kinda guy who’d make good road kill.
but at least you are good for hits.
10 Sep 2012, 15:36 pm
I think its time to bring in new young players.
Flo was flou, we missed Coetzee,
Eben was just plain stupid with Head butt
Vermeulen useless, 2 knock’s, 2 tackles ( 1 high) , 1 penalty and 6m running with ball and every one complained about Spies….
10 Sep 2012, 15:37 pm
@poppa69-236: My “antics toward you”…? Poops the victim… again.
Same cycle… same “sorry for poor me” bullshit
Maybe Keolings should ready themselves for the next personal difficulty, tragedy, fckup or [please insert here] to excuse your latest “humour”…
And round and round the merry mulberry maoribush we go again…
Big bad HG and poor little “innocent” victim Pooper…
Go take your pills man, and then come back when you feeling more lucid or stable…
10 Sep 2012, 15:37 pm
what does qc even stand for?
qualified ****?
nigel hampton qc
fark these people are filthy little gobblins
10 Sep 2012, 15:38 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-242: you forgot
filthy
cheating
scum
paranoia is a serious illness Bakkies, dont let it ruin your life mate….seek help, while youre there, see if they can improve bok rugby too..
10 Sep 2012, 15:39 pm
@Puma-230: I am not condoning head-butting, but if that was headbutting, then how can you call for Botha after that kak he pulled on Jimmy Cowan, while Cowan’s back was to him?
Yes I am that Saint, and where did I cry? I said things the way they were and then got sensored because people couldn’t stand the facts, then gave me shite excuses as the reason for the sensor… your memory is sorely lacking, everything I said in my ‘kak’ articles came to pass… go check it out, I was the first to say it, but certain people was afraid of how what I said made them look…
10 Sep 2012, 15:40 pm
@Heavens Game-244: now youre trying to make light of it to cover your own guilt? awesome stuff HG, youre a coward, nothing more, nothing less..
just a coward…
10 Sep 2012, 15:41 pm
At 3 we have a problem , that younster from Cheetas seems to be best reserve,
Play Kanko for Vermeulen, JDV can join Morne on the plain
10 Sep 2012, 15:41 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-239: Dear sire, should I presume you KNOW from first-hande expierience how it feels?
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