Catrakilis joins Kings
20 Sep 2012
WP flyhalf Demetri Catrakilis has signed a two-year deal with the Southern Kings.
Catrakilis has featured for Province during the Currie Cup over the last two seasons, but failed to make the match-day squad for the Stormers during this period. The lack of opportunities in Super Rugby is believed to be the main reason behind his decision to join the Eastern Cape franchise.
Cartrakilis will compete with George Whitehead and Wesley Dunlop, who have impressed in the Currie Cup First Division, for the No 10 jersey next season.
The 23-year-old follows Cheetahs centre Andries Strauss and Sharks lock Steven Sykes as the Kings’ new recruitments. Director of rugby Alan Solomons is happy with the quality of players his team has signed so far.
‘Demetri is the more experienced player among our flyhalves,’ Solomon told keo.co.za. ‘He’s shown great form during the Currie Cup Premier Division over the last two seasons for WP. His kicking at goal and out of hand has been excellent. I’m surprised he hasn’t played Super Rugby for the Stormers.
‘Steven Sykes and Andries Strauss also add plenty of value,’ he continued. ‘Steven has had a stint with Leinster in Europe and did very well for the Sharks during Super Rugby and the Currie Cup. He’s also a EP local boy, having gone to school at Marlow.
‘Andries will offer us plenty of experience and leadership. He’s shown his quality for the Sharks and Cheetahs in Super Rugby and travelled with the Springboks to Europe in 2010.’
Solomons added that the Kings have a recruitment plan in place to ensure they will be competitive in 2013. They only have a one-year guarantee in Super Rugby, and will have to feature in a promotion-relegation play-off against the Lions should they finish last in the South African conference next year.
‘We have a good recruitment plan in place, which will help strengthen our squad. Things have been going really well since it was confirmed that we will play Super Rugby in August. I’m confident we will have a team that can do the job next season.’
Meanwhile, Solomons confirmed that flank Luke Watson will be the first-choice captain going into Super Rugby. Watson leads the EP Kings in the Currie Cup First Division.
The player missed the opening rounds of the domestic competition due to a shoulder operation and a following quad strain. But he has shown great form in his four appearances, scoring eight tries which include two hat-tricks.
‘Luke is a player that will score plenty of tries for your team,’ said Solomons. ‘But it’s his general play that has been very impressive. He’s been in great form since coming back from injury.’
Watson’s form could be a boon for the Springboks, considering Heyneke Meyer’s team has struggled with injuries in the loose forward department. Meyer confirmed during his first interview as head coach that all South African players, including those playing in the Currie Cup First Division, will be in contention for national selection.
Solomons believes that Watson can add value to the Boks.
‘Luke has proven he is a quality player and he can make an impact at higher levels. But it’s up to Heyneke Meyer to decide on who he wants to use in his team.’
By Gareth Duncan
408 Comments
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20 Sep 2012, 18:05 pm
@grant10-348: Wait… so not only is the Transformation lie exposed, now Cheeky wants to exclude South African players (like those at the Lions that have had their livelihood threatened by this doos), in favour of foreigners?!?!?!?!?! ENOUGH. SARU stop this madness NOW!
20 Sep 2012, 18:11 pm
@ryecatcher-349: Keith Thompson… who’s he?
Harlequins chappie… Think he is involved with Botha’s Hill reformatory shool now…
20 Sep 2012, 18:24 pm
@ryecatcher-345: oh goodness…another one.
20 Sep 2012, 18:24 pm
@cane-201: Honiball farms less than 15 km
from where I live.Reflected glory
20 Sep 2012, 18:29 pm
SA putting Zim to the sword here.
All over rover
Goodnight Nurse……
20 Sep 2012, 18:30 pm
Ja another one
Wonder if it’s a shark too
20 Sep 2012, 18:34 pm
@blue and white stripes-312: No.they arrived in 1820.Before that the Dutch masturbated for170 years.
20 Sep 2012, 18:39 pm
@Transformation-336: Most Beautiful women
in the world.
20 Sep 2012, 18:44 pm
@ryecatcher-350: Post about an hour late
Sorry all..
20 Sep 2012, 18:45 pm
@Heavens Game-352: Harlequins captain.
20 Sep 2012, 18:49 pm
@Transformation-353: Got a spare hair shirt?
Flagellation whip?
20 Sep 2012, 18:53 pm
@Dawn-356: Indeed another one proud Shark.When are youn going to contribute something intelligent=O=previously
sacred cow.No more
20 Sep 2012, 19:04 pm
@Dawn-356: I have this compelling image of
a bottle of Sedgwick Old Brown.Enjoy
20 Sep 2012, 19:30 pm
@Transformation-353: Such an intellectual
response.
20 Sep 2012, 19:33 pm
Good night Dawn.Do not have an alcohol induced sleep.Not good for the liver.
20 Sep 2012, 22:12 pm
clear as fckng daylight if you wanna see a racist all you gotta do is open your dumb fck eyes and there they are clear as goddamn day.. and the sniveling little runtcunt mob that bandy about here pretending to be so f’ng intelligently ‘clued up’ like these pisswilly little frivolous pseudo arsed cn’ts that just crawled out their puberty nappies only the other day .. these half enlightened half of nothing pseudo little mongrels wishfully thinking they ain’t in any way ‘racist’ when the seething scourge of racism is coursing through their sickly inherently racist veins.
If they don’t know who they are.. then the clarity of who they actually ARE hasn’t even dawned on their own submerged subversive consciousness yet.
20 Sep 2012, 22:24 pm
@fitz1ella-366: could you maybe be a little more specific?
20 Sep 2012, 22:44 pm
if you still ain’t sure go check in the mirror and monitor your thoughts
If by ANY chance you see yourself in ANY way superior in breeding or status or cultural heritage or so called ‘civilized’ ethnic inheritance or ‘education’ to ANYBODY then you are an insidious outright racist through and through.
These pisswilly punks who rally around this Watson issue like it rankles their intestines toward convulsions of hatred… yeah you poor pitiful punks are racists through and through.. only you simply cannot recognize racism for what it actually is quite yet.
White ostracized Watson for factors NON rugby related.. and the two face liar tried bullshitting the world with every ulterior motive under the sun… and some you outright moron’s bought it hook line and sinker and continue to buy it still.
That saga is actually dead now but the taste of outright cowardly deception lingers on.. and this holy white rugby fraternity is riddled with the ongoing disease of ulterior ideology ruling these morons ulterior infected brains.
20 Sep 2012, 22:57 pm
So if u are naturally endowed with a superior set of fast-twitch muscle fibres and this is stated is this racist?
You can feel you are superior in different ways – whether you are or not is a different issue – but one thing is for certain that every human being has different strengths and weakness.
Some are faster and stronger and smarter than others – that is just tge way things are.
Racism is a belief that someone or some group is superior because of the colour of their skin – not based on their education or social class or sexual persuasion or cultural upbringing – it is a v specific term as plainly understood – I dunno what sort of meaning you giving to it.
If you are calling someone racist because they simply feel they are superior to someone else, then the watchatutus gotta be tge most racist folk out there since they believe they the special or chosen ones and hence are superior – you don’t get more arrogant or superior than believing you know everything.
20 Sep 2012, 23:05 pm
@katman-226: watchit seuntjie moenie ver van die kamp laager trap nie, daars ogies in die bos.. hulle ken.
Dis nie te laat nie, ma passop
20 Sep 2012, 23:09 pm
you ever met a watchatutu that you can classify such a person as racist?
you deluded beyond delusion.. you read bunkum garbage and believe this to be gospel truth .. that’s precisely how far from reality you actually are.. you even believe some these moron scientists like Darwin who brought out this bunkum convoluted theory that man is an evolved aap as gospel truth.. when you don’t even know the beginning of who or what you or man actually is.
racism is a disease bred between human’s who believe that they are endowed with superior traits, whether mental, ideological, or cultural, or physical, to another branch of their own specie and will go to extraordinary lengths to endorse this idea that they belong to this more advanced branch of ‘civilized’ man.
20 Sep 2012, 23:11 pm
So you tell me then exactly what u think of the watchatutus if they not superior?
Go on. Tell me.
20 Sep 2012, 23:14 pm
as you wants to see the Africa mein man, the absoluut dik thing – the Bushman. Shot on site, vermin, hated my black and white…
Dit was n man that could claim superiority in Africa, Africa Africa…
But too humble, too shy.
G8test saddenning of Africa.
Nou vokken racist konts – vokkoff. Wit boytjies, so vol kak, sal pinstripe veins uithall met a blunt nail, moenie worry nie, can net stictch you up with met vokken REEF WETSUIT CEMENT.
Dankie virrie compliments, hey , dankie.
But as jy wil racist wees, sal vokken jou blaas pype uitgerip, en druk dit tussen die long en uit die nier.
20 Sep 2012, 23:20 pm
you got absolutely NO clue about even wtf a watchatutu is.. you living in dreamland thinking you know anything when FACT of the absolute matter is you don’t even know who YOU are yet you got audacity to declare you know who or what a watchatutu is.. what kind of useless dumb fck half arsed ‘scientist’ are you who Declares emphatic knowledge about something you know absolutely Fck ALL about???
That the kind of scientist you are then you are WORSE than the biggest goddamn ignorant imbecilic delusional idiot under the sun..
That what these so called pseudo ‘scientist’ believe.. they actually BELIEVE their own indoctrinated ideology is gospel when they haven’t even begun to scratch at the surface of who the FcK they themselves are.
20 Sep 2012, 23:23 pm
What u blaming Darwin for the creation of this world – he ain’t the great emanatir from whence it all sprang – he merely describing the toiletbowl that is survival of the fittest or nature red in tooth and claw – why blame it on arme Darwin, all he did was sail around in the beagle catching finches and butterflies?
20 Sep 2012, 23:25 pm
Yip alright I got no clue u and tge watachatutus are superior – that’s my point – u and they must be the supreme racists if they superior – I am just following your logic.
20 Sep 2012, 23:33 pm
The scientists didn’t create this universe or the laws of eat or be eaten – the scientists didn’t create great White sharks or great carnivores – IRS your great god in the sky that created all these kind equal things.
20 Sep 2012, 23:33 pm
Darwin just a poor puppet who came up with a cockamamie bullshit story and now every body believes his gospel is true. Poor dears they dunno the goddamn BEGINNING of who they actually are yet they go grovelling in the dirt looking for their long lost heritage.
Why don’t you just go face up to a watchatutu and ask him straight out who or what he is.. I bet you don’t have the balls to do that.. you rather talk sh’t on internet websites comparing notes with Moron’s who don’t know the FIRST thing about who they themselves are or WHAT life is about .. poor self deluded morons embittered by their own sense of abject failure and lack of insight or clarity of thought and outright lack of ANY humility in recognizing who they themselves actually are… Absolute COWARDS who deny the potency of their OWN existence by trying to deny the quality of what life is ACTUALLY about.
20 Sep 2012, 23:35 pm
@PielNeus-373: Nej…tjou naai….LOL….nothing more ‘colorful’ than the colored language.
20 Sep 2012, 23:37 pm
But I like talking **** – what is wrong with that ? I been taking notes off u and I reckon cos it’s all impermanent I might as well make a liitle hay whilevthe sun shines and talk a little **** cos there’s no point in taking anything to seriously – now you preaching something else ?
WTF kinda bullshit u talking..
20 Sep 2012, 23:42 pm
nope ‘scientists’ are supposed to be these wide awake specimens of humanity who are NOT bogged down with any preconceived judgmental values.. that is supposed to be what a scientist is.. a seeker after TRUTH.. is that NOT what a TRUE scientist is supposed to be?
A scientist.. if that is what he calls himself.. is SUPPOSED to be open minded enough for ANYTHING to be true…that means nothing he has read or been brainwashed by should influence his OPEN minded thinking whatsoever.. I thought THAT is what a TRUE scientist is supposed to be..
seems to me that the modern day scientists are now the new elite high priests of society.. what THEY say according to THEIR conscripted theoretical pyramid of stacked up convoluted gospel Goes
If the scientist is ONLY observing and assimilating knowledge through LEARNING about what this universe or creation or nature IS and determining by open minded observation what is true from false then why DOESN’T he open his mind and eyes and OBSERVE and STOP jumping to any preconceived NON scientific conclusion ?
20 Sep 2012, 23:55 pm
We are all specimens of humanity, talking hairless chimpanzees, scientists just chimd that like some evidence to support their understanding of the world around them, whereas tutus get pissed off with the scientists for saying navel-gazing is pseudo-science.
You distorted the plain meaning of science / science is being open-minded within limits defined by the available evidence. Being totally open-minded is the stuff of speculation, imagination, fiction, dreams and fairy tales. Being without mind is not thinking about anything, not using any reasoning whatsoever.
So these are different things:
no-mind is allowing no thoughts
closed-minded is allowing only certain thoughts
open-minded is allowing all thoughts
science is open-minded but only isofar as the only thoughts or theories deemed to be scientic ate those that can be backed up by evidence.
Science is what we know, philosophy is what we don’t know, religion is what we want to believe.
Man knows very little if anything and any man watachatutu or not who claims ultimate knowledge is the most delusional arrogant ignorant close-minded human being out there, and by your definition, is supremely racist too in his presumed superiority.
21 Sep 2012, 00:05 am
who gets pissed off because you so lost up your own arsehole that you can’t see the bananas for the trees.. which watchatutu gets pissed off that morons such as you are so fckd in the head you think of yourself as a hairless chimpanzee instead of who the fck you actually are?
are you that far gone up your scientific religion that you convinced this is who you are? a goddamn apie gone wrong?
you limit yourself to a f’ng orangutan that there no hope for you ever to climb out the jungle of your own fck’d up bewilderment.. and you stupid ignoramus call yourself a scientist.. no wonder you so far gone there no hope in the world for you ever to get beyond realizing you more than a goddamn pathetic ape gone wrong.
these fuckups call themselves scientists when fact of the matter they are furthest from ever realizing or recognizing what the word or concept ‘science’ or ‘knowledge’ actually is.
21 Sep 2012, 00:07 am
Mitt Romney and Heineken have a lot in common. Very stubborn, and find it hard to admit they’re wrong.
21 Sep 2012, 00:08 am
you are closed like the utmost closed minded fucked up chimpanzee idiot who cannot and WILL not open his eyes to see.. and dumb fck IMBECILIC morons such as you wanna declare who is racist and who KNOWS what and who DON’T
you are fucked in the head.. and you simply don’t KNOW IT..!!!
Moron pseudo NON knowing IGNORANT ‘scientist’ supreme..
21 Sep 2012, 00:13 am
Huh – where the bananas? I smaak those things.
U saying we organgutangs or chimps? U a fkn idiot / I think u will find we are descended from the chimp.
What u mean by knowledge ? Claims that ate verifiable in terms of being supported by evidence or merely supported by what your high priests say?
Watachatutu claims are the stuff of philosophy – the only way you verify this is following a whole imbibed set if tutu teachings and psychologies – it’s no wonder u reckon u on a different plane – cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo
21 Sep 2012, 00:18 am
So you are saying the Tutus are not racist, cos they are not superior and don’t know more than anyone else – I don’t understand what you ate trying to say ?
21 Sep 2012, 00:21 am
stupid imbecilic little runt declaring WHO knows WHAT and who don’t..
YOU are in delusion.. YOU are in the jungle of confused NON scientific reasoning and thinking.. YOU are lost and floundering in your CLOSED unscientific dead end deduction.. YOU are the IDIOT.. yet YOU declare who knows and who don’t…
If THAT is not the beginning of the end of human evolution and CLOSED dead ended NON scientific encrusted thinking …then it is the DEATH of science and the DEATH of knowledge .. then YOU fuckup high priest can SHOVE your fuckup HIGH priest religion UP your non knowing highfalutin CLOSED minded ARSE … you feeble non knowing NON scientific IGNORANT runt .. because you pathetic little non knowing cn’t have DECLARED that YOU know who Don’t know..
because YOU deduce that YOU are deaf blind and DUMB .. does NOT determine that anyone ELSE is as deaf dumb and BLIND as you pathetic PSEUDO NON scientific imbecilic runt..!….
You do NOT know ANYTHING.. yet YOU determine who KNOWS and who DON’T
Feeble f’ng ULTIMATE bigoted CLOSED minded PUNK if EVER there was one…
21 Sep 2012, 00:24 am
How can I be close-minded, I’ve listened to your definition of racism, accepted it and applied it – why u hopping around like a gibbon whose just dropped a bunch of bananas on his knaaters ?
21 Sep 2012, 00:29 am
I font determine anything – I sit here talking **** knowing what it is and the limits of ourselves and knowledge – it’s you who claims the superiority not I – it’s the tutu that claims ultimate knowledge not the scientist.
So is that superiority masking inferiority?
21 Sep 2012, 00:31 am
I ask you again.. Have you EVER met any one who is a true human principled being ? ANYONE who YOU non knowing CLOSED minded high priest preconceiving imbecilic have met or ever KNOWN to embody what is true?.. yet YOU little feeble non knowing unscientific high priest RUNT have already determined who KNOWS and who DON’T ?? Have you met such an individual.. YES or NO ??
and if NOT, then WHO the FCK are YOU to determine with your INADEQUATE NON scientific knowledge who is WHO in your fundamentally fucked up ZOO ??
You are Worse than the WORST ideologically driven blind religionist who BELIEVES his gospel is true and ALL else is false.. You will CRUCIFY truth.. as you already have .. a hundred thousand times.. in the name of SO called ‘science’..
21 Sep 2012, 00:33 am
I presume bigoted refers to your created version of the educated scientist whom you feel thinks he is superior to the non-educated tutu whom you feel is truly superior but somehow not biggoted?
21 Sep 2012, 00:40 am
I believe I have met a number of truly human principled human beings, but they are few are far between, but no doubt incomparable to the ones u have met and experienced which are clearly perfect and not of this world – so again it depends on your definition I suppose.
Why do you say I will crucify truth ? All I ask for is evidence. Would you prefer I simply believed your version of the truth on blind faith – maybe by swearing a little more u might shake me outa my close-minded stupor but I doubt it, I’m well and truly gone.
21 Sep 2012, 00:44 am
no you are NOT knowing what the sh’t you talk is.. your mind is closed to knowledge simple as that..
There is fckall regarding your definition of racism applicable to this discussion about science or knowledge .. you are confusing the issue to try and pick a hole in a simple NON scientific deduction you have MADE…
WHERE is your convoluted deduction that I am showing traits of racism. in THIS context of superiority.. WHO the fck is expressing attitudes of SUPERIORITY here .. YOU or I ?
Don’t come smug it up with your pretentious little games of intellectual gymnastics.. get to the CORE of the issue..
Your Knowledge is NON existent.. yet YOU have declared in NO uncertain terms that NOBODY knows ANYTHING relative to truth.. NOBODY by YOUR inadequate incomplete UNSCIENTIFIC deduction
You do NOT know ANYONE who KNOWS anything to be true.. NOT a single ONE individual.. yet YOU have determined with your CLOSED non knowledge who knows and who don’t… and now I TURN the table because it is THIS thinking which you hold as SUPERIOR and apply as YOUR NON experience to be true.. when it is FALSE..
YOUR non scientific reasoning is FALSE.. so in FACT if you are trying to pin this FALSE ideological reasoning on me you are in fact false.. it is YOU who are applying NON scientific principles to determine WHO knows anything and who does NOT.. NOT I…
Don’t twist this little fable as a play on racism when it is NOT..
YOU are incapable of recognizing true knowledge or determining by TRUE scientific principles who KNOWS and who does not.. this has NOTHING to do with who is racist and who is NOT..
21 Sep 2012, 00:50 am
Me? What the hell I am applying exactly your definition of racism and now u don’t like it and got the ghutzpa to say it is me doing the gymnastics? I am applying your gdam definition with absolutely no athletics involved – tell me where I am wrong.
Are the tutus superior or not?
If they are, then by your definition they are racist.
If not, then they don’t have any superior knowledge to impart.
So which is?
21 Sep 2012, 00:57 am
But you asked if I had met a truly principle human being not one who I think knows absolute truth.
Firstly, if you believe you already know the answer to this question why are you asking me? You already know being the superior Kenner u are.
Secondly, I do not believe anyone knows all the answers. Your question was whether I have met a principled human being, I said that I believed I had, but quite clearly they would never live up to the beings you have encountered, which are so perfect in their magnificent superiority that they couldn’t possibly be human.
21 Sep 2012, 00:59 am
who is ‘not of this world’.. have you ever met any human who is ‘not of this world’?
what kind of gobbledygook jargon are you trying to spin as a smoke screen non relative to a discussion regarding ‘superiority’ or racism ??
It is YOU trying to pin racism or traits of superiority onto me.. because you have incomplete lenses or methods of deduction and your mind is closed to true scientific knowledge you have already determined with preconceived conclusion who knows anything and who don’t..
If ANYTHING is akin to Judgmental RACISM.. that closed minded preconceived prejudice and JUDGEMENT is the pinnacle of any traits of superiority .. you trying to turn this little saga toward upstaging truth with closed bigoted thinking.. that is your closed mind at work.. NON knowing.. NON scientific reasoning .. ALREADY preconceived to determine WHO is prejudiced and who is not.. who has attitudes of superiority here in your convoluted mind.. Who?
21 Sep 2012, 01:04 am
Your definition of racist is someone who believes, rightly or wrongly, that they are superior.
Again, I ask you quite simply:
is the tutu superior?
Is the tutu perfect?
Are human beings perfect and all-knowing?
21 Sep 2012, 01:11 am
Have I ever used the word or concept ‘superior’ in ANY of my discussions regarding what is TRUE.. is TRUE a definition of feeling ‘superior’?
You are impregnating a concept ‘truth’ with YOUR idea that ‘truth’ = superiority
truth is truth.. like what science is SUPPOSED to be striving for.. which it don’t…
modern science is not striving to know truth.. it is determined to evade the truth to support and protect its attachment to its closed preconceived ideology embracing LACK of knowledge and its lack of scientific principle.. materialism is the furthest avenue from understanding what is true .. yet matter is your god.
if you were anyway close to being a true scientist you would study those aspects of who you are and what nature is with the true discerning principles of a scientist who does NOT believe anything to be either true or false UNTIL you have witnessed or experienced such reality for yourself.. that is the principle of a true scientist..
You have done NONE of this .. you sit in your closed so called ‘scientific’ ivory tower of stacked up incomplete ideological intellectual theory with not an IOTA of real knowledge to call on.. yet you prejudge and predetermine with your ideologically closed mind what comprises truth or knowledge when you have NO access to any..
21 Sep 2012, 01:12 am
I’m not trying to turn anything to anything, I’m using your definitions and applying them to question their consistency and you seem to be skitzing out because I am simply question these supposed TRUTHS of yours – you call that open-minded do you?
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