Cheetahs crush Kings
19 Oct 2012
GARETH DUNCAN watched the Free State Cheetahs cruise to a 53-14 win over the EP Kings in Bloemfontein.
Despite the loss of 13 first-choice players to injury, Free State hammered the First Division champions in the first leg of the promotion-relegation play-offs. The hosts grabbed four tries on the each side of half-time to secure the big win.
Inside centre Andries Strauss, who will join the Kings next season, grabbed a brace, while tighthead prop Ross Geldenhuys, wing Nico Scheepers, No 8 Phillip van der Walt, hooker Adriaan Strauss and wing Rayno Benjamin crossed the chalk. Referee Jonathan Kaplan also awarded Free State a penalty try at the death.
The EP Kings were behind 24-0 at the break, and scored two consolation tries during the second stanza via flank Devin Oosthuizen and inside centre Shane Gates.
The second leg will be played in PE next weekend, but it’s highly unlikely that the Kings will be able to come back from this massive deficit. The Cheetahs landed a knockout blow in the first round.
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20 Oct 2012, 00:26 am
@katman-99:
Thanks for the info, very interesting
A mate of mine is also a drummer, he showed me a stick he caught at a Bon Jovi concert
It was his price and joy
20 Oct 2012, 00:28 am
@Liewe Luiperd-100:
He’s not in the mood for another reaming, seeing his team reamed like a Elton John groupie was enough for one evening
20 Oct 2012, 01:15 am
Holy ****** macaroni, what is it that you guys don’t realize or understand: whatever happens next week between the Cheetahs and the Kings in the<CC play off does not matter one bit.
The Kings are going to play Super Rugby next year.
The Loser Lions are not….
At least we’ll have Katman teaching us about music or writing us poems…or something…for the next twelve months
20 Oct 2012, 01:27 am
@nama1-103: The Kinks aren’t going to play Super Rugby next year. They’re going to make up the numbers and assist in the wholesale rewriting of record books next year.
20 Oct 2012, 01:28 am
I believe the Kings will at least win THREE matches next year.
Anyone willing to bet, I’m game.
20 Oct 2012, 01:32 am
@TheTackler-104:
What did the Lions do the past 5 years then?
Made up the numbers?
Just a change of names, no?
20 Oct 2012, 01:44 am
@TheTackler-104:
How many games did the Blues win this year?
Did they make up the numbers while they were losing game after game …..after beating the Bulls at Loftus, only to win against the Lions, the Force and the Brumbies,(in their last game of the season), denying them (the Brumbies) a place in the play offs?
So, what if the Kings win FOUR matches next year? Do we say,”They only make up the numbers?”
20 Oct 2012, 02:04 am
@nama1-107:
Moeilike vrae vir oom Tackler.
Geweet hy sal dit nie wil/kan antwoord nie.
Nag, ou grootman.
20 Oct 2012, 03:11 am
@nama1-108: The Blues are three times champions of Super Rugby. They have mana.
20 Oct 2012, 03:12 am
The only thing the Kinks will beat next year will be their omelette eggs at breakfast.
20 Oct 2012, 06:12 am
Kaplan did not make himself popular in SARU corridors allowing the expose of the Kings but then Jonker is already assigned to swindle WP into the Final while Lawrence is to help the Bulls at Kings Park, chief scoundrel Joubert will be on duty overseas so only Pro Legota was left available
20 Oct 2012, 06:31 am
kings got a snotklap from the cheetahs, but onwards and upwards we go
20 Oct 2012, 06:33 am
DIS LEKKER DIS LEKKER
DIS LEKKER OM ‘N EP KING TE WEES
20 Oct 2012, 06:36 am
where the hell were all the BLACK EP players????
wasn’t the Queens concept to aide black player development in the EP, each time the commentator spoke about an EP player that had come through the academy, it was a white dude ??
Then we hear that Solly wants to recruit a clutch of Argies ?
Stop lying to us – maybe SA Blacks aren’t built for rugby, then go scouting in Zim, Kenya, Ghana (FYI – the wunderkind Rule comes from Accra), Ivory Coast and get some African players – not Argies !!
20 Oct 2012, 06:46 am
@brains_trust-114:
chillieboy,kolisi, mvovo,ndunganel’s etc certainly don’t play rugby right?
20 Oct 2012, 06:50 am
did anyone see the Pasella piece on Naka ?
I watched the insert on Naka on Pasella and found it very odd that his boys, when asked who they would want to play for one day – both replied “England” It is quite concerning when an ex-Bok’s kids want to play for England? Is Naka looking at moving abroad someday soon? [just an observation...]
20 Oct 2012, 06:50 am
@mamma_lou-115:
ndunganel’s = ndunganes’
20 Oct 2012, 06:51 am
@mamma_lou-115: well done you named 4 or 5 players … brilliant !!
20 Oct 2012, 06:55 am
@brains_trust-118:
1 is enough to rebutt your statement that “maybe SA Blacks aren’t built for rugby”
20 Oct 2012, 06:58 am
lets also forget that rugby has been played in the eastern cape for over a hundred years by “blacks”
20 Oct 2012, 06:58 am
This is from the EP Kings Army on Facebook. Just solid facts for some of the HYPOCRITES AND CHEEKY WATSON HATERS. Kings cannot do worse than the Lions, Bull, Sharks not so long ago. It is no brainer that Kings will battle next year at Super rugby. What is critical for them is to survive and ensure they keep their status in Super rugby. Cheeky and his team are street wise and am positive they will achieve that.
” All the visitors on the page are making reference to Super Rugby, first, this side tonight is the CC side, only 12 of the whole EP squad have been offered SR contract, so Solly must have another +24 up his sleeve, however, we only have one season to try Mae a difference so Lets refresh some of those visitors memories, specific to some SR seasons : Lions 2008 pld 13 won 2, 2009 pld 13 won, 4, 2010 pld 13 won 0, 2011 pld 14 won 3, 2012 pld 14 won 3; Sharks 2000 pld 11 won 1, 2003 pld 11 won 3, 2005 pld 11 won 1; Blue Bulls, 1999 pld 11 won 1, 2000 pld 11 won 1, 2001 pld 11 won 2, 2002 pld 11 won 0. Hmmm and that’s with year after year of top rugby both Currie Cup & Super Rugby,
20 Oct 2012, 06:59 am
yes there are a handful of players but statistically, SA Blacks aren’t good at rugby or Soccer or Cricket
20 Oct 2012, 07:04 am
@brains_trust-122:
hahaha jy dit als op pasella gesien? the trust is bankrupt
20 Oct 2012, 07:10 am
@brains_trust-114:
You are an ignorant idiot who has shown up yourself on public forum. You should be ashamed of your self. But that is expecting too much from an old **** like you. Go to google and type SA Black rugby. Then you will probably learn something you misserable excuse for a human being.
20 Oct 2012, 07:13 am
@brains_trust-122:
have a look at the agegroup teams and then come and tell me bout stats
20 Oct 2012, 07:16 am
@116; shows which way SA rugby is going; down. Then “transformation” Kings have only two black players (on the bench nogal) and are begging special permission to buy foreign players because Cheeky, Luke (where was the little toad?), Snollymans and keow have scooped all our SNAFU loot! Just a little too obviously hypocritical; not to mention new SA greedy.
Add keow’s absolutely dishonest article and we have what typifies a corrupt system; lies and theft. Gezundheit.
20 Oct 2012, 07:18 am
@Peter Mkata-124:
“Against stupidity the best way is information,
knowledge of things and examples of behaviour, of attitudes,” said Wenger.
20 Oct 2012, 07:33 am
I’m almost inclined to appeal to SARU myself to let Cheeky buy more foreigners, on the condition that at least one of them is black. Because this snow white team from the Eastern Cape is so embarrassing it’s threatening to drag SA’s credit rating down.
20 Oct 2012, 07:34 am
@nama1-105: I will have a grand on that
20 Oct 2012, 07:37 am
@mamma_lou-125: the Kings will unlesash their 200 000 on the ignorant few – just watch this space.
20 Oct 2012, 07:42 am
@DEE DAH-129: Yep, me too.
20 Oct 2012, 07:49 am
@RL-130: Ah, didn’t hink of that. They’re holding back deliberately. Like those cowboy movies where you see ten indians up on a ridge. But when you ride up to the top, you see the 10 000 waiting for you on the other side. Cheeky chose to play 15 white journeymen last night (and next weekend), but come February we will get to the crest and see his army of Impis. We’re all in big kak. Why did I not see this coming?
20 Oct 2012, 07:50 am
So touchy… Typical. I guess Zuma is a good leader also?
20 Oct 2012, 07:52 am
The Katman presents… Curry Cup facts to shock and awe:
Going into tonight’s game, the Lions have won four CC games in a row against WP.
20 Oct 2012, 07:57 am
Currie… jeez katman, get it right you wally.
20 Oct 2012, 08:01 am
@katman-135: you said it not me
20 Oct 2012, 08:04 am
@sharks_lover-136: You were thinking it though. I’m not stupid.
20 Oct 2012, 08:05 am
To all the over educated bloggers here….. We are still to see the Kings Super rugby team…. Kings have a budget to recruit +- 20 New players for the super rugby campaign!
20 Oct 2012, 08:06 am
@katman-137:
boet
By the way, Lions over WP could very well be 5 by this evening
20 Oct 2012, 08:08 am
@LoanShark-138: Oh that’s right. Will have to be locals though, as their foreign quota is not just full but almost 200% overstocked. But fret not, I hear Owen Nkumane wants to make a comeback.
20 Oct 2012, 08:16 am
@katman-140:
How did you enjoy supporting you team basically finishing more or less last for 10 years running in super rugby? And then to make things worse – ABSA not willing to renew your R80m unsecured overdraft making you bankrupt. It is a sad to see the demise of a this previously prospering franchise!
20 Oct 2012, 08:27 am
Hoani MacDonald, NZ Maori, Southland and Highlanders/Rebels 6ft 6in lock, had a heart attack playing for Southland versus Counties-Manukau in South Auckland today. He’s critical in an induced coma at Middlemore Hospital ICU. Let’s hope the big fella pulls through.
20 Oct 2012, 08:34 am
@brains_trust-133:
hope that foot that you keep shoving into your mouth is clean
20 Oct 2012, 08:42 am
@LoanShark-141: Man, that weak sidetrack is so off topic here, it’s almost not worth responding to. But allow me to leave you with a couple of thoughts:
The only thing standing between the Kings and a similar bankruptcy is a lifeline of funds from the government. Remember, the Lions made their own way through partnerships with Xerox, MTN etc. They didn’t have a funnel straight from the Lotto or from the small change in Zuma’s car ashtray after he came back from buying Nkandla. Gumede pulled out of the Lions when they couldn’t see eye to eye on his Pan-African team transformation, and everyone told him he’d find more acceptable bedfellows in the Kings. Do you suppose he still thinks so after last nights all-white run on team? Cheeky & Co will find out very soon that money talks and bullshit walks when the government start demanding “visible reforms” in return for their continued sponsorship. And that real brands with real money demand ROI (i.e. a winning team) or they too walk out. And this, my friend, equals an untenable situation for the Kings. Because we’re talking two circles that don’t overlap.
20 Oct 2012, 08:45 am
@TheTackler-142: Jeez, that’s sad news. Wishing him a full recovery.
20 Oct 2012, 08:52 am
@katman-144:
“small change in Zuma’s car ashtray after he came back from buying Nkandla.” keep spreading them lies
20 Oct 2012, 08:59 am
@katman-144:
Platypus…. Not a Kings supporter. Will always be a Shark! Just do not believe that the LIONS belong in Super Rugby! Their statistic and performance over the past 10 years is proof there off! Now if the Kings have a similar record to the Lions in super rugby, which at this stage is still pure speculation, will be the first to suggest that they don not belong! It should always be performance based?
20 Oct 2012, 09:03 am
@katman-144:
” real brands with real money demand ROI (i.e. a winning team) or they too walk out.”
like the lions in did in superrugby all these years?
20 Oct 2012, 09:05 am
@mamma_lou-148:
lions in did = lions did
20 Oct 2012, 09:05 am
@TheTackler-142: Just read that on Sports24. Sad to to read about a young man having a heart attack. Hoping he makes a full recovery.
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