De Jongh set for Murrayfield start
13 Nov 2012
RYAN VREDE, in Edinburgh, reports Juan de Jongh is likely to run on against Scotland, while Pat Lambie is expected to be retained at flyhalf.
De Jongh impressed for the Stormers in Super Rugby and recently enjoyed an excellent Currie Cup, scoring in the final. Coach Heyneke Meyer has been reluctant to use him. He is concerned primarily about the player’s size, worrying that this would compromise him in contact situations at Test level.
However, Meyer strongly suggested he sees Scotland as an opportunity to give the 24-year-old game time.
‘We’re a relatively young team and haven’t played together much, we want to keep some continuity. We respect Scotland and won’t just give Test caps away. There won’t be a lot of changes but the one that will probably happen is to see Juan come in. He has been knocking hard on the door and deserves a chance,’ Meyer said.
‘It isn’t definite, I want to speak to some of the [senior] players as well, but he probably will start. We’ll have a rotation policy in that position. Jaco Taute probably had his best Test against Ireland [at outside centre], and we’ll have to see whether we pair Juan and Jaco, who can also play inside centre, and give Jean de Villiers a break. Jean has played with a couple of injuries recently so he needs a rest. Jaco could also play at fullback [replacing Zane Kirchner], but again, I don’t want to make too many changes.’
Meyer is also expected to persist with Lambie at flyhalf after praising his performance at Lansdowne Road in difficult conditions. With the coaching staff in search of quality back-up to the injured Johan Goosen, who’ll reclaim his starting position if he stays fit for the 2013 Test season, Lambie has the inside lane to be that man.
‘I’ll probably stick by Pat,’ Meyer said. ‘It was a difficult start for him because we just didn’t have the ball [in the first half]. The second half was a bit of a catch-up. He did some nice things in possession. He has high standards and so do we, so we’re looking for an improvement. But he showed some good touches and I want to give him some confidence going forward.’
Meyer said there were likely to be changes on the bench, which could see Elton Jantjies replacing Morne Steyn as pivot cover. Elsewhere Gurthro Steenkamp has recovered from a rib injury that kept him out of the weekend’s Test, and will come into the frame to replace Beast Mtawarira, who has been sent home after suffering a recurrence of a heart condition he was treated for earlier this year.
Team doctor Craig Roberts, however, sought to allay fears about Mtawarira’s health and playing future. ‘He has been treated for an irregular heartbeat in hospital in Dublin. This isn’t life threatening or career threatening in any way and he is quite capable of playing with it,’ Roberts said.
‘Heyneke and I had a meeting with him today and made the decision to send him to Cape Town to have a minor procedure done later this week where they try to isolate and eradicate the cells that are causing the irregular rhythm. He had it done earlier this year, but clearly they didn’t get all the cells.
‘Anything can set it off, we don’t actually know precisely what does. I’ve also had quite a few players who’ve had it. Beast has gone into this rhythm a couple of times in the past and we’ve just managed it. I need to make it clear that he could have played this weekend at no risk.’
Meyer added: ‘If it happens again this week we’re back to square one. It worries me and it is at the back of his mind. You want guys out there that are totally focussed. He is also on medication that sometimes slows you down. It is also important for him to be with his family. It was a difficult decision, but the right one we believe.’
Jannie du Plessis picked up an ankle injury in Dublin, but Meyer and Roberts indicated that he was likely to recover. ‘He is looking good. We’ll assess him at training and we are hopeful he will be ready for the weekend.’
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13 Nov 2012, 13:27 pm
@Taahirah-491:
They’ve decided to give it another try.
For the kids.
13 Nov 2012, 13:27 pm
@skopdiekan-487: thats sad man, you are so angry and i am so happy.
life isnt fair eh snoeks?
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-488: correct.
look, it makes me sick to think about it but desperate times….
ffs, i want my grandkids to see rhinos in their natural environment.
13 Nov 2012, 13:29 pm
@katman-499:
You can leave your hat on….. Joe sung that brilliantly.
13 Nov 2012, 13:29 pm
@Hurricane-500: no worries bud but iif things dont change your trip to sa may be the last time you get to see these magnificent animals.
13 Nov 2012, 13:30 pm
@Hurricane-498:
The frowns that actually say “wtf is the old man doing? Gawd he’s so uncool….” Those frowns? 
13 Nov 2012, 13:30 pm
Haha transformation is just miffed that the white man is the victim of abhorrent racism in the modern South Africa. He is too used to playing the victim and pulling the race card. Face it transformation, Apartheid never left us, the colours swapped is all.
13 Nov 2012, 13:32 pm
@The Rangerman-504:
damn.
Thats all i can say. Really seem helpless.
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-505:
yep them ones.
13 Nov 2012, 13:34 pm
@mikeybrass-479:
what can we do Mikey……………………………………………nothing.
Skoppie acts like a foul mouthed teenage reprobate and katman elbows him at every opportunity.(With some justification it seems to me).
I have more than a little time for them both. But I assume I am not the only one who thinks this shiit should end.
13 Nov 2012, 13:38 pm
@The Rangerman-495: Personally I would shoot ‘em in the knees, slice through the Achilles and dump them in the middle of the Kruger. I wonder what species would get to them first?
In fact I and many others would pay good money to watch this I reckon…a reality tv show of sorts in the offing?
13 Nov 2012, 13:40 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-494:
your words are singing in my ears like a bulls pack two meters out from the line Dogfoodsharkie, and it sound sweet indeed.
i would choose option number 1 too… and i would choose it every time.
13 Nov 2012, 13:40 pm
@cane-508: Too “fokking” right
Have the kids stopped frowning? That was funny.
13 Nov 2012, 13:45 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-404: I am with you on this one Bakkies.Would not mind getting onto those reserves and hunting those poachers myself.
13 Nov 2012, 13:48 pm
@katman-499: your highfalutin attitude stinks you putrid piece of condescending scum… you are exactly the garbage white scum you try pretend you are not… and you the kind of garbage white scum that needs to get shaken down you skunk
condescending little piece of lily white trash is who you are.. and condescending little scum faced trash the likes of you need to get taken down a good few pegs off of your holier than thou scum faced attitude of self righteous opinion of who you think you are.. you garbage little snot nosed rancid scurrilous pseudo entitled scum.
13 Nov 2012, 13:50 pm
@skopdiekan-455: Can we have a Syrian type truce?.One that will last about 30 minutes or so
13 Nov 2012, 13:52 pm
@wnbb-512:
good, i’m glad we agree on something important to us all.
13 Nov 2012, 13:54 pm
@Taahirah-482: oh vok nee!!It will be ‘back to the wall’ stuff for me then with the pink wonder.Let him continue scratching Katman ‘s jam potjie.Safer for everyone.
13 Nov 2012, 13:54 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-509: haha, my bets on the hyaena.
those ba st ar ds are ruthless.
damn i love them.
13 Nov 2012, 13:55 pm
@ryecatcher-514: pity you got to be subjected to an ego shakedown.. that what it comes down to.. so who gonna blink first.. the frivolous little self entitled rancid white skinned skunk.. or the reprobate ??
You decide who should hold out the olive branch because far as I can see there is only one way this thing will end.. another banning or this little pitiful self aggrandized piece of trash white scum gets off his highfalutin horse of self righteousness and gets his self righteous pitiful condescending teeth kicked in for his own self righteous sake.
13 Nov 2012, 13:57 pm
@ryecatcher-514:
I think only a Keo Poll will do it:
Ban forever one of these;
Option 1; Skoppie The Foul Mouthed Accuser.
or
Option 2: Katman the Retaliater.
Enough is enough.
13 Nov 2012, 13:58 pm
it seems skops h ithead has gone postal again.
i am concerned that it is either the sign of a stroke or a bout of a nasty little std that mugabe is reputed to have.
because the rage issues are clearly out of control.
13 Nov 2012, 13:59 pm
@cane-519: you got it wrong way around pity about that.. you don’t know an accuser from a retaliator.. you dumb bloody imbecile from the wrong side of Atlantis…
13 Nov 2012, 14:00 pm
@skopdiekan-518: he must get off his high horse and then get his teeth kicked in.
my advice katters is stay on the horse bud.
13 Nov 2012, 14:01 pm
@The Rangerman-520:
I dig skop. His rants do make me laugh.
But he needs some new material. I am amazed he hasn’t been banned though???
13 Nov 2012, 14:01 pm
@The Rangerman-520: you exactly the same kind of self opinionated condescending little fuckwit skunk as your putrid little self righteous bumchum is.. the both of you up each others proverbials in harmonious hedgemony
13 Nov 2012, 14:01 pm
@cane-519: @skopdiekan-521: uh oh.
you are on the edge now cane.
one false move, a misplaced step and you are going top find out exactly what a @#$@# %&#@! piece of *&@#$ you are
13 Nov 2012, 14:02 pm
@londonshark-523: Its a coming don’t you worry .. banning no 356 is being processed as we speak.
13 Nov 2012, 14:02 pm
@cane-519:
I would like to add your Kiwi mate Pops to that list.
He really needs to get over the ‘abuse’ he took in 2009.
13 Nov 2012, 14:03 pm
@skopdiekan-526:
Ha ha, dude, how many accounts have you created??
13 Nov 2012, 14:04 pm
Who has been banned more.
Fuckadilly Runtcunt
Or
The Poodlephile Capo?
It has to be close.
13 Nov 2012, 14:04 pm
@skopdiekan-518: Lily white this, white scum that… I’m struggling to follow the gist if the insult here.
Because pitch black this and black scum that would surely have been frowned upon.
Besides, how is my being white even remotely wrong?
And besides even that, what colour are you?
I’m dead serious when I ask you: Are you okay, mentally? I really don’t want to aggravate a medical condition and have years of your elctro convulsive therapy on my hands.
13 Nov 2012, 14:04 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-414:
Deborah Patta will bring it to your nearest TV monitor tonight.
With video footage and all.
How those guys were let go with the video evidence of the hunt, I would like to know.
13 Nov 2012, 14:05 pm
@londonshark-523: ag he isnt too bad ja.
its like having an xbox game that never dissapoints but after a while you need to shelve it for a while.
the banning is bs imo.
@skopdiekan-524: i will take that as a compliment thank you.
13 Nov 2012, 14:06 pm
@katman-530: I told you to get fucked you piece of trash heap skunk.. get it through your fuckface little self righteous condescending fuckwit head you miserable little fanny faced garbage riddled whitearse skunk.
13 Nov 2012, 14:07 pm
@katman-530:
Mostly grey.
13 Nov 2012, 14:09 pm
@The Rangerman-525:
So be it.
I have been here for a long time.
I like both of these antagonists.
but this shiit has gone on long enough.
End of.
13 Nov 2012, 14:09 pm
@skopdiekan-533: Are my questions too complicated? I tried to simplify the language for you.
Just answer the ones about being white then – I don’t need to know your mental state if it’s sensitive.
13 Nov 2012, 14:09 pm
@The Rangerman-517: Love em 2. Watched the most amazing piece of footage a few days back. Cheetah hunting for her babes. She had already used most of her available energy, and this was it – do or die time. She got a magnificent kill, then collapsed next to her kill, exhausted and obvoiusly trying to recover enough for get it back to the little ones.
Enter stage left: Hyfuckinenas = grinning hunchbacks. It took all of 3 secs to complete the hijacking.
Unreal animals those.
13 Nov 2012, 14:10 pm
I see the old toothless Chihuahua is rabid again tjanking drool as he pisses himself… someone give him a boot in the ribs and put him out of his misery…
13 Nov 2012, 14:11 pm
there is nothing whatsoever wrong with being born with a white skin.. as there is conversely nothing whatsoever wrong with being born with a black skin..
what is fundamentally and atrociously wrong is when a piffle little pipsqueak punk face skunk who is born with a white skin thinks he can lord it over somebody born with a black skin by virtue of his self righteous assumption that he is by way of hereditary superiority entitled to lord it over somebody with a black skin..
That is when I hit the roof and take these frivolous little pseudo enlightened scum faced closet indoctrinated racists down with the same venom they try and uphold their pseudo arsed superiority status by
13 Nov 2012, 14:11 pm
@londonshark-527:
I got a feeling Popps would be an also ran in that Poll London.
13 Nov 2012, 14:12 pm
Oh dear lord, is the whole day going to be the Kat ‘n Skop day? It’s tiresome.
13 Nov 2012, 14:12 pm
@gunther-534: One of the kids in my boy’s nursery school class had a birthday and he came home with cake. So I tried to find out who it was, but he couldn’t give me a name. So eventually I asked him if it was a boy or a girl. A boy, he said. So I asked him if the boy was black or white, and he frowned for a while before he said: pinkish?
13 Nov 2012, 14:13 pm
@nama1-531: Yes I saw that being advertised. Must be honest Nama, I’m going to give it a miss. I honestly can’t bring my cowardly self to watch.
Here is another link though, to something similar (for those who have the b #lls to watch), this is what the activists are circulating. This is a video of a “professional hunt”, one of those done with the false permits for international syndicate.
Below is a link to disturbing video footage of just of 1 of the 26 Rhino that were killed in a so-called “legal” rhino trophy hunt, carried out at the behest of an international wildlife trafficking syndicate:
http://mg.co.za/multimedia/2012-11-08-inside-a-legal-hunt/
People need to see it I guess, but I can’t bear it
13 Nov 2012, 14:16 pm
The French have a saying concerning Skop:
“Those who weren’t revolutionary ones at the age og 18 never had a heart
Those who remained revolutionary by the age of 40 never had a brain”
@The Rangerman-520:
Your concerns about Skop’s head are unfounded
13 Nov 2012, 14:16 pm
@skopdiekan-539:
BUT………………………………..there is something wrong with character assasination Skoppie.
And that is what you are doing to katman. EVERY CHANCE YOU GET.
Then some. Without let or hinderance…………………………………………..you never stop.
13 Nov 2012, 14:16 pm
@skopdiekan-539: Ja, poepol, the only “lording over” I do is with you. Because I own you here in every single way. I’m not ashamed to say that I am superior to you, and it doesn’t take a Law & Order brainstorm to figure out that I am indeed.
But that’s where my proud superiority begins and ends – with you, my little snoekems.
13 Nov 2012, 14:17 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-463: if you anything like me and don’t hold back, careful what you say to tosspots, they laid a cremen injuria (sp) against me, summons court the whole shebang.
I knew fukcwit wasn’t crimen injuria (looked it up on internet lol) so didn’t get a lawyer.
Our local cops were pisssing themselves when they dropped of summons for court (they know me pretty well)
Got the giggles when the female magistrate said ”what is this fukcwit ” she chucked it out and told the fukcwits and prosecutor to stop wasting the courts and polices time. Sent me to a arbitrator (female) who also wanted to know what a fw was. Basically she asked if I would like to apologize for insulting and calling names, I said no….she said better if I did then it would just go away (they see you separately then together).
I just looked at him and said ” the court thinks I should say sorry” smiled at the arbitrator shook her hand and walked. Could hear them going on that I had not apologized.
13 Nov 2012, 14:21 pm
@cane-545: nope you got it WRONG.. katmankunt is getting what he duly deserves.. little fuckface runt thinks he can lord it over others with his pseudo little fckface entitled white skinned intellect all condescending and superficially intact .. you got the WRONG end of the character assassination plot here.. dumbass.. open your dumb eyes a little even if you are bamboozled by the pseuds so called cleverness shrouding his warped self righteous attitude of entitlement.
13 Nov 2012, 14:23 pm
@The Rangerman-464: Interesting…demonize the messenger so that the message is irrelevant and therefore does not require a rebuttal.
only highlights an appreciation for ignorance in my view
13 Nov 2012, 14:23 pm
Oh boy.
Meltdown in Muizenberg.
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