Hougaard yearns for scrumhalf return
22 Nov 2012
Francois Hougaard says he is better suited to scrumhalf than wing and admits to feeling like he is stalling Lwazi Mvovo’s Test career.
In a refreshingly candid interview, Hougaard, who started the Test season as Heyneke Meyer’s first-choice scrumhalf but was later shifted to wing, spoke about his positional preference, his form and his feelings on Mvovo’s plight.
Hougaard shone for the Bulls in 2009 and 2010 on the wing, but struggled to make the transition back to scrumhalf (where he’d played most of his career) when Fourie du Preez moved on. This season was one of adjustment, painful at times, as Hougaard battled to come to terms with the tactical demands of the Bulls’ game plan, particularly the kicking disciplines.
Those struggles carried over into the Test arena, before he was finally replaced by Ruan Pienaar for the Rugby Championship. Yet Heyneke Meyer still placed high value on his game-breaking ability and accommodated him on the wing.
Asked to assess his season, Hougaard said: ‘I haven’t been happy with my form. I’m still learning a lot at scrumhalf, but I haven’t played much there. I still train there everyday, but you only get better if you play. I still think that’s my best position.
‘In the long run I’m a scrumhalf. I want to settle in one position or I run the risk of being an average wing and an average scrumhalf. I don’t want that to happen. I know I have so much to work on at scrumhalf, but I’d prefer to cover scrumhalf from the bench for the Springboks [in 2013] if it means I’m not thrown around positionally [scrumhalf at the Bulls and wing with the Springboks].’
With the reduced time and space on offer in Test rugby [compared to Super Rugby] and greater analysis available on him after his impressive cameos off the wood as a wing in 2011, Hougaard has yet to entrench himself in the position. There are mitigating factors, among them the Springboks’ inability to engineer opportunities for him. Hougaard, however, refused to look beyond himself for blame, and continued with a startling admission.
‘The coach plays me ahead of Lwazi on wing, but I feel for him. I would understand and support the decision to play him ahead of me,’ he said. ‘It feels unfair to me because I’m playing in his position and not doing that well. Its easy to tell the guys to keep themselves up on a three-week tour, where they sit on the bench or never play. It’s not nice and not easy, I’ve been there. But I’m here now and I have to take the chance. I’m working hard every day to improve.’
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22 Nov 2012, 22:38 pm
@Finfan-242: for who’s sake .. yours?
22 Nov 2012, 22:40 pm
@skopdiekan-249: Late now.G0oodnight Skop.
22 Nov 2012, 22:41 pm
Humour and good natured fun are vital ingredients for a healthy happy life.
I will always search the extra mile to find the humour of most situations.
Of course, some days, sometimes. humour is completely absent. Those days are sad days.
Today is just such a day. Sad.
A little ignorance goes a long way.
I am reminded of children having a mud-fight and all pointing at each other’s faces and laughing because everyone else is covered in mud. They simply cannot see the mud on their own faces.
This scenario is funny when actually watching children play.
When watching allegedly mature, intelligent adults, all of whom have a common bond in rugby, abuse and insult each other with such careless, thoughtless and absolute disdain offers a disturbing microcosmic view of the true nature of man and why our world is in such a mess. If this is how people behave when there is no benefit other than sporting enjoyment (which it seems very few here actually derive) how can anyone expect conflicts between, for example, Israel and Gaza to ever reach amicable resolution?
I’m loath to say but feel I must: Your all have mud-covered faces and far from being humorous, the self-portraits painted by your words are shamefully ugly.
It may benefit many if not most on keo tonight to stop and reflect upon the spattered face staring back at them from the mirror of their own comments.
22 Nov 2012, 22:42 pm
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. McAdoo
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor (1613 – 1667)
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. (and keo)
John Tillotson
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
People demand Freedom of Speech to make up for the Freedom of Thought, which they avoid!
Soren Kierkegaard
22 Nov 2012, 22:45 pm
@MaximusLudicrusHumorus-253: @MaximusLudicrusHumorus-254:
the sage of keo has arrived to set the wheat apart from the chaff
pity they can’t all read where arrogance begins and self righteousness ends.
22 Nov 2012, 22:47 pm
@MaximusLudicrusHumorus-253: Very,Very good post.I will even take it on myself and say classy
The say that by the time you are 40 you ha ve the facial
features that you deserve A relection of your life to date.
Mischievous eyes and laugh wrinkles.
How many of us have that?.
22 Nov 2012, 22:49 pm
According to Skopdiekont:
“this place is becoming more and more juvenile delinquent infested by the day.”
Hahaha. This from the biggest perpetrator with his repetitive mouth foaming rage fuelled swear fests. There is no person who has been banned more for it either.
Talk about juvenile delinquency……..
22 Nov 2012, 22:56 pm
@Liewe Luiperd-257: yeah that’s right talk about it.. you know what a juvenile delinquent is.. it is somebody who refers to other peoples mothers private parts as a means for expressing undignified blogging banter oneupmanship supremacy
you must be the custodian of adult level enlightened sanity along with that other feeble little self ingratiated piece of garbage trash .. where you get your certificate of righteous classification .. which institution of moral enlightenment gave you that?
22 Nov 2012, 22:56 pm
@MaximusLudicrusHumorus-253:
I haven’t been on the site for a couple of years except to read the articles.
Nice post
I have noticed the animosity amongst some bloggers and I can’t understand how things could regress so far.
It’s a pity as most people here are obviously just rugby lovers.
It’s should be great to be able to chat to like minded people, whichever Country, S 15 of CC team they support and exchange thoughts and opinions.
Yes some are more knowledgable , but with that knowledge should come tolerance as well to those less knowledgable.
Just my opinion, and I’m here solely to enjoy the banter, but I try to refrain from getting personal and try to respect each persons views, while not necessarily agreeing with all of it.
22 Nov 2012, 23:02 pm
Confucious say man who walk through airport turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok.
Sound advice.
22 Nov 2012, 23:04 pm
@nortierd-259: well done
22 Nov 2012, 23:06 pm
man who think his self righteous arrogant sh’t don’t stink going to suffocate on own fartfumes.
22 Nov 2012, 23:09 pm
Any rugby talk on tonight?
Hoe lyk dit met ‘n maatjie vir ‘n praatjie op die groot een nege?
22 Nov 2012, 23:14 pm
rugby talk came and went.. was going along reasonably well till some little snot nosed arsehole delinquents thought they’d come and show how little they know.
22 Nov 2012, 23:23 pm
yep dank die vader vir die scientists, they point the way with some clarity of thinking
22 Nov 2012, 23:24 pm
rugby talk – we in da ****
but the good news is meyer has retained de jong, hats off, credit where its due.
22 Nov 2012, 23:29 pm
@cab-265: scientist do not discover anything new, they only see what has always been there
Anyhow, see lancaster is loading his team with heavies, Morgan though has not got the heart
22 Nov 2012, 23:31 pm
@JL1-267:
yip, no disagreement there, but noone knew it was there until they uncovered it, let us give thanks and praise, amen.
yip lancaster preparing for war, he went to light in SA, the english hooker is bladdy good, dont you think?
22 Nov 2012, 23:33 pm
@cab-268: Cab, the Bible has shown many scientist more than a thing or two…..try and deny
The hooker will miss his jumpers on Saturday, take this comment and bank it
22 Nov 2012, 23:36 pm
@JL1-267: correct these snot nosed scientists reckon they are pointing the way to discovery.. the feeble self intoxicated idiots know absolutely fck all and they reckon they the high society pall bearers of knowledge.. they like babies in kindergarten thinking that they hold the entire capacity of knowledge in their non knowing hands.
Pienaar and Kirchner might stuff it for Boks .. and Gurthro and Jannie might get shoved through their backsides.. Heinke and Cilliers would be better combo
22 Nov 2012, 23:37 pm
@JL1-269:
ou doos will agree with you, but the bible is no source of knowledge in the slightest, its little more than a fairytale but at times does have quite beautiful captivating poetic prose. But i dont mean to upset you personally, i come from a family, some of whom were quite religious, i never understood it, its a book written by some of his disciples 400 years after his death, missing half of it.
You reckon he’s another one that can’t throw? – that bugger is like bismark and fourie, positively rips into the tightloose, i think he;s going to be very good international hooker.
22 Nov 2012, 23:39 pm
@skopdiekan-270:
high society, i never foistered my bullshit morality tale of thou shall not consume flesh on anyone, i dont stand at the pulpit of **** and thunder every night – how many wars the scientists started compare to you fking loopdaloop fundamentalist dckheads who simply cannot tolerate a different viewpoint? how many? u reckon your tutus so different to the spanish inquisition?
22 Nov 2012, 23:41 pm
plenty knew a damn sight more than these morons think they know.. only they think they are the high priests of their own ratified so called knowledge.. most of it is false anyway.. it isn’t even accurate .. hit and miss approaches to finding out that what they thought they knew wasn’t true at all when they find out what they didn’t know existed before.
22 Nov 2012, 23:43 pm
so now you presume to tell the scientists that their knowledge is half-baked when u dont have a cooking clue about science – good god almighty stick to rugby of kakpraatery oor vleisvreet ekse.
22 Nov 2012, 23:44 pm
@cab-272: shows you exactly what a dumb fcking ignoramus pseudo scientist you actually are.. you reckon you not up in arms at war.. here you are full scale at war with anyone and anything that tells you to your face that you know absolutely f’ckall… high society garbage that knows fckall yet thinks it knows so much .. about absolutely nothing. Tutu this tutu that.. you so far removed from knowing anything and yet its you dumb bloody moronic imbecilic idiots that think you know wtf actually cuts.
22 Nov 2012, 23:47 pm
@cab-271: Cab, actual events written by as eye witness reports. Recorded and kept the same for thousands of years, no fairy tail..but the spoken word, the truth which changes lives
He has not been tested at hooker, club rugby in the NH is absolutely rubbish. I play here and the minute a big bloke runs at the pomms their hearts sinks.
They will struggle in the scrums
22 Nov 2012, 23:48 pm
@cab-274: there you go.. you and the pseudo little intelligentsia self ratifying idiots that think you got educated with knowledge have got sweet fanny fckall of knowledge to go by… nothing.. zilch.. boggerall…
You have nothing whatsoever valuable or relevant to call as knowledge not a sausage of real true knowledge do any of you stupid morons actually possess.. not a measly little ha’penny farthing of knowledge do any of you dumb idiots actually know… nothing .. nienta … zero
22 Nov 2012, 23:50 pm
this aint war, this is little entertainment – you want i teach you some timestables?
you aint got no clue about what i or anyone else thinks, this is little alter-ego place of kaksoekery – in fact the truth is i know how little i know and how fkn ridiculous this whole shebang is most of all you lot who actually think you got the sleutels to the gdam universe, when u aint even got the foggiest.
22 Nov 2012, 23:50 pm
@skopdiekan-270: Scientist are turning in droves to the Truth and the Light….there answers are running in circles and it is all pointing to creative design, not by fluke by planned
Guthro was rubbish in the loose and his tackling is way of par, Heinke would have been better…Jannie is better than Pat, but Jannie has been over played in light of us not having someone to take over from him. I hope Pat can do it. I am just glad that CJ is now gone
22 Nov 2012, 23:56 pm
@JL1-276:
not so sure JL1, the bible is a very interesting document, but its sources are very questionable and half of them are missing, there are translation issues and all sorts, then there’s the question of the old testament god pf the jeiwsh old book whose nature sommer did a u-turn when christianity took over. turning water into wine, virgin births, resurrection – wonderful fairytale imo. Its believed to be the truth, by virtue of its age, but that is not a reflection of truth.
lol – well you know more about it than me, but the guy looks v tenacious and tough. HM reckons corry and moody were two of the toughest players he has ever coached, funnily i also thought they were v good.
23 Nov 2012, 00:02 am
@cab-278: the beginning to know something is to recognize you know absolutely f’all.. so now you admit you know fckall about tutus and inquisitions.. you ain’t near to admitting you know fckall.. when you can honestly say you know absolutely f’all.. only then will you begin to be ready to start the journey to knowing anything… you not anywhere near there yet.. not you and not 99.99% of your high priest know nothing know-it-all’s that still know f’all.
@JL1-279:
there is nothing that exists that was not always existent .. these poor lost intellects are seeking to discover who they are .. in circles like a dog chasing its tail.. only when they stand still and look straight into the eye of the needle will any level of recognition at who is who or what is what become recognizable
23 Nov 2012, 00:03 am
@cab-280: Why does Heineke not mention more names? He thought so much of their locks that he got Marco into the Tigers set up…. he also did not rate Flood so he got Liefling
23 Nov 2012, 00:07 am
@skopdiekan-281:
humans know fkall about anything and i am human, its not the scientists who are arrogant, its you dipshits that make claims without a scintilla of evidence. bullshit baffles brains and its you lot who make the grandest most sweeping claims and offer nothing up in support of it other than fire&brimstone rhetoric and psychological warfare.
there is nothing you know of substance that has actually taught me or anyone a thing – yes i believe i am far more knowledgeable than you.
23 Nov 2012, 00:09 am
@JL1-282:
I think HM did not rate the southerners, but leicester got some tough players. liefling was a shocker, but suits meyers gameplan i guess, did pretty well, but flood albeit a bit of a poepol actually distributes v well.
23 Nov 2012, 00:10 am
@cab-280: but the science written well before you lot actually thought about something is clear and you cannot deny it…….thousands of years before and science
23 Nov 2012, 00:13 am
@cab-284: Flood cannot pass of the dumb side, keep an eye on that and also keep on an eye on the fact that he does not like contact
23 Nov 2012, 00:13 am
@cab-268:
The Pom hooker is a twat of note… needs to be singled out for special attention…to think he comes from the heartland of the Great Te Arawa peoples…shame
23 Nov 2012, 00:13 am
@cab-283: nope what you believe you know is false.. that is the difference.. your belief on material illusion is false.. so the reality of the lack of your knowledge is that you know absolutely nothing.. fckall in fact.. you know less than me actually.. but you believe you know more than me.. because your fake false unknowing education gave you the false precept to believe that your fake knowledge is accurate or correct which it is not…
so I am telling you in no uncertain terms that you actually know fckall… and all your fake academic knowledge means absolute squat to you and to anyone else….
Your belief system is worse than any religion because your fake belief is not in the slightest true or accurate… and it is riddled with this outright arrogance that you actually believe that your fake knowledge is true.. when it is absolutely and unquestionably false.
23 Nov 2012, 00:16 am
@cab-280: just one short fact for you
Earth is suspended in space, Job 26:7….and he was no scientist
23 Nov 2012, 00:16 am
@JL1-285:
yip something was written, whether you believe it is fact or fiction, true or false, the word of god or the word of man is a different story. It was written a long time before modern science as was the tao te ching, the bhagavad vita, the torah, talmud, koran, and my personal favourite, the karma sutra.
23 Nov 2012, 00:18 am
@Te Rangatira-287:
lol maybe, all the best hookers are, but he’s got bustling agression about him, looks like a SH hooker, could be splitting image of Hore – where he hail from?
23 Nov 2012, 00:19 am
@skopdiekan-288: which makes me think…should scientist not be seen as religious fundamentalist of a different kind? or maybe as a sect?
23 Nov 2012, 00:20 am
@Te Rangatira-287: …but then his brother is also from there, Ben Youngs?
23 Nov 2012, 00:22 am
@skopdiekan-288:
i agree academic knowledge and most knowledge is probably useless, but we might as well aspire to doing something noble, and developing one of the human beings truly remarkable abilities – instead u’d rather eulogise some fkwit running rings around an athletics track, the supposed elite of our species, whom a 3-legged elephant could overtake. there is nothing to despise about the human intellect.
23 Nov 2012, 00:26 am
@JL1-292: modern science is actually a religion.. these people have set themselves up as the new high priests of the new age human religion called ‘science’..
It actually is not even a true science because these people take their own convoluted theories and extrapolate them out into some form of dogmatic belief which they then build pyramids of so called knowledge onto when the base of that so called empirical knowledge is not sound, it is based on speculative theory and synopsis.
So for any man to say he knows what is true from false he is lying to himself.. he does not.. the best place for man to accept his condition is to recognize he is a feeble fool who knows nothing whatsoever relevant to this creation and relevant to life.. and he should learn the humility that is required in order that life or creation can teach him who he is and what his real relevance to his own existence is.
these materialists are following a pseudo man made religion and its called ‘science’.
23 Nov 2012, 00:28 am
@cab-291:
@JL1-293:
My apologies was thinking of that Hartley chap……wouldn’t have a clue where Youngs is from….wish Hartley was playing though….
23 Nov 2012, 00:31 am
lol – science is a religion – for a smart man u actually have no idea how narrow-minded you can actually be.
23 Nov 2012, 00:32 am
@cab-294: aspire to know thyself.. that is all there is relevant to your life in this body at this time in your evolution to know who you are and your association with this experience called life.
what you confusing issues for.. if I appreciate a human being performing feats of athletic capacity to his human epitome of his nature that is admirable.. it is same as appreciating a beautiful piece of music or a masterpiece of art.. it is human striving for excellence in whatever form of excellence the human can aspire to..
the ultimate form of excellence which attributes the ultimate reward however is that discipline and endeavor that brings about lasting results.. which is to know thyself.. that is the sum total ideal of what a human life would be valuable toward knowing the most inner identity of your true self.
23 Nov 2012, 00:33 am
@Te Rangatira-296:
lol – no not hartley, tho he;s also pretty good, probably looks for special attention, its the one JL1 is speaking about – he’s good.
23 Nov 2012, 00:33 am
@Te Rangatira-296: yes Hartley was/is a loose cannon.. this new chap is good but not tested and coming up against a team that can scrum he will take strain
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