Hore set for hefty ban
26 Nov 2012
New Zealand hooker Andrew Hore has been cited for an off-the-ball incident which subsequently hospitalised Wales lock Bradley Davies.
Hore hit Davies off the ball during the initial stages of last Saturday’s Test in Cardiff. The incident was missed by matchday officials, but Hore has now been cited and looks likely to receive a lengthy suspension.
The time and date of the hearing, before the IRB’s appointed independent judicial officer, have yet to be fixed.
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen expects the hooker to be sidelined for some time. Hansen did not say as much, but has already called for a replacement ahead of the coming Test against England.
Dane Coles is expected to start at Twickenham.
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14 Dec 2012, 10:21 am
@Brads-13497: clearly, you areca kiwi…ever heard of a WILDCAT STRIKE?
A wildcat strike action , often referred
to as a wildcat strike , is a strike
action taken by workers without the
authorization of their trade union
officials. This is sometimes termed
unofficial industrial action . Wildcat
strikes were the key fighting strategy
during the May 1968 protests in
France .
14 Dec 2012, 10:23 am
@Transformation-13501: I thought a WILDCAT strike is when the dudes at the exhuast manufaturing plant downs tools…….
14 Dec 2012, 10:23 am
@Transformation-13486:
Why would we say that?
14 Dec 2012, 10:23 am
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-13498: LOL
14 Dec 2012, 10:28 am
So I split the fairway with my drive, but my playing partner pulls his way into the trees on the left. I spend some time helping him look for his ball before giving up and heading off towards mine, but he tells me he’s going to look for another minute or two. And then, as I’m standing over my ball, his perfect second shot comes sailing over my head and lands pin-high on the green.
Now how do I tell him I still have his ball in my pocket?
14 Dec 2012, 10:29 am
@Transformation-13501:
Yes I am a Kiwi.
Does that make me inane because I can’t follow your logic?
As it is, you have put up the idea of a WILDCAT STRIKE.
So exactly what issue does this outlandish thread hold foe you?
14 Dec 2012, 10:31 am
Off to the cricket!!!
Taking the Gautrain from Hatfield to Rosebank and then the bus to the Wanderers…
Weather looking strange… Please oh please don’t rain…
Nice to have the whole family with…
Enjoy the cricket guys… Cobras will be striking soon…
Will chat again after the cricket…
14 Dec 2012, 10:32 am
Oh yes… Go Charl… looking good so far… Make it two in a row…
Ciao
14 Dec 2012, 10:32 am
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-13502:
Lol, reminds me of the terrible noise my 1982 Kawasaki Z550 used to make
The 4 into wildcats used to last about 2 months and thereafter every farkin speedcop was rubbing his hands in anticipation whenever i started the bike up.
14 Dec 2012, 10:34 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13475:
yes flip, its a s.hitty time of year with people absent, on leave, not in the right mood/frame of mind, but with lots of deadlines that still needs attention.
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13476:
wow… how underwhelming…
meet the new strip, same as the old strip.
14 Dec 2012, 10:35 am
@Brads-13506: calm down precious…just joshing.
14 Dec 2012, 10:38 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13476:
@Transformation-13477:
@gunther-13478:
@Robzim-13487:
at least it does still look like a stormers jersey…
unlike the tangential leaps of senseless ‘creativity’ that produced
The Cerise Cattle Kraal
The Black Bogg Oirish
The Puke Purple Poms
The Black Label Scots
and many other embarrassing dark-glass inducing assorted patterns and colours of so many other franchises…
14 Dec 2012, 10:43 am
@Gumboots-13507: Awesummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Give us a wave from your seat. Go Cobras!!!
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-13510: Bakkies, this ‘jersey’ is but the 1st move in what we down here call; “Operation: Underwhelm them-Thenfuckthemupsomethingstupid”.
It seems to be off to an amfuckingmazing start
14 Dec 2012, 10:43 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13495: wow
thx for that link… good stuff!
14 Dec 2012, 10:44 am
At least us simple stormers fans won’t be cheering for the other team..
which I believe happened a bit when the Pink Bulls played the Tahs…
Morne’s bad run of form began when he got booed at Loftus because the fans thought the other side had scored…
Also the reason pierre’s season went…. well… pierre shaped… He was tired of his home crowd shouting SPIEEEEEEEESSS when the other number 8 got the ball…
just kidding…
why do the stormers have a big press announcement to annouce this years jersey is the same as last years jersey…
no news in these hazy crazy lazy days of summer i guess…
(now that man had voice like warm honeyed whisky…)
14 Dec 2012, 10:45 am
@ufo-13512: “The Cerise Cattle Kraal”. The colour represents the jackarandas OK!!!!
(and when that didn’t go down too well with the Bulls Bruvs, they conveniently called it “fight breast cancer” pink) 
14 Dec 2012, 10:48 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13516: I think they refer to that shade as BPP. Not sure why – you’ll have to ask one of them.
14 Dec 2012, 10:48 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13516:
shame… i really hope the bulls Put the Pink Away this season and play rugby like they can looking like they should again…
jacarandahs are purple… only the mutants are pink… maybe that’s what they were thinking too…
14 Dec 2012, 10:49 am
@Gumboots-13507:
enjoy it bill…!!
yeah… hold up a gumboot for us to ID you with…!!
you well otherwise…?
14 Dec 2012, 10:50 am
@katman-13517:
they do…
and neither am i…
14 Dec 2012, 10:50 am
@ufo-13515:
Calm down.
The Bullies have made huge bucks from the pink shirt.
Just like stade francais did.
Enough to buy 4 or 5 young province players.
14 Dec 2012, 10:51 am
@katman-13517:
Stomach lining pink? Because that’s the colour inside most of the peooos’s who support the Bulls.
Only kidding Bakkies my friend…
14 Dec 2012, 10:53 am
@katman-13505:
Poor Bod.
14 Dec 2012, 10:55 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13516:
They raised a lot of money for breast cancer.
Brok Harris should show a bit of gratitude.
14 Dec 2012, 10:57 am
Someone mention strike?
I’m there like a bear
14 Dec 2012, 10:57 am
@gunther-13523: Any news on the fella? I’m worried. Is he unionised? I fear he may have got caught up in the recent farm labour strike. He’s worth R150 a day and then some.
14 Dec 2012, 10:58 am
@Dawn-13525: I did, but only in the post following yours. How the fck do you do that?
14 Dec 2012, 11:00 am
@gunther-13521:
i’m always calm bud… except when i’m laughing… which is most of the time…
guess they had to come up with a plan to counter poor attendances…
but let’s hope they don;t subject your players to that again… a sort of a counter-staaldraad culture…
we will not bully you in training or make you box each other or break eggs on your heads…
we’ll dress you in pink and feed you muffins and show that men too can come from venus…
14 Dec 2012, 11:00 am
According to results of a current survey men who wear pink shirts to office are on average much more intelligent than those who wear traditional white or blue. The same survey also found that men who wear blue/white will hardly ever get involved in an office romance while those who wear purple or pink shirts will often do. I am not sure whether pink rugby jerseys qualify as “office dress” though.
14 Dec 2012, 11:00 am
Strike is the best thing to happen to wekas
They always getting shot at
14 Dec 2012, 11:02 am
Here’s a little conversation starter: Rob Houwing’s Test XI of the past 20 years (since readmission):
1 Graeme Smith (capt) – 105 caps, 2002 to present: 8 569 runs at 49.53
Remarkable longevity as a successful captain, coupled with growing reputation for being a “slayer” of beaten, rival skippers. Also such a big, steel-jawed presence at the crease, with a penchant for really weighty innings, even if not the finest batsman aesthetically that you will ever see.
2 Gary Kirsten – 101 caps, 1993 to 2004: 7 289 runs at 45.27
Another whose stroke-play wasn’t necessarily even the best in his own family … but he’s never minded that sort of tag. Kirsten was an intelligent, gritty and industrious opener who knew his strengths and weaknesses and played accordingly. Responsible for some famous match-saving actions, too.
3 Hashim Amla – 65 caps, 2004 to present: 5 323 runs at 50.69
Part of a new age of dominators at the crease; an absolute joy to watch with his wristy enterprise and increasingly mastery of just about all other aspects of batsmanship. Significantly unflappable, and just gets more and more consistent.
4 Jacques Kallis – 158 caps, 1995 to present: 12 980 runs at 56.92 and 282 wickets at 32.57
Little need to say anything, eh? Legend of the game, and an unparalleled, priceless part of the Test-team furniture for some 17 years, and counting …
5 Daryll Cullinan – 70 caps, 1993 to 2001: 4 554 runs at 44.21
A singular man, but there have been many other singular, high-calibre cricketers. You want “easy on the eye”? Well then, watch DJ Cullinan in full cry, especially if the road is not littered with the stones of a certain Australian leg-spinner who, it must be said, mesmerised many others too. Remember also that he lost some potentially vintage years to isolation. Those stats are more than half decent, nevertheless …
6 AB de Villiers – 80 caps, 2004 to present: 5 894 runs at 49.11
Considering the calibre of those above him in this order, there’s a good chance this team will be “pushing on” by the time De Villiers takes guard … and going hard is his forte! Dazzlingly versatile sportsman, often evident in his enterprising, varied approach to swift accumulation of runs. Not bad to have a No 6 averaging just a tad under 50, yes?
7 Mark Boucher (wkt) – 147 caps, 1997 to 2012: 5 515 runs at 30.30 and 555 dismissals
His batting fell away a fair bit in later years, but Boucher was always a no-fuss, ultra-reliable, record-smashing gloveman and at the peak of his powers also a scrapper of note at the crease. A mischievous thought might be to ask De Villiers to ‘keep in this XI, freeing up other selection opportunities, but forget it … Boucher offered 15 years of mostly exemplary service. Besides, who else is there to enthusiastically say “ooh, I like it!” when a Proteas spinner bowls another straight one?
8 Shaun Pollock – 108 caps, 1995 to 2008: 3 781 runs at 32.31 and 421 wickets at 23.11
Just look at his numbers … which Test team wouldn’t want someone of Polly’s stature at No 8? Apart from being capable of either
gutsing it out for an occasional Test century after top-order failure or giving it a hearty smack before a declaration, his bowling was initially swift and penetrative and in later career eternally cunning and parsimonious.
9 Dale Steyn – 60 caps, 2004 to present: 299 wickets at 23.79
He has been the planet’s top-ranked Test bowler for some time … say no more? The Phalaborwa Express is richly respected the world over for his ability to land the ball regularly in the corridor of uncertainty while simultaneously nipping it away lethally from the right-hander. At his best when manic-eyed and in irresistible rhythm.
10 Paul Adams – 45 caps, 1995 to 2004: 134 wickets at 32.87
Spin bowling: perhaps the one area of obvious limitation for South Africa in the last two decades. But who will ever forget the sensational arrival in the mid-90s of the frog in a blender? “Gogga” was a quirky, appealing character in more ways than just his bowling action, and for a while a glorious possessor of X-factor. You always want a slow bowler in your ideal Test side, and he is a comfortable enough choice, based on both superior average and strike rate to others tried.
11 Allan Donald – 72 caps, 1992 to 2002: 330 wickets at 22.25
“White Lightning” is one of the leading shock bowlers, in the most fulsome sense, of all time and would be an unlikely omission from a South African team throughout its Test history, never mind just since ’92.
*Some notes on players bubbling under:
Peter Kirsten, Kepler Wessels, and then also customers like Brian McMillan and Fanie de Villiers, were examples of fine players who got the belated opportunity to show their Test-level qualities for South Africa in the early 1990s, although their best years had in most cases already passed them by. Lance Klusener came close as an all-rounder, as did big-blasting Herschelle Gibbs and the nuggety Ashwell Prince as specialist batsmen. The motor-beat Makhaya Ntini, so vital and inspired in raising the awareness of black African cricket, would have been my next cab off the fast-bowling rank, though spare a thought also for the injury-hampered left-arm slingshot Brett Schultz, a really fearsome foe at his best. Dave Richardson, of course, could have worn the ‘keeping gloves with aplomb had Boucher not been available for some reason
14 Dec 2012, 11:03 am
@katman-13526:
Last I heard he was rioting outside the provincial legislature for box wine to be included in his food parcel.
14 Dec 2012, 11:05 am
@Robzim-13529:
ahha…
so dean was simply romancing the prone reeeches of macaws loveliness…
and to think he got punished for that…!
14 Dec 2012, 11:05 am
@gunther-13532: Indeed, and for open trailers to be fitted with seat belts. Robin Carlisle is looking into that.
14 Dec 2012, 11:07 am
@katman-13531:
I just looked at the names.
I can’t read his writing.
It gives me indigestion.
14 Dec 2012, 11:08 am
@ufo-13533:
hehe….. If dean was part of the sample the outcome of the survey might have been different especially on the intelligence stakes.
14 Dec 2012, 11:08 am
@katman-13531:
interesting…
only real issue with cullinan…
would have kepler, peter or even brian instead of him…
14 Dec 2012, 11:10 am
@Robzim-13536:
that’s true…
14 Dec 2012, 11:12 am
@gunther-13535: I can’t stand him either. How he’s qualified to be the chief writer/editor for sport24 is a fuggenmystery.
14 Dec 2012, 11:20 am
@katman-13517:
I know why but I’m not telling!
14 Dec 2012, 11:20 am
@katman-13539: Is he related to JJ Harmse in any way? They’ve got that same fatfuckingginger look going? And the opinions of both are warped.
14 Dec 2012, 11:23 am
@victoriabok-13453: “soos Exclusive Books ”
14 Dec 2012, 11:24 am
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Money-was-for-Zumas-kids-Shaik-20121214
14 Dec 2012, 11:24 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13541: Ja, separated at birth, I reckon.
14 Dec 2012, 11:31 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13541: No JJ is very Afrikaans.
14 Dec 2012, 11:34 am
@ufo-13537: Yes the one thing I remember about Cullinan, is his “fear” of facing Shane Warne. He was a stylish batsman but like you said Kepler or Peter K would have been a better choice. I guess Brian Mac was competing with the other all-rounders and therefore no place in the side.
14 Dec 2012, 11:34 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13543: hahahaha, thats funny.
shaik wants 2 mill from zuma?
lmao i expect some kind of “parole review” in the immediate future if he pushes at all for his cash.
the anc pigfest at mangaung kicked off today. all the little piggies in one place, at one time.
hang on, anyone know what happened to those nukes?
14 Dec 2012, 11:34 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13013: didn’t see this earlier…. crazy women
14 Dec 2012, 11:34 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13543:
What a nice gesture from Shaik. Always nice when those who have helps those who do not.
14 Dec 2012, 11:37 am
@katman-13531:
That’s probably the best selection for the past 20 years -
but Herschelle Gibbs & Makhaya Ntini must have come desperately close to making it.
Also, a strong case can be made for not selecting Cullinan, then pushing AB up to #5, & bringing in Jonty Rhodes at #6. Jonty was not the most successful batsman out (i.t.o. batting average), but he kept the scoreboard ticking over with fast run singles & 2′s, had an infectious, busy-body personality & lifted the team spirit, & lastly, his fielding was peerless – his redeeming features probably compensated for the difference in his batting average relative to that of of Darryl Cullinan – so a toss-up between Darryl & Jonty with Darryl just-just shading Jonty.
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