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, 12:51 pm
@Sheriff-13593:
i’m chilled bud… can see both sides of it…
should brian have done it… (if he did indeed do it…) …?
probably not… in fact… absolutely not…
but
Cricket Test Tickets…? R200
Township AK…? R140
Look on Aussie cricketers’ faces…? PRICELESS …
14 Dec 2012, 12:52 pm
funny, my highly provocative comments about the anc seem to attract so little censure these days.
sure, i guess its holiday season and everyone wants to chill out and forget about politics but its still surprising.
i will have to do a bit more work to conclude wether its holiday malaise or the barometer of acceptance towards the anc ineptitude, thievery and lying is reaching an all time low.
14 Dec 2012, 12:52 pm
@ufo-13592: I think 14.30 or 14.45
14 Dec 2012, 12:54 pm
@Angostura-13595: tge f.cuking Guppys
14 Dec 2012, 12:54 pm
@The Rangerman-13599:
indeed it does… i never got over it… never…
that and the subsequent plummet to the depths of footballing mediocrity killed my passion for the game… stuck out a couple of seasons after that but just couldn’t take it…
get behind bafana because they are our boys… but other than that very seldom watch or follow football…
14 Dec 2012, 12:55 pm
@CharlesM-13603:
thanks charles…
14 Dec 2012, 12:56 pm
@CharlesM-13603: 15.00, I think.
14 Dec 2012, 12:57 pm
@The Rangerman-13602: feeling a tad irrelevant?
14 Dec 2012, 12:57 pm
@The Rangerman-13602:An interview with Zapiro that would have been aired on SABC3 has been cancelled by somebody “from the top” because of his sketches of our president…. and we thought that back in the day, PW Botha controlled the SABC !!
So much for freedom of the press !!
14 Dec 2012, 12:57 pm
when i was still a game ranger we used to organise “drinks stops” for the game drives where we would set up a station/table with shots of booze and all the gamedrives would cycle through for the guests to have a shot.
after a while we started to get creative and make the junior rangers dress up. sometimes they would be zulu wariors and even cavemen jumping from trees scaring the bejeesus out of the guests before forcing the guests to have a drink.
it all went pear shaped when we started dressing the trackers up in torn army uniforms and having them impersonate renamo guerrillas complete with false weapons and a smattering of portugese.
they were simply too enthusiastic and the guests got REALLY scared and even the “candid camera” moment of “its all a joke” didnt mollify them.
ah, fun times.
14 Dec 2012, 12:59 pm
@playtheball-13607: Okay then – I hope the weather doesn’t play a part !! It should be a good game.
14 Dec 2012, 13:00 pm
@ufo-13605: ag i still watch a bit but back in those days i was a kipper playing for my club and totally befok with football.
now its diving.
@Transformation-13608:
nah, i am the rangerman.
@CharlesM-13609: its a joke. they cancelled another live debate because of independant journos on the panel. they are ****** liars.
14 Dec 2012, 13:00 pm
@Transformation-13604: Guppies?
Well, OK, then I’m included in that collective…
{Bloody hotashell ‘ere in Durban right now – well, more a problem of humiture overload than temperature}
14 Dec 2012, 13:02 pm
@ufo-13606: I’d like to see how Quinton de Kock will “handle” Dale Steyn. I’m sure Dale would have made a note about De Kock’s comments about the fact that he’ll be ready to face Dale.
I’m happy that De Kock was included in the Protea T20 team. IMO De Kock is our future wicketkeeper / batsman in test cricket. With Faf at 6 and De Kock at 7 they won’t have to pick Elgar (or Rudolph for that matter).
14 Dec 2012, 13:02 pm
@Angostura-13613: ja i think the rain will cool it down just now.
i pity the holidaymakers because the sea is brown as hell.
then again, they are probably all used to swimming in the vaal river so it might make them feel at home.
14 Dec 2012, 13:04 pm
@The Rangerman-13610:
yeah… it’s one of the foibles of human nature that we laugh at tasteless or inappropriate things…
like michael clark padding-up with his groin…!! never funny to the person or people on the receiving end…
but hilarious to everyone else…
14 Dec 2012, 13:04 pm
Just saw Brok Harris at the Durbanville Municipal office. Had a quick chat with him and took a photo. They just finished their pre-season training this morning. He is looking in top shape. I didnt have the heart to tell him that I put him on the bench in my Stormers team for new season….
14 Dec 2012, 13:05 pm
@The Rangerman-13615: yip
always better to visit Durban in January than December … weather is more stable
14 Dec 2012, 13:06 pm
football is not as repititive as rugby…super rugby, june tests, tri nations, currie cup, eoyt…repeat again for the next decade…
imagine a football tri nations…spain, england & netherland…argentina, brazil & mexico, sa, nigeria, ghana, cote d’voire = Rc
14 Dec 2012, 13:07 pm
Okay I’m out – go Cobras !!
14 Dec 2012, 13:10 pm
@The Rangerman-13612:
yeah… not what it used to be with hard guy like stuart pierce and steve mcmahon playing…
i hate this diving… it is cheating plain and simple… guys should get banned for years for it… rugby players will carry 2, 3 or more players on their backs and still keep going… soccer players fall over if wind from another player is too much…
i don’t watch because it seems the whole soccer world actually condones it IMO… despite what they say and rules they make… fact is they should not need to make those rules… coaches and team owners should be instilling honesty in their players by fining them for diving… but they condone it cause of the ‘rewards’ diving brings…
14 Dec 2012, 13:11 pm
Lunchtime for the wekas.
14 Dec 2012, 13:11 pm
@CharlesM-13620: Cheers buddy, ja also looking forward to it. A bit of sport withdrawal symptoms here.
14 Dec 2012, 13:13 pm
@CharlesM-13614:
yeah charles it’s going to be very interesting to watch those two… and the whole game…
i think you’re spot on with that post… makes much sense….
14 Dec 2012, 13:13 pm
@Angostura-13613: humid as hell here in CT too.
14 Dec 2012, 13:14 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-13622: hey imi…hoe gaan dit?
14 Dec 2012, 13:17 pm
@CharlesM-13620:
cheers charles…
yeah… must go too…
@Sasuke-13617:
shame on you bud…!!
i know i’m in a minority of one (or two if you count brok) but brok would not only be my stormers TH but my bok TH too… won’t repeat all the reasons and drive everyone to tears of laughter but take the ribbing etc out of it and the best moneyball stats for sa THs belong to brok… fact…
and on that note must wrap and get to tv…
cheers all…
14 Dec 2012, 13:19 pm
@Sasuke-13617: Don’t you dare demote THE BROK. Not on my watch.
I will have you know that Bork Harris is a DEMON on the treadmill and on the Powerplate, so I’m not sure why you have to make a ‘sarcy’ commment about him being in great shape.
(No jokes though, Brok kills on a treadmill, I have had the dubioud honour of running on the adjacent treadmill a few times in the past….)
14 Dec 2012, 13:20 pm
@ufo-13624: Dale Steyn will be brutal…..Off with their heads said the Queen of Hearts.
14 Dec 2012, 13:24 pm
@@Angostura-13618: ja, agreed.
ufo-13616: haha, ja it is.
14 Dec 2012, 13:27 pm
@ufo-13621: steve mcmahon was hard as nails in a time of hard as nails players.
@playtheball-13625: no offence intended but CT humidity is childs play bud.
14 Dec 2012, 13:36 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13628: urself, ufo & stormersboy are the ONLY members of the BROK “the rock” Fan Club.
ufo is the chairman, keeping Brok’s tackle vs minutes stats & all.
14 Dec 2012, 13:46 pm
@The Rangerman-13600:
Thanks Ranger!
For some time the movie Hobbit was advertised on News24; it had a picture of one of those creatures
The creature had straight hair, fair skin, blue eyes … I was wondering which group in SA would claim him as their own
14 Dec 2012, 13:51 pm
@The Rangerman-13631: Ja I know, but it’s what you’re used to.
I lived in Kenya for a few years. Nairobi OK cause it’s high up, but when you fly to Mombasa and the plane door opens it’s like a physical slap in the face.
14 Dec 2012, 13:53 pm
@ufo-13627: @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13628:
I am a big brok fan but with the arrival of Pat Cilliers who is a better scrumming prop than Brok, I would go with Pat Cilliers seeing that one of the Stormers weak points is at the scrum.
Brok does great work around the park but he will always struggle around the park.
But he was cool and we chatted about the competition in the squad and he seems eager to start the season.
He is not that tall in real life, I almost rivalled him for length and I am 1.75, I think Brok is just over 1.8 m.
14 Dec 2012, 13:53 pm
@Sheriff-13633: chad le clos is a hobbit?
he must be a hobbit on juice then because the lad is pretty sturdy and tall.
@playtheball-13634: durbs is like that bud, it gets brutal here from mid december til march but tbho i love it.
14 Dec 2012, 13:55 pm
@Transformation-13632:
‘B-Rock’… the legend…
14 Dec 2012, 13:57 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-13637: Should be our Stormers song. We will, we will, Brock you.
14 Dec 2012, 14:00 pm
@Sasuke-13617:
Was he wearing his sports bra?
14 Dec 2012, 14:01 pm
@The Rangerman-13636: Too much for me. I fantasize about Icelandic ice maidens when it gets this humid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpiFmZLICgM
14 Dec 2012, 14:05 pm
@Transformation-13626: G’day mate! I’m OK thanks and trust you are well?
14 Dec 2012, 14:06 pm
“from brok to rock to bok”
the immortal words of justrugby
14 Dec 2012, 14:10 pm
@playtheball-13638:
snaaks
14 Dec 2012, 14:12 pm
@Transformation-13632: You try and take Brok down in the gym….and you will change your tune sommer quick quick mister
I dig Brok. See him out and about quite a bit in these parts (shops, gym etc) and I can tell ya – he is a strong as a brOX.
@Sasuke-13635:
Only teasing. (I am a fan however, feel he is very underrated…..No fatty does as much work as he…..and on ‘D’, a central cog in the Stormers wheel. He can play every 2nd week though. Brok was seriously overplayed in 2010 and 2011….)
14 Dec 2012, 14:18 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13644:
i think you do tiaan a disservice when you say no fatty does as much work.
14 Dec 2012, 14:20 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13644: Brokback mountaineer, you.
14 Dec 2012, 14:28 pm
Brok will find himself out of favour with the Stormers this year.
With Jaintjes bound to start and Grant as his backup there really is no place for an extra 10.
14 Dec 2012, 14:32 pm
@John Galt-13647: Bwahhahahhaha
14 Dec 2012, 14:32 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-13645: I am doing PR for Brok at the moment, not Tiaan. Focus Bakkies, focus
@playtheball-13646:
14 Dec 2012, 14:34 pm
@John Galt-13647:
the age of the modern fly-head (or is that tight-half) comes to an end so soon..?..
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