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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31 Dec 2012, 07:57 am
morning to everyone in keoland…
i see the christmas football match is well and truly over…
played through extra time to an entertaining draw…
but now normal service is resumed…
so…
back to the trenches to take up sniping positions and the occasional charge over top at the other side for some bayonet-fixed hand-to-hand combat…
i think i’ll hang onto the ball…!
31 Dec 2012, 07:59 am
morning rye…
trust you’ve had great quality time with family…?
31 Dec 2012, 08:04 am
Hello UFO
How are you pal.?
Have a great day,
31 Dec 2012, 08:11 am
@ryecatcher-19353:
thanks rye…
always good…
you too…
impressive speech you posted by tony greig… he’s the kind of man who should have been running world cricket… but the old boys club will never let such a rational honest person anywhere near the inner sanctum…
31 Dec 2012, 08:18 am
sorry to hear of the death of a new zealand jockey who died during a race when her horse took tumble…
sad news…
31 Dec 2012, 08:55 am
@BrumbiesBoy-19345: lol Brumbiesboytjie getting his knickers in a knot while he supported the Lions during apartheid and had no problems with the fact that they weren’t picked on merit but only on the whiteness of the player’s skin…
a more hypocritical t.wat you won’t find
he says he hates the intergrated Proteas who sit at nr 1 in Test rankings because they’re not called the exclusionary “Springboks” he idolised back in the days of separate development…lol
31 Dec 2012, 09:27 am
@Transformation-19356: Listen smarta*se, we’ve had this discussion before and I’ve told you why I voted the way I did in the (whites only) referendums of the 80s and I’m not going to repeat myself now.
And my unbiased hatred of all forms of discrimination, in sport in particular, applies to my withdrawal of support of South African cricket . ON TOP OF THAT is the removal of the Springbok emblem as the symbol of South African sporting greatness.
I do not wish to have to repeat myself to you again.
31 Dec 2012, 09:45 am
Kings sign Adongo
December 31st, 2012
Daniel Adongo’s dream of playing Super
Rugby will soon come to fruition when the
burly Kenyan forward turns out for Port
Elizabeth’s Southern Kings in South Africa’s
Eastern Cape Province next season.
The 23-year-old, who is based at Counties
Manukau, New Zealand, has signed for Kings
for the 2013 Super Rugby season that gets
under way on February 15 culminating with
the final on August 3.
Adongo is returning to the Southern Africa
nation where he ditched another Super
Rugby side Blue Bulls in July.
He will head back to Counties Manukau after
the Super Rugby ready for the National
Provincial Championship popularly known as
ITM Cup Premier League that starts late
August to early November.
Go Kings!
31 Dec 2012, 09:50 am
@BrumbiesBoy-19357: you erroneously believe “voting in two referundums” renders your support for exclusionary teams valid? hehehe.
you supported everything sport wise BEFORE the referundums, you never supported Australia or England, you cheered for non-merit SA teams! Fact
31 Dec 2012, 10:05 am
@Transformation-19358:
Good news about Adongo, but Kings problem not so much at loose forward & lock, but rather at prop (imo) – pity they couldn’t beef up their resources at prop.
Any news about the limitation to 2 foreigners: Is that for the whole Super XV squad, for the match day squad, or a limitation to 2 foreigners on the field of play at any given time?
31 Dec 2012, 10:14 am
@Transformation-19359: As a non-violent person, voting the way I did in the referendums was basically the only opportunity I had to tell the Nationalist regime what I thought of their segregationalist policies, Dum-dum!
31 Dec 2012, 10:26 am
@Angostura: my understanding is that only 2 foreigners in the squad submitted to SARU & further on to SANZAR. if the rule is not changed/relaxed 3 players will find themselves surplus to requirement.
31 Dec 2012, 10:27 am
@BrumbiesBoy-19361:
It’s a pity you didn’t take the next step and back attempts to rectify the horrendous damage 40 years of Nat rule did to the citizens of the country and its sportsmen and women.
31 Dec 2012, 10:35 am
@David-19363: “…take the next step and back attempts”…please explain and remember two wrongs don’t make a right.
31 Dec 2012, 10:44 am
@BrumbiesBoy-19361: no you are lying! you could’ve supported Aus or Nz like you are doing now & abhor every team that represented SA! one size fits all.
how can in one breath say the Springbok emblem (as applied across all sporting codes in the past) represented SA sporting “excellence” when it NEVER represented the majority of the population?
Basil d’Olivera couldn’t play for the cricket Springboks, so how did they represent SA excellence in sport?! you should’ve never supported them too. f.uck the referundums…
31 Dec 2012, 11:06 am
Mark Keohane
Dan Carter will play in France post next season as part of his sabbatical Racing Metro favourites to sign him
Wasn’t aware he was also taking a sabbatical, and how is it a sabbatical if you still continue playing?
31 Dec 2012, 11:14 am
@nortierd-19366: it is a “sabbatical” from NZ rugby & won’t play for the All Blacks vs France in the June Tests…
31 Dec 2012, 11:14 am
@BrumbiesBoy-19364:
Claiming that there are two wrongs is a purely subjective opinion. As for the Kings, the S15 is a regional competition designed to feature the countries best players, not a reward for CC performance. The Brumbies, Force and Rebels were all awarded Super status based on development of rugby in their region.
31 Dec 2012, 11:23 am
@Transformation-19367:
True, but look what happened last time he did that.
Also, McCaw is taking a real sabbatical
31 Dec 2012, 11:32 am
@David-19368:
It is comparing apples to pears if one wants to compare the SA setup against the Australian one.
They pushed for teams to make up for the fact that they do not have any regional competition, unlike SA and NZ.
The local derbies in the S15 has a duel purpose for them.
The Aussies have 2 to many sides in the Superrugby, but then again, so do we.
We will have to wait and see how the Kings fare before having the right to judge them on rugby related matters, but at this stage it is unfair to judge them on SARFU’s shortcomings in dealing with the matter on their inclusion.
31 Dec 2012, 11:36 am
@Transformation-19367:
Transie, Louis de Villiers refers to it as “moonlighting”
Think that is an apt description
31 Dec 2012, 11:45 am
@Skop……here is the third group I was telling you about……….Mizrachi: Descendants
of Jews from North
Africa and the Middle
East
• Other subgroups are
Yemenite, Ethiopian
and Oriental
31 Dec 2012, 11:58 am
Brumbiesboy is the equivalent of a Cape Crusaders wrapped in sheeps clothing.
31 Dec 2012, 11:58 am
@nortierd-19370:
I agree. Our main problem is distance between most of our major cities and rugby centres. Effectively we have 6 and Australia 5, with only Perth and Brisbane at a distance from the other 3.
This is, I believe the major problem in including our major centres and CC unions into viable franchises. However excluding the EC region from the Super competition is a slap in the face to rugby lovers in the region and the history of SARU.
Let’s face it, the Golden Lions supporters never complained about a loss of identity when joined with the Cheetahs as they saw themselves as the senior partner, even though the Cheetahs were a more successful CC union during the franchise life.
What annoys me about this anti Kings stance based on historic performances is that the history of black EC rugby and the original SARU is not just ignored but remains something almost non existent to our white population.
31 Dec 2012, 12:00 pm
Oh,I see you withdrew your support in the year 2000 only.Thanks for admitting to that fact.Now,I can come to the conclusion that you happily supported apartheid sports whilst people were dying protesting/fighting that evil system.You could live with your conscience, then ,when sportsmen could not represent their country because of their skin pigmentation?While people were marching and protesting against the evil system in places like Soweto,London,NY,Auckland etc etc you happily attended rugby games at segregated stadiums like Ellis Park,KP etc etc?Correct?
31 Dec 2012, 12:01 pm
@Transformation-19358:
seriously, the guy is at best a mediocre joker.
why are you crowing about this? how old is he now?
look out world ‘Danielle’ Adongo is coming out…
i mean really, who the fark is counties manuaku..?..
kings just dont have the qualitiy or depth Transie, you guys are in trouble… big time… julle kort harde manne in die pak, die vaste vyf is belaglik en die agterspelers is meesal verheerlikde atletiek poppies.
seriously, guy… you need to get real about this and start to weigh things up properly… you’re in the big leagues now.
31 Dec 2012, 12:03 pm
@nortierd-19369:
only from super rugby.
he will be back for the ab’s
31 Dec 2012, 12:04 pm
so dan carter’s gonna play rugby on his rugby sabbatical…
and richie’s gonna do…?
Auckland – All Blacks captain Richie McCaw is reported to be dating an English woman who organises high-priced *** parties and is a friend of the Duchess of Cambridge.
According to the Stuff website, the pair met during the All Blacks’ recent end of year tour to the UK, and McCaw – who turns 32 today – was said to be ready to use his six-month sabbatical from the game to pursue the relationship, according to Woman’s Day.
Emma Sayle, 34, was described as six-foot tall, a colonel’s daughter and the boss of Killing Kittens, where strictly vetted couples pay up to $300 each to attend *** parties.
She was a church-going Christian who said she never took part in the parties.
She knew Kate Middleton through boarding school, with the pair bonding after the future queen joined Sayle’s charity group, The Sisterhood, which paddled a dragon boat across the English Channel in 2007.
In May, Sayle broke off an engagement to the son of former England cricketer Sir Ian Botham, and has previously dated England rugby player James Haskell.
31 Dec 2012, 12:08 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-19376:
Bakkies you also need to weigh things up properly and prepare for the very possible Bulls promotion/relegation game against the Lions.
Anything is possible.
31 Dec 2012, 12:08 pm
@Treehugger-19372:
Hi Th, I’ve also been doing some more research and it appears there’s conflicting scientific research that supports both our positions. It also appears that the Misrachi jews contains those groups that don’t fall into the two main groups and is also referred to as Oriental jews.
31 Dec 2012, 12:11 pm
@skopdiekan-19334:
lmao
vintage Skop, vintage
you make me burst with larfter
@nortierd-19339:
hehehe
cold day in hell Nortie… cold day in hell… hehehe
@Te Rangatira-19340:
hahaha
you’re being ridiculous
that will never happen
31 Dec 2012, 12:16 pm
@ufo-19378:
huh?
i thought he got married a while ago all ready?
@Jeraldjay-19379:
dont be ridiculous, will never happen. loking at the gulf in strength and class between the kings and cheeetahs (our 2nd weakest super team) i think its pretty evident how next season will play out.
31 Dec 2012, 12:20 pm
@ufo-19378:
“where strictly vetted couples pay up to $300 each to attend *** parties”..?..
zex parties..?..
31 Dec 2012, 12:29 pm
Bakkies why dont you call Adongo a “mediocre joker” to his face.
31 Dec 2012, 12:31 pm
Good day Nortie, David, Jeraldjay, Ufo, Tree h and Bakkies – hope you’re well!
We arrived yesterday in Hermanus – there was one hell of a fire which started Friday, was seemingly under control but due to the wind, it picked up during the night and Saturday it was one big “inferno” destroying more than 20 000 ha of fynbos and “veld” – over a distance of 12 km upto Stanford. The road between Stanford and Hermanus was closed on Saturday: during the more than 30 years I’ve been coming here, I’ve never seen such damage due to a fire.
For those that know the area, you can see most of the lagoon from the road – in the past only sections were visible
31 Dec 2012, 12:34 pm
@Transformation-19365: “…the majority of the population.” Don’t generalise – that does not necessarily mean “the best,” does it?
And not “f.uck the referendums,” f.uck your attitude baba, it sucks!
What was I supposed to do?
Plant a bomb outside Ellis Park like that cowardly “freedom fighter” did?
Or blow up a Wimpy?
Or pull a McBride and stick a bomb outside Magoo’s in Durban because there “may have” been (dronky) Permanent Force members in it at the time?
No Sir, we all know that the ANCs “struggle” against “the system” was justified, but to attack innocent civilians and targets smacks of cowardice of the highest order and was certainly not the way to go IMO.
Please get a life.
And lose those chips on the shoulders.
31 Dec 2012, 12:36 pm
Tree, I spoke to a resident of Hermanus this morning. He and his wife took a drive to the Yacht club yesterday to look at some of the damage. A lot of yachts and some caravans were destroyed but the worst according to him was the fact that a large number of tortoises ( many of them small ones) died as well.
31 Dec 2012, 12:36 pm
I can think of one new years resolution for the Stormers…….
Score 4 flippin tries in one game.
31 Dec 2012, 12:39 pm
@David-19374:
Yes, the ill fated Cats fiasco.
The guys from Bloemfontein where treated like the ugly stepsister.
If they didn’t have Laurie Mains who knows how they would have fared.
I do feel sorry in a manner for the Kings.
If they had a guaranteed spell of say 3 or so years, they might have had time to try and build something, but that won’t happen.
I personally can’t condone and accept the way the whole matter was handled and the interference that got them in a position where they are thrown to the lions as it were.
The promises they made regarding transformation and development of players will come to naught now, as they will be scrambling for survival.
We saw with the relegation match against the FS that they had hardly any black player in their side, bar a wing from NZ, and to cling onto Tiger Mangweni is ludicrous, he played all over and his better playing days are long behind him.
They might be competitive in the opening rounds and could even beat the Force or Rebels, but beyond that I think their sole purpose will be to build a team to beat the Lions in the relegation match.
I could be wrong of course, but that is how I see it
31 Dec 2012, 12:39 pm
@David-19368: Not quite true David, there were no other regions/franchises in contention when the Brumbies were formed.
There were (I think) three areas in contention when the Force “won” the bid for Super Rugby inclusion (much the same as the Free State did over the Eastern Cape) circa 2005.
And sadly we all know that due to player limitations/restrictions the Aussies cannot sustain a fifth franchise hence the joke called the Rebels.
31 Dec 2012, 12:40 pm
@Dawn-19384:
but Dawn, two questions:
1. do you rate him highly?
2. is he the kings saviour?
it seems to me the kings exec/admin/coaching staff are not taking this seriously at all and all we are headed for is another terrible lionesque escapade.
31 Dec 2012, 12:41 pm
@Jeraldjay-19388: From your lips to AC’s ears.
31 Dec 2012, 12:42 pm
@CharlesM-19385:
Afternoon Charles.
Good to hear you arrived safely.
I dread being on the roads this time of year.
Sad news about the fire, but traditionally this time of year there are always fires raging somewhere in the Cape Town area.
Without fail it seems
31 Dec 2012, 12:42 pm
@CharlesM-19385:
morning Charles,
sjoe! sounds pretty bad.
31 Dec 2012, 12:44 pm
Rye good day to you as well! I only had the time to read Tony Greig’s speech this morning – what a speech !! The type of person the cricketing world could use – what a real pity he isn’t with us anymore!
31 Dec 2012, 12:44 pm
@playtheball-19392:
from AC’s ears to the tooth fairy… from the tooth fairy to santa clause…
31 Dec 2012, 12:46 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-19377:
Not if his Achilles snaps agin while in France.
I feel sorry for Todd Blackadder and the Crusaders though.
Must be tough knowing your star players are available to play, yet not for you
31 Dec 2012, 12:46 pm
@nortierd-19370: Well said, Nortier.
@Jeraldjay-19373:
Whatever. I’ve got broad shoulders, I’ll take it on the chin!
@wnbb-19375: Read my replies to Transformation.
31 Dec 2012, 12:51 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-19396: We shall see. I’m a glass half full kind of a person. From AC’s ears to the tooth fairy???
31 Dec 2012, 12:51 pm
@nortierd-19393: Yep and don’t get me started on some of the idiots’ driving! Overtaking where they are not allowed to etc. Interesting (and I won’t generalise) that many of the culprits are in fact drivers of “huge” SUVs – seemingly indestructible!!
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