Kruger’s French move confirmed
18 Dec 2012
The Bulls have confirmed that Springbok lock Juandrè Kruger will be joining Racing Metro next year.
According to the Pretoria franchise, Kruger has not extended his contract and will leave the Bulls once it expires in June 2013. Kruger is set to take up a lucrative contract with French club Racing.
The news comes as a blow to the Bulls, who are already short on quality locks following the retirement of Bok legend Victor Matfield as well as the departure of two more Test stars in Bakkies Botha and Danie Rossouw in 2011. While they will still enjoy Kruger’s services for the initial part of the Super Rugby competition, it seems as if he won’t be available for the latter stages where experience is so important.
Coach Frans Ludeke admitted that the Bulls would have liked to have retained Kruger, but in the end the Pretoria franchise couldn’t match Racing’s offer.
‘It is always good to know and to hear that your players are wanted all over the world, but unfortunately it is not always possible to hold on to them once those offers start coming in,’ Ludeke said.
‘With the exchange rate as it is at the moment, it is very difficult to remain on level terms with those clubs when it comes to contract talks. We were very keen to extend his contract, but financially it was just not possible. We are very happy for Juandrè, as it is a great offer he received, but that left us in an unfortunate position that we could not match it.’
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21 Dec 2012, 07:50 am
@NZINCHINA-142:
I went running and enjoyed the glorious scenery for perhaps the last time 
@the curse-144:
It sounds to me like you have enjoyed the finest ‘acid’ that Sydney has to offer, rather then experiencing the end of days 
I’ll be happy if end of days feels the same as a ‘bad trip’.
Bunker down Pops – and report back when you are able
21 Dec 2012, 08:33 am
Cheers hurri, really enjoyed that… especially the moment at 62 minutes with GH saying he’d have preferred to play SA in that semi final..
21 Dec 2012, 08:43 am
@the curse-152: Sky News give us 5 hours….
21 Dec 2012, 09:05 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-153: well its begun…
still, at least we’ll go out as the last World champs ever
21 Dec 2012, 09:14 am
@the curse-154: That you will Pops
That you will……
However, don’t expect any respect in the afterlife for that achievement
Bakkies like all decent cockroaches (love you Bakkies) will survive the apocalypse and ensure that the next generation of roaches and whatever other life forms survive the BOOM, are educated to the ways of the ‘old order’…..
21 Dec 2012, 09:50 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-155:
honestly Pedigree,
like Dawn, i fear you indulge these keewees far too much for their own good.
its ok, i’ve been called worse.
21 Dec 2012, 09:54 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-156: Nah…….
But I do know that everytime I mention the Kiwis or something ‘positive’ about them you give this thread another 50 posts 
Bakkies, your legacy will survive any ‘apocalypse’ – fact.
21 Dec 2012, 10:07 am
@the curse-152:
lol
Yeah i thought you would like that.
Its what we had said all along and GH just confirmed exactly that.
21 Dec 2012, 10:08 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-156:
Bakkies.
Watch the link i put up on the other page.
Gives you a bit of insight into the ABs instead of the imaginary stuff that you have
21 Dec 2012, 11:47 am
@the curse-60: In sport, you are only as good as your last game.
Eat some of that humble pie.
21 Dec 2012, 12:00 pm
160 I suggest you rewatch your last game then you were farking awful.
21 Dec 2012, 12:07 pm
Thick Safwit joke of the day.
Why doesn’t Bakkies wife use a vibrator ?
Cause it chips her teeth
21 Dec 2012, 14:32 pm
@NZINCHINA-136:
Coaching got a lot to do with it and the way you run the game administratively – in that respect SA is a disaster-zone; get rid Paddy O’Brien and Graham Mourie – get them out of rugby altogether – replace them with a neutral Frenchman and Argentinian – in other words on a level playing field give us Eddie Jones as our coach and we’ll see who wins the next 10 years out of Boks and All Blacks – it will go back to how it used to be – Boks dominant over all other teams on a consistent basis, including yours.
21 Dec 2012, 14:36 pm
@NZINCHINA-161: We won our last game.
Duh
21 Dec 2012, 14:47 pm
JB we both know neutral refs killed any dominance you had, so many ifs and buts from SAFFA fans we’ll keep beating you and you’ll keep shouting next year.
21 Dec 2012, 14:50 pm
@willievz-164: 55% versus 85%
duh…
21 Dec 2012, 14:51 pm
seems the darts is on as well
cheers all
21 Dec 2012, 14:51 pm
Yes you did Willie in fact you won 55% of the time this year, well done and as you say you’re on a 3 game winning streak usually you don’t talk about streaks until you get to around 10 but I can understand your excitement.
21 Dec 2012, 15:07 pm
@NZINCHINA-168: Just dishing out some Xmas humble pie.
With green tea.
21 Dec 2012, 15:07 pm
@NZINCHINA-165:
The next thing you’ll be saying is the World Cup final reffing was fair for both sides when the whole world could see it wasn’t.
Even with all our failings we’ll see who wins the next 10 years – best way to solve this argument. There won’t be peace in the rugby world until O’Brien and Mourie have been booted into touch.
21 Dec 2012, 15:15 pm
Willie you eat it anywhere between 3 to 6 times a year, im comfortable eating it once a year.
21 Dec 2012, 15:20 pm
@J.B. Cowper-170:
With respect JB you’re so far behind in super/tri nations and head to head against us you will have to win the next ten years just to catch up.
22 Dec 2012, 03:11 am
@J.B. Cowper-170:
So let me get this correct.
Reasons why the Boks are getting beaten by the ABs:
Refs
Bad Coaches
Politicians
O’Brien
Mourie
So every loss is no fault of South Africas players but everyone else around them.
I personally think we have better players than you lot and have had for a long time.
But i like this part from you ” it will go back to how it used to be – Boks dominant over all other teams on a consistent basis, including yours.”
Those days we were not allowed to take our best teams. In SA the refs were the worst, home team had already won by the time the ABs got off the plane.
I think you need to stick to reality and understand its not everyone elses fault that you guys get beaten. You really need to man up and say, the Bok team is not the best and move on and get better.
22 Dec 2012, 03:13 am
@NZINCHINA-172:
Good to see you are giving respect to JB. Dont see any of that from his posts of late.
22 Dec 2012, 06:21 am
Hurri he’s a good old bloke and a die hard Bokke fan, I note Graham Mourie has now been named and shamed by JB the list keeps getting bigger, lets not forget he can write what he likes and we’ll keep beating them water of a ducks back
22 Dec 2012, 06:40 am
@Hurricane-173:
Hurricane….you can add great players starting with Ab Captains and heroes…Richie and Fitzy….
@NZINCHINA-175:
and whats another Great Ab captain done to deserve the disdain of JB?
22 Dec 2012, 06:44 am
@NZINCHINA-175:
Yep, JB is a die hard fan and a good poster, no doubt about that..
But list is getting bigger and i am worried that if he posts anymore we could have the Queen as one of his complaints.
22 Dec 2012, 06:53 am
Gents, lets wait for JB to spill the beans on Mourie, this like all the other ones will be very entertaining.
22 Dec 2012, 06:55 am
@Hurricane-177:
When at Primary we sang”God save the Queen” She is certainly an ally of old Nz.
22 Dec 2012, 07:13 am
@Te Rangatira-179:
22 Dec 2012, 08:32 am
thank goodness new zealand has a good rugby team.
because their cricket lot are hardly world class.
come to think of it, neither are their golfers
22 Dec 2012, 08:37 am
@charo-181:
Their caddies are superb though.
22 Dec 2012, 08:45 am
@gunther-182:
superb loud mouths you mean?
22 Dec 2012, 08:58 am
@charo-183:
Come now Charo when we thumped you at Soweto a few months back we were all very gracious in victory.
22 Dec 2012, 09:13 am
@NZINCHINA-184:
referring to your nation’s caddies.
get with the program
22 Dec 2012, 09:26 am
@charo-185:
My mistake as you usually like to generalize about entire races of people
22 Dec 2012, 12:43 pm
@charo-181:
Well world class or not our cricket team has taken care of you guys in two CWCs.
But if you are going to talk about golf and cricket, shall we talk about olympics and netball as well, how about 7s rugby?
22 Dec 2012, 16:17 pm
@Hurricane-187: Lets just go to war and see who wins
The amount of man power at our disposal , as-well as veterans, it would be a walk in the park for us.
Seriously there isn’t anything worse than reading how you lot rise to the bait from the clearly retarded rambles of some of my countrymen ,ILBB is retarded and a sad blue bulls ****** with more digits on his hands than brain cells in his head
22 Dec 2012, 22:00 pm
@wpallday-188:
War? We would have the backing of the British and Oz, not really a walk in the park for you lot at all.
22 Dec 2012, 22:01 pm
@Hurricane-189:
Oh and all we have to say is South Africa have a wealth of oil and USA would be on our side as well
22 Dec 2012, 22:07 pm
@wpallday-188:
Hang on was that first line bait???
hahaha damn it you got me again
22 Dec 2012, 22:07 pm
And hang on am i blogging to myself….again?
22 Dec 2012, 22:08 pm
@Hurricane-192:
Yes you are Hurricane
22 Dec 2012, 22:14 pm
@Hurricane-192:
Seems wpallday wants a war Hurricane….it could turn very bad for them with Nz and Crusader operatives amongst their midst….and to be honest they have fired very few shots in anger on our shores.
22 Dec 2012, 22:20 pm
@Te Rangatira-194:
Hehehe
22 Dec 2012, 22:53 pm
@NZINCHINA-186: He is nothing but a troll ..and a sad one at that.
23 Dec 2012, 02:50 am
@Hurricane-189: Sounds just like your rugby teams,need the backing of the islands to win.You always need the backing of someone.
@NZINCHINA-165: No the dominance we had was killed not by reffing but by you lot raping the islands,because when it was just you little keeeeweeee boys you were getting dealt to.And i know the response will be that some of the island players were born in nz because you brought there fathers over to work on the farms,just like there fathers they are only there for the money.
23 Dec 2012, 03:52 am
@snivelling little kiwi pricks-197:
Is Gerty your uncle? ” Ja ja boys but you can go home after the series but I have to live here”
23 Dec 2012, 04:05 am
@NZINCHINA-198: I was disappointed with some aspects in my own performance that day after referring four really pretty strong games in pool play. I’m not blaming anyone for the quarterfinal referring display apart from myself. I didn’t referee as well as I could,” Lawrence said.So not only do we have you raping the islands your refs are a disgrce as well.
23 Dec 2012, 05:07 am
Little prick, Lawrence had a bad game your uncle cheated big difference.
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