City pulls clever stadium move
23 Jan 2013
Western Province may not want to move, but the City of Cape Town is happy to find creative ways to host top flight rugby at the Cape Town Stadium.
As such, the traditional pre-season friendly between the Boland Kavaliers and the Stormers will be played at the Cape Town Stadium on Saturday, 9 February – a move that will no doubt be welcomed by passionate Cape Town rugby fans.
The City and the WP Rugby Football Union have been at loggerheads over the past few years, with the City wanting the union to move to the luxurious stadium in Green Point given the financial burden it has become due to high maintenance costs.
The WPRFU, in turn, argues that it is not its problem, and that it would be too expensive to move from its traditional base in Newlands, which it owns, to the Cape Town Stadium, where it would have to rent.
The Stormers website lists the following pre-season fixtures:
2 February: vs Cheetahs (in Bloemfontein)
9 February: vs Boland Kavaliers (in Wellington)
But the City of Cape Town has secured an arrangement with the Boland Rugby Union to host the game at the Cape Town Stadium.
Both Boland and Western Province will get an opportunity to further test their team’s depth for the Vodacom Cup season, with a curtain raiser scheduled before the main event between a Boland Invitational XV and the Western Province Vodacom Cup side.
With the inaugural Community Cup due to start on 16 February, perhaps it would have made more sense to have seen Boland’s representative in that tournament, Villagers Worcester, take on either SK Walmers or Durbanville-Bellville, the two sides representing WP, in the curtain raiser.
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23 Jan 2013, 08:53 am
@MacToogie-92: I’m a huge fan. HUGE.
@gunther-95: In this corner, weighing in at 110 pounds and pushing 89 years of age and the recent recipient of a brand new plastic hip, Joseph “Blue” Polaski
23 Jan 2013, 08:54 am
@Sasuke-99: No man……surely somewhere on this planet there is a better option than this Plod…
23 Jan 2013, 08:55 am
@grant10-102: Nope. Out of what is available? It wouldn’t be half bad.
23 Jan 2013, 08:57 am
@MacToogie-80:
a little bit of marketing wouldn’t kill no one either.
23 Jan 2013, 08:58 am
Oh how i wish Barney would sign with the Stormers. Just to have a read at what Grant will say the whole season.
23 Jan 2013, 08:58 am
@Sasuke-97: All we are in duuuuuuuuust in the wiiiiiiiind!
You my boy Blue!!!!
23 Jan 2013, 08:59 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-100: yes thats it!
he does it well.
23 Jan 2013, 09:00 am
@grant10-102: Not in terms of AURA
23 Jan 2013, 09:01 am
@stormersboy-106:
23 Jan 2013, 09:02 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-101:
23 Jan 2013, 09:06 am
@grant10-102: eish! Sorry to hear about Plod coming to Newlands ……but an old and toothless plod is way better than the skeef Deon Fourie.
23 Jan 2013, 09:08 am
@gunther-82: expect Frankie Two Fingers just after the 1st Bulle preseason game, where he’ll be singing Arno Botha’s praise.
23 Jan 2013, 09:12 am
@stormersboy-106: @Sasuke-110: One of my all time faves. Watch it every now and again simply to laugh out loud and giggle hysterically.
23 Jan 2013, 09:17 am
@stormersboy-106:
@Sasuke-109:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnywlzr7Y1o
23 Jan 2013, 09:18 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-113: Yes, it’s a classic. I have a mate that I trade quotes with constantly.
It’s not for everyone though, as my wife reminds me often.
23 Jan 2013, 09:27 am
@stormersboy-115: I too am reminded that ‘tastes’ and ‘humour’ differ from person to person…….
I have my stash of classics (incl. Chopper Reid dvds, Little Britain, Monty Python stuff, even a few old Benny Hill classics along with my classic never to win any Oscars movie collection.)
23 Jan 2013, 09:30 am
@stormersboy-115: @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-116: True that
I wonder if my Fiancee has watched it.
23 Jan 2013, 09:31 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-116:
Off the top of my head:
The Big Lebowski
Grosse Pointe Blank
Old School
Anchorman
The whole 9 yards
23 Jan 2013, 09:35 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-114:
Look, Will Ferrell kills me at the best of times. Funniest moments in movies have all included Will in some way, shape or form.
“Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which, of course, in German means a whale’s ******.”
“Here’s the deal I’m the best there is. Plain and simple. I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence.”
“Mom, the meatloaf! F**k!”
“Hey. They laughed at Louis Armstrong when he said he was gonna go to the moon. Now he’s up there, laughing at them.”
“I swear, I’m so pissed off at my mom. As soon as she’s of age, I’m putting her in a home.”
23 Jan 2013, 09:39 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-119: Yes, he’s a classic. Too many to mention. His cameo in Wedding Crashers was the highlight of the movie.
23 Jan 2013, 09:42 am
And lets not forget Peter Sellers……
23 Jan 2013, 09:45 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-119:
hehehe
some great quotes there.
for the stomers i would suggest Rick Bobby’s; ‘if you ain’t first, you last’.
23 Jan 2013, 09:45 am
@Brigadier Van Zyl-121: Always. His Inspector Clouseau is one of the funniest characters ever. Plus that idiot at “The Party”.
But like Ferrell, not for everybody.
23 Jan 2013, 09:47 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-122: Shake and Bake baby!!
23 Jan 2013, 09:50 am
@Brigadier Van Zyl-121: Another legend!!!!!
23 Jan 2013, 09:51 am
Chazz: Night is a very dark time for me.
Jimmy: It’s dark for everyone, idiot!
Chazz: Not for people who live in Alaska. Or people with night-vision goggles.
Chazz: Personal philosophy: Clothing optional.
Chazz: It makes my hair shine like the Belt of Orion.
Chazz: My victory in Boston was as sweet as the cream pie from the city it’s named after.
23 Jan 2013, 09:53 am
Ron Burgundy (to dog): You’re so wise. You’re like a miniature Buddha covered with hair.
Ron Burgundy: I don’t know how to put this but I’m kind of a big deal.
Veronica Corningstone: Really.
Ron Burgundy: People know me.
Veronica Corningstone: Well, I’m very happy for you.
Ron Burgundy: I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
Ron Burgundy: I’m in a glass case of emotion.
Ron Burgundy: Son of a bee-sting.
Ron Burgundy (looking in mirror): Mmmmm… I look good. I mean really good. Hey everyone… come and see how good I look.
Ron Burgundy (to Veronica): It’s all right, my sweet chinchilla.
23 Jan 2013, 09:54 am
Ricky Bobby: You gotta win to get love. I mean, that’s just life. Look at…look at Dona Shula. Legendary coach. Look at that Asian guy who holds the world record for eatin’ all those hot dogs in a row. Look at Rue McClanahan from The Golden Girls. Three people, all great champions, all loved.
Ricky Bobby: Shake and bake! Ricky Bobby: If you ain’t first, you’re last!
Ricky Bobby: Well, let me give you a saying from Colonel Sanders. I am too drunk to taste this chicken.
Ricky Bobby: From now on, it’s Magic Man and El Diablo.
Cal Naughton, Jr: What does El Diablo mean?
Ricky Bobby: It’s like Spanish for like a fighting chicken.
Ricky Bobby: This sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love Fig Newtons.
Ricky Bobby: I’ve sent in my application to the Real World. So I’m hoping to hear back from that. I’m putting A LOT of my eggs into that basket, the MTV basket. I’m also thinking about getting a gun, and dealing crack. Being a crack dealer. Not like a mean crack dealer, but like… like a nice one. Kinda friendly like, “hey, what’s up guys? Want some crack?” I’m just waiting on those two things to flesh themselves out.
Ricky Bobby: (running around the racetrack in his underwear, thinks he is on fire) Help me *****! Help me Jewish God! Help me Allah! Help me Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft on me to get the fire off me! Help me Oprah Winfrey!
23 Jan 2013, 10:04 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-128:
hehehe
which movie is it where he says; ‘dont make me put my big boy pants on!’
23 Jan 2013, 10:27 am
I for one would love a move to CT Stadium, newlands does not inforce it’s no-smoking regulations, the bathrooms suck, the movement is cramped and the seat placement is terrible. The only benefit of Newlands is the vibe and the heritage.
CT Stadium is bloody amazing, the seats all face the centre of the pitch and much more room so a fat *** “oom” next to you won’t crush your kidneys. Also see MyCiti Buss system, more moving space and the vibrant neigbourhood of Green Point, McDonalds right by the stadium and of course the toilets don’t look like the stalls they have at Khayelitsha!
23 Jan 2013, 10:32 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-129: Not sure, he was quite good in Zoolander.
23 Jan 2013, 10:35 am
@goodstuff-130: Agreed. CT Stadium will develop that gees and heritage as the years go on.
23 Jan 2013, 11:28 am
Said it before and i’l say it again , if they wanted WP to take over this stadium then this should have arranged pre-2010 , not oh we got this moerse empty stadium so what now….
23 Jan 2013, 12:02 pm
@stormersboy-38:
SA Rugby Magazine will launch its own website (part of Highbury Safika) soon. Expect all the old contributors there, Simon will head that up I think.
Keo owns this place.
23 Jan 2013, 12:08 pm
@RL-22:
Haha, thanks – but Tank knows a fair bit more about the game than I do. Keo did good here, you guys will enjoy Tank’s thoughts. And he is never shy to engage with guys that commentate.
23 Jan 2013, 12:08 pm
Commentate… fok.
Comment!
23 Jan 2013, 12:52 pm
@Tankman-14: Welcome to the asylum Tank! Looking forward to your articles on here. If you can offer a bit more than the old Captain Hindsight (JC) retrospective babble, you’ll already be streaks ahead in my books.
Looking forward, as always, to the insights of a previous player. Make your mark (no pun intended) and give us some decent front row and scrummaging commentary. No one else on here ever really offered much of value in that dept. You’ll be the resident specialist now.
23 Jan 2013, 13:00 pm
@Sasuke-131: Zoolander… another one of my ALL TIME ALL TIME ALL TIME faves. The school for kids who don’t read so good….
24 Jan 2013, 10:15 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-138:
Hahahaha, in Old School when they’re kidnapping one of the pledges, the woman comes in with a grocery bag, saying “What’s going on?”
Frnak responds, “You tell anyone about this and I’ll f*cking kill you….I’m kidding, I’m kidding, we’ll have him home by tonight. Okay, sweetie.” (reaches into the grocery bbag and takes out some cheese balls…)
Or when he’s running naked in the streets after “Frank the Tank” comes out…
“Frank, what are you doing!?”
“We’re…we’re going streaking! Were going up the quad and to the gymnasium!”
“Who is?”
“The…We…(looks back)…there’s more coming.”
“Frank, get in the car.”
“But…everybody’s doing it!”
“Frank! NOW!”
“Ok.”
24 Jan 2013, 15:12 pm
@ufo-19: hi ufo
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