Coetzee trashes talk of Smit SOS
23 Jan 2013
Allister Coetzee insists John Smit is not getting an SOS from him to join the Stormers.
Smit was reported as a possibility to help out the Stormers because of a hooker crisis.
Smit, who has played for Saracens for the last two years, is considering a move to Toulon on a one-year contract, but the Cape Times newspaper on Wednesday reported Smit as a short-term back-up to Deon Fourie.
Fourie, who has signed to play in Europe after the Super Rugby season, will start at hooker but his understudy Scarra Ntubeni will be out for three months because of a shoulder operation and there is concern about Tiaan Liebenberg’s fitness. Liebenberg is still struggling with a long-term back injury.
Coetzee told the Cape media he was considering an experienced South African-based hooker and that there had been no approach to Smit.
Coetzee said the nature of Super Rugby demanded two experienced hookers and one youngster and that it would be too risky to go with two youngsters and just the experience of Fourie.
He said an announcement would be made in the week once terms had been agreed.
Smit would not be a bad option, despite the vehement denials.
He has done a fantastic job at Saracens, in easing the workload on Schalk Brits and also in mentoring the club’s next generation of hooker and front ranker. He is still on contract with Saracens in February and the Stormers have a partnership with Saracens which has seen them release Brits in the past to help out the Stormers.
Smit captained the Boks to World Cup glory in 2007 and played the last of his 111 Tests for South Africa against Australia in the 2011 World Cup quarter-final exit.
He has played his rugby in South Africa exclusively for the Sharks and also spent 18 months playing for Clermont in France after the 2007 World Cup.
By Mark Keohane
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23 Jan 2013, 22:26 pm
trhe cape has real wilderness?
hmmm.
look the western cape is pretty.
its not real africa though.
and the ocean is as sterile as an ocean gets, honestly. sterile and cold.
now for real meaningful diversity (not blomme and bosse, more than that) the capies need to visit sodwana. one hectare of the coastal dunes (which are the highest vegetated coastal dunes on earth) have more tree species than the whole of europe.
the reefs are in the top ten in terms of diving WORLDWIDE.
you can see the big five, scuba dibe these reefs without a wetsuit and have a pizza at leatherbacks all in one day before doing a night drive to see leatherback and loggerhead turtles inching up the beach to lay their eggs.
p.s. sodwana is part of the greater st lucia wetalnd park, half the size of kruger, and leopard are spotted on the beach here. paradise. my easter destination whoo hoo.
but i dont blame capies wanting to play with the fynbosse, only other option is to get in the sea and that aint happening
23 Jan 2013, 22:28 pm
@Dusky-399:
actually i think he doesnt want anyone trying to push his tu r d.
24 Jan 2013, 06:32 am
Ranger I have to agree and as previously discussed with you the diving trip I did to Sodwana in 96′ was very special, unfortuantelythere was a large swell running so the water was not so clear,the highlight was seeing a large rag tooth shark which swam pretty close to our group.
24 Jan 2013, 06:59 am
@the curse-386:
bulls have never played the kiwi game, boet.
24 Jan 2013, 08:35 am
Gaan Kaap toe Plod! hehehe
24 Jan 2013, 08:36 am
@The Rangerman-401:
Oi! So die Kaap is nie in Afrika nie? Geen wonder die Sharks is so deurmekaar.
24 Jan 2013, 09:06 am
@The Rangerman-401:
Not sure whether you have dived all the spots in the western cape in order to make the judgement that the oceans are sterile.
Here are so may spots with such a variety that you will be surprised- everything from wreck diving to kelp forests that house a huge diversity of marine life, beautiful coloured corals etc, friendly cape seals, etc..etc..
The water is also not THAT cold – about 8-20 degrees- a 7mm wetsuit is usually fine.
If that does not excite you and you are really desperate for serious adrenaline (Africa style) you can always, as a brave fearless kwazulu natal diver, go and dive the shark alley in Gans Bay (without a cage of course). In that “sterile” water you will find creatures that will make you long back to the friendly, docile cuddly Raggies or even Tigers of Sodwana Bay like never before.
Personally I have never dived in that alley and that is probably why I am still alive to tell you about the wonderful Cape and the adventures you can have here
24 Jan 2013, 09:06 am
Bakkies
the bulls cheated with their building a line from the ruck back 5 metres so the halfback could still get caught trying to box kick
cheating sods, but does go some way to highlighting the intelligence of those in Pretoria
filthy cheating scum that they are
24 Jan 2013, 09:07 am
and wasn’t it two bulls players caught using
“nasal spray”?
still, it appears so rife in your schools it’s no surprise your senior players are drug cheats too
24 Jan 2013, 09:45 am
@The Rangerman-401: Have to agree, the whole Greater St Lucia Wetland Park is a very special place and in largely pristine condition (12 years ago ). As I sit here in the hot and dry Boland I look at an aerial photo of Sodwana Bay and the coastline north and south of it, with not a building in sight.
24 Jan 2013, 09:49 am
LionsWorld confirmed with Kevin de Klerk that there is a possibility that Lions hooker Martin Bezuidenhout will be lent to the Stormers but nothing has been finalised
24 Jan 2013, 10:25 am
@The Rangerman-401: Are you insulting our Fynbos? You will not get away with that! Sitting in the UCT Zoology building as I type this…
Because Ranger as awesome as the Savanna is, the Fynbos is our most impressive and valuable Biome by far with the most floral diversity in the world. Add our impressive bird list to that and the Western Cape is great place to be as a Naturalist. All the best Biological academics are at UCT, including the marine department. Branch, Griffiths etc.
Was diving in Sodwana last June/July, awesome place, it really was besides being overrun by fat Gautengers with their 4×4′s on the beach. But don’t write off the Kelp forests here. Have you been to them? The spearfishing is fantastic here. The diving is great too if you can deal with the cold. Add that we have the most Great White Sharks in the world and there is nothing more awesome than those beasts. I really don’t know what you’re talking about when you say sterile? And cold is a matter of relativity. We have our only endemic cetacean in the Heaviside Dolphin, seals and sea birds for miles and plenty of fish. Without coral there is no need to be brightly coloured, but if that’s the definition of not being of sterile for you so be it.
As for your Leopard on the beach, ever heard of the Cape Leopard? Being seen all over place the now including beach towns such as Rooi Els.
Rant over.
24 Jan 2013, 11:19 am
@Dawn-390: Hello my girl
Have a really great day
24 Jan 2013, 11:28 am
@mikeybrass-351: Hello Mikey.Enjoyed
your web site very much.
One of the last N//uu speakers died a few days ago in Upington.From chicken
pox for heavens sake.
Now there are only 3 left.
Regards.
24 Jan 2013, 11:31 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-363: Hello good lady.Hope you are well Going house hunting
in DBN next couple of days.Have a great day.
24 Jan 2013, 11:36 am
@Robzim-407: Lets all agree that we
have a beautiful diverse country
24 Jan 2013, 11:38 am
@ryecatcher-416: Cannot think of any
place I would rather be
24 Jan 2013, 11:50 am
@ryecatcher-414: Morning Rye. I happened to check the thread again this morning out of curiosity and saw your message which saddens me. Rest his/her soul
Another language is about to disappear forever.
24 Jan 2013, 16:34 pm
@mikeybrass-418:
deficit omne quod nasciture
25 Jan 2013, 06:00 am
http://www.rugby365.com/article/51726-what-are-the-stormers-options
25 Jan 2013, 08:43 am
He’s just worried Smit will eat Aplon.
25 Jan 2013, 09:18 am
@The Rangerman-401: Seriously dude – its one thing to diss the Stormers cos you support the CC Runners up – thats all fun and games, but saying that the Cape waters are sterile…… føk you can’t call yourself Rangerman and then make a comment like that.
I have dived both Cape and Sodwana, and wouldn’t even attempt to compare the 2 because they both offer a completely different awe-inspiring experience.
But if you think the Cape waters are sterile then you either have never dived here or have not been taken anywhere by anyone who actually knows what they are doing around here…..
25 Jan 2013, 09:36 am
@ryecatcher-415: Only saw this message now. So you are moving. You can’t be too happy about that? But I reckon a change really is as good as a holiday sometimes….Good luck with the house hunting.
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