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, 18:03 pm
@Transformation-287: Eish die transfom….i kant talk to you bra….you are too much stupiet…
Where is Rosso today ?
23 Jan 2013, 18:04 pm
@victoriabok-297: Sorry but I don’t listen to anyone from the Last Outpost calling another place “European”
Except if I want comedy that is.
23 Jan 2013, 18:04 pm
@Transformation-299: The Blues will surprise friend and foe this year……check it out. (I just hope it’s the ‘pleasant’ sort of surprise, not the fuckivesteppedindgshyte sort – but surprise they will)
23 Jan 2013, 18:04 pm
@Dusky-293:
> Natal qualified by beating Northern Free State,
The Purple People Eaters
Many of the big teams hated playing there, especially on a cold Friday evening on a rock hard pitch covered only with a thin layer of long dead, white, frost killed lawn, against miners out to hurt you
23 Jan 2013, 18:05 pm
The same old same old last 11 years mantra from old Dusky Springfield. !!! No wonder they enjoy such a good beating in super finals and CC ‘s. If it works ,why change mentality I guess.
23 Jan 2013, 18:05 pm
@Transformation-299: but but but, the Blues, NZs second best representative in terms of Super trophies, has as many as SA’s top representative… but I do think by we he meant NZ in general…
anyways, its fun watching supporters of teams who have never won the comp trying to outdo each other in the “my team is better than your team banter”
23 Jan 2013, 18:06 pm
@mikeybrass-302:
Hey, I’m a Bulls supporter
I just prefer the wild Africa to the civilized, totally settled Cape with it’s fake French estates
23 Jan 2013, 18:07 pm
@mikeybrass-291: lol hi mikey
truth be told though you think if the Stormers won last year Tacitus would be caught trawling new zealand websites gloating that “WE” won?
unheard of!
23 Jan 2013, 18:07 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-300: I am actually pretty sure it is you who got sucked into that theory. It is after all not the first time I have heard it.
It always was a particularly weak, but typically South African attempt to use an untruth which is predicted to get air time to popularize unreasonable decisions motivated by the greed that has become South Africa.
You just fell for it. Who can blame you.
Be mindful of following popular theory without substantiating facts for yourself.
23 Jan 2013, 18:08 pm
Okay I haven’t been on here for a while.
What is Skop’s new nick and where is Tac?
23 Jan 2013, 18:08 pm
Oh yeah,then he goes on about Rosso everyday as well.What a dork!
23 Jan 2013, 18:09 pm
@victoriabok-307: Bulls supporter? My commiserations.
23 Jan 2013, 18:10 pm
@Transformation-308: Poor Tacitus might have taken to drink. It was bad enough we won the CC. Poor kiddo.
23 Jan 2013, 18:11 pm
@mikeybrass-312:
Thanks, I wipe my tears with three S14 titles
23 Jan 2013, 18:11 pm
Dusky’s post 309 got a bit of the ET about it !Heaven forbid !
23 Jan 2013, 18:11 pm
@victoriabok-307: Ever been to the Cederberg?
23 Jan 2013, 18:11 pm
@mikeybrass-313:
Nope he’s used to winning Super titles
23 Jan 2013, 18:11 pm
@victoriabok-304: Ja, the Griffons
Natal beat the bottom qualifying team to be included. It is all we asked for in Super rugby, but as expected its a ‘cut me a piece of something for nothing please’ approach as has become custom in South Africa.
23 Jan 2013, 18:12 pm
@victoriabok-314: The Glorious Past
23 Jan 2013, 18:12 pm
@wnbb-311: Dude, you are the one falling for it.
23 Jan 2013, 18:14 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-300: Don’t be nasty now. Ice lollies are nicer .
23 Jan 2013, 18:15 pm
@wnbb-321: ha ha ha ha….ho ho ho ho….geez, you’re a clever oke hey ? F4ck me – I wish I had your magnificent intellect.
23 Jan 2013, 18:17 pm
C’mon Bafana. You need a safety net.
Katlego Mphela is flippin dissapointing.
23 Jan 2013, 18:19 pm
@Jeraldjay-323:
From my thoughts to Mjoro’s ears.
23 Jan 2013, 18:25 pm
@the curse-306: ” but I do think by
we he meant NZ in general”
really? he pours scorn over bantering franchise fans only to not trumpet his own franchise but GLOAT as part of a collective? lol.
this is super rugby not the rugby championship
23 Jan 2013, 18:26 pm
Jirre……hoe stink poep ek weer vanoggend ? Bliksem !
23 Jan 2013, 18:26 pm
@mikeybrass-319:
At least it was less than ten years ago
Not like you lot, bragging about Wee Pee winning the CC, most of them 100 years ago when there were no other teams to play against, and the players company horses* grazed on Newlands at halftime
*-No sponsored cars yet rememeber
23 Jan 2013, 18:28 pm
@mikeybrass-316:
Any thorn trees and Baobabs?
Remember shrubs less than 8 feet doesn’t count
Big Five?
23 Jan 2013, 18:29 pm
@wnbb-321:
Not where you put it in
23 Jan 2013, 18:31 pm
@Dusky-309: Oh dear what can the matter be?
@wnbb-315: *****if so; ET is challenging that totallymindfuckedchick Sybil for sheer volume in terms of alters***** But nah….they are poles apart in terms of political ideologies.
23 Jan 2013, 18:31 pm
@victoriabok-327: This is the argument I expect to hear from 60 plus year old ‘oomies’
And for both the Bulls and WP it is their final ‘fig leaf’ especially when they are talking about recent performances against the Sharks. The discussion will inevitably end up at this point.
When you talk to a Cheetahs fan it goes straight to the ‘you bought all our players and that is why we suck’ argument.
Lions……actually Lions fans have just faithfully supported their team. They dont really have a ‘crutch argument’
23 Jan 2013, 18:33 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-330: I dont know – you tell me. Poor schooling in the Western Cape ? Brain injury ? Inherited low intellectual capacity. Your boyfriend f$%ked your brains out ? I dont know you well enough to tell.
23 Jan 2013, 18:34 pm
@victoriabok-328: Of course we have the Big 5 in the Cape.
Aubergine, Beluga, Le Quartier Francais etc etc.
23 Jan 2013, 18:35 pm
@victoriabok-327: Oh wait, wait, wait….the Lions classic is – we were the first SA team to win a Super rugby title. That is the Lions one. Try it out next time when you are chatting around a braai or something. Scope out who supports which team and start to stir things up. You will see – I am spot on.
23 Jan 2013, 18:36 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-333: Aubergine, Beluga, Le Quartier Francais, Vaseline, Methylated Spirits, Sewerage plant at the entrance to the city.
23 Jan 2013, 18:43 pm
@Dusky-332: Thanks for your concern; but I was asking about you. You seem more than a little ‘twitchy’ this fine evening.
Yes Dusky, I care….
@Dusky-335: This is what I mean by ‘twitchy’. You’re exhibiting behaviour that is not out of place amongst 4 year olds sticking their tongues out at each other and f # rting in each others faces. It has me worried, that’s all.
23 Jan 2013, 18:45 pm
Trans
when the bulls won their first title, as a Saffa fan you felt no joy in SAs maiden super title?
you may state it isn’t TRC, but there’s still plenty if bragging rights for the country who wins super rugby
I agree though, when your country has won the comp 8 times more then your nearest competitor, gloating does seen a little superfluous
23 Jan 2013, 18:46 pm
@Dusky-331: Well, at least we have stories. What is the guppies spin?
Have a sooper evening Dusky.
Later….much later.
23 Jan 2013, 18:48 pm
@victoriabok-307: Not having baobabs or the big five here isn’t because settlers ‘tamed’ it all years ago.
It’s called different natural habitats. Your “civilized and settled” vs wild comments are pretty far off.
23 Jan 2013, 18:48 pm
@victoriabok-328: I’ll take it as a no? It wasn’t a baiting question. Africa is extremely diverse.
23 Jan 2013, 18:49 pm
@victoriabok-327: Us WPians don’t do “when we”
God, Pretorians are becoming like Zimbos 
23 Jan 2013, 18:51 pm
@silent_shadow-339: It’s also because we hunted the Cape Lion and elephants to extinction.
CT has wilderness, mountains, sea and the most diverse floral kingdom on the planet on its doorstep. The true Garden of Eden
23 Jan 2013, 18:51 pm
@silent_shadow-339: What he’s actually saying, is that he prefers ‘wild Africa’ as in the Wild West that is Pretoria.
Fords, Brannas, blue balls and handbags outside Presley’s at dawn…….
‘Wild Africa indeed’.
23 Jan 2013, 18:55 pm
@Dusky-332: Calm the fck down,Pocahontas !You are behaving like a bloody gerbil on speed!
23 Jan 2013, 18:58 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-333:
That is in the Cèdre Montagne you want me to visit?
Pretentious P.oofs, think renaming everything in French is better
23 Jan 2013, 19:00 pm
Oh dear Keo. Looks like your “sources” let you down. You got “outsource’d” by a freshman here. Nice one Tank.
23 Jan 2013, 19:01 pm
@mikeybrass-342: Not saying otherwise (can’t imagine we had many elephants though) but victoriabok seems to think if it’s only the “European settlers” aspect stopping us looking like the rest of “wild Africa”.
Fynbos is as wild as you can get, but like most Bulls supporters he’s probably got a size complex going on.
23 Jan 2013, 19:03 pm
Well done Bafana…..
23 Jan 2013, 19:04 pm
@Dusky-335:
> Vaseline, Methylated Spirits, Sewerage plant at the entrance to the city
You forgot Le Tik, Le Passin Gap, Le Papsak, Le Lieberstein et Oncle Tas
23 Jan 2013, 19:06 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-343:
Was jy al noord van die Soutpansberg tussen die Mopane?
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