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, 19:07 pm
@victoriabok-345: Oh the hardemanne, represented by Greyling *sniggers*
23 Jan 2013, 19:08 pm
@the curse-337: Sorry pops,but you really don’t know much about SA rivalry.When the bulls won that day it was a dark day for me as a Stormers/WP supporter .We just knew that we never going to hear the end of it(bulls victory) from their supporters.So it turned out to be.
Mind you we had two further dark days.
23 Jan 2013, 19:08 pm
@wnbb-344:
You would know how a gerbil on speed behave
All those years of felching finally starting to pay off?
23 Jan 2013, 19:09 pm
@silent_shadow-347: Nah you’re right, there weren’t many elephants. Helluva diverse fauna and flora though. Those Pretorians only care about size, not skill and brain power
23 Jan 2013, 19:10 pm
congratulations bafana…!
very good game…!!!
keep it up now…!!!
23 Jan 2013, 19:11 pm
@wnbb-352: Yeah well they are sounding like the Poms:
“When we won back in ’66″
“When we won the Super 12…”
Whinging martyrdom complex the lot of them
23 Jan 2013, 19:12 pm
@wnbb-352: and therein lies the inherent differences in our countries rugby philosophy.
if my team doesnt win the comp, then I most definitely want another of my countries teams to win it..
but hey, we kiwis dont mind the suffocating provincialism present in your rugby
23 Jan 2013, 19:12 pm
@mikeybrass-351:
Steeds harder(pun intended) as “ek het ‘n girl in die park gespyker en my balspier verrek en nou is alweer beseer vir die grootste deel van die seisoen” Bekker
23 Jan 2013, 19:16 pm
@mikeybrass-354:
> Those Pretorians only care about size,
Fortunately the Stormers suporters’ wives and girlfriends as well
> not skill
Keep telling yourself that whist scratching the surface…
23 Jan 2013, 19:16 pm
OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eweeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! Used google and typed in define felching……wtf eweeEeeeee my toes curled and had palpitations .
23 Jan 2013, 19:18 pm
@the curse-357: It’s the same here.
Only then there is provincial lording over too
23 Jan 2013, 19:19 pm
@victoriabok-359: We can’t help it if we tick all the right boxes
Work it baby! 
23 Jan 2013, 19:20 pm
@victoriabok-350: I love the whole of SA mate. Every area has her own special beauty. From the majestic Karoo, to the undulating hills of beauty in KZN, the splendour of the Northern plains, to the ragged coastline in the EC….
There is beauty everywhere. The contrasts are glorious.
Take me seriously at your own peril.
But the above is 100% true. Girl guides honour.
23 Jan 2013, 19:21 pm
@Treehugger-360:
Hello Hugs,
How are you?
The old lady is going to keep her deer like I’ve told you
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/weather/after-trouble-with-the-law-peace-returns-for-ucluelet-woman-and-pet-deer-bimbo-1.52437
23 Jan 2013, 19:21 pm
@wnbb-352: It could have been worse… The Guppies could have won.
23 Jan 2013, 19:23 pm
@mikeybrass-362:
> Fortunately the Stormers suporters’ wives and girlfriends as well
When you don’t rate(have) size they can always rely on a Bulls fan for some serious Horn
23 Jan 2013, 19:25 pm
@Treehugger-360: dont google Giovanna Plowman then Tree, seriously, dont!
23 Jan 2013, 19:34 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-365: Ook waar.
23 Jan 2013, 19:37 pm
@victoriabok-366: usually those who have to talk about it are hiding their inadequacies..
just saying,..
23 Jan 2013, 19:42 pm
Huzzit VB…..just read the article, ans saw the picture. I am not to sure I approve of the way she is caring for the deer. Don’t like an animal tied up. The fact she is a 70 year old duck that walks with 2 canes would be another minus.
Frankly I think it is shocking that she brought a male in to impregnate the deer. Sanctuary animals are there for a reason, you don’t allow them to have offspring as they will be healthy. What happens when she kicks the bucket to these 2 animals. No I actually think the deer would be better off confiscated and in a sanctuary. Letting it eat ciggie butts, wtf.
Seems you have some pretty rof characters out in those mountains.
23 Jan 2013, 19:45 pm
@Treehugger-370:
Rof people out in the sticks, like people from the Bluff or Danville only rowwer I tell you
More like Deliverance
And they all have(or had) British teeth as well, you know, in the knot one slip one pattern
23 Jan 2013, 19:47 pm
@Treehugger-370:
This is more up your street, it seems there’s a Stormers fan on the loose here
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/people-share-their-grief-with-tribute-to-victoria-horse-killed-by-disturbing-violence-1.54177
23 Jan 2013, 19:48 pm
@the curse-369: Indeed Pops
But don’t remind them…..I prefer to see them ‘talk up’ their ‘virility and size’ – helluva entertaining.
23 Jan 2013, 19:49 pm
@Treehugger-370: I agree with you. The deer would by all accounts be far better off somewhere else.
23 Jan 2013, 19:51 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-373:
You lot started about skills being better than size
Who is inadequate now?
23 Jan 2013, 19:52 pm
@the curse-369: @the curse-367: believe me I won’t……I am tainted forever after the felching education. Can’t get the picture of a mans hairy bum and …………………………………….out of my head.
Not good for me to know these things….already had one crimen injuria thing last year for calling a feckwit a feckwit and unpleasant little drama queen.
23 Jan 2013, 19:54 pm
a poor workman always blames his tool
23 Jan 2013, 19:56 pm
@the curse-377:
His small tool if you’re referring to a Stormers supporter
23 Jan 2013, 19:58 pm
brilliant effort Bafana Bafana
brilliant
way to go boys
i take back some of the things i’ve said, honestly
more of the same, please
Furman is class
and the rest of the boys put their bit in.
23 Jan 2013, 19:58 pm
@victoriabok-378: but dont Saffas all adhere to size and “physicality”?
isnt that why so many saffa ladies marry foreigners
23 Jan 2013, 19:59 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-272:
bwahahahaha
lmfao
tears pedigree, tears
23 Jan 2013, 20:01 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-381:
tears?
resigned yourself to a poor season for your team already?
23 Jan 2013, 20:03 pm
@VB…..started reading and stopped. I would hurt the virus that is still splashing about in the primordial ooze so fecking badly he/they would wish they were dead. I don’t talk lightly.
23 Jan 2013, 20:13 pm
@the curse-382:
of course not, she’s just flippin funny.
amazed she’s a she and not a he.
bulls are going to fark the blues up this season
there is nothing you can do about it
your fate rests with a higher power
23 Jan 2013, 20:13 pm
out for a bit
cheers
23 Jan 2013, 20:17 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-384: hehehe
no Jonker equals no wins bakkies..
23 Jan 2013, 20:31 pm
@Treehugger-383:
Here’s some pics to make you feel better
We walk the dogs here
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/9621012/8/cabc0313/plpcities/787/
We had lots of fog on Monday and some yesterday as well
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/9602552/17/cabc0313/plpcities/787/
These Harbour seals are very fat as the tourists feed them fish
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/9635184/5/cabc0313/plpcities/1920/
We put up Hummingbird Feeders filled with sugar water syrup to help them through winter
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/9638532/2/cabc0313/plpcities/20461/
23 Jan 2013, 20:34 pm
@victoriabok-387:
> We put up Hummingbird Feeders
They look like this
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/2/OutdoorLiving/BirdFeedersSeed/Feeders/PRD~0425907P/Hummingbird+4-perch%2C+11-oz..jsp?locale=en
My dad took a couple back to SA but the Sunbirds wouldn’t use them
23 Jan 2013, 20:56 pm
@VB……you are very eclectic in you interests and the way you are. Very interesting.
23 Jan 2013, 20:58 pm
Expat Canuck insulting all and sundry while believing he has big balls
They probably shrunk to the size of nuts in that kuk weather
23 Jan 2013, 21:09 pm
Looks like John Smit won’t be doing it. But imagine if he did move to Cape Town. The Stormers would dispense with the scrumming machine and will be pushing Airbus A380′s up and down the runway every bloody day.
We all know Bok rugby players don’t shrink when they go north.
23 Jan 2013, 21:17 pm
@Dawn-390:
Nope it works but ways, they started insulting first
If they can’t take it they shouldn’t dish it out in the first place
Yes, they did, they shrank to the size of Walnuts
Wanna see?
23 Jan 2013, 21:35 pm
@Dawn-390:
Did Keo reply to your ‘****’ thread question in the end?
23 Jan 2013, 21:36 pm
H o a r… Blimey, even that word is banned now!!
23 Jan 2013, 21:37 pm
Loved Grant10′s intro comment…. Great timing!!
23 Jan 2013, 21:45 pm
@carol-395:
Looks like grant brought up his breakfast on his newly purchased Stormers jersey. Something he and like his old makka Luke have in common now.
23 Jan 2013, 22:00 pm
@I am a stormer-396:
He is a good lad….I am glad he is popping back here now and again!
23 Jan 2013, 22:19 pm
@Dawn-390: There is a canuck on here ? Do you even know what a canuck is ?
23 Jan 2013, 22:24 pm
@I am a stormer-391: According to queen grant, John Smit can’t push a ****………so I hardly think he will be pushing anything that requires a runway.
Mind you, John Smith probably doesn’t want to push a **** and that is why he is not going to play for the Stormers.
23 Jan 2013, 22:25 pm
Ag asseblief Keo.
**** = t.u.r.d
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