Hatchet media job on Watson

Hatchet media job on Watson

28 Jan 2013

Luke Watson, contrary to reports, has not launched any form of attack on Afrikaners and the administration of South African rugby.

But he now knows that there will always be a divisive element aimed at destruction in South African rugby to further individual and provincial agendas. There will also be more attacks on his credibility this season as so many within rugby and associated with rugby disgustingly celebrate undermining the Kings’ debut season because of the South African Rugby Football Union’s disgraceful handling of the Lions-Kings Super Rugby participation.

Watson three years ago described South African rugby as a game run by ‘Dutchman’. He never shied away from having made the comment but at the time expressed disappointment that a private discussion had been reported to the media and so misrepresented within the media.

He left to play for English club Bath but returned to South Africa three years ago as part of a three-year contract to be a part of the Kings’ historical entry into Super Rugby. On his return he spoke officially of his regret at the comment, however informal the occasion, and spoke of his desire to make a contribution to a unified Eastern Province and South African rugby.

He apologised to those he said he may have offended and in the last three years has concentrated on the job at hand. For some that will never be good enough and Watson’s Super Rugby challenge will be made even tougher by continued efforts to undermine and misrepresent him from the field.

In a recent interview with 702 Talkback Radio Watson was again asked about his criticism of South African rugby three years ago. The ‘Dutchman’ remark was again highlighted and he was asked for an opinion on the administration of the game.

The player confirmed the remark he had made three years ago, added that he had dealt with it on his return and in relation to a question said South African rugby as a whole was still struggling to come to terms with transformation the equal of the society that reflects change in South Africa.

Transformation, he added, would always be an ongoing issue.

Media reports singled out Watson for saying the game was still being run by ‘Dutchmen’.

‘I have always taken accountability for how I have played and for what I have said. Where I have got it wrong or regretted an action or a comment I have always been prepared to make the necessary apology and I really thought that fronting the issue of what I said three years ago was dealt with three years ago,’ said Watson, adding: ‘It really disappoints me that an interview was so badly misrepresented and a comment of three years ago made the focus and given the appearance that I have again criticised a cultural element of South African rugby. I did not in a 702 Radio interview say the game in 2013 was still being run by Dutchmen and transformation, not just in a playing numbers, will and should always be a discussion and a debate because the purpose has to be to get the desired transformation as a country, not just in one particular sporting code.’

Watson told keo.co.za that just like the Lions players suffered as a result of the uncertainty in their Super Rugby participation, the players within the Southern Kings are representative of South Africa and that players did not decide policy or participation in tournaments.

‘Every bloke in the squad will give his everything for the Kings and by extension for South African rugby. We can only influence our actions but it is not made any easier with media misrepresentation on issues as sensitive as culture and provincialism in the South African game.

‘I learn and I learned from three years ago. All I can do set the record straight on the inaccuracy of the reports attributing remarks made three years ago to a recent radio interview.’

The Kings will play in the tournament for the first time this year but are not guaranteed an automatic second year. Participation in 2014 Super Rugby will be determined through league results.


774 Comments

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  • 501.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:13 pm

    @Dusky-489: bagness ? Oh dear !!

  • 502.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:14 pm

    @KingsArmy-467:

    > There’s plenty of people in EC to support kings, now we can also see topclass rugby

    You’re in luck

    You will see topclass rugby teams

    You will see rugby superstars

    You’ll see them annihilate the Kings week after week

  • 503.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:15 pm

    @Blue Label-496: well, right there, that’s where you’re wrong …

  • 504.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:15 pm

    @wnbb-500: Are you another one of Transformations multiple personalities ? Why whenever he is implicated in an argument with me do you miraculously appear ? Or are you two boyfriends ?

  • 505.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:16 pm

    @victoriabok-501: If Keo thinks that people taking pleasure in the Kings demise is disgusting, I would recommend he does not read this blog during the Super 15.

  • 506.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:17 pm

    Eesh die Transformation….jy het die ander een van did wnbb ook ? Hawu….

  • 507.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:19 pm

    Whilst Rl is in the apology business he might as well apologise for the kuk rugby the Lions team subjected the SA public to for nearly a decade.

  • 508.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:21 pm

    @Dusky-489:

    I’ve listened to his interview ( http://ewn.co.za/StandAloneMedia/130128LukeWatson ) where he said he could understand the Bok team’s resentment towards him, the 46th player in a 45 man squad, forced in by politicians. He said he felt akward himself knowing that he shouldn’t be there as he hadn’t earned the right

    Yet now the same is happening again, the team is forced in by those same politicians?

  • 509.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:21 pm

    @Dusky-503: Haha.You think you are important……but you are not.Hahaha. :D

  • 510.Fern: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:22 pm

    I have seen lots og expensive german cars outside of shebeens on Fridays.
    Talking Mercs,Audi’s and Porsche’s,all their owners enjoying some shisa inyama and Longologolo with normal working class township folk,lots of whiteys aswell,and not tourists but South Africans.
    Amusing how keewees want to tell us what is happening in SA.
    I spend on avg 2,5 days a week in various townships.
    Not all shebeens are registrerd so some are illegal and get raided at times by the police who send in their “amabarete” who are black cops who wear berets who has been taped on cctv of police brutality.

  • 511.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:22 pm

    @wnbb-506: Does subjecting the South African public to poor rugby (which is still MUCH better than the Kings will deliver by the way), equate to being a Springbok and using the word ‘dutchmen’ to describe a group of people ?

    Is it equal ?

  • 512.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:23 pm

    @Dusky-505:

    Trassie is die Caster van Keo :-)

  • 513.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:23 pm

    @wnbb-508: Ooooo eish….am I ‘the small boy’ ?

    I never claimed to be important f$ckwad.

  • 514.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:25 pm

    @victoriabok-507: Luke Watson is a complete two face. He wanted to puke on the Bok jersey, but was happy to accept a salary from WP.

    The WPRU was established long before the Springbok. Is he claiming that WP had no racist policies in rugby since the beginning ? Yet he was happy to run around in the hoops and get paid.

    Stupid man – that’s what it is. Self absorbed stupidity. Not thinking before you speak.

  • 515.Fern: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:26 pm

    Keewees please go and google Mzoli’s which is in Gugs in Cape Town,one of the most famous places to go eat and chill.
    Never been there,but I have heard good things.

  • 516.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:26 pm

    Nothing wrong with that word.They should be proud of their history.

  • 517.gonzo: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:26 pm

    @victoriabok-507: I’m listening to it now my brother. How about that guy calling in at 14 mins. I couldn’t tell if he was a Watson fan or giving him an earful! Ahhh, we have a full season of this to look forward to

  • 518.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:26 pm

    @victoriabok-511: Well, I tell you his ‘army’ of supporters come galloping in miraculously whenever he needs them. I wonder how many personalities he actually has on here. I think we would all be surprised.

  • 519.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:27 pm

    Expats on the troll again

  • 520.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:27 pm

    @wnbb-508:

    A question for you

    We watch rugby on cable here, broadcasted by Setanata Sports for Ireland

    Do you know them and do they broadcast over there as well or only overseas?

  • 521.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:27 pm

    @wnbb-515: Same as the word ‘k$%fir’ then ?

  • 522.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:28 pm

    @Dawn-518:

    Het jy al iets oor rugby op Keo geplaas?

  • 523.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:28 pm

    @Dusky-499: hi Daski…no gym today but can’t stay to entertain you :-)

  • 524.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:28 pm

    @Dawn-518: There we go – the next line of Transformation’s defense miraculously shows up. LOL !

  • 525.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:28 pm

    @Transformation-522: Oooooo””’okay wena.

  • 526.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:31 pm

    @victoriabok-519: Setanta folded in the UK ,but they still got the Irish operation going.Shows mostly the French Top14 here.

  • 527.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:31 pm

    @Dawn-518:

    Middag Engel

  • 528.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:31 pm

    I would spit on him if I was close enough to the tunnel when he runs out.

  • 529.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:32 pm

    Watsup in Norway Ireland Canada you bunch of moaning whingers

  • 530.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:33 pm

    @wnbb-525:

    The show a lot of rugby, Top 14 and Heineken and too much bloody soccer

  • 531.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:33 pm

    Ai

  • 532.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:33 pm

    @Dusky-527:

    Wat van ‘n Naartjie?

  • 533.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:34 pm

    In the Arctic there are no rugby tunnels

  • 534.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:35 pm

    @Dusky-527:

    Dis nou kinderlik! Is jy ‘n tiener?

  • 535.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:35 pm

    @Dawn-528:

    Good and you?

    Working overtime yet to pay the extra taxes needed to build the Nkandla Maternity Ward?

  • 536.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:36 pm

    @Britney Spies-533: Ja hoekom koosie ? Is jy ‘n ou brak ?

  • 537.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:36 pm

    @Britney Spies-533:

    Ja, hy’s eintlik Justin Bieber

  • 538.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:37 pm

    @victoriabok-531: Of ‘n emmer vol kots. Dink jy ek sal dit verby die sekuriteit op Loftus kan kry ?

  • 539.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:37 pm

    Yo Duskeee

    We got 30 deg here today. How’s that maggot colour vampire skin of yours doing

  • 540.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:37 pm

    @victoriabok-536: Jirre….Britney Spies gaan nou most mal word as jy dit se. Fokkit…..

  • 541.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:38 pm

    @victoriabok-529: The same here.The past two years they have been showing quite a bit of NHL as well.I follow a bit of ice hockey,so no complaints there.Love the Canadian teams and absolutely hate the American ones. :D

  • 542.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:39 pm

    @Dawn-538: And ? You dont just have 30 degrees, you have a bunch of other things down there too. You can have the 30 degrees.

  • 543.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:40 pm

    @Dusky-535:

    :lol: Ja

    @victoriabok-536:

    Wie is dit?

  • 544.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:41 pm

    Your concern is touching.

    But we OK thanks

  • 545.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:42 pm

    @victoriabok-536: Ha ha ha ha….jissus….I see the Bulls are calling a Wynand Olivier/Lionel Mapoe center pairing a ‘dream midfield’……………….you okes are grabbing at straws in Pretoria hey ? LOL !

  • 546.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:43 pm

    @Britney Spies-542: Ok wel moenie jouself te moeg maak nie ****.

  • 547.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:43 pm

    I mean think about it.

    If we didn’t have all “that other stuff”, what on earth would you people have to moan and whinge about.

    Nada!

  • 548.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:43 pm

    @Dusky-545: **** = h_o_o_r

  • 549.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:44 pm

    @Dusky-544:

    Is Meisiekind terug? Ek dog hy is geskiedenis.

  • 550.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:44 pm

    I would love 30 degrees today.The wind is singing songs here today! :D

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