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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  • 551.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:44 pm

    But seriously

    You expats are helluva entertaining

  • 552.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:45 pm

    @Britney Spies-548: Fokkit pappa….hy is terug ! Lekker Bulle !!!!

  • 553.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:45 pm

    @wnbb-540:

    They’ve only started playing last week, the lockout nearly costed them the season and a lot of money, they say they make about $50 million per weekend

    The teams are all mixed with US, Canadian, Scandinavian and Russian players, more than half of all players are Canucks

    It’s strange to see “Oh Canada” played for the Vancouver Canucks while a lot of players are Swedes, while they play the “Star Spangled Banner” to an American based team with 50% Canadian players

  • 554.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:47 pm

    @Dusky-551:

    Ai fokkietoggie

  • 555.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:47 pm

    @Dusky-544:

    Nee boet, haal Helga van jou skoot af en lees weer

    “the Bulls are likely to play their import Lionel Mapoe at outside centre, while the inside centre position is likely to fall to IRB Junior Player of the year for 2012, Jan Serfontein.”

    Beter?

  • 556.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:47 pm

    And to have to watch ice hockey!

    Ai foeitog man

  • 557.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:48 pm

    Ek sit en kyk Varsity Cup. Jinne die UKZN is uberkak – Fort Hare speel lekker hardloop rugby in die reen

  • 558.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:49 pm

    @Britney Spies-553: Hulle moet ‘n nuwe movie maak….’Desperaat in Pretoria’ – die storie lyn gaan oor ‘n rugby span wat 12 van hulle top spelers and ‘n paar van hulle beste jong spelers in twee jaar verloor het.

  • 559.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:50 pm

    @Dawn-538:

    > How’s that maggot colour vampire skin of yours doing

    Good, he’s shaqging all the lonely pale Scandinavian girls on the remote research station

    It’s like “Twilight, the X-Rated version” up there

  • 560.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:50 pm

    @victoriabok-554: So Serfontein (van wie niemand iets gehoor het nie) en Mapoe gaan die ‘dream midfield’ wees ? Is Wynand hulle mentor ? HHHHHHHHHAAAA HA HA HA HA !

  • 561.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:51 pm

    @victoriabok-554: Ek dink julle moet Adi Jacobs gaan soek. Hy kan sekerlik nog ‘n bietjie speel. Hy was tog eens ‘n Bul.

  • 562.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:52 pm

    @Dusky-557:

    Hulle is baie desperaat seun! Hulle maak vir Britney kaptein en verloor die best speler Stander. Ai fooitog

  • 563.skunk: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:52 pm

    I don’t get the whole expats commenting about social issues in SA. Its like breaking up with a chick because you hate her but you keep checking their facebook page.

  • 564.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:54 pm

    Duskee stop kakking the Bulls out

    You gonna upset your gatgabba Victoria

  • 565.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:54 pm

    @skunk-562: No its not. Its like getting separated from your wife but you still married. Unfortunately, very unfortunately I still have the sh$t South African passport. As soon as I dont – I promise I wont comment any more. I am trying my best to get rid of it.

  • 566.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:55 pm

    Nicely put, skunk!

  • 567.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:55 pm

    @skunk-562:

    Naand Muishond!

  • 568.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:55 pm

    @Dawn-563: He’s a Bull. He wont get all petulant, like the mountain moffie fans. He knows I am just kidding around and he can take it.

  • 569.Fern: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:56 pm

    @skunk-562:
    Or a chick dumping you and all of a sudden she is the bride of satan.
    Some seem to bash what they cant have.

  • 570.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:56 pm

    @Dawn-555:

    Better than soccer anyday

    Seeing a guy spitting Chiclets after taking a puck in the face and continue playing sure beats watching a Football Fairy diving for a penalty if he gets frightened by a spectator opening a can of Coke

  • 571.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 17:56 pm

    Ag Duskee

    Just chuck it on the camp fire!

  • 572.Fern: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:00 pm

    @victoriabok-569:
    Those guys are as physical as rugby players.
    Very nice brutal sport.
    I dont even think Dawn can swim let alone ice skate or roller skate.

  • 573.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:01 pm

    @Dusky-560:

    Nee het julle hom nie meer nodig nie?

    Hy’t tot onlangs nog Oupa Stefan Terblanche se rystoel tot by die veld gestoot

  • 574.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:02 pm

    @Dusky-564: Just a pity that the sh$t one allows you to get the other one ne! I can feel your pain. :D

  • 575.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:02 pm

    @Fern-568: Precisely. This part is exactly true. ‘Some seem to bash what they cant have’

    Difference is, I can have South Africa. I am a South African citizen – I can get on a plane any time and come back. (Heaven forbid)

    Not all South Africans can get out of South Africa and have what I have though.

  • 576.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:02 pm

    @wnbb-573: Huh ? Talk proper English please. Or Afrikaans.

  • 577.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:04 pm

    @victoriabok-572: LOL….ja jong….hulle het seker hulle pil kolleksie ge-compare.

  • 578.Fern: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:05 pm

    @Dusky-574:
    I have a issue with expats bashing SA.
    Each to their own and we all make decisions that is the best for us.
    If you are happy it’s all cool in the pool.
    If you are happy and in Utopia don’t waste time here and bash SA.
    Simple.

  • 579.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:05 pm

    I just don’t understand these expats.They diss the green passport,but without it they are nothing !

  • 580.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:07 pm

    @Fern-577: Sorry, but I am not going to be silenced on blatant issues that South Africans have become desensitized to. My mission is to bring as much attention to the filthy politics and corruption in South Africa. If you want to debate, you are welcome (come with facts please). If you dont want to – dont read my posts.

    If you read between the lines you would realize. If I didn’t give a sh$t about South Africa, I wouldn’t bother saying anything.

  • 581.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:08 pm

    @Dusky-557:

    Of ‘n fliek, “Born in Natal”, oor ‘n KZN gebore Sharks span met 13 fris Zulu’s, een maer Soutie op slot en Dynamite Naidoo, die nuwe Fourie du Preez van Chatsworth, op skrumskakel

  • 582.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:09 pm

    @wnbb-578: Without it we are nothing ? You’re delusional. Did you suip out half a bottle of meths since you came on here ?

    Without it, I will be free. It will only be a few years still.

  • 583.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:09 pm

    @Dusky-576:

    Adi kannie vir die Kings speel nie, hy’s nie wit nie :-)

  • 584.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:10 pm

    @victoriabok-580: LOL…sies….ons probeer om meer Natalers in te bring ok. Julle het self ‘n paar kapenaars in julle span ne ?

  • 585.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:10 pm

    @Dusky-579: Stfu! Who cares!You are farking worse than ET . :D

  • 586.Fern: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:10 pm

    @Dusky-579:
    If that is your view I am cool with that.
    I am reffering to expats attacking South Africans on here and accusing them of stuff that are untrue.
    I am refering to the apartheid warriors who left now and are just here to bash because not even the anc wanted them.
    I am very critical about the housing issues aswell because I see it a lot.

  • 587.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:10 pm

    @wnbb-578:

    You’re the one with the Irish/EU passport

  • 588.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:11 pm

    @wnbb-584: Obviously you do. Otherwise you wouldn’t carry on replying to my posts. And dont put a smiley face on every one of your messages, you are giving away that you are Transformation.

  • 589.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:12 pm

    @victoriabok-582: :-D

  • 590.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:13 pm

    Duskee

    You not free now????

  • 591.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:15 pm

    @Fern-585: I would actually like to write a book. It would very possibly be banned in South Africa. After all they managed to get the website ‘southafricasucks.com’ shut down.

    My book will be about all the sacrifices that South Africans make to live in South Africa without even realizing it. It has become such a part of life, people have become totally desensitized and that is one thing, but the vicious defense of it is something else.

    It has become so clear to me, that I am sure if I write a book and people read it – it will become clear to them too. I will donate all proceeds to education in South Africa because my purpose is not to make money. My purpose is to create awareness so that things can change.

  • 592.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:16 pm

    @Dusky-583:

    Ja jong die trekarbeiders, as hulle eers eenmaal pap en Boerewors saam met Klippies en Coke geproe het gaan hulle nie sommer weer terug na Waterlelie stew en Lieberstein toe nie

  • 593.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:16 pm

    @Dawn-589: No – still tied to the old South African green passport. Not too long though and I will be rid of it and very happy to be a citizen again.

  • 594.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:16 pm

    The green passport got him to farking Norway if I am correct….unless Scotty beamed him up to Norway. Ook maar n lekker dom doooos as hy tyd het. :D

  • 595.skunk: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:17 pm

    Dusky

    I would enjoy havin a debate on current issues in politics, but you only base your broad and infinately correct opinions on facts you got from blogs. I wonder how much of what is going on in this country you understand. That said you can keep what you have and Il gladly work on what we have…

  • 596.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:18 pm

    @victoriabok-586: :D . Dusky is so easy,don’t you agree? :D

  • 597.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:19 pm

    We love our expats

  • 598.Fern: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:19 pm

    @Dusky-590:
    Very cool.
    Our idea of a “normal life” is def warped.
    We are more aware of our suroundings due to the crime here.
    Friends in NZ and Aus pointed it out to me.
    We seem to always be paraat.

  • 599.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:22 pm

    Duskee

    No-one disagrees we have kuk going on here

    But dont be so twitter and bisted!

    Makes you old before your time!

  • 600.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 18:22 pm

    @wnbb-593:

    > The green passport got him to farking Norway if I am correct….

    Yes, ok maar net, probably needed a Visa as well

    You can’t even fly to London without a visa anymore, thanks to corrupt Home Affairs officials issuing passports to foreigners and SAA cabin crew smuggling drugs

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