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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  • 651.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 19:57 pm

    @victoriabok-649:
    As gevolg van die hitte
    was vrek warm die laaste tyd, maar dis meer as net die gewone donderstorm
    hierdie een kom met moerse sterk wind en al die bells & whistles
    sal seker nou nou weer oorwaai

  • 652.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 19:58 pm

    @gunther-647: the soccer pitch is for his personal soccer team, he won’t be upstaged by laaities like patrice motsepe.

    http://www.gcis.gov.za/content/president-jacob-zuma-attends-msholozi-soccer-games-nkandla-23-dec-2012-0

    he sommer organised his own tournament by his compound that he can rig. :-)

  • 653.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:02 pm

    @Transformation-651: why do you feel the need to post as your alter ego wnbb? Is he meant to be the nasty version of youself? :grin:

  • 654.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:06 pm

    @Transformation-651:

    > the soccer pitch is for his personal soccer team, he won’t be upstaged by laaities like patrice motsepe

    Correction, it should read

    The soccer pitch is for his personal soccer team, ie his kids, two full teams worth and working hard on the third team

    No Kleptocrat worth his stolen salt wants to be upstaged by a real businessman like Motsepe

  • 655.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:07 pm

    @nortierd-650:

    Ek het vir jou mail gestuur

  • 656.Te Rangatira: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:09 pm

    @Angostura-486:
    Thankyou….Angostura, for doing the leg-work on that, I’m overly tired ,I’ve just done an all nighter trying to get an order ready to send to Oz….so happy to get paid in the Aussie$$…

  • 657.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:13 pm

    @RL-652: :mrgreen: how many alter egos can one person have.

  • 658.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:16 pm

    @victoriabok-654:
    thanks
    het gekry
    paar goeie motivationals

  • 659.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:21 pm

    @Transformation-656: don’t know really – skoppy has about 85 egos that he has logged under – others have also fingered you to be this wnbb and even Rossi. Hell you can post with a pc, an Ipad and a phone all at one and confuse the shi.t out of yourself.

    Do you have issues? Now don’t get mad becaise I am quoting Luke here. He says than Transformation will always have ussues.

    :razz:

  • 660.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:22 pm

    @nortierd-657:

    Lekker fris?

  • 661.gunther: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:36 pm

    @Transformation-651:

    As a taxpayer I want selection input.

  • 662.gunther: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:38 pm

    @RL-658:

    Wnbb dropped the Kbomb on transie.

    I don’t think they are the same person.

    #paranoiastrikesdeep

    :lol:

  • 663.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:40 pm

    @gunther-661:

    You should have gone to Nkandla when JZ was at Davos

    You might have been able to do some “input” of your own

  • 664.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:43 pm

    @RL: i see you are warming to luke since he said:

    ” it’s not fair on Lions
    supporters, so I can understand Lions
    fans being irritated and anti the Kings.
    It’s perfectly understandable.”

    Watson said he understood the hostility
    towards the Kings, but felt that the
    blame lay at the feet of SA Rugby’s
    leadership.

    “There are loads of Lions fans who
    would love to see us fail. I can
    understand that.”

    “It was never our goal or purpose to
    get the Lions excluded. Our desire was
    to be included. In our minds it was
    never us versus the Lions. (We wanted)
    to bring top-flight rugby to (the Eastern
    Cape),” Watson said.

    “The leaders and the decision makers at
    SA Rugby decided that this was the best
    way forward,” Watson opined.”

  • 665.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:45 pm

    @gunther-661: kbomb really? How can that be when he supports the Kings – home to black rugby and all that. :weird:

  • 666.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:48 pm

    @gunther-661: that’s why i don’t even bother with these alter ego claims, capo knows places in cape town i would have no clue about like pollsmor :-)

  • 667.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:48 pm

    @Transformation-663: he also said this about you “Transformation, he added, would always be an ongoing issue” so yes I am warming to him – so confront him next timw you see him in the gym.

    :wink:

  • 668.gunther: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:50 pm

    @Transformation-665:

    That an encyclopedic knowledge of poodles.

  • 669.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:51 pm

    @RL-666: :evil:

  • 670.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:55 pm

    @gunther-667: Haha pink Fa&ggotboy !!Now ,that is farking funny!!Btw,how is your daddy doing? :D

  • 671.gunther: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:56 pm

    @wnbb-669:

    He’s loving your mother gapingcunt.

    :lol:

  • 672.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 20:59 pm

    @gunther-670: I understand your daddy is fckukking dead Fa&ggotboys now.Is it true?? :D

  • 673.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:00 pm

    Eish! Let me go and call Dawn.

  • 674.ufo: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:05 pm

    @wnbb-671:

    capo you exhibit your absolute lack of intelligence, dignity and self-respect with a comment like that…

    you have self-esteem issues that would create a whole new niche in mental health such is your desperation for relevance and acceptance…

    you really are a disgusting little weasel…

  • 675.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:05 pm

    Come on cunthie!I am still here .Hit me with the next poodle joke .My tail is wagging in anticipation ! :D

  • 676.gunther: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:08 pm

    @wnbb-671:

    indeed. you know this.

    ao what’s your point poodlenaai?

  • 677.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:12 pm

    @ufo-673: I don’t need acceptance your Lordship.I am just fine.Why do I need your approval in any case.My life is just beautiful .What a hypocrite you are!Easy to criticise me,but you ignore the filth that comes from your buddy.In any case I love irritating the sh$t out of Cunthie,the pink wonder. :D

  • 678.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:14 pm

    @gunther-675: Should that not be ‘poodlenaaier’? Come on Cunthie !!You are losing your golden touch or should that be pink touch? :D

  • 679.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:14 pm

    The Kings are nothing more than a SARU BANTUSTAN Franchise…

    With Paramount Chief Sheeky in charge…

    An artificial franchise based on a lie for a premise…

  • 680.gunther: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:14 pm

    @ufo-673:

    indeed.

    the gene pool is very shallow.

  • 681.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:15 pm

    @wnbb-674:

    Did you molest the horse?

    http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/victorian-s-miniature-horse-dolly-euthanized-after-disturbing-assault-1.48500

  • 682.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:15 pm

    @gunther-675: these women are getting tjatjarag! this is all over FB.

    Dear Boyfriends, We don’t want kfc, pizza,
    nandos, brazilian hair, flowers, perfume,
    chocolate also dont want ipads, iphones and
    Blackberry’s this Valentines Day. Just come and
    say hi to our parents & begin with lobola
    negotiations or traditional wedding FINISH
    AND KLAAR. Regards Girlfriend Association of
    South Africa (GAOSA).

    heeeeeee the nerve!!! :twisted:

  • 683.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:16 pm

    @wnbb-677:

    What’s with the pink?

    Gunther’s not skeef

  • 684.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:19 pm

    @victoriabok-580: @victoriabok-582: Sheezus :lol:

  • 685.gunther: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:19 pm

    @Transformation-681:

    can you not pay lobola in blackberries?

    :lol:

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

    @gunther-684:

    In Jingleberries?

  • 687.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:23 pm

    @Heavens Game-683:

    Poodle’s appetite is increasing in size

    Soon he’d be humping hippos

    Oprah better watch out

    No time to chew the fat with Lance when Poodle’s on the prowl

  • 688.ufo: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:24 pm

    @wnbb-676:

    shame… you are a fool indeed…

    indeed you don’t need my or anyone else’s permission to post the rubbish you do…

    what you do need though is a modicum of intelligence and integrity… both of which elude you…

    the generally accepted etiquette on keo is to leave families out of it… especially recently deceased family…

    that you don’t understand this draws a rather vivid mind-map of your brain… in unintelligible thick scrawling wax-crayon swirls and scribbles…

    @gunther-679:

    staggeringly so…

  • 689.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:26 pm

    @victoriabok-682: how do you know?Why do you think he is so angry.I outted his daddy on here as a peanut butter lover and now the oke is just spitting mad. Apparently he was groomed by daddy. In any case if you say a thing a few times on here it becomes fact .Don’t you know that. :D

  • 690.ufo: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:27 pm

    anyway…

    good win for uwc over tut tonight in the varsity shield…

  • 691.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:27 pm

    @wnbb-688:

    > outted his daddy on here as a peanut butter lover

    You know this as fact?

    Do you have proof?

  • 692.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:27 pm

    Yikes first he went after poodles and now horses.

    I’m out of here – PG 21 stuff being shown.

  • 693.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:30 pm

    @gunther-684: the guy who is marrying my cousin in march just coughed up R70k…

  • 694.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:32 pm

    @victoriabok-690: I know the family. :D

  • 695.wnbb: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:33 pm

    @RL-691: Horsies are naaice ! :D

  • 696.gunther: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:33 pm

    @ufo-687:

    the poodlenaaier thinsk etiquette is some sort of firelighter.

  • 697.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:33 pm

    @RL-691:

    Rated “R”, viewer discretion advised

    You should go over the the Keo CleanFlicks section

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVwCa87qrC0

  • 698.gunther: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:33 pm

    @Transformation-692:

    in cold cash?

  • 699.ufo: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:34 pm

    @gunther-695:

    hehehe…

    he certainly has no clue was it is that’s for sure…

    :lol:

    anyway will return to radio silence as far as he is concerned…

  • 700.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    28 Jan 2013, 21:36 pm

    @gunther-695:

    Sir, you exceeded the speed limit, I’m going to give you e-ticket?

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