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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28 Jan 2013, 14:03 pm
@cane-335: I know. Those are the reports we’ve had too – that two thirds of the fatalities didn’t occur in the initial burst of gunfire, but in a “mop-up” operation. Hopefully this will all be exposed in the official report.
But adding to this lethal cocktail were zealous union leaders telling hordes of emotional workers that they’d rather die than leave without an agreement, plus crazy reports of sangomas offering workers magical protection from bullets (for R200).
This was never going to end well.
28 Jan 2013, 14:03 pm
@stormer in a teacup-347:
28 Jan 2013, 14:03 pm
for all my rugga bruthas and sistas…
this appropriate pearler from mark twain…
A man with a hump-backed uncle…
mustn’t make fun of another man’s cross-eyed aunt …!!
28 Jan 2013, 14:03 pm
@stormersboy-346: Was gonna post that.
28 Jan 2013, 14:04 pm
@RL-341: he said the treatment he got from the other Bok players was in his opinion revolting to a point that he FELT LIKE puking on the jersey.
feeling like doing something and actually doing it are surely two different things…
so in essence what would u like a apology for?
28 Jan 2013, 14:05 pm
@cane-343:
Ha I think it’s about the same value as the Chinese Rmb.
28 Jan 2013, 14:05 pm
@Taahirah-353: Ja, haters gonna hate, but do it right,
28 Jan 2013, 14:05 pm
@cane-343: But that’s before it’s been used.
28 Jan 2013, 14:06 pm
Luke Watson’s interview http://ewn.co.za/StandAloneMedia/130128LukeWatson
A bit long, but worth a listen.
28 Jan 2013, 14:06 pm
@cane-343: It shows you how hypocrytical the world economic community is. They wanted Apartheid to end but than have less trust in a black run SA government than they had in a white oppresive government.
“It’s like we want you to be free but we still don’t trust you with our money.”
Also see what **** uneducated striking does in a manly labour based economy. Labour based because the government refuses to properly invest in education.
28 Jan 2013, 14:06 pm
@ufo-337: Not going to the Boland game, purely because some dumfuck mate of ours is getting married in Franschoek on the same day. ***I get so fed up with weddings during pre-season warm ups and especially during THE season – although I refuse to attend weddings on game days….***
28 Jan 2013, 14:08 pm
@Transformation-354: Was that before or after John Smit asked for his input and all he said was “I am only an observer.”?
The man was not a team player, it was obvious. Should never have said what he said and should never have been forced intop the team by the ANC government.
28 Jan 2013, 14:08 pm
@cane-343: Its around R9-US$, so not as strong currency wise as the NZ$ although comparing your economy to that of SA is akin to comparing Greece to the US…and yes….SA would be US in that comparison.
28 Jan 2013, 14:09 pm
@stormer in a teacup-357:
Lol,
Maybe.
Maybe not.
28 Jan 2013, 14:09 pm
@RL-349:
I’m not worried about your miners at all, they seem to get a decent salary, the lowest factory worker in China would probably get around Us$250 a month, plus housing food medical etc I suppose if you don’t like it you can stop buying IPhones iPads etc
28 Jan 2013, 14:10 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-360:
some people are so inconsiderate…!!
yeah… i can’t believe or understand how is still get calls during a bok game…
i mean who in south africa doesn’t know the boks are playing then and it’s not a good idea to phone a rugby fan at the time…?
anyway… just wanna see for myself how the newly un-injured players are looking…
28 Jan 2013, 14:10 pm
@Transformation-345: better than the white elephant stadium in PE – yes. Wherer were all the Xhosas and Capesaders?
28 Jan 2013, 14:11 pm
@NZINCHINA-364: it is the way of the world. A lot of our ancestors would have been in a comparable situation.
28 Jan 2013, 14:15 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-326: Good expression.Hate fete.
28 Jan 2013, 14:15 pm
@Skeppie-362:
9 ***** that must hurt when you travel outside of Africa
28 Jan 2013, 14:16 pm
@Skeppie-362:
The Economy……………………….
You mean like the unemployment rate, average wage, home ownership …………………………… that sort of thing?
28 Jan 2013, 14:16 pm
@goodstuff-361: agreed, he was the best super rugby player in SA in 06 & should’ve resisted being forced on to the tea by Regan!
i’m addressing the demand for an “apology” from some quarters…you also reckon he owes us Bok supporters an apology for “feeling like puking” on the jersey
28 Jan 2013, 14:16 pm
@Transformation-354: what treatment – come with facts not what some blogger said.
@PissAnt-358: either Keo hijacked your nic or the dwarfman paid you to run propoganda.
28 Jan 2013, 14:18 pm
@cane-370: Yup, the thing that is quantified and rated worldwide by proper agencies….same agencies who say ours is bigger and better than yours….sorry but facts are facts
28 Jan 2013, 14:19 pm
@NZINCHINA-369: It does but currency is just a calculation….job for job salaries are probably higher in SA than in NZ so it all equalises at the end of the day……
28 Jan 2013, 14:21 pm
@RL-366: “white elephant”? lmao…run that by me again?
28 Jan 2013, 14:23 pm
@RL-372: what do you want an apology for?
28 Jan 2013, 14:24 pm
@Skeppie-374:
Sometimes what the average salary in rand in SA?
28 Jan 2013, 14:25 pm
@NZINCHINA-377: Yup…so if an accountant earns R50K/month in SA and his counterpart in NZ earns $NZ15K then the numbers may be different but the buying power/power of money is roughly the same.
28 Jan 2013, 14:26 pm
@Transformation-376: Tranise nearly kick off time, how you feeling about your boys chances?
28 Jan 2013, 14:27 pm
This irritates me to no end. It’s been years. Drop it now. There are more pressing problems in the world like poverty, AIDs, crocs on the loose. Let’s all move on with our lives and leave Luke alone.
28 Jan 2013, 14:27 pm
@Hurricane-316: ja, pretty heavy
@Hurricane-320: ah, a polluter.
the extremes of latitude will be the hardest hit so good luck buddy.
@the curse-325: you insinuate about all south africans daily, but you and your issues mean less than nothing to me…understand?
@goodstuff-328: thats the thing though, luke did not make the comment in a “heated moment” did he?
it was at a venue where he was the speaker.
so he is telling porkies there imo.
anyways, best of luck to him, i am over it.
28 Jan 2013, 14:28 pm
@Skeppie-378:
Lets compare across a specific industry, what would a nurse or a copper make aprox in rand a month?
28 Jan 2013, 14:28 pm
@Transformation-375: come now trans – we all know that the 200000 players and this transformation story is just that …stories. The real reason to get the Kings into that stadium was to safe the white elephant and for tenders to be dished out for money making purposes.
@Transformation-376: for insulting his Bok teammates and telling them he was going to puke on his jersey!
28 Jan 2013, 14:30 pm
@NZINCHINA-382: shut up you communist swinehond.
28 Jan 2013, 14:32 pm
@ufo-365:
I throw the finest wobblies at such times. 
I’m doing the countdown to our first home game. Always special: that 1st home game of the season. Old friends in the stands…..old friends on the lawns….Security fellas last seen in October, ice cream sellers, the vibe, the back slapping and air punching
The smell wafting over from the breweries, depending on the wind….. the jol at Groote Schuur….the kit sellers as you walk under/over the railway bridge….
Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
28 Jan 2013, 14:32 pm
@Skeppie-379: excited chap, Super Rugby on my doorstep, whooa!
saffa derbies galore, the chiefs in my backyard – pity SBW gone.
i’m hyped
28 Jan 2013, 14:32 pm
@Transformation-345: howzit, it was unreal transie.
i had such a jol and blew that vuvuzela til my lips were numb haha.
28 Jan 2013, 14:32 pm
@RL-384:
It’s more capitalist than Commie up here these days.
28 Jan 2013, 14:32 pm
@ryecatcher-368: It is my friend. Tables full of home made hate for sale….. Different bakers-but the ingredients are all the same.
28 Jan 2013, 14:33 pm
@SpringbokSarah-380: Good point, Sarah.
28 Jan 2013, 14:33 pm
luke made a t.it of hekkies here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXFpqZeqfb8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
28 Jan 2013, 14:33 pm
@SpringbokSarah-380: I’m more concerned with the crocs on people’s feet.
28 Jan 2013, 14:38 pm
@SpringbokSarah-380: hi little lady. you need to understand that there are Saffas who think their “hurt” is more important than the hurtof others thus they reserve the right to HOLD ON to any “injustice” that the perceive & can never be told to ‘get over it’
2 decades later luke will still need to apologise
28 Jan 2013, 14:38 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-392: I know. It’s such a terrible problem. We should focus on that. Crime against fashion… where’s Joan Rivers when you need her?
28 Jan 2013, 14:41 pm
@Transformation-393: Luke has apologised repeatedly and if members of the public are not willing to accept it, that’s really their own problem. They should find a therapist. Maybe their problem is not with Luke but their father who never loved them or some other cliché emotional scarring.
28 Jan 2013, 14:41 pm
@NZINCHINA-377:
China…I think Skeppies figures are a bit off….
28 Jan 2013, 14:44 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-385:
great description pedigree…!!
i could see and hear and smell and feel it all….!!
3 weeks till we open against the bulls… and one more for the chiefs at home…
yip… exciting stuff…
28 Jan 2013, 14:45 pm
@Te Rangatira-396: Why? What makes you say that? He’s actually very accurate. Here’s a Stats SA report from 2 years back. Add around 6% per annum (SA inflation) and you’ll get where we currently stand.
http://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/P02112/P021122010.pdf
Got to love these “experts” who base their opinions on nothing at all.
28 Jan 2013, 14:45 pm
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