Brumbies boss breakdowns to beat Reds
16 Feb 2013
RICHARD FERGUSON reports on the Brumbies beating the Reds and starting the season with a win.
The Brumbies beat the Reds 24 – 6 after leading them 8 – 6 at the break.
The first half of Super Rugby for these teams was just that, a first outing that saw little cohesion and penalties a plenty. Both teams’ kickers battled for accuracy as the wind played havoc. The Brumbies did manage to score a try with the first attacking move of the game, Jesse Mogg dotting down in the corner after about 10 minutes.
The Brumbies streaked ahead in the second half, keeping the Reds scoreless while kicking their own penalties. The kicking was a woeful display, so much so that the Brumbies used four different kickers with little success. Mogg scored his second try of the match on the sound of the siren, which was converted by replacement Robbie Coleman.
Clyde Rathbone had a solid return match, but in a match dominated by forward play and the backline not getting much room to move, he did not exactly shine.
The talking point throughout the match was the breakdowns and the referee’s interpretation of the new laws, which resulted in a stop start match. The Brumbies, and in particular David Pocock, adapted to the referee’s calls and took full advantage in the second half.
The score line does give a false impression about how close this match was, with the Reds’ defence holding strong for long periods of time. What would be a concern for coach Ewen McKenzie though, is the fact that the Reds never really looked like scoring a try all match.
The Brumbies now face the Rebels in Melbourne while the Reds head into a tough encounter with the Waratahs in Brisbane.
404 Comments
16 Feb 2013, 10:13 am
Go Jakey flakey dragons!
16 Feb 2013, 10:15 am
Bad omen.
This dragon eagerly hung his Brumbies jersey on the cupboard door last night.
And rushed to put it on last night.
But horror of horrors, why’s it so tight around the midriff?
No, it’s not what you think it is…
In my haste I put it on back-to-front!!!
Silly me.
16 Feb 2013, 10:22 am
@BrumbiesBoy-2:
Be glad it wasn’t a Shark jersey, they tend to be tight around the neck
16 Feb 2013, 10:27 am
@nortierd-3: At first I thought I must’ve eaten too much KFC last nigh!!!
16 Feb 2013, 10:29 am
@BrumbiesBoy-4:
Can’t be the KFC
The amount of grease they use, you would probably slip in and out of the jersey with ease
16 Feb 2013, 10:34 am
@nortierd-5: I had to “Twister” it off…
16 Feb 2013, 10:37 am
@BrumbiesBoy-2: hit the tar fatboy! bwahahaha
16 Feb 2013, 10:42 am
@Transformation-7: You been at the ganga again?
16 Feb 2013, 10:42 am
Reds to sort out these pretenders.
16 Feb 2013, 10:43 am
@Transformation-7: bwahahaaa
McCaw’s Law
16 Feb 2013, 10:44 am
Fake coach plus fake ex-lions supporters.
16 Feb 2013, 10:51 am
Jesse Mogg – goyougoodthing.
16 Feb 2013, 10:53 am
@Angostura-10: yeah Kearnsy is a LARF!
#McCaw’s Law
i’m watching this game with a haze in front of my eyes….birthday buzz.
16 Feb 2013, 10:53 am
@S_K-11: Couldn’t be happier boet, no political bullsh.t to worry about regarding merit selection.
16 Feb 2013, 11:06 am
These Aussie games are,what can be regarded,as just a necessary evil that has to be endured until the real rugby starts next week.
16 Feb 2013, 11:09 am
This game is a bit of a disappointment. We’ve had about a million penalties so far.
16 Feb 2013, 11:27 am
Ajmal making Proteas fans mal …
16 Feb 2013, 11:46 am
Damn, am working and was hoping to get out and watch it but now I can’t.
16 Feb 2013, 11:57 am
@BrumbiesBoy-18: You’re not missing much.
16 Feb 2013, 11:58 am
So far so good.
Wonder if how many times Skop has thrown his slippers at the TV.
Doubt he will be happy if Jake’s team wins this.
For shame
16 Feb 2013, 12:04 pm
@nortierd-20: Skop who?
16 Feb 2013, 12:08 pm
That’s poetic justice. QC took a quick throw with the wrong ball and the reds almost scored, but now the Bumblies have a shot at goal.
16 Feb 2013, 12:08 pm
The goal kicking in this game has been putrid by both teams.
16 Feb 2013, 12:09 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-21:
#1 was especially for him!
16 Feb 2013, 12:10 pm
Must be a lot of Kiwis in the crowd. Much noise when QC gets near the ball.
16 Feb 2013, 12:11 pm
Pocock’s influence is HUGE
16 Feb 2013, 12:12 pm
@I am a stormer-24:
Jake the fake?
P.S. Hang in there, boys!!!
16 Feb 2013, 12:14 pm
Now for one unconverted try by the Reds and I’m happy
16 Feb 2013, 12:15 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-21:
Skop, aka The Oracle
16 Feb 2013, 12:15 pm
Quade has been nowhere in this game.
16 Feb 2013, 12:16 pm
Perhaps he should stick to boxing.
16 Feb 2013, 12:17 pm
Jake said he wanted to win the OZ conference. That’s like being the best referee in Ireland!
@26 Yes the most penalised on the field.
16 Feb 2013, 12:20 pm
@kaksioek-30: Quade who?
16 Feb 2013, 12:20 pm
Well done Brumbies. But Mogg just messed with my bru.
16 Feb 2013, 12:21 pm
For f’s sake.
So close to being within 5 then a damn intercept on full time.
Why Superbru irritatestheSHIToutofme.
16 Feb 2013, 12:22 pm
Worried Tarts are top of the table with four points for a Bye
16 Feb 2013, 12:22 pm
Skoppie
Did Jake the fake just own McKenzie or what?
16 Feb 2013, 12:23 pm
@nortierd-29: Don’t worry. In no time McKenzie will know what exactly he did wrong with selections and tactics.
16 Feb 2013, 12:25 pm
By all accounts that was a hiding. 3 tries to nil says it all. And the Reds didn’t look like scoring.
16 Feb 2013, 12:25 pm
Brumbies going to upset a few teams this year. Jake doing things right. Still an a.shole… but good coach.
16 Feb 2013, 12:26 pm
@polaris-38:
One call to the Oracle in Fish Hoek and the Reds will be back on track in no time
16 Feb 2013, 12:26 pm
They gotta change the breakdown laws or fix the refs interpretation of them because Reds were blown out this game by consistent slowing by Brumbies on the ground and kickable penalties offered to home team.
16 Feb 2013, 12:28 pm
@skopdiekan-42:
They were owned by Pocock.
Great coaching is what I think made the difference, having a World Cup winning coach certainly showed
16 Feb 2013, 12:28 pm
@nortierd-41: See? It was matter of minutes.
The first law of an excellent politician
“Confidently predict what will happen and then convincingly explain why it didn’t”.
16 Feb 2013, 12:28 pm
Boring game typical stampkar rugby being instilled into Brumbies philosophy they’ll run out of ideas before long and all the flair get coached out of them
16 Feb 2013, 12:29 pm
QC is a poor man’s Spenser. It was just like the Evil Wizard’s pass acceptance in Sydney at the RWC Lottery of 2003.
16 Feb 2013, 12:30 pm
@polaris-44:
16 Feb 2013, 12:30 pm
@Tuna-40:
Nice one!
16 Feb 2013, 12:31 pm
Go Jake you biscuit!!!
16 Feb 2013, 12:33 pm
@skopdiekan
He did coach the Bokke to a RWC Lottery win, but I agree that it was as lucky as the statistical aberration of 2003; almost.
16 Feb 2013, 12:33 pm
the boy RobbieP doing the business… john galt must be smiling
16 Feb 2013, 12:35 pm
So Brumbies beat Reds same way Australia beat S.A. in the WC this ref giving Brumbies all the advantage at the breakdown. So wtf is new why all the angst against Bryce Lawrence when this refs interpretation killed the game as an even contest from opening stanzas.
Reds lacking leadership and clear decisions but at least they don’t rely purely on stampkar rugby to get the job done.
16 Feb 2013, 12:36 pm
@Transformation-51:
He’s gotta keep going now.
16 Feb 2013, 12:39 pm
Well done to the Brumbies, 24-6 is a bit of a klap, no matter what anyone says.
16 Feb 2013, 12:39 pm
@skopdiekan-42: Skop, the difference were 2 tries to nil. As for “consistent slowing by Brumbies on the ground and kickable penalties offered to home team” – did you bother to count how many kicks they missed.
16 Feb 2013, 12:40 pm
@skopdiekan-52:
Skop, the Reds were good on defence. The Brumbies looked better with ball in hand. 3 tries to nil about sums up this match. The reds were giving it the kitchen sink going into the final 10 minutes so as not to lose by more than 7 and that opened up an intercept try.
16 Feb 2013, 12:42 pm
@AiDoc that 2007 lottery WC win was as a result of a few factors but Jake the Takes coaching prowess wasn’t one of them.
16 Feb 2013, 12:42 pm
Pocock a very good fetcher flank, & an admirable person
cream rises to the top
16 Feb 2013, 12:42 pm
It seems SA have already 6 teams in the super 15.
16 Feb 2013, 12:45 pm
Arse.holes might think they make good coaches but an arsehole remains an arsehole in spite of all the faking they do while riding on other people’s expertise.
16 Feb 2013, 12:45 pm
@Transformation-51: RobbieP continuing to surprise on the upside
he’s having a good Test
here’s to hoping he gets the top score in the Protea’s 1st innings
16 Feb 2013, 12:46 pm
@Hurricane-59:
Mate, it’s all about superbru – first round picks are always the most difficult. The brumbies had home ground advantage. And yes, there was the Jake factor – I thought Brumbies were better prepared. Although skop will argue that point.
16 Feb 2013, 12:50 pm
Cooper is an enigma AiDoc’s summing up of him as the poor man’s Carlos Spencer is about right. The difference between Brumbies and Reds today was Jesse Mogg and the ref. That is where all their 24 points came from and their 2 lucky tries. Cooper without Genius Genia running the Reds game gets reduced to more or less what he’s always been a reasonably talented show pony.
16 Feb 2013, 12:52 pm
It’s only 2 tries to nil.. not three
12 points in penalties!
16 Feb 2013, 12:53 pm
@I am a stormer-62:
Oh of course….forgot about the superbru
16 Feb 2013, 12:55 pm
So sad some hate without even knowing the person, one would have thought adults get over those kind of emotions?
16 Feb 2013, 12:56 pm
Pocock is to Jake’s Brumbies what Watson should have been to Jake’s Springboks in 2006 except back then he was a two face two tongue two timing twit. So how come now fetching flanks are all the beeswax and winners of games in Jake’s tweegesig tweetalig rugby tweeting philosophy?
16 Feb 2013, 12:57 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-66:
Have you seen Bakkies post ?
16 Feb 2013, 12:57 pm
@Richard Ferguson-64: Rich, I am so glad we came away from last nights match without more injuries, eish we already have 6 players out.
16 Feb 2013, 12:58 pm
@Hurricane-68: No, you feeling guilty about my post?? i did not mention a name?
16 Feb 2013, 12:59 pm
@Hurricane-68: There are certain bloggers who’s posts i 99% of the time ignore,
16 Feb 2013, 13:05 pm
“Two lucky tries.”
Wow!
The more we practise the luckier we get.
16 Feb 2013, 13:06 pm
@Richard Ferguson-64:
but it seemed like 3.
16 Feb 2013, 13:06 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-70:
Why would i feel guilty ?
I was just trying to make conversation
16 Feb 2013, 13:12 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-72:
@Hurricane-74: lol you know Bakkies is here for your continuous convo’s lol
16 Feb 2013, 13:12 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-71:
And no-one is allowed to use the P-word.
16 Feb 2013, 13:16 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-75:
haha
Yep, my awesome convos
16 Feb 2013, 13:22 pm
RobbieP 50.
Mooi man.
16 Feb 2013, 13:30 pm
Skop
I thought the reds got away with it at the breakdown. The ref gave them chance after chance. Yes the ref misses stuff but the way you are carrying on I suspect you were watching another game!!
16 Feb 2013, 13:40 pm
@I am a stormer-78: Robbie has taken responsibility for the innings as well. I’ve heard him after lunch telling Vern (twice) in Afrikaans to keep playing straight
16 Feb 2013, 13:40 pm
@skopdiekan-67: whatever decisions Jake made were the right ones, got the world cup. Watson will have oppurtunity toshowcase his talents this year with no excuses
16 Feb 2013, 13:41 pm
Commentator’s curse damn!!
16 Feb 2013, 13:41 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-75:
@Hurricane-77:
i just want to make it clear that i have never said a bad word about either of you in your absence.
i have views on rugby, don’t we all, that my views happen to be closer to the truth is no fault of mine, it’s just the truth… and i had nothing to do with it.
i do hope the two of you find what it is you are looking for more often than not, here on this blog.
and at the end of it all, i hope we can all have fun and not take it all too seriously.
life’s too short.*
* (rider to the above: some things, in life not this blog, can never be forgotten)
16 Feb 2013, 13:44 pm
@CharlesM-82:
Dale just needs to stick around so we can reduce their 1st innings lead.
16 Feb 2013, 13:46 pm
@I am a stormer-84: Yes but what a streaky / lucky 4!
16 Feb 2013, 13:56 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-83:
Your views are closer to the truth?? Hope your eyes have been checked!
16 Feb 2013, 13:59 pm
@ 59.Hurricane
Ouch!!! The Kiwis have nine and two teams in The Rugby Championship. Fifteen Kiwis in the Samoan thirty also.
I am beginning to think that the Jaapies like the Reds as they are complaining about the referee. It could have been worse; he could have been Irish.
16 Feb 2013, 14:01 pm
Lol, if Robbie P can get a four with his eyes closed, imagine what he can do if he watches the ball
16 Feb 2013, 14:03 pm
@nortierd-88: he has played well but had some luck as well !
16 Feb 2013, 14:04 pm
Pocock is a flat track bully. McCaw creamed him at the RWC Lottery.
Can’t wait for the Bleating and Cheating Irish arriving. Whoever has practice matches against the Opium Poppies and their Celtic colonies, wins the 3N, so will it be any different in THE CHAMPIONSHIP?
16 Feb 2013, 14:04 pm
Reverse sweeping the king of spin!!!!
16 Feb 2013, 14:05 pm
Whoops I meant Loins not the Choirboys.
16 Feb 2013, 14:05 pm
Robbie jou yster!!!
16 Feb 2013, 14:09 pm
@skopdiekan-67:
Don’t you come here and insult Pocock by making similarities between a gentleman and damn fine fetcher with ‘pukeboy’ Twatson.
Not only is Pocock a respected rugby player but he is also an asset to the game of rugby and kids in Australia look up to him…he has no political agendas.
What does Twatson represent…he’s a national disgrace with those shocking remarks he made about the national jersey…how could any self respecting youngster look up to that childish prat and want to emulate such hypocrisy?
Stop sniffing Twatson’s used jockstraps you capefaggot.
16 Feb 2013, 14:12 pm
The work that Pocock does in Africa is admirable and he lacks the ability to influence referees because his knowledge of the rules is not good enough. He gave away a multitude of penalties tonight.
16 Feb 2013, 14:12 pm
@CharlesM-89:
Yep, all the best scores have an element of luck.
He is going great, really hope he gets to his 100, he certainly deserves it
16 Feb 2013, 14:18 pm
@nortierd-96: Close shave Robbie!
16 Feb 2013, 14:29 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-83: Relax dude we were pissing around,
16 Feb 2013, 14:31 pm
hahaha, snoeky backpedalling like a egyptian tank driver.
jake has taken the brumbies to the top of the aussie game in one season.
love him or hate him, he is a great coach (u21 rwc and senior rwc winner, 3n winner too).
well done jake and sorry our tuncs at saru couldnt find it in themselves to ask for your input.
16 Feb 2013, 14:33 pm
@AiDoc-95: no, he gave away one poor decision by the ref.
yeeeeeeeeeeeeha steyntjie you BEYEEEEEEWDYYYYYY!!
referral?????
no.
OUT!
16 Feb 2013, 14:35 pm
if the proteas win this game it will be because of the efforts of robbie p and ab who put us back in the game.
16 Feb 2013, 14:38 pm
eish, dale looking like he wants to draw blood.
hahaha, wtf was that?
16 Feb 2013, 14:41 pm
7 for 2 !!!! Yes Vern!!
16 Feb 2013, 14:41 pm
WIIIIIIIIIIIIIICKEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
big vern you cracker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
eina, morkel, steyn and big vern.
whattacombo.
16 Feb 2013, 14:44 pm
proteas starting to resemble the aussie side that dominated under waugh and then ponting.
without the nastiness, sledging, excessive appealing and unsportsmanlike behaviour.
16 Feb 2013, 15:16 pm
@The Rangerman-105: Not quite – #7 batsman not yet settled & up to scratch; & as well as RobbieP has done since he has returned to the side, he is not (yet, if ever?) a world class spinner like Warne.
So two spots in the team still lacking compared to the Aussie team you mentioned, & those great Windies teams of the 70s/80s
Those 2 spots probably the difference between a very, very good team & a great team – that & the fact the Aussie & Windies asserted their dominance over an extended period, whereas the Proteas have only recently started to dominate – durable dominance needed to be associated with the greats.
Here’s to hoping the Proteas will get there
{imo}
16 Feb 2013, 15:20 pm
@Angostura-106: ja bud, i have heard the windies were awesome but before my time so i dont really have the knowledge to make that comparison.
your opinion is welcome and noted thanks.
16 Feb 2013, 15:24 pm
Mark Boucher will go down as one of the truly greats to have played the game. Nice touch that this game was dedicated to him. Just shows how he was recognised by his peers.
16 Feb 2013, 15:41 pm
If you guys want to know why today’s scheduled Namibia vs Lions match was cencelled, I found a website that has the full explanation. Actually a very good blog site with lots of good articles as well.
http://t.co/xZK6GreE
16 Feb 2013, 15:42 pm
@wallabie.-86:
i take it you have different views on the facts of rugby.
ok.
16 Feb 2013, 15:50 pm
@The Rangerman-105:
agreed, absolutely.
16 Feb 2013, 16:26 pm
Bwahahhaha!!!!
That Jakie Fakie just smashed everything the ultimate fool Skopshite stated with impunity yesterday… AGAIN!
Jake White has single-handedly revolutionised the Brumbies… from grass-roots, to club, to conditioning, to to to to!!!
16 Feb 2013, 16:48 pm
@bryce_in_oz-112: skopskiet is most often wrong with his predictions.
But this was not a prediction, it couldn’t have been as skopskiet made it personal with Jakey and has no ability to be objective.
So I’m pleased Jakey rubbed it in the schmuck’s face
16 Feb 2013, 17:20 pm
@ShaunB-113:
Oh you’re correct there… Ubu has consistently getting his predictions incorrect at every level since 2004!
16 Feb 2013, 17:24 pm
@bryce_in_oz-114:
Probably the reason he doesn’t take part in Superbru and calls it childish.
16 Feb 2013, 17:26 pm
@Scorp1o-109: Agreed,
Yesterday I visited that site on your recommendation & enjoyed the blogger’s content & style (some thought & substance to his writing)
If it is you, congrats, if it isn’t you, thx for the heads up …
16 Feb 2013, 17:31 pm
@bryce_in_oz-112:
I don’t know about single handedly. Remember he has Laurie Fischer and Larkham to assist him.
16 Feb 2013, 17:33 pm
skopskiet provides a different perspective
there’s a thin line, ne?, between genius & madness (meaning no disrespect to anyone)
life’s spicy variety et al
how boring, stagnant & ultimately retrogressive if we were all on same wave length
16 Feb 2013, 17:40 pm
There will most definitely be some RED meat on my din-dins plate tonight.
Skop will be eating sauerkraut, I believe.
16 Feb 2013, 17:43 pm
@Scorp1o-109:
yes, thank you.
i did have a look and enjoyed the article and explanation too.
16 Feb 2013, 17:43 pm
@Angostura-118: even a broken clock strikes the right time twice a day.
If I predict the underdog every game eventually I will get it right and everyone will call me some sort of sage or mystic.
That is skopskiet’s game.
Except anything to do with “Jakey the Fakey” or the “sharkishits” because then it is personal for him and he always calls the other team
16 Feb 2013, 17:44 pm
The match stats by the Australian Herald – for whatever its credibility is – shows both sides were even more or less in all major categories except one:
Missed tackles Red 7, Brumbies 27!
This is a typical Stats when the Stormers win under the conduct of Jonker/Joubert/Pro Legota/Jafta/Peyper and Co, in other words Skop has a valid point when saying the referee swindled it the Brumbies side.
How can you possibly win a rugby match when you miss 27 tackles?
16 Feb 2013, 17:52 pm
@David-117:
Oh but of course… JW’s major asset has been that he surrounds himself with the best he can… Laurie, Bernie, Gregan, Eddie, the AFL, the NRL…
JW for the second seasons has had ACT starting their conditioning 3 months before any other Aus side…
JW started the nutrition ‘cafe’ two seasons ago where every contracted player gets every meal designed for them each day…
JW caused quite a stir in his first season when he banned all ACT players from playing any club rugby anywhere other than in Canberra… the club scene has now had a HUGE resurgence…
JW spent 6 months scouting this club union and league comps for youngsters… result?
Jesse Mogg, Timane, Palmer, Timane, Hooper (who he tried to contract without even having played a game for the Brumbies) all Wallabies in their first year!
JW ‘single-handedly’ stole Pocock from the clutches of HUGE offers from my Rebels!
Need anyone say any more about Clyde Rathbone who JW took from the clutches of despair back into top-flight rugby!
Ho hum… I could carry on and on!
16 Feb 2013, 17:58 pm
@Hondo-122: The same way as you win a RWC Q/F with only 30% possession!
Didn’t watch but who was the ref?
16 Feb 2013, 17:59 pm
@Hondo-122:
Brumbies missed 23, Reds missed 14… Brumbies made more ground with ball in hand, ,made more distance with kicks, poached a LO on opposition ball, won more scrums on own ball, had more half-back passes, more FH passes, dominated the rucks/mauls… so what’s your point again?
And they had more *******!
16 Feb 2013, 18:00 pm
Holy cow. Did this really happen?
16 Feb 2013, 18:00 pm
@bryce_in_oz-125:
D ar kies…
16 Feb 2013, 18:07 pm
@bryce_in_oz-123: that’s impressive, bryce.
16 Feb 2013, 18:10 pm
without the politics and Blue Bull backstabbing Jake is thriving!
16 Feb 2013, 18:26 pm
@bryce_in_oz-123: Very interesting, thanks for the info, mate.
Jake must have battled somewhat, I’ve read reports that as a city Canberra can at best be compared to Bloemfontein!
16 Feb 2013, 18:45 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-130:
It’s dull as ****… but that is the only comparison…
16 Feb 2013, 18:54 pm
Canberra is actually not so bad. More interesting than Bloem.
16 Feb 2013, 19:05 pm
@Hondo-122:
well, i for one am interested in a closer scrutiny being made of the ‘hows and why’s’ of this game. in the context of the new trial law ammendments i am very interested to know just what went down here today.
and i mean a thorough assesment of the team ‘tactics’, a few ‘well known’ players of consequence and just as importantly, the referee, assistant refs and television match assistant.
let not another year go wasted on soap opera WWRE theatre.
16 Feb 2013, 19:09 pm
@ShaunB-132: And the best part of it must be watching all 23 of them riding into town & tying up there WildHorseys outside the stadium.
16 Feb 2013, 19:09 pm
Watching Aussie super teams is is like watching paint,dry.
16 Feb 2013, 19:19 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-134: Oops!…there = their – Sorry, must be the RED wine that REDhead in the RED dress nearby is drinking!
16 Feb 2013, 19:23 pm
@S_K-135: Is is it?
16 Feb 2013, 19:30 pm
Only a week to go before the real rugby starts!! Can’t wait for the Bulls-Stormers game!
16 Feb 2013, 19:36 pm
are there any likely squad assesments being done yet for the Lions tour?
most likely starting 15′s for both teams and so on?
16 Feb 2013, 19:39 pm
is Ozzie rugby dead or alive or somewhere inbetween, like a zombie?
16 Feb 2013, 19:44 pm
I don’t think there is much interest from the Aussie public for the Lions tour.
16 Feb 2013, 19:49 pm
On the SARM poll there was no interest from the bloggers for the Aussie conference to be the toughest to win.No votes for them,ten for the Kiwis and 60 for the Saffa conference to be the toughest to win.Nobody gives a toss about Aussie rugby ….except a confused whitey from a jozie suburb .
16 Feb 2013, 19:52 pm
@S_K-141:
really? why ever would that be the case? i would have thought they were well supported the last time they played there.
also the travelling Lions fans usually take care of the crowd attendance factor.
16 Feb 2013, 19:57 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-139: Baas Jake writes in today’s Citizen: “…where every fixture is on the level of a trial match for the national team and I have no doubt every player is out there wanting to pull the national colours over his head”.
He was making particular reference to Aussie derbies.
16 Feb 2013, 20:06 pm
@S_K-142: Jozie? Is that Jozi’s sister?
Ask your classmates on Monday.
16 Feb 2013, 20:06 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-143: Naturally Lions fans will make sure that the games are not played in front of empty stadia. Popularly of rugby going down the tubes . Kangaroo races considerd more popular than rugby now.Seriously.Attendances absolutely putrid today for the first supers games.
16 Feb 2013, 20:08 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-145: touché!…and I really don’t know why you are.It’s not as if you are a real Brumbies supporter ?
16 Feb 2013, 20:18 pm
16 Feb 2013, 20:20 pm
Trans is that you
Leave little horse boy alone!
16 Feb 2013, 20:22 pm
@S_K-147: Go back to the start of this thread, READ CAREFULLY, and then come back to me.
Now run along, there’ a good boy.
16 Feb 2013, 20:22 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-144:
yes, i would think that’s the case. he has also complained about losing players to the wallabies too. he’s a mixed bag really and it will be interesting to see how the competition between him and mckenzie plays out.
@S_K-146:
ok
i didn’t watch todays games but the same can be said of some of our teams.
imo there’s not an appropriate level of marketing done for a competition which is supposedly the best and toughest of its kind in the world.
16 Feb 2013, 20:23 pm
Who the heck is Richard Ferguson
16 Feb 2013, 20:33 pm
@Dawn-152: Massey’s brother
16 Feb 2013, 20:33 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-151: True.Lions and Cheetahs fans the worst offenders .Bulls and sharks fans disappear when things go downhill for them.Stormers fans probably the only exception.The vibe from PE is that the fans will come out on huge numbers.
16 Feb 2013, 20:33 pm
@Dawn-149:
It’s your buddy wannabe.
16 Feb 2013, 20:33 pm
@S_K-154: in huge numbers
16 Feb 2013, 20:37 pm
@Dawn-152: Another Sharks supporter for you to hate .
16 Feb 2013, 20:41 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-157: howdy,Sharkslover .
16 Feb 2013, 20:46 pm
@S_K-154:
“The vibe from PE is that the fans will come out on huge numbers.”.. ? ..
ag nee man
you’re like a comic book villian who just loves to leave a calling card at the scene of his crimes…
hello again… naughty one…
16 Feb 2013, 20:53 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-159: Hehe.ok,I immediately corrected the mistake my bulls friend.Only a demented mind seeing a kiwi cheat behind every tree would comment on it.
16 Feb 2013, 20:55 pm
@S_K-160:
16 Feb 2013, 21:01 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-159:
Indeed.
He’s like a functionally illiterate version of the joker.
16 Feb 2013, 21:07 pm
@gunther-162:
16 Feb 2013, 21:08 pm
@gunther-162: Haha,you are a real joker!
16 Feb 2013, 21:37 pm
Beware:
S_K = Capo
16 Feb 2013, 22:31 pm
Just saw the standings. FOUR Aussie teams in the playoffs and each of them has more points than any SA/NZ team.
Holy muthafooking WOW!
16 Feb 2013, 22:53 pm
@skopdiekan-60: A good leader will allways make use of other people’s expertise, that is what make good coaches. If you build a longdrop for instance you got the diggers (muscle) and the coach (thats the guy under the shady tree in his bakkie) He makes the intricate mathemathical calculations) and then another guy who hammer the planks together. Walla a beautiful functional longdrop, you pooled your recources learned from each other and came together as a team. Nothing wrong with that.
16 Feb 2013, 22:57 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-143:
Yep he’s talking out his arse… ‘union members’ tickets for the mid-weekers sold out in seconds…. the rest go on sale tomorrow at 9am and will be gone in a minute for all the tests and mid-weekers…
16 Feb 2013, 23:10 pm
@bryce_in_oz-168:
Lions tours are always well supported. Thousands pitched up here in 2009 and exactly the same will happen this year downunder. There’ll be a sea of red in the stadium. You have to get your tickets early.
From a saffa point of view, I’ll be following that tour and the French tour of NZ more closely than what we have here. Which seems like leftovers.
16 Feb 2013, 23:29 pm
@bryce_in_oz-168:
yip, agreed.
Capo’s just being ‘Capo’.
16 Feb 2013, 23:29 pm
http://thetweethereafter.com/?page=1&s=death_desc
16 Feb 2013, 23:40 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-171:
Ouch!
@I am a stormer-169:
Why the French tour?
Yeah I love BIL tours… their fans are awesome… well behaved and in great spirits without fail despite getting blotto every day…
Stoked they’re playing in Melbourne this year…
17 Feb 2013, 00:19 am
yoh jakies team has spanked the over-fancied mackenzie something horrible.
yip he’s a good coach, they;ll probably win it this year even without zero name.
17 Feb 2013, 00:21 am
@bryce_in_oz-172:
The Lions Fans are brilliant and they love Oz
17 Feb 2013, 00:38 am
@polaris-166: Bladdy agents!
17 Feb 2013, 00:43 am
Lions fans will fill the stadiums as I said.Fact.Aussies will be attending rules,league and kangaroo races whilst the rugby stadiums will be 70 percent packed with lions fans.
17 Feb 2013, 00:50 am
@Te Rangatira-174: And so many of them want to claim residency & citizenship rights on the grounds of their forefathers settling “voluntarily” all those years ago…
17 Feb 2013, 01:57 am
@Te Rangatira-174:
Hehe yeah the last time they were here I was speaking to a bunch of guys and they said they had saved for four years… one third of their budget was accommodation/food./travel… and the other two booze!
That said they’ll follow the team anywhere…
17 Feb 2013, 02:03 am
@bryce_in_oz-123:
HOlyshit…. i have never seen so much love in a post.;
JW took rathbone out of the cluthches of despair and saved him……lol hell JW is no guidance counselor or therapist…….. he is a coach thats it. lol
17 Feb 2013, 02:05 am
@cab-173:
Whats the bet he will not win this year.
17 Feb 2013, 02:10 am
@Hurricane-179: you are becoming more and more like Poppa each day.
You might wanna check yourself before you wreck yourself.
17 Feb 2013, 02:15 am
@ShaunB-181:
Why would you say that?
It is a blog and every one can input what they like as i have. You really do not have to like it but if you agree that JW is all that and more so be it but i dont have too.
17 Feb 2013, 02:28 am
@ShaunB-181:
But the real point i was making is the Rathbone went through hell. And no doubt sometimes by himself. I have seen what depression can do too people, i have seen suicide cos i have depression ( Family) but i am not going to give thanks to JW for saving him. If any of you know anything about depression, it has a lot to do with the strength of the individual, so i think saying JW saved him is going as bit far….
17 Feb 2013, 02:29 am
Anyway thats me. Hats of to Clyde and i hope he has a remarkable year, great too see him back
17 Feb 2013, 02:30 am
@Hurricane-179:
Them’s the facts n’ermind the prose…
17 Feb 2013, 02:40 am
@bryce_in_oz-185:
Ok Bryce…. you are in OZ so you of all people should know.
17 Feb 2013, 02:59 am
@BrumbiesBoy-177:
Hi Brumbie…… the Aussies, tru blu ones, whose Ancestors were convicts take great pride in that fact, I myself have an Ancestor who was an Irish convict (cattle thief) taken to Australia and who made it over these ways.
@bryce_in_oz-178:
Yes Bryce, they’re a happy bunch who are there for a good time. They spend money and do it with a smile….
17 Feb 2013, 03:26 am
@Te Rangatira-187:
They drank Durban dry in 2009! Does anyone know the reason the Aussies started a week earlier?
17 Feb 2013, 05:04 am
@lightie-188:
Because of the Lions tour…
17 Feb 2013, 05:58 am
@Te Rangatira-187: Hi Rangi, very true what you say. Many years ago a relative was in London busy tracing the family tree but “closed the book” when they found that circa the 12th century one of mine was hanged for sheep stealing!
17 Feb 2013, 06:10 am
@lightie-188: It’s a long tour and they requested the extra time in order to be better prepared for the tour. NZ & SA will no doubt also be granted the extra time when they next host the Lions.
17 Feb 2013, 08:15 am
@David-117: The changes aren’t just limited to on
field coaches, with a new head strength
and conditioning coach in Dean Benton
joining the club. Benton has previously
worked with Jones in the Wallabies set
up and has also worked with the
Brisbane Broncos NRL club and comes
highly recommended.
Benton doesn’t just look after the gym
side of things and has helped the club
employ a chef that will look after the
players breakfast and lunch needs with
specially prepared meals. Bentons
association with the Australian Institute
of Sport, which is based in Canberra,
has helped come up with nutritional
meals and will go a long way to getting
the playing squad in the best shape
they can be for the rigors of Super
Rugby.
17 Feb 2013, 09:06 am
McKenzie is a better coach than White playing away with half a team no captain or vice captain/scrum half and a fly half who don’t know if he’s a boxer or a rugby player and getting done by the ref at the breakdown.
Brumbies were given a succession of penalties from losing at 5-6 to 17-6 up when by then the game was done. Reds were leaderless with stand in captain Slipper making some silly calls like going for out of range 3 points when trailing 11-6 which fell short.
Ref Pocock and Mogg’s two lucky tries plus long range out of hand kIcks were the difference. McKenzie is a better coach than White. Watch Rebels and Waratahs beat Brumbies to set the record straight. Reds are a disjointed team at present till they get their captain and world class scrum half back.
17 Feb 2013, 09:31 am
The other reason why McKenzie is a better coach to White is because he’s a real rugby coach who does most the hands on coaching himself not surrounding himself with a bevy of specialist lieutenants who do all the coaching while he sits up in his ivory tower cocoon talks twak
17 Feb 2013, 10:09 am
Yawwwwwwwn.
17 Feb 2013, 10:16 am
They’ve all got sub-coaches – Woodward had an entire entourage, they even had a gdam ***-cleaning specialist
The aim of the game is to win, that is what they are judged on and Mackenzie’s team got spanked by a bunch of no-namers and has-beens – imagine what white could do with the reds or nsw?
17 Feb 2013, 10:26 am
So much for white being taught a lesson – fkme u must feel like an idiot after all that talk-up yesterday. And white just keeps on winning.
Who u gonna blame now, the ref, the fkn weerligstrale of hoe?
17 Feb 2013, 10:35 am
@cab-196: I would hardly say no-namers… Brumbies were sure winners for me.
But agree with you, White has done wonders for them. This coming from someone who never rated him.
17 Feb 2013, 10:36 am
@Bagel-198: Moore, Alexander, Speight, Mogg, and Pocock are all Wallabie contenders. Then add McCabe when he gets back.
17 Feb 2013, 10:38 am
I wonder if it’s also safe to **** in a Datsun 1400 bakkie…
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17 Feb 2013, 10:42 am
Bagel,
Moore and pocock that’s it who is decent – compare to reds
17 Feb 2013, 10:48 am
It seems Francois Hougaards name is linked to the sms that was sent late night to the Reeva girl that was killed, according to News 24 Reeva is an ex of Hougaard.
17 Feb 2013, 10:49 am
@cab-201: That Reds team was average dude. Slipper is good, but Alexander is better (according to Deans). I guess its subjective whether you rate the other players I mentioned.
The Reds had Ione and Cooper for that game and a good goal kicker in Harris.
Speight scored loads of tries last year, McCabe is a better centre than Harris and Cooper looked a bit lost without his Will.
That’s it for me… Horwill and Genia will improve them significantly but without HIggenbotham their backrow is particularly average as was shown..
17 Feb 2013, 10:53 am
@BrumbiesBoy-200: Tsk, sorry, tech problems opening it, it seems.
Anyway, for all you aviation lovers out there, a group of medical scientists reckon that f.rting in mid-flight is OK, but warn cockpit crews that it could also distract the pilot and pose a safety risk.
Oh, and also that womens’ f a r t s smell worse than mens…
17 Feb 2013, 11:06 am
@BrumbiesBoy-204:
Is Grant’s dad your 1st cousin?
17 Feb 2013, 11:08 am
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-202: Hmmm… Yes, there is a connection between my work bosses and a guy who went out with the deceased for four years. The relationship ended early last year “because of something to do with a Springbok rugby player…”
17 Feb 2013, 11:14 am
@cane-205: Yes, David is my late mom’s brother’s son and is married to Di.
17 Feb 2013, 11:17 am
@Te Rangatira-187:
Te Rustler.
17 Feb 2013, 11:22 am
@BrumbiesBoy-207:
He is then,
currently holidaying in Hamilton,
and managed to get himself on National Television sitting in the stand at the NZ/Eng ODI.
17 Feb 2013, 11:31 am
I see on the Current Keo Poll.
Who will win the SA Conference?
The Kings are on 9%.
I assume this is because Transie has voted 85 times
17 Feb 2013, 11:59 am
@cane-210:
Kia ora my brother
17 Feb 2013, 12:10 pm
robbiep you biscuit!
17 Feb 2013, 12:11 pm
@Transformation-212:
Doing great.
Nice spin on that bowled wicket.
17 Feb 2013, 12:11 pm
@cane-210:
@ ” I assume this is because Transie has voted
85 times”
big vern you boytjie!!!!!
17 Feb 2013, 12:12 pm
Great stuff Vern
Boys are fighting back magnificently.
Our game for the taking this, we need to keep them under a lead of 200
17 Feb 2013, 12:14 pm
C’mon Vern, get the hat trick
17 Feb 2013, 12:14 pm
big Vern……on FIRE…
17 Feb 2013, 12:18 pm
@skopdiekan-194:
Skop, check this out. Now who’s the head coach of the Reds? Not Ewen McKenzie.
Director of Coaching: Ewen McKenzie
Head Coach: Richard Graham
Senior Assistant Coach: Jim McKay
Scrum Coach: Tony D’Arcy
Reds College Coach/Performance Analyst: Peter Wilkins
Assistant Analyst: Michael Todd
Performance
Head Performance Coach: Damian Marsh
Senior Rehabilitation Performance Coach: Oliver Richardson
Assistant Performance Coach: Matthew Lieschke
Sports Performance Dietitian Consultant: Gary Slater
17 Feb 2013, 12:22 pm
@I am a stormer-218: yesterday was richard graham’s first game in charge after leaving the Force controversially last year.
17 Feb 2013, 12:25 pm
@bryce_in_oz-172:
yip.
17 Feb 2013, 12:27 pm
@Transformation-219:
That’s correct. And he didn’t even see out the season with the Force. That made him go immediately.
But skop maintains that McKenzie has a hands on approach while Jake surrounds himself with assistants. There are a number of helpers there that McKenzie can call on.
17 Feb 2013, 12:30 pm
@I am a stormer-221:
Don’t let the truth and facts stand in the way of a good argument.
17 Feb 2013, 12:31 pm
sjoe!
5 wickets taken
17 Feb 2013, 12:35 pm
@I am a stormer-218:
serious question though, to what extent is mckenzie ‘hands on’ as far as coaching and game day is concerned?
is he more like Mallet at WP and genuinely a DOR suit or is it more like a football manager role?
17 Feb 2013, 12:40 pm
@nortierd-222:
He won’t let his bias against Jake get in the way.
Anyway, great fight back by the Proteas. Only dilemma Smith has is that the new ball is due in about 11 overs time. Now who do you give those 11 overs to – Steyn and Philander? I’d be tempted to give RobbieP and Kallis 2 or 3 overs each after lunch and then let Dale and Vern finish it off.
17 Feb 2013, 12:41 pm
I wonder when Hondo will come tell us how lucky Big Vern is??
17 Feb 2013, 12:42 pm
@I am a stormer-225:
Sounds about right.
Vern is his usual self, Newlands is his pitch.
Even without Morkel they should wrap it up before the new ball
17 Feb 2013, 12:43 pm
Well done to preoteas on an excellent fight back,
17 Feb 2013, 12:44 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-224:
You’re asking the wrong person that question. That is why I’m asking skop. Skop believes JW employs consultants/assistants while McKensie does everything himself.
Surely you remember the Force let Richard Graham go immediately to the Reds when they found out he was going to resign at the end of last season.
17 Feb 2013, 12:47 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-226:
While RobbieP is also contender for man of the match.
17 Feb 2013, 12:50 pm
@I am a stormer-229:
ok.
ja, i am interested to know too. obviously Skop’s stretching things a bit when he says that but i would venture the truth is somewhere inbetween in that Mckenzie’s probably less of a suit and a lot more involved than the role/position suggests.
i think its like Frans and Heyneke were, Frans was the coach but Heyneke gave him a lot of input.
17 Feb 2013, 12:50 pm
@I am a stormer-230:
If we win the test, he would also be my choice.
Very big impact on the game
17 Feb 2013, 12:52 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-226:
ja, but he’ll say its because Vern’s bowling against ****’s
17 Feb 2013, 12:53 pm
They are finding some pretty horrible stuff at Oscar’s, clearly he wasn’t the blue eyed boy everybody thought he was.
17 Feb 2013, 12:54 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-233:
@I am a stormer-230: For sure.
17 Feb 2013, 12:56 pm
ja, i was about to say there’s stories of a bloody cricket bat and a crushed skull.
Oscar’s really farked up pretty badly.
and a poor girl is dead.
its all a tragic shame.
17 Feb 2013, 12:56 pm
@NZINCHINA-234: And you cannot wait to start a slinging match about this even though a person has lost her life???
You forget that everything is mere speculation and rumours till the truth comes out?
17 Feb 2013, 12:57 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-236: Bakkies, all just rumours, there are so many different stoties already.
17 Feb 2013, 12:58 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-236: Bakkies you know you KIwi mates will use this tradgedy to counter all your future arguements
17 Feb 2013, 13:01 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-231:
Probably. No-one can go from hands-on one season to hands-off the following season.
Good managers, because that is what McKensie is, has got to take a step back and give the new guy Richard Graham free reign and massive support. That is the art of delegation.
17 Feb 2013, 13:01 pm
I won’t be doing anything of the sort, it was a front page story in the Sydney Morning Herald which I just read. Bakkies has a screw loose he’s not worth contering.
17 Feb 2013, 13:06 pm
@NZINCHINA-234:
Lot of rumours going around. But you’re right – every new bit of evidence that makes it way into the public domain, is a another nail in oscar’s coffin. Unfortunately, when things like this happen your past catches up with you at the speed of light.
Let’s just wait for the legal proceedings to commence.
17 Feb 2013, 13:09 pm
@NZINCHINA-241:
He is in huge trouble, that’s for sure.
As for the other stories coming out, I would venture that 80% is nonsense.
Once just about every newspaper in the world is doing the same story, they stoop very low to get “something” new out there.
17 Feb 2013, 13:09 pm
So finaly the Super rugby season is under way, and we start this coming weekend. Going to be a long hard season.
17 Feb 2013, 13:14 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-238:
i hope it is the case.
terrible tragedy really.
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-239:
that’s how they roll, Sharky… that’s how they roll..
17 Feb 2013, 13:16 pm
@I am a stormer-240:
agreed.
@NZINCHINA-241:
haha
how funny then you do exactly that, ALL THE TIME…
you need to build a bridge, China
and meet me under it.
17 Feb 2013, 13:22 pm
Irfan ********’s bat looks like a toothpick in his hands.
17 Feb 2013, 13:23 pm
@I am a stormer-247:
M o h a m m e d is banned.
Tell me you’re kidding?
17 Feb 2013, 13:25 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-246:
Under the bridge – you’re also a big Chili Peppers fan I take it?
17 Feb 2013, 13:30 pm
Bakkies I thought you’d never ask.
17 Feb 2013, 13:31 pm
if i was hougie i would distance myself from this…
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/reeva-steenkamp-close-friendship-pistorius-1714096
17 Feb 2013, 13:35 pm
Advantage Proteas!
17 Feb 2013, 13:36 pm
153. John Galt said:
15 Feb 2013, 16:18 pm
Could agree with you more.
You have a look in the dictionary under
‘Bang Average Cricketer’, there is a picture
of Robbie P there.
With his hands in the air.
Looking like he almost got a wicket.
eish
17 Feb 2013, 13:38 pm
@I am a stormer-249:
its hard to say what drove me down there
17 Feb 2013, 13:44 pm
@NZINCHINA-250:
typical of you Kiwis
***** around first
ask questions later
17 Feb 2013, 13:45 pm
@Transformation-251:
It was always going to be a crime of passion.
17 Feb 2013, 13:53 pm
Messy article Tranny he’s gone.
17 Feb 2013, 13:53 pm
@bryce_in_oz-123:
You are right, it’s 24-14 now
The numbers must have been revised from when I watched it after the match, it’s not the kind of error I do usually, I make a leaving from interpreting numbers
In any case the stat imply a no dominance by either team but result was a runaway for the Brumbies, how come
17 Feb 2013, 13:54 pm
Lol, wild celebrations at Robin Petersen claiming 3 wickets
What an epic feat.
17 Feb 2013, 13:58 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-133:
Was a mess no doubt, I couldn’t figure it out why the Reds were penalised at the rucks while the Brumbies weren’t for seemingly same ‘foragings’ of the ball (Pocock)
17 Feb 2013, 13:59 pm
Hondo which refs are on the take this season?
17 Feb 2013, 14:00 pm
@Hondo-258:
“I make a leaving from interpreting numbers”
I would leave that industry soonest and make a living elsewhere.
17 Feb 2013, 14:14 pm
Wasn’t a runaway for Brumbies they got one lucky try when Mogg ran round Ione to score an opportunist try in the corner then it turned at 5-6 to Reds at halftime. Then ref proceeded to blow Reds out the game giving Brumby about 6 Penalties in range which they converted 4 to go 17 – 6 up which is only when Cooper decided to break out his shell and try contest the gain lIne whIch Is when he tried a hail Mary skip pass for Mogg to pick off for his second lucky packet try
17 Feb 2013, 14:15 pm
@I am a stormer-262: hondo claims a whole lot of things without proof. he makes a “leaving” (sic) from placing bets….
17 Feb 2013, 14:19 pm
@NZINCHINA-261:
They aren’t on the ‘take’, that’s where you are wrong
Nor was Bryce Lawrence, they all have their orders from SARU or else face the music,,,,
And these orders might have initiated at levels above SARU, that’s why scrapping the concept of neutral referees played into the hand of the SA conference
(Exclude Kaplan and Mark Lawrence)
17 Feb 2013, 14:22 pm
@ShaunB-259: And why, ShaunB, are you as, presumably, a South African, dismissive of RobbieP’s feat?
5 wickets in a Test is statistically an above average performance, & that from a bowler that is generally regarded as only average. With his performance graph on the rise does that not make you happy? If not, why not?
And add to his above average bowling performance his Proteas first innings top score (outperforming several world class batsmen in the process), he has thus far been one of the outstanding players in this Test.
Well done RobbieP
17 Feb 2013, 14:23 pm
Yes it’s all the ref’s fault. The Brumbies didn’t actually win it…it was all a conspiracy….huge government cover-up.
17 Feb 2013, 14:25 pm
@I am a stormer-262:
Why, I am doing rather well
Numbers can be revised, it happened all the time, everywhere
Like Aplon’s height and weight for instance
Or JdJ’s tackles per game
17 Feb 2013, 14:28 pm
Brumbies beat Reds same way Australia beat S.A. at WC and NZ beat France at WC. Pocock and co. slowing Reds ball down and getting all the favors and penalties from ref who was obviously in Jake’s back pocket. You know how rugby works it’s run by refs who get kick backs for keeping the home sides fortunes on the bright side.
17 Feb 2013, 14:29 pm
Don’t be a chop.
It is plain for all to see that SA is a world beating side lacking only in a world class spinner.
Well done to Petersen getting 3 wickets in an innings.
But would we be congratulating Warne, Murali, Kumble, Singh, and even “better than average” spinners like Swann for getting 3 wickets?
Just what are you trying to insinuate Angrystura?
17 Feb 2013, 14:29 pm
@Hondo-268:
hahaha………just leave it.
17 Feb 2013, 14:29 pm
@Predawn-267:
It’s a SA plot to have Jake outwit, out coach and outshine his Australian counterparts so when Deans get shafted Jake can become Aus coach.
This is where the plot thickens, Jake will then proceed to coach the Wallabies in such a way that the Boks can beat them, thus ending second on the Championship log behind the All Blacks.
This is a very well planned conspiracy and worthy of a James Bond movie in the future with Jake being the villian. Movie to be written and produced by an unknown director living somewhere in the Western Cape who was last seen on scout location in the Westdene area of Johannesburg.
17 Feb 2013, 14:31 pm
@ShaunB-270:
Did you think Steyn deserves a congratulations for his 3 wickets?
No comments that he only managed 3 wickets and not even close to 80 plus runs.
17 Feb 2013, 14:32 pm
Oh so the SARU calls the shots now, I thought Paddy was the man
17 Feb 2013, 14:37 pm
@nortierd-273: keep it to bowling please (or else I could remind you of Steyn’s highest test batting score).
We’re talking bowling.
That is why they are in the team.
Steyn regularly takes 5 wicket hauls. Even 10 wicket hauls.
Petersen not so much….
The only reason we are chuffed with Petersen is because his performance this test was above average for him. As we have said, well done.
But it is still rather average compared to other world beating test team spinners.
If you are happy settling for mediocrity then good for you. Petersen is not the long term solution.
17 Feb 2013, 14:38 pm
I’m feeling alot better about the loss to the Poms now, somebody at SARU or higher gave orders for that to happen, I knew something was fishy.
17 Feb 2013, 14:38 pm
@ShaunB-270: No, bru
If henceforth Peterson on average takes 5 wickets per Test, he’ll be the answer to our spin bowling prayers & go a long way to transforming the Proteas into a world class team comparable with the all time greats.
The fact that you don’t recognise that makes you the chop …
17 Feb 2013, 14:41 pm
Brumbies play boring kak stampkar rugby same as Jake’s lousy Springbok team used to play just before Eddie Jones tweaked their loose strings. Nothing like the flair that Brumbies used to play under Gregan and Larkham and Matt Giteau in their heyday years. Someone got to fix the grey area’s at the breakdown officiating because each and every ref blows these so called laws in his own inimitable initiative and game altering influence.
17 Feb 2013, 14:46 pm
@ShaunB-275:
We are talking about this particular match, and if you are not willing to concede that Robbie has has the biggest impact so far, then it’s your choice,
His knock, coupled with the wickets he could could be the difference between a win or a loss.
SA has NEVER had a world class spinner in the Warne or Muralist class and I doubt we will have one soon.
Don’t think anyone is claiming Robbie will be the answer to God’s gift of spinning, but he is doing the business and it’s good to see.
17 Feb 2013, 14:49 pm
@skopdiekan-278:
Maybe that’s because they don’t have the Gregan’s, Larkham’s or Gitteau’s playing anymore.
You play with what you have.
The Red’s, with your Hero in charge, thinks they are still the team that won the competition 2 years ago, and still try to play like they are on top of the world, hence they got their @rse handed to them on a plate by a team playing the more astute brand of rugby.
17 Feb 2013, 14:51 pm
@Angostura-277: “If henceforth Peterson on average takes 5 wickets per Test”
Dream land.
17 Feb 2013, 15:05 pm
McKenzie is under no illusion that he’s playing with only half a deck of cards currently. He’s lost Higginbotham and got no real open side either that little blonde open side from last year also not there. So just like last year when they lost lot of their frontline players to injury they got to go to battle half done. Horwill and Genia are crucial just like Pocock and Mowen are to Brumbies. Reds were leaderless under Slipper who made some poor decisions when he should have been busting for tries and opted for long range iffy penalties instead. Horwill and or Genia wouldn’t make such mistakes.
Jake is nowhere near McKenzie’s league only some JW arselickers don’t realize this yet.
17 Feb 2013, 15:09 pm
@nortierd-280: Good post there, Nortier, although I believe Giteau is overrated.
Saw him make lots of questionabe decisions imo, and together with his often below-par goalkicking cost us so badly in the past.
17 Feb 2013, 15:10 pm
@skopdiekan-282:
Ewen James Andrew McKenzie is a former Australian Rugby Union prop and now professional coach, currently with the Queensland Reds who won the 2011 Premiership. Before taking his current coaching role he coached the NSW Waratahs, reaching the final of the Super 14 and the French side Stade Français. He was born 21 June 1965 in Melbourne, and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne and the University of New South Wales.[1]
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Jake White (born 19 March 1963 as Jacob Westerduin[1]) is a rugby union coach and former coach of the South Africa national rugby union team, the Springboks. His most notable achievements as coach include leading the Springboks to victory in 2007 Rugby World Cup and the 2004 Tri Nations title. White also coached the U-21 Springbok side to victory in the U-21 Rugby Union World Cup in 2002. He is the current Head Coach of the Brumbies in Super Rugby.
On 24 October 2011, he was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame, alongside other World Cup-winning head coaches and captains through the 2007 World Cup.[2]
Looking at what Wikipedia says, you are right, they are not in the same class, White is streets ahead of McKenzie
17 Feb 2013, 15:11 pm
@ShaunB-281: No, that’s not my expectation, I used that analogy to prove the point that Peterson’s bowling performance in THIS Test (5 wickets) was worthy of high praise, and not the derision coming from you.
Since you dropped in here you’ve shown yourself to be either an ignoramus or a troll … or a person with an even more sinister agenda.
But taking only the spinners YOU mentioned, their career wickets per Test rate is as follows:
Harbhajan Singh – 4.12
Graeme Swann – 4.24
Anil Kumble – 4.69
Shane Warne – 4.88
Muttiah Muralitharan – 6.02
Murali & Warne are the greatest spin bowlers the world has known.
So I tell you that RobbieP’s performance of 5 wickets in this Test is worthy of very high praise.
Now run along like a good boy …
17 Feb 2013, 15:15 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-283:
Not since Rod McQueen started the Brumbies have they had someone who will plan for their future like Jake will.
He will put the structures back in place that was lacking when the big name players ran the show with success, but success due to their brilliance more than coaching.
17 Feb 2013, 15:18 pm
Far too often for my liking, our top SA sports people are praised in other countries but derided with glorious satisfaction in our own country.
It is time for all of us to be proud of what we have on our own door step.
@nortierd-284:
Good on you.
@Angostura-285:
Good on you.
17 Feb 2013, 15:18 pm
White don’t have the intelligence or intellectual rugby nous that McKenzie got even if he did catch a lucky fluke WC trophy when his mentor and bail out pal coached his team to a non contest WC penalty shoot out final. McKenzie is light years ahead and White is just a side kick jockey who rides on other coaches expertise.
17 Feb 2013, 15:19 pm
@Angrystura-285: you are proving to be quite a sensitive chappy. Telling me to run along, lol, typical reaction of a defeated person.
“Since you dropped in here you’ve shown yourself to be either an ignoramus or a troll … or a person with an even more sinister agenda.”
Again, another reaction typical of someone defeated in an argument
I will however just pick you up on one error.
“(5 wickets) was worthy of high praise, and not the derision coming from you.”
If you hadn’t overreacted completely to my posts you would have seen my posts 270 and 275 actually praised Petersen for his bowling in this match.
As I said bro, you seem a little “jumpy”, perhaps you should relax a bit more
17 Feb 2013, 15:23 pm
@skopdiekan-288:
Yes Skop, White rode on our finest coach ever expertise.
Man when he took over from Straulli we were on top of the world weren’t we?
Straulli didn’t make us the laughing stock of world rugby.
Straulli didn’t make us the embarrassing mess we were known as.
Lucky Jake, taking over at such an easy time and then having the cheek to win the World Cup that promised 8 years before.
17 Feb 2013, 15:23 pm
The Brumbies heyday years were before Giteau when Gregan Markham Mortlock Roff ran in the backline. Giteau not in the same class as that vintage.
17 Feb 2013, 15:23 pm
@skopdiekan-288:
Yes Skop, White rode on our finest coach ever expertise.
Man when he took over from Straulli we were on top of the world weren’t we?
Straulli didn’t make us the laughing stock of world rugby.
Straulli didn’t make us the embarrassing mess we were known as.
Lucky Jake, taking over at such an easy time and then having the cheek to win the World Cup that Straulli promised us 8 years before.
17 Feb 2013, 15:31 pm
White is light years ahead of your backward *** – he’s forgotten more about rugby than you’ve ever known – stop talking kak and blaming the ref whenever white wins .
17 Feb 2013, 15:34 pm
Giteau was pure class – there’ve been few better game breakers in the pro era – he’s cocky and a bit of a baby but that felka was pure rugby intelligence in making things happen.
17 Feb 2013, 15:41 pm
Anyone could have taken Streaulis fckup with the players that Kiss at Lions Louden under Meyer at Bulls and Campese and Muir developed at Sharks with couple Stormers like Paulse Barry and de Villiers and Barry’s centre partner in the backline and make a success of it. Yet Jake took all this talent handed him on a plate and lost 49-0. Plus he lost 7 from 10 vs Nz plus he won 1 from 4 vs France plus he never beat Ireland in Ireland and lost 2 from 3 vs England away.
The only thing Jake ever did right as a Springbok coach was hire someone with far better rugby ingenuity than him to coach his team through the world cup which is what is giving all you JW arselickers the fake impression that Jake’s this grandiose accomplished rugby coach when if you look at his pathetic record prior to the Eddie Jones marriage of convenience he most certainly wasn’t or isn’t.
17 Feb 2013, 15:51 pm
I’m not making a good leaving at the moment
17 Feb 2013, 15:52 pm
@ShaunB-289: nope, your posts 270 & 275 were only forthcoming after nortierd & I challenged you about your post 259; & besides they were mere partial qualifications of your earlier derision of Robbie’s praiseworthy performance.
17 Feb 2013, 15:53 pm
Brumbies played at home. Brumbies under this heart and soul renaissance that they so desperately in dire need of. The whole Clyde Rathbone reawakening revival
Fairytale song and dance with a ref that gives Brumbies about 8 shots at goal in kicking range while Reds get nada in comparison and get blown off their own go forward ball. While Reds playing with a depleted team lost their captain and vice captain and international no.6 flank and scrum half. Any betting syndicate would back the home side under such conditions.
17 Feb 2013, 15:55 pm
In spite of this McKenzie is still thousands of light years a more wily rugby coach than palooka White could ever dream to equal or emulate.
17 Feb 2013, 16:00 pm
Giteau never scaled the heights of Larkham who McQueen discovered at full back and turned him into a devastating game breaking fly half. Giteau had talent but too much of a petulant spoiler and not anywhere near Larkhams class.
17 Feb 2013, 16:16 pm
@Angrystura-297: you’re determined to tilt at windmills, aren’t you?
I particularly enjoyed your reference to my presence being possibly “sinister”. What do you think I’m here to do?
17 Feb 2013, 16:17 pm
Lot’s of no balls now and one Pakistani batsman even stood and watched the ball on to the stumps…..
Hmmm.
17 Feb 2013, 16:18 pm
6 wickets for next to nothing too….
17 Feb 2013, 16:29 pm
There be trolls!
17 Feb 2013, 16:31 pm
@I am a stormer-304: where?
So which Super rugby team do you support?
17 Feb 2013, 17:07 pm
personally, i think Mckenzie will be the next Oz coach.
17 Feb 2013, 17:36 pm
How wonderful it would be if RobbieP scores the winning runs.
17 Feb 2013, 17:40 pm
well played proteas…
must say at several stages thought this match would be a draw…
well played by the guys..
MoM = Ajmal…
17 Feb 2013, 17:42 pm
RobbieP also had an excellent game…
17 Feb 2013, 17:43 pm
@I am a stormer-307: looks like it wasn’t to be…..
Well done SA.
17 Feb 2013, 17:46 pm
iStanis a good bunch of guys too… games been played in excellent spirit…
17 Feb 2013, 18:04 pm
Mooi RobbieP. Well deserved!
17 Feb 2013, 18:04 pm
well done robbiep…
fully deserved MoM…!!
17 Feb 2013, 18:10 pm
Cobras took a pasting from the Lions by 10 wickets the T20. de Kock scored 126 n.o.
17 Feb 2013, 18:12 pm
wow david… did you go…?
well done quinton..!
17 Feb 2013, 18:16 pm
@ufo-315:
No, I didn’t go. Just picked it up on Cricinfo.
17 Feb 2013, 18:17 pm
oh okay thanks… well done lions…!
17 Feb 2013, 18:17 pm
@ufo-315:
126 off 69 balls. Not bad, huh?
17 Feb 2013, 18:22 pm
sheesh David…!!!
not too shabby…!
he’s a keeper…
(as in long-term fixture in the proteas…)
17 Feb 2013, 18:35 pm
@ufo-319:
He’s still got work to do as a keeper at Test level, but he’s a candidate just for his batting.
17 Feb 2013, 18:35 pm
R.Peterson really surprised me in this test match.Interesting that both captains acknowledged his contribution with the bat as vital.
17 Feb 2013, 18:41 pm
indeed david… but what is he… 19 / 20…?
plenty time…
17 Feb 2013, 18:42 pm
‘A looser is not the person that gets involved and comes last, but a person that does’t get involved in the first place. It’s a mentality we have always had. When you start something, you do it properly’.
17 Feb 2013, 18:44 pm
quinton could be our gilchrist…
17 Feb 2013, 18:44 pm
@Dawn-296: Hello my girl.Hope you are well.Have a good week.
17 Feb 2013, 18:45 pm
@ufo-324: Hi pal.Keep well
17 Feb 2013, 18:47 pm
A tedious argument (NOT BANTER) going on here
17 Feb 2013, 18:48 pm
hey rye…
good to hear from you… how you doing bud…?
how’s your back and have you moved yet…?
17 Feb 2013, 19:00 pm
@ufo-328: Moving beginning May.
Back not great but have decided to be stoical about it.Surgery out of ther question,.Am trying to retain sense of humour.BTW After all of
the ****** jokes,lets hear it for Oscar,s parents
17 Feb 2013, 19:00 pm
ther = the
17 Feb 2013, 19:00 pm
@Angostura-266: he used to blog on here under a different nick.nothing but a coward but he is warning everyone on every thread to be aware of Capo.
. why is he afraid to blog under his previous nick ? maybe his one of those racists trying to turn over a new leaf,but the coloured okes in the proteas team makes it difficult for him.. 
17 Feb 2013, 19:05 pm
@ryecatcher-329: I am a stormer and Gunther two of the biggest culprits with the Oscar jokes.very disappointed in them.
17 Feb 2013, 19:11 pm
@Angostura-266: Hi Pal.Don,t get
sucked into this kuk.Regards
17 Feb 2013, 19:16 pm
@David-320:
I’m sure they’ll ease him through the 20/20 and one day ranks first. When JK retires in a couple of years he should be ready moving AB to 4.
@S_K-332:
Why don’t you blog under your previous name my little leprechaun?
17 Feb 2013, 19:19 pm
@S_K-331: yes, S_K, it was immediately clear that he has an agenda – just a troublemaker, best to ignore him
17 Feb 2013, 19:20 pm
sorry the ops out of the question… being stoical is a good approach my friend… as I always say attitude is a choice… we can choose be negative about the obstacles we all face in life… or choose to be positive about them no matter how hard and look for the good in all situations… and it’s amazing how often that when we look for the positive and good… we find it…
my thoughts ate with you pal…
yeah oscar’s dad and sister and brother deserve our thoughts and empathy too… ( his mom I think died when he was a teenager)
as do the family and friends of reeva…
this tragedy affects many innocent good and undeserving people…
but as objective and nonjudgmental as i try to be… its not looking good for oscar himself…
17 Feb 2013, 19:21 pm
@S_K-332:
You’re such a tittle tattle little poodle warrior.
17 Feb 2013, 19:22 pm
sorry 336 for rye…
17 Feb 2013, 19:23 pm
@ryecatcher-333: Hi Rye, Thx, I’ll take care
Good to see you around
Get well soon
17 Feb 2013, 19:24 pm
@S_K-332: Haven,t read anything
by Gunther.Usually my favourite poster here.Makes an old man laugh.
I,m sure if he thought about OP,s parents he would not have joked .Quite a dece nt guy.
17 Feb 2013, 19:31 pm
yeah gunther… sounds like a good strategy to bring him through to top level cricket…
17 Feb 2013, 19:46 pm
@Transformation-251:
> if i was hougie i would distance myself from this…
The little pric.k has never managed to keep it in his pants
First smelly old Fish and now his disabled friend’s girl
Now he disrupts the teams because he’s a jags little c**t
We should rather have recruited a guy who just wanted to play rugby
Like Reinach, who’ll soon take the Bok no 9 jersey from him
17 Feb 2013, 19:49 pm
@I am a stormer-337:
17 Feb 2013, 19:50 pm
@ryecatcher-340: well your frien disappointed you.
.
17 Feb 2013, 19:51 pm
@S_K-344: friend
17 Feb 2013, 20:18 pm
@I am a stormer-337:
17 Feb 2013, 20:19 pm
@S_K-344: Read my post(Carefully)
Said I hadn,t read anything
Said he was my favourite poster
Said that if he thought his jokes through he would not have made them
Said he was a decent person.
Maintain this.Yes if he had made jokes would be disappointed.
Yes,still happy to have him as a cyber frien.d
No,not prepared to have a strerile debate on this issue.
Sleep well
17 Feb 2013, 20:20 pm
strerile=sterile
17 Feb 2013, 20:32 pm
@ryecatcher-347:
Howzit.
Don’t let Capo get under your skin.
Any interaction with him is best kept sterile.
17 Feb 2013, 20:39 pm
Rye am in tears! They stole my father’s car on Thursday while he was collecting mom’s meds at clinic! He is traumatised. Picked him up at Diep River police station.
Who does this? Who steals an 82 year old pensioner’s car!!!
Ufo some words for me please!
17 Feb 2013, 20:51 pm
Well done Greame Smith and his men. GS now the captain with the most victories behind his name.
Also, congratulations to Robbie :Air Punch” Peterson for winning MoM. His knock in the 1st innings was what win it for us.
Well done boet and also welcome to the Cobras.
17 Feb 2013, 20:51 pm
@Dawn-350: Thoughtless rats do.
17 Feb 2013, 21:13 pm
@Dawn-350: Dawn.I,m so so sorry.
I have had an emotional attachment to your folks since you spoke about
the awful time they had when you took them to hospital.
Nothing anybody can say will make you feel better.But know that they have
the support of 100% of the people on this site.Good night my girl.Letting them know that you love them is the best thing you can do.
17 Feb 2013, 21:23 pm
Thanks Rye
17 Feb 2013, 21:24 pm
Sorry Dawn. The world is a work of traumatic experience it begins in trauma and ends in trauma it’s creations idea of all soul sojourn from purity through distress and back to harmony. Life is a fickle routine of activity whereby we seek solace in tranquility yet life is the avenue we traverse seeking to evade pain and to cling to pleasure though nature’s decree is neither are permanent and attachment to either will be short lived.
Such is the gauntlet of life
between birth and death
17 Feb 2013, 21:25 pm
sheesh dawn…
that is sad and disheartening news… sincerely sorry to hear…
according to the rhyme… words can never harm us… but they can encourage and warm us… in this crazy country of ours we have to look to small mercies for hope and strength… the positive of such an snnoying event is to be happy and thankful that your dad is okay and unharmed…
and you personally have a lot of friends on keo who will feel your loss and anger and frustration and problems shared are are problems diminished…
if your folks need help to get somewhere let me know and I will try and help out…
17 Feb 2013, 21:26 pm
@Dawn-350: And telling them that other
people love them is not a bad idea.
17 Feb 2013, 21:36 pm
Thanks all!
He just looked so lost and suddenly so frail.
Standing there with her meds and the car is gone. And it was a little Ford Laser and they loved it.
17 Feb 2013, 21:44 pm
@Dawn-350:
Sorry to hear that, Dawn.
As someone who went through a similar experience (my vehicle was also stolen in Cape Town while on holiday), I know exactly how it feels.
Hope your folks are doing better now than Thursday.
sterkte vir julle almal.
17 Feb 2013, 21:51 pm
Thanks Nama
17 Feb 2013, 21:53 pm
Am over and out! Traffic dept tomorrow
17 Feb 2013, 21:54 pm
Sorry about hearing that Dawn.
Someone also stole Karen’s car end December, and similar to your fathers case, it’s not the monetary value of the vehicle, it’s the freedom that is taken away.
The saddest part is to these criminals they won’t even stop to think for one second that the car they are stealing is all that stands between someone getting their kids to school and then to work, or as in your case, to get medicine or someone to the hospital or clinic in an hour of need.
I sincerely hope your family copes and things turn for the better.
17 Feb 2013, 21:55 pm
Thanks Nortie
I’ll be there for them whatever happens!
17 Feb 2013, 22:04 pm
@Dawn-363:
Shocking.
Mail me if you need some help.
17 Feb 2013, 22:08 pm
@Dawn-361:
Few rules which stood for me, family and friends over last 30 years
Rule 1: always have a good Crook Bar installed
Rule 2: Have a gear lock installed, the one with the 14mm U-Bolt
Rule 3: Make the insurance company install the alarm, never use auto electricians to do it
Rule 4: Always use the Paid Parking lots
The odds will swing into your favour, each rule by itself doesn’t ensure immune to theft but the combination is awesome.
17 Feb 2013, 22:09 pm
@Dawn-363:
sorry to hear about this, Dawn.
hope things work out for your folks.
17 Feb 2013, 22:19 pm
@Hondo-365:
I had all the precautions you’ve mentioned but I had a brake and clutch safe like this as well
http://www.magnumsafes.co.za/CUSTOM%20SAFES.html
You hook it behind the clutch and brake pedal and then locked the safe door
You can lock your valuables in it as well
They never even tried to steal my bakkie
17 Feb 2013, 22:23 pm
@nortierd-362:
Hallo Nortie, speel jy die Rugby Fantasy League?
Ek het geregistreer maar ek kan nie ‘n span kies nie, op die screen waar al die posisies op die groen veld is bly hulle grys as ek op hulle kliek en gee my nie verdere opsies nie
Weet jy hou dit werk?
17 Feb 2013, 22:27 pm
@Dawn-350: 82-year-olds shouldn’t be driving cars. at that age they become a danger to other road users.
17 Feb 2013, 22:29 pm
Thanks everyone for hints and tips!
Am on lookout for reasonably priced replacement, if anyone knows of anything!
17 Feb 2013, 22:31 pm
He is a good driver and I won’t let this become a personal slander against my dad.
17 Feb 2013, 22:32 pm
These things happen in crime-ridden SA .Deal with your problems and move on.
17 Feb 2013, 22:33 pm
@victoriabok-368:
Het dit een keer gespeel, maar kon picks maak.
Snaaks dat jy sukkel met dit, maak nie sin dat as mens geregistreer is mens nie picks kan maak.
17 Feb 2013, 22:34 pm
S_K@369
what a prejudiced and insensitive generalisation…
dawn… ignore the little man…
as said earlier… if you need a hand just shout…
17 Feb 2013, 22:35 pm
@S_K-372:
Man you suck.
If you have nothing good to say, then rather keep quiet.
17 Feb 2013, 22:39 pm
No need to cry about your problems in SA .Crying won’t sort the problem.get proactive to sort out your mess.
17 Feb 2013, 22:42 pm
@nortierd-373:
Ek sal volgendee week kyk, miskien was dit die lockout vir die wedstryde maar hy wil nou ook nie werk nie
Anders los ek dit net
17 Feb 2013, 22:44 pm
yeah… you don’t cry about your problems…
you run away from them…
you’re too scared to confront your problems in real life so resort to cowardly anonymous keyboard-cowboying on keo…
brave man…
17 Feb 2013, 22:46 pm
A few years back two policemen headed a car theft syndicate.they would escort the stolen cars wearing police uniforms and cars.maybe SA is just to fcked and nothing will help to sort out the mess.well,I guess it’s every man for himself…survival of the strongest or most evil it seems.
17 Feb 2013, 22:47 pm
@victoriabok-377:
Ek het dit net die een keer gespeel.
Superbru is vir my lekkerder en minder dinkwerk
17 Feb 2013, 22:58 pm
@Dawn-371: So sorry Dawn, truelly hope they can find his car ASAP, I know he might be insured and will beable to then buy another car, the problem is is the emotional styress he is being put through at his age.
17 Feb 2013, 22:58 pm
Styress= stress
17 Feb 2013, 22:58 pm
@victoriabok-368: Fantasy League in Lock out for Team selections & Transfers (from 1 hour before kick off of 1st game of a round), & will only unlock again next week some time.
You probably tried to make your selections after lock up set in.
PS: I just checked it out & lock out is now over, & the Manage Your Team Box is active again, so you can select your team. However, probably not advisable selecting & SAVING your team prior to the team sheets becoming available. Once you’ve saved your selections/transfers you cannot change them for the current round.
Next lock out occurs in 4 days, 8 hours, 36 minutes
17 Feb 2013, 23:07 pm
@Dawn-350: Dawn,
so sorry about your dad’s loss … theft is a *******, & the lack of mobility/independence is just as big a *******
I hope the problem will be sorted soon
17 Feb 2013, 23:14 pm
@Dawn-358:
17 Feb 2013, 23:20 pm
@S_K-372: S_K, I don’t know who you are, but seems you are also only here to stoke fire & cause trouble …
Poor form, man – very poor
18 Feb 2013, 02:00 am
Angrystura
I mention my opinion that Robin Petersen is an average journeyman spinner and you suggest I must have an “agenda”?
Pray tell, what agenda would that be?….
If it helps you sleep better at night I will also tell you that Paul Harris was also an average journeyman spinner. What does this viewpoint say about your “agenda”?
18 Feb 2013, 02:01 am
And jislaaik bru someone mentioned you actually support the Sharks. Quit gatkruiping with all the Stormer get a long bumchum gang bru.
Black and White nothing else matters.
18 Feb 2013, 02:57 am
And so SK continues to show the fool that he is…
“Australian public won’t be rushing out for Lions tickets…”
All three tests gone in under 5 minutes…
And as for that other fool Skopskat saying Brumbies fans are pissed at JW’s supposed Rathbone bias…
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/rathbones-comeback-has-crowd-in-raptures-20130216-2eklp.html
So many interweb dumb fcuks on this site!
18 Feb 2013, 05:14 am
@Dawn-370:
Hi Dawn
Hope ya parents are feeling better. Its rubbish losing a car and especially if they have gotten quite attached to it makes it that much harder.
I could ship over a 300 hp Mitsubishi evo for them
Ya dad would be kicking a$$ on the corners and motorway. Makes S_K look silly in his 7th hand datsun with multiple coloured doors.
18 Feb 2013, 05:20 am
@S_K-379:
Mate car thieving is everywhere. Its full on here in NZ.
We have so many different makes of cars available and Japanese imports are relatively cheap most have a good car in the garage. We have a lot of cars like skylines,evos and wrxs that are cheap and are sort after in the thieving market due to the speed these things are capable off……really make sure you are insured. In fact insurance companies charge more per year if you have these sorts of cars over here.
18 Feb 2013, 07:23 am
@S_K-372: Were you born a doos?
or
Have you practiced being one until you reached perfection.?
or
Did you have it thrust upon you.?
18 Feb 2013, 07:29 am
@Hurricane-390:
That’s your buddy Capo you are talking about.
But you are right.
That’s why I drive a Piccanto.
Nobody steals a Piccanto.
18 Feb 2013, 07:30 am
@ryecatcher-392:
18 Feb 2013, 07:31 am
@ryecatcher-392:
Delivered anally.
18 Feb 2013, 07:40 am
@ryecatcher-392: When some people are born the doctors slap their mother…
18 Feb 2013, 07:42 am
Yes indeed at his age it ain’t easy!
We gonna sort insurance and traffic stuff today.
18 Feb 2013, 07:44 am
And I’m working the Gumtree!
18 Feb 2013, 07:45 am
@Dawn-397:
Would you like me to send my driver?
18 Feb 2013, 08:27 am
Please!
18 Feb 2013, 08:40 am
@ryecatcher-392:
nicely put, Rye.
18 Feb 2013, 09:59 am
@gunther-393:
Yeah i know its him
18 Feb 2013, 11:49 am
Capo you are a nasty piece of work, thankfeck you in Ireland, you couldn’t hack it here socially so you had to leave. Where to next when the Irish can’t bear you anymore either. I have asked you before “why do you use this site, every one detests you” you are exceptionally thick skinned and plain thick.
@Dawn…..so sorry Dawn, its hard enough for any one when their transport is stolen, but for the elderly it is very traumatic….am really sorry. My thoughts are with you, hope karma nails those responsible.
19 Feb 2013, 07:52 am
@Treehugger-403:
He is a piece of ****.
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