Brother versus Brother
6 Mar 2013
RICHARD FERGUSON updates Keo.co.za followers on the latest Super Rugby news from New Zealand.
Brother versus Brother
Ben Franks saved younger brother Ben from a house fire when they were kids. This weekend the two All Black props they will square up against each other in Super Rugby action.
The Franks brothers have played for the All Blacks since 2010 and this is the first time they will play against each other in Super Rugby. Both played for Crusaders but a lack of game time, primarily because of Owen’s presence, prompted Ben to move to the Hurricanes.
The two have only scrummed against each other once in a competitive match when Tasman played Canterbury but it was only a 15 minute cameo. This time it’s the real deal and older brother Ben told the New Zealand website RugbyHeaven he saw the match up as no different from playing another world class opponent.
‘Me and Owen we’ve always done stuff together, so it feels natural. I haven’t worried about going up against Owen in the brother sense. I do my homework, obviously, as I do every week on my opponent and Owen’s obviously world-class.’
Ben has refocused on playing loosehead to enhance his prospects of greater game time at every level.
‘I can understand how it is for people at home when you think about it, but from when you start playing rugby at an early age you are either playing with mates or coming up against mates,’ Ben said.
‘When you’ve played since early childhood right through then competition is part of everyday life.’ I’ve been up against mates at training every day this week. It’s part and parcel of being a professional rugby player.’
Dagg delights in move to fullback
Israel Dagg is back in his favoured fullback position for the Crusaders visit to Wellington this weekend.
Crusaders: Israel Dagg, Tom Marshall, Robbie Fruean, Ryan Crotty, Johnny McNicholl, Dan Carter, Andy Ellis, Kieran Read (captain), Matt Todd, George Whitelock, Dominic Bird, Sam Whitelock, Owen Franks, Corey Flynn, Wyatt Crockett. Subs: Ben Funnell, Joe Moody, Tom Donnelly, Luke Whitelock, Willi Heinz, Tom Taylor, Adam Whitelock.
Vito in swap with Shields
Victor Vito will play No 8 against the Crusaders and in-form young loose-forward Brad Shields will play No 6 against the Crusaders.
Hurricanes: Andre Taylor, Alapati Leiua, Conrad Smith (c), Tim Bateman, Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett, TJ Perenara, Victor Vito, Karl Lowe, Brad Shields, Jason Eaton, Jeremy Thrush, Jeffery Toomaga-Allen, Dane Coles, Ben Franks. Substitutes: Motu Matu’u/Ash Dixon, Ben May, James Broadhurst, Faifili Levave, Chris Smylie, James Marshall, Reynold Lee-Lo
Dan disputes Japan deal
Dan Carter has refuted he has already signed for Japanese club Toyota and not dismissed playing in France again.
Carter has been linked to a million dollar deal with a Japanese club for next year, in what will be his sabbatical year from New Zealand rugby.
‘I don’t know where that has come from but I think it is bad reporting, again,’ said Carter. ‘And (it is) speculation because I am nowhere near signing any deal or getting closer to deciding what I am going to do or whether I take my sabbatical or not. I am still not any closer to making a decision.’
Carter added his management team were talking to several clubs.
‘My management group are just throwing it out there, and talking to a few clubs and players, but it’s still pretty early stages. And for me personally I still haven’t made a decision.’
21 Comments
6 Mar 2013, 09:08 am
Hope the Sharks give Pieter-Steph du Toit a shot at making the starting line-up shortly. We need more talented locks staking a claim now that Juandre Kruger & Andries Bekker (apparently) are heading overseas, and Quinn Roux lied to WP Management – always nice keeping your options open isn’t it.
Interested to see how Cobus Reinach & Piet van Zyl get on this season. Not sure van Zyl should’ve been replaced last weekend, but hopefully gets his spot back this week. Francois Hougaard is an impact player. Perfect off the bench but useless as a starter.
6 Mar 2013, 09:13 am
What about Tom and James Marshall? Are they also brothers?
If so then you can amend our title to: BrotherS versus BrotherS
6 Mar 2013, 09:18 am
Ben Franks and Ben Franks are brothers? Must be identical.
6 Mar 2013, 09:19 am
@Sheriff-2:
Good point. One on the bench though, plus they’re hardly big names.
6 Mar 2013, 09:24 am
LOL – this artcile could also have been referencing Keo;s brother re-posing all of Keo’s articles to his twitter account publicly on this blog!
I love the sibling rivalry!
6 Mar 2013, 09:31 am
It would be good to see Dominic Bird in action again
I get the distinct feeling this young bull is special
6 Mar 2013, 09:51 am
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6 Mar 2013, 09:57 am
Warning: don’t read this if you are religious!
Cyril Ramaphosa recently said ‘churches must become the moral conscience of our country and act as agents to raise the moral consciousness of the nation.’ Now I’m sure he did not mean ‘churches only’ but with so many South Africans affiliated to some form of Christianity it is a big enough (representative) sample of society.
It was widely reported that Cyril recently placed a bid of R20m rand on a buffalo not too long ago. How ethical is that in a country with so much poverty? His president has had work done to the tune of R200m on his personal property using taxpayers’ money. How ethical is that? But be that as it may. I want to explore the suggestion further that churches must be that voice, the moral compass as he put it.
The question then is: why are they not?
6 Mar 2013, 10:05 am
Looks like Crusaders are almost a fully Pakeha team NZ version of the average saffa outfit with 2 wings from the wrong side of the tracks bulk being pure Anglo Saxon Pakeha stock
6 Mar 2013, 10:14 am
Same warning applies:
The 3 big branches of Christianity are:
• Roman Catholics
• Protestants
• Orthodox
In South Africa (and USA) one could actually single out Evangelicals as the 3rd big branch the ones you would expect to see on TV.
How is it that this (what is supposed to be a holy) vehicle is so often not doing what it is supposed to do? During Apartheid the church was actually at the centre of it all. The Dutch Reformed Church was a very valuable link in that chain of oppression. It was the very method used to cascade the false teaching of Nazism and the occult down to the average hard working family. I don’t follow their arbitrary conferences and discussions but I often read that their dilemma is: should we accept the Belhar confession? I speak under correction but one can summarise that as: shall I accept that I as white Afrikaner am equal before Almighty God than my coloured or black brother?
And then of course their other eternal biggie: homosexuality.
If they would bother to read the Bible or Torah (meaning Teaching) they would be very clear. Whilst we cannot judge any man or woman, God’s position on the act or lifestyle of homosexuality is clear. It is not natural but a perversion. Of course that is not the only sin there is in life, but I’m commenting on it as they cannot get their collective thick skulls around this.
God loves the person but hates the sin, no matter what the sin.
There, I have just resolved a problem which has plagued them for decades.
6 Mar 2013, 10:19 am
@Sheriff-10: That’s why they allowed dope and *** marriage in some states in the USA – the bible says man who lies with another man must be stoned, no?
6 Mar 2013, 10:27 am
@Dilligafrican-11:
He should be stoned yes. As it is written: the ‘wages’ or reward of sin is death.
However, because of the work of Messiah there is a way out. Messiah paved the way for us to when we turn away or abandon our sinful ways, there can be salvation. Can you see why it is referred to as ‘Good News’?
Remember why I singled out this sin or violation of God’s teachings. There are many other things that violate His teachings. Just pick up your local newspaper if you forgot how sin manifests itself.
6 Mar 2013, 10:40 am
Warning – you know by now:
The homosexuality or ghay dilemma paves the way for us to pay a visit to the other big stream or branch of ‘Christianity’ namely Roman Catholicism. These men have supposedly taken a vow of celibacy to devote themselves to the Lord. Then how is it that we continuously hear or read about ‘inappropriate sexual behaviour’ among these clergy? As F. Dariusz Oko, Ph.D puts it: ‘They keep talking about paedophilia among clergymen, while it is most often the case that the problem is ephebophilia, which is a perversion consisting in adult, homosexual men being attracted not to children, but to pubescent and adolescent boys’
Something is very wrong. Speculation is rife that part of the reason for the previous pope’s resignation has to do with this whole issue. Apparently he was given a confidential report and then decided to resign. Of course we will never get to see the details of the report unless it is somehow leaked. But we need not wait for that, what they will tell us in high academic language is that priests behave inappropriately all the time.
But perhaps it will help to take a hard look at what these guys are really busy with and in particular their headquarters the Vatican. We have to. They have about 1.2 billion followers in the world – that is nearly 20% of the entire world population! And here is the solution to cardinals and priests and whatever else: gentlemen, the sexual feelings you have for boys are an abomination! However the feelings you have for the lovely ladies are natural and it is the way God intended it. I’m talking about single ladies. I’m not condoning you ‘perving’ after Mrs Gabriella when she comes for confession ( another man-made tradition)
The problem it is a system labelled christian but has steered so far from what Messiah stood and stands for, that it is impossible to try and change it. The reality is: it won’t change.
6 Mar 2013, 11:14 am
I’ll stop there for now.
It’s harsh I know but we live in a time when we need to unmask the bad to get to the good.
What is outstanding is to comment on the Evangelicals and then to propose a solution. This may seem as meaningless rhetoric until it gets a lot closer.
By saying nothing we are in effect condoning it. Stop saying nothing.
6 Mar 2013, 11:26 am
Interesting
6 Mar 2013, 12:09 pm
I was driving somewhere the other day and the talk show topic on radio was the pope election.
Caller after caller would call in comment on what proud Catholics they are and expressing their deep appreciation for the traditions that ‘go back hundreds of years’
So the qualifier is ‘ it goes back hundreds of years’ ?
To be fair I have to also thank some Catholic priests for the work they have done. I know of people and of a time when Apartheid SA had no time for what they called ‘non-white’ children and orphans when these men and women did some wonderful work. Yes not all of them behaved inappropriately.
Sure they did it for the church, as it meant that these children were schooled in the Catholic way but at least they had a place to stay and food to eat. In fact my own parents benefited from this.
So I cannot praise them for securing funds to build cathedrals and their doctrine, but their charity work cannot go unnoticed. They did all that for very little financial reward.
7 Mar 2013, 05:40 am
I’m an atheist.
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today”
Perhaps I should start believing in some deity so that I can pray that my beloved Stormers start playing traditional WP rugby?
7 Mar 2013, 09:31 am
Now I write quite about about these topics but what I’d like to do is to post here something that I may have posted here before:
I will make 2 separate posts and I want you to understand that this is the crux; nothing is more important than this:
Marriage to the Jews of Yeshua’s day was a practical legal matter, established by contract and carried through by exacting procedure. The young man would come to the chosen girl’s house with a covenant (a true legal agreement) giving the terms by which he would propose marriage. The most important being the price he was willing to pay for this bride.
If the terms were suitable, the prospective bride and groom would drink a cup of wine together to seal the bargain. This cup was most significant as it showed the bridegroom’s willingness to sacrifice in order to have this bride and the bride’s willingness to marry him. Then the groom would pay the price and he would pay dearly to marry the girl of his choice.
Back at his father’s house, he would build her a “chuppah” (bridal chamber, small mansion) in which they would have their future honeymoon. This was a separate building on his father’s property and it had to be very beautiful yet simple since it would only be used for seven days. This construction would usually take the better part of a year and the father of the groom would decide when it was finished. If anyone asked the bridegroom when the wedding was, he would answer, “Only my father knows that.”
7 Mar 2013, 09:32 am
The bride was obliged to do a lot of waiting. Custom declared she had to be ready to go and have an oil lamp ready in case the groom came late at night for her, which would be at a moment’s notice. During this long period of waiting, she was referred to as “consecrated,” “set apart,” and “bought with a price.”
Finally, when the groom’s father decided the bridal chamber was ready, the groom and his friends would start off to claim his bride. All Jewish brides were “stolen.” It was thrilling for her to be “abducted” and carried off into the night, not by a stranger, but by one who loved her so much he had paid a high price for her.
However, decorum declared that the bride had to receive at least a brief warning, so one of the groom’s friends would give a shout as they neared the house. The bride only had time to light her lamp, grab her honeymoon clothing and go.
When they reached the house of the groom’s father, the couple would go into the bridal chamber which the groom had prepared and shut the door. The wedding guests would be assembled in the father’s house to celebrate the marriage. The wedding was actually going to take seven days (until the appearance of the bride and groom from the chamber). But the celebrating could not start until the marriage had been consummated. The groom’s “best man” would stand outside the door and when the groom told him (through the door) the marriage had been consummated, the celebration of the wedding guests would begin and continue for a week!
At the end of the week, the bride and groom would appear and join the guests for the wedding supper. After the marriage supper, the bride and groom would leave the house of the groom’s father and go to their own home.
7 Mar 2013, 09:35 am
Here are the various aspects of the wedding and scriptures that pertain to the Messiah and His Bride:
• The covenant: Heb 8: 8-13
• The cup: Matt 26: 27-29
• The price: Luke 22: 39-44
• The departure: John 14: 1-3
• The best man or friend of bridegroom: John 3:28-29
• The return for the bride: 1 Thess 4: 16-17
• The marriage supper: Rev 19: 7-8
Putting all the pieces together it forms this beautiful romantic picture.
8 Mar 2013, 11:31 am
Ok so we have established that now.
Posts 18-20 describes the Jewish wedding tradition which basically outlines the events of the ‘end times’
Remember with that it is implied that the ‘end times’ can be now or some time in the future. But one must be mindful of the fact that some strange things are going on so pretending that it does not exist won’t cut it.
Why write about these highly contentious issues? Well I do so in the sincere hope that 1 person, just 1 will read it and start a journey to investigate further for themselves.
In SA we live in extremely evil times. Week in and week out more shock and horror.
When I was 15 years old I had a crush on a chick who told me: ‘If you want me, you need to come back to your church (Roman Cath); what a strange condition to impose – nevertheless, now several decades later I am discovering what I really left.
The purpose of this is not to bash Catholics. If just one can look into this and by God’s grace see what they’re dealing with then my efforts have been rewarded.
Go to you tube and do a search: A woman rides the beast by Dave Hunt; I think the official version is better pic quality. Dave is not into sensationalism.
I also do this given the unusual step taken by the pope to resign – 1st to do so in hundreds (600?) years; now that is significant – you have to be blind not to admit that.
So as you watch the election and wait for the white smoke, factor all that in to have a better understanding of this religious organisation with so many secrets…
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