Interesting statistics about Bokke players…. not your normal stats.
Surname occurence
du Plessis 11
Morkel 10
Botha 8
Muller 7
Smith 7
van der Merwe 7
Father-Sons representing South Africa
Alf Walker and Harry Walker
Mauritz van den Berg and Derek van den Berg
Felix du Plessis and Morné du Plessis
Louis Schmidt and Uli Schmidt
Moaner van Heerden and Wikus van Heerden
Gysie Pienaar and Ruan Pienaar
Schalk Burger and Schalk (junior) Burger
Hennie Bekker and Andries Bekker
Brothers representing South Africa
Oupa Versfeld and Hasie Versfeld
Charlie van Renen and Bertie van Renen
Tiger Devenish and Charlie Devenish
Sommie Morkel and Dougie Morkel
Paul Roos and Gideon Roos
Anton Stegmann and Jan Stegmann
Arthur Marsberg and Archie Marsberg
Henry Walker and Alf Walker
John Luyt and Dick Luyt and Lammetjie Luyt
Gerhard Morkel and Jacky Morkel
Bennie Osler and Sharkey Osler
JC van der Westhuizen and Ponie van der Westhuizen
Boy Louw and Fanie Louw
Jaap Bekker and Dolf Bekker and Martiens Bekker
Charlie Cockrell and Robert Cockrell
Robbie Barnard and Jannie Barnard
Ian McCallum and Roy McCallum
Polla Fourie and Tossie Fourie
Joggie Jansen and Eben Jansen
Jackie Snyman and Dawie Snyman
Darius Botha and Naas Botha
Willie du Plessis and Michael du Plessis and Carel du Plessis
Helgard Muller and Pieter Muller
Geo Cronjé and Jacques Cronjé
Akona Ndungane and Odwa Ndungane
Jannie du Plessis and Bismarck du Plessis
Places with the most born players
Cape Town 49
Johannesburg 32
Pretoria 32
Kimberley 25
Paarl 22
Bloemfontein 19
Port Elizabeth 16
Durban 15
And besides our own webmaster GBS, the following Boks celebrate their birthday today:
Daan du Plessis 08 Sep 1948 (61 years)
Os du Randt 08 Sep 1972 (37 years)
Ashwin Willemse 08 Sep 1981 (28 years)
Congrats!
@grootblousmile – 25 You’ve whetted our interest now. Give us the background to this story GBS. What infraction did you commit?
@Puma – Puma, the detox is getting to you….fantasising about prawns and white wine already!
@carol – 19
Just wear the best running shoes you can afford. Never buy cheap ones. They just do not support your joints. You will only know about it in 10 years time. So take care now.
Running is great but don’t go and run marathons just stick to the shorter distance. Put Sorbothane insoles in your shoes they are the best shock absorbers. Take out the ones that are in and replace them with Sorbothane ones. You get them in the good sports shops in the UK.
27@Puma – When you’re in JHB next I’ll take you and Mrs Pumalina to my favourite Seafood place…. porras own it….
Fantastic stuff !
@grootblousmile – 29 Upon his return you two should hold a joint press conference. You should translate for him. Now that would be interesting: “what Mr Villiers meant to say ….” 🙂
@JimT – Lol
31@JimT – Man, is was all the rage on Voldy for months…. some still laugh at the incident….
… almost as funny as some of my Drive-in stories…
Hehehe
@carol – 32 😀
Not sure how long I will last on this water thing. Only been on it since yesterday. Must stick to it though. Put on 3 kilos too so must get it off because of the bad knees. So will stick to it until its gone.
Too much eating out and red wine 😆 5 weeks with visitors is a long, long time. So the extra weight was expected.
@Puma – 33 She does not carry her smokes with her when running. She leaves them at home for later as part of her recuperation heh, heh 🙂 I couldn’t resist, the devil made me do it 🙁
@Puma – 33 Next time I will get properly fitted, they now stick you on a treadmill and look at how you run!!
I bought some that were a nice colour!! Heheheheh, no they feel pretty good and were not CHEAP!!
Marathons are well out of my capabilities….a half marathon would kill me!
@grootblousmile – 37 You’re being a tad evasive GBS. I don’t remember that or was it all in Afrikaans? Must have been pretty bad 🙂
@grootblousmile – OK, hit us with one of your parables….. 😆
@grootblousmile – 34
They are the best seafood restaurants in SA. Portuguese seafood restaurants here are of the very best. Always have been. There is a brilliant one in Fourways. The food there is always out of this world.
@JimT – Jim, It was about some of GBS’s habits in bed so I am led to understand!
@carol – 40
I used to test our my running shoes by running around the block with them on. Well those were the days. These days if someone done that they would probably run away with them on 😆
@Puma – I am getting seriously hungry now Puma. Supper cooking whilst I chat here!
The seafood option sounds better than my fare.
Where are you going to watch the matches this weekend, the club or Chez Puma?
What is your Sharks prediction?
@JimT – 39
What smokes? Carol you better not smoke if you are running…hehe.
Mmmmmm, found the Debbie Smit piece:
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SA rugby diaspora’s chat via blogfuls of old bulle
Debbie Smit 22 May 2007 at 10h00
Although the new and improved user-driven internet known as Web 2.0 has been with us for a while now, South Africans have been a little slow on the uptake. Participation in this virtual revolution, which has advertisers worldwide scrambling for online real estate, is often hard to gauge.
Driving traffic to blogs
A web tool called a blog aggregator drives traffic to blogs by providing links to these and also shows which ones are most popular.
On amatomu (amatomu.com), a South African blog aggregator, you can view statistics on who’s blogging who, what and why. An interesting three-dimensional pie chart in the Trends section shows that South Africans blog most about life, technology and media and marketing. However, when it comes to page impressions, requests for specific subjects, life takes second place to sport.
Loosening the reins
Amatomu, which means “reins” in isiZulu, lists keo.co.za as South Africa’s most-read blog. Since its name provides no clue to its content, I had a look, expecting to find a community of propellerheads extolling the virtues of citizen journalism.
Instead, I found a website featuring a manic-looking white male in dire need of an eyebrow wax.
Keo.co.za is in fact the site of controversial rugby writer Mark Keohane and “the home of South African rugby fans”.
It is populated by creatures like grootblousmile, Loosehead and Doosdiefdrieduisend. They post comments like: “Wikus is nie bang nie want hy dra blou”. Riveting stuff.
As a member of a family who favours Simon Cowell to Fourie du Preez, it is easy for me to forget that rugby is endemic to the DNA of the average white South African male. The terms openside flank, turnover ball and scrummage seldom feature at our dinner table.
Odd-shaped balls
On Friday night at the local pub, I was reminded of how fervent the passion is for the game for men with odd-shaped balls. In public places, the species can be heard bragging about the colour of their blood… blue or green or the ever-popular black and white.
When they venture into hyperspace, the archive of their verbal matings with fellow fans provides a fascinating digital ethnography.
Here, Knersboy advises Boerboel on where he might catch the match in the Netherlands. Knersboy provides Boerboel with two venues: an Irish pub that “sometimes had too many stiff old ballies” and an Australian one in den Haag called “kangaroos too”.
The degree of intimacy in the exchanges sometimes verges on excruciating. “Grootblousmile” lives in Boksburg. I know this because “Hef”, who lives in London, and will be watching the rugby at the Zulus bar, delights at Grootblousmile’s misfortune at having had an early morning blackout on Friday. He knew about it because he read it on online. Grootblousmile replies that he was not affected because “toe lê ek nog en poep ruik”.
Rugger blogmen
To make Hef jealous, Grootblousmile explains how he and his mates do the “Roftus” ritual. First, they pitch their gazebos and unpack the mandatory “braaiers” and cooler boxes. He and his pals even have a “mobile satelietskottel”, DStv decoder and TV, as well as a generator that they “gaat opslaan om die Tjarks game te kyk wyl ons braai en ‘n knertsie gooi”.
So the rugger blogmen display and transmit their memes, bits of cultural information passed on like genes to like-minded individuals across oceans and generations, ensuring their survival through hundreds of playoffs to come.
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Grrrrrrrrrrr
@Puma – What and if you didn’t like them hand them back and say next pair please!!
Couldn’t do that here!! They would be considered second hand!!
JUst to change the subject I read yesterday that rugby players have gained on average 2kgs in weight per year for the past 13 years. I find that amazing, no wonder those collisions are traumatic these days. THat period of 13 years does coincide with the professional era. Wonder if that’s good for long term health?
To think, I was born too early, I could have been a monster, a real fattie. 🙂
@Puma – 47 I was referring to her “joints 🙂
@carol – 44 In that case I’m not sure I want hear about that 🙁
@carol – 46
Well its on at 8.30am our time so probably not the club but at home. With a coffee and breakfast. Not exciting but that is what you get from time zones.
Hoping for a Shark win. They play in Pretoria so its always hard for them there. Both teams are depleted of their best players so not sure who will win. Hoping for a Sharks win though.
Why you eat so late Carol? Must be almost 9pm your time? I would be starved out my mind by that time.
GBS – just for your birthday!!
Debbie Smit’s article:
On Friday night at the local pub, I was reminded of how fervent the passion is for the game for men with odd-shaped balls. In public places, the species can be heard bragging about the colour of their blood… blue or green or the ever-popular black and white.
When they venture into hyperspace, the archive of their verbal matings with fellow fans provides a fascinating digital ethnography.
Here, Knersboy advises Boerboel on where he might catch the match in the Netherlands. Knersboy provides Boerboel with two venues: an Irish pub that “sometimes had too many stiff old ballies” and an Australian one in den Haag called “kangaroos too”.
The degree of intimacy in the exchanges sometimes verges on excruciating. “Grootblousmile” lives in Boksburg. I know this because “Hef”, who lives in London, and will be watching the rugby at the Zulus bar, delights at Grootblousmile’s misfortune at having had an early morning blackout on Friday. He knew about it because he read it on online. Grootblousmile replies that he was not affected because “toe lê ek nog en poep ruik”.
Rugger blogmen
To make Hef jealous, Grootblousmile explains how he and his mates do the “Roftus” ritual. First, they pitch their gazebos and unpack the mandatory “braaiers” and cooler boxes. He and his pals even have a “mobile satelietskottel”, DStv decoder and TV, as well as a generator that they “gaat opslaan om die Tjarks game te kyk wyl ons braai en ‘n knertsie gooi”.
So the rugger blogmen display and transmit their memes, bits of cultural information passed on like genes to like-minded individuals across oceans and generations, ensuring their survival through hundreds of playoffs to come.
@grootblousmile – 48 “The degree of intimacy in the exchanges sometimes verges on excruciating”
Blimey, this was written well before the days of ‘Twitter’!!
So where is the farting in bed bit!! 😆
@carol – 49
Thats how it used to be here. They allowed us to run around the block to test them out. Watch how you run in them and sort of give advice. Well you got a good idea if they were good or not.
Not sure if they still do it. Think now days they may not see the runner come back with them..hahaha.
@JimT – 51 😀 Okay got it now. Bit thick sometimes I am….hahaha.
55@carol – The bit about “toe le ek nog en poep ruik”
Loosely translated…. “I was still lying in bed smelling farts”
@55carol – Hi Carol and Puma
Just see how Debbie ignores the contributions by ladies!
And my apologies for posting the article a 2nd time, wasn’t aware of GBS’ earlier post.
@Puma – 53 WRS has been working late…..so we eat late! You go past hungry!
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