This is a MUST READ. The sometimes controvercial Media24 Sports writer has all WP supporters up in arms about an Article he has written comparing WP as “The Bafana Bafana of Rugby”… here is an extract from his Article, as taken from Sport24.
The Article starts off with a long-winded story about Eric Rush… but let’s cut to the chase of the Article, here it is:
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Something that is not one man’s opinion, though, are the SA Rugby Player Award nominations that were released yesterday. The SA rugby media share their nominations in the various categories, so it was a shock to see some of the names presented in some of the categories.
For the full list of nominees, CLICK HERE (link removed)…
Sure, one needs to accept the view of the majority, but some of those are beyond belief. For example: Team of the year – Western Province. What? How on earth did that happen?
I can understand the nomination of the Springboks, the Bok sevens side, the Bulls and Griquas. All have won something this year and actually have a trophy cabinet to prove it. But Western Province? Is finishing second in Currie Cup now the new first? Are WP the Bafana Bafana of rugby? Why not the Sharks if you wanted to use the Currie Cup as yardstick?
We have enough greatness in our game and enough teams who perform on a regular basis. There is no need to reward mediocrity.
Similar with the nominations for Currie Cup player of the year. We have three players from WP along with Sarel Pretorius and Stefan Terblanche. Really?
Juan de Jongh has certainly improved a lot and has become a very prominent player, Joe Pietersen played some good rugby, and Luke Watson scored a lot of tries from the back of the Province maul, but how on earth did they get nominated ahead of some very deserving players from the Sharks, Bulls, Lions and Cheetahs?
It is great to see Province finally making it into the top four as they have the potential and pedigree to be there all the time. But three of the top five Currie Cup players from one team? Again, are we rewarding second best? Has WP become the Bafana Bafana of rugby?
Some of the other categories will be closely fought. Fourie du Preez should be player of the year, but what a season for both Morné Steyn and Heinrich Brüssow! They certainly deserve a lot of credit for their first full seasons in Test rugby.
One could have easily nominated five more Boks, though. Jaque Fourie will be in the race for try of the year for his late try against the Lions in Pretoria. His name deserves to be in the player of the year category as well, but it’s not.
I thought Bismarck du Plessis had the best season of his life, but he was not nominated at all. Du Plessis was colossal in the Lions series and established himself as the best hooker in the world during the Tri Nations. He made numerous crucial turnovers during the season, was spot-on with his lineouts, and has often been a tower of strength in the Bok pack. He deserves to be there.
But then, that is only one man’s opinion!
Read JJ in Rapport every Sunday
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Reactions to this Article has been rather scathing… what do you, the RUGBY-TALK bloggers say about this Article of JJ Harmse, the objective Sportswriter… hahahaha
@Puma – Taking that 2 wickets of the first 2 ball was dramatic. But i have not watched a single ball yet. Just guessing the games, go for the desperation picks.
@Pietman – cheers Pietman , groete vir jou mense.
180@Puma – Look on the right hand side, in the sidebar, lowest Item… youve made 1305 comments, slugger…
179@Pietman – Tjorts Pieta, gooi mielies… en stuur groente!
“LOL…. yes I also picked-up the speed issue! Thank goodness Naqelavuki is only covering th bench and not Habana!”
A comment i picked up on News24, LOL
@Puma – Sorry, multitasking here…..Puma we are the ‘quota’English speakers!! Heheheh
@Pietman – Cheerio Piet.
@superBul – 176
Think you were the only one to choose Victoria. Damn I chose them the other day and they lost bad. So never even thought they would have a chance. DAMN…..hahaha Then they win today. You must have been the only one to pick up points there.
Sien die Bulle oorheers ook die ‘nominations’ vir die “most active commenters” !
As die Bulle verloor die naweek, dink ek ons gaan almal onder oppie log lê na volgende naweek. 😉
@Pietman – Considering my rugby imput is limited to comments about Percy Montgomery I am rather surprised!! (Astonished smiley)
@grootblousmile – 183
Jeepers, I must be on here a lot. hehehehe. Going now to look.
189@bdb – Nee, dan ban ek summier ELKE WP blogger… hulle gaan te veel in ons ore raas….
@superBul – Hi superbul, you know I never got that lion to move!! It said movie but me and my machine could not fathom it out!!!
At this point GBS puts his head in his hands and sighs deeply at my ineptitude!
@grootblousmile – 183
I should get bonus points for my posting. Remember I started about 6 weeks here after you lot were posting during that time……hehehe. I want some bonus points….hahaha. Catching up real quick there.
191@Puma – I wonder how many of your comments refer to your “Dream Final”… hehehe….
Fark, I’m funny…. hahaha!!!
Did you guys discuss Bosch at center today? See on news 24 some comments about the WP back line.
marius
10/15/2009 8:00 AM
With Rasie in the Wp mix I dont think the Bulls will trust this stunt.I believe they going to play their true senters(Wells and De Jong) and Aplon on left wing and the ACT Brumbie on right wing with Sereli covering on the bence.As if this is going to help them I dont think so!!!!!
Ghwappie
10/14/2009 11:45 PM
@ Cullart: Frikkie has speed to spare, no worries about him. But as a loyal Province supporter, I will let you into a secret about Sireli Naqelevuki: When he’s sitting on the bench, he’s at full speed 🙂
Altus
10/14/2009 9:39 PM
Los vir Frikkie, boys. As hy ‘n voorsprong van 50m meter het, gaan niemand hom vang nie.
Cullart
10/14/2009 7:55 PM
@ Fleckie. My question to my friend is why did you pick him only now. Why not when Newman was injured. Instead you pick a has been llike Frikkie that has the speed of a 16v tortoise, nogal on the wing!
Roland
10/14/2009 6:59 PM
WP!!!!! we’re gonna surprise a few peeps this time around. Moenie worrie nie, watch net….
Fleckie
10/14/2009 6:42 PM
This guy is a great player and he will deliver the goods on sat, solid player with a high work rate. He’l stuff Wynand up in the contact department and does alot of ground work. I wish AC would’ve given him an extra game or 2. Province not only has a great future front row but a great centre combo, Bulls eat ur hearts out. PROVINCE
Far and away
10/14/2009 6:28 PM
@ Handogg: Thank you, you made me laugh! It has been a tense week and your honesty is rare and refreshing. This is the true spirit of sportsmanship – honesty. May the best team win. Go Bulls!
Handogg
10/14/2009 5:41 PM
“The Maties star also boasts prior experience for the Leopards…” Well as a WP supporter, I’m sighing a sigh of relief… It will take a tiny miracle my friends. None the less, Go PROVINCE!!!!!
@carol – 186
BIG SMILEY….LOL.
192@grootblousmile – as ons verloor, gesels ons maar verder oor die Bokke se jaar-eindtoer en hoogtepunte van hierdie jaar se S14 !
198@bdb – Etzakkerly!!
@grootblousmile – No i think mine , but dont worry i will get it right one day and make a good sound clip of those lions when they roar.
But to be honest no speaker can produce that bass sound like in nature, awesome vibration.
@grootblousmile – 195
Must be a about a 100 of those…..hahaha. Why do some have their names twice there? Why not just once and add that to the other amount of posting?
201@Puma – We had a temporary blog, before we moved here, those are the figures we carried over…
196@superBul – sal snaaks wees as die WP die BB probeer ‘verras’ met hul spankeuse. Ek bedoel: Frikkie terugskuif senter toe saam met Juan, en Nokkieballetjievuki op senter gaan nou nie eintlik die BB onkant vang nie, of hoe ?
Dalk is Bosch een of ander supermasjien wat nog die hele seisoen geheim gehou is, en gaan ons almal verras saterdag ?
Where’s BiDiBidi now?
@superBul – 181
Its all guess work there for me to Super. You doing well there.
Loved that Super Over. Never seen it done before so it was really exciting.
Groot Blou optelmasjien, kan jy vir ons sê waarom ons name twee keer verskyn, hoekom nie net altwee bymekaar tel nie ? 😉
@grootblousmile – 202
Okay but I still only starting blogging about 6 weeks after you lot. Just thought you all stopped blogging on Voldy then saw someone mention this site but could not find it. They never put up the right website address. Finally think it was Sharky that put up the right address and then found you lot finally after looking forever on the net…hehe.
@grootblousmile – Is Flok the same as Fark? (Wink smiley)….you hilarious human!
Last night on Voldy David was mentioning the GBS Sunday Press ‘incident’, you became notorious by all accounts!!
206@bdb – Flok, BiDiBidi…. ek haal mos weer more die ding af, tot by die volgende mylpaal… dis te veel werk om nou met die “Code” te gaan peuter…
@Puma – 207 Your progress is startling Puma, you wife must be very thankful!!
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