Jonathan Kaplan, the world’s most capped Test referee, has been appointed to referee the 2009 Currie Cup Final. Marius Jonker and Mark Lawrence have been appointed to the Currie Cup seminal and Craig Joubert the First Division Final – all four amongst the very top referees in the world.
Only 24 referees have refereed Currie Cup Finals since 1939. It remains the most sought-after match in South Africa for players and referees, ranking higher than many, many Tests. Kaplan for example has refereed more than ten times as many Tests as Currie Cup Finals.
This will be Kaplan’s fifth Final, putting him third on the list of referees who have refereed most Finals. André Watson with seven heads the lost followed by Steve Strydom on six. Kaplan will now pull level with Freek Burger on five.
Jimmy Smith Belton is next on three, while Piet Robbertse, Gert Bezuidenhout and Johan Gouws each refereed two Finals. The other 16 did one each.
Kaplan referees his first Final in 2002 when the Golden Lions played the Blue Bulls. Now he will have refereed four of the last five. He did not referee the Final in 2007 when he stayed longer at the World Cup than some others did.
Kaplan is delighted at the appointment which affirms his position as the top referee in South Africa.
Marius Jonker, who comes from Richard’s Bay at the top of Zululand will, referee the first seminal, the one between the Sharks and the Cheetahs in Durban while Mark Lawrence, who refereed the 2007 Currie Cup Final, will referee the semifinal at Newlands when the Blue Bulls play Western Province.
For the second time Craig Joubert, who this year refereed two Bledisloe Cup matches will referee the First Division Final between the Pumas and South Western Districts.
296@AB – wat ou Brock, Tiaan en Wicus nie weet nie, is dat hul eintlik nie teen Werner, Kuun en Guthro skrum nie, maar teen Bakkies. Bakkies gebruik die BB-voorry as sy skrumpet.
loosehead it is ok to live in slaapstad at least you can do sending werk there and convert the infedels to good cheetah supporters
298 @Puma – yes they were lucky. Well they are all Province supporters so that is fine 🙂
@Ashley – Nee ou maat ek het skool reunie op Oudtshoorn die naweek!
301bdb bwahahaha dis n kak snaakse prentjie
@bdb – lol!! 😀
304@AB –
ag nee, flok
wie organise so :poop: ?
Wat se al julle manne? Loop die stress al lekker dik? Sien KEO se Wp staan absoluut geen kans Saterdag nie.
307 @Ashley – Hulle het nie geweet of die Bulle die semi’s sou maak nie 🙂
309@Karen –
lol lol lol
#295 Loosehead
I visited the Rosestad recently and to my great disappointment found that the best steakhouse in Bloem (can’t remember the name but it was in 2nd Avenue close to the Workshop which I see has now been turned into a Cubana) has been levelled to make room for some arbitrary office block or something.
Damn, I enjoyed that place and the hospitality of the two brothers that ran it. Big blues fans both of them too….
Had to settle for a salad at the News Cafe instead. Talk about coming a poor second….
Are you still running the chef’s school at The Mount?
310 @Ashley – Wel cheers vir eers – ek gaan nou eers vd Smurfs by die werk irriteer. Dis asof hulle vrek nervous is vir Saterdag 😀
308@WitenBlou –
ag keo se mond en se hol is so na aan mekaar,
hy praat so nou en dan deur verkeerde buis!!
308@WitenBlou – Ek sal my nie steur aan sy voorspellings nie… hy is gereeld VERKEERD.
Waaraan ek my wel sal steur is Skoppie se voorspellings, hy het glo ‘n maklike wen voorspel vir WP… en hy is ALTYD VERKEERD in sy voorspellings.
312@Karen –
natuurlik sal hul wees
..
hulle het meer om te verloor as om te gain uit daai game uit!!
314@grootblousmile –
ok,
soooooo
dan gaan dit eenvoudig maar net “nie ñ maklike oorwinning” wees nie!!
@AB – 60 jaar reunie?
Smallies
Have you caught Bloem’s best (and only…) blues band called the “Built for comfort blues band” yet? Their last gig was at Aasvoelkop.
Do yourself a favour and catch them. And its not like they don’t need support – its Bloem after all! 😉
313@Ashley – hy kom seker van nederland, daarom praat hy hollangs.
311@ fender telecaster the best place was die kelder in noordstad, closed down a while ago.at least golden clowd spur is still there
@grootblousmile – Ek wee man, Keo maak gereeld sy naam gat, wou net sien wat se reaksie ek kry. Ek weet glad nie wat om Saterdag te verwag nie. Dink dit gaan n helse game wees en ek dink ouens wat oorverseker voorkom is diep binne eintlik maar vrek bang. Kan nie wag nie.
317@K9-MonsterLeeu –
90
319@bdb –
exactly!
@AB – Hey AB…maar dis nou jou derde jaar wat jy reunie toe gaan. Hoe lank was jy in matriek? 🙂
@K9-MonsterLeeu – Nee man ek was lank na jou in matriek, het jy Alzheimers dat jy so deurmekkaar raak?
Weerspelling vir Nuweland vir Saterdag is sonnig…..lekker Blou Bul weer, gaan moosa wees, soos n toetswedstryd!
317@K9-MonsterLeeu – waar hou hul die reunie, in die intensiewe eenheid, en die afterparty is by die begraafplaas ? 😉
@K9-MonsterLeeu – Ekt my Meestersgraad matriek!
Net bly dat die Plonker nie blaas vir ons nie, maar is dit regverdig dat n ou van Richardsbaai die Sharks game ref?
321@WitenBlou –
ag ek dink dis nog net gewone banter
dink die ouens sal begin stiller raak van so donderdag af
tot dan
PROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVINCE
ons!!
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