When last was Coka-Cola Park SOLD OUT for a rugby match?
Well, I can’t remember that far back!
This Saturday however, the Stadium is SOLD OUT for the Currie Cup Final between the MTN Golden Lions and The Sharks.
The Final kicks off at 17:30 but the two junior Currie Cup Final matches will be played at the same venue, first the U/19 Final between the Golden Lions and Blue Bulls (12:30) and thereafter the U/21 match between the Blue Bulls and the Sharks (14:30).
Stadium gates open at 11:00 and there will be a mass of entertainment, like Kurt Darren performing some of his best known songs like Kaptein, Meisie Meisie & Loslappie. Bok van Blerk will also perform at the Gig Rig for an hour after the game, singing a few of his well-known songs.
The Endangered Wildlife Trust will be present just outside the Beer Garden, so be sure to make a stop at their stand and Support them. For just R 30.00 you can buy a bracelet to support the fight against rhino poaching.
The MTN World of Rugby will be open to children from 13:00 until the start of the main game and visitors to the area will stand a chance of entering and winning a “win and spin” competition where they can walk away with Lions T-shirts, flags and other exciting memorabilia.
Keep an eye out for ABSA, who will be handing out 10 000 foam hands, to supporters.
Kurkprop Derm doing his 2-step shuffle on a stage is not the most endearing sight… but at least his Kaptein and Loslappie songs are quite catchy.
Tonight I’ll be getting my fill of the Afrikaans Music Icons at the yearly Vonk Afrikaanse Musiektoekennings… and I hear even old Steve Hofmeyr will be attending, seeing as none of the big Newspapers are Sponsors or somehow involved in this year’s awards.
Who of you will be at the Coke-Tin for the Final on Saturday?
Me!!!
@ grootblousmile:
Not I.
Too late to get an e-mail to the GLRU for accreditation and no time to go and buy tickets.
Guess I’ll just have to enjoy the game in the company of one Henry James Morgan.
Wife wanted to organise a thrash for Saturday as me, her son and my daughter all have birthdays this week, but I informed her that “it wouldn’t be a good idea”.
Lions by 10?
“Keep an eye out for ABSA, who will be handing out 10 000 foam hands, to supporters.”
Keep a very wary eye on them, ’cause if you don’t the thieving wan…., er I mean BANKERS (with a B, not a W), will steal your money as they give you the foam hand!
Kevin de Klerk must be smiling from ear to ear at the financial windfall. 60 000 at an average of R100 = R 6 million. Should be able to give Manie a decent golden handshake.
3 @ Scrumdown:
When is your Birthday this week….
… Surely you must be guessing which day, because when you were born they did not yet have names for the week days, it was so long ago….
Hehehe
I’m feeling a bit patriotic and nostalgic today…
Today, 110 years ago, my Grandmother (Ouma Debs) was born, in a cave on the Lesotho side of the Free State border, during the Anglo Boer war.
The brave Boer women, children, farm workers, cattle and other livestock were hidden from the British War machine who was decimating the country with their Scorthched Earth Policy.
Wonderful Ouma I had… and boy she could cook!
Mmmm, makes me think… I am entitled to a Lesotho Passport… for what it’s worth…. hahaha
5@ grootblousmile:
Was yesterday. Stepson was Monday, my daughter tomorrow.
7 @ Scrumdown:
A Belated Congrats then, on your birthday…. hope the Captain also congratulated you!
Have a lekker year, friend!
So, who’s going to take the Currie Cup… in all honesty?
6@ grootblousmile:
The story of the trek North by the Boers makes the migration West in the USA look like a kindergarten party. They covered rolling plains (for the most part) while the Boers had to physically drag people, wagons, oxen and their whole lives over mountain range after mountain range inch by painful inch.
A people of substance for sure in my humble Soutie opinion.
I still do not know why the history of SA has not been immortalised by the palookas in Hollywood like the USA’s history has. Just bad historic PR I guess.
8@ grootblousmile:
Thanks. The Captain and I had a little chat yesterday evening once I’d managed to get the family into their respective beds.
Currie Cup, hmmm. Too close to call. Could go either way, but I think JM would have done his preparations well. Hy gut tells me Lions by 5 – 7, but who really knows?
I’m just VERY glad Marius Jonker is not blowing.
10 @ Scrumdown:
Yip, should be a close game.
I’ll such some or other guess from my thumb for Bru… totally unsure which way it will go.
This will be the third time in my life that I have to go to a wedding on currie cup final day.
9 @ Scrumdown:
They sure were hard old buggers… my dad used to tell us how his Oupa, as a young boy, jumped on top of a Mannetjie Leeu (Male lion) which was busy attacking his father, stuck his whole hand down the Lion’s mouth and shot the Lion dead from the inside with the revolver he had in his hand.
He lost a couple of fingers in the process.
The Free State was still full of lions then…
Flok, it’s unreal!
11@ grootblousmile:
I’m sh1t scared that the heatwaves breaks and it p1sses with rain for the whole game.
I’ll never forget 1987 when we outscored the Bulls in tries, but Naas just kept kicking drops and penalties in the pouring rain to win it.
Also remember being at a Lions Cup semi the same year when Tvl played WP. Low scoring game, but the place was absolutely packed, BEFORE the stands behind the posts were reduced in size. I think the capacity was 73 000 or so.
Should be a good atmosphere. Off course I get p1ssed off at the “Life long Lions fans” who now come out of the woodwork.
Went to a club with the wife and some friends on Saturday night. Suddenly there were 20 Lions supporters all proudly in their Lions S14 SAA shirts. Where were they all during the k@k years? I told the one guy who was so p1ssed he could hardly stanf to F off when he wanted to be my best buddy. (Shouldn’t go to places like that after 21h00 if you’re sober I guess!)
12 @ biltongbek:
Flok, luckily I don’t have friends like that, and if I had they would have missed me terribly at the wedding!
14 @ Scrumdown:
Fark, we need the rain… hehehe
I hope it does not rain tonight or early evening… otherwise the Red Carpet thing is going to be a freegin shambles!
13@ grootblousmile:
Yep. Hard people, but even today, the true Boers are salt of the earth types who you can rely on.
Something that really concerns me is the rate at which that history and culture is being lost.
Many Afrikaners only seem to give a hoot about their culture and history after drinking too much Klippies, and getting “dronk verdriet”, instead of joining something like the ATKV and instilling the essentials in their kids at a joung age.
Many aspects of the country’s history are not taught in the schools, with the subject now being politicised and “winners history” taking centre stage. (The communists did the same thing in Eastern Europe.)
The majority of young Afrikaaners don’t seem to give a damn for their history, culture or language. The latter continually being bastardised by the schoolkids in return for more instant forms of communication.
Vark I sound like a PR spokesman for the HNP!
17 @ Scrumdown:
What pisses me off no end about today’s youth, both Afrikaans and English… is this new SMS / Mxit language they type.
The little farkers can’t spell to save their own bloody arses anymore!
My brother in law, Theo’s, grandson was born yesterday… so it’s been a freegin circus in the family on Vleisbook, naturally.
Anyway, I commented there, after his 17-year old daughther congratulated her elder sister on the birth, with the kakkest SMS / Mxit message – I responded that I hope that the new mother and father teaches the baby to spell better than his aunt…
Will see what response I conjure up!
BonzaiGBS once sent me a SMS, asking for Cellphone Airtime, using this kak SMS language of theirs… I ignored him point blank. He phoned a while later and asked if I got the message and I said yes, I did… but that I’ll never respond to any message if it is not typed properly, using correct spelling and punctuation. He has never repeated that mistake with me again and I get good solid text messages now, or just a “Please call Me”.
18@ grootblousmile:
I don’t have a facebook account, don’t have mxit and because I have a qwerty keyboard ‘phone always write everything in full.
In business even sms’s should be composed as formal business communications IMO.
All these birthdays, I don’t know – Happy B’day to all living or passed on. We had a talk at my kids school on Monday (yes, I am obviously a lot younger and better looking than you, GBS) about this sms/mxit language malarky going on. THe lecturer held up a poster and asked the adults to read it. Not one could understand it as it was in this funny language they use. He then asked the 1st 12 yo kid he saw to read it – not a problem. Really sad thing is that some of this language is starting to creep into the Oxford English Dictionary now. Imagine the school English Curriculum in 10 years time!!!
Oh yes, heart wants Sharks to win, heads thinks Lions could sneak this on by the smallest of margins. I am really enjoying the Lions style of play, so would not be too upset if the steal this one
@ grootblousmile:
@ Scrumdown:
Fark, but you guys sound like a proper bunch of moaning old fogies! Hope I’m don’t become like that when I’m your age
@ Just For Kicks:
Just the opposite for me – heart the Lions but think the Sharks will just be too strong.
22 @ The_Young_Turk:
How do I say Fark you in SMS / Mxit shit?
Anyway, this old fogie needs to go put on some of his best duds for tonight’s function
LENMFGAVTYT
(Lag ek nou my flokken gat af vir The Young Turk)
@ grootblousmile:
You write “FU”
25 @ The_Young_Turk:
FU
CU
(See You)
GM
(Gooooooooooooi Mieliesssssssss)
@ grootblousmile:
Ciao bru. Enjoy!
Just read this on the wires – you old boys better get your eyes checked before it happens to you!!!
“What began as a harmless night of casual paid-for sex turned into a magical mystery adventure that has landed a Zimbabwean man in court charged with bestiality.
Sunday Moyo claims he picked up a female prostitute for 25 Zim Dollars one evening at a bar in down town Zvishavane, but was so inebriated that he forgot most of what subsequently happened. Next morning, his neighbours angrily accused him of having sex with a donkey that was found tied up near his house, before calling the police. Now on trial, in his defence he claims he’s pretty sure it was a human woman the night before, and some sort of magic must be involved, naturally.
It doesn’t end there: After being arrested, Moyo has subsequently admitted he has fallen in love with his erstwhile hooker/donkey, and may be a donkey himself.
“I think I am also a donkey. I do not know what happened when I left the bar, but I am seriously in love with [the] donkey.”
Perhaps not a donkey, but definitely an ass. The trial continues.”
@ Just For Kicks:
Easy to discover the truth. Just check if he is hung like a donkey……
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