Player Movements
If YOU were made the consultant to assist Peter de Villiers what would you do? Lets see what Rugby-Talk bloggers have up their sleeve. A few rules apply.
Result of Survey Pending
Too few responses on the Survey to get a trend. We are certainly not blaming the same things for our poor Tri Nation performance.
Auckland – The All Blacks have topped a list of the greatest chokers in sport, beating the likes of golfer Greg Norman and the Proteas cricket team.
It’s Monday and I feel less than productive at work… so why don’t we design a few INNOVATIVE ways how WE would have handled Peter de Villiers’ review procedure…
Short and sweet, this is what Divvie serves South Africans after yet another Tri-Nations loss….
I was a loose head prop and don’t pretent to know too much about rugby, but if I was given the opportunity to coach the springboks for a day, here is what I would like to say to them. Continue reading
Last night I watched the semi finals of the IRB Womens Rugby World Cup between France and New Zealand, and England and Australia. New Zealand totally outplayed France and England beat Australia in a typical low scoring Northern hemisphere type of match. Watching these games last night I was terribly disappointed in the lack of eye candy on display. I mean, one would expect a world class event to at least show some semblance of quality, but really, these Rugby games were so error ridden and clumsy, I could not enjoy it. It was frustrating to say the least!
I do not get why women want to play Rugby in any event. Rugby is a collision sport and women are not genetically designed for this type of game. Well, unless you are a Mamma Nonu with breast implants, with nipples harder than nails pointing through your breast pads! Either that girl was on a testosterone high or she was very pleased to be playing the game! Either way, the sheer physical nature of the game is not fitting for women, not to even speak about the type of embarrassing wardrobe malfunctions which may occur. White is just not a fitting colour for a women’s rugby jersey!
Folks, here’s the fabulous 360º Photo of FNB Stadium last Saturday during the Springbok vs All Blacks Tri-Nations Test.
Find yourself in the Stadium, Zoom in, Tag yourself on Twitter or Facebook.
Go onnnnnn, you can do it!
Click on this LINK below or Right Click and choose “Open in New Tab” or “Open in New Window”, not to go away from this page
Peter de Villiers will announce his team on Tuesday. In the meantime lets see who can get it closest. Pick your team and state in the post that that is YOUR FINAL team. I will sort the respective teams and see who understands Peter de Villiers’s thinking the most.
Ok, so on request of grootblousmile here is a thread where we ask you to submit your funniest jokes as a part of Rugby-Talk’s 1st B-Day. Continue reading
Hello friends,
A full year has passed since we started blogging on our home, www.rugby-talk.com
The year flew fast indeed.
Friends,
Birthday celebrations are in order for Rugby-Talk today, we’re a year old, TODAY!!
Happy, happy… and a big thank you!
It’s not often that international rugby journalists have to push and shove to get front-row seats at a test coach’s press conference. Such occasions are generally as alluring as a public stoning, since test coaches are the masters of saying nothing.
Wellington – The Nude Blacks are to meet the Welsh Leeks in a nude rugby international match organised by Otago University students to be held in the New Zealand city of Dunedin on Saturday.
GBS if they dont behave, delete this. Hahahaha. Can not believe it is a curtain raiser before the All Black Test.
One of our fellow bloggers, 4man, mailed me and some others a link of a very High Definition 3D and 360 Degrees Stadium Photograph Combination.
You can pan and zoom right onto your seat position where you will find yourself as clear as day, just before the anthems were sung!
The link is: http://worldcupstadiums.in3sixty.com/gigapixel-images/orlando-stadium-super14-final/
Voor mense begin vloek en skel oor die meriete van Pierre Spies of Duane Vermeulen en elkeen sy eie drom slaan oor hoekom Spies goed of sleg is of oor hoekom Vermeulen goed of sleg is, lees die onderstaande syfers en tabelle deeglik deur.
Julle sal merk dat beide spelers hul sterk- en swakpunte het en dat hulle spel die direkte gevolg is van die patroon waarin die spesifieke speler in sy spanverband speel.
So, sien hierdie vergelyking eerder as iets positiefs as ‘n bepaalde uitspraak oor ‘n speler.
The clever bloggers on Rugby-Talk picked the players’ performances as follows. The Survey stopped early this week at 18:00 Sunday.
The best players in the Super 14 came through stronger in this test against Wales in Cardiff. Form and understanding made the local players outshine the European contingent. The players who made the difference for South Africa was , Victor Matfield, Dewald Potgieter, Danie Roussouw, Ruan Pienaar John Smit and Juan de Jongh.
Rate your players in the poll below.
The Poll closed at 18:00 on Sunday 6 June.
Being the innovaters that they are, Bulls fans have found and mastered the true and correct way to use the instrument of noise…. during the last 2 weeks in Orlando!!
Never say they don’t learn fast!
Here’s how….
One day to go before the Super 14 Final… and all rugby News is bland compared to the expectations we all hold for the Final.
One feels that tension is mounting but that many are too closed-lipped for fear of having too much egg on their faces after the Final.
Supersport dot com Teams of the season and Awards
We can argue till the cows or is that the Bulls come home. Here is a small survey to play with. If you want more questions to be asked suggest them in the comments. I know that all Bulls supporters will vote for the Bulls and so will the Stormers vote for their team. So please put in your name in the appropriate box.
Voting Closed
For Results of voting click Read More
Durban Bulle is almost untouchable in our pool. A posible 4.5 points can be scored if one picks the winner , the margin and bonus point on your own. Loosehead can beat him if Durban Bulle scores 0 and Loosehead takes the maximum 4.5 points available.
We wish Durban Bulle luck in the Global Standing , where he is in with a good chance to win that title.
Nerves will be shot. Use this thread to break tension. Make Jokes. Laugh. Moan. Complain. Do anything. Be witty. Paste the best quotes. Share you jokes. Just do not try Nonu,s language.
To break away from the serious stuff surrounding the Semi-Finals this article will start with surveys to determine various sought after titles and some not so glamorous titles in this years Super 14 Competition.
We will cover South African awards and International ones too. The list of categories follow below.
Second Survey – Nominations start Tomorrow
Plonker of the year(rugby) closing date after Semi finals
Plonker of the year(media) closing date after Semi finals
First Survey – Most exciting Team – REDS
Met die Bulls vs Stormers wedstryd slegs 2 weke weg het ek op die TIPIESE Stormers mentaliteit in Parow afgekom….
Time to pick your best SA performers of the weekend. Great play by the 3 winning South African teams, Stormers, Cheetahs and Bulls will make this week a tough call. Add to that some great individual performances by players in the two other South African teams, the Lions and Sharks and one should expect a lot of changes to last week’s team.
I played with the results in the Super 14 competition and came up with these interesting facts. Well, off course because they look so favourable for the Bulls, that’s why I publish them. I realise that this means sweet blue nothing in the next few weeks.
OK, the Naffs and Tik-adicts from the Cape, the Half-cocked Rooinek-poachers from Natal, the Gatgrawers and Damduikers from Sodom & Gemorrah, the Riemrukkers from the Flat Earth Society in the armsalige Freestate as well as those wonderful Dutchmen with the Artificial Balls and hefty wives up North…. here is the opportunity to let off some steam again, with impunity.
The rules are simple and meant for those who can bloody read… here they are:
The players we picked are listed below. Not a single Bulls player, second time this year. Surely we are the underdogs now, backs to the wall. Even the Lions have a player in there, whoow. What a fall from grace.
10 Stormer players who deserve their places , another first.
This weekend we had two good South African teams and two not so good ones. Make your picks for our own Rugby-Talk team of the week.
When submitting your results, kindly use your NICKNAME under “Name”, it is not needed or necessary to complete E-mail Addresses. This is important, kindly comply!
Survey is closed, our panel of expert Rugby-Talk bloggers picked the best performers of the past weekend.
Time to play selector. Hope some who found it difficult to pick last week is inspired this week. I expect a lot of new names and changes.
When submitting your results, kindly use your NICKNAME under “Name”, it is not needed or necessary to complete E-mail Addresses. This is important, kindly comply!
It was extremely difficult for some to pick the best performers of the week. All Bulls supporters went through this a few weeks ago. It is hard when your provincial glasses must be taken off.
Time to pick this weekends best performing players. No player from The Stormers appeared on the field because they had a deserved rest week, so a lot of changes to last weeks team must be made. Enjoy your chance to be a selector. team will be announced tomorrow evening after the Varsity Cup Final.
We could not reach consensus on certain positions.
Lets debate it further and pick again in the blank positions.