I was working today and almost every Sport bulletin on the Radio asked this question, Will they drop Ntini? The decision according to Smith on News24 is not in his hands. He even describe it as “sensitive”. When does the player become more important than the team. My feeling about Ntini is that he is one of our best players but that his current form is not at Test level.
From Monday we will be flooded by Rugby news. We will hear who is injured , we will hear how well conditioned or not the players are. The debates will start again. Who must be rested. Who did take a long enough break. Light will be shed on how players will be managed. Yes King Rugby will slowly take its rightful place.
But before that, how do we see the England Cricket tour panning out? What can we expect? Is there a way back for the Proteas?
With all the partying and recovery from all the eating and drinking, this message is a teeny weeny bit late… but still on the 1st of January 2010, can you bloody believe it!
Happy happy and a prosperous New Year, rugby friends, muppits, moepels and mopkoppe!
Now watch the video, dammit!
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Gooi Mielies!!!
A look back at some of the bits I remember best – actually, the bits I remember at all.
By Kevin McCallum, IOL
As told by Harold Holmes, from what he could remember, and learned from older members of the club. Continue reading
Blatantly plagiarised from elsewhere – still amusing nonetheless 🙂
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This is the first of a series of articles on the SA Franchises that I am going to place in preparation for the 2010 Super 14 competition, being the last of its kind before the evil conference system takes over in 2011.
Obviously everyone posting here is an expert. Whether that expertise lies in rugby we will find out during the course of the season, so I have taken it upon myself to give everyone a breakdown of the contenders, unbiased of course, a reminder of who’s who in the showpiece of Southern Hemisphere rugby, especially for my esteemed light-blue colleagues in the Pretoria-Clan, yes boys, there are other teams competing in the Super 14 as well. Continue reading
Here are some humor that i have found on the net. Continue reading
The South African Proteas take on England in the 2nd 5-day Test of the series of 4 Tests, after drawing the 1st Test in Centurion. This is the traditional Boxing Day Test and this year it takes place in Durban at Kingsmead. This is your match thread for discussion of the game.
At this time of the year everyone wants to pick their “Team of the year” , “Team of the decade” and so on. I wont try it because it is anyway just My Team, everyone else will have His or Her own team. What I am going to do is post a few opinions about the South African players that get into most teams. Always nice to hear the praise words. This year we had a quite few outstanding players. The one I miss is Heinrich Brussow, maybe only because Richy McCaw has such enormous status. But Heinrich your time will come.
The article and discussion we had about player burnout by Dr Tim Noakes made the News in New Zealand today. It gave John Smit a bit of a tongue lashing.
As for Springbok captain Smit, Noakes was scathing.
It’s said money makes the world go round. And, it’s money that the Border Bulldogs need if they are to at least hold their own on the rugby field.
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I went and scouted for some Christmas Humour, seeing that the rugby news is rather DEAD…. and found the following! After all it is the season to be naughty… or is it perhaps jolly….. or jolly naughty?
South Africa might currently have the World Cup and the tri-nations title and been voted the 2009 IRB Team of the Year – but there can be little doubt New Zealand have been the Team of the Decade despite missing out on two World Cups won by England (2003) and South Africa (2007) respectively.
Watch this video… well let it “buffer” well, otherwise it plays in fits and stops and starts often… oh and by now you all should have Adobe Flash Player installed on your PC’s, if not download it from: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP
It’s free and perfectly safe!
Murray Mexted former All Blacks No 8, and currently TV commentator, has advice for Piet de Villiers.
He feels that the Boks will need to ad more dimensions than the cautious kick and chase approach to their game, to build on their successful 2009 campaigns. Scoring more tries will be vital. Continue reading
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Fanie Louw by Doc Craven
Fanie, Boy’s brother, was a little bit shorter than Boy and not quite as versatile a player, but he had a very jovial manner, always well liked, and forever up to some kind of mischief.
I found this article quite entertaining. I know we can add a lot more. I bet we will be able to add 50 more before Christmas.
This is a bit old, seeing it was announced on the 15th, but I would like GBS,s and other Blue Bull supporters comments on this. The rest can debate or attack our view with pleasure, just remember Bulls supporters have memories like elephants. What you say might be held against you in a “stadium of reality” like Loftus.
Care of http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/
WHEN the Waratahs first spoke to second-rower Hendrik Roodt about the possibility of playing for NSW, one of the first things they asked was how he would feel about facing former Bulls teammates Bakkies Botha and Victor Matfield in Pretoria; his response: “I is happy to play in Australia”. Continue reading
NZRU president John Sturgeon will represent the New Zealand rugby community delivering birthday wishes & a special All Blacks cake to NZ’s oldest living All Black, Eric Tindill, who turns 99 on Friday.
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Our old ‘friend’ Mike Stofile popped up again, this time to let us know he is throwing his hat into the ring for the presidency of SA Rugby when new officials are elected next year. What a surprise! Continue reading
The last two weeks which should have been a quiet time for rugby in Oz but was ruffled by some weird claims about two young guns in Australian rugby. Continue reading
The first of 4 full blown 5-day Tests between the Proteas and England at SuperSport Park, Centurion on 16 December 2009 at 10:30 SA Time. This is the match thread for the game which will have some score updates from time to time.
The International Rugby Board and the International Rugby Players’ Association have launched the IRPA Try of the Year 2009.
Proteas’ skipper Graeme Smith played down suggestions that South Africa is under-prepared ahead of the first Test against England due to start at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Wednesday.
Former Western Province Springbok scrumhalf Bolla Conradie (31), will turn out for the Boland Kavaliers in the Absa Currie Cup’s First Division next season.
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Rugby-Talk is going to have it’s own unique version of AWARDS for the year…. but we’re going to be radically different about it… watch this space
This time of year we usually get the ‘awards’ columns from rugby journalists or experts, I am neither so I won’t bore you with another one. Continue reading
A little insight into the SA rugby supporters……. Continue reading
Former Springbok and Blue Bull scrumhalf Piet Uys passed away yesterday morning after a long illness.
Uys, who turned 72 on Thursday, was a legend in Northern Transvaal and Blue Bulls rugby circles, having played 12 tests and 17 tour matches for the Springboks as a scrumhalf in his career.
Day 2 of the IRB George Sevens today. There were a few surprises yesterday, with Samoa beating New Zealand and Kenia drawing 12 / 12 with the Springboks. This highlights the closeness or competative nature of Seven’s Rugby, one cannot relax for a second!
So much was said about the management of our Springboks here. Many agreed that the players must be properly managed to make it to 2011 Rugby World Cup. Others denied the fatigue factor. We throw stones at SARU, Peter de Villiers and anyone else we think has created this long International season. Then we putt up a poll and guess what?
Well, this is the last real taste of rugby for us in the Southern Hemisphere till preparations for the Super 14 gets serious with the warm-up games during late January 2010…. so let’s go full-out here, support the Team, blog like crazy.
The George 7’s is the 2nd Tournament in the yearly circuit of the IRB 7’s Competition. Last week the All Blacks won the 1st Tournament at Dubai.