Bulls burnt as Chiliboy crashes

22 Jan 2008

The Bulls’ already worrying injury situation was compounded yesterday when Chiliboy Ralepelle left training having injured the same knee that has kept him sidelined for nine months.

Ralepelle tore his cruciate knee ligament early in last year’s Super 14 and hasn’t played since. With Gary Botha’s departure for the London-based Harlequins, Ralepelle was expected to be the first-choice hooker.

Derick Kuün filled the role in the Currie Cup but his stint only reinforced the widely held view that he would be better suited to the flank, where he starred for the SA U21s. James van der Walt, signed from the Lions last year, has hardly had any game time in either the Currie Cup or Super 14 and would be a risky option for the Bulls.

Bulls team doctor Tommie Smook played down concerns about Ralepelle saying he would be out for around two weeks.

“It looks like a medial ligament and not the cruciate that he tore last year, but I’ll have to wait until the swelling subsides to know for sure,” Smook told keo.co.za. “If that’s the case we’re talking a few weeks out of the game, not months.”

Bulls coach Frans Ludeke will be concerned at how many of his key players are injured just three weeks from the start of the Super 14. Already Bakkies Botha and Gurthro Steenkamp are almost certain to miss start of the tournament, while Pierre Spies’ availability depends on the result of tests that will conducted at the end of January.

“They’ll do a few blood tests and scans to reconfirm that their is no longer a problem with Pierre,” Smook said of the Springbok loose forward who, in August last year, was diagnosed with blood clots on his lungs.

“From there the specialist will decide whether he requires further treatment on the blood thinning medication or whether he is fit to play. If he doesn’t get a clean bill of health there he’ll have another round of tests at the end of February, and I’m optimistic that those tests will show he has recovered.”

By Ryan Vrede


576 Comments

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  • 501.Steyn The Blue Bull: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:45 pm

    Pietman,

    Ek kan onthou toe begin rook het…was daar n klein cafe in PTA stad…daai man daar het altyd Malboro gekry…het dit so onder die counter verkoop…en later het my een oom by die lughawe gewerk…hy het altyd vir my gekry….het een keer die goed gekoop wat hulle nou hier het…nooit weer nie…bly maar by die Camel

  • 502.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:45 pm

    Jinx, Tony Moneo

    That song is replaying in my head, time after time, at the moment…it’s real amazing.

    It brings back so many memories, like just driving out into the middle of nowhere, finding a river or a dam somewhere, and sommer swimming kaalgat with your goose, having a picnic with some cheap red plonk on the grass…ah man, life is great!

  • 503.katman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:45 pm

    Get in the saddle with Paul Revere…

  • 504.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:46 pm

    WPTID

    Tassies.

  • 505.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:47 pm

    500# WP
    Netso!
    Moenie die Muispisbos naby Lambertsbaai vergeet nie, en die Astoria Hotel op Carnarvon!
    CAO is n beroemde rugbyplek, die SA rekord vir die meeste punte in n SA eerste liga wedstryd is daar opgestel. Dit word selfs vermeld in n rugbykroeg in Carnarvon, n dorpie in die Skotse hooglande.

  • 506.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:49 pm

    Steyn
    Daai Griek by Sunnyside Kafee het altyd regte Marlboro gehad.
    Het altyd Sondae daar by hom gekoop.

  • 507.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:49 pm

    Jinx

    The one and only…the classic!

    Mind you, sometimes you were lucky and the Tassies was amazing!

    It did vary greatly in quality though, still does.

    It was always great at Stellies, buying a bottle of Tassies for something ridiculous like R15, then sitting at your table chatting with mates and eventually going through two or three bottles of Tassies in an evening.

  • 508.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:49 pm

    Katman

    Yeah…when Paul revere rode from Charlestown to Boston or whatever.

    Remember Hunter cigarettes. “You can’t steal Hunter’s taste, you can’t steal Hunter’s fla-vooouur.”

  • 509.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:50 pm

    WPTID, that was one awesome add, I agree.

    Remember the Castle ad with the guys braaing next to the airport runway with the portable tv?
    More than a feeling – Boston

    Wow, that was great.

  • 510.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:50 pm

    I was shocked when I saw last year they charge something like £5 or £6 for a bottle of Tassies in London.

    Still a lot cheaper than other wines there, though…

  • 511.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:51 pm

    Tony Moneo

    I must say, there have been some great SAB ads.

    That one where they use “Africa” by Toto…beautiful too.

  • 512.4teen: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:52 pm

    Pietman!

    Stuur my bietjie `n e-possie… ek het jou vorige mail verloor. Ek het weer `n paar diere wat ek vir jou wil aanstuur.

    Cheers!

  • 513.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:52 pm

    Can you remember Raadsaal coffee?

    Er…3 Trees Tea?

    Er…Pepsident Toothpaste? Or Signal Toothpaste? ( with the red stripe)

  • 514.Steyn The Blue Bull: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:53 pm

    ok mense…ek is weg…geniet dit…met al die reen…gaan ek nou eers bietjie in die traffic speel..

    cheers mense laat dit goed gaan

  • 515.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:53 pm

    WPTID
    Dave Stewart, Christian se oom en een van die oorspronklike eienaars van Logan Sports in die Kaap (waar Jinx se oom Alan al jare bestuurder is), het op Carnarvon vir Caltex gewerk.
    Hulle het tot onlangs nog n ‘Dave Stewart Rugbydag’ daar gehad, en dan het Villagers daar kom speel, met Mike English en HO de Villiers as busbestuurder en drinkafrigter van die span!

  • 516.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:54 pm

    4teen
    Maak so, en stuur my sommer die nuutste Pathfinder specs ook!

  • 517.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:54 pm

    Pietman

    What about Tubby Teubes…

  • 518.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:56 pm

    WPTID, I was thinking about that one too!!! I actually contacted SAB a few years ago to see if I could get the ads on dvd but they couldn`t help.

  • 519.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:57 pm

    Jinx
    Teubes, the front ranker?
    Was he from Carnarvon as well?
    The oke from Old Mutual?

  • 520.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:57 pm

    “Good pure strong Virginia. The wine for men who enjoy being men”.

    “Pure VIRGINIA is the wine for men who enjoy living life to the full…and have the strength to do it…”

    And then the picture of a guy flexing his right bicep…

  • 521.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:58 pm

    Cheers Steyntjie, ek is ook op pad.

    Thanks for the walk down memory lane everybody. Today was a really cool day here.

  • 522.trupisero...almalsemoerebehalwemyne!!: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:58 pm

    hallo everyone.

    quick look in before closing time.

    speaking of ads – I always wanted to be in a Mainstay / Peter Stuyvesant ad.

  • 523.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:59 pm

    Pietman

    No. 8. Was captain of Villagers and WP B.

  • 524.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:01 pm

    Must make like Levi’s and fade…I need to do some shopping at Gardens Centre.

    Cheers dudes and dudesses.

  • 525.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:02 pm

    Pietman

    Drinkafrigter? Lekker! Baie belangrike rol daai…

    Jinx

    This talk of Tassies makes me think of that poem by Adam Small, contained in his book “Kitaar my Kruis”:

    lat die wêreld ma’ praat pêllie los en vas
    ‘n sigaretjie en ‘n kannetjie Oem Tas
    en dis all right pêllie dis all right
    ons kannie worry nie

    ‘n sigaretjie en ‘n kannetjie Oem Tas
    en ‘n lekker meid en lekker anner dinge
    oe!
    lat die wêreld ma’ praat pêllie los en vas
    wat daarvan
    wat daarvan
    wat maak dit saak?
    soes die Engelsman sê it cuts no ice
    die Here het gaskommel
    en die dice het verkeerd gaval vi’ ons
    daai’s maar al

    so lat hulle ma’ sê skollie pêllie
    never mind
    daar’s mos kinners van Gam en daar’s kinners van Kain
    so dis all right pêllie dis all right

  • 526.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:03 pm

    Jinx
    The last time I went to Carnarvon for the Dave Stewart Day, Trevor Pannack was cappie, the hooker, Roy Mac and Grant Abernethy half backs, Bruce (that WP cricketer, the burly one, was one of the centers) and would you believe Brian O’ Miles and Frans Oescher (the boytjie from the Tiger Norwood incident) were the wings!
    Tiny Neethling, team manager (he worked for Ransom way back then) insisted that we had Port and Castle Stout (mixed) in the Astoria Hotel before the game, it was a bleak, cold and blistery Karoo day.
    But what a jol!

  • 527.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:05 pm

    525, WPTID, dit was flippin awesome….

  • 528.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:05 pm

    Pietman

    Wanneer is jy onder in die Kaap. Ek is vanaf 15-25 Feb in Langebaan

  • 529.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:07 pm

    Man, today was spent on Nostalgia Avenue.

    I feel like a drink now. Pity they don’t serve Lion Lager anymore.

  • 530.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:07 pm

    pauld
    4 tot 26 Feb.
    Sal jou later my telnr mail, ek het jou addie by Norm gekry.

  • 531.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:08 pm

    529 BUT THEY DO!!! I bought a box of 6 Lions in December at the local!!! Commemorative Edition!

  • 532.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:08 pm

    #530 Pietman

    Ons moet definitief by mekaar uitkom.

  • 533.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:09 pm

    WP 530#
    Lion Lager?
    No more?

  • 534.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:11 pm

    Dis lankal uit die shops uit Pietman, maar ek het in Desember weer `n paar gekry. Moes net koop en `n lekker nostalgiese sopie vat.

  • 535.katman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:11 pm

    Down a Lion. Feel satisfied.

  • 536.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:12 pm

    Ok, I must go!

    Cheers guys

  • 537.4teen: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:12 pm

    Pietman!

    Jy het mail…

  • 538.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:12 pm

    Pietman,

    Yip, they tried to rebrand with a blue and silver can to attract younger drinkers, but it failed.

    They took it off the market in 2003, I think. Lion Lager was first brewed and sold in 1889, I think.

  • 539.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:12 pm

    #535 Katman

    LION the old no.17 or Let Indians Own Natal

  • 540.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:13 pm

    Tony
    Nou wat nou?
    Laas toe ek in SA was, was dit nog beskikbaar in so n snaakse blink blikkie.
    Heng, ek onthou Lion Ale, dit was n lekker bier altyd, veral die Natalse ene.

  • 541.katman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:15 pm

    539 – LOL

    My dad used to drink Krönenbrau, but they took it off the market here before I reached full beer drinking maturity. Apparently ’twasn’t bad.

  • 542.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:15 pm

    Nou wat drink man nou by die huis daar in die donkerte?
    Is daar darem nog Castle?
    Ek gaan nie weer so lank wegbly nie, dinge verander te veel tuis as ek nie n ogie hou nie, lyk my.

  • 543.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:17 pm

    #541 Katman

    Kronenbrau 1308. Remember when Louis Luyt started Colt 45 beer. Followed by Stallion 54. SAB waited for him to set up his bottling plant then the next day introduced the screw-top dumpy. His beer biz folded overnight

  • 544.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:18 pm

    katman
    Kronenbrau was an excellent beer.
    Robbie Blair and Andries Krogmann (nowadays at Paarl Rock) used to be the reps in the Cape Pen.
    I remember they used to have wagons with tankards pulled by white horses, and German girls dishing out free cups of beer in Voortrekker Rd once.

  • 545.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:19 pm

    #544 Pietman

    Yes those German chicks with the plaited armpits and barbed wire unterhosen

  • 546.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:20 pm

    “When former fertiliser king Louis Luyt entered the mass beer market with Luyt Breweries in the 1970s, SAB successfully countered Luyt’s Colt 45 by launching Stallion 54, resulting in a court battle.”

  • 547.katman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:20 pm

    Ah, sounds like my kind of beer. Although I must admit I’m more than happy with good old Windhoek Lager. It’s everything I want in a beer.

  • 548.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:20 pm

    Luyt Lager en Whitbread, beide LL biere.
    Dit was die kukste bier uit.
    Rogue was egter goed (daai lange met die olifant op).

  • 549.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:21 pm

    “1972: South African market sees the entrance of a new, but short-lived local competitor – Luyt Breweries – salvaged and revitalised within a year by the Rembrandt Group as Intercontinental Breweries. (The so-called “beer wars” raged on for some seven years, generating unprecedented interest in beer and stimulating marketing sophistication and innovation never seen before.)”

  • 550.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 17:22 pm

    Louis Luyt…’hy maak hom die pes by die blek en die kuk by die sak’, het ou Simon gese.

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