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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  • 401.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:45 pm

    pauld
    How about a Lieberstein rather, or a cold Paarl perle?
    I personally would go for an Oom Tas or Golden Dice, a vyfbottle kan…

  • 402.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:45 pm

    Pauld # 395

    What about Virginia wine with that radio jingle…Thew wine for men who love being men.

    Or what about… Oom Tas. ****, kill your gut stuff.

  • 403.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:46 pm

    Pauld and Pietman

    A bit of Springbok Radio for you. With Dulcie Van der Berg.

    Hospitaaltyd:

    Daar’s ‘n lied en ‘n glimlag vir jou,
    In Hospitaal Tyd, onthou,
    Verkleur die wolke van grys tot blou,
    In Hospitaal Tyd, onthou,
    Vanaf Maandag tot Vrydag, om half-een
    Is daar musiek vir moeder, vader – en dogter en seun,
    Ja daar’s ‘n lied en ‘n glimlag vir jou,
    In Hospitaal Tyd, onthou!

  • 404.puff: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:46 pm

    Anyone read how Drotske’s trying to lure Paulse to play for the Cheetahs this year as a fullback option.

    With Fortuin and Hollenbach injured, there’s just Daniller.

    I think Paulse would add necessary experience to the Cheetahs backline. And the guy’s got a serious boot on him.

    Would love Breyton to say yes.

  • 405.vloervreter: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:47 pm

    Oom Tas, die man met die groot hoed en die groen oortjie.

  • 406.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:47 pm

    Katman

    I like that unintended pun of being stuck in Stilfontein. Staan Stil in Stilfontein. Would prefer De Aar vir the okes.
    All the Bulls/Cheetah okes know De Aar well. They take part in that rally from Parys na De Aar every year in their Ford XR6 interceptors

  • 407.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:48 pm

    #402

    I used to always think that it was the wine for men who enjoyed other men

  • 408.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:48 pm

    Pietman and Pauld

    Or you can have “So maak mens” with Esme Euvrard and Jan Cronje.

  • 409.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:48 pm

    NOW I’ve seen it all … HOSPITAALTYD!!

  • 410.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:49 pm

    Vyfster!

    That was a good show, and I really digged the theme music.

  • 411.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:50 pm

    For after action satisfaction…light a Lexington…LEXINGTON…Thaaaaaaat’s the one!

  • 412.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:50 pm

    gerber, then don`t label Spies a great either. capiche?

  • 413.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:50 pm

    What was that one with the guys on the border?

    Was that also Esme?

  • 414.katman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:50 pm

    In die bar op De Aar
    sit ons almal bymekaar
    en ons wag op die trein
    na wie weet waar.

  • 415.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:51 pm

    #401 Pietman

    Toe ek op skool was het ek in Langebaan se offsales gewerk. Die bestsellers daar was Honey Blossom en Voorslag. Daardie goed kon die chrome van n towhitch afbrand en die enamel van jou tande. Pure assyn

  • 416.katman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:51 pm

    Filter or straight… men rate Gunston great!

  • 417.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:52 pm

    Jinx
    Daasit, Virginia, hel ek het gesukkel om daai ene te kry.
    En n lekker Lexington agterna, ‘After action satisfaction’, of
    “Give a man a Lucky, Lucky Strike’.
    Of Rembrandt van Rhyn, “Elke hoes n meesterstuk’,
    of Paarl Cigarettes, ‘So koel soos n bergbrand’…

  • 418.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:52 pm

    #413 Dawn

    Fun with the Forces

    Join de Force for Intercourse

  • 419.katman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:53 pm

    Dis My Geheim…

    …met Aalwyn Lee, Cybil Coetzee and Karel Trichard.

  • 420.vloervreter: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:53 pm

    Die Wildtemmer, storie op Springbok Radio

  • 421.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:53 pm

    Nee man. It was almost like hospitaaltyd maar dit was vir die ouens op die border.

  • 422.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:54 pm

    #417

    The next best thing to a lexington isssssss another lexington.

    Favourite radio add of all time was the Gunston (cough like a cannon) where they play the clip from the tabacco auction , 3 , 4 , 344 sold to Gunnnnnstonnnnnnnnnn

  • 423.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:54 pm

    Gooi the Brylcreem my bru or Vitalis.

    Before Jik there was Gillettes Javel.

    New Ransom select…miracle filter.

    Or…Rothman’s King Size…really satisfies.

  • 424.vloervreter: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:54 pm

    Bog met blou Maandag

    Staal Burger

    Squad Cars

  • 425.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:54 pm

    Who stil remembers Bill Davis and that Portuguese girl from LM Radio?
    What was her name, a real looker, she was,
    Evelyn Martin, no?

  • 426.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:55 pm

    Squad Cars.

  • 427.katman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:55 pm

    And that’s the reason why
    We’re going to light up the sky
    We’re gonna taste America
    My Winstons and I

  • 428.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:55 pm

    they prowl the empty streets at night , waiting in fast cars or on foot , these are the men from SQUAD CARSSSSS

  • 429.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:55 pm

    Wie onthou Willem met Tobie Cronje?

  • 430.bluebarb: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:57 pm

    HOE GAAN FIT MET TRIXIE SE SPENE!!??

    ek skree nie ema…

  • 431.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:57 pm

    #429 Tony M

    Tobie Cronje. As Samson Tobie se kakebeen gehad het dan het hy 100,000 filistyne dood gemoer

  • 432.bluebarb: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:58 pm

    anybody remember Captain Cremmin(?) on (then) Radio 5?

  • 433.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:58 pm

    Paul Revere cigarettes.

    Idlewild Menthol

    Craven A ( those thin jobs) Both regular and menthol)Yak!!

  • 434.ruck: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:58 pm

    Tony, When Greatest appears, all one has to do in silence is THANK THE NZ GOVT for granting him residence over there…….This tends to make me feel way better about his sour, bitter and distasteful commentary on all things local……

  • 435.bluebarb: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:59 pm

    431, nie as hy ook Tobie se gewrigte gehad het nie.

  • 436.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:59 pm

    ‘Liefdeslied’, met Jan Cronje, the thing ran for as long as I can remember (13 years?), and that flippin’ ‘Du Plooys from Soetmelksvlei’!
    I can still picture my grandmother in front of the old Pilot set, transfixed….that theme song was enough to drive me out of the house at three o’clock in the afternoon and start smoking Gold Dollar Plain at a tender age….

  • 437.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:59 pm

    #433

    All time best was Gold Dollar. In red or blue in packets of 10. Started smoking them at the age of 13

  • 438.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 15:59 pm

    Katman # 427

    F#cking classic.

  • 439.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:00 pm

    And the Omo ad where they had this m**rse sheet that they washed in a public swimmingpool!

  • 440.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:00 pm

    Pauld

    Me too. Cavalla 10′s too.

  • 441.katman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:01 pm

    Ha Ha, Jinx.

    Rodeo, stock cars, big trucks…. and Winston.

  • 442.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:02 pm

    Westminister ’85′ was a good starter too, or Cavalla Oval, 1 shilling three pence a pack of 30′s.

  • 443.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:02 pm

    431 and 435, classic!!!!

  • 444.Tony Moneo: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:05 pm

    ruck, I thank them everyday….

  • 445.bluebarb: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:05 pm

    my grandfather smoked Gold Dollar plain, annd my Oupa smoked Horseshoe pyptwak.

    that stuff would f@ck the marlboro man up six ways from sunday.

  • 446.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:07 pm

    #439

    That wasn’t omo. That was White Giant. with miners and cows walking all over it

  • 447.jack35: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:07 pm

    best sa tv ad ever:

    “its not inside its onnnnnn top!!!”

    cremora, pure koffiekapitaal

  • 448.greatest13gerber: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:09 pm

    Tony, surely you can’t compare Spies to Chillyboy??

    what exactly is great about Chillyboy??. He excelled at age group level. FACT.Lets wait til the boy goes thru S14 first. We all know Spies is going to be a great player.

    Ruck,

    Please don’t draw to racist conclusions regarding my analysis of Spies. We should be above that.

  • 449.Pietman: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:09 pm

    Bluebarb
    Nee, die sterkste sigaret was ‘Five Star, so n blou pak met vyf rooi sterre op.
    Ek het eenmaal daar op Nylstroom een gerook tydens n skoolkamp, jy sien sterre ek beloof jou.
    Pyptwak?
    Springbok of Black and White, lelike goete gewees daai.

  • 450.pauld: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2008, 16:09 pm

    Speaking of OMO and White Giant. When Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980 the first thing he did was ban SUPER BLUE SURF. It made the whites whiter , the coloureds brighter and did F… All for the blacks

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