I think this will endear P de Villiers to the players – good on him.

Next time the BILs tour they wil ask the Boks to wear tutus and ballet dancing shoes.

you cannot reason with him … he is a one-eyed little mick with a lonely drum to bang and only one tune to play…

Lol! “Punching, gouging, kicking, raking and so on have always been part of the game and they will always be”.

spoken like a true Bokke!

The problem is that the rest of the world think that Bokke thuggery has no place in the modern game. Clean up your act or it will be cleaned up for you.

If you have then stop complaining. Burger got what he deserved because he got caught. If you are saying that the BILs are angels and only play by teh rules and the Boks are heathens then talk to someone who has played some real rugby in SA on tour 20 years ago. Punching, gouging, kicking, raking and so on have always been part of the game and they will always be. Locks are notrious dogs when it come to that. If you cannot accept that then maybe you should change your sport of favour to rythmic gymnastics.

who bit who in the testicles? the only testicular action was from sheridan… I love the way you make it look like the “thuggery was one-sided” also was what de villiers said worse than phillips’ comments after the game…. he basically called the ref a cheat…this is why playing the ritish and Irish sides is getting boring… the whine factor and bullsh1t outweighs any enjoyment derived from the experience…

See my earlier post regarding fighting fire with fire. It is going to happen.

That Squirrel Sheridan was not cited only goes to show that with the benefit of the tape the commissioner saw all the other punches going in that he could not single out any particular person without citing the majority of the Bokke team and I dare say a fair few of the Lions teams. You will recall that the Lions players said that they were amongst other thing, being punched off the ball all the time.

To say that Burger unintentionally got hold of Fitzy’s head, then place, again unintentionally whilst looking at what he was doing, continue to rub his fingers in Fitzy’s eye area before Fitzy managed to get him off is quite frankly a lie of biblical proportions, and are not worthy of any further comment, save that the disciplinary committee thought it was gouging, handed down a 2 month sentence, and the Bokke management agree that it was gouging as they are not appealing it. Yet strangely, you and some of the other head banging Dutchm@n on here don’t.

You will tell me next that Hitler and the nazi didn’t really kill 6 million Jews next.

a very obvious place to deliberately do it right in front of the touch judge and ref ….. watching the replay does not confirm any kind of intent…. the point is though … he broke the law and he has been punished to continue to harp on is nonsensical… also there was plenty of thuggery from the lions…to suggest otherwise is delusional…

In fairness mate, and I say this as a liberal Irish man, PDV is not helping himself at the moment.

Many in the western press, were supportive of PDV’s appointment in spite of the political nature of it and have desperately wanted it to work but PDV isolated them all, at one fell stroke when he said amongst other things, eye-gouging and all other Bokke thuggery was perfectly acceptable. He told them further that they should wear a tutu and take up ballet dancing if they didn’t like it.

What is undeniably true, is that if he was the coach of any of the home Unions he would have been sacked on the spot for those remarks alone.

Perhaps you can tell me why he is not been sacked when anyone in the northern hemisphere would have been sacked for those off the wall comments.

See my comments at [ ] above about this being a fight for rugby soul. The reason it is because if Bokke thuggery continues it will spread to other teams because other teams will have no option but to fight fire with fire.

I would not be surprised if the Lions decide to do that this Saturday. They certainly took the view that if someone punched them they would punch back.

Will they eye-gouge and testicular bite back too? I should think that it is only a matter of time before someone does back to the Bokkes what they have done to other people. I know if someone eye gouged me I would rip them a new one.

They have re-opened a Pandora’s box of thuggery which could lead to the game regressing a decade or more in terms of levels of foul play. Was winning the Lions series really worth doing this to rugby and suffering the consequences of the fallout?

I will say it loud and clear:” YOU ARE A BUNCH OF RACIST WHO THINK THAT A COLOURED CANNOT DO ANYTHING GOOD AS A COACH”.

We still have a long way to go in this country…

Don’t you see that this has tarnished rugby in General and Bokke rugby in particular?

Corne Krige Bokke tactics and his apologists should never have made a comeback.

It is apparent to anyone with eyes that saw the incident that Burger intended to Gouge Fitzy. There is simply no doubt whatsoever, yet you, and you are not the worst on here, think he did not, and others on here, as well as P Divvy and his team (I have taken him at his word), think eye-gouging and other thuggery are perfectly acceptable in rugby. The vast majority think there is no place in rugby for the thuggery displayed and condoned on Saturday. A majority of people think it is.

Don’t you get that people who care about rugby know that this is an argument for its soul?

why do you c are so much? you go on and on and on ….have you no life … what he did was wrong, he knows it and has been punished for it, if you knew the guy you would know he would never do it deliberately.. get over yourself…

I totally agree – save that there should be no rucking of someone’s head. Everything else – withing reason and locality of the ball – should be fair game.