Joost given the boot
2 Nov 2009
SuperSport have fired Joost van der Westhuizen as a presenter/commentator after his confessions he made in his biography.
In the book Joost: The Man in the Mirror, the former Springbok scrumhalf admitted that he snorted drugs and featured in a sex video after denying it earlier this year.
SuperSport International spokesperson Clinton van der Berg said they have held meetings with Van der Westhuizen with regards to the matter and the two parties have agreed to part ways.
‘SuperSport has perused extracts from Joost van der Westhuizen’s biography and held discussions with him,’ said Van der Berg. ‘Following those discussions, SuperSport and Joost have mutually agreed to terminate the freelance agreement between them, forthwith.
‘SuperSport thanks Joost for his contributions as a commentator and presenter and wishes him all the best for the future. SuperSport shall make no further comment on this matter.’
Meanwhile, Van der Westhuizen has made a public apology in a recent interview with the Rapport.
‘I am very, very sorry that I lied. Please forgive me,’ he said.
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2 Nov 2009, 12:24 pm
#149 David: Nick Cave isn’t ***.
2 Nov 2009, 12:24 pm
#103 skopskiet:
thats too weak, there are many that control their hormones.
ppl’s trust is at stake, and depending on what sort of person you dealing with, broken trust is more painful than anything else. the cheating husband, dont have anyone else to answer to but himself, i understand it, but you cop the blame. not the hormones fault, but your own.
2 Nov 2009, 12:24 pm
Just ask PJ Harvey.
2 Nov 2009, 12:26 pm
na David Joan Baez the queen of folk and traditional song from Spanish to English folk songs. She had or still has a voice of an angel. Loved Bob Dylan more than he knew what to do with, she actually put him on the map. Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Buffy Saint Marie, all great, but none in Joan’s class for me. Greatest tho was an unknown black ghetto singer by name of Odetta she power punched her soul full voice through the tin shanty walls and onto the Carnegie Hall stage.
2 Nov 2009, 12:27 pm
#146 Ig:
Would you like to join me for full house breakfast in Camps Bay?
2 Nov 2009, 12:28 pm
#149 David:
If Joost was a rock Star he would be Celine Dion
If Joost was a movie star he would be….Person4 run over by truck
If Joost was a Politician………W – the stupidity factor is to hard to miss.
If Joost was an Artist…….he would be living back in Danville with Stan.
2 Nov 2009, 12:28 pm
#155 Dawn: No can do – slaving at the behest of a coporate.
2 Nov 2009, 12:32 pm
#154 skopskiet:
Odetta wasn’t that unknown, but I agree a great voice. For me, Baez’ voice was almost too pure for some of the songs she sang compared to Collins and Buffy.
2 Nov 2009, 12:35 pm
ok cab, so its power of conscience and moral conviction over hormones. Of course the power of rational discrimination says follow the moral law, not the instinctual animal driving fetish. That is of course the model of civilization, yet who amongst us is perfectly civilized, not I said the Walrus to the knave.
Not looking for a cop out, just suggesting look within for perfection, it don’t exist in pedestal platitude parading sports personalities.
2 Nov 2009, 12:35 pm
#150 Ig:
Joost shone in the Greatest Era of 3N Halfbacks. Against the Great Justin and Immortal George.
FdeP does not have this kind of benchmark to judge against.
2 Nov 2009, 12:36 pm
#158 David: I can dig that whole era of folk music and what Joan Baez stood for, but she’s just to shrill and trilly for my liking.
2 Nov 2009, 12:38 pm
#159 skopskiet:
i dont see how anyone needs to look within or be a saint to realise that cheating on your most nearest and dearest, esp if they worship you, is wrong and one of the nastiest selfish things one person can do to another.
2 Nov 2009, 12:38 pm
anyway gotta go do some work, and battery getting low. See you around.
2 Nov 2009, 12:40 pm
#157 Ig:
So am I.
But … that wasn’t the question.
Breakfast or not?
2 Nov 2009, 12:40 pm
Judy Collins kom nie naby Joan Baez’s se hakskene nie.
2 Nov 2009, 12:41 pm
their are consquences to our actions, forgetting about the divinity aspect, morality has grown up as guide to ppl’s happiness, they sow the seeds of their own destruction by doing negative actions and have no-one else to blame but themself.
what i cant understand with these okes is why they simply dont come to some sort of arrangement with their wife that they want to pomp others.
2 Nov 2009, 12:41 pm
#160 cane: Thats a matter of opinion….Justin was trash of the highest order – one only needs to look at the stamping on Kellehers hand at the time he was threatening Justin on his jersey for the AB’s….Gregan on the other hand was a gentleman both on and off the field and by far the better of all three. Joost lost all credability when he went back on his contract with Cardiff (i think) – it was a clear indication that his word meant shite.
2 Nov 2009, 12:42 pm
#160 cane: Yep, Piri Weepu and Richard Wigglesworth don’t quite carry the same aura.
2 Nov 2009, 12:42 pm
You young people know nuttin.
2 Nov 2009, 12:43 pm
#160 cane: You would be hard pressed to find a better srummie in the game in the last 20 years than Fourie Du Preez
2 Nov 2009, 12:43 pm
anyone who thinks Joan Baez is shrill aint heard her sing. She done gigs with Mercedes Sosa on live stage and more than held her own. Voice of a lark or nightingale, one in a billion.
So long, out.
You win cab, no cop out for a cheating husband, none whatsoever.
2 Nov 2009, 12:44 pm
#154 skopskiet:
Chestnut brown canary
Ruby throated sparrow
Sing the song don’t be long
Thrill me to the marrow.
Voices of the angels, ring around the moonlight
Asking me, said she’s so free
How can you catch the sparrow?
Lacy, lilting, lyric, losing love, lamenting
Change my life, make it right
Be my lady.
.Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
By Crosby Stills and Nash.
The Judy is none other the Ms Collins.
2 Nov 2009, 12:44 pm
#168 katman:
Wigglesworth!
I see your point.
2 Nov 2009, 12:44 pm
#160 cane: Mike Phillips gave him a good run for his money.
2 Nov 2009, 12:45 pm
#172 cane:
Ja.
Joan was too classy to sleep with them all.
2 Nov 2009, 12:46 pm
Dawnie ken haar musiek, luister na haar.
2 Nov 2009, 12:46 pm
#168 katman: You playing in the new league?
2 Nov 2009, 12:47 pm
#156 Ig:
I’m beginning to get the picture here Igster.
2 Nov 2009, 12:48 pm
#50 . So is Monica Lewinski still going out with her South African boyfriend, Sakkie de Kok?
2 Nov 2009, 12:49 pm
#173 Dawn: Sounds like one of the Harry Potter clans. It’s almost as bad as the England bowler, Ryan Sidebottom.
I don’t want to even think of the origin of that surname.
2 Nov 2009, 12:49 pm
#179 superba:
lol
2 Nov 2009, 12:50 pm
Joost prefers Judy Boucher.
2 Nov 2009, 12:50 pm
#177 Ig:
Would you like to share Cane’s couch with me?
2 Nov 2009, 12:51 pm
yep cane Suite Judy Blue Eyes well for all I knew it was Ms Mitchell not Ms Collins. After all was her that wrote theme song for Woodstock not ms Collins.
2 Nov 2009, 12:51 pm
#180 katman:
Wigglesworth and Sidebottom.
Attorneys at Large.
2 Nov 2009, 12:52 pm
#184 skopskiet:
Joni Mitchell?
2 Nov 2009, 12:52 pm
#183 Dawn: Sounds like plan – my fiancee might be a little jealous
2 Nov 2009, 12:53 pm
#185 Dawn:
Wigglesworth Sidebottom and Weepu.
2 Nov 2009, 12:56 pm
I can’t believe HM Keo has just rehashed his old “token black player selection” thread.
All he did was change the names from last year.
I ain’t going there.
2 Nov 2009, 12:59 pm
#187 Ig:
OK
This is how you play it.
We share the couch.
Months later, you blame the devil, crystal meth, and write a book.
2 Nov 2009, 12:59 pm
#177 Ig: I don’t think I’m quite there yet. The pick-up games expose me. What day is league?
2 Nov 2009, 13:00 pm
#190 Dawn: Got ya….i will start working on some holey underwear for the tabloids.
2 Nov 2009, 13:01 pm
#191 katman: Tonight – its a whole mix up league – designed to get new folks playing – so all the experienced players are spread out and bunched with newbies – good league to play in to get up to speed – starts tonight.
2 Nov 2009, 13:01 pm
#184 skopskiet:
Joni Mitchell.
Judy Collins.
But by the time we got to Woodstock…….Who new the difference……….
For you Younger readers out there.
Oh……..forget it.
Fook me………… Joni was a beautiful woman.
2 Nov 2009, 13:01 pm
Joos jou D**s
2 Nov 2009, 13:01 pm
Joost and Honibal perhaps best attacking half back pairing ever. You go a long way to beat that. Doubt Fdp and MS come anywhere remotely close.
Divan or Wright and Naas or M. Du Plessis almost there, or Farr Jones and Lynagh, Gregan and Larkham, De Villiers and Visagie, Edwards and John. But Joost and Honibal when they cooked the oppo were scrambling all over the place.
2 Nov 2009, 13:04 pm
#196 skopskiet: You honestly expect me to believe that Joost is better than Fourie ? Sorry Skop – and don’t get me wrong – Joost was a good player but he is miles behind Fourie when it comes to being a scrummie.
And tacking on a flyhalf – doesn’t change that equation.
2 Nov 2009, 13:05 pm
#193 Ig: I’ll be there tonight. Where were you last Monday?
2 Nov 2009, 13:06 pm
#190 Dawn:
Share the Couch by all means.
But don’t keep my family awake into the wee small hours of the morning.!
And you still have to pay for the tent site.
2 Nov 2009, 13:09 pm
#196 skopskiet:
You got that right Skoppie.
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