Lions quash Chiliboy rumours
The Lions have denied they are trying to get Chiliboy Ralepelle to move to Johannesburg next year.
Reports stated that Ralepelle’s lawyers were trying to find loopholes in his contract so he could play in the Super 14 for the Lions in 2010. Lions CEO Manie Reyneke said this was not likely.
‘I haven’t spoken to Chiliboy myself, but his lawyer phoned and asked if we would be interested in signing him,’ Reyneke told keo.co.za. ‘We were, and once the agent came to me with an offer, I then phoned [Blue Bulls Company] CEO Barend van Graan to see if he was out of contract.
‘Chiliboy isn’t, so we didn’t pursue the matter further.’
The deal seems set to fall through as earlier this year Ralepelle re-signed with the Bulls until 2011, but for both the Lions and Ralepelle it would have been ideal. The Lions have Hans van Dyk and Derek Harwood as the pair vying for the No 2 jersey, while the Bulls have three Bok hookers.
After returning from Harlequins earlier this year, Gary Botha’s contract began on Monday, meaning Ralepelle would not be the automatic first-choice. Derick Kuun will revert to flank next year, but Botha’s arrival means Ralepelle will have to fight with the former Bok hooker and Bandise Maku for the starting spot in the Super 14.
Meanwhile, Griquas lock Jacques Lombaard has been named in both the Lions and Cheetahs’ training squads for the Super 14. Reyneke said who he will play for hasn’t been finalised, but second row is another area where the Lions are in need of quality players.
‘He’s not contracted to us, but we are in talks with Sarpa [The South African Rugby Players' Association]. The kid is not happy in Kimberley, his family is up here and he wants to play for us, so he has been training with us since Monday.’
By Grant Ball
November 4th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
He should go, I think it will do his career the world of good. He needs an opportunity to get into the rhythm of starting every game. I feel the reason he is injury prone is due to lack of game time. Good Luck Mr. Ralepelle!
November 4th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
#94 Pot Blou Gevaar: He is a flanker – in fairness to Kuun, the Bulls asked him to change and he did. You can’t fault him for that. He obviously did a good enough job to be the number one hooker at the union.
It doesn’t say too much about Chili or Maku that they are behind a retreaded flanker in the pecking order.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Well aware that Kuun used to pack down at the side. In my opinion Bandise should have been given an extended run at some stage. One however get the feeling that there is a bit of a tradeoff between scrums and lineouts both at the Bulls and the Boks. Kuun’s saving grace is his abality in the loose, Maku however gives you the edge in the tighter contests. Another example could Heinke vs. Beast.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
#102 fish out of water:
Og shame, such a great two talented hookers are maltreated by bias and prejudice.
Shame on the Bulls for winning the Super14 and the CC without participating Chiliboy and Maku
hehe
November 4th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Why do these poor fools go bind themselves hand and foot to these pretentious fake transformation models like the Blue Bulls. Don’t they know the cookie always gonna crumble on tant sannies side of the koffie tafel. Chili, Maku, Adams, Francis, Mametsa etc should have f’d off long ago they might have realized something from their careers instead of playing second fiddle to a bunch of broedertjies pretending to be verlig.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
#103 Pot Blou Gevaar:
Lets talk facts
Chiliboy was injured against the Cheetahs 5 weeks ago, he was tackled by Fabian Jurie, the smallest player on the fiels (73kg) and hasn’t played since, so much for an ‘elite’ pro player in a brutal contact sport of rugby!
Watch the opening scrum of the 3rd Test against the BIL: the Lions 3rd choice front row’s popped ‘up pupu first’ Chiliboy (plus his Captain Smit as a bonus).
I am sure Chili’s bank manager wasn’t embaressed though
November 4th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Minki is single again! Anybody got her number?
November 4th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Hiyas Skop, and agree with you. Then again i dont give a flying f!?@ for what happens in gauteng rugby. The bulls are window dressers and the lions are utterly useless.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
#105 skopskiet:
They are mostly poor, lousy rugby players too, on a comparison basis:
Adams compared to FdP
Burton compared to M Styen, D. Hougaard
Mametsa compared to Habana or to F Hougaard
Chili compared to Maku
Maku compared to Kuun
Easy
November 4th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Minki sweetheart just gotta give her one call and we be off to cloud 9
She shouldn’t fall back on Graeme’s lap if she knows whats good for her
November 4th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Skop, NO! Its my time now and Biff hasnt got time for women. Minki with her deep voice, green eyes, blonde hair and most importantly 36C.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Grant can shove his speedo-gyrating moves. This blonde is mine.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
yeah these oke’s should never have hung around propping up these punki boy bulletjies fancy pants
Adams should never have carried the can for Fdp to act like he’s gods gift to scrum halves.
Maku and Chili shouldn’t have been propping up Kuun while he learns the trade to get shunted and kicked in the teeth soon as overrated Gary Botha comes crying back cap in hand.
Mametsa shouldn’t have held the fort while Habana was off dancing his merry jigs across the continents while raising his name in lights.
Burton Francis should have f’d off long before so that he could develop his game instead of just another MS Nasty Booter clone.
None these guys done themselves any favors whatsoever hanging around those fake hallowed halls of verkrampt Bulletjie Rugby propping up the fake transformation model. They been sold a fat dummy all along and should have bust out for greener pastures long ago. Poor sucker dumb deluded transformation guinea pig fools.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I find it interresting that the Lions has a player (J. Lombaard) who IS STILL CONTRACTED with another province practicing with them already. Now, NO LION can ever complain about other unions poaching their plyers ever again!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
go for it slappes better be quick before I fancy my chances. Once I start singing her my love ballads you got fat chance, 36C n all will be sitting on my sofa in rapt allured attention.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Skop,
singing ballads? I will recite poems, shakespeare, keats and Robbie Wessels – she will be putty.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
#113 skopskiet: you don’t sound like much of a Bulls fan skop
November 4th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Ballads…poetry recital…..??
I will visit my chemist…stock up on vitamins and give the young lady a nite she will never forget!!
Bloody never think of the soft choker cricket skipper ever again!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Big Hit, you know Minki van der westhuizen? google her and meet my soon-to-be mistress.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
#116 Slappes: With a name like Minkie she would probably prefer Robbie Williams – You could jump in with “Let me Entertain You”
Well it would work with me!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
#117 Big Hit: We don’t know Minkie, JimT and I had to Google her the last time all the guys here were lusting after her!!
Pnumatic, Baywatch type!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Slappes…skop….the path is all yours….she is really not my cup of Java…..
But Sienna hits town….its OORLOG!!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Carol
yeah same girl. Just remind mr speedo-pill-popper that shes not into older folk.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
#123 Slappes: I think the coast is clear for you, Speedo 10 is a reformed ‘one woman man’ these days!!
There are only so many blondes one man can handle an a ‘certain age’!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Grant, what you think for my first visit: green safari suit or the baby blue one?
November 4th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
#123 Slappes: LOL….Slappes…all yours….but be kind and let me have details!!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
#122 grant10: Ooo Hello Grant, juat chatting about you!!
How is it going?
November 4th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
#124 carol: This is sad….but true!!
#125 Slappes: Better the green one….i dont rate Minki a Blue Bull type girl….
November 4th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
#127 carol: I am cool….month end come and gone…hectic …which is good….
And your side?
November 4th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
#128 grant10: But we can always dream!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Grant, you b@stard trying to sabotage my first date. Safari suits are for gunther and tacitus. She is a beauty though, from Robs valley.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
#130 carol: my dreams dont go to a 36 c cup!!
Legs and a very cute bum….thats my deal!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Sa rugby will never change. How can a guy like chilli excel at jr level but be totally useless at senior level.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
#129 grant10: Hectic in your line of work is VERY good news….Hooray.
Life busy and good with the tickets for the Wales v All Black match here on the desk!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Grant btw that mail you sent me bout SL, so he is really a she?
November 4th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
#131 Slappes: tacticus prefers tutus and Gunther a pink cat suit!
Nah boet….not my type….i like a slightly more sophisticated and look…and brains important …..
Tastes have changed over the years….the brassy big boobed blondes dont cut it in my book…..
November 4th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
It will be better for chilli’s career going to the lions. The bulls wouldnt want their personal inaged damaged by selling promising black players.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
#131 Slappes: Top pulling gear is fantastically fitting designer jeans, slim fit shirt and cool shoes, not trainers!!
No team shirts or sports gear to be worn on the first date!
Give the safari suit back to your grandfather!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
#135 Slappes: LOL….Dont start a war again…i have only this morning had the last piece of shrapnel removed from the last ‘Slappes’ induced skirmish!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
#132 grant10: This is all good news…legs, bum and intellegence!!!
Who needs silicone? Still fail to understand how some men like skin stretched over plastic implants, makes me cringe!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
#137 Wezwp: yeah….Chi;lli needs to play!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
#137 Wezwp: Wes, forget the rugby, whats your favourite ‘pulling gear’, Slappes needs some advice!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Carol, thanks for the fashion advice. Now I only have to figure out how to get past her bodyguard. Btw safari suits are still high fashion in Pretoria.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Brunette calling for an early night….sounds like my Old Spice still got some appeal….so thats me outta here….
Nite all….
Slappes…behave…
November 4th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
As blondes go Minky is A ok, no frills on Minky she’s good old solid boere meisie heart n passion koeksuster en melktert beauty. All that salt of the earth beauty will simply be lost on you souties. So if I can’t have a Venezuelan or Brazilian or Jamaican Amazonian goddess, may as well be Minky, she do just fine. 36C long lanky legs n all.
#117 bh. How u guess I aint too enamoured by big bok bulletjie bull bull skop skiet n donner one dimensional rugby BH, was it something I might a said in passing?
November 4th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
#144 grant10: The Old Spice, ahhh memories…..That’s how we met?
Night Grant – Splash it all over!!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
#143 Slappes: You are welcome -I did not see one Safari suit in Pretoria, however Bulls Shirts were popular.
Those guys look so cute in the Bulls Blue too!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
#113 skopskiet:
Perhapse there were no takers for these great talants?
November 4th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Cheers Grant! Skop, she is down to earth and not complicated. AND farkin sexy! You go chase those woman in the amazon jungle, Ill go chase the blonde stellenbossers!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Who needs f.ng old spice when you got Elvis balladeering charm.
Nee wat you lighties got simply no idea. Minky come home to papa.