Comments on: Learning from Leicester lesson

By: The Dude

The Dude — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:02:33 +0000

#242 byoboy: byoboy The fixtures were drawn way before the match. I think if the Boks would have suffered a 2009 like Australia, England and New Zealand did then we would have seen a different South Africa against Leicester Tigers. So next year should read:
Saracens Vs The has-beens joined by the transformers in an experiment XV.
I think I’ll banner that… No… Autotune

By: Predawn

Predawn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:48:42 +0000

The imitation Bok 15 did as well as they should have. Welcome to the real world chinas. Yes this isn’t the Currie Cup..

By: Oubaas2009

Oubaas2009 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:19:07 +0000

#244 SjamBok: Stop commenting now before you make a *** of yourself. Shizen, you already have.

By: KevinRack

KevinRack — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:43:45 +0000

**** selections fullstop. Way too many oldies, hangers on and quotas.

By: SjamBok

SjamBok — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:36:42 +0000

Unfortunately, to be the WOPRLD’s BEST side, every single player must have all the skils, the size, the power and the attitude AND X-factor. There are simply no spaces for also rans.

for players like

J du Plessis,
Kanko,
Rose (but can learn skills and has X factor)
Gurthro
Muller
Heinie Adams (no X- factor – like Genia for example)

They have nebver shown that they have all of this. Some ave the X-factor but need time in gym, others jsut dont have attitude.

By: UKBokSupporter

UKBokSupporter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:03:56 +0000

#157 Ratel Brussow (MSIUR): Thank you Ratel for highlighting Grant10's flawed logic!

By: byoboy

byoboy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:13 +0000

#241 The Dude: all good and well if it was an experiment why put the bok tag on them, that was a fkn stupid move.

By: The Dude

The Dude — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:02:05 +0000

I think Keo rests deep up Jake’s Winning arse (around 40%) and spends too much time moaning about PdV’s 73% win record.
Nobody agrees with all the selections- they’re certainly not all merit but the coach has his favourites (like Jake did)
I really hope the next Bok coach is white so we dont have to listen to morons like keo, rich, vrede and every other hill billy moan all the time even though Peter won everything there was to win.
What more do South Africans want. To beat the Leicester Tigers? Grow up, the match was an experiment!

By: cab

cab — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:27:13 +0000

#239 stormer in a teacup: yes Johnson and Potgieter were good selections, but raubenheimer, maku, rallapelle, ndungane, jan dup - were not.

By: stormer in a teacup

stormer in a teacup — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:20:52 +0000

How could these guys lack intensity? This was their chance to show they belong at the big table and most of them were missing in action. Johnson showed the kind of gees and tenacity of someone who wanted to take his chance with both hands. Rose showed glimpses of the talent we all know he has, but seems reluctant to show on a consistent basis. De Jongh used his chances manfully and Danie threw himself into everything. But the front row didn’t have a clue, Devon was nowhere to be seen and Ruan proved what a lot have known for some time, great scrumhalf, poor flyhalf. He was the biggest disappointment, given his experience and talent. He has fallen way behind Morne to the extent that we need to consider another player for the role of backup flyhalf. ruan is just missing something. It may be BMT, it may be a deepseated reluctance to play 10. Whatever it is, lets face facts and groom someone like Brummer or Francis for the role.

By: Mutant

Mutant — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:34:55 +0000

#235 Richie_7: You're right. But it seems to work both ways...always puppy with the big dog lifting Bill

By: bored@work

bored@work — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:33:04 +0000

#234 Mutant: thats where they keep the sheep so its great for them
just joking kiwi’s!

By: Valkyrie

Valkyrie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:28:27 +0000

#233 Richie_7: lol.i feel your pain bro.since 1987 kiwi world cup rugby has gone into recession and had to give up on the finer things in life like the william webb ellis trophy just like poor iceland are now forced to give up on their mcdonalds stores.****** recession!

By: Richie_7

Richie_7 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:27:52 +0000

#234 Mutant: I've left for another thread, but if I keep feeding you scraps here I bet you'll stay puppy

By: Mutant

Mutant — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:22:00 +0000

#233 Richie_7: Forced to party on the scraps below the VIP area

By: Richie_7

Richie_7 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:17:26 +0000

#231 Valkyrie: Kinda like we've felt every year (barring a few) after every super 14 and trinations. '95 the Boks won at home so no big surprise, and 2007 we never made the party so well done to ya

By: Mutant

Mutant — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:16:42 +0000

#231 Valkyrie: 22 years since the AB's could party, hard times. But as long as their backup players look good against club sides I suppose who would complain. Richie7, practise what you preach (post 223) But Bored is right, AB's-Boks is the biggest game in rugby. They've even just made a movie about it!

By: Valkyrie

Valkyrie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:11:48 +0000

#228 Richie_7: if it makes you happy you can believe it but all i know is that i had two big ****** parties and hangovers afterwards in 1995 and 2007.

By: Brigadier Van Zyl

Brigadier Van Zyl — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:05:41 +0000

#228 Richie_7:

errm no.

…all those wins and still can’t win the ones that count?

By: Brigadier Van Zyl

Brigadier Van Zyl — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:04:29 +0000

in all likelyhood, our scrum will sort itself out by Friday. Get your heads right, and the rest will follow.And, we have some pretty good quality on the bench as well if needed.

Adi Jacobs at 12 is the biggest gamble this weekend.
Especially as it looks increasingly likely that there will be only 2 backs on the bench.