Comments on: Smit whipping Joost

By: Kryger

Kryger — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:08:38 +0000

What am I missing here? John Smit has hardly started shaving, yet he rights a autobiography. Does he not get payed enough by SARFU that he finds it necassary to write a book.
Autobiographies is normally reserved for later in ones life.
The bits & pieces that the media has dished up sounds more like gossip that belongs in a English tabloid.
Anyways that is just my opinion!

By: B.rian

B.rian — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:25:46 +0000

Personally I prefer Matthew Knights book, called Between the Lines.
It’s more about grassroots rugby, but has better history, anecdotes and characters, and is really well written. Not the usual cliched boring journalism that I’ve become used to.
Quite a few Boks and past Boks also come up: Mark Andrews, Schalk Burger, and some well-known coaches etc.

By: uncleben

uncleben — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:51:26 +0000

@gecko: Ha ha, good one.

Personally will buy and read both books, Boks books that came before were COMPELLING could not put them down: Franouis Pienaars Rainbow Warrior and Jake Whites Black and White!!!

I really believe inside stories like these will only help the boks by making us general joe public and SARU dooses appreciate what is going on inside and HOW MUCH $%#@$@#@@# goes on behind the scenes. It is a MIRACLE the boks EVER WIN A SINGLE GAME.

SARU and public: read, learn, simplify and boks will get better.

By: Tisme

Tisme — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:32:09 +0000

@BALLER canREADY: Read most of the autos about rugby, Percy's not a bad book, but it is very apparent in the writing that percy is not very clever! In this book his dad hints that percy was also on the white powder

By: Windhoek.Lager

Windhoek.Lager — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:13:32 +0000

What an incredibly pointless and pathetic article.

By: Stawm

Stawm — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:50:25 +0000

@Tacitus: I think you missed the point a bit though Tac, although I agree with you. Highbury Safika Media published Smits book, and its selling better than Joost's book (which Highbury Safika Media probably/might have tried to publish and got rejected), and so they feel the need to beat their chests a bit, as if the success is due to them and not the actual content of the book.

By: Reserve Naartjie

Reserve Naartjie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:39:47 +0000

There’s a poll on Men’s Health on the hypothetical sports autobiographies guys would want to read. http://www.mh.co.za

Best one? Bakkies Botha – The Art of War (revised edition)

By: Taahirah

Taahirah — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:50:17 +0000

None at all toe-jam.

By: Quagmire

Quagmire — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:55:25 +0000

Hoe spel jy Joost se naam? Jy spel dit met ‘n D!

By: toe-jam

toe-jam — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:48:00 +0000

@Taahirah: my bad,thought it was directed at me,no hard feelings

By: GreenAndGold

GreenAndGold — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:28:12 +0000

Anyone going to Smitty’s book signing on Thurs at cavendish in CT?

By: GreenAndGold

GreenAndGold — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:25:28 +0000

John Smit’s book is really awesome. I rate it right up there with Lance Armstrong’s books. Anyone know how well Graeme Smith’s book is doing?

By: Valkyrie

Valkyrie — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:11:46 +0000

@Taahirah: very sensitive boys on here after saturday!

By: Taahirah

Taahirah — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:03:06 +0000

Toe-jam. The post in its entirety was directed at mshiniwami.

By: Valkyrie

Valkyrie — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:01:52 +0000

@toe-jam: take it easy bud!i think he is referring to the post above yours,mishiniwami's.

By: toe-jam

toe-jam — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:59:28 +0000

@TheTackler: amor as a stripper and joost bouncing the door...

By: TheTackler

TheTackler — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:55:31 +0000

Looks like Joost and Amor’s fantasy about living it large as the Posh and Becks of SA have utterly evaporated.

They’ll have to get real jobs pretty soon.

By: montyfan

montyfan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:34:35 +0000

@BALLER canREADY: I got a signed copy of Monty’s book and read it in 24 hrs (BIG fan!) Unfortunately it doesn’t compare well to Capt in the Cauldron, which is far more informative and better written. My husband flew Cape Town – London last week and had finished Barney’s book by the time he hit Heathrow
Not bothering with Joost myself.

By: toe-jam

toe-jam — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:32:24 +0000

@Taahirah: where is the racial attack in my post?ur smoking that kak madjat that was sold to you as malawi cob...

By: Taahirah

Taahirah — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:24:31 +0000

Mshiniwami. I like you. You are the most knowledgable blogger on this site, PissAnt coming in a solid 2nd. The above post though seems to be an attack on a specific grouping of people within this country. Meanspirited at best, despicable at worst. It opens the gate for the racially obsessed to start hurling abuse at the likes of Ashwin Willemse, Earl Rose, Ricky Januarie, Dale Sandton and Breyton Paulse. You are better than that.