Tri Nations 3:

[Steve]

Come on guys, support the 'BOKS'

3. New Zealand v South Africa: Durban: Sat 1 Aug 15:00 (local time)
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[biffon]

no sorry...

[joemac]

Ummmmmmm, no.

[boards]

Huh?

[Steve]

The contract is out. To dispatch with extreme predudice...:whistling:

[Angelshark]

Steve, dont worry about the others, they trying to adopt those countries, We are faithful to our team and my blood is green

[Steve]

Steve, dont worry about the others, they trying to adopt those countries, We are faithful to our team and my blood is green

LOL...:whistling: :smiley2:

[joemac]

Steve, dont worry about the others, they trying to adopt those countries, We are faithful to our team and my blood is green


I don't think Ireland are playing in tis tournament AS. Try the "Six Nations"

I am Supporting NZ, at least I have lived here. I have never lived in SA.

[boards]

why do you have to live somewhere to support a team? why cant we all support a team we like, be it their population/talent ratio, creative play, hot chicks from the country, same language as opposed to living on the continent supporting teams from the same place??? in europe brits dont support the french even though there is a small body of water between the two places.. similar to zim and rsa? i dont support all zim sport cos i dont like the politics, i rate the tennis guys.. but not intersted in cricket, soccer or rugby.

fuck it i support the All Blacks and have never been to New Zealand.... so there. oh and i prefer the aussie cricket team over anyone else. and newcastle. rant over.

[barto11]

why do you have to live somewhere to support a team? why cant we all support a team we like, be it their population/talent ratio, creative play, hot chicks from the country, same language as opposed to living on the continent supporting teams from the same place??? in europe brits dont support the french even though there is a small body of water between the two places.. similar to zim and rsa? i dont support all zim sport cos i dont like the politics, i rate the tennis guys.. but not intersted in cricket, soccer or rugby.

fuck it i support the All Blacks and have never been to New Zealand.... so there. oh and i prefer the aussie cricket team over anyone else. and newcastle. rant over.

take a deep breath...and count slowly from 1 to 10

[Angelshark]

I think my SA pasport speaks for itself. I support the Bokke cos they are keen young winners. they always will be, the Aussies are w&%kers, but the AB are the guys you test a teams medal against. Oh and I dont like the one guy on the AB team. He blatantly cheats.

[Mullah]

why do you have to live somewhere to support a team? why cant we all support a team we like, be it their population/talent ratio, creative play, hot chicks from the country, same language as opposed to living on the continent supporting teams from the same place??? in europe brits dont support the french even though there is a small body of water between the two places.. similar to zim and rsa? i dont support all zim sport cos i dont like the politics, i rate the tennis guys.. but not intersted in cricket, soccer or rugby.

fuck it i support the All Blacks and have never been to New Zealand.... so there. oh and i prefer the aussie cricket team over anyone else. and newcastle. rant over.


Ah Boards my man!!!!! Sorry to see the Ab choke last weekend Although I am a Bok supporter but I did want the Abs to beat them They have very big heads right now The Lions should have won and kicked arse Then maybe the boks would have been brought down to size Maybe the Wallabies can do it :smiley20::smiley20::smiley20::smiley20: But I doubt it

So Boards Keep the Pecker up dont sweat the small stuff and go have fun with Madam in the reserve this weekend

[sprout]

After the horrific defeat last week, my money is on the All Blacks to fight back..sorry!

[biffon]

I think my SA pasport speaks for itself. I support the Bokke cos they are keen young winners. they always will be, the Aussies are w&%kers, but the AB are the guys you test a teams medal against. Oh and I dont like the one guy on the AB team. He blatantly cheats.


Now tell me why you think the Wallabies are W!@#@!rs ?
AS be the bigger man and give credit where its due. The Wallabies will always be contenders.. dismissing them is the worst mistake most teams make.. Although i will not stoop as low as you and say the Boks are W@#nkers, I will say that most infamous on-field indiscretions have been by Bok players... remember the ear biting incident by was it Le-roux? on Sean Fitzpatrick, as well as a long list of other issues that players from other teams have had to endure and then we have the most recent brain explosion by Burger (who is notorious for these sort of things)

You have Players selected for the Boks saying that they will puke on the Jersey before they wear it? WTF!!

Hell even your coach says and a I quote "this is what sport is all about" in response to Burgers latest incident.

Dude sorry the Springboks are a great team and on occasion i admire their great skill and tenacity but they are the ones everyone else in the world love to hate...

Wallabies all the way this year! :smiley20:

[Angelshark]

Did you smell the twat that said he would puke in the jersey. It would have been like putting on a better smell. Guys like that are knobs and yes I will agree with you. Point taken on the w^%ker deal. I will consider myself duely shat on, hoping to never be at the other end of a tongue lashing like that again. WTF, GO BOKKE!!!!!!!

[Steve]

Steyn to start at flyhalf

2009-07-28 12:50
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Durban - Springbok coach Peter de Villiers made three changes to the match 22 that beat the All Blacks by 28-19 in Bloemfontein last weekend – one in the starting XV and two on the bench - for Saturday’s second Tri-Nations Test against New Zealand at the Absa Stadium in Durban.

At flyhalf, Morné Steyn starts ahead of Ruan Pienaar, who is injured. Lock Andries Bekker returns in the place of loose forward Ryan Kankowski on the bench, along with fit-again centre Adi Jacobs, who takes Morné Steyn’s place amongst the reserves.

Springbok wing Bryan Habana and centre Jean de Villiers will both earn their 50th Test caps for South Africa, while Bok captain John Smit becomes the sole record-holder for the most experienced Test captain ever.

Habana, the International Rugby Board’s Player of the Year for 2007 and SA Rugby’s Player of the Year in 2005 and 2007, made his Springbok debut as a replacement against England on November 20, 2004 at Twickenham. With 33 Test tries he is second behind Joost van der Westhuizen on the list of top try scorers for South Africa.

De Villiers, SA Rugby’s Player of the Year for 2008, made his Springbok debut on November 9, 2002 in Marseilles against France. Because of injury he only played his second Test against the Pacific Islands in Gosford on July 17, 2004. Of his 49 Tests to date, De Villiers has played 11 on the wing and 38 at centre. He will equal De Wet Barry’s record for Bok Tests at centre this weekend, with 39.

Smit will lead the Boks for the 60th time in his 86th Test. Last weekend he equaled the record previously held by Wallaby skipper George Gregan and England’s Will Carling.

The Springbok team is (Test caps in brackets):
15. Frans Steyn (31)
14. JP Pietersen (27)
13. Jaque Fourie (46)
12. Jean de Villiers (49)
11. Bryan Habana (49)
10. Morné Steyn (4)
9. Fourie du Preez (47)
8. Pierre Spies (23)
7. Juan Smith (58)
6. Heinrich Brüssow (5)
5. Victor Matfield (84)
4. Bakkies Botha (58)
3. John Smit (85) – Captain
2. Bismarck du Plessis (25)
1. Tendai Mtawarira (14)

Reserves:

16. Chiliboy Ralepelle (5)
17. Jannie du Plessis (8)
18. Andries Bekker (15)
19. Danie Rossouw (39)
20. Ricky Januarie (36)
21. Adi Jacobs (23)
22. Wynand Olivier (23)

[boards]

Steyn can play....

[barto11]

After the horrific defeat last week, my money is on the All Blacks to fight back..sorry!
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[boards]

BARTO she is cool... she supports the ALL BLACKS!

[Tricky Nicky]

I love Rugby - I love the Bokke!

[Angelshark]

And that my friends is how its done!! Bring on the Aussies

[Angelshark]

BARTO she is cool... she supports the ALL BLACKS!

Ahhhhhhh shame.

[yarrumsg]

Steyn to start at flyhalf

2009-07-28 12:50
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OWNED!

what a game!

tell me Habana didn't spot that ball down? in the second half in the ruck!

[Steve]

What can one say...:whistling:

South Africa 31 - New Zealand 19

Boks squeeze NZ to death

2009-08-01 21:05
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Record-breaking captain John Smit (Gallo)


Comment: Rob Houwing, Sport24 chief writer

Cape Town – Punk-era band The Stranglers stubbornly refuse to drop off the musical map, after several decades. Might they even reinvent themselves as The Springboks?

For if the band’s name quickly and obviously conjures up images of methodically slow, sadistic squeezes to hapless throats, then the Boks of the last two Saturdays similarly qualify as stranglers extraordinaire.

And the poor souls spluttering for oxygen have been their traditional foes the All Blacks, clinically pounded into submission and heading home after their least productive ever Vodacom Tri-Nations tour of South Africa – zero log points from a possible 10 here tells you everything.

This weekend it was the turn of the Durban populace to witness a slow-roast of Richie McCaw’s defending champions, marked by Morné Steyn’s competition-record individual haul of 31 points in a 12-point victory that perhaps ought to have even been by more.

Indeed, such was the Springboks’ mastery of this Test match that it is amazing to think the visitors actually remained in with a sniff into the final quarter, facing only a six-point deficit in the 62nd minute and forever desirous - despite chronic option-taking and butterfingers ineptitude at times - to give the ball “air” among their outside backs from just about anywhere.

The try tally, just as remarkably, ended 1-1 and perhaps we are entitled to charge the Boks with excessive resorting to the dropped-goal crack in wonderful attacking situations where they have the opposition under the cosh and potentially ready to drop to the canvas for a full count.

But that is where any minor negative sentiment deserves to end, because a greater truth is that the Boks, overall, played the wet-weather, greasy-pitch situation very shrewdly and once again were great value for a win over the weirdly skittish All Blacks with daylight eventually to spare.

Ever-wily and cerebral captain John Smit pointed out afterwards that South Africa were blessed by their “nine, 10 and 15 all having monster boots” and Fourie du Preez and the two Steyns certainly made life a misery for the mostly back-pedalling All Blacks’ back three of Messrs Muliaina, Rokocoko and especially error-prone Sivivatu.

But again, in so boomingly street-smart a team, there were Bok heroes scattered right across the park. That is reflected in the fact that, on any other day, Morné Steyn getting man-of-the-match might have been accepted as a fait accompli.

He did get it anyway – and why not? – but it would not have been an unpopular call had the mantle gone to any of Jaque Fourie, who stalked everything aerial like a man possessed, or a swollen list of candidates in an inspiringly abrasive pack.

Their ranks included Bismarck du Plessis, the ferocious hooker who gets in peoples’ faces and ultimately deeper into their demoralised, agitated heads, Bakkies Botha, the second-row mangler par excellence, the vastly improved Pierre Spies, and of course world rugby’s fetcher find of the year in Heinrich Brüssow.

The high work-rate and mauling and shoving strength of Beast Mtawarira continues to impress, and his 30-yard breakout rampage would only have been more memorable had it ended in a try before his home faithful.

“The pressure just got on top of us,” valiant but battered All Blacks leader McCaw conceded afterwards.

“They’re big men and made their tackles felt … they were the team going forward a lot at the breakdowns.”

He was certainly not far off the mark, but another remark he made to immediate post-match interviewer Joel Stransky also served unusual notice of his team’s torment.

When the former Bok flyhalf ventured that the All Blacks getting back into the Tri-Nations was not yet an insurmountable task, McCaw struggled to muster an enthusiastic affirmative.

“Er, I suppose not,” he stuttered.

The All Blacks are certainly a side feeling mounting critical heat, as their international season thus far has struggled to get out of second gear – Graham Henry and company are sure to feel a pretty icy media and public blast when they get back home.

Problem areas abound, and the way their bench was emptied summed up the broad state of unease.

Their lineout has gone from ordinary to utterly spooked, the selection circus at scrumhalf shows few signs of abating, and they are bound now to desperately fast-track flyhalf maestro Dan Carter back into their mix to give their tactical game more direction and purpose and less helter-skelter madness.

Still, the Boks can’t simply sit back and bask in their two-game glow.

Another four remain for them in the unforgiving competition, three of them overseas, and if they were to be upset by Australia at Newlands next weekend, then their lofty status on the table suddenly faces fresh vulnerability.

But there’s dreamy momentum right now, isn’t there?

[Tricky Nicky]

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

GO BOKKE ! :smiley32: :smiley32: :smiley32: :smiley32: :smiley32: :smiley32: :smiley32: :smiley20: :smiley20: :smiley20: :smiley20: :smiley20:

I always knew there was a reason why I love Morne Steyn - apart from the fact he is drop dead gorgeous!

[Nyala]

Bokke, Bokke, Bokke...yeah, man!!

All my life in Zim I supported the Bokke and now that I'm living in Oz I see no reason to change....GO BOKKE!!!. I support the Aussies in every other game, just not when they play the Bokke.