new_j4a says...

@BokAvenger, what i really like about you is that you pretty much unite the rugby world in a chorus of outrage at the drivel you post. Then we all gather around and poke sticks through the bars of your cage and provoke you into a further illogical, ignorant, uneducated diatribe ("schimprede")....and you respond on que just like the baboon in the zoo.

So here's my prod: you talk of a spear tackle by Thorn on the aged Jon Smit (talk about lack of respect for the aged and infirm!). Can a tackle of any sort take place when neither player is a ball carrier? Can a tackle take place not in general play?

Your answers on a card please.....and you do realize, don't you, that all of those "antipodians" you love to hate, as well as most Saffas are howling with laughter at you....you fulfill their every dream of a Plattaland Baffoon....one of Eugene Terreblanche's finest.

Posted 10:24 01st August 2012

APV1 says...

@ Chubbylugs - Hear! Hear! In fact, I said as much and suggested that this was probably the only interesting section of the book, leaked as a cynical PR exercise to sell more books.

I've read quite a few Rugby Autobiogs and think that Wilkinson's was quite revealing. What is his mind like..?! I also enjoyed Mike Catt's "Landing on my Feet" and Jason Leonard's (can't remember the title). Dallaglio's was ok. SCW's wasn't very good. I've read a few more too, but they're obviously not good enough to leave a mark in my adled brain.

@ BokAvenger - a genuine question for you. Why do you post in the manner you do? Are you trying to be funny? Are you trying to have a "bit of banter" and a laugh? Or do you genuinely believe what you post? I ask because your views are so far fetched and removed from reality, I can only hope that you do it on purpose and you're not that mentally unstable as to actually believe it. Please appease my worries and confirm that you're just a wind-up merchant.

Oh, and another thing. Technically "The Antipodes" "...of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it" (direct quotes from Wiki - the font of all truth and knowledge). "...The antipodes of South Africa and Zimbabwe are in the North Pacific Ocean..." Whilst I appreciate you mean Australia and NZ, I just wanted to get a bit technical and smug, because you're obviously a twerp.

Posted 10:21 01st August 2012

Toulousain says...

@safehands. still no reply to new_j4a, ColinR, Rosbif or powerplay? You are like a submarine mon ami. Come back to the surface. All is safe. No-one really hates the ABs you know. Certainly not we French. Half of your countrymen seem to be playing in our T14 you know :-)

Posted 10:11 01st August 2012

BokAvenger says...

@ruckingkiwi: You are pathalogically delusional if you believe that drivel you have typed. If Bryce Lawrence wasn't stood down for blatant bias then please tell me why he's been banned from international refereeing duty?

2. Like most antipodeans you suffer from an inability to acknowledge the indiscretions of your own. If you think what Brad Thorn did to Smit was not a spear tackle then you are a blatant liar - even if it is a case of you lying to yourself. Go compare Sam Warburton's send-off in the Rigged World Cup 2011 and compare it to what Thorn got away with.

3. You don't respect a Bok player for a blatant dive? HA, HA ha ha ha...I couldn't care less who you respect mate. Of course, not Kiwi has ever committed a fake dive? Tell me, who was the All Black again who admitted that he pulled a Hollywood dive during a lineout in the final minutes of a game against Wales that earned a penalty and hence won NZ the game? Go look at your own players and their cheating before you point fingers at ours. Sean Fitzpatrick was a serial jersey tugger and Richie McCaw is virtually an IRB sanctioned cheat.

Posted 08:49 01st August 2012

Heathy says...

@ BokAvenger - oh dear, oh dear. You've lost it mate. Even your fellow countrymen have deserted you. You are now the entertainment. Go on, post another one as this is hilarious.

Posted 08:41 01st August 2012

BokAvenger says...

@Dingbat: Your name says it all. Stop trying to curry favour with the Antipodeans and their bumchums the poms. It is beyond me how you can justify those refereeing decisions mentioned. Just think back for a moment to what Brad Thorn did to John Smit. Now reverse the roles: Imagine Bakkies Botha had picked up Saint Richie McCaw and tent pegged him headfirst into the turf? What do you think would have happened? Old Stu Dickinson would have red carded him, the IRB would have issued a life ban before the game was over and the crowd would probably have lynched the entire Bok team on international television. Go get yourself some calcium pills boet, maybe you'll grow a spine and start standing up for your country.

Posted 06:35 01st August 2012

porridge_time says...

Dingbat32 says...

Well said on your response to BokAvenger, unfortunately it will be lost on someone like him.

One of the worlds most successful coaches retires and writes a book - which I'm looking forward to reading - expresses his personal feelings on a particular match. Whether you agree with his views or not, what has to be respected is the way he conducted himself after the match in question.

Posted 03:33 01st August 2012

kitch says...

bokavenger.. tell the whole story rather than part of it to suit your own bias views.

in regard to the thorn/smit incident.. notice the dirty cheap shot came from smit FIRST.. (trying to push thorns head into the ground after the whistle) !!..and dickensen was telling him to stop ... thorn then reacted by doing what he did!..then baby smit complained and pushed for a yellow to which dickenson said he wasnt sure if it was a spear tackle..note he didnt say he didnt see it!!.. i think he really meant "you deserved it you little sniveller!!"

Posted 02:58 01st August 2012

kitch says...

rosbif..youre right i dont know much about french rugby.. he does however look alot like rougerie tho!!.. i also woulnt be able to name all players from argentina, scotland ,italy, vanuatu, jamaica, serbia, etc..etc..and you??.. catch my drift!

and no nothing seems familiar about witch hunts and media???

Posted 00:17 01st August 2012

Dingbat32 says...

BokAvenger

1. Bryce Lawrence had an awful game, has acknowledged as such, and has been sanctioned. There is nothing more to it

2. Paul Honis - This was bad refereeing, made worse by his reluctance to admit mistake on the spot. That said, SA could and should have won that game regardless of the mistake.

3. Stu Dickinson - come on! We love it when Kobus Wiese, Bakkies Botha etc get up to a bit of this. They often get away with it too!

3. Paddy O'Brien - Jannes Labuschagne left PO'B little choice. There was no subtlety to what he did.

4. Remember the 2007 world cup - Yes, we won it! Similar rubbish happened in 1995 from Samoa with cheap shots then accusations of racism. But we won!

5. Then look at the 2011 world cup game against Samoa. - Again, the Boks are quite capable of giving it out too. I thought the Boks kept their discipline well in the circumstances

I could write a similar top 5 of 'injustices' for all the top sides, but it wouldnt prove a conspiracy.

I respond to this as a Bok fan, because you are embarassing and weakening a valid set of complaints against Graham Henry.

Posted 18:31 31st July 2012