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Felix Jones is back with the boks!!! That is absolutely great news! https://x.com/Springboks/status/1895055102576337210 I think that Nienaber will also be back for the RWC Nah, I can't see that happening, but I'd be delighted if you are right. I think the only thing that will get Jacques back to SA...

Mach Cutoff is a genuine thing, but I understood it as being very dependent upon atmospheric conditions - things like temperature variations. In that sense I'm not sure how reliable it would always be - you'd have to carefully select times, heights etc to make it work, which would be a significant ...

Boom Supersonic says XB-1 aircraft flew over Mach 1 with no audible sonic boom on the ground below

Part of the business case for Boom is providing supersonic domestic flights in the USA.

That article really buries the lead.

The really important part of the achievement isn't even mentioned, that they were able to design an aircraft that breaks the sound barrier without the sonic boom reaching the ground.

Your spoiled brats should be 12 men for a year to start off. Not parent involving. Sad this. Vok me Ouboet. I am 2 weeks in as manager of the under 12s. Something I just didn't want to do. I prefer not being the face of a cause. And I am already sick of it. It's just vokken politics. And constant f...

Neethling Fouche sign for 3 years until 2028. Ben Loader return to England to Glouchester. Happy we get to keep Fouche. He is Bok quality and while he is getting overlooked by Rassie we are definitely benefiting from that at the Stormers. Sad that we are losing Loader. He has been an excellent sign...

Jeez can we not find a better fly half than Matthee? He’s fucking garbage. Blommetjies isn’t good enough to be called garbage. 2 lost lineout in first half, 6 lineouts lost in a row in 2nd half. BIG problem we just can’t seem to solve. :sad: Herschel coming on and playing like a star. He’s a player...

Masimla is at the Pumas. The youngsters Imad Khan and Asad Moos I know Masimla is at the Pumas now, but he did the rounds with us in 2021-2023. That’s what I meant. Khan and Moos both look promising, but have also had some terrible outings. They are going to need a lot of game time and need to get ...

Excellent signing. It will be good to have him back in SA. Going from Herschell to Cobus will be a shock! Ja, he might be getting on a bit but we really need some quality at 9 and some experience in general. Jantjies dropped off a cliff after the 2019 RWC and has never really regained his pre-Covid...

Ja, the firefighters that specialise in mountain brush fires are beasts. My previous manager was a volunteer firefighter and the training they go through carting all the heavy gear up and down the mountain is insane. They train once or twice a month and are broken for days afterwards. No need for a ...

Veld fires are hectic this time of year. NSRI involve here with this this. Are many of them started deliberately? A couple are arson, but most are accidental. Usually cigarette butts out of car windows or homeless people living on the mountain starting campfires for cooking, stuff like that. Fynbos...

Pretty sad. SanPark is pretty useless. The private owners however drive their own thing. My kid will be trained by a Rekkie. surely he will tough as nails after his training. SanParks will never win, so long as people in government are involved in the profits of poaching. If South Africa is serious...

After a bunch of incidents in the James Small, James Dalton era of Springboks I'm quite happy with the character of the current crop of Boks when it comes to this issue. In a country where gender-based violence is rife, and a lot of the Bok players have been open about witnessing the physical abuse ...

Well, Van Staden gets another shot to prove his doubters wrong.

Kleyn withdrawn, EE to start, Eskom to the bench.

I have always liked van Staden, for me he represents what a 6 should look and play like. But I'm still waiting for a BIG performance in a Bok shirt. Just seems to coast in every game; neither good nor bad. I can't quite put my finger on it. He gets a lot of hate, but to me he just does all the dirt...

Just glad to see Hanekom at last up for his first cap, long overdue. I can see him becoming more regular from next season now that he is part of the squad as he can cover lock, flanker and 8th man. Unfortunately I think it is time to put Eskom out to pasture Not Van Staden but more likely Roos. If ...

You is not smart enough for the genius of Tony Brown, mon. You might want to rely on a former 10 to sort out your hooker's darts - I'm out. :smile: I think Victor Matfield and Schalk Burger are spot on in their advice that, if they just speed up the 4-man lineout it would help a lot in upping the s...

I'm sure that's true, but it wasn't really their point which was that even if you wanted to, you couldn't You can, it's just ill advised because it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When everything is far and nobody walks or cycles, then there are more cars on the busy throughways making them dan...

I come in peace. I'll start this by saying I've spend a fair bit of time travelling in SA, although not in the last 10 or so years, and absolutely love the country. If circumstances, both mine and of the country, had been a little bit different I'm 100% confident I'd have moved over. Anyway, I spok...

Bit nervous of the lock gamble. Bearing in mind PSDT can...but lineouts have been a weak point. I'd be licking my lips were I England. The lineouts have been messy for sure, but there is method in the madness. We just need to get the execution right and there are a lot of moving parts. Going for 4-...

Like I said. Bench forwards from last week starting this week. All out pace in the backline to run the English ragged. Fassi is very safe under the high ball so all kicking by England more than adequately covered. And Fassi scores tries for fun. This is the A team. Scotland got the B team Until it ...

8 Keke Morabe, 7 Ben-Jason Dixon, 6 Marcel Theunissen These 3 were superb yesterday, carrying and tackling as a proper unit. Munster loosies had no answer. Haha…funny how people watch the same match and come to completely different conclusions. I’m not a fan of that trio at all. It seems very imbal...

Some very obvious bait for Sards there...

You can see from his coaching style it's about the raw emotion of being South African. But it would be a shame to see all his experience and talent retire with him. I think he just uses that because it works with this group of players...the "Us against the world" mentality is useful in th...

You can see from his coaching style it's about the raw emotion of being South African. But it would be a shame to see all his experience and talent retire with him. I think he just uses that because it works with this group of players...the "Us against the world" mentality is useful in th...

treating them a professionals and human beings This bit, maybe he doesn't believe refs are professionals or human beings? He cares deeply about his players and had an adversarial relationships towards the referees before and during the Lions incident. He has been quite open about his change of hear...

He answered this question himself… when rumors came up after 2019 that he is going to coach England, he posted a video of him with an inspirational speech he gave the players and asked: „What would i tell THEM?“ He's still young, for an international coach and director of rugby. Once he's done with...

I don't care what you think dude. And no one can tell me that I don't do a lot for my boys. I am always there for them and my boys have done a lot more than most kids have done at their age. Anyway, it's pointless having this chat with you as it doesn't apply. And that racist oupa also doesn't care...

It's my age dude. I grew up in a different world. But I am not a racist......Thats great. One of the oupas that comes to the cricket just cant help himself...totally embarressing You do realise that that totally embarrassing oupa uses that exact same excuse to justify his racism? It's just his age....

Number 2 is cool though. Coolest part was Dwebe actually finding his jumper. Useless mong. His lineout throws in the first 2 matches of this URC have been excellent. I think he is 26 from 26 lineouts (best among the SA hookers in the URC) and with the bench hookers also coming to the party (9 from ...

Were the Ulster and Edinburgh teams the best teams that they could send? Or were these second string teams? It's their best teams. Only Leinster send B or C teams and the French. Haven't Ulster contributed a bunch of players to the "Emerging Ireland" team that is also touring SA right now?

Sunday, 10 November: Scotland vs SA (Murrayfield, Edinburgh) Saturday, 16 November: England vs SA (Twickenham, London) Saturday, 23 November: Wales vs SA (Principality Stadium, Cardiff Such a pity that Ireland isn't on that list. Then we could shut them up for a while. I kind of like that the tensi...

The problem with Libbok/Sasha is who plays 10 at the Stormers? Sasha won't pick up enough gametime at 10 playing in the URC, so he'll be green every time the Boks come around. Likewise Willemse and Gallant are 12 and 15 starter options for Dobson . Someone is going to lose out. Ja, agree on Manie a...

To cover for Manie. Who is still not good enough for me. When you have to have someone else carry the load of one of your duties you dont deserve to be there Well for years the French used a goal-kicking #9 to cover for Freddie Michalak because he was so good at running the backline and putting pla...

I think BJD is a little more level headed than Roos, but you are correct that he might also end up another one-season-wonder like many other Bok loosies. We’ll have to wait and see. I think Roos will also have an uphill battle. Wiese and Louw seem to be a good pair of 8’s and have put in some solid ...

And we have to find a replacement bosch merchant for DDA. Ja, DDA will be 33 by the end of the year so we probably only have a couple more years of him. Not sure if he's going to make it to RWC2027. Andre Esterhuizen was the obvious successor. Amazing player, but not sure how many more chances he's...

Are you a Sards multi? Neither of you seem to watch rugby. :lolno: He was disappointing. In Sandy's defence, BJD was red-hot in his first 3 outings. So much so that many were considering him the heir apparent to PSdT in the way he played. Similar style of play and massive impact. But he just got lo...

Goalkicking will continue to be an issue I think. We are going to persist with multiple kickers depending on the team selection and substitutions and will likely lose a couple of matches because of it. No clear solution there. Yup, its a recurring issue: Either playmakers at 10/15 or goal kickers. ...

I still like the Raeburn Shield as a concept. Would like it if they made a physical one to add some spice to some matches where it is on the line. Regarding the Grand Slam, I 100% agree. It would be great if we could get a crack at it again. It's become so difficult now with the November internation...

He came on as a sub for the Stormers this weekend and looked a bit meh, but at that stage it was a lost cause anyway. The Stormers are in for a long season I feel. I suspect we are going to be wooden spooners in the SA conference this year.

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