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OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:47 am
assfly wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:43 am PSdT is a good call at 5, and opens up the door for so much talent we have trying to get into the Bok team.

Is he back in training with the Stormers?
Yep, he'll play against the Sharks in the opening round
Teams sheets out so far in advance?
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handyman wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:12 am
OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:47 am
assfly wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:43 am PSdT is a good call at 5, and opens up the door for so much talent we have trying to get into the Bok team.

Is he back in training with the Stormers?
Yep, he'll play against the Sharks in the opening round
Teams sheets out so far in advance?
WTF are you on about? You are this so called quality poster. You are a vokken quality troller, so vokof.
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OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:26 pm
handyman wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:12 am
OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:47 am
Yep, he'll play against the Sharks in the opening round
Teams sheets out so far in advance?
WTF are you on about? You are this so called quality poster. You are a vokken quality troller, so vokof.
Eish, so nasty. Entirely unnecessary.

I hope PSDT plays, but I'll only believe it when I see his name on the team sheet.
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With Elton going to Pau as a medical joker, should we take this as an indication that Pollard may not be fit? Especially if it was with the encouragement of Rassie.
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assfly wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:48 pm With Elton going to Pau as a medical joker, should we take this as an indication that Pollard may not be fit? Especially if it was with the encouragement of Rassie.
Rassie is a meticulous planner, this could just be to be prepared.
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handyman wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:43 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:26 pm
handyman wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:12 am

Teams sheets out so far in advance?
WTF are you on about? You are this so called quality poster. You are a vokken quality troller, so vokof.
Eish, so nasty. Entirely unnecessary.

I hope PSDT plays, but I'll only believe it when I see his name on the team sheet.
https://www.sarugbymag.co.za/value-rainbow-cup-du-toit/
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OomStruisbaai wrote: Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:14 am
handyman wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:43 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:26 pm
WTF are you on about? You are this so called quality poster. You are a vokken quality troller, so vokof.
Eish, so nasty. Entirely unnecessary.

I hope PSDT plays, but I'll only believe it when I see his name on the team sheet.
https://www.sarugbymag.co.za/value-rainbow-cup-du-toit/
Good to see that article supporting my pov.
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RG Snyman and Pollard back in training, will be ready to play by May 1st. Eben ready by end of May. Good news!
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Outstanding news about the three of them!
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There is still no word on where next the likes of the Cheetahs, Pumas, Griquas and EP Elephants will play.

What next for the Cheetahs, Pumas, Griquas and, yes, even the EP Elephants?

All four teams remain without a competition to play in despite South Africa’s big four “Super teams” set to play in a domestic-only competition from next week.

Where next for those players?

While the announcement by SA Rugby on Wednesday that the Rainbow Cup will now be played as two competitions (in Europe and in South Africa) because of travel restrictions and has nothing to do with any other teams (because they were never involved in the Rainbow Cup in the first place), surely the change in competition structure means the South African competition can be adapted to include the four other “Currie Cup and Preparation Series” teams?

Or are there other agreements in place restricting the inclusion of the Cheetahs and Co in the now-to-be-called Rainbow Cup SA?

Cheetahs coach Hawies Fourie, who has been vocal about his team’s exclusion from the original Rainbow Cup, recently said he’d know more about where next his team would play once the finer details of the Rainbow Cup were sorted out.

Well, the details are sorted out – there will be no inter-hemisphere matches – and still it’s the four “big boys” who’re being looked after.

A Toyota Cup or Franchise Cup involving the Cheetahs, Pumas, Griquas and Elephants, to run concurrently with the Rainbow Cup, was mentioned some time ago, but will this competition still go ahead? Is it not easier and more simple to just throw all the teams into one competition?

Not a single word was mentioned in the presss release by SA Rugby on Wednesday about the fate of the so-called smaller teams, so where does it leave them?

Sadly, with Covid hitting hard and governments making the calls, it doesn’t really matter what we call the new competition – coming after the Super Rugby Unlocked competition, the Currie Cup, the Preparation Series – the reality is South African rugby fans, the administrators, the players, and all involved in the game, will have to be content with more domestic local action for the foreseeable future.

It’s the way it is, and there’s not much anyone can do about it.

But, why not let everyone at least get a taste of the action, and be part of the rainbow and share in the pot of gold – however small that may be?
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I also get the feeling the top 4 want to keep it clean and within the original structures of the Rainbow cup. Just in case something changes. It will be easier to integrate. Buy FFS let us see something different. I can't give a vok about playing the Bulls , Lions and WP....been there, done that....got many many T shirts.
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Sards wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:28 am I also get the feeling the top 4 want to keep it clean and within the original structures of the Rainbow cup. Just in case something changes. It will be easier to integrate. Buy FFS let us see something different. I can't give a vok about playing the Bulls , Lions and WP....been there, done that....got many many T shirts.

Not playing the Bull's you haven't. Your wife will barely have anything to iron.
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sorCrer wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:42 am
Sards wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:28 am I also get the feeling the top 4 want to keep it clean and within the original structures of the Rainbow cup. Just in case something changes. It will be easier to integrate. Buy FFS let us see something different. I can't give a vok about playing the Bulls , Lions and WP....been there, done that....got many many T shirts.

Not playing the Bull's you haven't. Your wife will barely have anything to iron.
I remember when you just stopped posting for years . Something about the Bulls being super kak...now you are here daily.
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Sards wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:55 am
sorCrer wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:42 am
Sards wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:28 am I also get the feeling the top 4 want to keep it clean and within the original structures of the Rainbow cup. Just in case something changes. It will be easier to integrate. Buy FFS let us see something different. I can't give a vok about playing the Bulls , Lions and WP....been there, done that....got many many T shirts.

Not playing the Bull's you haven't. Your wife will barely have anything to iron.
I remember when you just stopped posting for years . Something about the Bulls being super kak...now you are here daily.
Stopped posting on PR for a year to get some money in. You've a good memory for a Queensburgh chap.
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Frans Steyn needs game time. He really should be loaned to one of the "top 4" sides for the next few weeks.
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sorCrer wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:27 am
Sards wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:55 am
sorCrer wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:42 am


Not playing the Bull's you haven't. Your wife will barely have anything to iron.
I remember when you just stopped posting for years . Something about the Bulls being super kak...now you are here daily.
Stopped posting on PR for a year to get some money in. You've a good memory for a Queensburgh chap.
Queesburgh...nah. Starded my first business there. Hated it.
And look how lucky you are. Got things under control in just a year.
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Sards wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 1:07 pm
sorCrer wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:27 am
Sards wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:55 am

I remember when you just stopped posting for years . Something about the Bulls being super kak...now you are here daily.
Stopped posting on PR for a year to get some money in. You've a good memory for a Queensburgh chap.
Queesburgh...nah. Starded my first business there. Hated it.
And look how lucky you are. Got things under control in just a year.
Yes because I work totally by myself these days. I was spending so much time managing staff and SARS etc that I wasn't enjoying what I do.
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sorCrer wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:52 pm
Sards wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 1:07 pm
sorCrer wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:27 am

Stopped posting on PR for a year to get some money in. You've a good memory for a Queensburgh chap.
Queesburgh...nah. Starded my first business there. Hated it.
And look how lucky you are. Got things under control in just a year.
Yes because I work totally by myself these days. I was spending so much time managing staff and SARS etc that I wasn't enjoying what I do.
Well that is outstanding. I probably have another 6 months before I am back to normal . So that's a great achievement Sauce
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Bryan Habana is calling for Willemse to play at 10 against the BIL. Bryan is a legend. He obviously sees something in Willemse. If anyone understands how a backline should function and the pressure and temperament of such tours its Bryan. As well as how important your 10 is. Remember Beauden against the BIL. Of course he obviously considers getting the ball wide an important part of that being a wing that enjoyed playing with the ball. And the fact that missed kicks ( Beauden) can lose you a series.
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Sards wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:28 am Bryan Habana is calling for Willemse to play at 10 against the BIL. Bryan is a legend. He obviously sees something in Willemse. If anyone understands how a backline should function and the pressure and temperament of such tours its Bryan. As well as how important your 10 is. Remember Beauden against the BIL. Of course he obviously considers getting the ball wide an important part of that being a wing that enjoyed playing with the ball. And the fact that missed kicks ( Beauden) can lose you a series.
Ja he also pick Marcel Coetzee before PSdT. Look like he is on papegaai twak like you.
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OomStruisbaai wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:42 pm
Sards wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:28 am Bryan Habana is calling for Willemse to play at 10 against the BIL. Bryan is a legend. He obviously sees something in Willemse. If anyone understands how a backline should function and the pressure and temperament of such tours its Bryan. As well as how important your 10 is. Remember Beauden against the BIL. Of course he obviously considers getting the ball wide an important part of that being a wing that enjoyed playing with the ball. And the fact that missed kicks ( Beauden) can lose you a series.
Ja he also pick Marcel Coetzee before PSdT. Look like he is on papegaai twak like you.
Habana is fucking clueless if this is true
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OomStruisbaai wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:42 pm
Sards wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:28 am Bryan Habana is calling for Willemse to play at 10 against the BIL. Bryan is a legend. He obviously sees something in Willemse. If anyone understands how a backline should function and the pressure and temperament of such tours its Bryan. As well as how important your 10 is. Remember Beauden against the BIL. Of course he obviously considers getting the ball wide an important part of that being a wing that enjoyed playing with the ball. And the fact that missed kicks ( Beauden) can lose you a series.
Ja he also pick Marcel Coetzee before PSdT. Look like he is on papegaai twak like you.
Both are sicknotes
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OomStruisbaai wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:42 pm
Sards wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:28 am Bryan Habana is calling for Willemse to play at 10 against the BIL. Bryan is a legend. He obviously sees something in Willemse. If anyone understands how a backline should function and the pressure and temperament of such tours its Bryan. As well as how important your 10 is. Remember Beauden against the BIL. Of course he obviously considers getting the ball wide an important part of that being a wing that enjoyed playing with the ball. And the fact that missed kicks ( Beauden) can lose you a series.
Ja he also pick Marcel Coetzee before PSdT. Look like he is on papegaai twak like you.
Worth considering don't you think. He has a RWC medal
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Sards wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:42 am
OomStruisbaai wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:42 pm
Sards wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:28 am Bryan Habana is calling for Willemse to play at 10 against the BIL. Bryan is a legend. He obviously sees something in Willemse. If anyone understands how a backline should function and the pressure and temperament of such tours its Bryan. As well as how important your 10 is. Remember Beauden against the BIL. Of course he obviously considers getting the ball wide an important part of that being a wing that enjoyed playing with the ball. And the fact that missed kicks ( Beauden) can lose you a series.
Ja he also pick Marcel Coetzee before PSdT. Look like he is on papegaai twak like you.
Worth considering don't you think. He has a RWC medal
Sards, do you understand that you are defending someone who is picking Wunderkind to play at 10?
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We had the same issue with Slaptjips. An absolute genius on the rugby field, yet so many people not recognising it. Perhaps Willemse is that good. In any case, I'm not going to argue with someone's of Habana's calibre. His record speaks for itself.
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handyman wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:06 am We had the same issue with Slaptjips. An absolute genius on the rugby field, yet so many people not recognising it. Perhaps Willemse is that good. In any case, I'm not going to argue with someone's of Habana's calibre. His record speaks for itself.
Habana is definitely worth listening to. He has the ear of the world and has played all over so his allegiance to WP won't come into play
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Sards wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 9:16 am
handyman wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:06 am We had the same issue with Slaptjips. An absolute genius on the rugby field, yet so many people not recognising it. Perhaps Willemse is that good. In any case, I'm not going to argue with someone's of Habana's calibre. His record speaks for itself.
Habana is definitely worth listening to. He has the ear of the world and has played all over so his allegiance to WP won't come into play
Quite correct.
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Haha...I saw that interview. Need to buy Bryan a beer for trolling Sards like that :clap:

Habana made a couple of calls based on injuries at the time; so he excluded Eben, Lood, PSdT and Pollard from his starting team.
Looks like all of them (bar maybe Lood) could be ready for the Lions.

Either way, if Pollard doesn't play, we will be up shit's creek at 10.
I don't think the coaching team will risk a green player like Willemse against the Lions. They will give it to Jantjies or even Morne.
Willemse's versatility will probably make him a long term bench player to take over that spot from Frans Steyn since he can cover every backline position bar scrumhalf.
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Ja, I agree. If Pollard isn't playing at 10 we are very unlikely to win the series, in my opinion.
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No Lions fans allowed to come over. Going to make for a poorer atmosphere, but will definitely count in our favour come match day.
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2021 Springbokke NH tour:

6 November Wales
13 November Scotland
20 November England
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OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:40 pm 2021 Springbokke NH tour:

6 November Wales
13 November Scotland
20 November England
Let's hope the last one is Ireland or France.
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Think they play only 3 tests.
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OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 2:45 pm Think they play only 3 tests.
That'll be shame if it's only three. It's usually four plus the occasional game against the Barbarians.
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assfly wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:43 am
OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 2:45 pm Think they play only 3 tests.
That'll be shame if it's only three. It's usually four plus the occasional game against the Barbarians.
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The game will be the last leg of the Springboks’ three-match tour of Europe in November 2021. Last week it was confirmed that South Africa will play Scotland on 13 November in Edinburgh, a week before the Twickenham Test, with an opening Autumn Test fixture yet to be announced.
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Fair enough.

I'm so desparate to see the Boks play again. Over 500 days since our last game.
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assfly wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:43 am
OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 2:45 pm Think they play only 3 tests.
That'll be shame if it's only three. It's usually four plus the occasional game against the Barbarians.
The fourth match is always a fuckup, because it's outside the test window and we lose access to our European-based players.

I miss Bok rugby as much as anybody but I'd rather them not play any games where we would not have our best players available.
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Blake wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:00 pm
assfly wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:43 am
OomStruisbaai wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 2:45 pm Think they play only 3 tests.
That'll be shame if it's only three. It's usually four plus the occasional game against the Barbarians.
The fourth match is always a fuckup, because it's outside the test window and we lose access to our European-based players.

I miss Bok rugby as much as anybody but I'd rather them not play any games where we would not have our best players available.
How is it different for other nations.
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Sards wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:36 pm
Blake wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:00 pm
assfly wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:43 am

That'll be shame if it's only three. It's usually four plus the occasional game against the Barbarians.
The fourth match is always a fuckup, because it's outside the test window and we lose access to our European-based players.

I miss Bok rugby as much as anybody but I'd rather them not play any games where we would not have our best players available.
How is it different for other nations.
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Sards wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:36 pm How is it different for other nations.
I honestly don't understand your "question"?

How is it different for which for which other nations?
The answer varies when you dig into the specifics.
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