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Vleis

Is your source on the bolded bit "trust me, bro"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Rugby_Championship#Attendance "We added teams from 8,000 miles away with massive stadiums, so the league's average attendance went up." Jaysus. Is that it? I saw a graph** a few months ago, which showed that the ...

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Looks like the URC organisers are ramping up the gigantic fcuk you to travelling fans, by actively exploring the addition of Black Lion into the competition. Not only are the URC organisers seemingly happy with asking British and Irish fans to travel 18+ hours to another continent as part of a "dom...

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sunnybanana wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 2:32 am Frothing

too beautiful

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pelo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 5:49 am Italy by 10, too much physicality that SA cannot match.

I think you need to lay off the vino

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A Bok B/C** team v an Italian A/B team - should be interesting.

** there are a couple of A players (e.g. PSdT back from injury), but there are some D/E team players, so it evens out to a B/C team.

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I'm loving the fanatical level of loathing for the Bokke displayed by the muppets who frequent this forum. :thumbup: I pop in here every now and then for a good laugh. :lol: :lol: Yep, I’ve been avoiding this place for a while but popped in out of boredom and have been quickly reminded of why I lef...

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I'm loving the fanatical level of loathing for the Bokke displayed by the muppets who frequent this forum.

I pop in here every now and then for a good laugh.

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You bring on the incredible bomb squad whose impact is seen immediately yet you leave on the worst player of the day so that any impact they make is nullified. If Grant Williams had started that match, the scoreline would have resembled Italy Argentina. Jayden has been poor for a while, needs to be...

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Springbok scrum must be the best in the world at the moment? Who are the other strong scurmmaging teams? Yes, I agree that the Boks are best at scrums at the moment...but, from memory, (i.e. no detailed stats analysis), Ireland and NZ are a match v SA for most of the game...but tend to wilt a littl...

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Springbok scrum must be the best in the world at the moment? Who are the other strong scurmmaging teams? Yes, I agree that the Boks are best at scrums at the moment...but, from memory, (i.e. no detailed stats analysis), Ireland and NZ are a match v SA for most of the game...but tend to wilt a littl...

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franch fan wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 5:54 pm lol we should rename the luck of the Irish by the luck of the Boks

Tell me that you're still bitter about the RWC Q/F loss without telling me.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2024/10/04/view-from-south-africa-springboks-have-hit-another-level-and-are-eyeing-up-irelands-top-spot/ Another article from a South African telling us all just how little they care about the rankings. It's paywalled and not archived, sorry. Highlights: Never...

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I'm a fortunate Saffer who's able to live in many different countries. Also, my eldest is in Dublin, my next born is in London and my youngest will probably work overseas after she qualifies next year. So, the pull for us (with the wife being the dominant part of "us") to emigrate is quite high, but...

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True Blue wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:44 pm Which fans are worse? Paddies or the Saffas?

Worse? I dunno...but perhaps the worst are the bitter fans that troll a thread on a SA documentary?

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Didn’t they make one of these after they lost to NZ then beat Namibia, Italy, Canada, Japan, Wales & England? Overhyping twats. Despite getting humped by 12 points, the scoreline between the ABs and Eng in RWC '19 nevertheless flattered the former. Thus, an AB fan acting in a condescending manner r...

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How do you get your conversion charged down under the posts like that? Moody kicked it too low. Mistake by the rookie, but he did get a long FG earlier...so I'm reluctant to get too pi$$ed off. That’s a massive mistake in hindsight. Yeah, but maybe Mahomes would've won the game with a TD on 4th dow...

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Skiaddict wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:57 am I don't believe Purdy has the poise to run this drive all the way to scoring postion and leave KC with no time.

As a 9er fan, I suspect that you may be correct...but I hope that we're both wrong! F'kin 5am here now!

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DOB wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:46 am How do you get your conversion charged down under the posts like that?

Moody kicked it too low. Mistake by the rookie, but he did get a long FG earlier...so I'm reluctant to get too pi$$ed off.

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Stade de France /thread Agreed. It takes forever to get there as the traffic is shite and it's in the middle of nowhere. Further to the latter point, there is also f'kall happening around the venue. The food was the worst that I've ever had in a stadium and the only drink on offer was below-par lag...

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Stade de France /thread Agreed. It takes forever to get there as the traffic is shite and it's in the middle of nowhere. Further to the latter point, there is also f'kall happening around the venue. The food was the worst that I've ever had in a stadium and the only drink on offer was below-par lag...

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My brother in law followed the Boks camp in Corsica, as a local FFR staff. He was struck by the fantastic atmosphere among players and staff, how laid back everybody were and he is convinced this played a great role in their victory. They were truly enjoying themselves. He said Kolisi was the lovel...

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Lots of Kiwis on a thread involving England and The Boks fudge off, this turd of a thread and its attention seeking author deserves all the contempt its getting. This should have been posted on the original thread which everyone had lost interest in. The original thread was locked, but don't let yo...

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jambanja wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:33 am Lots of Kiwis on a thread involving England and The Boks

That's what happens when one loses:

“Only what is below you tries to pull you down.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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What an embarrassing statement from Mbonambi Yep. The whole thing could have been handled much better with a respectful explanation of the difference between languages. But appreciate the timing wasn’t great with a RWC final on the line. But once the final is done and dusted, we get this sort of cr...

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Bongi's "crass" statement and the jokes in South Africa are testament to how f**king ridiculous the false allegations were in the first place. South Africa has suffered exponentially from racism. It has unfortunately defined who we are as a country, and the Springboks are testament to an inclusive ...

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Bob Skinstadt 2007? Vok no. I 100% remember him coming off the bench in 2007. Yeah wiki says he’s a World Cup winner It's not to say if wiki says he's a World Cup winner that he played in the final-he didn't come off the bench, was like oom Struisbaai put it vok no in the final team. I watched the ...

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How is this linked to the Olympic 7s in Paris, are teams already qualified or there is still some of that ongoing ? And what are the prospects for the Olympics, are Fiji still front runners ? Yes, I could google all this, but too lazy tbh :P Yeah most of the teams are already qualified for Paris. F...

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sunnybanana wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:22 am
Hoof wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:05 am
sunnybanana wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:32 am

Wrong.

They haven't been compliant for two years.
Wrong.

This Hoof oke stinks up every thread that has anything to do with SA. He probably shouts at cinema screens. Better to ignore.

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Oh look...England has just been hammered by SL and effectively knocked out of the cricket world cup today - karma for the likes of Keith et al. Your homework is to reread the messages from Mog and Toro on this thread and try to absorb something! Look closer to home fella. It's your hooker that's th...

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Oh look...England has just been hammered by SL and effectively knocked out of the cricket world cup today - karma for the likes of Keith et al. Your homework is to reread the messages from Mog and Toro on this thread and try to absorb something!

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Keith wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 2:18 pm
Chilli wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:25 pm
Keith wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:12 pm

So he's made a racist comment and then denied it. Double c-untage from the racist Saffa. Unsurprising given his nationality.
You could try harder.
No need, your thick countryman jumped right on it

Fok off racist kant!

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SARU statement: SA Rugby has noted World Rugby’s announcement concerning their investigation into an incident arising from the Rugby World Cup semi-final and welcomes the decision that no further action will be taken. Any form of racism is abhorrent to SA Rugby and the Springbok team whose purpose ...

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Saffas gonna Saffa :roll: This whole saga is like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon - the villains are leading until the last minute but are ultimately thwarted by the good guys (yet again)...but just when you think they are dead, they rise again try to spoil the party with dastardly accusations...and are fo...

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Saffas gonna Saffa :roll: This whole saga is like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon - the villains are leading until the last minute but are ultimately thwarted by the good guys (yet again)...but just when you think they are dead, they rise again try to spoil the party with dastardly accusations...and are fo...

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Look it's clearly a bunch of nonsense. Not only would it seem weird and out of character, but also he could have easily been talking about the jersey, not the race, and there's multiple phrases in Afrikaans that he was far more.probably actually saying. And even if he was actually saying what he is...

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You knew exactly what kant meant though. I can't believe that in the 30 odd years that South Africa has actually allowed black blokes to play the game, no one has pointed out that pointing at a white guy and shouting wit kant is a no no. But I'm happy to believe it's true Yes, the wit bit is superf...

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Wide side in Afrikaans is wyd kant. The wyd would sound like veight and the kant would sound like, well, cvnt. "Veight cvnt" is phonetically what "wide side" would sound like in Afrikaans. That it sounded like he shouted that twice and the fact the ball looked like it was shifting to the wide side ...

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In the wider African continent there must be some other countries where the game could be grown? Maybe Kenya who already have a decent 7s team? You’d have to think if Nigeria got a serious program going they would be taking Namibias spot quite easily. Third of all Nigerian men are naturally stocky ...

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The best current Namibian born and raised player moved to England in 2018 and is now chasing an England jersey (actually already got one in a non-cap game against the Barbarians) on residency. https://www.exeterchiefs.co.uk/players/patrick-schickerling I consider Paul Willemse (French player who mi...

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Is there much transference of players from South African club level to Namibia based on family history? Certainly for the Namibian cricket team this seems a key pathway (e.g. Ruben Trumpelmann, Jan Frylinck, Karl Birkenstock). I would have thought there'd be some reasonable flow of players given th...

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