Francois Steyn
Tanerau Latimer
Japanese Rugby club Toshiba Brave Lupus have announced that Springbok Frans Steyn and All Black flanker Tanerau Latimer have signed with the club.
The club have won the Japanese Top league four times and already have the likes of Richard Kahui and Cooper Vuna on their books.
rugbyweek
Twenty-eight-year-old Chiefs flanker Latimer has been with the Chiefs since 2007 after making his Super Rugby debut for the Crusaders in 2006.
Speaking on the Lupus site Latimer said, “I am very much looking forward to being able to join the Toshiba Brave Lupus because it is one of the strongest team in Japan, I will do my best to make it stronger. I am very happy that I had an opportunity like this.”
Latimer has won five All Black caps and has captained the New Zealand Maori team.
Sharks back Frans Steyn can play at fullback, centre or flyhalf and is known for his big kicking abilities. This will not be the first time that Steyn has left South Africa as between 2009 and 2012 Steyn played in France for Racing Metro.
Steyn returned from France in 2012 and helped the Sharks win the Currie Cup title in 2013 and has won 53 caps for the Springboks. He was not selected for the 2013 end of year tour.
“To play for the Toshiba Brave Lupus is a great honour,” said Steyn on the Lupus site.
“I want to study Japanese culture and language, and more than anything I hope to help the Toshiba Brave Lupus win.”
Both players will complete their Super Rugby commitments before leaving for Japan.
Cheers all, back in a short while.
@ cane:
59
Hi Pal.Have a great weekend
62 @ ryecatcher:
Helloooooooo Oompie, how the hell are you on this freezing Friday?
@ grootblousmile:
Yes I do.
Very well in fact.
I cannot remember the name of the other Dude who featured prominently in the article.
.
Something about you putting up your own aerial to receive TV/radio coverage of a game was mentioned.
A CLASSIC.
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64 @ cane:
I saved that Article somewhere… will try and dig it up
@ ryecatcher:
Goodnight one and all.
Very fine win by the Junior Boks today. (unfortunately).
đ
66 Won on physicality,Handling and passing crappy.Good night
@ grootblousmile:
It could well come to be considered, an “Historical Document”, some time in the future Groot.
đ
@ grootblousmile:
62 Colder than the shady side of a witches tit,But what would an oompie know about that part of
the anatomy.
Good night all.Komberse en warm water bottel roep my.
@ ryecatcher:
67,Well played Stormers
64 @ cane:
Found the Article!
Here it is, was in the Sunday Independent Newspaper, 22 May 2007:
SA rugby diasporaâs chat via blogfuls of old bulle
Debbie Smit 22 May 2007 at 10h00
Although the new and improved user-driven internet known as Web 2.0 has been with us for a while now, South Africans have been a little slow on the uptake. Participation in this virtual revolution, which has advertisers worldwide scrambling for online real estate, is often hard to gauge.
Driving traffic to blogs
A web tool called a blog aggregator drives traffic to blogs by providing links to these and also shows which ones are most popular.
On amatomu (amatomu.com), a South African blog aggregator, you can view statistics on whoâs blogging who, what and why. An interesting three-dimensional pie chart in the Trends section shows that South Africans blog most about life, technology and media and marketing. However, when it comes to page impressions, requests for specific subjects, life takes second place to sport.
Loosening the reins
Amatomu, which means âreinsâ in isiZulu, lists keo.co.za as South Africaâs most-read blog. Since its name provides no clue to its content, I had a look, expecting to find a community of propellerheads extolling the virtues of citizen journalism.
Instead, I found a website featuring a manic-looking white male in dire need of an eyebrow wax.
Keo.co.za is in fact the site of controversial rugby writer Mark Keohane and âthe home of South African rugby fansâ.
It is populated by creatures like grootblousmile, Loosehead and Doosdiefdrieduisend. They post comments like: âWikus is nie bang nie want hy dra blouâ. Riveting stuff.
As a member of a family who favours Simon Cowell to Fourie du Preez, it is easy for me to forget that rugby is endemic to the DNA of the average white South African male. The terms openside flank, turnover ball and scrummage seldom feature at our dinner table.
Odd-shaped balls
On Friday night at the local pub, I was reminded of how fervent the passion is for the game for men with odd-shaped balls. In public places, the species can be heard bragging about the colour of their blood⊠blue or green or the ever-popular black and white.
When they venture into hyperspace, the archive of their verbal matings with fellow fans provides a fascinating digital ethnography.
Here, Knersboy advises Boerboel on where he might catch the match in the Netherlands. Knersboy provides Boerboel with two venues: an Irish pub that âsometimes had too many stiff old balliesâ and an Australian one in den Haag called âkangaroos tooâ.
The degree of intimacy in the exchanges sometimes verges on excruciating. âGrootblousmileâ lives in Boksburg. I know this because âHefâ, who lives in London, and will be watching the rugby at the Zulus bar, delights at Grootblousmileâs misfortune at having had an early morning blackout on Friday. He knew about it because he read it on online. Grootblousmile replies that he was not affected because âtoe lĂȘ ek nog en poep ruikâ.
Rugger blogmen
To make Hef jealous, Grootblousmile explains how he and his mates do the âRoftusâ ritual. First, they pitch their gazebos and unpack the mandatory âbraaiersâ and cooler boxes. He and his pals even have a âmobile satelietskottelâ, DStv decoder and TV, as well as a generator that they âgaat opslaan om die Tjarks game te kyk wyl ons braai en ân knertsie gooiâ.
So the rugger blogmen display and transmit their memes, bits of cultural information passed on like genes to like-minded individuals across oceans and generations, ensuring their survival through hundreds of playoffs to come.
71 @ grootblousmile:
72 @ MacroBok:
Flok, ek was omtrent kwaad vir die Debbie Smit!
âtoe lĂȘ ek nog en poep ruikâ.
Fok dis snaaks haha, ek dink ons almal kan so geprofile word op ‘n “manne” plek.
74 @ MacroBok:
Jeeeez, maar mens wil dit darem nie in die koerante sien nie!
Hierdie vrou verstaan nie hoe voel die om die super 14 te wen terwyl niemand anders in suid afrika kan nie đ
74 @ grootblousmile:
Ja hel, dis snaaks en als, maar haar doel was om net af te kraak.
bwahahaha
Farks sake GBS, julle tjop darem al lankal af met die kragonderbreukens.
76 @ MacroBok:
Genade, ek stel my voor sy is so preutse koekie wat mens sal naar maak om in haar teenwoordigheid te wees!
78 @ nortierd:
Ja, hel… dit voel nie so lank nie… maar donner dis nou al 7 jaar se storie!
@ grootblousmile:
Ja sys soos daai tannie wat by die koffieshop sit met haar sonbrille en almal sit en uit kyk.
“Instead, I found a website featuring a manic-looking white male in dire need of an eyebrow wax.”
Lol, not Keo’s finest moment either
Ek sien griekwas het darem goed gewen, sal n sonde wees as hulle nie kwalifiseer vir die currie cup nie
MacroBok wrote:
My second favorite sport daai
Doosdiefdrieduisend is n flippen goeie username
81 @ MacroBok:
Ek gaan gou google en kyk of ek kan sien hoe sy lyk!
@ nortierd:
Maar eks seker sy check nie die girls uit nie.
@87
Ha ha, hoop nie so nie
People watching, vet pret, veral daar by die Boksburg vlooimark.
Muscles, tattoos, leather jackets, helmets……en dis net die girls
86 @ grootblousmile:
hierso
http://goo.gl/3AXRE5
88 @ nortierd:
dalk like sy dit, sy hou verseker nie van iemand wat naastenby soos n rugbyspeler lyk nie
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