John Philip “Bakkies” Botha
John Philip “Bakkies” Botha, born 22 September 1979 in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal has had a glittering international career that drew to a close on 22 November 2014.
He will continue to play for his French Club Toulon and has even hinted at retiring in South Africa with the Currie Cup.
In his professional career Botha has won everything there is to win.
With the Blue Bulls he won the Vodacom Cup in 2001 and then went on to add three Currie Cup titles to his name in 2002, 2004 and 2009.
With the Bulls in Super Rugby, Botha was part of the first South African team to lift the trophy in 2007 (in the professional era – with Transvaal winning the Super 10 in 1993), and then again in 2009 and 2010.
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For the Springboks he has won the World Cup in 2007, the Tri-nations in 2004 and 2009 as well as a British and Irish Lions Series Trophy in 2009.
Botha has also picked up the Mandela Challenge plate in 2005 and 2009 against the Wallabies and the Freedom cup against the All Blacks in 2004 and 2009.
For Toulon, Botha won the European cup back-to-back in 2013 and 2014 as well as scooping the Top 14 League in 2014.
A true giant of the game in every sense, it is easy to smile when watching this clip…
Bakkies Botha, Willie John McBride, Victor Matfield & Heyneke Meyer
Bakkies Botha & Juan Smith in the streets of Toulon with their home-made BOEREWORS – You can take the BOER out of South Africa but you cannot take South africa out of the BOER!
Bakkies Botha & Bryan Habana having a BRAAI in Toulon, France.
Love him or HATE him, this man was hell on wheels!
John Philip “Bakkies” Botha, I salute you!
Why did they call him Bakkies?
@ Victoriabok:
Sy bakore
The video is something special, is’nt it!!
How to clean out a 120kg prop
@ Victoriabok:
Lock not prop, I need more coffee on a Monday morning
Die Frik du Preez van die profesionele era.
5 @ Victoriabok:
sommer met sy kop 😆
naas juan smith en andre venter my gunsteling speler ooit go well big man en kom maak maar daai laaste seisoen in n cheetah trui kla.dan kan jy nou regtig jou loopbaan op n high afsluit
@ smallies:
Andre was groot, vinning en sterk met hande wat enige senter sal beny
Ander spelers wat ook besonders was is Ruben, Gary Teichmann, Bullet, Juba en Pakslae
@ Victoriabok:
maar daai drie….o ja en ulie boelie
Kyk hierna, ek dink die commentator is Gerhard Viviers
@ Victoriabok:
Fark ek word nou oud, Schalk Burger en Jaco Reinach se laaities speel al vir die Bokke
En Carel s’n gaan seker ook
@ Victoriabok:
Skills van Jaco Reinach!!!
Goeie skop en jaag van Naas ook
Paar mooi driee die jaar van ons
@ MacroBok:
Ek sal altwee ons verbeeldinglose crashball senters inruil vir ‘n Danie Gerber in sy prime
En al die S15 senters vir hom en Michael du Plessis saam
Hoe goed is Carel se seun by die Sharks, Jean-Luc du Plessis?
Is hy ‘n toekomstige Bok losskakel?
13 @ MacroBok:
Flok, ek het my 1ste Toets al net meer as 40 jaar gelede gesien, so binnekort kan ek dalk van daai spelers se KLEINKINDERS beginne sien groot rugby speel!!
Ek en Naas was saam op Universiteit.. ons het 1 vak in gemeen gehad, Kriminologie… saam op klas daar.
Uli is mos nou in Australië, as ek dit nie mis het nie… hy is mos ‘n Dokter, en het by die Medikliniek langs my besigheidperseel gepraktiseer daar in Silverton, Pretoria op geleentheid.. sy vrou is ook ‘n Dokter, as ek dit nie mis het nie.
@ Victoriabok: yip. And it brings tears to the eyes certainly. I watched this series. The Kiwi rebels were know as the NZ Cavaliers. Pretty decent side they were too.
@ Victoriabok:
ons sal al die senters in die land moet inruil vir Danie.
Ken nie die Du Plessis tweeling so goed nie.
Victoriabok wrote:
Robert du Preez se seun is die nuwe golden boy so dalk is volgende jaar sy jaar
2016 gaan die “nuwe” toekomstige loskakel oorvat 😆 2017 die volgende ou…
18 @ Tassies:
Hehehe, Andy Dalton was their cappie, until my Cuzzie ended his tour in the 2nd game on tour… broke his jaw with a punch.
@ grootblousmile: ja. Burger was a breker of note. Tell me you’re not a chip off the old block GB. One didn’t really want to make Burger de moer in intentionally. Ask Andy?
@ MacroBok: both were outstanding for different reasons. Carel was the most famous because of his extreme skill on the wing but Michael was not far behind as a highly talented and creative centre. Then there was Willie and finally young Jacques. What a rugby family that was. Can’t see it happening again in a hurry.
Then there is the new generation of players, probably the only bearable PW player
but what a player
Will always be compared to aplon because of his size, but overall better than the rest as well… looking forward to see what he can do in Super Rugby.
@ Victoriabok: en Schalk Jnr is nie langer n laaitjie nie. Hys nou a veteraan kan jy dit glo
22 @ Tassies:
The Geldenhuys clan are all the same…
Think back on the Geldenhuys okes who played big rugby, Adri Geldenhuys (Springbok lock), cuzzie Burger Geldenhuys (Blue Bulls & Springbok openside flank), cuzzie Jan Geldenhuys or JP Geldenhuys as they called him (No 8 for WP)… moeilike klomp donners.
My dad was like that too when he was young… His cousins to this day still talk of how scared people were of the kaalkop Geldenhuys, who moerred first and asked questions afterwards on the rugby field.
We are fiery but very passionate.
I am not aggressive and take long to anger… till one farking day, when all hell breaks loose… hehehe
@ grootblousmile:
Ons het ‘n moerse span gehad in 1988-1991
Burger, Uli, Jan Lock, Adri Geldenhuys en Piet Pretorius
En moenie Robert du Preez weggooi nie, hy’t mos ‘n OP flank lights out geslaan
grootblousmile wrote:
Het Burger nie ook ‘n Bottelstoor in Sunnyside gehad nie?
grootblousmile wrote:
Het jy nie ook groot rugby gespeel nie?
Die gene loop mos in die familie?
Seker te besig in die losgemaal op ‘n Mazda se sitplek? 😛
Tassies wrote:
I wonder if Divan Serfontein has a boy?
He was one of the smartest players we ever had
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