Player Movements
The number
5 – Days left until the first match of RWC 2011, and countries who have reached the quarter-finals of every World Cup:
Australia, England, France, New Zealand and Scotland.
He said it
“There was almost a few broken bones and a few bodies knocked out of the World Cup. I wasn’t great to be honest, I was just trying to knock people off the road.”
– Ireland wing Tommy Bowe gives coach Declan Kidney – not to mention the physios – a few grey hairs when he and his teammates tackled the Skyline Luge through the trees of Queenstown.
I am publishing these as additional rules for the World Cup. This is very important to read, and or to pass on to your wife/fiance/girlfriend/partner/significant other:
**** Extremely important advice and recommendations to be passed on to wives, Girlfriends, fiancées, mothers, sisters, daughters, etc. (to all women in General) ****
World Cup 2007 Celebrations
The RWC is now imminent, it is there for important to prepare now rather than a day before the event. I thought it wise to set out a preparation guide and some rules to follow during this epic event. Continue reading
We are finally back ONLINE after an arduous 5 days!
The Domain Registration Trasfer is complete, the Contents and the SQL Database is up and running and the 2 Admin Mail Accounts have been re-created.
We’re still working on a few tweaks… lightening the SQL Database, tweaking the speed… and adding a few bits and bobs!
I often hear the old cliché “we want to play heads up rugby”. What the hell, a meerkat does that, he sticks his head out to survey the threats of nature. Then he runs, away, not forward into the danger zone.
Most of us here also blogged somewhere during the 2007 World Cup. Just like this year, in fact every time a Springbok team is picked, we the real experts pick our team too. Yes and every “selector” has his own favourites. In 2007 we disagreed with some of Jake White’s selections. Now let us see how many players back then were in YOUR team. Dont lie, some of us can remember your favorites, no cheating.
Can you believe it, it is our birthday here at Rugby-talk!
Rugby-Talk now stands a full 2 years old…. naughty as hell and more fiddly than the average 2-year old.
I think a hearty congratulations is in order!
This is relatively SHORT NOTICE but Ashley, our friend and fellow blogger has set up a Pool for us on testrugby.com for the Tri-Nations.
We have just more than a week to get registrations in and get raring to go, so please, all Rugby-Talkers, join up… and all Non-Rugby-Talkers, join up as a registered Rugby-Talker and then join up for this Competition as well.
This works diferently from SuperBru, here you have to select your players, do transfers of players and score according to your player performances. It still seems easy enough, nothing too fancy… and it did not take long for me to understand the Interface.
Come on, give it a go!
Go to www.testrugby.com and join!
Team name: rugbytalk
Password: blerriestormers
It is with much less fear and a lot more anticipation that we line-up for the second match of the year. We’ve worked on a couple of things during the week but are acutely aware that we haven’t spend enough time integrating the forwards and backs (team runs). Continue reading
Being a coach is without a doubt one of the hardest but potentially also one of the most rewarding jobs. Looking at the pressure the S15 and national coaches has to endure I have often found myself wondering who on earth would want to be a coach. Sort of; “not for all the money in the world would I want to be a coach”. Continue reading
If you read all the Rugby pages and Newspapers you can clearly see the urge to pick a Springbok World Cup squad. It is more than 142 days before the Tournament begins, 144 days before the Springboks play Wales in our first match and 170+ days before the Quarter Finals. But let it out, I know you want to! I constantly read about the teams everyone would pick, all the time.
When England football coach, the Italian Fabio Capello, said he required only a maximum 100-word vocabulary to speak with his players about tactics, he grabbed a few ears.
Two wins from a possible four gives the South African team a 50% win result for this weekend. This is how i rate this weekends rugby.
Hello Rugby-Talkers,
We have now Upgraded our SuperBru Pool for Rugby-Talk to include added benefits and enhancements. We have our own SuperBru URL and our Rugby-Talk Logo Appears on the Pool site.
With Super Rugby starting this Friday and the Cricket World Cup also starting on the weekend, today is basically your last chance to build up your shares with your partner / girl friend / wife / skelmpie!
As from tomorrow teams will be announced and it will be mayhem on this rugby site and other sites…
Don’t say I did not warn you!
Ladies and Gentlemen and all Unregistered Rugby-Talkers,
So far there are 4 SuperBru Competitions this year, all currently active, where Rugby-Talk hosts our own Pool of players for this wonderful prediction game.
3 of the 4 Tournaments are yet to kick off, whereas in the Six Nations only one game has been played, last night between Wales and England.
So, join up, hurry up and don’t just be a sideline spectator… register on Rugby-Talk and register on these 4 Rugby-Talk SuperBru Competition Pools!
GBS is busy in negotiations to lure a very big Sponsor and even bigger Super Rugby SuperBru prize, for which prize only ACTIVE Registered Rugby-Talkers will qualify and which prize will be given at the sole discretion of our webmonster, GBS.
The Competitions and Pools are as follows:
Six Nations
Varsity Cup
!!! Starts Monday !!!
Pool name: R-T Varsity
Pool code: berkcase
Super Rugby
Cricket World Cup
Come on, get your butts into gear!!
A friend of mine sent me this…. well to make a long story short, read the damn thing yourselves!
For all us props out there.
A lighter look at Power Balance arm bands… pity this was sent to me only in Afrikaans…
Wil jy dalk ‘n ponzi of pyramid scheme afpull? Check, baie mense het dit al reggekry, maar hulle is nog elke keer uitgevang omdat daar altyd iemand is wat snuf in die neus gekry het, of beesbollie ‘n myl ver kan ruik. Wat jy nodig het is heavy flippen gullible mense. Mense wat Power Balance armbandjies dra…
Here’s the second Part of the GBS Holiday, enjoy.
Whilst most of you were slaving away in 2011, it was time for the holiday of a lifetime. You probably wondered where I was, well it would be cruel not to share in a bit of the fun.
Bombs AWAY!
From the General and all at SuperBru HQ.
Welcome to a new season of rugby and a new and improved SuperBru. We’ve made a bunch of changes to make SuperBru even more fun!
Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here’s a hand, my trusty friend
And gie’s a hand o’ thine
We’ll tak’A cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG3afAIi6IQ&feature=related
Some weird, wild and wonderful snippits from 2010:
WP has a new sponsor in the freight company DHL. They have just displayed the 2011 Currie Cup jersey, and it looks like an amateur designed it.
DHL / WP
In the Off-season, it might be wise for us to look in detail at every Rugby Position on the field and find or discuss the requirements for each.
Today we kick off with a lighter and fun-look look at the positions.
Come on, you’ve got to read this.. unless you’re a forward, in which case you should ask someone to read it for you!
The latest cross-hemisphere battles produced a fascinating insight into the current balance of power in world rugby and with it a host dazzling individual displays – but who made the grade in our latest Team of the Week?
Lionel Mapoe has apparently been told by the South African Rugby Union not to leave for Singapore with the South African Vipers Sevens team, as he will have to join the Springbok tour group in Britain next week.
and
According to Owen Kock , Mapoe will further his career in Johannesburg with the Lions next season, which was confirmed by a “trustworthy source” within the Lions Union.
There is a joke doing the rounds that when sports predictions cult figure Paul the Octopus died in a German aquarium this week his parting word was “Shaaaarks”.
We were asked to put up a “Tjarks / WP spite thread!” , wel go for it.
Continue reading
Billy Bush whingeing yet again about unfair treatment by the boks
In an article by Michael Brown regarding Maori being unfairly treated by not being allowed to tour to South Africa he has the following on Billy Bush. Continue reading
The hand-off is not something that you really see in South African rugby. At least to the extent that you see it here in New Zealand. No Springbok rugby player –as an example of an exponent of the hand-off- spring to mind when you think of the hand-off. Continue reading
With 3 games left the great predictors are in a tense battle for top honors. The top 10 all have a good chance.
Need help? Read Superbru’s Preview and history at the end of this article.
I’ve just watched the semi finals of the common wealth seven’s tournament played between New Zealand/England and Australia/South Africa respectively.
NZ won relatively easily against the Poms and South Africa lost 17-7 against the Aussies. While watching these matches I penned down 7 observations. Continue reading