Over the last few weeks i followed SARugby.com articles where they anounced a player every day. They had a panel who picked their top 50 Springboks since readmission. We debated some of them earlier. Tomorrow they will announce their number 1 player.
The SARugby.com Top 50 Springboks since re-admission:
50 – Stefan Terblanche
49 – Joe van Niekerk
48 – Kobus Wiese
47 – De Wet Barry
46 – Robbie Fleck
45 – Pieter Hendriks
44 – Marius Joubert
43 – Krynauw Otto
42 – AJ Venter
41 – Pierre Spies
40 – Jannie de Beer
39 – James Dalton
38 – Andre Pretorius
37 – Rassie Erasmus
36 – JP Pietersen
35 – Danie Rossouw
34 – Breyton Paulse
33 – Pieter Rossouw
32 – Hennie le Roux
31 – Jean de Villiers
30 – Bob Skinstad
29 – Japie Mulder
28 – Pieter Muller
27 – Balie Swart
26 – Uli Schmidt
25 – Chester Williams
24 – Butch James
23 – Ruben Kruger
22 – Francois Steyn
21 – Juan Smith
20 – James Small
19 – Jaque Fourie
18 – Joel Stransky
17 – Henry Honiball
16 – Naas Botha
15 – Joost van der Westhuizen
14 – Danie Gerber
13 – Bakkies Botha
12 – Gary Teichmann
11 – Bryan Habana
10 – André Venter
9 – Mark Andrews
8 – Francois Pienaar
7 – Schalk Burger
6 – André Joubert
5 – Victor Matfield
4 – Fourie du Preez
3 – Percy Montgomery
2 – Os du Randt
Ok
Ek kyk so daarna.
Barney was ons kaptein toe ons die WC2007 gewen het, maar gaan die lys oor goeie kapteine of beste spelers?
Os het twee WC titels agter sy naam, en sou beslis in my boek bo Barney moet wees. dan het ons nog net 2 IRB spelers van die jaar opgelewer, dus moet Schalk en Bryan beslis onder die top 5 wees!!
Francois Pienaar?? Goeie kaptein en goeie spreker, maar hy was nie ‘n moer ‘n, beter speler as Andre Venter, Honiball, Juan Smith ens nie.
En hoe de duiwel kan Japie Vroetelvingers en Pieter Muller as beter spelers as JdV, Pieter Rossouw en Marius Joubert gesien word?
ag die beste speler wat suid-afrika nog ooit opgelewer het gaan volgende week sy eerste rugby kliniek by klein gim (paarl) bywoon …. en ja, julle’s reg,
dis die einste
die enigste
my eie …… “mini-me”!! 😀
AJ Venter ‘n beter speler as Marius (Hatrick teen All Blacks) Joubert? This list is bogus, most ridiculous idea ever…
Danie Rossouw makes the list, albeit he played most his tests from the reserves…
Really, I don’t know if any criteria was taken into consideration while compiling this list, but I am guessing some idiot started penning down random names, surprised to see that Franco Smith, Kaya Moletana, Putt and one hit wonder Sowerby never made the list.
What about a lits of one-hit wonders?
The madam of a brothel has a problem, so she goes to a local priest. “I have two talking female parrots,” she tells him. “All they can say is ‘Hi, we’re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?'”
“That’s awful,” the priest agrees, “but I have a solution to your problem. I have two male parrots whom I’ve taught to pray and read the Bible. If we put your parrots with mine, I believe yours will stop saying that awful phrase and will instead learn to recite the word of God.”
The next day, the madame brings her parrots to the priest’s house and puts them in with the male parrots, who are holding rosary beads and praying in their cage.
“Hi, we’re prostitutes,” say the females. “Do you want to have some fun?”
One male parrot looks at the other and squawks, “Close that Bible, Frank! Our prayers have been answered!”
A husband, tired of his wife asking him how she looks, buys her a full length mirror. This does little to help, as now she just stands in front of the mirror, looking at herself, asking him how she looks.
One day, fresh out of the shower, she is yet again in front of the mirror, now complaining that her breasts are too small. The husband comes up with a suggestion. “If you want your breasts to grow, then every day take a piece of toilet paper, and rub it between your breasts for a few seconds.”
Willing to try anything, the wife fetches a piece of toilet paper, and stands in front of the mirror, rubbing it between her breasts. “How long will this take?” she asks.
“They’ll grow slightly larger every day over a period of years,” he replies.
The wife stops. “Why do you think rubbing a piece of toilet paper between my breasts every day will make my breasts grow over the years?”
The husband shrugs. “Why not, it worked for your butt, didn’t it?”
A man with a winking problem applies for a position as a traveling salesman and goes in for an interview.
“Looking at your résumé, I can see that you’re more than qualified,” says the interviewer. “Unfortunately, we can’t have our sales reps constantly winking at customers, so we can’t hire you.”
“But wait,” says the man. “If I take two aspirin, I stop winking.”
“Then show me,” replies the interviewer.
So the guy reaches into his pants pocket and pulls out a pile of condoms in all different shapes, sizes, and colors before finally finding a packet of aspirin. He pops the pills and immediately stops winking.
“It’s great you stopped winking,” says the interviewer, “but we can’t have our salesmen womanizing all over the country.”
“What do you mean?” asks the man. “I’m happily married.”
“How do you explain all the condoms?” asks the interviewer.
“Oh, that,” sighs the man. “Have you ever walked into a pharmacy, winking, and asked for aspirin?”
One day after striking gold in Alaska, a lonesome miner came down from the mountains and walked into a saloon in the nearest town. “I’m lookin’ for the meanest, toughest, roughest hooker in the Yukon,” he said to the bartender.
“We got her,” replied the bartender. “She’s upstairs in the second room on the right.”
The miner handed the bartender a gold nugget to pay for the hooker and two beers. He grabbed the bottles, stomped up the stairs, kicked open the door and yelled, “I’m looking for the meanest, roughest, toughest hooker in the Yukon.”
The woman inside the room looked at the miner and said, “Well, you found her.” Then she stripped naked, bent over and grabbed her ankles. “How do you know I want that position first?” asked the miner. “I don’t,” replied the hooker, “I just thought you might like to open those beers first.”
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😳 sorry gbs, but i still think its funny!! 😆
Here is someone you won’t find on the list:
Most successfull post-isolation players:
Wayne Julies – Played in 11 of which 10 was victories (90% success rate)
Rudolf Streauli – Played in 10 of which 9 was victories (90% success rate)
I wonder why the mongrel author never put them on the list (wink-wink)
A fire starts inside a chemical plant and the alarm goes out to fire departments miles around. After crews have been fighting the fire for over an hour, the chemical company president approached the fire chief and said, “All of our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved! I will give $100,000 to the engine company that brings them out safely!”
The crews try, but no one can get through. Then another fire truck, filled with a volunteer fire company of men over 65, comes roaring down the road and drives straight into the middle of the inferno. The other men watch unbelieving as the old timers hop off of their rig and heroically extinguish the fire, saving the secret formulas.
The company president walks over to reward the volunteers.
“What do you guys plan to do with the money?” the president asks the group.
The firetruck driver looks him right in the eye and answers, “Well, the first thing we’re going to do is fix the fucking brakes on that truck.”
With a sheep under his arm, a man walks into his bedroom and stands in front of his wife.
“This is the pig I have sex with when you have a headache,” he says.
The wife looks at him and replies, “That’s not a pig, it’s a sheep.”
He answers, “I wasn’t talking to you.”
The owner of a drugstore arrives at work to find a man leaning heavily against a wall, with a very strange look on his face. The owner goes inside and asks his clerk what’s up.
“He wanted something for his cough, but I couldn’t find the cough syrup,” the clerk explains. “So I gave him a box of laxatives and told him to take it all at once.”
“Laxatives won’t cure a cough, you idiot,” the owner shouts angrily.
“Sure it will,” the clerk says, pointing at the man leaning on the wall. “Look at him. He’s too afraid to cough.”
Two lawyers are leaving the office. “I can’t wait to get home,” says one of them. “As soon as I walk in the door, I’m going to rip my wife’s panties right off.”
“I know the feeling,” the other says.
“No, I’m serious,” says the first. “They’re killing me.”
Everybody on Earth dies and goes to heaven. God greets them and says, “Men, make two lines: one for those who dominated their women and one for those who were whipped. All the women can go with St. Peter.”
After about an hour, God returns to find 2.5 billion men standing in the whipped line and only one guy in the dominant line.
“You men should be ashamed of yourselves!” God cries. “I created you in my image, and all of you cowed down to women? Can any of you explain this?” No one dares says a word.
God then turns to the man standing alone and says, “Tell me, my son, how did you manage to be the only one on this line?”
“I don’t know,” the guy replies, shrugging. “My wife told me to stand here.”
An attractive, well-dressed woman walks into a shop that sells very expensive Persian rugs. She looks around and spots the perfect rug and walks over to inspect it. As she bends to feel the texture of the rug she farts loudly. Very embarrassed, she looks around nervously to see if anyone has noticed. As she turns back, standing next to her is a salesman.
“Good day, ma’am, how may we help you today?”
Very uncomfortably she asks, “Sir, how much does this rug cost?”
“Ma’am,” he answers, “If you farted just touching it, you’re gonna crap when you hear the price!”
1 – John Smit
John Smit is the most capped captain in rugby history and arguably the greatest leader the sport has ever known.
In his 93 Test career to date, the inspirational hooker has led South Africa to every major championship in world rugby. Along with being the most capped captain in Springbok history (67), he’s also the most capped hooker (78) and most capped forward (93).
He’s played most of his career at hooker but has also scrummed down at tighthead prop on 15 occasions. He made his Springbok debut off the replacements bench against Canada in East London on June 10, 2000 and continued to pay his dues until he finally earned his first start against Argentina in November that year.
Smit was in and out of the starting line-up the following year before a recurring shoulder injury brought his international career to an 18-month halt. He was recalled for the 2003 World Cup in which he played in all five matches and became the 50th player to captain the Springboks in the 46-19 win over Georgia in the pool stages.
When Jake White was appointed as the new Springbok coach in 2004 he named Smit as the man who would lead South Africa on a permanent basis. The duo immediately struck a winning partnership as they guided the Boks to their first Tri-Nations title since 1998 and the IRB Team of the Year award.
Smit went on to play in a Springbok record 46 consecutive Tests between 2003 and 2007 before he was sidelined by injury ahead of the Tri-Nations Test against New Zealand in Durban. He recovered in time to captain the Springboks in the World Cup in France later that year where he played in all seven games and led South Africa to their second World Cup crown with a 15-6 victory over England in the final.
Smit suffered a groin injury due to a spear tackle by New Zealand lock Brad Thorn in the opening Test of the 2008 Tri-Nations which ruled him out for the remainder of the competition. He returned on the end-of-year tour of Europe where he captained the Boks to victories over Wales and Scotland before they handed England a record 42-6 drubbing.
In 2009, he led South Africa to a 2-1 series win over the British & Irish Lions and scored a memorable try in the narrow 26-21 win in the opening Test at his beloved Absa Stadium in Durban. He followed this up by captaining the Springboks to Tri-Nations glory which included a historic hat-trick of victories over archrivals New Zealand.
Thanks SARugby i enjoyed the countdown to the group.
Ashley was in good form today 🙂
SuperBul – Just thought I should check to make sure John Smit had made it to the No. 1 place!!
Worthy winner….Perhaps if an International Captain top 10 was drawn up he may win that poll too.
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