The British & Irish Lions of 2013 were named team of the year and Warren Gatland won the top coach honour at the 2013 BBC Sports Personality awards. Kiwi Gatland, 50, led the Lions to their first Test series win in Australia for 16 years.
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With the series poised at 1-1, his side crushed the Wallabies in the final match as they racked up 41 points in Sydney to secure victory in style.
Lion Leigh Halfpenny was one of 10 on the main Sports Personality shortlist.
Victory in the decider came after Gatland controversially dropped Ireland centre Brian O’Driscoll for the deciding Test.
The New Zealander admitted at the time that he wondered whether his role was worth the level of abuse he suffered, but has since hinted he might make himself available to lead the Lions against the All Blacks in 2017.
He has been Wales coach since 2007 and won two Six Nations Grand Slams in 2008 and 2012 and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 World Cup
Gatland stepped aside from coaching Wales last year to concentrate on his Lions commitments.
In his absence, interim coach Rob Howley led Wales to the Six Nations title.
86 @ nortierd:
Is jy ook so bakleierig as jy daar blog?
Want jy is nogal heel beskaafd hier…. hhahahaha
@ grootblousmile:
Nortie het ‘n gesplete persoonlikheid. Kom ek try ‘n smiley
Lekker smileys you have here!
I am
@ grootblousmile:
Ha ha, ek probeer gewoonlik nie te veel baklei nie, geniet die strooi praat en gekskeer meer as baklei.
Van die Guppies kan mens nogal op werk, maar mens weet al by die tyd wie joke saam en wie raak te veel opgewerk.
94 @ nortierd:
Hier kan mens maar strooi praat en gekskeer ook… net nie in mekaar se persoonlikhede inklim nie.
94 @ nortierd:
Are there ANY objective Sharks supporters in the Milky Way?
May I say somebody must “Gaan Kak”?
Just testing the moderation list of swear words, I do not believe GBS when he says there is no moderation list here!
Dick Muir
@ Scrumdown:
I once heard a rumor about one
Next year will be particularly bad, it being their Golden Era and all
@ Alles wat mal is:
Looks like we can swear…
97 @ Alles wat mal is:
Jy kan maar sê KAK, netnie sê sy MA moet GAAN KAK nie!
99 @ nortierd:
Their Golden Era started in 1990 and finished in 2000!
99 @ nortierd:
Oh, do the Sharks have a Golden Era approaching?
Impressive!
100 @ Alles wat mal is:
There really is no moderation list!
I think that for the most part, we all behave like adults, and in so doing negate the need for moderation lists and “report” buttons and the like.
104 @ Scrumdown:
I just control the shit stirrers, have kicked a couple out, but that’s been so little it is not even worth mentioning.
I think people read the general atmosphere of a place, of a community and then just fall in, no problem.
103 @ grootblousmile:
Yeah they’re getting a new sposorship from Golden Cloud Cash n Carry in Veralum, and every player will be given 2 pairs of personalised “Golden Thread” shoe laces for every game, with his ID nummber and blood group embroidered on them in a 3D hologram visible only with a special pair of 3D glasses available on line from the Sharks Acadamy junior player’s canteen.
I remember kicking Stan out and more recently Bliksem… who else was there?
107 @ grootblousmile:
Don’t remember any of them.
There were a few who lost their rag and left of their own accord. (Saint comes to mind.)
108 @ Scrumdown:
Yeah, there were some like that… but if you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Some were my friends too and they got the shits with me, but that is still only their own problem.
Wish I could just tell the whole lot of them to come over.
I have not experienced any discomfort or overbearing control here, not whilst reading for quite some time and not today talking to you okes.
Feels just like I was talking on the old Keo, without politics and race and fighting.
110 @ Alles wat mal is:
I think that one of the major differences is that almost all of the bloggers here on RT are on the higher end of the spectrum in relation to their Rugby knowledge and those that are perhaps not so knowledgeable are willing to learn where applicable.
Passion with knowledge is so much easier to live with than blind faith.
As a webmaster (and site owner) what are my duties other than to control what content gets placed on as Articles and to control the spirit or mood of the comments?
It is difficult and sometimes one feels like a bloody patrol car speedcop, last thing I want to do is inhibit people from talking and saying what they feel.
@ grootblousmile:
You must remember Skoppie, shall I try to bring him over? I have not seen him on the Livefyre platform though.
113 @ Alles wat mal is:
By Skoppie I presume you mean Skopskiet… he won’t last half an hour here, till he’ll hit a massive speedbump and is kicked to touch. That oke is not normal.
@ grootblousmile:
If I tell you I am Skopskiet, would you believe me?
115 @ Alles wat mal is:
There is NO WAY that you are Skopskiet, by now he would have fallen into his alliteration, madness and name calling.
If YOU are indeed Skopskiet, I need the name of the doctor who attended to you in the last few days, because he needs a medal and the Nobel Prize for Medical Science!
I am THAT confident you are not Skopskiet!
@ grootblousmile:
I was just joking, am not Skoppie.
Gents, have a wonderful evening. I’m heading south to Lions country.
Far too many blue bovine here in Centurion today.
117 @ Alles wat mal is:
I tell you, every blogger has a signature… in the way he uses words, spells, thinks, acts.
That’s why I said to you earlier I can tell who you are NOT, already.
118 @ Scrumdown:
Cheers, I’ll be phoning you about the Squad Member Articles
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