Nizaam Carr
Marcell Coetzee
Willie le Roux
Handré Pollard
Duane Vermeulen
Five Springboks have been nominated for the prestigious SA Rugby Player of the Year Award for 2014 with one of Nizaam Carr, Marcell Coetzee, Willie le Roux, Handré Pollard or Duane Vermeulen in line to claim the coveted annual award for the first time in their careers.
The five players, who all played for the Boks this year, have been nominated by the South African rugby media following a stellar year on the field. Springbok rugby fans across the globe will now be given a voice in the selection of the winner, SARU announced on Friday.
The public will also be asked to cast their votes in two other categories, Young Player and the Absa Team of the Year. To cast your vote, CLICK HERE.
Carr and Pollard have also being named in the Young Player category, along with Cheslin Kolbe, Seabelo Senatla and Jan Serfontein. The Junior Springboks, Springboks, Springbok Sevens, DHL Western Province and Xerox Golden Lions have been nominated as Absa Team of the Year.
Public polling for the three awards will open on Friday 5 December 2014 with all the winners to be announced at a gala event on 8 February 2015 in Midrand.
The public can make their vote, which is powered by social marketing platform Spredfast, for the top awards on SARU’s website or by using (for example) #YPOTYNizaamCarr on Twitter*. Voting will also take place through SARU’s official digital Springbok Magazine, where subscribers can cast their votes.
Jurie Roux, SARU CEO said: “It is again very pleasing that we are able to give our rugby fans a voice in the game, and the SARU Player of the Year Awards is an ideal platform to do so. The last two years proved that supporters have strong opinions on who should win and that feedback was great, hence the decision to make the public part of the polling process again.
“The Awards are a highlight on the South African rugby calendar, and involving the fans and coaches more directly will no doubt add to the prestige of the event,” said Roux.
Media, coaches and players had a major say in determining the outstanding players of the season in a range of categories and competitions.
Other awards on the night include for the outstanding players in Vodacom Super Rugby, Absa Currie Cup Premier and First Division and Vodacom Cup competitions, as well as for the Absa Coach of the Year, SA Under-20 Player of the Year, Springbok Sevens Player of the Year, Women’s Achiever of the Year, SARPA Players’ Player of the Year, Supersport Try of the Year, Marriott Referee Award, Cell C Community Cup Player of the Tournament and Coca-Cola Craven Week Player of the Tournament.
The closing date for public voting is Friday 12 December 2014 at 14:00.
nortie wrote:
Sorry Gunther, my bad, still early, I’m only on my first cup of Joe
I see Chester is telling Kolbe not to bulk up too much
http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Sevens/Chester-warns-on-bigger-Kolbe-20141208
I’m sure Savea is a lot more apprehensive facing a 75kg Kolbe than a 72kg one 😛
@ nortie:
nama’s votes has been leaked. Apparantly he went
Carr
Kolbe
WP
😀
How sad is it that no super rugby team was nominated. Just shows what Meyer had to work with. 😆
Performance of the year should probably be the sharks winning in Christchurch.
Worst game of the year has to be the Sharks Vs the Stormers in Durban.
A few other games in the running, Bulls v Sharks or brumbies v sharks
If Carr can be nominated for YPOTY… Why not Marcel coetzee? After the june internationals marcel was the form loose forward in the country and he is also 23 years old.
@ nortie:
Meow.
Not all of us are on the minimum wage.
😆
@ grootblousmile:
I have nothing against Pollard as a prrson or player. I am against this agenda to elevate him to a level that he does not deserve at this stage of his career. He is a good prospect but still far from the real deal.
Likewise the YPOTY does not specify that have to be a regular Bok player so I don’t know why you hold their lack of Bok appearances against Carr and Senatla.
At the end of the day you have your opinion and I have mine. Don’t know why you see any
Victoriabok wrote:
He will have catch him first.
😆
@ Nama:
Out of interest… Donyou believe should be there in the fifteen man rugby section young player of the year?
MacroBok wrote:
I agree with you, was also my game of the year……o wait, I’m thinking of the second match those two played in Christchurch 😆
70… Talking about senatla
@ nortie:
Haha also a favorite game of mine in a twisted way ;p
@ grootblousmile:
I have nothing against Pollard as a prrson or player. I am against this agenda to elevate him to a level that he does not deserve at this stage of his career. He is a good prospect but still far from the real deal.
Likewise the YPOTY does not specify that you have to be a regular Bok player so I don’t know why you hold their lack of Bok appearances against Carr and Senatla.
At the end of the day you have your opinion and I have mine. You prefer Pollard and I believe that Carr had an overall better season than him. That’s all there is to it. Nothing sinister, like Goonter wants to allude to.
MacroBok wrote:
Lol, any game they lose makes my highlights package 😆
@ Victoriabok:
Like Lomu prefered Dominici to be a bit heavier. 😆
@ Nama:
” Pollard as a prrson or player”
He’s grrrrrrreat!
70 @ MacroBok:
I don’t understand you question.
I don’t think YPOTY has to do with age alone. It also depends on the amount of matches a player has played before the new season starts. That’s why Carr is still eligible because although he made his debut two years ago, he was crocked for nearly the whole of last season and did not see much game time.
gunther wrote:
WaBenzi?
@ nortie:
Rrrrip rrrroaring grrreat. 😆
Phone blogging is kak. 😆
@ Nama:
Carr has played 37 matches
My question about Senatla is that, you have a strong opinion about Pollard, shouldnt your opinion on Senatlas inclusion be similar?
Nama wrote:
Does that mean Luke is eligible once he makes a full season? 😆
Nama wrote:
Ha ha
On Saturday evening the lights went out; again; for the third time in one day. I have to admit, I lost it. I took what we in my family call “a personal moment” where the children were banished to a separate room, and I turned the immediate air around me blue. I am a child of the 20th century, living in the 21st. I expect things to be better now than they were then. I expect the youngsters around me (which is most people nowadays) to have more electricity than I had, and not to have to regale them with stories of studying by shimmering light bulb. Quite frankly, we deserve better than this. And the mistakes that have been made are all political. The ANC has completely and utterly mismanaged the country’s infrastructure; on this they have a terribly toxic tale to tell.
It is quite frankly amazing that the electricity crisis was not an election issue when we all voted, just six short months ago. Surely, surely, surely, a normal issue of governance like keeping the lights on is so simply an issue that there should be no question about it. Even someone as flawed as Nawaz Sharif was able to re-take power in Pakistan on the strength of his plan to fix power cuts in that country. But instead, for various complicated reasons peculiar to South Africa, keeping lights on doesn’t seem to matter much.
Still, I bet if those elections were held this week things might have been slightly different. Energy expert Chris Yelland’s claim that people at Eskom were told to run the power stations hard until after the elections seems so much more probable these days.
While it is common (and usually correct) to blame everything that goes wrong today on Number One, this is clearly not a fault that should be put squarely in his lap. The blame actually lies more with Thabo Mbeki, a man in the middle of a mild revival. Mbeki, up until now, has refused to take responsibility. While he has said ‘sorry’, there have been no consequences for the people who ignored Eskom’s warnings that it was running out of power stations (I’m looking at you, Alec Erwin.). Instead, he has carried on smoking his pipe, speaking in the plural (“We went to Sudan”, “We did this”, “We did that”) and fighting yesterday’s battles with the Mail & Guardian over Zimbabwe’s fixed elections he well knew about (and, thankfully, losing).
It’s amazing really that the ANC of today hasn’t said sorry, either. After all, it’s the same party that was in power when the power generation was allowed to stagnate and when the distribution network was left alone to rot. The same party is in power now. You would think that Luthuli House would realise that to apologise can sometimes assuage the anger of a furious public. But no, we seem to be facing stony silence from them too. Even if they consult their dictionaries on the meaning of it and then dig through their archives and find some mention of the word ‘apology’, they should re-issue it now. Because they’re likely to face a loss of four of the big metros as a direct result (generally speaking, service delivery plays a bigger role in local government elections than in national and provincial elections).
If you look at the power crisis we are in, it’s really the fault of the political management all the way down the line. At the very heart of it lies the ANC’s own schizophrenia over ideology.
This is a party that has a health minister who refuses to allow private medical schools to be allowed to teach doctors because then “only the children of the rich could become doctors” – that would be the same party that is privatising national roads. Huh? How can those two separate concepts exist within the same party? (And yes, Jeremy Cronin, allow me to renew my challenge once again: If you will still be called the South African Communist Party, then either come out and publicly oppose e-tolls, or suffer the humiliation of all of us knowing that your party is completely powerless and is simply the ANC’s semi-external lobby group).
At the heart of Eskom schizophrenia was really a dispute about whether there should be private investment in power stations that delayed the construction of new stations back in the 1990s. It was only when the government realised the terms that had been set for private players were too onerous (no bids had really been received) that it had to start building its own.
And that was just the first mistake. The second, as we’ve seen so often, lay in the actual management of that construction, the getting it done was simply cocked up by politics. Because government, as an employer, suddenly had to deal with employees, who were members of government through the Alliance. And when, halfway through the construction of Medupi, those workers realised they had us all by the short and curlies, they started to strike, strike, and strike again.
The fact the majority of them are members of Numsa, which has its own reasons to be difficult at the moment, didn’t help things at all, once that union started to break away from the ANC.
To make things much, much worse for all of us, we cannot assume that all of these decisions were just mistakes, while executing decisions taken in good faith. Because the ANC’s investment arm, Chancellor House, invested in Hitachi, which won some of the contracts to build Medupi, and then had issues around boilers and spot-welds, we can’t be absolutely sure that there was not some element of self-interest in some of these decisions.
And then there is the madness that Eskom does not come under the Minister of Energy, but under the Minister of Public Enterprises. Surely this is about energy, surely it should be Tina Joemat-Pettersson who is in the firing line here (although we all know that it would take the return of Jesus himself to get her fired). But instead we have Lynne Brown trying to deal with it. (And SAA, and every other parastatal that is a stuff-up – which is all 400 of them.) So while Eskom may be her priority, she is also distracted by everything else that is blowing up around her.
It is the worst kind of toxic mix of bad ideology, bad politics, and bent self-interest one can imagine.
But what boils my blood the most, it is that the problem was relatively easy to solve. For years Fin 24’s Jan de Lange has been asking all the political role-players a simple question: Eskom, he says, needs more money to build new power stations. It has assets in the form of existing power stations. Why not sell some of those to the private sector, along with agreements to supply the power they produce back to Eskom at a set rate. With the proceeds, build new power stations. That would have generated cash for the utility when we all know it’s about to run out of money. And it would have had the added bonus of making our electricity bills cheaper.
Every role player he has asked (and I personally watched him ask every politician in every press conference he went for a while) has squirmed, and eventually said no. And the answer, of course, is because in this case we are going towards the madness displayed by Aaron Motsoaledi. Instead of using the private sector to help us build new power stations or train more doctors, we are letting ideology stand in the way, and to hell with reality, or wellbeing of South African people. Sadly, what we really need here is a little more e-tolls thinking (I can’t believe I just said that).
The fact is, the Eskom disaster is just one example of how the ANC’s ideological schizophrenia, bad political management and all-round incompetence appears to be wrecking every parastatal and taking the country of South Africa down with it. Instead of just getting on with it, there are fights about ideology and money, and deadly injection of politics where politics should not thread. What’s happening with Eskom is not much different from what is happening with the SABC, Post Office, Water affairs, Home Affairs, Transnet… (How much time do you have? This is one long list.)
It’s just that with Eskom, my lights are going to go out again tonight. And, probably tomorrow as well. And for the next many years. And I really am not sure that I, or many other South Africans, can keep my cool for too much longer.
Nama wrote:
In boks sê hulle altyd ” ‘n Goeie grote is altyd beter as ‘n goeie kleintjie”
Die O/20 Bokke van die jaar is gemiddeld langer en swaarder as die 1995 Wêreledbekerspan.
Al die spanne word stelselmatig groter
Dis net die WP en Stormers wat in die teenoorgestelde rigting gaan.
Miskien het AC ‘n punt beet met sy “Dodelike Dwergies”?
84 On behalf of those unable to watch rugby this weekend.
78 @ Nama:
I think the cut off number is 15. I may be wrong.
That’ the reason why guys like Lambie and Jantjies were nominated for the award two years in a row because they didn’t surpassed that number in their 1st season of senior rugby. Both only started playing during the CC in their 1st season if I’m not mistaken.
81 @ MacroBok:
How many has he played before the start of the season?
81 @ MacroBok:
If you read my comments, you’ll also see that I don’t have an opinion on Kolbe either.
Carr and Pollard are comparable in that they both played SR and CC. In both these competitions Pollard was average apart for a game or two while Carr had been a standout performer all the way through.
@ Nama:
Not sure how many he played it will be at least 13 not more than 16 so that means he started the season with at least 21 caps.
Carr made his debut 3 years ago and curriecup debut 4 years ago.
And he is extremely likely to win the award this year… Thats why he was included in the nomination.
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