The Match Officials have been confirmed for the semifinal stage of Rugby World Cup 2015 this weekend, with Jérôme Garcès and Wayne Barnes selected as Referees.
The 1st semifinal will take place at Twickenham Stadium between South Africa and New Zealand on Saturday (kick-off at 17:00 SA Time, 16:00 BST) with France’s Garcès in the middle. He will be joined on the line by compatriot Romain Poite and Ireland’s John Lacey, with George Ayoub of Australia being the Television Match Official.
The following day at the same venue, Argentina will take on Australia in the 2nd semifinal (kick-off 17:00 SA Time, 16:00 BST) and England’s Wayne Barnes will take charge. His Assistant Referees will be Jaco Peyper of South Africa and Ireland’s George Clancy. New Zealand’s Ben Skeen will be TMO.
The Final and Bronze Final appointments will be announced in due course.
Eish, the Springboks just cannot seem to escape the French Referees and Match Officials… and then that mofo of a George Ayoub as TMO.
At least any TMO is better than old Veldmuis, I suppose!
This is a game changer for the Boks. French referee with Poite on the sideline. What a sh1t show this is shaping up to be, ou grootblouballas.
2 @ kwas:
Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise… the whole of France can’t be too much in love with the All Blacks after this past weekend…. hehehe
Hope they are not soooo much in awe of the All Blacks that they do not see their mistakes and how close to borderline illicit their tactics are sometimes!
What bugs me MOST about the All Blacks, and has done so for a number of years now, is how many of their forwards loiter on the wrong side of rucks, effectively forming an obstructive shield so that the opposing side cannot compete effectively at rucks… and they rarely get seen or pinged for it! Should be a penalty to everybody who plays against the All Blacks at every 2nd ruck… call them offside if you will or committing obstruction, or lazy runners…
They basically take up space on the wrong side of the ruck, which becomes a massive hindrance to other teams!
The All Blacks play a game very close to being bloody “skelm”… I suppose devious would be the right English description.
Kudos to them for getting away with it though, bloody clever tactics if the refs are never going to penallize them!
French Refs could be tough either way…
No doubt if the game goes down to the wire, he will be shit to either the Kiwi supporters or us and there will be immense vitriol come Sunday.
hope the French ref will be as invisble as our team saturday
rebop75 wrote:
Nowhere to hide in such a big match bud.
kwas wrote:
7 @ BrumbiesBoy:
Can’t help it if I have grootblouballas… at least I have some!
@ grootblousmile:
Ja, miskien is die ballas groot…maar die ander ding hoor ek is ‘n ander storie…
Farkit, just heard via Facebook that my brother was the victum of an armed robbery this morning.. him and his little 1-year old baby girl!
Luckily no injuries, but they took everything!
This was in Mellville, Johannesburg… my boet is an arty-farty dude with his own Design Studio, they fit right in with the Mellville arty crowd.
Here’s what he said on Facebook, have not been able to speak to him yet, Cell Phone must be gone too:
Vanoggend om 11h30 het ek en Sophia ‘n gewapende roof beleef. Dis my tweede (die eerste was in Desember 1997), en haar eerste. Seker nie die laaste nie.
Sy was aan die slaap in haar kamer en het begin huil van die geraas, een van hulle het haar gaan haal en vir my gebring en op my skoot laat sit terwyl hulle alles gevat het (ook al ons werk oor die verloop van seker 15 jaar). Sy was nogal kalm. Hulle het ons nie seergemaak nie, ek het net ‘n paar minor skaafmerke op my gewrig waar hulle my met die speakerdraad vasgebind het.
Kan almal wat hierdie lees asb julle eposadresse en selnommers email na xxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com (E-Mail address sensored of course).
@ grootblousmile:
Sh1t, not nice at all GBS, bad enough for your brother but who knows how it will affect the little girl, young as she is.
I wish them all a speedy recovery.
10 @ grootblousmile:
Sorry to hear GBS.
Hope the little one is ok, and that your brother does all he needs to ensure she is.
As an aside, isn’t it strange how times have changed. I could never imagine announcing something like that on Facebook.
I once had the misfortune to walk in on a family member who had been violently murdered and the only way my work colleagues found out was when someone read it in the newspaper and put 2 & 2 together.
A sign of the times I guess.
Hope your brother gets some counselling. I never did and sometimes regret it > 20 years later.
11 @ BrumbiesBoy:
Now amongst me and my siblings (I have 2 brothers and a sitster), we have already had the following encounters with Armed Robbery:
1. 1997 My younger brother (same one) was robbed at gunpoint whilst cashing up at my dad’s Petrol Garage one Sunday afternoon;
2. About 2001 to 2004 somewhere, my eldest Brother was at another Petrol Garage in Lynnwood Ridge, Pretoria when a gang of robbers, armed with AK47’s stormed and robbed that garage… he was able to drive away.
3. I April (yeah April fools day) 2005 I endured an armed robbery by 4 thugs at my office here at the house, after I’d been to the bank to draw quite a bit of cash… The robbers were at my house before me, so my address must have been leaked by an ABSA Bank employee.. they took my car, a DVD Player, 2 prize biltong knives, a brand new PC I’d built for a client, my watch and the cash of course (which was hidden in my diary… they knew where to look for it too)… and my wallet with some cash in it and all bank cards and my ID Document. The car was found 2 hours later, keys in the ignition and only the radio in it gone. I heard from the Investigating Officer at our wonderful Police only 13 days later… and told him to go fuck himself!
So, only my sister has not been a victum yet, amongst us 4.
Not lekker, I tell you!
@ grootblousmile:
Not lekker at all, we had it here at work back in 2006 (23 June to be exact) it was a Friday & “they” arrived here shortly before “pay-out” time.
They beat up a Porra before leaving & I was later able to watch the video of them vacating the premises…the one cnut running so fast he looked like he was in training for the Olympics.
Big heroes with the guns but look like just normal guys rushing home from work after the robbery.
13 @ Scrumdown:
The previous time my Little boet was robbed, in 1997… it only really hit him a couple of days later, when he was stopped for speeding by a non-white Traffic officer, and I suppose he took his anger out on the poor man.
He said to the Speedcop “Weet jy waar speedcops vandaan kom?”
The oke replied he was a Traffic Officer, not a speedcop, but made the error to ask where do they come from.
Well, my boet said “Waar anders dink jy sal hoerre se kinders fokken werk kry!”
It was freegin, freegin funny at the time when he told us this story… but I suppose it is not that funny in the bigger scheme of things.
All I have done, since my robbery, no councilling either.. is change my life ever so slightly… I do not carry wads of cash any more, I pay by means of plastic Card or by means of EFT Bank Transfer, I watch in front of and behind me, and have installed an electric gate motor, which I close after me straight away.
But we get lax every so often, and I often have to warn my wife to be careful and look around her…
@ grootblousmile:
On the lighter side, we’ve got another staunch Bulle ondersteuner who’s been working here for a couple of years now.
Don’t ask me why but he happened to also be in possession of an All Black rugby jersey…
His house was broken into while he was at work one day and no prizes for guessing who mocked him the most when he told us that they’d left his Springbok jersey behind but took the All Black one!!!
14 @ BrumbiesBoy:
Don’t know if you encountered the same, but it’s freegin true when people tell you it kinda plays off in Slow-Motion before your eyes like a movie!
First thing I did was look at the weapons to see if they were real, must have been in a split second… I decided they were 9mm pistols and was’nt going to get shot for some money… so I gave my cooperation.
Then they asked for the money whilst banging the butt of the pistol on the back of my head, and I tried to give them my wallett from my back pocket, thinking they might be off with that and leave the money in the diary… well they said “Where’s your diary with the money!”… and took both.
The daughter was asleep in the house, and luckiliy they did not venture there, it could have turned very ugly.
I found out the week before they robbed me, the same 4 robbed a woman in Boksburg and shot her in the buttocks, and a few days after I was robbed, they robbed another person who had gone to the same bank to draw money to go buy a cheapy car with cash.
This type of thing makes one livid!
16 @ BrumbiesBoy:
Hahaha
@ grootblousmile:
Dead right, it was like watching a movie (in slow motion)…
I thought something was wrong when I saw all these guys starting to lie down but didn’t understand what “lala, lala” meant!!!
I thought something was wrong & headed for the door whereupon a….um…how should I say this…gentleman… opened his jacket to show me his .38spl snubnose inside & suggested I do like the others & lie down.
Thereafter it was a case of lying down and waiting for them to come & take your belongings out of your pockets.
Fcuking barstards.
As die hele wêreld kan sien die AB kom met moord weg, is heeltyd op grens van oortredings, hoekom maak ons afrigters en kapteine nie ‘n groter saak daarvan nie?
Goed om nice te wees, maar darem ook nie te nice nie.
Ons leiers moet maar good cop/bad cop speel. FDP die good cop en Duane/Burger/Vic bad cop.
En wie weet, dalk kan al die franse invloed op die game dalk net die rede wees vir ‘n groot opskudding?
@ grootblousmile:
Hi Gbs eish man really sorry to hear of this horrible stuff. Sterkte to all of the family.
21 @ Bullscot:
Thanks Bully!
Luckily no injuries, and worldly goods can be replaced!
Afrika issie vir sussies nie… eish!
Marshall skryf wat die 2 groot probleme is van die Bokke, wat ons die game gaan kos:
http://www.sarugbymag.co.za/blog/details/boks-dont-have-impact-players-like-all-blacks
1. ons speel stampkar rugby, speel nie in gapings en offloads nie, en dit kan ons net 60 minute volhou, dan is ons gaar en reg om gepluk te word.
2. bank wat nie impak kan maak nie.
Dit is al oor en oor bewys, die laaste paar jaar, veral teen die AB.
So wat maak mens, doen dieselfde hoop vir ‘n ander resultate ?
Of kyk jy watter spelers kan vir jou ‘n impak maak in die laaste 20 en kies hul op die bank.
Ek weet nie, maar een ding wat ek weet, as ons speel soos enige game tot nou toe in die WB, kom ons span huistoe die naweek.
Hoop vir iets spesiaals Saterdag, nie deur die refs nie, maar ons span.
Mens kan ook net wonder of ‘n bank met spelers soos Jaco Kriel en Hougaard in die laaste 15 minute, nie juis ‘n groter impak sou kon gemaak het nie ?
Tyd sal leer …..
22: ja GBS, nog jammer oor daardie dinge, nie lekker nie. My neef was jare gelede met ‘n pistool teen die kop gedreig, toe hy geld gaan bank het vir hul besigheid. Nare stories.
Maar ja, hierdie is leeu wêreld !
@ Bullscot:
Hi Bully, sorry I missed you the other day.
Your team played very well throughout (in the games that I saw) & Sunday’s finish was not at all nice for either team methinks.
All the best, sir.
20 @ Ben-die-Bul:
I just laugh when people complain about players like McCaw “bending and pushing” the laws.
The Boks also have loose forwards, unfortunately they are too busy realizing their dream of being the next Naas Botha instead of the next Rob Louw.
We choose not to use our loosies for the role they are supposed to fulfill.
If Schalk and co bugger off out of the backline they might actually get into some loose scrums to also either slow the opposition ball down or stop the opponents from slowing our ball down.
If we lose this weekend it won’t be because a French ref is officiating
26: hehe, jy het ‘n punt beet. Dit is hoekom ek sterk daaraan dink om ou Scalla as impak speler op die bank te kies, maar dan as losskakel.
Met Vic as impak senter !
Hoe lyk dit, gaan julle die Leeus Saterdag rol ?
Wie het die beste kans om te wen, die Bokke of die WP ?
@ Ben-die-Bul:
Dink die WP 😆
Groot surprise wees as een van of die WP of die Bokke wen, maar enige iets is moontlik.
Bokke se game gaan naby wees dink ek
@ Ben-die-Bul:
Die ergste van alles is ek gaan seker nie eers die CC finaal of die Bokke teen AB gesien kry nie….sit nog n ekstra week in Kathu en Saterdag kom nog lande by Lohathla in.
Flippen mense ken mos nie van rugby nie 😥
29 @ nortie:
Het jy darem genoeg onderbroeke gepak?
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