Posts Tagged with 'rugby'

05 Sep 2008

Percy Montgomery’s 100th Cap Tribute

Only the South African rugby boys can give Percy Montgomery the tribute party he deserves as the most capped Springbok in history…

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In case you missed it, Percy is the only one not wearing a wig, but you’ll have to look closely to spot which one he is

09 Jan 2008

New Bok Coach

Take a look everyone, this is the new Springbok coach - Peter De Villiers:

I can’t really say if I agree or disagree with his selection as the new Bok coach as I can’t say I’ve actually heard of him prior to this. I don’t ever recall him playing for the Boks (not that Jake [...]

24 Nov 2007

Interesting Links for 25 Oct 07 - 23 Nov 07

Interesting links for 25 Oct 07 - 23 Nov 07:

Beer set to hit four quid a pint - Noooo!!!
Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds - Apparently people want to get rid of the leap second in favour of a leap hour in about 600 years time. You just know someone will forget to write this [...]

  • → I thought this was brilliant, and quite apt when I heard Lawrence Dallaglio mention this on Top Gear last night: Rugby players in the Guinness Premiership refer to the Barclays Premier Football League as the Andrex Premier League - it’s soft and unnecessarily expensive. Brilliant!!! ( 0 )
01 Nov 2007

Fan Tries to Nab World Cup Trophy

This didn’t make the news in this neck of the world, but it made a brief appearance in SA - “Drunk fan tries to steal Cup”. An overly jubilant fan decided that he wanted to get his picture taken with the rugby World Cup trophy too. Not content with watching from the side lines, [...]

21 Oct 2007

The Boks Rock - RWC’07 Champions

Woohooo!!!! The Boks have done it again. They’ve beaten England for the 4th time in as many months and taken the Rugby World Cup in the process. Nice one booooyyyyyyys. Pity there weren’t any tries (you know it wasn’t a try England), and even more of a pity Bryan Habana couldn’t set a [...]

20 Oct 2007

Google Loves Rugby

Looky looky, even Google loves rugby.
Today’s google.co.uk logo is:

And Today’s google.co.za logo is:

20 Oct 2007

The Big Day: Go Bokke

We’ve been waiting for this great day since 18 September, and now we’ve only got a couple more hours to wait for what is going to be the best game in this year’s rugby world cup.
I’m all stocked up on beer. I’ll be popping out later to stock up on biltong, and then I’ll [...]

15 Oct 2007

SA in the RWC Final

Wooohooo!!! The Boks are into the rugby world cup final against England next weekend, and what a game it’s going to be.
In a way, I can’t wait until the world cup is over - the anxiety generated by each of the recent games has been unbelievable, and last night was no exception. [...]

09 Oct 2007

Latest news from the Rugby World Cup 2007

Latest news from the Rugby World Cup 2007:

England meet France in the first semi-final
South Africa meet Argentina in the other semifinal and
Australia meet New Zealand at the Airport

Hee hee hee. Thanks Mum.