agardiner22 says...

all about the moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Posted 23:44 24th June 2011

dylster says...

@ justice_4_all

i remember that chip kick too, probably not as fondly as you tho! From memory that won the boks the game? pretty ballsy.

shame hes going for our sake....if hes keeping Pretorius & Houggard on the bench than thats good news for us

Posted 23:20 24th June 2011

JayStarr says...

The timing of this is too much of a coincidence for this to be a coincidence..!

But I have just gained back the respect I've lost for Ricky over the last season or two, because it took guts to make this decision, but it was the right decision.

I just feel sorry for him that he was put in this position... he KNOWS his form has been poor - Rassie and Alistair at the Stormers are honest coaches and would've told him as much, and they showed it by placing him on the bench.

But still PdV picks him... simply because he played at the last world cup - never mind the fact that he is probably only the EIGHTH best scrum-half available to him... (Fourie, Ruan, Sarel, Francois Hougaard, McLeod, Jano Vermaak and obviously Dewaldt are all better than him). And then Ricky had to hear from all quarters how terrible he is...

PdV is to blame for that - for making a player, who has given a lot to South African rugby, so embarrassed that he would quit the world cup squad... I hope he learns some lessons from this, and thinks before picking another player so obviously out of form (and shape). People aren't stupid - they will make a big fuss, and then the poor player has to cop the flack.

But now he's probably gonna go and replace him with Bolla Conradie...

Good luck Ricky, thanks for the good rugby you've given SA over the years - some of us can still remember that!

Posted 18:47 24th June 2011

Kappelange says...

nah nah nah nah

nah nah nah nah

hey hey hey

voet$ek

Posted 15:17 24th June 2011

DaiBok says...

Right decision at the right time. Go well Ricky and good luck. I have to agree that John Smit ought to do the same. I would hate to see a great player humbled at the WC.

Posted 14:23 24th June 2011

5Lock4ward says...

He's only past his prime because he's a fat little butter ball. However this should please all the Bok fans calling for Sarel.

Posted 13:40 24th June 2011

bcrugby913 says...

THANK GOD. sarel to the rescue (even though hes been better than januarie for quite a while)

Posted 12:21 24th June 2011