Fourie Du Preez Scoops Top SA Rugby Award
11/04/2009
My blood is green! I love all sport, but rugby is my passion.
I support any South African team, and the Springboks and Bulls are my favourites.
I use to be a physio for elite sporting teams, which gave me a great insight into the psychology, mindset and behaviour of top sports stars.
I have played top level hockey, and now my own exercise is focused on long distance running.
Sanjay,
I have tried to put the cricketer under the knife in my latest.
Please give it a read if interested. Any feedback is much appreciated :)
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/264715-putting-the-cricketer-under-microscope
51 days ago
Hey Mate
Wrote this piece on Tamim Iqbal, the Bangladeshi opener. Could you please check it out.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/264033-tamim-iqbal-and-the-hopes-of-bangladeshi-cricket
52 days ago
Hi Sanjay,
I'd love to hear your say on this
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/263905-of-cricket-controversies-and-change-management
Cheers,
Chandra
52 days ago
Hey Mate
just announced the first awards for the cricket section. Please check it out
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/253755-award-ceremony-for-the-very-first-cricket-awards/edit
Thanks
69 days ago
hey mate
wrote on a problem in our lives as well as sports. I am putting it here, not because I want an AOTD or anything but just because I think this is the case
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/244617-if-arrogance-was-taught-porperly
84 days ago
You know I'm inclined to agree the punishment was out of proportion to the incident but what I will say is if this stops this type of carry on in the future, in the long run rugby will benefit more, and I guess that's what the people who handed down the punishments we're thinking.
Thats said there are graver offences in rugby, like gouging, drug taking or even spear tackling that we have not quit seen the back of yet.
Yes O'Driscoll plays for Leinster but relenquished captaincy last year. There was talk of him leaving for France but happily he has stayed. Top, Top player in my opinion and a pleasure to see himplaying for us.
Lol, I think me and you are very similar. In rugby I want to see moe tries and in football you want to see more goals!
84 days ago
Ha-Ha, they'e tried it before at lower levels and lets just say the game's turn into a bit of a mess!
Hitting a football up to somebody standing beside a goalpost is far easier in footbal than hitting a ball in hockey from your own half, it takes genuine skill in that game.
The pitches are much bigger in football, marking would be a nightmare. And I'd imagine professional teams would commit even more people to defense if it happened making the game unbearable to watch.
As for the uncontested scrums, I think teams were pulling off their guys 'injured' if they felt they were losing out at the scrum.
Clearly something had t be done.
You may have heard of similar shenenagins recently concerning Harlequins. While playing in the European cub, they put a blood capsule in someones mouth, pretended it was a blood injury and sent back on their kicker.
What's more-they were playing my team Leinster at the time ( we scrapped out a win en route to winning the cup!)
They press are up in arms about it here. They really think its the end of days for rugby, just reading some things.
What do you think? Are incidents like "bloodgate" common in SA? What did you think of the punishments handed down?
85 days ago
Aha, it was worth 1 point when the game first started, actually the word 'try' cmes from touching the ball over the line to have a 'try' at goal. Apparently goals were a rarity it those sepia tinted days!
You must be joking about your soccer suggestions Sanjay lol...If there were no offsides whole teams would stand in the oppostion penalty area/defenders would never come out.
Remember when you used to play football, if you hung around the goalmouth looking for a rebound you were a "snitcher" ie loiterer? —Same principle!
As for the goalies we gotta give them something to do!
Well I think soccer could use goal line technology and video referral for controverisal decisions like penalties, red cards and so forth.
I've always been impressed by rugby and cricket's immediate warming to technologies like this.
As we've seen over the years, these things were a definite improvement.
Have you heard about the new uncontested scrummaging measures in England?
85 days ago
Wellington Cricket Club- 04, 384 3498
Hurricanes- 04,389 0020
Tall Blacks- 04, 498 5950
NZ Cricket Assc- 03, 366 2964
They are phone numbers by the way, it must be my fault but the dates you gave me, actually, cut a long story short, your dates, time and especially your name doesn't seem to ring a bell!! Why??? Oh yeah, maybe you had a private clinic, actually, IMPOSSIBLE!
85 days ago
I didn't know they changed the scoring in 1992. Just read up on it, can you belive a try used to be worth 1 point?! I mean come on lol!
Is it time to change it again? Well its been 17 years since, and place kickers seem to be able to kick for goal further and further back every year (although not accuarately sometimes eg F.Steyn).
I guess it will be up to the IRB to decide these issues but I personally would like them to consider if not trial it.
Of all the sports I follow, rugby union seems to be themost open minded concerning rule changes, which I must say, compared to the football, is truly wonderful. People like Sepp Blatter are more or less Luddites.
When does rugby start here? I'm not certain to be honest. Our league, the Magners league (which has teams from Ireland Scotland and Wales) seems to start later than other European leagues.
England and France's leagues are already up and running. In France's case, 2 weeks ago. When is the Currie Cup held? Do you follow this competition or have a team you lookout for in it?
86 days ago
Sanjay,
I'm not English!!! XO. Well from some of the British media we get in Ireland I think the ashes seem very important to the English. Even watching the football, the commentator was giving regular updates on the decisive test.
I can't say I follow cricket, so I don't know the nature of the win but if I had to bet I'd say the English were delighted with the win.
As regards changing the rugby, I'm not in favour of changing the game rules either(some of the ELVS made sense, others didn't) but more in favour of changing the points system. Do I think it will change-no but something should be proposed to keep rugby more about the rugby and less about the foul count when games are played.
87 days ago
Sanjay,
Thanks for the reply. As a hooker Bernad Jackman usualy starts for us and now I think of it, we do lack depth in that area. From what you say I don't think he'll start but he'll provide a valuable second option.
As for the Boks the rules don't encourage kicking,actually the rules don't encourage any specific type of playing style! But my own personal opinion is that kicks count for too much at the international level particularly. This has nothing to do with the Boks, its an opinion Ive had since Wilkinson kicked England to a WC.
Its very hard to score tries and the fact that a try is worth just 5 and a kick 3 is something I would definitely argue.
As for the Boks themselves like I've said before, you can't blame them. They're simply and ruthlessly taking the opportunities afforded them by other teams. They've been top class throughout the past few months.
But again, as I said in a prevous article I had 6 months ago, I do think the game could benefit from maybe making tries worth 7 unconverted. Not to encourage more open play, but to reward the effort that goes into scoring tries relative to kicks.
89 days ago
Hey mate
wrote on the Sri Lanka- New Zealand series. Which got forgotten in the Ashes hype
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/241846-the-forgotten-kiwi-and-lankans-series
89 days ago
Sanjay, how's are things? Just wanted to know if you knew anything about Leinster's latest signing Richardt Strauss. Apparently he's joined us from the Cheetahs. What should Leinster fans expect from him do you think? More importantly-should I be excited?
91 days ago
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Dann Khan said...
DeleteHey mate. Wrote a piece that has so far been appreciated a lot. Wouls like to know your thoughts.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/281043-the-coin-the-woman-and-the-great-game-of-cricket
Thanks, Dann
22 days ago