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If it turns out that Springbok coach Peter de Villiers did get involved with a lady in a car park, which is being vehemently denied, then that is his own business, as far as I am concerned. Whatever sanctions need to be applied, if there is any merit in it, must come from his wife and family.

The only issue that concerns us is the performance of the Springboks on and off the field. So far it’s been a mixed bag with a Tri-Nations title that was within our grasp slipping away due to inconsistency. How Pete deals with that is the only game in town, as far as I am concerned.

However, if there is a blackmailer, then that’s a whole new ball game.

If it should prove that someone was trying to blackmail Pete, the party concerned should be banned permanently from anything to do with rugby, including refusal of entry to any of the stadiums.

In addition, criminal charges must be laid against the genius concerned.

There is nothing lower than a blackmailer.

Just one other item I would like to raise with Pete: If you were quoted correctly and you did suggest handing the job back to “the whites”, then that is very wrong. Of all people you should know how hard everyone is working to rid the game of the scourge of racism.

You should firstly never have raised the issue of “whites” and, more importantly, never have given racists the pleasure of undoing the hard work we are all putting in to reduce them to background noise at worst.

You are the Springbok coach and must be judged on your ability in that area alone.

Ignore the morons and focus on the job of keeping us at the top.

I know you can do it.




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9 Responses to “I don’t care if De Villiers did the entire cheerleader squad”

Hear hear.

The best thing PdV is put his head down and work harder. It is said you can always identify a pioneer by the arrows in his back.

That is what PdV needs to accept, he’s made history, and his every success/failure will be magnified tenfold,he has to man up to the task like he did earlier this season.

Sterkte!

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Siyabonga Ntshingila on September 8th, 2008 at 3:15 pm

Bonga you are genuinely one of the funniest okes!

Pioneers…..ROFL

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Michael Trapido on September 8th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Trapido,

I wish to differ with you on the matter of Peter De Villiers’s suggestion that certain sections of the disgruntled pale-skinned populace are unhappy with him, by virtue of being a dark-skinned coach of the Springboks. As much as we encourage South Africans to speak out if they feel they are segregated by employment policies of the country (for example, AA, BEE, BBBEE, etc.), by virtue of the paleness of their skin colour, it surely is De Villiers’s right to express his disgust if he feels certain elements within SARFU are using the complexion of his skin as a delegimating tool insofar as coaching the Springboks is concerned.

Equally, it is within the rights of Jongi Nokwe to express his disappointments or frustration, should he feel so, over the crowds’ use of the K-word each time he scores a try; thus, Jongi is as free to express outrage over the fact some are not happy with having him, as a dark-skinned player, in the Springbok game.

As an aside, I found it bizzare that one Afrikaans commentator on telly kept on pronouncing Jongi’s name as /’Yhongi’/ [as in ‘Jan’ van Riebieck = Afrikaans pronunciation of ‘J’], while Butch James or John Smit’s names were pronounced with the letters ‘J’ (with no attempt to convert these to the Afrikaans language). Was this by fault or design, I wondered?
This goes to the heart of the resistance (by some within the pale-skinned community) to recognising that the players of the Springbok team need not necessarily come from the Afrikaans community. For, a genuinely committed TV or radio commentator - when first “acquainted” with the firstly capped Springbok player - should enquire about the manner in which the name of that player is correctly and appropriately vocalized.
Should this grotesque pronunciation of Jongi’s name not be due to malice or the above-cited resistance on the part of the commentator in question, one is left with no choice but to reluctantly embrace the unpalatable characterization and depiction of the commentator in question as part of the bigger Afrikaans-speaking folk who (at least as far as their English-speaking counterparts are concerned) are regarded a breed of lesser intellect - as bizarre as this may itself sound.

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nzs on September 8th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

NZS - Welcome to the Sports section!

Your point is well made.

BTW please don’t tell me you support Man United….

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Michael Trapido on September 8th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Traps, I totally agree with you. If people want to get at the coach, let them try to do so using rugby, not blackmail.

This stinks.

How does Chris Hewitt get drawn into this? If memory serves he was always supportive of Peter in his earlier journalism before he joined SARU. Now he appears to be on the verge of being fired, having already been demoted. Allegedly he showed “language bias”. Jeez, who’s crying racism now?

Why do some newspapers and websites keep mentioning one player without ever making an actual allegation about how he is involved in this?

Which writer in the free press is going to tell the whole story and expose all the self-interested charlatans? You guys work for M&G for goodness’ sake, investigate and publish.

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Slider on September 8th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

Mrs de Villiers and his kids aren’t likely to be just as sanguine about their trouserless-in-public husband and father. Looks like wealth and power have gone straight to Snor’s head.

As for his comments about “handing back rugby to the whites”, it’s pretty clear he’s one who loves playing the race card at the first sign of a setback. Pretty petulant and despicable, I’d say?

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Jon on September 8th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

i think that every time he as head coach says anything racist he must give R10000.00 to rugby devolpment and SARU must give R10000.00 to a charity because they are his boss and they have set a president of offerning R10000.00 for an issue that is also racist!!!!!

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Greg on September 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Who cares? In fact it should be part of the CV. I bet if the French coach did not have a series of mistresses he would never get the job. Why do the French have such a simple attitude to the whole matter of infidelity? I did a study of the Tricolours results and found that there is a direct correlation between the coaches bonking and the number of tries scored. (just kidding). PDV, if its true see how many car parks you can do the biblical knowing thing.

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Chutzpah on September 9th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

“I don’t care if De Villiers did the entire cheerleader squad”

Agreed, but I will be very concerned if the entire cheerleading squad did Coach div!

NZS - waar val jy uit die bus uit, bru?

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Gerry on September 10th, 2008 at 8:11 am

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Mike Trapido is a criminal attorney and publicist having also worked as an editor and journalist. He was born in Johannesburg and attended HA Jack and Highlands North High Schools. He married Robyn in 1984 (Mrs Traps, aka "the government") and has three sons (who all look suspiciously like her ex-boss). He was a counsellor on the JCCI for a year around 1992. His passions include Derby County, Blue Bulls, Orlando Pirates, Proteas and Springboks. He takes Valium in order to cope with Bafana Bafana's results.
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