All Blacks Gentleman

 too many - haven't made up my mind yet!

 There is none...SA is accused of blamin refs for losses. What about the AB's. Everytime they lose a game, the whole team was mysteriously sick...

No gentlemen there..Just a bunch of cry baby panzies whose mommies told them they are the best and no one can beat them...

not even Justin Marshall? I am shocked! Most saffers love JM because he tickles your ears!

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September 25, 2013, 11:56:55

not even Justin Marshall? I am shocked! Most saffers love JM because he tickles your ears!

Many Kiwis hate him because he doesn't wear blinkers, calls it as it is and calls a spade a spade?

 Yeah its hard to go past Jones ,he is a man of utter conviction too ! Brian Williams ? And hard to go past John Eales ! 

Yeah Cloudy I think Marshall just tries too hard to be impartial and ends up going the other way .

I don't care about rugby studio discussions and panel discussions. I am more comcerned about commentators  who have no idea about the laws of the games and then talks BS on air. Once again, even our own commenators are crap when it comes to interpretting the laws when they are commentating. Bob Skinstadt being at the forefront. Marshall knows the laws and he commentates accordingly. What he does and says back in the studio is of no importance to me. Cpmpare that to the guy who had everybody charged up because bismarck du Plessis was supposedly off-side in "that" tackle. He had a lot of people at each others' throats because of his BS remark. Sorry to bring that incident up again, but it was the one perfect example of what I could think of at the moment.

A proper gentleman is one who believes in fair play and has a high standard of integrity.

In the days of yesteryear, when two men were involved in a fight, the one who managed to knock the other down, would wait for his opponent to rise, find his footing, before continuing with the fight. It was important to them to have a fair contest cause only then would the better of the two be confirmed.

Now a days if you've knocked your opponent down, be it by hitting him with a brick from behind, it's expected of you to kick him till he doesn't move any more.

Based on that ... there are no gentlemen in the All Black side ... only soft whining wimps ... looking toward refs to do their winning for them.

Even today there are gentleman and certainly they are alive and well in NZ, although the world is getting slowly depleted of them. To be a gentleman requires strength and indeed more strength on the playing field.

Dan Carter is one and don't laugh Richie Mc Caw...Richie is suspect with the cynics but I believe Richie is an opportunist...he is a chance taker who does manipulate the refs but I think Richie believes that's part of the game...the trouble is Richie has mastered it and gets away with it whereas dolts (and we have a few in Saffa teams) do not.  Nevertheless despite Ritchie's perceived manipulations I believe he is a very sound man at heart and certainly a strong leader.

In SA side Jean De Villiers is an absolute gentleman of note...Jean is the type of man I would love to be my colleague if I went into a battlefield in the case of war...if I was wounded Jean is the type of man that would stop and pick me up despite his handicap of being slower and nailed by his enemy...indeed Jean would do this for any man...a true leader that inspires absolute trust in those he has authority over. I also think Keegan Daniel is the same type of man. I thought this of John Smit too but am not too sure now because of the way Plum was dismissed but there again I cannot judge because I do not know the real circumstances that were in the making of the decision. Business today is tough and hard but it must NOT prevail over what is right and honourable. Once you have lost trust, honour and integrity all the money in the world gives nothing but emptiness and pain and haunts you for the rest of your life.

 honour and integrity aye sebastienchabal - well spoken!

Unclean, the only brick everyone saw was the one that dislocated Carter's AC joint and elbowed Messam in the throat! The same brick eye gouged Thomson a few years back!

Tributes are continuing to flow for former All Black skipper Sir Wilson Whineray, a man so popular even with his opponents 50,000 Welshmen sang "For he's a jolly good fellow" as he was carried from the field.

Whineray died in Auckland Hospital on Monday, aged 77.

Remembered as one of New Zealand rugby's greatest leaders and a gentleman, he played 77 times for the All Blacks between 1957 and 1965, captaining them in 30 of his 32 Tests.

Michael Jones, Brian Lochore. David Kirk, Kevin Mealamu to name a few.

 Huge Mana in that man , a rare breed these days .

So aunty clean clit you now knock blokes down from behind with a brick then kick the bee-hey-soos outta them ? 

Thems some smooth moves right there !