With the help of some idiotic members - he ahs been able to turn most members nto dis cussing him and not the issue we should really discuss - THAT BEING RUGBY.
We have had an over-supply of Dave's size or weight. I gain the impresion that with some members that far exceeds the issue of rugby, Who thehell want to know whether he is as fat as Willem Alberts or Francois Steyn - or he size of Twiggy. Tat fat debate has deluded every discussion on the Board. Other than Mozart and myself I believe none of the members ever met Dave - and from what I emember about our meeting in London he was not a Fatso or seeming tending towards that. However, that means nothing when it comes to discourse on this site.
I made the mistake - was frustrated by dishonesty in Government - and the response was 290 responses. None of those dealt with Government dishonesty - it was turned into a debate about Dave's predictions or mnon-predicton of tests outcomes. There are indications that he a,mde remarks reflecting his frustration wiith some selections and indicated that with those selections he feels that t he Springboks would lose. On the othjer hand - he claimed that he never actually made preduictions - and he doid not make any under threads dealing with predictions. But why is that so important? If he was wrong - what the hell makes it so important that rugby matters and in this case governent dishonesty is less important to us than Dave's comments on this site.
It really frustrates me that every rugby thread started on this site is polluted nby th constant harping about Dave's weight and the prediction story. Is he a more imprtant topic than the oissue of Rugby - it seems to me he is in the mind of some members and the pettimess stemming from that is unbeieveable.
Why can we as decentlovrs of rugby not discuss rugby issues primarily and forget about what members is and do in their private life? Dave is defnitely not n easy baby - he can curse nearly as bad as a drunken sailor - or that Russian army captain that was cursing out an subordinate non-stop for half an hour - without repeating the same curse word twice.
I believe an occassional jibe at members is fine - but in this case the whole board is cluttered up with rbbish reponses on issues not relevant to rugby. That being the case - there are members whose rugby knowedge is not up to standard and who is prejudiced beyond belief when it comes to rugby players. That is also fine - but to invent and imagine things that did not happen and try and laud or denigrate players on that basis - is tragic and beyond normal decent human behaviour.
SO PLEASE CAN WE GET BACK TO DISCUSSION OF RUGBY ISSUES AND STAY AWAY FROM DAVE'S GIRTH A ND SMILAR OITHER RUBBISH.


