Habana wins SA gong- Player of the year- What about World Player of Year?

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It just has to be PUKE WATSON.

 I see that Puke Watson was a nominee as a 1st division Curry Cup player of the year Bafta Awards, clearly rigged by Cheeky. 

Why do you copy / paste articles from the homepage?

 Chipo because more people comment in the forum than on the home page. 

The outrage is the Mighty Stormers were better than the sharks in the Super 15 and hence our topping the log and winning the SA Conference trophy!! And how can wee Keegan win anything!!!! Hhahahahahahaha very amusing.

Israel Dagg for World Player of the Year. He swung at least two FN tests.

Funny...I was led to believe Habana was done/past it???

So Denise, are you saying that at no point in the year Habana was pretty damn poor and everyone was calling for his head. To his credit he brought it back in a big way except for his very poor last test against the AB's

So Habana, who gained 3 times the metres per carry and who backed up Jean's brilliant juggling break with a try, was "very poor". And Taute who lost the game by contributing to 3 NZ tries was "average"......spot the bias.

Oh boy Moz, you really do take the cake. All the Boks were poor in that second half...........my point on Habana was that he struggled at times this year and it was then that I made the call that he should go. He turned it around to his credit, but no way in hell was he player of the year......that should have gone to Etzebeth

 Since I have watched rugby Habana has been the best Springbok wing I have ever seen, and most likely the best wing in the World I have ever seen. The only runner on par or better than Habana was Christian Cullen. 

How awkward is this? From what I can make out Denise has known Rattex for years now, and he still has to ask him if he knows anything about rugby. Now pardon me, but how is that possible? Denise has to be as thick as a brick if he hasn't been able to figure that out for himself after all these years. LOL. And obviously he thinks old Rattex is as thick as a brick. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Hehehehe.

Ah Denise putting his stupid foot in it again.................as thick as pigshit as ever. I am not going to even bother with the Habana take other than to say that when he was in such shit form earlier in the year he looked done, he looked like a hasbeen, much like Jean is. Habana brought t back, to his credit and thats all that needs to be said.

Dave you get all bitter and twisted. But the fact is you blew that Habana call big time. Imagine time and boringly again you went on about Habana being done. You wanted, get this, Mvovo.

Moz, are you guys really that stupid? Am not bitter and twisted at all just replying in kind to that idiot Denise.

I was wrong about him being done and said as much..."

Sharkbok, have to disagree with the comparison of Habana to Cullen. Habana is a great winger, but hardly on par with Cullen. Habana is the greatest Bok winger but he did not have the same influence or impact that Lomu did at the 95 RWC at the 2007 RWC (maybe earlier). Don't get me wrong I rate Habana just not in same league as Lomu or Cullen.

Cullen was a big disappointment at 13 in the 99 RWC. Habana in 2007 was way more influential than Cullen. Lomu was a show unto himself, but was negated by the Boks in the final, and pretty much in every other Bok game.

Not to mention the fact that Lomu failed to score a try when facing the Boks.....Habana will be remebered as the finest of his generation.

 Lomu was very good at the start of his career but people did get better at tackling him as time went on. He was also exposed defensively, and it was often part of the bok game plan to kick the ball behind him as he was slow to turn. Bryeyton Paulse scored many tries in Lomus corner for the boks. 

Lomu was useless at defence, and South Africa figured him out in no time. Just kick in behind him and he was stuffed, as soon as he had to turn around.

Hey Lomu haters,of course  he had his deficiencies, but at the 95 world cup he produced pure magic, the England game where he scored 4 times and trampled over Catt has never been reproduce by any player and he was the new 21st century prototype rugby player blending size, power and pace.For 4 weeks Lomu treated rugby viewers to how attacking rugby should be played.  Habana had his moments as well, but the one I remember is when that USA winger beat him for pace on the outside when Habana was reputedly the faster winger in the world again not this generations best winger but up there, Cullen still numero uno in my book. But hey we could go back and forward on this its always going to be national pride that's the deciding personal factor.

Well dom Denise, Wynand Olivier was a class player sadly living in the shadow of Jean and rightly so, for Jean has been the best 12 we have had, bar maybe Frans.................so not sure what your stupid point is.

Spies has never been the best number 8 in the world. He was a dangerous runner in space, not so much these days. He has never been an effective hard yards man. He also, could never tackle. And by forward standards he was pretty feeble. The Irish lock ran over him, Andy Powell tossed him aside like a toothpick. He was a non factor on the ground and a poor cover defender.

Rubbish Spies was the best in the business in his prime. Samo is a laugh, Read a class act.

So Dave.....you like Spies and Mvovo.....two guys who have absolutely zero will to win.

 Spies was pretty epic before the 2007 World Cup. After he came back after his blood condition he has not been the same player in the physical side. He used to be a very stronger carrier

 What a honour it is to be able to watch him in action.

AJ you missed Jannie Engelbrecht, the most elegant of all wings. Brave enough to beat Northern Transvaal with a broken collar bone and his arm in a sling.....he scored a splendid try. Fast enough to catch Dewi Bebb the Welsh 100metres champion from behind. I saw that from Newlands main stand....epic.

during the 2009 TriNats, spies was the best No8 in the world easy, like SBW he always made it over the adavantage line and tha accelration he had always had me worried and very frustrated as he was such a powerful ball carrier with speed to burn.

he missed out on the 2009 EOYT with an injry, not sure what it was, but it had the most detrimental effect on his game as he has been complete kak ever since. a very pale shade of his former self.
 

@arthur john,

Spies is useless, he has already had far too many test caps then he ever should of!He is scared and misses plenty of tackles!Its been a blessing that he has been injured otherwise Meyer would of definately wasted 10 or more test starting Spies