Rooinek's rugby quiz (2) . . .

1.  Rawlinson

2. Pienaar

3. Zero

4. England

5.

You got 2 out of 5 Blob.

 1. Greg Rawlinson
2. Ollie le Roux? or maybe Bismarck?
3. 0. The Kriel twins come to mind, but they only played in the junior ranks together.
4. Argentina?
5. Stumped!

4 out of 5 Chippo.

I see that other than last question I made it a bit too easy today!

 What is the answer to 2 rooitwit. It is unlikely to be both - I would go with Bismark.
The answer to 5 - Des van Jarrsveldt? A Rhodesian who played one test as captain for the Boks. A folk hero in Rhodesia. 

Baboon-ou, I went with Chippo's first answer which is Ollie le Roux and that is the correct answer.

Ollie le Roux was a sub in 43 of his 54 appearances. Ruan Pienaar is second with 41 sub appearances out of his 80 caps. Bismarck is 4th (behind CJ van der Linde) with 29 sub appearances from his 70 caps.

 Okay but what is ther answer to 5. Very unusual case. What decade as a clue for the oaks and Beeno ?

Arme Ollie, over 80% on the planks ........ I must check how many times AB Norm Hewitt spent as a sub while Sean Fitzpatrick played, the frustration turning him into an alky .

Okay Baboon-ou, I'll give you the decade for question 5. The decade was the 90s.

Dave, Chippo has got all the questions right except the last one.

The answer to question 1 is Greg Rawlinson and your other answers are all correct (other than question 5).

Okay, a further clue for question 5. By asking for the decade only Baboon-ou has probably put everyone out by 100 years. It was the 90s but it was the 1890s. The player in question was only selected after there was a very late injury before a British Lions test match and he had only played for Maties before his selection.

Mehrtens was born in SA. His parents stayed in SA for around 5  years, and he was born during that time in SA. Does that count as a co-correct answer for your first question Rooi?

 Christian Stewart?

Bluebok, I thought everyone was going to say Andrew Mehrtens so I had the answer to your question ready. My question specifically said "born and bred". Mehrts was born of New Zealand parents and he always had New Zealand nationality. I did check.

Rooi you sneaky bugger! Good bit of trivia!  

Now Saffex's one has me stumped. I'm pretty sure I'm right with Christian Stewart but I can't think of another person who played for and against the Springboks.

I know it can't be someone recent because it wasn't that long ago that the eligibility rules changed so that players can't represent more than one county

I have one for you all.....Wayne Shelford only broke his nose once. How ?    

Saffex, My guesses are Christian Stewart and Frank Mellish.

Is not 5...Jeremy Thomson?  or Tim Cox ?

No, the answer to question 5 is a player called Broekie van Broekhuizen.

On 5 September 1896, just before the 4th test against the 1896 British Lions, Springbok forward JJ "Scraps" Wessels got injured and was replaced by Maties forward Herman "Broekies" van Broekhuizen who played his one and only test and who never played for Western Province.

It was an historic occasion because it was South Africa's (they weren't called "Springboks" yet) first ever international victory.

One of yours is right Rooi  

I know Christian Stewart is right. He played 3 tests for the Boks and played for Canada against us in the 1995 RWC pool stages.

Frank Mellish is obviously wrong then. I know he played for the Boks and for England but I wasn't sure if he played against the Boks in one of his England tests.

I give up, who is the second one? (Unless anyone else wants a bash).

You will kick yourself over the other one......as obvious as the Pienaar one!!  

Tiaan Strauss  

Damn! I forgot he played against us! Good one.

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December 11, 2014, 11:25:36 Arme Ollie, over 80% on the planks ........ I must check how many times AB Norm Hewitt spent as a sub while Sean Fitzpatrick played, the frustration turning him into an alky .

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I don't think Hanyane Shimange ever made the starting XV

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December 11, 2014, 13:26:49

Oh boy, I see I'm a latecomer. Once again only 2 from 5.

I think the eligibility rule was introduced during Danie Craven's time. I remember Naas had to get clearance to play for the Bokke because of his involvement with American Grid Iron football.

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In those days, the moment that you played gridiron of league, it was tickets for rugby union.

It was, however, Naas' fight to get back into rugby that had the IRB change the rules. His argument was that gridiron had no resemblance to rugby and was in no way a threat for rugby union. Remember that the issue was that rugby was an amateur sport and they wanted it to remain amateur. They also wanted to make sure that union players do not jump between professional rugby league and amateur rugby union. Naas "won" his argument with the IRB and they changed their stance on gridiron.

It was only after the introduction of pro rugby union that they dropped the ban on movement between league and union

 I read that......thought it was rather cruel of him  

I'm an idiot...didn't read the question...Currie Cup game (both played)...I was thinking of test match for the Boks...sorry.

 Rooinek, I for one must compliment you on the rugby quiz postings.

Great idea and allows rugby supporters to get the grey matter working once again.

Keep up the good work.
Sure shows who knows anything about rugby history.
Interesting.

 Saffex, it wasn't wildebeest, but oryx. I don't know about from a motorbike, but I know the grabbed oryx by the horns/antlers and then jumped off the back of the bakkie. It wasn't just for fun, that's how they caught them when necessary. I saw some phot's of him, Tim Horan and Jason Little on Tiaans farm in the Kalahari.