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Boks stung by All Blacks welcome
10 July 2008, 7:41 pm
By PA Sport
South Africa have reacted furiously to their treatment by New Zealand as tensions mount ahead of Saturday's Tri-Nations clash in Dunedin.
The Springboks - still reeling from the controversial spear tackle that has sidelined skipper John Smit - have been further incensed by comments made by All Black front-row great Craig Dowd.
Dowd dismissed their coach Peter de Villiers as a ''puppet'' in a radio interview and questioned if he knew anything about rugby.
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Here's a new one! There's been whinging about scrum techniques, spear tackles, one-eyed refereeing and benevolent suspensions all week between South Africa and New Zealand, but a radio interview with former All Black prop Craig Dowd even has the South African Honorary Consul in New Zealand, Gregory Fortuin, up in arms.
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Boks in for some more pain tomrrow arvo. Going to be bloody cold at the house of pain in Dunedin!!!!!
BLACK IS THICKER THAN BLOOD
i hope the boks win..even though i dont get the team/coach
BOKKE“Let me put it this way, A Springbok team contains Afrikaners, Englishmen, coloureds and blacks. It has parochial foes in Bulls, Sharks, Stormers, Cheetahs and Lions. It is a recipe for war! Yet in all the years of John Smit’s captaincy, there has never been one unhappy customer, not one voice of rebellion against his leadership. He is the glue that holds the Springboks together. The man is a legend!”- Jake White