Boks emblem bumped off

[Ferris]

The way their forwards play it should be a Moose

No thanks. There's already one Moose too many around these parts.

[MI5_Dog]

So they'll be wearing their heart on their sleeves?

[The InnFORCEr]

The leaping antelope badge will be moved to comply with World Cup and government regulations, the report said. Government regulations require the King Protea, the national flower, to be worn on the left breast.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/un...001-1612c.html

So have the iRB changd their regulations (and if so which ones) because this has never been a "World Cup" issue in the past that I can recall

[GIGS20]

IRB have always been very fussy about what's on the strip during World Cup......remember no sponsors' logos, World Cup logo on the (I think it was left) breast. national logo on the other one.....so on, so forth.

I haven't taken enough notice of a recent springbok jersey to know but I would think it's something like "you can have the national logo on there, but not a second one" given that choice, and the current political climate in ZA I can imagine the pollies would have found the choice simple.

Use the protea, and ditch all existing South African rugby tradition.

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Yeah, looking on rugbyshop.com, they seem to have a Protea logo on the left and a springbok on the right. IRB won't allow that in a World Cup, but they would allow one national logo.

Interestingly, it seems the 2009 jersey had the protea logo intermingled with the springbok...........there's a little bit of desensitisation going on there. Could they not just use the logo from last season's jersey for World Cup years? or is there a bigger agenda (Namely, laying the blame on the IRB for removing the springbok from the jersey and never having it return)

I'm not pro-apartheidt, but this doesn't seem to be an affirmative action type thing, more like petulant foot stamping because we're now the biggest boys in the yard and we can pick on you now!!!!!

I don't see any evidence of the sort of politics which was espoused by Invictus!

[doobie69]

OR a scotchman a pom

What on earth is a scotchman?

[Ferris]

What on earth is a scotchman?

A bloke wot drinks scotch?

[Blackswan]

a glaswegian with a speach impediment ?

[normie]

What on earth is a scotchman?

Similar, but a different family, to a bourbonman.

[James]

Use the protea, and ditch all existing South African rugby tradition.

I'm not South African so maybe I'm missing something but moving the Springbok to the sleeve instead of the chest part- does it really matter? They aren't throwing away rugby tradition they are making one small move that shouldn't really matter. Now if that one small move leads to bigger and bigger moves (renaming the Springboks the Proteas or changing the colour of the jersey) that would be a different issue. At the moment its just making a mountain out of a mole-hill.

Would anyone really care if they moved the Wallaby on our jerseys onto the sleeve and replaced it with some other symbol that Australians can identify with like our coat of arms or the Southern cross?

[hertryk]

I would like to know who named our team "The Wallabies" ..can anyone help?

[travelling_gerry]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...team_nicknames

[normie]

Sadly no mention of the mighty "Wombats", the Australian Farnarkling team...

[brokendown gunfighter]

Sadly no mention of the mighty "Wombats", the Australian Farnarkling team...

you must be a fred Dagg fan,normie

[normie]

you must be a fred Dagg fan,normie

Yes gunny, one of the best in my book. A champion arkeller, very handy with a flukem.

[GIGS20]

Better than tat showpony Sorensen, who always seemed to suffer an 'unfortunate mishap' sometime after the umlaut, usually in the third wardle.