Die oud-Suid-Afrikaner Mauritz Botha, wat môre vir Engeland teen die Bokke speel, het geen skuldgevoelens nie.
Christo Buchner, Beeld
|”Ek was niemand toe ek Suid-Afrika verlaat het om my rugbyheil in Engeland te gaan soek nie en daarom sal ek nie in Saterdag (môre) se toets voel ek hoef iets aan iemand hier te bewys nie.”
Dit was gister hier in die Engelse rugbyspan se spanhotel die uitgangspunt van Mouritz Botha oor sy eerste toets teen die Springbokke.
En ja, dié blondekop praat nog alte lekker Afrikaans.
“Jong, ek weet egter nie of ek die Springbokke se lynstaantekens sal kan uitwerk nie, al is dit in Afrikaans.
“Jy weet mos, ons voorspelers is nie die slimste ouens op aarde nie,” het hy geskerts.
Toe hy gevra is of hy al ooit op Kingspark gespeel het, het hy net gegrynslag en gesê: “Die velde waarop ek in Suid-Afrika gespeel het, is die soort waarop jy net jou nerwe afval.
“Dit was daardie harde, ongelyke soort velde wat jy op die klein plekkies kry.
“Die groot stadionvelde hier in Suid-Afrika was my nog nooit beskore nie.
“Dit sal ’n nuwe ervaring vir my wees.
“Ek was maar ’n outjie wat in die verkeerde skole was en nooit vir die groot rugbyskole in Suid-Afrika gespeel het nie.
“Ek het in Kaapstad gespeel, maar nooit regtig ’n kans op selfs Vodacom-vlak gekry nie.
“My werkure daar het dit ook nie moontlik gemaak om rugby te ernstig te benader nie en toe ek Engeland toe is, was dit die laaste ding in my gedagtes om toetsrugby vir Engeland te speel.
“Ek is met geen kwade gevoelens uit Suid-Afrika weg nie en het ook nie gevoel ek is te na gekom nie.
“Ek is maar net iemand wat met harde werk en toewyding daar in Engeland op die hoogste vlak uitgekom het.”
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June 8th, 2012 at 12:20 am
He has a good point. If your home country does not value your ability go to greener pastures. There are many South Africans in teams across the world.
Good Luck, I hope you dont get the same booing as poor and treatment as freckles.
June 8th, 2012 at 3:15 am
Reply to Kevin_rack @ 12:20 am:
Agreed… the same applies to business…
Personally since the days of Tiaan Strauss I’ve always been somewhat proud of Japies that can make national sides of other countries…
Going to be bitter-sweet for Methos when his boet runs on to the field…
No doubt he’ll continue his form… I just hope HM and co know he is the charge-down king at the moment…
http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/image/112733.html?object=83844;page=1
I know who I’d be backing in this pic to come out trumps!
June 8th, 2012 at 6:44 am
This should be the biggest eyeopener for SA:
“Ek was maar ’n outjie wat in die verkeerde skole was en nooit vir die groot rugbyskole in Suid-Afrika gespeel het nie.
We let so many talented players slip due to this – and then you have commentators brag about this or that school having their 25th captain etc. It is not a bragging issue it is a disgrace that guys from other school don’t get a look at!
June 8th, 2012 at 8:30 am
Reply to JT_BOKBEFOK! @ 6:44 am:
It’s the same in every country really…
June 8th, 2012 at 9:26 am
Found this on Youtube.
Don’t know who uploaded it but seems to have a serious case of man crush…
Cheers
June 8th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Reply to Methos The French Stormer @ 9:26 am:
found what?
June 8th, 2012 at 9:38 am
The best about this test match – it is the 1st of a 3 test TOUR! Man i missed these!!
Can’t wait for tomorrow!
June 8th, 2012 at 9:55 am
Whoops Sorry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c5QmNA99q0
Cheers
June 8th, 2012 at 10:09 am
Reply to Methos The French Stormer @ 9:55 am:
Hey china, your boet told me you should call him more! Jy’s in kak!
June 8th, 2012 at 10:12 am
Reply to Morné @ 10:09 am:
I should not get involved here but I get the same
Don’t they have phones in england that he could use to phone his older boet?
June 8th, 2012 at 10:15 am
Reply to Methos The French Stormer @ 9:55 am:
Thanks for the vid – serious man love here!
BTW these are the type of hits I want to see Spies make!! Has he ever made one of these front on tackles??
June 8th, 2012 at 10:23 am
Or skype, or Watzup?
Cheers
June 8th, 2012 at 10:24 am
Your brother stands accused…
June 8th, 2012 at 10:29 am
Reply to JT_BOKBEFOK! @ 10:15 am:
Mouritz the only Japie forward that tackles that low and runs head-down rather than up-right…
Jeez… someone spent some serious time on that youtube clip… I reckon he has a stalker…
See Methos… you too could have stalkers like that if you had the same hair-style as your boet!
June 8th, 2012 at 10:29 am
In all fairness – yes I should. But being a rugby player myself with 3 trainings a week + gym + match + a full time job now, learning a new lanuage and getting better at it and being a dad it is kind of hard to find the time…
When you get time off you just want to sit on your arse and have a beer.
Cheers
June 8th, 2012 at 10:37 am
Jis dis ‘n goeie video… veral die covering werk…
Fokkit methos het hy al jou hare gekry?
June 8th, 2012 at 10:43 am
Bryce – in school I had the long hair and he shaved his. Now he has the hair and I have to shave my head 3 times a week otherwise the gray and bald spots are too obvious. Life is not fair.
But very proud of what he has achieved. When he left SA he didn’t have time to gym etc. But he was always a good player. He made the same tackles and played for NTK – now NNK 1′st team when he was still U21 etc. But never got the look in by WP or anyone else. I took a video of him to Gerrie Swart – the agent of Francois Steyn and he tried at Griquas – don’t know how hard. In the video there is a tackle of him on Egon Seconds where he kinocks him out cold – 100% legal and all. Him and Andries Bekker were the locks for NTK at that stage.
Then when he packed it in and went to England he met his wife and got really serious about going to gym – he went twice a day and bulked up about 8 kilos. When they came to visit us in our village England he didn’t want to have a beer before he had a gym session and we spent 2 hours on the field kicking and chasing the ball and trying to get around each other in the 5m line. For the record – the last “dryfings”(gain ground in english I think), session that we had I won 3-0
I always believed that he could play big rugby but to get into the system when you hail from Calvinia is kind of hard. Hats of to the bugger and here to hoping that he has an excelent game on Sat but that the boks win it in anycase
Cheers
June 8th, 2012 at 10:44 am
Reply to Methos The French Stormer @ 10:43 am:
LIKE
June 8th, 2012 at 10:47 am
Reply to Methos The French Stormer @ 10:43 am:
Thank goodness I could not organize you guys a job here – you would be stuck in the Alps not playing for a living…
June 8th, 2012 at 11:21 am
with JT here. These poncy commentators always on about ‘a bishops boy’ and a ‘SACS’ boy pisses me off. Those schools produce more coke-snorting fuckups than anything else. Their rugby traditions are blown up affairs yet the level of their play is very rarely what you find at big Jarpie schools in the platteland.
Jake White also a key culprit with his reliance on ‘pedigree’ which according to him you get at places like Jeppe.
In the words of Gordon Ramsey: “fuck me”
You go Mouritz!
June 8th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Reply to Methos The French Stormer @ 10:43 am:
Such humble beginnings – just shows you, even boerseuns from Calvinia can make it big. Even I will be watching tomorrow’s test hoping Mouritz has a blinder (but still lose)!
June 8th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Reply to The Year of the Cheetah @ 11:21 am:
Ja.
Boishaai 80, Bishops 5.