Andre van der Veen

Not the smart option. When 15 vs 13 have to keep ball in hand to get penalty or score try. Only need 3 to win. Pick and go close to poles. But to work you need referee that is able to make call against home team. Which wasnt able to do. Different option when 15 v 15. Then drop is decent choice. Ford just doesnt have other options close to line. Too fragile.

Sacha should have dropped a goal..George Ford would have

@psixaba Basics

I know the governing body treats criticism of referees with impunity but I’d really love to see and hear John Dobson break out of his diplomatic answers once in a while.

@will_owen9 Olivon illegal

Look, Bristol have been nonexistent today, but I must say, I do rate James Williams

A big toxic dose of sales/customer cannibalisation heading way of PIK & Spar.

@MarcoMasotti_ @SharksRugby Keep having fun Marco!

Oh sigh… rugby’s classic conservative narrative strikes again. @SharksRugby was the fastest-growing rugby club in the world on social in 2025, with 108.3M video views. I am not stopping the fun—or engaging new young audiences. Happy to take a cut of any extra ticket revenue! And Tuna are incredible fish and imagine how disrespected they feel right now? 😀 @SaleSharksRugby #rugby #sarugby

@MarcoMasotti_ @Springboks @BlueBullsRugby Your 2026 dreams for rugby make me smile. Thank you for support and commitment to rugby in South Africa.

Happy New Year! Here are some of my dreams for 2026:   1. May the @Springboks continue to rule the rugby world and may the suffering of French, Irish and New Zealand fans continue (especially the Irish fans).  2. May @BlueBullsRugby get coaching help from SARU in 2026.  They are special. Calls for help have also been placed to the Irish, Welsh and Fijian rugby unions.   3. May @SaleSharksRugby finally rebrand as the Sale Tuna. A tuna is a fierce fish. Let us unite behind the Tuna! 4. May every rational human involved in rugby advocate for a single global season.  Let this be the issue of 2026. 5. May referee’s lives get easier.  Two coaching challenges.  TMO only in the final 2 minutes of each half.  Let us try something new in 2026. 6. May @SharksRugby make our fans proud in 2026 by fighting for the black and white jersey at every moment.  7. May we not take a step back and remain focused on giving every kid from every corner and culture in South Africa access and opportunity to our incredible sport in 2026. 8. May we collaborate as much as we compete across the rugby universe.  Grow the business of rugby.  And be less conservative and laugh a whole lot more. #rugby #sarugby

Andre Esterhuizen the only pro player that has to memorise backline moves and line out calls

Aiden and Temba going into day 3! 😤 #WtcFinal2025 #ProteaFire

Four decades of memories. #themasters

Bulls finish this SA derby block with 2/4 wins... and one of those was thanks to the Blommetjies miss at the death. Big questions remain re their championship credentials. So many big opportunities blown in recent weeks.

@MarcoMasotti_ @SharksRugby @THESTORMERS Thanks Marco. Always the most special bonds between our teams. Friends in life and in rugby. Rugby will be the winner.

Not the result that we wanted but I am incredibly proud of @SharksRugby. Thank you @THESTORMERS for being gracious hosts.

This is what will matter 1000 years from now. Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world. This guy reignited the Space Age. He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level. This is history happening before you. If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in. We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well. Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of. Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed. Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space. Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat. Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them. Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe. None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China. More important, in the long run, than the United States of America. America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this. Because this changes everything. All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood. All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels. Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down. But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star. You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when. But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things. If the puddlefish don't get in the way. Don't be a puddlefish.

@elonmusk One of the most inspiring visions of the future I have ever seen! Everyone should watch this. ❤️🤘

Ask stupid questions get stupid answers @ForePlayPod

@Retief_Dan What is needed is that everyone commits to making the Stormers sustainable. And that requires ticket sales. Preferably season ticket sales where income is more secure. Lots of critics and lots of mistakes but the aim must be to get the Stormers financially secure.

@Retief_Dan But a choice must be made and the URC brand is the Stormers. Can it be changed to province? Maybe but at a cost. Can the brands co-exist? Maybe - but at cost. Most important is to put as much money in player budget as possible.

And just like that you erase 141 years of history - of the team that has won the Currie Cup more than any other province. Can't conceive of a South African rugby landscape without the many iterations of 'WP'

Legends never die they multiply 🕊️

This is insane! Two lions had killed an impala on the final green @skukuzagolfclub while restaurant guests watched on. They were then chased off by hyenas and a crocodile! Not your regular golf course occurrence. Kruger National Park, South Africa.🇿🇦

Sting with Bruce Springsteen performing "Every Breath You Take". Incredible performance by these two legends.