Mickeynelster

Yes, you read right!

I am a Sharks supporter through and through and you will have to look very hard to find a happier man at this stage. I didnt even mind playing 10 shots more than what my handicap allows, not even a tiny bit.

Earlier the season we had rugby experts, names would not be revealed. Rugby experts whom are also Stormers supporters. They said back then that the Stormers play the right game plan, which was a defensive game plan. 17 Games without going over the try-line once, thats right, not once. Yet they still believed it was the right approach, because defense wins you trophies. They were not prepared to acknowledge the attacking problems. Attacking players like de Villiers, de Jong, Applon, Habana, Pietersen were made to tackle their guts out. For what? Another conference trophy. Whoop de Whoop!! Even if the Sharks go on to loose next Saturday, they have shown that they are the best SA team currently, that the Lions did indeed have one very, very, very, very lucky day.

Back to my heading though.

I have been to more Stormers games and they have grown on me, because I now also stay in Cape Town. They are my second team, if one is allowed to have such a thing. It breaks my heart to see them bow out of the Super rugby tournament. I blame one man and one man only……..Mr. COACH!

You have for the past few seasons, taken attacking players, very good players, and turned them into defensive players. And what did this bring you? I agree that the Stormers are at least consistent, but the empty cabinet is a worry.

Now, please get rid of Mr Coetsee, he is bad for Stormer rugby. Bring in Nick Mallett. You will not be sorry. Because next year will be the same again.

Cheers guys. Well done the Stormers for a great season, but even more well done to my Sharks boys!!! Win or loose, we are behind you next Saturday

Just a question regarding “traffic” on this and the WordPress platform. Hell, it’s very quiet on these platforms, or is it just me? I look at everyones blogs, and they dont seem to be getting the amount of comments, even bad ones that they used to get

Yet another post regarding the British, but hell, they make it so difficult for anyone to like them.

They (British)were the first people to criticize SA and tell the whole world how we would fail hosting the 2010 Football world Cup. It’s not even the start of the Olympics, in fact it was -2 days before the Olympics and they already screwed up. What happened? They put the wrong flag behind the wrong team in the women’s Football Olympic match last night.

A few days ago, whilst I was listening to the Cricket, Mr. Atherton and Mr. Hussain, arguably the finest test batsmen and finest test captains England have ever seen evaluated both the SA and English teams. No surprise then when they only picked about 4 of the SA team to make up a combined 11. Smith is a walking LBW candidate, Amla’s technique is shocking and Kallis is over the wall. All comments by our beloved English commentators. They even said that Tahir is not a good spin bowler. Well, how many wickets did Swann take again?

So here is to hoping that the Olympics is a big failure without anybody getting hurt, apart from hopefully the English ego’s naturally!

A list of actual announcements that London Tube train drivers have made to their passengers…
1) “Ladies and Gentlemen, I do apologise for the delay to your service. I know you’re all dying to get home, unless, of course, you happen to be married to my ex-wife, in which case you’ll want to cross over to the Westbound and go in the opposite direction.”
2) “Your delay this evening is caused by the line controller suffering from E & B syndrome: not knowing his elbow from his backside. I’ll let you know any further information as soon as I’m given any.”
3) “Do you want the good news first or the bad news? The good news is that last Friday was my birthday and I hit the town and had a great time. The bad news is that there is a points failure somewhere between Stratford and East Ham, which means we probably won’t reach our destination.”
4) “Ladies and gentlemen, we apologise for the delay, but there is a security alert at Victoria station and we are therefore stuck here for the foreseeable future, so let’s take our minds off it and pass some time together. All together now…. ‘Ten green bottles, hanging on a wall…..’.”
5) “We are now travelling through Baker Street… As you can see, Baker Street is closed. It would have been nice if they had actually told me, so I could tell you earlier, but no, they don’t think about things like that”.
6) “Beggars are operating on this train. Please do NOT encourage these professional beggars. If you have any spare change, please give it to a registered charity. Failing that, give it to me.”
7) During an extremely hot rush hour on the Central Line, the driver announced in a West Indian drawl: “Step right this way for the sauna, ladies and gentleman… unfortunately, towels are not provided.”
8) “Let the passengers off the train FIRST!” (Pause.) “Oh go on then, stuff yourselves in like sardines, see if I care – I’m going home….”
9) “Please allow the doors to close. Try not to confuse this with ‘Please hold the doors open.’ The two are distinct and separate instructions.”
10) “Please note that the beeping noise coming from the doors means that the doors are about to close. It does not mean throw yourself or your bags into the doors.”
11) “We can’t move off because some idiot has their hand stuck in the door.”
12) “To the gentleman wearing the long grey coat trying to get on the second carriage – what part of ‘stand clear of the doors’ don’t you understand?”
13) “Please move all baggage away from the doors.” (Pause..) “Please move ALL belongings away from the doors.” (Pause…) “This is a personal message to the man in the brown suit wearing glasses at the rear of the train: Put the pie down, Four-eyes, and move your bl**dy golf clubs away from the door before I come down there and shove them up your a**e sideways!”
14) “May I remind all passengers that there is strictly no smoking allowed on any part of the Underground. However, if you are smoking a joint, it’s only fair that you pass it round the rest of the carriage.”

You might think that I am smoking “TIK”, sniffing OMO or even drinking bath water seeing that I am from Cape Town, but I can assure you that I am not.

The reason for the heading on this post is simply because I heard something on 5 FM whilst at Gym this morning. Yes I do go to gym to go and drink coffee, but that is beside the point.

The conversation on 5 FM was regarding the fact that Bradley Wiggins, winner of the Tour de Lance, Tour de Drugs, Tour de Thugs or whatever damn tour you want to call it might, might be Knighted for his efforts. WOW! It seems like sporting achievements are so few and far between in England that you get can get Knighted for winning a Ale Drinking contest or indeed a Yorkshire Pudding eating contest. And although the Tour de France is a well-known sporting event ( still don’t think it’s a sport), I think that they are giving away Knighthood to any Tom, Dick or Sally that puts on a Tracksuit.

Rumour also has it that if England win the series against South Africa currently being contested , played that they will also be Knighted. No, just kidding!

One thing I would like to see regarding world rankings in Cricket is more ranking points for HUGE defeats. An innings, or 10 wickets would warrant more points than a 1 run or 1 wicket victory. You see it in golf, just look at Ernie, jumping from 40 odd to 15. Makes sense to me.

No more sport to look forward to until Friday.

Have a great day

PS!!!! Thats me 4x4ing in the snow.  Jealous?

I got this off Twitter from Alan Tyers and thought I should share

1.36 Amount in centimetres that Hashim Amla’s beard grew during his innings.

0.00 Amount in centimetres that thing on Jacques Kallis’ head grew during his innings.

895* Number of runs Amla would have made if Smith hadn’t made an uncharacteristically positive declaration.

1 World ranking of one of the teams on the pitch. Will still be the case at the end of the series, just probably not the same team.

2% Attention Kevin Pietersen was paying to Kallis and Amla as they showed how to make runs on this wicket.

5 Number of Tests most England cricket fans wanted to see in this series. Have now decided that three is more than enough.

6 Number of brain cells used by Pietersen as he waited to hook Morne Morkel in a bid to show him who’s boss.

67213 Number of times Alviro Petersen kicked himself during the last couple of days

311 Number of runs scored by the magnificent Amla. Also telephone number of public information service in North America; maybe they can give the England bowlers some advice.

5000% Increase in noisiness from Indian and Australian fans on the internet now that their conquerors are getting a taste of their own medicine.

0.1 degrees Amount that reverse-swing specialist Tim Bresnan managed to get the ball to deviate off the straight.

25% Amount that Steven Finn has improved as a player in people’s minds today. 0 Likelihood of Andrew Strauss sweeping a legspinner successfully.

182 Runs scored by Kallis. Also number of celebratory boerewors sausages eaten by Kallis after innings.

1,000,000 Pints of watery lager drunk by Oval crowd as they tried to numb the pain of a Kallis big one. Two Number of England captains already retired by Graeme Smith. And counting… ?

What a fantastic sporting weekend, well, if you are South African.

First of all, well done to my boys! You did us proud and although it is very frustrating to support you, we are still proud.

Its a tough call against the Stormers. May the best team win.

As for the Bulls. What can you say? 14 “Springboks” against 7 All Backs. Surely a mismatch, hey? Nope, not to be. Just shows you what a lucky season they had. My concern here is that most of these palookas will don the Green and Gold.

What can you say about this man, Kallis and Smith? They batted the Poms into submission. It was like watching a movie where a young convict was raped, raped again and raped some more by big bullies in a prison.

I can see us winning this comfortably. Even the weather is on our side.

Ernie, you Biscuit!!!!!! WoW! Thats all I can say. I had tears in my eyes both for your victory and also for Adam Scott. You made us proud!!

Last but not least. The English had something to smile about. I heard one of their okes won a cycle race. Cycling isn’t a sport anyway so not much to write home about. I bet you in about a months time that a story will surface that the guy that won tested positive for some sort of drug. Must be. A man with sideburns like that must be on drugs.

Here is to hoping that we wrap up the test today.

Have a great week

Last weekend I was hoping that the Sharks would beat the Bulls. I have to say that I was disappointed that the Bulls didn’t play in Pink. That would have made the victory just so much more satisfying.

This weekend we play our “bogey” team, the Cheetahs. Would we be able to beat them with a bonus point? I sure hope so. I also hope the Bulls beat the Lions with a bonus point. In fact, I hope the Bulls run riot against the Lions. The simple reason being, as things stand at the moment, the Sharks would then travel to Canberra and the Bulls to Christchurch. Now, I would be far happier playing against the Brumbies than the Crusaders. That leaves the mouth-watering prospect of a Stormers/Sharks semi at Newlands is the Sharks could beat the Brumbies.

But, we need to get through this weekend against the Cheetahs first.

Unfortunately, there will be no sport for me this weekend, I will be 4×4’ing and camping in the snow. Crazy? Many people think so.

Have a fantastic sporting weekend!

Cheers

Geez, this must mean that it is raining in Cape Town.

I have to say. This new Platform is slowly but surely starting to become a bit better. For me at this stage there is only a couple of things that still “irk” me.

1) all these spam comments

2) still, no email notifications

anyone out there (Powa, wink wink) that can help?

Ok, so what can we say about the Sharks? Are they currently the best attacking rugby team in SA? Maybe! You might add the Cheetahs to that.

What makes me angry and sometimes wanting to rip my hair out of my head is that they can play like they did on Friday and the next week be absolutely SHEIT!!!!.

What a fantastic site seeing them dispatch of the “Mighty Bulls” in the manner that they did. This raises yet a few more questions about our cuurent Springbok team. Wynand, Morne and Spies were nowhere and hopefully Heineke would start to see that there are better players than the above mentioned.

Back to the Sharks. As things currently stand, the Sharks would play the Brumbies and the Bulls the Crusdaders. We first have to get past the Cheetahs, but if we can, I know I would rather play the Brumbies than the Crusaders. That would leave a potential Semi Final against the Stormers, if the Sharks can beat the Brumbies that is.

Now, the part that really makes me “die moer in”. The Sharks beat the Bulls and the Stormers without really braking a sweat, yet loose against the Lions. I still believe the Lions had a lucky day and that the Sharks didn’t pitch for that game. There is no way that those hopeless losers from JoBurg is in any way, shape or form better that the Sharks or any other franchise in SA, just take Saturdays game against the Rebels for instance. It looks like most of their players are off to greener pastures at the end of the season, so that is Bye-Bye Lions.

Guys and Ladies, have a lovely Week!

Cheers