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<blockquote data-quote="DonBilly" data-source="post: 229802"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gay-Guy @ Nov 19 2008, 10:26 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=361327" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>This cant be true surely?</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p>If this happens it will be the greatest rugby tragedy of the 21st century.</p><p></p><p>The greatest rugby tragedy of the 20th century was Wales losing its status as an equal with S.A and NZ.....the big three.</p><p></p><p>I am not S.A but I would feel like the soul of rugby has been compromised if the Springbok emblem is lost. There are some things that MUST never be lost. Once they are lost things are never the same again. In football (soccer) the South American super powers are recognised as Argentina and Brazil. Yet once upon a time Paraguay was the super power of the early world cups and used to laugh at Brazil and Argentina. Now they are lost in the football wilderness forever and what a loss tothe world it has been. The Springbok emblem is not just a part of South African rugby history. It is a part of NZ rugby history. It is a part of world rugby history. It is a part of rugby history. For fecks sake it IS rugby history! </p><p></p><p>The All Blacks NEED the Springbok emblem..as much as it needs the Welsh Dragon, the English Rose, the French Rooster, the Flower of Scotland, etc....</p><p></p><p>Good men played hard and left all they had on the field for these emblems....good men gave their all...playing one of the last sports of gentlemen. Men who respected each other and who to this day despite the rivalry have a mutual respect for each other.</p><p></p><p>As an All Black supporter the AB brand will grow stronger financially with the elimination of the Springbok emblem but....WE DO NOT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN! Rugby without rivalries and its history becomes meaningless and therefore is in danger of going down that football road of "friendlies".</p><p></p><p>If Komphella wants to truly get rid of the old regime then he and the ANC should dynamite everything associated to anything white and go back to their days of living in straw huts holding spears. He himself should get in shape and go hunt a buffalo. The road he drove home on tonight was created by white masters...the whole country is a reminder of white aparthied...so he should blow the lot up if he hates the old regime so much!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Get over it Kompheller.....he should be more concerned about how the blacks are killing innocent people every chance they get just for a few dollars.</p><p>[/b][/quote]</p><p></p><p>USSR used to be a power house of Ice Hockey and many other sports, their red stars, the CCCP naming and the hammer and sickle were very common. All that have disappeared and very few people are missing it.</p><p></p><p>I won't cry if the Springbok symbol disappears, in my view they should just stick to their wonderful flag which is the real symbol of the post-apartheid SA. I consider that the real challenge for SA Rugby is to make of Rugby the number 1 sport in SA, there should be 1 million Rugbymen over there.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="DonBilly, post: 229802"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gay-Guy @ Nov 19 2008, 10:26 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=361327']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> This cant be true surely? [/b][/quote] If this happens it will be the greatest rugby tragedy of the 21st century. The greatest rugby tragedy of the 20th century was Wales losing its status as an equal with S.A and NZ.....the big three. I am not S.A but I would feel like the soul of rugby has been compromised if the Springbok emblem is lost. There are some things that MUST never be lost. Once they are lost things are never the same again. In football (soccer) the South American super powers are recognised as Argentina and Brazil. Yet once upon a time Paraguay was the super power of the early world cups and used to laugh at Brazil and Argentina. Now they are lost in the football wilderness forever and what a loss tothe world it has been. The Springbok emblem is not just a part of South African rugby history. It is a part of NZ rugby history. It is a part of world rugby history. It is a part of rugby history. For fecks sake it IS rugby history! The All Blacks NEED the Springbok emblem..as much as it needs the Welsh Dragon, the English Rose, the French Rooster, the Flower of Scotland, etc.... Good men played hard and left all they had on the field for these emblems....good men gave their all...playing one of the last sports of gentlemen. Men who respected each other and who to this day despite the rivalry have a mutual respect for each other. As an All Black supporter the AB brand will grow stronger financially with the elimination of the Springbok emblem but....WE DO NOT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN! Rugby without rivalries and its history becomes meaningless and therefore is in danger of going down that football road of "friendlies". If Komphella wants to truly get rid of the old regime then he and the ANC should dynamite everything associated to anything white and go back to their days of living in straw huts holding spears. He himself should get in shape and go hunt a buffalo. The road he drove home on tonight was created by white masters...the whole country is a reminder of white aparthied...so he should blow the lot up if he hates the old regime so much! Get over it Kompheller.....he should be more concerned about how the blacks are killing innocent people every chance they get just for a few dollars. [/b][/quote] USSR used to be a power house of Ice Hockey and many other sports, their red stars, the CCCP naming and the hammer and sickle were very common. All that have disappeared and very few people are missing it. I won't cry if the Springbok symbol disappears, in my view they should just stick to their wonderful flag which is the real symbol of the post-apartheid SA. I consider that the real challenge for SA Rugby is to make of Rugby the number 1 sport in SA, there should be 1 million Rugbymen over there. [/QUOTE]
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