bring it home, boys!!

many years ago in the english town of rugby, a boy called william webb ellis while playing soccer, picked up the ball and ran. and thus rugby was born.

above is the william webb ellis trophy. the trophy given to the winner of the world cup. south africa has just convincingly beaten argentina (in a very unconvincing performance) to qualify to play the final against england (who we beat previously in this competition, but in all fairness, they are playing much better at the moment).

so next week, the final and the trophy comes back to us once more.

bring it home, boys!!!

crouch, touch, hold, engage

for those of you who don't know, the rugby world cup has just started. i just watched the first game between argentina and france (the host nation). against expectations, the argentinians won. i support neither team, but it was one of the best games i've ever seen. spectacular to say the least.

our team, the springbokke have a very real chance of taking the cup this year. so all the readers of this blog, unless your team is playing, i expect you to support the bokke.

the picture above is of os du rand. he played in the 1995 squad that won the world cup and amazingly enough is in the 2007 squad that is just about to win the world cup.