In his follow up to the critically acclaimed Luke Watson – A Short Story, the golden-boy of South African rugby recounts his harrowing tale of the hard life, knee-deep in the struggle!
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Green and Gold on a Pig
Written by Dion
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
At http://www.thesilverfern.com
Dear Mr Watson,
For years the rugby loving fans have known that you are a complete egotistic idiot. In spite of this, many have chosen to look past your idiocy, self serving comments, your supreme attitude about yourself and everything else about your sickening character… and just judge you on your rugby talents alone. Yes, you have been a very talented player but no more than a borderline fringe international at the most generous assessment.
In other words, you are not an out right certainty to make the Bok starting team. But there is enough talent there to justify your inclusion in a national squad as a fringe player in the advent of injuries to the front runners.
Many fans like myself have looked beyond your idiocy and over inflated opinions of yourself and maintained judgment on you based on your rugby talents alone. I for one slated Jake White for refusing to select you for personal reasons and implored him on the silverfern to put rugby decisions foremost.
After those putrid, puking comments, Jake White must be saying back to the likes of fans like me…now you see why, Dion and company? Now do you see why? Because if ever a putrid piece of rubbish did not deserve his Bok jersey, it is one poisoned rabid named Luke Watson.
Whilst all your rugby colleagues across South Africa play the game of rugby for the love of the sport itself, whilst they choose to keep their own political view points for the ballot box and off the rugby field, you have continued to break every ethical code by using your rugby status to politicize the sport and sow the seeds of hatred.
Please note, the anti apartheid struggle ended 16 years ago. Whilst most of the country moved forward in reconciliation, you continue a fight that has long since been won and peace and democracy now installed. You remind me of a soldier who never wants the war to end, even when its over, just because you need and want something to fight about.
To turn around and say that you wanted to puke on your international jersey..the Bok jersey, a jersey worn with pride and honour and cherished by all Springboks, past and present…black and white. A jersey worn with pride and reconciliation by Nelson Mandela. A jersey good enough for an icon like Mandela but not a little whipper snapper like yourself. A jersey respected world over, feared by many opposition. A jersey,I along with millions of past and present kids dreamed of wearing in our school playing days.
Many like myself, could only dream of being Boks as kids because of our limited talent. A talented few like yourself would actually go on to wear it. But the dream always lived. It did,nt hurt to pretend we could aspire to.
You are a contrast in division when you compare guys like Bryan Habana and many others who stated that their proudest day, was the day they pulled on their Bok jersey for the very first time.
Goose pimple stuff when you hear them talk about it. Their pride and honour is your bucket of vomit. Shame on you. Sis. Green and gold on a pig. That’s what you are.
Not only insulting your Bok jersey, but your fellow Bok players fighting it out in the international trenches with you. Insulting every fan who ever cheered your miserable self. Never able to dislodge Schalk Burger from the starting fifteen, you have to degrade a man who was always streets ahead of you in sheer talent for that position.
I remember some time ago when you made the comment that you felt that you were good enough to make the Bok side, after Jake White continually refused to select you. Many brandished those comments by you as arrogant and a misguided belief into your own self entitlement to Bok selection.
I refuted those comments on forums like the fern, as a players confidence in his own ability. Even though they were said with your usual heirs of supreme arrogance, I argued that there was nothing wrong in a players self confidence in his playing abilities. But why then if you want to puke on your Bok jersey as your personal show of disgust for the Springboks, did you bitch about your non selection in the first place. It does,nt make sense.
Secondly, if this (puking on your jersey) was always your conviction, then at your very first selection , you should have never accepted your jersey and your selection to begin with. No one can condemn for your beliefs, if that it is what you felt. But then surely to accept a jersey that you want to puke on, is selling out your personal beliefs.
If I felt as strongly about the Bok or jersey as you did…no ways would I wear it. I would,nt have sold out my principles by wearing the offensive jersey. I would have declined my selection with a thanks but no thanks. Just shows how honourable you are. Pulling over your shoulders a symbol that personally disgusts you and clashes with your own beliefs.
You are sellout to yourself.
You are a disgusting, repulsive figure who continues to yearn for the hatred of the past. You are engulfed in your own decisive bitterness, you are consumed with negativity and animosity. You seem to feel that you have a divine right to supreme greatness on the rugby field when you are a little above an average player. You carry yourself with a “my mother is so privileged to have given birth to me†attitude.
Jeez, get over yourself. Play the game of rugby. Give it your all. Leave the politics to the politicians. And as we are all entitled to our political beliefs, the rugby field is not the place for them. And if you feel your non selection is unfair, well then join the club of many fringe players who feel they have lost out when they deserved a look in. Don’t squeal about it, like a spoilt little tinker on heat without a male sperm donor in site.
After your despicable comments about the cherished Bok jersey, your fellow rugby players in all our franchises and the so called “Dutchman†who run the sport of rugby…I hope never to see you in a South African rugby team…be it a club, a province, Super 14 franchise…and definitely not the Bok team itself, even if you turn into a rugby player supreme. I would rather see a lesser player ahead of you. At least he would value his selection.
Lastly, please have a look who runs the game of rugby in this country. It is no longer the “Dutchman” who call the shots in SA rugby. They are all ANC puppets and affirmative appointments. Most of them to their credit are equally appalled by your trivia as the average man in the streets.
Here’s hoping never to see you on our rugby fields again. Here’s hoping the French or Pommie clubs buy you away from our shores. You are a repugnant figure. You are an international disgrace to the game of rugby… You are definately “green and gold” on a pig.
SA RUGBY MEDIA RELEASE
WATSON TO FACE DISCIPLINARY HEARING
Vodacom Western Province and Springbok flank Luke Watson will be called to a South African Rugby Union (SARU) disciplinary hearing in terms of the provisions of the SARU Code of Conduct.
This is as a result of comments said to have been made by the player at a rugby function in Cape Town on October 3.
Following an investigation by attorney Dekker Govender, he referred the matter to Judge Lex Mpati, chairperson of the National Judicial Committee of SARU, for adjudication in terms of Clause 4.3 of the SARU Code of Conduct.
This Clause makes provision for the matter to be referred to the chairperson of the Judicial Committee if the designated official determines that a breach of the Code may have been committed, pursuant to the SARU Constitution and Regulations.
Judge Mpati will now, in terms of the provisions of the Code of Conduct, appoint a judicial officer to chair the hearing where after a date for the hearing will be set.
SARU will make no further comment on the matter until the conclusion of the disciplinary hearing.
ISSUED BY SA RUGBY