Rugby: Smit lets fly at All Blacks over tackle

The incident has already been dubbed "O'Driscoll 2".

A day before flying home to have his injured groin treated, furious Springboks captain John Smit has pulled no punches about the incident in which he was lifted and dropped by All Blacks lock Brad Thorn.

The injured Smit has accused the All Blacks of demanding preferential treatment while teeing off on every controversial element to emerge from last Saturday's Tri-Nations rugby test in Wellington.

Thorn was suspended for a week for "unsportsmanlike conduct", ruling him out of the second test in Dunedin on Saturday.

It was a charge and punishment that left 2007 World Cup-winning skipper Smit shaking his head.

"Just imagine (Springboks lock) Bakkies Botha doing something similar to (All Blacks captain) Richie McCaw. World rugby would have come to a standstill," Smit told South African journalists today.

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[bowdowwn]

@plonker0076 I know the All Blacks Rule the rugby world. I also know that most of the things you said about the English are true but I don't know why you're so angry and bringing all that up when it's nothing to do with my comment on rucks & mauls! Instead of discussing my comment, you choose to be abusive & offensive like a sulking little kid who doesn't have the intelligence to react like a mature adult. I know so many good people from NZ but to be honest, you are the first PLONKER!

[bowdowwn]

@jmanistheman As an Englishman, I'm a sworn enemy to, The All Blacks! You call it cheating but I call it, "pushing the boundaries." All Blacks, Richie McCaw,Jerome Kaino& Keiran Reid are masters of rucks & mauls skullduggery. Pocock of Aus, Pierre Spies of S.A. & Moody of England are also Masters of the dark arts. Yes, sometimes these men cross the the fine line & yes sometimes they get caught but they ALWAYS secure ball because in this professional age, its all about what you can get away with!

[TYwokki]

@plonker00765, Sorry to castrate your ego, but I’m neither interested in making you laugh or trying to impress you.

Unfortunately for you too, I’m not English, so you’ll have to scrape together another mode of trying to be funny yourself.

And well done for proving my point too. The fact you went straight to race, just shows how your tiny mind works.

So to repay the courtesy, I’ll give You 1/10 for attempting an intellectual response. You lose a mark for being a twat though. You do the math.

[plonker00765]

@TYwokki you're obviously a very anal english person who's trying too hard to be witty,don't hurt yourself, i will however give you 5 out of 10 for effort.

[TYwokki]

and I thought, twat.

So no, no drugs. Just me wondering if you can muster up something intelligent about this, but then, the likelihood of that is about the same as you seeing the stupidity of what you relentlessly write time after time with your keypad of qwerty ignorance. And evidently you don't, so I won't expect Tractatus Logico-Philophicus from you.

I will expect you to say something twat-like though.

I wonder where you go from here?

[TYwokki]

It’s funny, I’ve come across your name numerous times – I recognise you because of your name. I think “who’s that plonker”. And there you are. You see, where ever I see the name it’s connected to some small minded, self-opinionated, crass, xenophobic and damn right dull statement. And I think to myself – what a twat. Then I read something here you wrote. About the English. And noted you had an Englishman on your page [Clapton]!

[plonker00765]

@TYwokki what the fuck are you on about you fucking moron, where did i mention eric clapton on this page? --- i'd suggest you LEAVE THE DRUGS ALONE, they're fucking you up, incidentally,i know that clapton is english, who doesn't? you tosser !!

[TYwokki]

@plonker00765, Eric Clapton's English you fucking cretin.

[WhiskerScot569]

i suppose nobody saw smit knock thorn's head in in a ruck earlier and got away with it and while he's english bowdowwn seems like a good bloke and he know's what he's talkin about

[stunnedtucan]

typical, all blacks get away with everything.. that should have been red, if what happened to warburton is any thing to go by..

[msellinna2002]

At least he did not cry over it the the British press did over BOD. Typical soccer pansies.

[xDontStandInTheFirex]

Very mature of him.