I've been too busy lately to pay much attention to sport...

...But sadly not busy enough to be unaware that South African sport in general has suddenly become not merely crap, but as sh1t as a salmonella outbreak at a wedding reception. Not just cricket either - just about everything.

It's been building up for years

a salmonella outbreak after a buildup ....messy

mynah wrote:...But sadly not busy enough to be unaware that South African sport in general has suddenly become not merely crap, but as sh1t as a salmonella outbreak at a wedding reception. Not just cricket either - just about everything.

Lucky you don't support Man Utd too.

Probably this kind of stuff going on throughout our sport...

Peek at shameful SA at Games

Proteas are certainly wilting while the roses are blooming.

The great thing about being an Aussie is that we punch above our weight in most sports. Maybe South Africans aren't much good at sport.

Interesting though that you have an Aussie Rules team playing in the international series here in Melbourne atm and a lot of the saffas show much promise. Some are expected to be in the actual AFL within about five years with many by the year 2018.

Tell me Taipan and Mynah honestly why is SA sport in a quagmire?

Red wrote:Tell me Taipan and Mynah honestly why is SA sport in a quagmire?

hey, you are the expert

taipan wrote:

Red wrote:Tell me Taipan and Mynah honestly why is SA sport in a quagmire?

hey, you are the expert

Duh! Obviously because Graeme Smith is fat and gay. And has a big chin. It's clearly all his fault.

SA have a couple of serious issues in their country which are FAR more important than their performance in sports. I suggest they invest large sum of money to fix those problems first.

PlanetPakistan wrote:SA have a couple of serious issues in their country which are FAR more important than their performance in sports. I suggest they invest large sum of money to fix those problems first.

Unfortunately the money spent on these issues tends to stick to the fingers of a select few.

Both the cricket and the rugby teams would appear to be wildly inconsistent and enigmatic at the moment. Imo opinion the rugby team will remain in pretty good health for a while, whilst the future of the cricket team is less certain.

Bafana Bafana has been dire for a while now, when they should really be right up there with Nigeria and Cameroon as African football powerhouses.

So taips, what's the latest on the football World Cup preparations?

Cape town stadium looking beautiful already !

Bring on 2010!!

The Durban stadium looks good too.

God knows why they built it though.

To play football in?

eowyn wrote:To play football in?

They have a perfectly good international rugby stadium next to it.

It is money pissed down the drain.

Ja they could have used newlands for the soccer in ct too, but the parking situation is crap there.

I've been googling trying to find out about funding and stadium building and found the official Fifi site for 2010. There's a page for links to official documents

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/organisation/documents/index.html

The one on the requirements for stadiums is very interesting, if a little long, absolutely everything is covered from seating size to officials changing rooms, signs for directions and what happens after the tournament to the facilities.

Where has most of the money come from to fund the building? I've still not found that out.

Naeem wrote:Ja they could have used newlands for the soccer in ct too, but the parking situation is crap there.

Agreed, which makes even less sense building a football stadium next to King's Park

eowyn wrote:I've been googling trying to find out about funding and stadium building and found the official Fifi site for 2010. There's a page for links to official documents

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/organisation/documents/index.html

The one on the requirements for stadiums is very interesting, if a little long, absolutely everything is covered from seating size to officials changing rooms, signs for directions and what happens after the tournament to the facilities.

Where has most of the money come from to fund the building? I've still not found that out.

FFS, have you really nothing better to do on your time off?

Yeah, cause that must have taken all of 2 minutes.....

Not right now, no.

I actually find all the politics behind the big sporting organizations fascinating, proves how little influence us ordinary folk have over anything.

eowyn wrote:I've been googling trying to find out about funding and stadium building and found the official Fifi site for 2010. There's a page for links to official documents

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/organisation/documents/index.html

The one on the requirements for stadiums is very interesting, if a little long, absolutely everything is covered from seating size to officials changing rooms, signs for directions and what happens after the tournament to the facilities.

Where has most of the money come from to fund the building? I've still not found that out.

It's come from Fifa with some government funding.