All the hype…

Between the moments we are born to the moment those that survive us burn us on our burial pyre chanting ah-roo at our flames we live for one thing and one thing only. Competition! Whether you are enjoying life’s hedonistic pleasures or forced to do the hard yard in the boardroom or at a library desk, everything is about competition.

Being competitive makes your approach to life one based on energy and optimism. You persevere to get better at everything so when the time comes to perform you blow the competition away and walk away with pride!


You don’t necessarily always walk away with the best results, but I am willing to bet that being able to sit in your big holy changeroom of choice one far off day knowing that you gave it your all and competed at your best is far more rockstarish than looking at the scorecard.

With this in mind it would follow then that the worst situation you can find yourself in one day is that you have come off the field knowing that you had all the potential but did naught about it. That’s failure. The guys that know they have all the talent and don’t bother trying and still manage a decent score are far worse off in the pub after the game than the little dude with no talent but tried his heart out to get the same results.


The guys who make their boots too big and don’t fill them are the ultimate losers out there! Those are the guys who don’t do rockstarish things like approach a derby game and clean it up, taking all the spoils of war. If we live for competition, then derby games are oral sex.

This weekend we are in for some super fellatio. Sharks v Stormers in a pride clash and Hilton-Michaelhouse somewhere out there. But the real show this weekend is the curtain raiser at Newlands at 14h30 tomorrow. Inter-fuckin-varsity.

UCT v Maties at Newlands hasn’t happened since Nick Mallet was studied BA and it looks to be a cracker. The traditional Intervarsity had morphed into exclusively a home game for Maties since it was always played in stellenbosch at Coetzenberg but through some administrative string pulling UCT has forced a home ground advantage to play the game at Newlands. The implications of which will be massive since the side leading the Super League A at the halfway mark in July will be the side going to Club Champs.

Ahroo Ahroo Ahroo C T!!!!