¨Waratahs Backline seen breaking into an ATM in Hillbrow...¨

I am not sure if there are ATMs in Hillbrow but I speculate that there are. Also speculating that if Die Beeld was an english medium newspaper this would be it´s headline tomorrow. It would most certainly be that of the Star.

Unidentifiable criminal...

You see, in what must surely be an unprecedented event at O R Tambo International Airport, the Waratahs had 105 of their kits items vanish en route from Cape Town to Sydney. Unprecedented in the sense that it hasn´t happened to the Aussie´s before, not that baggage theft hasn´t happened at ORT.

"We've got no clothes or boots or mouthguards," skipper Phil Waugh told the Daily Telegraph.

The only equipment which made it back to Australia were a few rugby balls, tackle bags and hit pads.

"They just told us now none of it came," said coach Ewen McKenzie after passing through customs.

"We sat in Johannesburg for an hour and a half because of baggage issues, so I don't know what they were doing.

"They were shuffling around the deckchairs and there was obviously nothing there," added a frustrated McKenzie.

The players may be asked to wear their club gear or squeeze into their old school jerseys for Tuesday's training session.

"We'll have to do a bit of fudging," McKenzie said. "We are a pretty good team at adapting - we certainly don't look to use it as an excuse.

Lovely, stuff hey. As if touring SA isn´t enough of a hack with having to put up with all the old school Afrikaan´s rugby tactics of last minute training facility changes, making you wait at locked stadium gates and never catering for the full squad at official functions. True stories these. But to have your kit knicked before you get back home must really suck...

Point of advice: If you´re going to knick kit, do it when they arrive, and only do it to hot aussie golf stars.

I remember in 1994 two rugby balls signed by the entire British and Irish Lions touring squad was nicked from a hotel room in Durban. Their was a massive outcry not for the value of the balls but that they were intended to be auctioned off for a kids charity. Many scapegoats were cited, but it actually turned out that they were found in the bag of second-rate english centre Phil De´Glanvilles bag. He was more of a puss than a bad rugby player.

I doubt this applies here though. Don´t you just love Ewen McKenzie´s reaction?

I am off to fudge around a bit?

Wow...