Well, it’s sad that it had to happen this way, but I for one won’t shed a tear that Willie Roos will no longer be seen on the local reffing circuit.
Roos announced his retirement today, as a result of an incident in Kimberley two weeks ago that saw him doused in brannas by a disgruntled Griquas fan. The irony of the situation is that Roos was probably correct to card two Griquas players in that game.
What is not really debatable, though, is that Roos has failed to impress as a referee from the day he first picked up the whistle and that allegations of Blue Bulls bias have followed him around like a bad stink – in no small part owing to a close family relationship to one of the Bulls players. Apart from anything else, he has been allowed to referee at national level for three years while seemingly never being taken to task for the piss-poor officiating that has been his stock in trade throughout.
Andre Watson, of course, has called on the public to show greater respect to the officials. That one cuts both ways, Watson. Clean up your own house and provide us with officials worthy of the respect you seek, or don’t be too surprised if the Piet van Zyl’s of the world take the law into their own hands.
Sharksworld would like to wish Willie Roos all the best and hope that whatever he does after rugby, he is more successful at it…
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😈 OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that twisted ROB DYLON sarcasm 😆 😆
Adios!
Schalk Burger must be heart broken
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out!!!
willie d00s! Good riddance, i remember schalk last year(i think it was against wales) asking willie to “open his eyes” as schalk was yellow carded (yet again). I certainly won’t miss him & more brannas won’t go to face, um i mean waste… 😀
@sharks_lover (Comment 1) : you like? 🙂
@quota (Comment 5) : it was the Sharks-Stormers Super 14 match last year
love it bro 😆
@quota (Comment 5) :
I remember vs Sharks…
@robdylan (Comment 7) :
😛
In Durban …
Rob is right, it does cut both ways.
So Andre should make public what disciplinary procedures they have in place for refs and publicly announce actions they have taken.
How has he reffed 9 Tests???? How he got beyond first division reffing I’ll never know.
@molly (Comment 12) : maybe his other brother-in-law is on the selection panel?
have we ever subjected the aussies & kiwis to willie’s infinite incompetency? As in him blowing a bledisloe clash? If we didn’t, we should’ve done it!
@quota (Comment 14) : oh yeah… they would have all resigned 🙂
The Bulls will never win again 😈
“while seemingly never being taken to task for the piss-poor officiating thta has been his stock in trade throughout.”
It would appear your glee in bashing this one lowered your spelling skills to that of Willie’s officiating 😆
The irony of the situation is that Roos was probably correct to card two Griquas players in that game.
Rob – he apparently did not douse Roos because of the yellows..he approached Roos after the game and wanted to know why Roos made a decision on not giving the line out or something…Roos apparently said in no friendly manner that he does not owe him or any one else for that matter any explanations on his decisions and that he refuses to answer..when the guy wanted to know why – he ignored him..
@Worcestershire Sauce (Comment 16) :
Seems you too! 😈
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@Worcestershire Sauce (Comment 16) : you have an edit button…:)
And now if we can get rid of the moron who reffed the Sharks game on the weekend, all will be good. Mr Bosch is obviously blind and has less knowledge of rugby rules than I do!
@robdylan (Comment 20) : 😈
@Rahul (Comment 21) :
SHHHHH!!! it’s family of KSA!!
😆 He would never admit to it!
Hopefully Bryce Lawrence is next…… and then they need to look at their training manuals because those “tens of thousands” of rands look like they are being wasted…..
someone needs to give Marius Plonker a brannas shower too, hopefully he’ll pack his bags too…
As a retirement gift they should give him a gold plated whistle with the inscription: ‘Don’t blow it’.
@McLovin (Comment 27) : nice!
@McLovin (Comment 27) : 😆
The oke who gave the shower said it was plain coke and he was not drunk 😕
He also said he was embarassed when he had to explain to his wife that he was the “oke” on the news
@Rahul (Comment 30) :
Ja! He said it was more diffiocult to explain to his wife than having to face the hearing!!
Guess who (also) wear the pants in THAT household! 😈
@Prof. Ice Babe(Super Girl) (Comment 31) : Can imagine this HUGE tannie wiff a frying pan! 😯
@Rahul (Comment 32) :
Nogals from Pretoria, if memory serves me right!
@Prof. Ice Babe(Super Girl) (Comment 33) : OW! shame, poor oke… He does everyone a favour (except bulls)and then gets punished for it!
@Rahul (Comment 32) :
Nogals from Pretoria, if memory serves me right!
Maybe she is one of those nose-in-the-air houswifes who’s the Chairlady of the Bookclub, with those ge-teasde fringes and hair pinned up with a clip…who wears high-hills with bikini’s and have Victoria beckham fakes!! Dan [email protected] ‘n paar lipsticks !! 😈
@Rahul (Comment 32) :
Nogals from Pretoria, if memory serves me right!
Maybe she is one of those nose-in-the-air houswifes who’s the Chairlady of the Bookclub, with those ge-teasde fringes and hair pinned up with a clip…who wears high-hills with bikini’s and have Victoria beckham fakes!! Dan belowe ek jou het ‘n hele paar lipsticks [email protected] !! 😈
This site is giving groot hassles!! I had to retype my comment cause the page expired and then it did post it??!! 😯 😐
“Sharksworld would like to wish Willie Roos all the best and hope that whatever he does after rugby, he is more successful at it…”
Now that is a great way to say “Good bye and look forward to the journey” 😀
@Prof. Ice Babe(Super Girl) (Comment 37) : *sigh*
@Me2 aka Mama Shark (Comment 38) : more like telling him to f%%^ off in such a way that he looks forward to the journey 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 40) : Was trying to be polite ….no smiley for being polite 😛
“Sharksworld would like to wish Willie Roos all the best and hope that whatever he does after rugby, he is more successful at it…”
Maybe he can do the new coke advert….. Ring ring ‘Its for you….’ SPLASH
@Me2 aka Mama Shark (Comment 41) : he he…
@Rahul (Comment 42) : 🙄 😆
@McLovin (Comment 27) : Thats good
Honestly not going to lose sleep about this – Roos has been terrible at times, and only slightly better than terrible the rest of the time.
I agree with Andre that refs should be afforded more respect, especially at amateur level, but this ‘oke’ was so far out of his depth he needed scuba gear.
Oh, and the whole coke affair had nothing to do with his officiating in the game – it was because he behaved like a wanker after the game.
If Andre if concerned about the wasted money being spent on ref training then maybe somebody should whisper in his ear that it takes a very logn time to polish a turd. Wille Roos (and JC Fortuin before him) were simply not up to scratch.
@VinChainSaw (Comment 46) :
Very well put!
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@KSA Shark © (Comment 48) : spoilsport! Come on…
@KSA Shark © (Comment 48) :
Pretty sure you’re a better ref than Willie KSA!
@Prof. Ice Babe(Super Girl) (Comment 17) :
Yeah and if we believe the arsehole’s lie that he was drinking Coke only and that he was innocent then we are gullible enough to believe that he was nice and poilte when asking Roos a question.
@Prof. Ice Babe(Super Girl) (Comment 33) :
Exactly, He is probably more concerned about his mates actually believing that it was only coke in the drink.
Which self respecting Pretorian (oxy-moron) goes to rugby and only drinks coke from his glass?
Huge coincidence that it was reported as Brandy and then later it turns out the culprit if from Pretoria?
I think not.
@Rahul (Comment 42) : 😆
Never good for people to disrespect others like that – but that aside, Roos was very poor, and as usual, nothing was done about it.
Who is Willing Roos?