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document.write("<h5>Don't Dwell on the past?</h5>");
document.write("Victorious????? Talk about a politician of note!. Mickey Mouse");
document.write("<h5>Go Away</h5>");
document.write("Luke buddy you seriously need to grow up. You claim to be a christian yet you act in a way that is at odds with everything our Lord Jesus taught us while on this earth. I regret that i ever supported you. You are an embarrasment to your faith and to this country. You are also most certianly not fit to even wear any jersey that falls under the admin of Saru!!! You and your father are with out excuse. Your actions are only helping to keep this country devided along racial and class lines. Just remember what you've sown you will reap. . corniel seddon");
document.write("<h5>huh?</h5>");
document.write("\"I don't want to dwell on the past. I am moving on. \"<br /><br />If you dont dwell on the past why you making such a big thing about playing with a bok emblem?<br /><br />Twit. Hope we retain the bok now more than ever just to keep you out of the spotlight.. Billy");
document.write("<h5>LW + the Boks</h5>");
document.write("Do not agree with what he says at all, however I think his style of play is more valuable than Spies or Rossouw, unfortunately if you have an afrikaans surname and you are white it is much much easier to make the Springbok side.  . Bedin");
document.write("<h5>Lukey baby</h5>");
document.write("What a crass classless purile punk.I'm afraid that this kid cannot be the full quid.Go away PUKE and leave South Africa TO REAL PEOPLE. Stephen");
document.write("<h5>Skaap.</h5>");
document.write("Watson (SNR and JNR) seems to have a hidden agenda if you read between the lines concerning his statement after his \"victory\". Truly, Mr. Mansfield said it the best this morning, the Springbok emblem is as much part of South Africa as Boerewors-putu pap AND Sangoma's. Are we going to throw them all away because the are only representing some and not all of RSA. LUKE GOT LUCKY.. Sad");
document.write("<h5>Divisive?</h5>");
document.write("Which is more divisive - the Springbok or the Watsons?<br /><br />If Luke is on a mission to unite why is he going about it in a way that offends so many people?<br /><br />His skills in uniting a Nation are appaling so far.... Glenn");
document.write("<h5>Luke the fluke</h5>");
document.write("Not only does Luke sound like a first class contradicting, self righteous #######. He's vain enough to think hes good enough to actually play for the \"springboks\". Sorry buddy but u suck, first time round was lucky wont happen again.. ");
document.write("<h5>Luke Watson</h5>");
document.write("whats it feel like to be the most disliked person in South Africa. Mark ");
document.write("<h5>Luke</h5>");
document.write("\"whats it feel like to be the most disliked person in South Africa\".  Just to correct Mark, what's if feel like to be the most disliked person amongst white south africa.  Please don't include everyone in your remarks when it is clearly not so.. Robert Sidney");
document.write("<h5>Pffft</h5>");
document.write("I love how he thinks he is good enough to play for our team <br />HA HA<br /><br />i am going to give Rassie a call to remind him how many youngsters are better than Luke. Gilbert");
document.write("<h5>Luke are you blind?</h5>");
document.write("Why is it not possible for people like Luke to get on with the future? Last time I checked Luke never suffered at all during apartheid years (maybe im wrong). In fact he was in the position to enjoy all the NP rights, go to movies, beaches etc. But he carries on as if he was personally hurt or done in. I bet he didn’t go to a school in Soweto etc. <br /><br />But where a man who spent 25years of his life behind bars was able to come out and forgive and move on for the better of the country. Nelson Mandela showed the world that we can all celebrate being South African.<br /><br />Yes I guess the Springbok was once upon a time a bad image. But years have past, there are kids who don’t even know what apartheid was about. They were born after 1994. <br /><br />I go to the shops and I see loads of Blacks, Coloureds etc, wearing the Springbok jersey. I saw the hundreds of people of all colours, celebrating the world cup win!!! <br /><br />Yes there will always be some people in this country who are racist, like it or not all countries have that problem. But when we won the 1995 and last years world cup, I have never felt so proud. I felt at last our country was joined together by a unity which was never there when I was a kid.<br /><br />I could understand if the emblem was say a Nazi sign, but it’s an animal! So what next Luke? Should we cull all of the Springboks in our game reserves because they are a sign of the past?<br /><br />The Springbok is admired and feared all around the rugby world. Does he even realise how much work would have to go into rebuilding that kind of image? Oh and let me get this right the Protea was our national flower during the apartheid years and now it must be our national sports emblem?<br /><br />More and more I think Luke Watson is trying to follow in daddies footsteps and get his name in the lights. Lets all be honest he really isn’t a good enough player to be in the Springboks. I think he seriously needs to wake up and smell the roses and come to terms with the past. As South Africans we need to move forward and forget the past now and build on the good work that has been done in the last 10 years. <br />. Barry");
document.write("<h5>We've got to go forward</h5>");
document.write("Something we South Africans of all races (including Luke) must do is forget the past and move on. All nations have been oppressed at some time or another. The Koreans were oppressed by the Japs from 1920 to 1945, their men sent away as slave labour and 200 000 Korean women sent as 'comfort women' to the Jap army. I worked with Koreans for several years and never ever heard a single reference to this. They just got on, forgot the past, and built one of the world's most successful countries. We need to learn from examples like this.. alan");
document.write("<h5>Robert Sidney</h5>");
document.write("Hi Robert, have to disagree, not just white South Africans find him distastefull and arogant. SVR");
document.write("<h5>Robert Sidney</h5>");
document.write("Incorrect Again. He is the most disliked person by Springbok supporters. Which includes South Africans of ALL cultures. If the BOk Jersey was good enough for Tobias, Mandela, Williams, Pulse, TUtu etc etc etc etc never mind the fan on the street, one would think it's acceptable to a white political activist, unless he wnats to get his name in the papers. Clearly a case of no such thing as bad publicity. Mickey Mouse");
document.write("<h5>Luke Watson</h5>");
document.write("I am supprised that Luke does not take issue with the green and gold, after all it comes from the same era.<br />Transformation is not just about bringing up the previously disadvantaged so that they can compete on an equal footing. It is also about bringing all South Africans together as a unified force in rugby. All he has done is create further division by alienating a substantial number of South Africans. <br />Personally I have never consuidered him good enough to play for South Africa. It is incongrous that Luke is perhaps the only affirmation action player that has played for South Africa recently.. Doug");
document.write("<h5>Waste of time...</h5>");
document.write("Why is this okie getting so much media coverage? Nobody wants him on the team - players and supports alike - and he'd be better off playing club rugby in Rejkyavic.... ");
document.write("<h5>Shame on you</h5>");
document.write("Luke you such a ####,I dont think there is a single rugby player in s.a.that likes you. You are an embarressment to us all that love the sport.To know you have played with that springbok on your jersey for our country and disliked it you should have stuck to your so called priciples and said than 'I do not want to play for the boks until the emblem changed. You are suck a two faced ###########. Joe");
document.write("<h5>luke the puke</h5>");
document.write("very very clever boytjie.!!! you learnt something from the the famous  race thing!! if you cant get picked on talent lift the leg sing umshtani wam!!(or what the@#$#%%ck)<br />they not going to pick you on your talent so you and your daddie figured,try the political angle!! maybe that paluka Kompela will choose you as captain then.<br />Never mind the dutchmen I think even the ausies are going to bash your little head into the ground come the 2009 super 14.<br />you little frog!!!!. keith");
document.write("<h5>Mr Puke</h5>");
document.write("Get lost you arrogant #####...<br /><br />Why not listen to your team mates, the public and everyone interested in rugby talking about you and hear what they saying...<br /><br />get of your imaginary high horse and get back to reality... the world does not revolve around you-<br /><br />go join Julius knobhead<br />. Phillip Clarke");
document.write("<h5>Luke Tw@tson</h5>");
document.write("I just coined a phrase by error that couldn't be bettered if I tried. Tw@tson, or should that be Tw@t's son.I would like to call Watson senior something far worse than that it will have to surfice for now. Luke, I didn't see all this self-righteous indignation when you spent your education years at the privilaged halls of Grey High School. No, Cheeky didn't send you to Zwide High or Motherwell Elementary did he. He fully understood the value of a class education, denied to so many he and you claim to represent. I didn't see too much of American Importers', in North End PE, wealth being redirected to the community that made it so successful for the Tw@tson family. <br /><br />I only wish I could be a fly on the wall when the Stormers reconvene next month for pre-season training. I hope the \"DUTCHMEN\" in this team kick his F##king head in. . Simon");
document.write("<h5>Lukey Lukey</h5>");
document.write("I cannot believe that so much time and effort has been wasted on Luke Watson. He is absolutely NOTHING... I also have strong feelings for our country and ALL its people and I always will. Luke and his father have been given SO much attention it is simply unbelieveable!!! I suppose the media has to jump onto anything to make ends meet. For someone to stand up in 'public' and say that he wants to vommit on the SA Rugby jersey obviously does not have the intelligence of an#####(pronounced any way you like). Luke entered the Springbok squad under questionable circumstances and he has NEVER played good rugby. Now he is being treated like a star!!! To call Luke Watson an idiot is just too good for him...  . MARK");
document.write("<h5>TWatson</h5>");
document.write("Give him the Boot he deserves!<br />. Dp");
document.write("<h5>Good Luck....</h5>");
document.write("Luke.... i for one hope you do play for the Boks again.... because it will be one of the happiest moments in my rugby viewing career to personally witness not only the 15 opposition players trying to tackle the hell out of you but also watching the 14 men who are proud to have a Springbok on their chests give you zero support at the mall, ruck and break-down. Good luck....buddy! Joe . Joe Soap");
document.write("<h5>Joe Soap</h5>");
document.write("hahaha brilliant! Wouldn't even mind loosing 50-0 to the English to see that!. Lepper_Messiah");
document.write("<h5>\"One regarded as disgusting or contemptible\"</h5>");
document.write("Check out the definition of \"puke\" at www.dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/puke).<br /><br />HahHAhahHAha!!! Defines Puke, errrm, I mean Luke to the T!!<br /><br />But seriously Puke, you have just sealed your fate- you will never play for SA, ever! I can just imagine- if Pukie does ever get selected I bet there will be such an uproar and SA supporters will just boycotted all matches.<br /><br />Great job, Puke- you are victorious!<br /><br /><br />Viva the Springbok, VIVA!!!!<br /><br />. Soapi Joe");
document.write("<h5>PUKE ON LUKE</h5>");
document.write("Luke got off on a technicality and \"bears no grudges and wants no apologies\". Get off your high horse you stupid TWIT.You were never good enough to wear the Springbok jersey in the first place. Jake White said it, the whole Springbok team said it and now I'm saying it. You didn't last very long on the field last time when you were allowed to play with the big boys, did you? Stop trying to carry your fathers cross and get on with your life.<br />P.S  Remember that everything said here is of a confidential and private nature.. Alan");
document.write("<h5>Puke </h5>");
document.write("Puke is really being a jerk . What planet did he come from ? In South Africa there are black players who play rugby and they aspire to play for the Springboks . I am sure that if he was put in the Springbok team , there would be some non-white rugby players that are in the Springbok team already that would happily sort him out . I hope one day Puke , you come over to UK and visit us ex-pats . We will klap the living krap out of you for insulting our team the way you do . As I said once before , Puke is an embarrasment to South Africans and should be brought before the firing squad .You have nothing good to say about the Boks so why must I say anything decent about you . You are acting like an idiot .. Gordon Howe");
document.write("<h5>Nuke Watson</h5>");
document.write("You ..,If Madela was prepared to put on a Springbok jersey ,what makes you so special.You are firstly not good enough as a rugby player to even make yout provincial side,what strings did your dad pull to get you that Job.Secondly I don,t think you will be welcomed in any other country to play rugby,unless it is underwater rugby!and that is if you can swimm.Dieter. Dieter");
document.write("<h5>Which Team?</h5>");
document.write("Schalk Burger, Juan Smith, Pierre Spies, Ryan Kankowski, Wikus van Heerden, Danie Roussouw, Keegan Daniel, Joe van Niekerk, Cobus Grobbelaar, Pedri Wannenburg etc etc. So, which team do you want to play for? I suggest you move to EP and play for your Daddy's team. But nice try at damage control. Perhaps you should retire and write that outobiography: Sudden Death by Lonesome Luke. Joker");
document.write("<h5>luke the cunt</h5>");
document.write("some good things have come out of this incident:<br />a) this little ##### is not part of the SPRINGBOK team that is overseas at the moment.<br />b) bakkies wil #### him up when he next sees him, for calling him a \"dutchman\". Freddie");
document.write("<h5>I wonder when...</h5>");
document.write("...Tuinhuis will be demolished. Is this place not a greater symbol of apartheid?. Toopax");
document.write("<h5>puuuuuke</h5>");
document.write("is there any way that south africa could deport a south african? this pompous moersk%%t would be the first eligible candidate for this dubious honour. SA needs rugby but rugby doesn't need this moron. . simon ");
document.write("<h5>Luke's latest Comments</h5>");
document.write("Im shocked with Puke's latest comments. So he is saying, it's either him in the flanker jersey, or the springbok must go?!! <br />Luke my son, f#$%ing wake up!! Who do u think the rugby faithfull will choose?<br /><br />I hope it all works out for you in the end, cause i dont think you are very safe in our country anymore.<br /><br />Why dotn u go play league rugby in Japan or something?!<br />Oops, sorry!! Daddy can't help u there can he?<br /><br />Hey my bud, next time u come to Johannesburg, drop me a mail and i will take u for a beer.<br />Some of my friends want to meet you......<br /><br />. Springbok Lover");
document.write("<h5>Get Off the Ego Train Luke!</h5>");
document.write("Luke, stop trying to gain personnal glory with your political masters by attacking emotive symbols! <br /><br />Maybe it is because you now realise that you are a has-been who now needs a new career in politics! Try Nation-building and work to unifying the diverse opinions in rugby instead of trying to destroy what you dont like. Disrespect and abuse does nothing for the process.<br />Amazing how many Maoris all respect the Silver Fern, despite different opinions upon the past.<br />You really come across as a spoilt brat with a serious chip on his shoulder! I hope that you are never considered for the Springboks. <br />If you want to vomit, it will come naturally as a consequence of the upcoming crunching tackles that you will no doubt receive from the \"dutchmen\". Get Real");
document.write("<h5>Watson you d00s</h5>");
document.write("the biggest #### in SA. mickm");
document.write("<h5>Little Luke</h5>");
document.write("Victorious!?I bet OJ Simpson and many others said the same when they side stepped justice.Dream on Lukey Boy-you were not victorious.Lets try and get this saga behind us-its not doing All of us S Africans any good-Dutchmen,us Rooineks,Porros,Blacks,Pinks.Lets hope he is on the receiving end of many late tackles,stiff arms and may he never get an Orange at half time.. PeterJ");
document.write("<h5>trying to be a martyr..</h5>");
document.write("He grew up hearing about his father the victorious, heroic martyr, and now wants to martyr himself, too. Unfortunately there is no cause and so is trying his damndest to create one. Please ###### off and go martyr yourself properly in somewhere like Iraq or Afghanistan. you are getting under everyones skin and helping no one. (rhymes with)Banker! . g");
document.write("<h5>Bedin</h5>");
document.write("Hey bro catch a wake up Luke has been lying to us for the last two years. First, his inclusion to the boks the first time was because his father was threatening jake white with legal action over it. Second, if having an afrikaans surname gets you to be first choice for the boks, why is it that \"Beast\" Mtatrira(not sure if i spelt it correctly) starting ahead of Guthro Steenkamp and by the way neither is white. Thirdly, Luke does not have the heart to be a springbok and the place where this is most obvious is in his play. He was the weakest player in the province side this year. So please do us all a favour and don't run your mouth on things you seem to not have a understanding of.  . corniel seddon");
document.write("<h5>The One</h5>");
document.write("I say change the emblem immediately so that Luke can save SA rugby. He’s our only hope apparently.. Conrad van Zyl");
document.write("<h5>Luke Watson</h5>");
document.write("If Watson feels so strongly about not playing under the Springbok emblem why did he try so hard to get that jersey on his back two years ago? He is really imature and naive if he believes for one minute that we believe him. I think he is playing one of his daddy's games to get recognised by the ANC.. Michael Lawton");
document.write("<h5>PWATSON & THE SPRINGBOK</h5>");
document.write("He got this one right.<br />He never will play in the national side even if his ANC chommies put him there because the Springbok emblem is here to stay.<br />Never have I come accross someone who can readily and perfectly be described in so many words of one  syllable. Charles  ");
document.write("<h5>What happend ..... </h5>");
document.write("\"Luke received numerous lucrative offers from abroad\" <br /><br />WTF!!!!!!  <br /><br />Play for SA again whahahahhahahahahhahahha stupid klont!!!!!<br /><br />Luke, you are NOT black .... Cheeky, you did NOT die for the cause<br /><br />Dumb####wads!!!!<br />. Thea");
document.write("<h5>HAR HAR HAR!!!</h5>");
document.write("agreed with peterJ, may he never get an Orange at half time!!!!!!!!. Thea");
document.write("<h5>The Springbok</h5>");
document.write("Saru the idiots. The Springbok is (thanks to proffesionalism) a Brand and Trade Mark worth millions. They should be sueing the #### out of this twat for defamation! . Mickey Mouse");
document.write("<h5>Luke Watson</h5>");
document.write("Surely Luke is not such an idiot that he thinks his verbal duplicity will fool us? He \"won\" on a technicality but lost in all other aspects. Luke should have put his case quietly and respectfully and all would have listened and voiced opinions on his argument with the same respect. Unfortunately, he chose a route that begs no discussion, only retribution. Perhaps it is time Luke entered politics, starting with the ANCYL....he already sounds like one of them.. El Cid");
document.write("<h5>Watson, a brown nosed idiot!</h5>");
document.write("I can not believe we actually have people like Watson representing South Africa. The Springbok is not a symbol of the past but that of tradition in sport and a representation of a united side that represents South Africa as a free country!<br /><br />There is no wonder this boy never played for the boks in the past, if he had heart and passion for the team he would stop thinking that rugby in the country can't do without him.....Watson dear boy, your sporting career is easlity filled by those who want it more and have more talent to what you may think you have!<br /><br />Black or White - The Springboks are a symbol of unity! Don't take that away from South African's!<br /><br />Go boys!<br /><br /><br />. Nicolas De Sousa");
document.write("<h5>Twatson - Put a Sock in it ! </h5>");
document.write("Twatson - every time you speak I feel nauseous - along with hundreds of thousands of other proud South Africans. Put a sock in it, you moronic twat. . Dave E");
document.write("<h5>Sick boy</h5>");
document.write("Luke you are a sick boy,you come out with all kinds of #### and think youare fooling everybody.Then for good meausure you quote a bible verse to try and gain brownie points.Just a sugestion why dont you become an ex stormer. Butch");
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