Lions snub springbok drinks invite?

tallly

Anyone see this on the times website? In an interview with John Smit, he accuses the lions of rejecting a post match drink.

“I had been getting our management and players to invite all our oppositions to join us for a beer in the changing room area immediately after the match. We do our media stuff, shower and then share a beer with the guys we’ve played against. On the Wednesday before the first Test in Durban, we threw the invitation out to the Lions. They said, ‘Thanks, but no’. They didn’t want to do that. It was quite disappointing and it didn’t help how the games were played.

Goes on then to accuse an Irish player of being behind it.

Smit believes it was a senior Irish player who was against the post-match beers and points out that the Aussies, the All Blacks and all of the Sharks’ Super 14 rivals accepted invitations for the post-game get-togethers. “We played six games in the TriNations, we tried to beat the living daylights out of each other on the pitch but there wasn’t the constant chirping and niggle. And not one incident. Afterwards we had beers together and it created the spirit that I’d been initiated in through Jason Leonard.”

Seems like bad form on the part of the Lions if Smit's telling the truth, and he's got no reason to lie. It's a really interesting interview too.

peterako

tallly wrote: »

Anyone see this on the times website? In an interview with John Smit, he accuses the lions of rejecting a post match drink.



Goes on then to accuse an Irish player of being behind it.




Seems like bad form on the part of the Lions if Smit's telling the truth, and he's got no reason to lie. It's a really interesting interview too.

Propoganda?

phog

Are we ever happy, if the Lions did go and join them for a drink then the headline would be Lions join a drinks party and the knockers would be saying is it any wonder we were beaten, most of our guys were drunk.:mad:

OldJay

Smit has a book to sell.
Getting in a strop because the Lions wouldn't go for a drink or swap a match jersey is hardly the stuff of legend. Not in Joost's league anyway!

CatFromHue

in think the lions said they would prefer to have a drink at the end of tour reception with the s.a. team and not during it.

i think he was also giving out about at the end of the tour reception the lions players didnt behave themselves when a representative from the government gave a speech.

the lions said that it wasnt a speech but more of it a long propaganda broadcast!

i wonder if he has anything about the justice for bakkies armbands??

anonymous_joe

This was mentioned last week.

HE also brought up the Luke Watson controversy again, describing him as a cancer.

There are many ways to describe John Smit, honest, noble, sporting are none of them.