Cape Town - Each day the Sport24 team will select the best Performance, worst performance (or Plonker) and the best Picture from the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
Today’s “RWC PPP of the day” has a Georgian juggernaut leading his team to an historic victory, an organisation threatening to tear the game apart in the pursuit of riches and one particular Bull getting very horny.
Performer: Mamuka Gorgodze
The burly flank Mamuka Gorgodze put in a man of the match performance against Romania to guide Georgia to only their second victory in World Cup history, which was an historical one as it was the first meeting between the two sides in the World Cup.
Gorgodze scored the only try of the match after he bulldozed his way over at the end of a 15-phase drive.
Plonker: International Rugby Board
It is already well known that the IRB has placed strict rules surrounding sponsorship and advertising so that it does not clash or illegally cash in on the publicity the RWC brings.
However, it has emerged that the NZRU are threatening to pull out of the 2015 edition of the tournament after NZRU chief Steve Tew announced that his union run at a loss during a World Cup year due to the IRB restrictions.
One can only imagine how much money SARU and ABSA are losing throughout the tournament as the bank's logo is unable to appear on the front of the Springbok jersey as part of the tournament's regulations, despite ABSA paying a reported amount of R50 million a year for their logo to appear on the chest, while the manufacturers of the jersey’s logo, Canterbury, continues to be visible and gain all the exposure on offer at no extra cost.
Picture: Bakkies Botha gives it horns (Getty Images)
Today’s “RWC PPP of the day” has a Georgian juggernaut leading his team to an historic victory, an organisation threatening to tear the game apart in the pursuit of riches and one particular Bull getting very horny.
Performer: Mamuka Gorgodze
The burly flank Mamuka Gorgodze put in a man of the match performance against Romania to guide Georgia to only their second victory in World Cup history, which was an historical one as it was the first meeting between the two sides in the World Cup.
Gorgodze scored the only try of the match after he bulldozed his way over at the end of a 15-phase drive.
Plonker: International Rugby Board
It is already well known that the IRB has placed strict rules surrounding sponsorship and advertising so that it does not clash or illegally cash in on the publicity the RWC brings.
However, it has emerged that the NZRU are threatening to pull out of the 2015 edition of the tournament after NZRU chief Steve Tew announced that his union run at a loss during a World Cup year due to the IRB restrictions.
One can only imagine how much money SARU and ABSA are losing throughout the tournament as the bank's logo is unable to appear on the front of the Springbok jersey as part of the tournament's regulations, despite ABSA paying a reported amount of R50 million a year for their logo to appear on the chest, while the manufacturers of the jersey’s logo, Canterbury, continues to be visible and gain all the exposure on offer at no extra cost.
Picture: Bakkies Botha gives it horns (Getty Images)