Pierre Spies - Surviving Blood Clots To Become An SA Rugby Legend | RugbyPass Offload EP 74

We're delighted to be joined by the original Ultimate Beast in Springbok legend Pierre Spies, to hear his incredible story which has taken him from a close shave with death in 2006 and missing out on the world cup in 2007 to fighting back and becoming a SA legend and being the main clog in destroying the Lions in 2009. We also hear how his struggles on and off the field, have led him to nowadays being a Minister in the Christian church back in SA. Most importantly he reveals his secrets on how became such a freak athlete - at 6ft 4", 111 kg, and runs 100m in just 10.7 seconds. He is truly a once-in-a-lifetime athlete! Plus the lads give us their take on all the big rugby headlines including - Why did Cowan Dickie miss his medical at Montpellier? Had he been arrested? and Does rugby need more head coaches having a punch-up like we saw in the MLR?
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00:00 - Max’s black eye
04:30 - Bristol Bears losing to Exeter
06:35 - Cowan-Dickie missing his medical
09:05 - Rugby players missing meetings
11:38 - Premiership final predictions
13:27 - Pierre Spies, natural athlete
17:10 - Pierre Spies at school
19:00 - Life in Pretoria
20:54 - What Pierre Spies does now?
23:20 - Debut for Bulls
25:10 - Springboks debut
28:34 - Springbok initiation
30:10 - Pulling out of 07’ WC
34:05 - Possibly having to retire
37:30 - Still a Bulls fan
38:30 - Taking on the Lions
43:50 - Playing for another nation
46:20 - Hand injuries
47:50 - Playing in Japan and France
54:40 - Pierre Spies, best XV he’s played with/against
56:00 - Quickfire questions
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[@servaashofmeyr271]

My favourite rugby talk show. Love how genuine these guys are, not shying away from deeper questions around religion and other times asking into failures of players. All done in good spirit and genuine interest. Good job fellows!

[@williebloubul1]

I agree I was thinking the same .

[@chrismouton1985]

Pierre Spies, the gentle giant who was a freak of an athlete! I'm glad to have heard from him. Well done, lads!

[@gideonjones5063]

Excellent show. Pierre Spies - a giant of a man

[@vahorgan]

This mans Jaw line has more stature than I have in my entire body.

[@viking7742]

Made in the lab lol

[@ivanmynhardt]

I do love all the old boks coming on here, this was a real treat

[@davidpeters3857]

Excellent content as always…………What an absolute legend of the game

[@jockywills5554]

Another brilliant show guys!

[@johnnyguitar6697]

It's nice to see that Pierre Spies is not only a great sporting talent, but such an articulate, well rounded person. Also, as a French, I thought it was a bloody disgrace how he and five other players were let go of by the Montpellier management team.

[@WalterWhite-sm2dr]

Thanks for the memories at Pierre Spies.

[@Davidvx1468]

You guys need to get Bakkies on here lol

[@ecallk5544]

Interesting the different personalities that make up a team - and the many paths lives can take ,none less worthy than another. Good job on the interview!

[@chrismackerdush7728]

(In UFC announcer voice) And still… the number one rugby pod in the world! 💪

[@sdewviljoen]

Great to see the Javelin man again!! Daar’s net vveen Spies, en dis Pierre Spies!!

[@at7512]

Great interview gents .👌🏽

[@jacosnyman2393]

Morning team, thank you for a great show as always, what a joy to view. I'm not sure if you ever invited "Beast Mtawarira" to the show.....that will be great!

[@WarrenFelix]

Great content!And big up MR Spies!🇿🇦💪🏽❤️👊🏾🙌👍🏾

[@gerhardolivier5293]

He was the best we ever had.

[@ant208]

This guy could've done way more, but the bulls totally misused him as a battering ram in the last couple of years. I believe that affected his confidence.

[@hafeezadams210]

I’m telling you, get jean de villiers on here man! His a funny guy!

[@TupacTilliDDie]

Legend

[@bradleyrhodes8906]

I was at that game in Rustenburg! Habana went over for a try right in front of me. Good times!

[@leedelarue7846]

Wonderlike getuienis Pierre!

[@Joedirt752]

One of sa greatest

[@Skyscraper2015]

Several things to note: 1. George is a smallish town about 400kms away from Cape Town along the N2. Lovely place and quite quiet although it also boasts a small airport which is cool. And surrounded by mountains and the sea. Beautiful area. 2. According to stats, Leinster lost to the Bulls 62-7. Stats not going to record what level of team experience was there, nor that they had very few long standing players plus the coaches decided to ditch them. And that is something the club will be branded with in their stats books. 3. Bulls have played better these past few games and Jake White is a good coach. Must be funny for Pierre to look at the Bulls and still see Jake there coaching away. Almost 20 years on. How funny.

[@seamus9750]

And not a swear word from Ryan or Max😂😂😂...Why lads??

[@douglasreed007]

Also no who would you take for a piss up. 😂

[@adamgranger5725]

Agree... very well done boys. Respecting your guests... QUALITY show lads... really enjoy it every week.

[@danemyburgh]

Jonny Wilkinson over Dan Carter? Hmmm... Pierre Spies' Team though so fair play! Solid list of players there!

[@LB_die_Kaapie]

I also put Wilko over Carter on teams i make

[@kronos3037]

They were both incredible, you can't go wrong with either one. However, imagine DC with Fourie, they would compliment each other beautifully

[@rahowherox1177]

Well done on surviving blood clots. When's (you/) he planning on achieving legend status?

[@frankvandermerwe1487]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😅

[@codepuncher]

Duhan VDM could have modelled his game on Pierre Spies. Imagine him as an attacking 8.

[@graemehuia5964]

Fast enough to be a winger.

[@petrusmare7789]

Boys please consider hosting Malci Marx before the W.C....

[@dandan4092]

Terminator

[@mhcronje]

Legend is a strong word…

[@daviddempster8717]

Spies is a strong chap🇿🇦

[@derekallan1341]

well you certainly aren't. Swaap

[@daviddempster8717]

@@derekallan1341 what's a swaap Derek?

[@derekallan1341]

@@daviddempster8717 you and M can google it. Don't ask me to do your work SWAAP

[@daviddempster8717]

@@derekallan1341 Making mama proud Derek.

[@phil2136]

Cape Town is the only city in the top 30 most dangerous cities globally. Pretoria is more safe than most US cities and a very chilled place. The area around Loftus is really nice! Not sure what you are talking about!

[@daviddempster8717]

If Pierre says so then it's true Phil and if Google says so then it's true squared - I'd get out of there if I were you------According to the platform's ranking, South Africa sits in 187th place out of 192 countries - making it the 6th most dangerous country in the world. South Africa recorded a murder rate of 34.4 homicides per 100,000, which included 16.95 deaths by stabbing and 4.87 by gunshot per 100,000 people.3 Feb 2023

[@joswan4719]

I grew up in Pretoria and now live in Kansas City, USA which is one of the most dangerous cities in the US. You feel 1000 times more safe here than in any South African city/town. Can’t compare the two. There’s still law and order here and crime is contained in small sections of downtown.

[@LionOnSea]

Look obviously stats on a metro level can be a little misleading. Joburg and Pretoria are very large cities with very safe areas and very unsafe areas. I've lived in Gauteng and Cape Town and in both you just need to avoid the obvious hotspots and use common sense. But on average I can't say SA is unsafe "everywhere".

[@yazeedvanwyk1547]

Absolultely... I respect Spies our daughters are at the same school but his got this one VERY wrong. I'm at UP for almost 16 years and walk to and fro between Loftus and campus and it must be the safest/ cleanest place in Hatfield and Brooklyn if not SA. Being from Cape Town he aint seen nothin LOL

[@phil2136]

@@joswan4719 totally agree with you. Can’t compare but just saying that this narrative that Pretoria and specifically Loftus area is as bad or worse than downtown Mexico or Venezuela is nonsense.

[@peterhughes8699]

Is the RP staff gonna tell us everyone was shit scared of "Ultimate Beast" Mr Spies also ?? I'm not from UK but the Lions were not destroyed by Boks in 2009 either

[@burn6580]

One of my friends is a sports photographer that have taken official team and game photos of the boks, all blacks and other teams once told me that Dan Carter named Spies as a master of pain on the field. The photographer is Kevin James.

[@peterhughes8699]

@@burn6580 So that's a friend of a friend of a possible friend allegedly said that once huh hehehehehehe. I'm not critical of Mr Spies. He was a good Test player. I'm calling out the constant BS from the RP presenters - they're full of it :)

[@burn6580]

@@peterhughes8699 No dipship, its one of my friends.

[@henkstols9326]

It was a great series and the BIL player well, I remember Brussow bouncing some red headed step child around like a sack of potatoes for some reason.