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@TankLanning

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Rugby coach with a penchant for a set of braai tongs, or is that the other way round?

Cape Town
Joined February 2012
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@TankLanning
Tank Lanning
16 days
Just SENSATIONAL from @EbenEtzebeth ... Is there any better insult disguised as advice out there? Hah!!!
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5 years
Think my lightie might know me quite well! Has there ever been a better birthday "cake", ever?
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2 years
Took this clip while commentating ... Paul Roos 1st XV running out through a 50m tunnel made by the whole school. How cool must that be for the players? What a game of rugby!
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6 years
Coach admits to coaching. Umpire factually called a thief. Racquet factually abused. Not sure why there is even a debate? Only one person in the wrong ...
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5 years
#nougaanonsbraai I need one of these badly!
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2 years
Yes man! Alex Carey, Nathan Lyon, Travis Head, Joe Root and James Anderson asked to leave a venue for being “intoxicated” 6:00am on Monday, most still wearing their playing whites from the day before! Exactly the way a 5 Test series should end ...
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2 years
Come on @OfficialCSA and @BCCI ... This series decider deserves a packed Newlands ... Make it happen!
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5 years
Old man lost his wallet last Sunday. A lady found it. Went to the trouble of finding my number. And then dropped it off at my dad's home! How unbelievable is that?
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5 years
WURIT Champions baby! Beat Bordeaux in the final! @ikeytigers #TigersinTokyo
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3 years
Now that's how you use a combine harvester!
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4 years
Mense. That's a braaibroodjie! #lockdownbraai #nougaanonsbraai
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11 months
Needs to work on her pace ... Off the road, that is!! Hah, what a legend!
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6 years
Incredibly honoured to have been asked by @sacsrugby to join the team as their 1st XV scrum coach!
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5 years
Not a footie fan, but full house crowd at Anfield singing "Never Walk Alone" with the team after the remarkable result last night one of the greatest sporting moments of all time?
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2 years
So in rugby parlance, the Proteas have just bounced back from a 50-0 defeat, and turned it into a 36-12 win ... against the same opposition, at the same venue, in 6 days!
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2 years
Beers yes. Beers in seats yes. Vibe yes
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3 years
Win the set, straight backs, keep pressure on opposition via perfect body position and not huge energy, then operate as a unit. Magnificent!
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3 years
😍😍 Gotta love scrum porn 💪🏿🔥
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5 years
Massively emotional day. Flip we worked hard as a team. To win today was just massive. What an honour to be part of the @ikeytigers . Now the 2 time WURIT champions. Well done boys! #TigersinTokyo
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2 years
Cool way to end his time at the Prep ... Now for big school!
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5 years
As I get more involved at this level, I ponder whether schoolboys are being best served by being put through almost professional-level rugby programs at a young age, only to realise later in life that they peaked at 17? We all know the click through numbers ...
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4 years
Made a final call on the logo too ...
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4 years
Peeps. 100 likes and I jet to shave Joe's hair off! You know what to do... #TikTok
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5 months
Well, well, well. One might have to call this little experiment a success! Home made tong using picanha .... Just delicious...
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2 years
Sensational test win. Almost unbelievable series win given first test. Astonishing performance by the Proteas!
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2 years
So not even a hint of any disciplinary action against Kohli? Instead "India left furious"? Like being furious about gravity, or the earth being round ... Come ICC ... But of course it's the almighty BCCI you see ...
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4 years
Not sure CSA should be revoking media accreditation... Could have doubled the crowd at Wanderers today 😜🤣
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3 years
Give us the science that was used to make the decision to cull all school contact sport. Then we can all understand the reasoning ... Instead a 2 paragraph statement canning it while casinos, malls and theatres remain open
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3 years
Why do we not have a braai emoji yet?
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10 months
I only met Nick Koster a few times ... Enough to know he was a good egg. Not enough to know the darkness he was battling. I was lucky enough to get to know Basil Bey quite well. This tribute to Basil by Nick tells us a lot about both men -
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2 years
So many cool Dave M moments over the years, but this one takes the cake. 7AM Saturday morning training at the Mile, and it happened to be my 50th birthday. Dave wasn't playing that week, so during the warm up, he pops up next to me with a compulsory Birthday Blackie! Yes, 7 AM!
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4 years
And so completes the front row ... Tank, Basil, and now Paul. There'll be trouble beyond the pearly gates tonight ...
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5 years
Got to love a stop at a local Karoo butcher... Everything cut to specification. All meat sourced from local farmers! Not sure I can wait till Sunday! #nougaanonsbraai
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3 years
Incredibly excited to join @Bishops_Rugby as their scrum guy. As a player, I enjoyed the most extraordinary few years. Now hoping to be part of a team that creates the platform for the modern crop to do the same. U12, U13 and U16 packs today!
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2 years
Watching cricket with a doc from a big Cape Town hospital ... Tells me they empty, very few Covid cases, with only 1 case in ICU ...
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4 years
Tough as teak as a school master, but as fair and considered as you could ask for. A bit like his refereeing. Uncle Paul touched a lot of lives, including this one. Rest easy Paul Dobson
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3 years
Rewarding when the hours and hours of hard work come together. Special scrum for the @ikeytigers
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2 years
RIP Desmond Tutu. He Confirmed me in 1985… Epitome of the human spirit. Sad day
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2 years
So now you can do cardio on a machine less than 1m from stranger, both sans masks. Yet when walking through gym, mask must be on. Mask free in a packed grandstand filled with strangers, yet masks on at a shopping mall. Stop the bloody idiocy ...
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6 years
Didn’t manage it as a player. Almost as sweet as a coach, though. #intervarsity
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6 years
So the Blues, with SBW, will be in Cape Town next week. At the same time the Aussie cricket side, with Warner, will be in the city. Any chance a coffee hook up with Bushpig De Kock?
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3 years
Lightie just made 1st xv .... Do these freaks know how damage they are doing by suspending sport? Jeepers, I feel for this generation. To what benefit?
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4 years
Who am I to argue?
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7 years
Teaching kids who have never played to tackle ... And with no DStv, they never see the game on tv! What a wonderful experience ...
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4 years
Ready to scrum? Not until you have passed this test my friends. It's brutal, but then so us the front row! Give this isometric back hold a tonk!
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5 years
Incredibly sad to read of Johnny Clegg's death. Had so many great times at his concerts over the years. Loved this quote about him: "He showed us what it was to assimilate to and embrace other cultures without losing your identity"... RIP
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4 years
Pilot in a planned series of mini online coaching clips on getting contact and breakdown ready via scrum basics #scrumschool #HomeGym #hometraining #LockdownSA
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5 years
Pretty special moment for the Lanning family as the lightie gets 2 in a tight 12-7 win over the archenemy Bosch ... Not sure why my eyes got a little sweaty ... wasn’t even in the gym!
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4 years
Not sure about these clip ons at practice though...
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2 years
Oh yessss .... Cricket braai at the lovely @SACSHIGH
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1 year
Got sent this today ... Remember that game well. 21 and taking on "Ou grote" at Newlands. Like scrumming against a bloody brick wall! RIP Frans! @Vlokskop10 @KeithKandrews @4KobusWiese @MornayVisser
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1 year
Be gone foul loadshedding... Forced into going off the grid ... How long before it's primarily those that don't pay their Eskom bill that remain on the grid?
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6 years
Kevin Anderson presser. What a down to earth, well grounded fellow! Properly impressive! Fantastic to have this man flying our flag. And now I don’t have to watch the SWC final!
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3 years
Dom Pedro ... One of SA's finest inventions ....
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2 years
Flip I'd love to see Novax win this ...
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5 years
How out of control is this???
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4 years
A bit sad to see the Wits boys not even pop in for one beer after the game last night. Half the joy about rugby is swapping stories with your adversaries after the game ... Well, for me it is ...
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2 years
Incoming ....
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2 years
Dave Meihuizen having to retire from rugby at his age makes me sad ... What a tough, but sensible call to make. Called him a future Bok the first day I coached him. And he would have been. Either that, or a Scot!
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4 years
Factually the most dangerous shop in all of Knysna! Lucky to escape with just this ... #nougaanonsbraai
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5 years
In the shuttle queue to Yokohama Stadium... #TigersinTokyo
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3 years
Please let rugby never lose this, ever ...
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Love this! THIS needs to remain a fabric of rugby; at youth, club, amateur, pro and international levels.
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4 years
Plankies!
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6 years
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2 years
And pretty good pace too ...
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Lekka Frans Steyn !!!! ⁦ @CheetahsRugby
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3 years
Deeply saddened by the death of Jannie du Plessis' child. Tragic. My thoughts go out to him and his family ... Sterkte!
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5 years
I can only imagine how much work has gone into that campaign! Just magnificent, and so welcome in a country going through some tough times. Well done Rassie. Well done Siya. Well done Boks.
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2 years
Very cheeky Tuesday braai to celebrate the lightie making the touring side ...
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2 years
To all the clever dicks who have only ever braai'd on coals from wood ... Given 30 minutes for lunch, do you head to Twitter to chirp okes chowing perfect medium rare steak cooked on briquettes while munching on your ceasar salad wrap?
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1 year
Lost one of the good ones yesterday. RIP Andre Jacobs. Hope to honour you in the best way we can, between the white lines.
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4 years
Challenge accepted. Took on @TheHussarGrill 1kg T-Bone this weekend. Still couldn't finish it. But did get it on the coals! What a jol ...
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2 years
Hah!
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4 years
Not Europe. Not Alaska. Not Canada! Nope, Ceres, SA!
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5 years
Traumatic! Thought it would be mint. Instead fish or something equally repulsive! #TigersinTokyo
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3 years
No black arm band for Jackers?
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5 years
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6 years
The fast bowler is at boiling point all the time. He has to be in order to operate at the highest level - Garth le Roux. So when he gets the hard earned, well thought out, wicket, let the man flippen own it!
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4 years
So you can go to a restaurant and eat and drink with a bunch of strangers, but you can't have friends and family round for a braai?
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2 years
Oh my word! Medium rare rump steak with a compound butter ... Yellow fat was to die for! #ratemybraai
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1 year
Astonishing scenes ... Another CT final!
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4 years
This is very, very tremendous. Compulsory viewing in fact. Happy Friday ...
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5 years
Lightie soooooo excited to have the same gum guard as the pro players! "I can even talk normally with it" he says...
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4 months
Of course you can be a patriot and question the current government! A patriot is a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors. In our case it's the government who are the enemy ... #letdricustalk
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5 years
Free WiFi on Emirates is pretty cool. Dubai was like a flippen oven! Now just over 2 hours away from Tokyo, flying over China ...
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2 years
"Omicron spreading twice as fast as Delta" screams the headline ... Obviously nothing on symptoms seemingly being very mild and this then being nature's own vaccine
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9 months
Imagine we had a functioning train and bus system? Yet we promote the halfwit who oversaw transport in SA as it spiraled into the mess it's in today ... And now the country is held to ransom!
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1 year
Fifty up for @johneetfouche ... Congrats my man. Superb effort. Thought I'd celebrate with the video that's sitting on 8.4 million views on TikTok! 😜
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5 years
Very special birthday tradition... Happy birthday my boy!
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2 years
Not stuffing around today my friends .... Do love a lamb spit!
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4 years
Dus nou lekker Braai! #nougaanonsbraai
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6 years
Losper, Lanning, Khomo... Close on 400kg of prime @ikeytigers beef. Madibaz tomorrow evening - if the seats hold out!!
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3 years
Jeez I hate braaiing ...
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4 years
Jeepers kreepers !
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2 years
Happy Friday mudder puckers ....
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5 years
Impey wins! With a massive point to the SA flag on his chest! What a boytjie!
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5 years
Flippen ongelooflik! Right up there with my best ever. Amazing how much control the skillet gives you!
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5 years
Lightie wins the shot put at Sports day. Can this day get any better?
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7 years
Seriously??
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5 years
Just delightful. 1.3 kg of Karoo beef. Nice chuck of yellow fat. Rich, and delicious! #nougaanonsbraai
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4 years
Picanha!
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5 years
OK. Time for a family meeting. This is how my lightie delivered my beer!
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