Naka Drotske is just the latest South African Super 14 coach to suddenly find himself looking around desperately for a flyhalf. Griquas Pivot Naas Olivier, likely to be the Cheetahs first choice this season, will miss at least the opening game of the competition due to a knee injury.
The injuries to Juan Martin Hernandez and Ruan Pienaar at the Sharks have had a domino effect. Monty Dumon would have played for the Cheetahs but now rather looks like being the Sharks first choice, in a strange reversal of fortune.
Drotske now faces the unenviable prospect of starting with the former Lions pivot Louis Strydom, a journeyman at best, or trusting the young Sias Ebersohn, himself yet to make his mark on the Currie Cup stage. Last year’s Cheetahs flyhalf, Jacques-Louis Potgieter, has returned to Pretoria, where he will sit on the Bulls bench behind Bok Morne Steyn.
One wonders how long it will be before the third Bulls pivot, young Francois Brummer, receives an SOS to join either the Cheetahs or the Sharks, perhaps on a loan basis.
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Call up Willem De Waal…..please!
How come I am the one giving you’s all the scoops for the day??
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 1) :
hehehe
@One-eyed Ice (Sailing the seas of 2010 with the Sharks) (Comment 2) : you still want that job?
@One-eyed Ice (Sailing the seas of 2010 with the Sharks) (Comment 2) : BTW, it’s easier to get the news first if you have a 2-hour head start
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 1) : don’t be nasty to poor cheetahs
For the Proteasworld readers.
http://www.cricinfo.com/page2/content/story/443439.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
SA does not exactly have a flyhalf factory the way we have a looseforward one, why dont the sharks just sign brummer on a permanent basis or make the cheetahs flyhalf crisis worse by signing sias ebersohn
@war1 (Comment 8) : can’t say I rate Sias Ebersohn at all
@robdylan (Comment 4) :
Gooi – I will help out with pleasure
@One-eyed Ice (Sailing the seas of 2010 with the Sharks) (Comment 10) : ok – I’ll send you an email in a little bit
@robdylan (Comment 11) :
Sure thing!
@robdylan (Comment 11) :
You mean after you run it by me first??
You know, for my approval!!
@wpw (Comment 13) :
Pfffttt!!
@robdylan (Comment 9) : i agree fully, dont really rate his boet either for that matter
@wpw (Comment 13) : hey listen – is wezwp on Keo you?
@willa (Comment 15) : nor do I. Great 7s player, but anonymous in the 15-man game.
@robdylan (Comment 16) :
nope!!!
@wpw (Comment 17) : Liar
@wpw (Comment 17) : ok, he seems to like to stir and talks a lot of shyte, so I thought it might be!
@robdylan (Comment 19) : @provincejoulekkading (Comment 18) :
@wpw (Comment 20) :
En die dun lippies, wes?
Maybe the Cheaters can try to sign Earl Rose . . . That way they`ll sommer increase the Lions` chances. ” Everyone`s a winner at the Cotton Club” !