It’s always easier to write this kind of piece after your team has started the season well and has won two from two and lies second on the overall log and at the top of your conference than it would’ve been last year when nothing seemed to go right. [...]
Posts tagged with: Conrad Hoffman
Positives from the season so far
Sharks touring squad named
Sharks coach John Plumtree has named his touring squad of 25 players. [...]
Smit likely to start at loosehead
The Sharks recorded their first win in last year’s Super 14 – after five consecutive losses – when they moved captain John Smit to loosehead prop for their game against the Highlanders. John Plumtree looks set to repeat that switch a fair bit earlier in the season, when he names his side to face the Cheetahs. [...]
Sharks XV trial squads named
Sharks Vodacom cup coach Sean Everitt will put his charges through their paces in a trial game tomorrow afternoon, aimed to help him finalise his best XV ahead of the competition. At the request of the John Plumtree, a number of players in the Super Rugby squad deemed short of game time will be given a run as well. [...]
Easy does it, Sharks
The risk you run with the sort of warm-up game that the Sharks have in store tonight, is that you can easily get ahead of yourselves and end up not accomplishing very much at all. [...]
Feeling the excitement: Sharksworld chats to Conrad Hoffman
Promising 23-year-old Western Province scrumhalf Conrad Hoffman is one of only three senior players who will be joining the Sharks squad ahead of the 2011 season. “Hoffies” has been in Durban, training with his new team mates for the last 3 weeks and Sharksworld caught up with him for a quick chat last week. [...]
Kockott – clarity expected soon
According to information we’ve received, Rory Kockott should be sitting down with the Sharks in the next few days to decide on his future. [...]
Back to the grindstone
The Sharks Super 15 and Vodacom Cup squads reported for duty yesterday to get their pre-season training under way. Some holiday, huh? [...]
Hoffmann: “It’s about game time”
Young Western Province star Conrad Hoffmann believes his decision to move to the Sharks at the end of the Currie Cup season is a good career move. [...]
What to do, what to do?
When John Plumtree was forced to send Pat Lambie in at flyhalf against the Lions, you got the feeling that it was pretty much a gamble that the coach was forced to make, after Steve Meyer ruled himself out for the season. A short-term fix, but not to worry, because replacements were on their way… [...]
Sharks sign young scrumhalf
The Sharks have managed to sign utility back Conrad Hoffmann from Western Province. Sources are claiming that the player will move to the Durban based team after the Currie Cup. [...]
Can WP still not identify talent?
According to a report in the Cape Times this morning, the rumours of Rory Kockott joining WP stemmed from the fact that Conrad Hoffman has been in talks with Rudolf Streuli and John Plumtree with the view to joining them in next years campaign. The wording used was “have been in serious talks with Sharks”, Rassie also squashed the rumours of WP even talking to Kockott. [...]
Vodacom Western Province side to face the Barloworld Toyota Fortuner 4×4′s (Pumas)
Allister Coetzee has announced his 22 man team to take on the Mighty Fortuner 4×4′s (read: Pumas) at Newlands this coming Vrydag aand. [...]
Vodacom WP team to play the Sharks XV
Vodacom WP team will play the Sharks XV at Newlands in their first home game of the 2010 Vodacom Cup on Saturday 6 March. Kick-off is at 14h45. [...]
Varsity Cup set to rock your Monday
We may still have to wait another 11 agonising days before the 2010 Super 14 kicks off, but today marks the start of the third instalment of the popular FNB Varsity Cup tournament. The first of four games kicks off at 14h30, live on SuperSport. [...]
