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With the Springbok England test series looming around the corner, some final decisions needs to be made. Who’s gonna represent the Boks!?
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The Sharks travelled to Bloemfontein to collect five points, and returned to Durban today a reasonably happy team, scoring a five point 34 – 20 win over the Cheetahs, and that without their pivot Pat Lambie, and actually, without ever hitting top gear. [...]
The Springboks host the English in a three test match series, an event we haven’t seen take place in almost a decade, which kicks off coach Heyneke Meyer’s tenure as coach. The first match takes place at Mr Price Kings Park on 9 June 2012, and we are looking towards the possible selections by Meyer. [...]
With a 50% win record and only 6 games to go in the season, the Sharks are fighting to stay alive in 2012 and they know it. “From here every game is like a final, that pressure is on us” says Plumtree, and with a record [...]
Time for our weekly look at the match statistics from the Sharks game against the Highlanders, courtesy of Verusco. [...]
Finally 21, and legally able to do everything I’ve been doing since I was 15!
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Today is a very special day for a certain Sharksworld Blogger, as the Queen celebrates her birthday. [...]
The Sharks team to face the Highlanders at Kings Park this Saturday afternoon has been announced with a number of changes to the team that lost to the Chiefs a fortnight ago. Paul Jordaan has been selected at outside centre, a move that most here would welcome. [...]
Well, it’s not really news that most of us here and especially yours truly has been very impressed by the game of a certain young Marcell Coetzee. It is however really big news if this player gets a special mention by the new Springbok coach. [...]
Bismarck du Plessis has been passed fit to start at hooker for the Sharks this weekend. [...]
After two weeks of Super Rugby, we promised to keep tabs on how the Sharks were doing in terms of player management, with the goal being to avoid the situation where key players break down due to overuse – one of the factors that derailed the side in last year’s tournament. [...]
Despite conceding that Bismarck du Plessis has, quote-unquote, “a number of minor issues with his body”, John Plumtree looks set to make a late call on whether to start the Bok hooker against the Chiefs on Saturday. [...]
We’re not sure why, exactly, but young Pieter-Steph du Toit appears to have been summoned back to Durban to join the Sharks Super Rugby squad this week, thus presumably ruling him out of contention for the SA Under 20 match against Argentina this weekend. [...]