The Sharks departed for their four-game tour of the Antipodes yesterday with a depleted squad, as injury continues to cut a swathe through their title aspirations. Smarting after a home loss against the Cheetahs that they could ill afford, three fresh injury concerns over the weekend mean the squad that left Durban contained only 23 players. [...]
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Further blows for battered Sharks
Seasoned Shark and WP prop retires
Deon Carstens, a veteran of more than 200 first class matches, as well as ten caps for the Boks, has been forced to retire. [...]
Lions switch for Redelinghuys
Sharks prop Julian Redelinghuys has been named on the bench for the Lions this weekend, as part of an extended squad to take on French Top 14 stragglers Mont-de-Marsan. [...]
Emergency cover role for JC
Lions prop JC Janse van Rensburg has been summoned to join the Springbok tour party ahead of Saturday’s test against England. [...]
No injury concerns ahead of final
According to a report on the Sharks website, the Sharks should have a full squad to call on ahead of this weekend’s Currie Cup Final. [...]
Cheetahs banking on Coenie
The Cheetahs, facing a must-win game at Loftus in the Currie Cup this weekend, are hoping that their Bok trump-card, prop Coenie Oosthuizen, will be passed fit to play some role against the Blue Bulls. [...]
Sharks prop goes into exile
In something of a shock move, it was confirmed yesterday that Sharks under 19 tight head prop Richie Palframan is leaving Durban imminently to take up a contract with London Irish in the UK. [...]
Province lose Kritzinger – again!
The tail of woe that is the senior career of promising WP prop JC Kritzinger continues. [...]
Le Roux returns for Sharks swansong – April Fools!
In an exclusive interview with Sharksworld last night, former Bok prop Ollie le Roux has confirmed that he has received an urgent call-up to join the Sharks tour party and will meet up with them ahead of this weekend’s game against the Hurricanes. [...]
Brumbies forced into front row reshuffle
Regular tight head Dan Palmer will miss the Brumbies weekend encounter against the Sharks, having been ruled out with illness, which has prompted Jake White to reshuffle his front row for the key clash. [...]
Cheetahs now have prop problems too
It’s happened to the Lions and Sharks already, but now it’s the Cheetahs who’re battling to pick a fit front-row for their final tour match against the Hurricanes. There’s something about the 2012 edition of Super Rugby that is like kryptonite to South Africa’s front rankers, it would seem. [...]
Schonert treatment nothing but disgraceful
If the Sharks coaches were trying to put together an instructional video entitled “Ruining a Young Player’s Confidence in Seven Easy Steps”, then the way that Nick Schonert was treated in the run-up to Saturday’s loss in Sydney could have been the case study on which it was based. [...]
Downey rewarded with first Super Rugby start
Former Sharks flank Justin Downey will start in the number 7 jersey for the Cheetahs as they face the Crusaders in Christchurch this weekend. [...]
Harsh call on Janro
Something that’s been buried as a one-line comment in most articles about the Sharks tour group changes probably needs to be surfaced a little here – while the decision to omit Griquas prop Janro van Niekerk from the tour group just a few hours before departure made sense from a rugby point of view, it was nevertheless a hugely unfair and harsh call to make. [...]
Backup prop: confirmed
A story in this morning’s Beeld confirms that Griquas prop Janro van Niekerk will tour to Australia and New Zealand with the Sharks as their fourth prop. [...]
