Sharks prop Jannie du Plessis has apparently been cited on two separate counts of foul play and will face a SANZAR disciplinary hearing in Bloemfontein on Thursday.
Du Plessis is alleged to have head-butted Reds hooker Sean Hardman during the Sharks’ narrow win over the Reds this weekend. He is additionally being charged with entering the ruck in an overly aggressive manner – the so-called “Bakkies Botha infringement”.
Should du Plessis be found guilty and banned, Sharks coach John Plumtree will need to make a difficult call, between moving Bok captain John Smit back to tighthead, or blooding a rookie like Wiehahn Herbst in the number 3 jersey.
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Stupid stupid Jannie. How can a man who is intelligent enough to get his MD be so bloody stupid on a rugby field. Sometimes it seems as if he has no grasp of the laws, esp. at scrum time.
@lostfish (Comment 1) : there’s no such thing as an MD in South Africa, though… it’s an MBChB. Just to split hairs 🙂
well….this is a nighmare atually. They will move smit back to 3….and the losses will come…mark my words.
I can’t recall seeing anything cite-able during the game, but then I was just short of clinging to the ceiling most of the game. Maybe it’s just a case of sour grapes by the Reds (if they initiate the citing) and nothing will come of it.
@grant10 (Comment 3) : i never expected you to say THAT!! 😉
@war1 (Comment 5) :
hehehe 😆
@war1 (Comment 5) : I, too, am SHOCKED
@cant10 (Comment 4) : Duly noted….. 🙄
@FireTheLooser (Comment 8) :
hahaha
I see what you did there!!! 😆 😈
@robdylan (Comment 2) : True but I am so used to using MD for work it is what comes to mind first…
@lostfish (Comment 10) : Might I be losing my South Africaness?? Yikes, I need to go home.
@grant10 (Comment 3) :Death, Taxes and your predictable comments… 🙂
@lostfish (Comment 10) : what line are you in?
@robdylan (Comment 13) : biopharmaceutics
oh wow, I have been upgraded to 2 stars 😀
@war1 (Comment 5) : 😆 😆 😆
@rhineshark (Comment 4) : Must say I never saw anything either. Then like you I was punching fists into the air and back to my pc a bit to speak here. So could have missed something there.
If Jannie does get cited and a week or two off he lets the team down. We are covered though with Herbst. Otherwise John will have to move back to TH.
@lostfish (Comment 14) : wow… sounds interesting (and way out of my league!)
congrats on the 2 stars
I have been on holiday since 19/03 till today, and thus I havent watched much rugby the last three weeks, and we won all three. In contrast in watching the first five glued to the tv set….. Am I maybe a bad omen to the team ❓ ❓ ❓
@SharksRTB (Comment 19) : Yes…never watch the Sharks games again.
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@SharksRTB (Comment 19) : Go back on holiday then, im loving our winning streak!
@Letgo (Comment 20) : I agree 🙂 Sorry, RTB, it’s for the greater good 🙂
Thanks guys…. But Guess What? In two weeks I am whatching the game… Not from my tv set… But live from Ellis PArk ❗ ❗ ❗
@robdylan (Comment 18) : it’s alright, too much travel at times but it pays the bills 😉
next milestone 3 stars – many many more comments.
@SharksRTB (Comment 24) : Noooo, don’t jinx us!
@lostfish (Comment 25) : ha ha… the jumps only get harder from here.
hi everyone me back again
Jannie no did not see that one but what was he thinking but to band no let him sit for a game or 2 but don’t bad won’t be able to handle more than my bad luck 🙁
week-end went like all week-end a mud bath all over the camp just mud mud and mud and to top up everything the caravan went for a dame pot hole 😥 shit now lots of damage 🙁 but still alive and well
@robdylan (Comment 27) : you can say that again 5000 was hard enough to reach now me got another 5000 to reach where i’m going
@SharksRTB (Comment 24) : sharks better win other wise you jinx us 😳
@Chaz (Comment 29) : shit, how did you get to 4 stars? That’s blerrie impressive in just a few months
@robdylan (Comment 31) : eee its called work on sharksworld my friend i had them before i went for the week-end eee
Anf JUSt when we thought they’d sorted out their discipline in the Du plessis family 😕
@KSA Shark © (Comment 33) : Perhaps Plum should get him mom to come to get him in line – he listens to his mother.
@lostfish (Comment 34) : If she looks anything like him or Bis, I’ll also listen to her.