The Sharks this morning confirmed the signing of former Western Province lock Ross Skeate on a two-year contract, effective 1 July.
The 27-year-old Skeate, who stands just a fraction over 2 metres tall and weighs 114 kg, left South Africa at the end of the 2008 season to join RC Toulon in the South of France, after a career that saw him represent Western Province and the Stormers a combined 80 times. The former SACS schoolboy came up through the ranks of Western Province and Springbok age-group rugby, representing South African Schools in his matric year (2000) and the South African under 19s and 21s thereafter.
His highest representative honours have come playing for the Emerging Springboks on their tour of Romania in 2007.
Skeate will add some needed bulk and experience to the Sharks second row, which is looking a little thin following the departure of Johann Muller to Ulster. While Gerhard Mostert is expected to return to fitness soon, the possibility of Alistair Hargreaves having an extended run with the Springboks during the Tri-Nations leaves the Sharks in the unenviable position of having Steven Sykes as the only fit, experienced lock in the Currie Cup squad and it was no doubt felt that a player of Skeate’s experience would be sorely needed.
Welcome to Durban, Ross. We hope you have a successful stay.
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Welcome Ross, hope you have an awesome time with the Sharks
I’m glad this is a Saffa, well done someone 😈
@JarsonX (Comment 1) : 😕 😕
Good signing, not an old has been, and we need the experience.
Finally somebody is thinking straight!
@rekinek (Comment 3) : Don’t 😕 at me! 😉
very good player….a big favorite in Cape Town.
Well done Sharks.
He is a good buy for the Sharks.
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 4) : But we have bigger problems than at lock….this money could have been spend on a decent no 10 or 12…not that I don’t think Ross is a good player but why another lock?
Sykes, Mostert, Hargreaves , Skeate…where does this leave the youngster that are coming through the so called ranks?? 🙄
@pokkel – I hear what you saying, and you are right! But we can ask the same questions about the so called backline mess? We have Monty who has just been nominated as Vodacom Cup player of the year, yet we always looking past him to someone else.
I feel sorry for the youngsters coming through! They supposedly joined the best academy in SA rugby, but they don’t get the experience. Its kak, to put it plainly.
@Pokkel (Comment 8) : amen!
@JarsonX (Comment 5) : sorry . 😕 was at Skeate.
good morning 😛
or rather not that good 😆
Who needs flyhalves or centres hey?
@Big Fish (Comment 12) : exactly, since we have Rory
@Big Fish (Comment 12) : Well I suppose if Plum is staying on for another 3 years we might as well strenghen our pack because that is all he coaches anyway. The backline in the Sharks team is just there to defend. 😯
Good signing indeed …
A good signing imho. 😉
Sykes and Hargreaves have both been with the Boks before, and they might be again, if either or both gets a call up or injuries, we will be without experience in the 2nd row and the youngsters will get blasted if the team doesnt do well.
Are they still toyig with the idea of playing Lambie at fly half at some stage ?
Not a bad signing at all.
Welcome Ross.
Its obvious that the under 21 / Vodacom Cup locks aren’t deemed to be good enough for Super14 yet so they brought in a man from the hardest scrumming league in the world as cover. If one of Mostert, Hargreaves or Sykes had to break down in the Super 14 we would have have been seriously exposed.
Never rated him, he never grew into a senior rugby player – was decent at age group level, maybe a few years in the NH has sorted him out.
@comment 18 – Valid point indeed – Yet again I ask who will play fly half for the Sharks in S15 ?
@Salmonoid (Comment 19) : We all know Mostert and Petoors are related 😈
Having lost your former captain and someone with 150 odd caps, you can’t expect to replace him overnight with a youngster. The Sharks are one lock injury away from a crisis and if you want a world class team, you have to have world class players.
Imagine the sharks doing a gaffie on the young VC locks, they’d be hung, quartered and draw and some smart alec would have suggested perhaps in hindsight, someone like ross skeate would have been a good purchase…..
The Stormers regularly lose players and then they buy top players (eg Fourie, Habana, Chris Jack, Anton van Zyl, Nakelivuki, Schalk Brits, Luke Watson, Duane Vermeulen, Ricky Januarie, to name a few.
Their good buys got them to the final of the S14 this year.
Think big people.
So who is the BIG signing??? 😳 😳 😳
@SharksRTB (Comment 24) : At just over 2metres he is about 20cm BIGGER than me 😳 😛
@JarsonX (Comment 25) : So are you very excited and happy about this then?
Oh cry for me…
How about giving the youth some support and actually trusting them? Why do you think the Bulls are so impresive? Trust the player you have invested in from school level. Its just another plug on a sinking ship..
@Uli (Comment 27) : Agree
@Worcestershire Sauce (Comment 20) :
He did not enjoy a good season in France.
@SharksRTB (Comment 26) : I wont say excited, but it couldve been worse
@Morné (Comment 29) : That’s nice to know 😈 🙄
@Big Fish (Comment 12) : Kanko will move to centre 😉
@Uli (Comment 27) : Have to agree with you – in a recent Q & A session with Heyneke Meyer on the Bulls site he had some insightful responses to some of the ❓ Below is his view on using young players and “blooding” them –
Heyneke answered:
Jy is 100% in die kol. As ‘n speler nie 100% van die tyd 100% kan gee nie, kan hy nie vir die Bulle speel nie. Die model wat ons gebruik is om voortdurend jong spelers in die span in te bring en van die senior spelers toe te laat om hulle laaste paar jaar oorsee te gaan speel. Sodoende verseker jy dat die span nie as ;n span oud word en hulle honger verloor nie. Alle spanne praat altyd van hoe jonk hulle is en dat hulle bou, maar mens besef nie hoe jonk is die huidge Blou Bul groep eintlik nie.
Met leiers soos Fourie en Victor wat sal doodgaan vir die Blou Bul trui sal daar nooit ‘n gebrek aan honger wees nie.
Omdat ons juniors in dieselfde strukture oefen, skroom ons nie om hulle kanse te gee as dit lyk óf ‘n senior nie sy kant bring nie.
Dit was gelukkig nog nooit nodig nie.
@diablo (VICTORY! sweeter on neutral ground!) (Comment 33) : The wise Bulls….the Sharks can definately learn a thing or two from the Bulls management. Well said Heyneke Meyer..
@Pokkel (Comment 34) :
The coach/management has to create that hunger for the jersey…
I have been blasted prior to the Super 14 when I mentioned Plum is a great forwards coach, but not a head coach or manager…
And now they signed him for 3 more years…
@Morné (Comment 35) : The hunger you can see in the Bulls youngsters when they take the field. There is real passion in Bulls rugby that I haven’t seen with the Sharks in many years. I’m fed up with the Sharks way of doing things and it’s a pity I’m such a commited supporter else I would have started looking elsewhere for a team to support…but come the CC I’ll be right behind the Sharks again. The Bulls were down and out 7-8 years ago and I hope the Sharks will eventually learn from their mistakes even if it does take a couple of years.
mmm I can`t remember him so well . . .
Hope management doesn`t stop here! We need a decent centre! Not convinced Walter Venter is the answer. . .
@Pokkel (Comment 36) :
Heyneke again – 😆
Toe ek by die Bulle begin het, was dit my grootste wens om ‘n vol Loftus te sien (toe was die gemiddelde getal toeskouers so 8000 per wedstryd). Dit het later gebeur en ek kan net al die ondersteuners bedank vir die ondersteuning wat hulle in die jare aan my en die span gegee het. Daarom is dit vir my ‘n plesier om met julle te gesels. Ek dink die Bulle kan nog lank ‘n krag in wêreldrugby wees, maar dit is belangrik dat ons voete op die grond bly en ons nie in ‘n gemaksone verval met al die sukses nie. Ander unies probeer ons navolg en ons moet hard werk om voor te bly.
Toe ek begin het by die Bulle, het ek wel baie dinge, veral wat die afrigtingspan aanbetref, op Amerikaanse voetbal geskoei omdat hulle al 100 jaar professioneel was. Mense het vir my groot afrigtingspan (wat spesialiste ingesluit het) gelag, veral toe ons verloor het. Nou is dit egter ‘n norm wêreldwyd.
Om voor te bly kyk ek heeltyd na nuwe tendense uit alle sportkodes uit. Ek gaan later vanjaar VSA toe om weer na voetbal en basketbal te gaan kyk. Hoewel dit verskillende sportsoorte is, is daar baie te leer uit die kondisionering daarvan, veral die rehabilitasie waar hulle ver voor ons is.
Video-analise is ‘n ander aspek waar ons baie kan leer.
Die Bulle was die eerste span om ‘n Aussie Rugby League se verdedigingsafrigter in te bring (in 2000). Ons gebruik ook Aussie Rules se tegnieke om balle in die lug te wen. Jy moet dus altyd kyk na nuwe tendense as jy wil voorbly.
@Morné (Comment 29) : He had a bit of a bad run with injuries.
@lostfish (Comment 39) : Oh another injury prone player….this just gets better and better 👿
@Morné (Comment 35) : Where do all the Stormers supporters hang out? I need to join….oh I forgot they all come to Sharksworld 😉
Well I am tired of the Sharks management ways thats for sure, if I get a bulls jersey I would at least be able to wear it after each final….
Its really sad. but why do we even have an academy? I personaly think there are way too many fingers int he Pie at the sharks. Head masters and coaches making calls dependant on the school you go to and the the kind of rugby you can play.
When I was u/16 our team was in the top 5 in SA and we didnt even have one KZN player in our team that year, now I mean that says allot about the choosing of players in kzn.. Only two teams who beat us was Paarl Gym(Jean de villiers was playing in that team)and Affies.
@diablo (VICTORY! sweeter on neutral ground!) (Comment 38) : Sorry diablo….as much as I admire the Bulls for the way they do things…I can never support them 😉
@Pokkel (Comment 41) :
We are everywhere…
What kind of Sharks supporter wants to wear a Bulls jersey?!?!
@JarsonX (Comment 22) :
😀
I dont even know what Mostert looks like – seriously.
@Pokkel (Comment 43) : Aag dis maar OK – het jou nie probeer “convert” nie
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 45) : I do! the Sharks Management Sux big time!
@diablo (VICTORY! sweeter on neutral ground!) (Comment 47) : Ek ‘support’ die Bulle van n SA perspektief. Ek sal vir hulle skreeu as hulle teen Aussies en NZlanders speel maar nooit bo die Sharks nie. 😆
Then you are not a Sharks supporter to be honest!!
Its funny to see how quick “supporters” flee when the team aren’t doing well.
Supporters of success, that’s what they are..
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 50) : I don’t think so I have been a supporter since I was about 4 years old. The thing is I want them to do well but the management have other ideas, only they will know what they are. The thing is they are trying to get a quick fix the whole time and that just doesn’t work in the long term and makes more damages that actually fixes to the whole team and team environment. That is why the Sharks are loosing so many players, they just not happy with the way things have been going there.
The sharks need to build a legacy if they want to be at the top for ever..
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 50) : The same as the 8000 bulls supporters during the late 1990s and early 2000s when the Bulls lost every Super 12 game in a season.
Now everyone is a Bulls supporter. Easy to support a winning team. A true supporter remains throughout.
And it could be worse. Imagine having to support the Lions?
I agree Baldrick.. I hate that about so called supporters. Same people that supposedly have a second team that they support. How can you support two teams? Like a backup plan when the first team loses?
I hear you Uli, management is behind, we all know it. But this is when the team needs our support more than ever!!
The signing may come accross as a blow to a young player, but that younh player can now learn from the experience of a very talented overseas based player, compared to learning from from sykes and hargreaves!?
@Pokkel (Comment 49) : I`d support England if they were to play against the Bulls . . . spit!
@Pokkel (Comment 40) : I wouldn’t call him injury prone but he did miss a few games through injury. If I counted correctly out of 36 games (Top 14 and Amlin Cup) he started 21 and was on the bench 7 times. All times he was on the bench he got onto the field.
In a lot of the match reports in the local papers he gets a good review.
@Baldrick (Comment 52) : I believe that even those dark days on yonder the BB had more supporters than the 8 000 that actually went to the games (I know of many, myself incl)
True, some people follow the trophies, but as far as I’m concerned that’s their choice and they have to justify it to themselves and not to me 😉
When you talk about bringing that good old fashion pride back … That’s what Dick tried to do – He invested in some local boys ie : Waylon Murray – Brad Barret etc – Where are they now ?
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 53) : That’s very easy. Both my parents are Freestaters, but I grew up in Durban. My first team is and always will be the Sharks, but my second team is the Vrystaat. Not weird, surely?
But back on the signing of Skeate. We probably did need an extra lock and welcome to Ross – anyone who wears a Sharks jersey is worthy of support.
However, I can’t help wondering WTF is going on in Stroolsie and the other “manager’s” noggins. There doesn’t seem to be any clear direction in buying players so as to fit into a specific playing pattern.
If we decide to become a 10-man side we need a big pack with enforcer-type locks and a kicking flyhalf and if we’re going to play the phases we need a distributing flyhalf and decent centres.
The CC is around the corner and we have buggerall.
I get what you saying RhineShark.. Fair point, apologies.
@rhineshark (Comment 59) : Ha ha, both my parents are English but I don’t support England 😉
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 60) : No hassle – my dad eventually became a big Sharks supporter 😀
@lostfish (Comment 61) : Can’t blame you
Morning all 😛
Welcome Ross hope you do well at the Sharks Tank 😆
Just do your best and the team will win 😉
It all boils down to your career path! And that’s where the Sharks need to sort out their story once and for all.
@Dalz (Comment 58) : I agree, but that is when the Sharks actually started playing rugby again. Then Plum and Rudi stuffed it all up again by not trusting them. If a coach doesn’t show his trust in a player then the player looses confidence in what he does and can or cant do on the field, that’s what happened to Murry.
I’d rather watch Teletubbies than support the Bulls… 😈
Only one team – SHARKS!!
@Dalz (Comment 58) :
One lost form, sadly and badly, and the other wanted to play international rugby and knew it would not have been for SA if it was to happen.
@Baldrick (Comment 52) : so true and there are lot of those supporters all over the world they hate loosing so they just go for the wining teams its sad really if you think about it
me a born durb girl will stay a Shark supporter until i lay down my head and then me must stay the rest of of dead life just right on Sharks Tank field
True to Black and White
@Ice (Comment 66) : agree and great pic
@Comment 67 – That may have been the case but how many local boys do we have at the moment donning the Sharks jersey – apart from Hargreaves I’m struggling to find names –
Well what can we do is at SW can moan and moan and give our best advise but what will the Management do sweet blow niks 👿
OK, so we are looking for backline players – so who is available to buy, ie, has the credentials, is out of contract within 6 months and is available for at least 2 years.
I know who’s going to play fly-half for the Sharks!!!
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 69) :thanx Chaz! If I want to be partiotic, I support the Boks ( I maar just close my eyes at this moment in time!)
@Letgo (Comment 73) :Dan Carter??
just don’t say Lambo?!
@Letgo (Comment 73) : You going to tell us or pull a Rob
@Ice (Comment 74) : I support the Sharks, then the Boks and then Dan Carter (he’s the whole package – from his jockeys to his sokkies!)
@Ice (Comment 77) : oh my you are sth ICE hubby some got competition 🙄 😉
@Dalz (Comment 70) : Hargreaves, Lambie, Burden, Cilliers.
At the end of the day its a professional game now, so home grown does not count for anything anymore (sadly) Its all results driven, just look at some of the comments above to see what some fans are willing to do because of perceived poor results.
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 78) : I am sure he’ll trade me in for Angelina Jolie..or maybe not! 😆
Sharks lineout has not been as a strong as most of the other South African sides in recent times. I always want them to be better in every aspect of the game. So this will help in an area we’ve been weak.
However, the backline needs serious investment now. Either through dicarding older players and giving time to younger players. Or buying better players. Or both.
The other thing we need is a real competent, ‘world class’, backline coach.
Plumtree has shown he can produce an excellent pack. Near test level (though perhaps not all Bok level), when they are all fit.
His key failing has been in management, coaching and selection of the backline.
I want to see us sign a centre and a flyhalf. Bosman being one of them. Not AP or someone on a one year deal.
@Ice (Comment 80) : oh my 😎 🙄 😉 well then even 😎
plum is a fantastic coach his man management and forward play knowledge is unbeatable. The problem to me lies in the backline coach there is no flair or exciting set moves just boring carry it up style. Look at WP and the set moves there backline has its exciting or better still the bulls backs interplay, they are renowned for forward play but there backs still look slick i think we need to invest in a proper backline coach and toss out chris boyd and let bashford gain some more experience. Plum needs someone who compliments him like dick did.
haha it looks like i copied your post
@fetcher (Comment 83) : hey fetcher are you new to this SW site and if welcome
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 82) :Just kidding with you!
🙂 thanks yeah im new always read the articles but just signed up last nyt
@Ice (Comment 86) : i know we are all so true to our hubbys and our Sharks team
😉
@Ice (Comment 74) : Me2!!!
SHARKS FOREVER!!!!
@fetcher (Comment 87) : the arrow next to your name press that and comment to ever you want and how about a pic for your profile
@Me2 aka Mama Shark (Comment 89) : hi mama shark long time no hear 🙂
Sharks forever and all that matters is Black and White
@fetcher (Comment 87) :
Welcome!
@Me2 aka Mama Shark (Comment 89) :welcome!!
@rhineshark (Comment 76) : guess first, then I’ll tell you, I won’t pull a Rob unless Rob wants me to pull a Rob.
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 91) : Been to busy 🙁 got my year end this month…hate this time of year 👿
@Ice (Comment 93) : i think you meant fetcher 🙄 😉
@Ice (Comment 93) : Don’t be cheeky 😉
@Ice (Comment 93) : now you got it eeee
@Ice (Comment 93) : You going away fro a long weekend…where? Home to Christiana?
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 98) : U2!!!
😉 😉
@Me2 aka Mama Shark (Comment 99) :My folks are coming up tonight untill Sunday – so I am off from tomorrow! That’s why I am in a cheeky mood! 😆
@Letgo (Comment 94) : excisting contract or new?
Existing-(re)New contract. Or something like that.
@Letgo (Comment 94) : Andre Pretorius
@Letgo (Comment 103) : Steve meyer…..???
I haven’t heard anything about him…so no luckily for us not him.
@Letgo (Comment 103) :excisting sharks contract?
@robdylan (Comment 104) : now way you arn’t jugging me leg are you now way he is useless 👿
@Letgo (Comment 106) : BUTCH??
@robdylan (Comment 104) : have you got the name of your pic yet 🙄
One of you were right!!!
@Ice (Comment 107) : Yes sort of, I’m not sure though, I think he’s contract would have had to be renewed.
@Letgo (Comment 111) :It’s ME, I just know it! 😆
@Ice (Comment 113) : No its is me…..
@Letgo (Comment 112) : @Ice (Comment 113) :
well i hope you are right and not getting me hopes up high now me herat won’t take it 😥 😉
@Ice (Comment 113) : @Uli (Comment 114) : oh my i’ll tell you so you 2 can stop fighting both of you have a contract to play for the sharks in te CC S15 now is that not cool 😎 😉
Let me put you out of your misery. It’s not Butch…
BUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIE
BUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIEBUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIE BUTCHIE
now you see what you hv done oh my i hope Ice you are right 😕
I have it on good authority that Steve Meyer has been training with the Sharks again and will most likely me the first choice fly-half.
@Letgo (Comment 117) : 👿 👿 👿 😈 😉
@Letgo (Comment 117) : hehe
This could be good or bad…but the players seem to have forgiven him and are happy that he is a part of the team again.
@Uli (Comment 114) : well now you won the fight so are you going to get a cup 🙄 😉
It’s better than Andre Pretorius…that I know for sure.
@Letgo (Comment 122) : Ok well I just might decide not to throw aways my Sharks jersey after all…. 🙂
@Letgo (Comment 122) : is he not the one who hanged up his boots before the S14 🙄
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 123) : 🙂
@Uli (Comment 105) : You were right!!!
@Letgo (Comment 124) : I agree. AP is a very good player, but we have to look at the future and try secure long term contracts with players.
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 126) : Yep, mr Loyalty
@Letgo (Comment 124) : you can say that again he is so useless me don’t want him as a shark at all the Black and White won’t suit him at all he is just red and white and thats all 👿
@Letgo (Comment 128) : Tell Ice that… lol 🙂
Gotta go! Lunch!
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 131) : Well also its much better having a local boytjie at the pivit again…
@diablo (VICTORY! sweeter on neutral ground!) (Comment 130) : so now he is all good 👿 just before the CC and S15 he’ll drop us again 😈
@Ice (Comment 113) : Uli was right!!!!!!!!!
@Uli (Comment 134) : thats true but that thought of him giving us up for a girl that doensn’t want to stay in Durbs maybe she change his mind 😕 😉
@diablo (VICTORY! sweeter on neutral ground!) (Comment 130) : must say sth Loftus seen as a soccer field just doesn’t look like Loftus at all 😉
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 135) : Maybe Sharks managment cleared it with his girlfriend first this time ❓ 😉
@diablo (VICTORY! sweeter on neutral ground!) (Comment 139) : heeeee oh my a women to do a mans job
😉
@Letgo (Comment 136) : Thanks 😉
@Uli (Comment 141) :Uli Boelie! I CAN read 🙄 😆
Okay – I hope Meyer leaves the girls the hell alone now and focus on rugby..why do I see bad things in my Crystal ball?? He is afterall young, will get loads of girl attention as he is a rugby player…I dunno bout this… 🙁
@Letgo (Comment 136) : please mail me the source of that info 🙂
@chaz (For you Bro) (Comment 140) : Maybe more a case of a woman “allowing” a man to try and do his job 🙄
@Ice (Comment 142) : 🙂 hehe.
Yes well lets hope he really surprises all of us, and on the rugby field this time!
I saw something on FaceBook that makes me seriously doubt that Steve is still in Durban…
(Comment 143) :ok ma lekke nosy!
@robdylan (Comment 146) : hey rob give the guy some privacy please….lol 😀
@robdylan (Comment 146) : ok, scratch that. Letgo is right… he is with the squad.
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 53) : unless your second team is the snoiL
what’s wrong with the second team thing. I have the whole grading – in that way I know who to support when no 3 plays against no 5. I am yet to watch any game in indifference. 😆
@Uli (Comment 145) :
@robdylan (Comment 149) :Some good news in that…it might leave Lambo @ 15!!!
@robdylan (Comment 149) : lol…
I am surprised the Sharks have not made a move on promising youngsters like this Bosch center from WP who played in the semi’s last year or even Whitehead who looks decent.
Especially as we know Jean is back at the Stormers.
@Morné (Comment 153) : wait and see…..
@Uli (Comment 148) : it was his choice to accept the friend request 🙂
@Letgo (Comment 119) :
the only reason they could have forgiven him is for the fun that they can extract from contact sessions at practice.
So is Skeate back for good or is this just an effort to try and make the world cup squad, only to leave again afterwards. If the latter, we might as well sign overseas players.
@robdylan (Comment 155) :
Just proves he is not forgiven yet, not part of the inner circle. 😉
@Ice (Comment 151) : ya – but otherwise it’s turning into Black Tueasday 😉
The Springbok team to face Italy in Witbank is:
15 – Zane Kirchner
14 – Gio Aplon
13 – Jean de Villiers
12 – Butch James
11 – Bryan Habana
10 – Morné Steyn
9 – Ricky Januarie
8 – Pierre Spies
7 – Dewald Potgieter
6 – Schalk Burger
5 – Victor Matfield (captain)
4 – Bakkies Botha
3 – Jannie du Plessis
2 – Chiliboy Ralepelle
1 – Gurthrö Steenkamp
Replacements: 16 – Bandise Maku 17 – CJ van der Linde 18 – Alistair Hargreaves 19 – Ryan Kankowski 20 – Ruan Pienaar 21 – Juan de Jongh 22 – Bjorn Basson
@Ice (Comment 101) : Lucky girl!! Have a great time with the family!
@robdylan (Comment 143) : Rob…you been “up staged”…most unusual 😉
@Ice (Comment 151) : Yeah!!
@Me2 aka Mama Shark (Comment 162) : seems none of my contacts considered this big enough news to even tell me about it… I must work harder! 🙂
@MysticShark (Comment 157) : I am also wondering what his motive is. I battle to beleive that Skeate would consider himself in with a shot when it comes to Bok selection. He has Matfield, Bekker and Hargreaves all ahead of him at 5…
@robdylan (Comment 164) : 😉 That “hell bent” not doing his job again 😆
The girlfriend story is mostly false. There was other more serious things. So I would stop talking smack about the guy. Lets see how he does in the jersey and then we can start criticizing him.
@Letgo (Comment 167) :Family of yours? 😉
@Letgo (Comment 167) : Hey…you really like this guy 😕
@Letgo (Comment 167) : mostly 😉
@Letgo (Comment 167) : I still maintain that if you’re sitting on info, you need to share it with me so I can set the record straight 🙂 only fair…
@robdylan (Comment 171) : Check your facebook messages…now you know everything I know…well, mostly. 😀
@rekinek (Comment 170) : Yes, mostly…
Oh no, another HUGE scoop regarding a Steven Meyer comeback 🙄
How the heck am I supposed to get over him dropping the Sharks 3days before the S14 when I keep hearing over-inflated stories about his much anticipated return just for every one to go quiet when it turns out to be another load of ghunk ❗ ❗
@Letgo (Comment 167) :
Well thats the story that was given to the world, what else are we meant to think.
@Letgo (Comment 167) : What is the whole big secret with that anyways. It was never explained so to the normal Sharks supporter he let the team down and he let all the supporters down. He basically walked out and gave no one an explanation. If he had problems he shouldn’t have made promises he couldn’t keep.
@lostfish (Comment 176) : I have offered him an exclusive interview to tell his side of the story. Let’s see if he takes me up on it… 🙄
This signing makes a little more sense then the others so mayb there waking up and realising their faults and thats a big maybe, who would dare utter such heraracy and say monty dumond is good have you ever seen monty play his an ok currie cup player at best so if the sharks aim is to just make the currie cup semi,s then montys ur man
This signing makes a little more sense then the others so mayb there waking up and realising their faults and thats a big maybe.
@robdylan (Comment 177) : I hope so, it will be interesting to see why he dropped everyone in the sh*t.
@robdylan (Comment 177) : By the look of Letgo’s posts she must have already had an exclusive with Steven Meyer seeing as she seems to know everything about his former and current rugby and relationship situation. 🙄
I’m thinking the next person to CLAIM anything regarding Steven Meyer must first be sent for a polygraph, then a psych evaluation, also be forced to make all their phone records available for a forensic audit. Also be put under 24 hr surveillance, all of which to be publicly made available on this very site.
I’m still rather upset by this boys’ little stunt, and hearing all these so called insider info on this matter really just irritates the puke out of me….if you want to make empty claims, at least have the guts to reveal your flaky source so as to avoid anyone confusing it for an actual story. 😆
Dude, we’re all pretty much in the dark here trying our best to piece the story together as best we can. Goodness knows we’ll get nothing official out of the Sharks on this one
@robdylan (Comment 183) : I know news on the story has been hard to come by, and I know I have been giving you a hard time on this subject (all in good spirit I assure you), but when Letgo has a go at everyone on the subject and claims to know the truth, I say give us all the so called scoop, not just the elect few.
If anyone wants to get rid of the existing rumors, starting a new one is hardly the way to do it. A bit of integrity regarding the revelation of player signings is not too much to ask.
And reviving the ‘I know who’s going to be the FH for the Sharks’ rumor has really gone far enough, especially when it involves Steven Meyer and no substantial evidence. Then rather give us more info on Andre Pretorius’ fitness test.