With the 2011 season coming to a disappointing end for the Sharks, now is as good a time as any to reflect on the year gone by and remember the good times of 2011.
The 2011 season has not been a great one for the Sharks but I would venture to say that it has been a good one. There have been some memorable performances by Sharks players and now you as Sharksworld users have the opportunity to nominate players for the Sharksworld awards.
There are seven categories for the awards and they are as follows:
1.Player of the season
Best Sharks player across the whole 2011 season
2.Forward of the season
Best Sharks forward of the 2011 season
3.Back of the season
Best Sharks backline player of the 2011 season
4.Super Rugby player of the season
Best Sharks player in Super Rugby 2011.
5.Currie Cup player of the season
Best Sharks player in Currie Cup 2011.
6.Junior player of the season
Best Sharks under 19 or Sharks under 21 player of 2011. Nominees need to have played in either the under 19 or under 21 Currie cup.
7.Newcomer of the season
Best player who played for the Sharks senior team for the first time in 2011. This includes junior players moving up and players who moved to the Sharks for 2011.
To make it easier to count the votes please put the award number followed by your nomination.
Each user can nominate one player per category and obviously a player needs to be eligible for the category nominated in. You do not need to vote in every category.
The nominations will be open until 5pm (South African time) next week Tuesday (8th November) after which the shortlists will be announced and voting for the awards will begin.
Nominations as comments in this article please.
As an example here are my votes for the Sharksworld Awards 2011:
1. Pat Lambie
2. Bismarck du Plessis
3. JP Pietersen
4. JP Pietersen
5. Marcell Coetzee
6. Alan Dell
7. Marcell Coetzee

Warren in category 4. Does the player have to come from SA?
Alberts should be a shoe in for forward of the year imo.
Agree with Marcell ..was well impressed with him.
@Ben (Comment 1) : Updated it, Sharks players only.
@CoffeeshopBok 😉 (Comment 2) : You can also vote if you want.
Would this exclude Bok performances?
best u19 player period : Pieter-Steph du Toit
best u19 player playing u19: Allan Dell
best u21 player period : Marcell Coetzee
best u21 player playing u21 : Gouws Prinsloo
However best junior in terms of criteria : Gouws Prinsloo
1. Pat Lambie
2. Willem Alberts
3. Pat Lambie
4. Willem Alberts
5. Fred Michalak
6. Mtembu
7. Marcell Coetzee
@Ice (Comment 5) : Bok performances should be a factor but performances for the Sharks would have more weight.
@Ben (Comment 7) : Didn’t see much of the juniors but Mtembu impressed me when he played. What do you guys think?
@Ben (Comment 9) : When I saw him play is what I meant.
I’m going to spread it around a bit.
1. Willem Alberts
2. Bismarck du Plessis
3. JP Pieterson
4. Pat Lambie
5. Ross Skeate
6. Gouws Prinsloo
7. Marcell Coetzee
Surely Bismarck is a shoe in for Pplayer of the Season?? 😯
Alberts was injured wasn’t he?? I think he also struggled during the latter parts of the S15. #justsaying
@Ben (Comment 9) : Agree, he did well. Looked especially dangerous from broken play.
@wpw (Comment 12) : So make your nominations Wes! 😉
1. Pat Lambie
2. Willem Alberts
3. Pat Lambie
4. JP Pietersen
5. Ross Skeate
6. Gouws Prinsloo
7. Marcell Coetzee
Good afternoon, here you go:
1. Patrick Lambie
2. Bismarck du Plessis
3. JP Pietersen
4. Patrick Lambie for his 193 points in 2011 Super Rugby Season.
5. Lwazi Ncedo Mvovo
Regarding points 6 and 7…i am not yet up to speed with developments in these fields, and will leave this out, for this time. Thank you.
1 Pat Lambie
2 Bismarck du Plessis
3 JP Pietersen
4 Bismarck du Plessis
5 Ross Skeate
6 Gouws Prinsloo
7 Marcell Coetzee
1. Pat Lambie
2. Bismarck du Plessis
3. Pat Lambie
4. JP Pieterson
5. Marcell Coetzee
6. Gouws Prinsloo
7. Marcell Coetzee
I’m confused (yes, again). Surely if a player is nominated as player of the season, that would automatically make him best back/forward of the season (e.g, if SuperPat is my player of the season, I can’t select JPP as best back)?
@Culling Song (Comment 19) : not necessarily… because Player of the Season might include some additional, subjective qualities, such as leadership, team spirit, or whatever, that don’t make them stand out specifically as a forward or back…
1. Lambie
2. Bismarck
3. Mvovo
4. Lambie
5. M.Coetzee
6. Sithole
7. Coetzee
1. Lambie
2.bismarck
3.LAmbie
4.jp pietersen
5.keegan daniel
6.Pieter-Steph du Toit
7.Sithole
@Culling Song (Comment 19) :
You always have to over think everything. Just vote already! 😈
Sharon’s vote would be something along the lines of:
1. Patrick Lambie
2. SuperPat
3. 3D Pat
4. Lambie
5. The Lambie’ghini
6. Patrick ‘Legend’ Lambie
7. Future Bok captain Patrick Lambie
Best Sharks backline player of the season 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
@wpw (Comment 24) : Silly child, we all know the future Bok captain is Nick Koster
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 25) :
Just as funny as ‘The best tight 5 player for WP for the season’
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 26) : Not Duane Vermeulen??? 😯 😉
1 – Daniels
2 – Alberts
3 – Lambie
4 – Bizi
5 – Daniels
6 – Jordaan
7 – No one impressed me that much to nominate anyone!!!
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 25) : urm Gouws Prinsloo ?
1. Willem Alberts
2. Willem Alberts
3. Pat Lambie
4. Willem Alberts
5. Marcell Coetzee
6. Gouws Prinsloo
7. Marcell Coetzee
@Pokkel (Comment 27) : NICE 😛
@robdylan (Comment 20) : Makes sense. Thanks.
@Pokkel (Comment 23) : It’s called clarity of thought, not over thinking, and it’s because of a lack of such clarity that the Sharks are in the state they’re in. Of kortliks, ag shaddap!
1. Bismarck du Plessis
2. Bismarck du Plessis
3. Pat Lambie
4. Bismarck du Plessis
5. Marcell Coetzee
6.
7. Marcell Coetzee
@Culling Song (Comment 33) :
😆 😆
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 32) : kwa kwa kwa 🙂
1. Patrick Lambie
2. Willem Alberts
3. JP Pietersen
4. JP Pietersen
5. Ross Skeate
6.
7. Marcel Coetzee
@Culling Song (Comment 37) :
Marcell met 2 ll’e 😈 😉
@Pokkel (Comment 38) : Se hom Poks!
@Pokkel (Comment 38) : Typo. Thankfully Richard doesn’t seem to be about 😉
@Ice (Comment 39) : Is jy nou Ys Ferguson?
@Culling Song (Comment 41) : Neee, ou Callie…sommer net (S)YS altyd reg!
@Culling Song (Comment 41) :
I think it’s time for you to do some inter dimensional travel and see how the ‘other’ Sharks did this season?
@Barrel (Comment 29) :
bwahahahahaha
You said DanielS! 😈
@wpw (Comment 44) : he’s lucky Terminator Ferguson isn’t around 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 45) :
What has happened to Ferguson? And I haven’t seen McLovin around for a while.
@robdylan (Comment 45) :
hehehe 😆
@wpw (Comment 44) : @robdylan (Comment 45) : We here at Sharksworld are a real nice bunch. We help each other out where we can. To type out Daniels is a wasted effort. Same with Ludick. All the time you spend typing out those extra letters could better be spent with your families. I think a thank you SW would be in order! 😎 😆
@Ben (Comment 48) :
1. Mr Patrick Lambi
2. Bismark
3. JPP
4. Lambi
5. Marcell
6. Sithole
7. Prinsloo
1.Player of the season
Daniel
2.Forward of the season
Alberts
3.Back of the season
Lambie
4.Super Rugby player of the season
Alberts
5.Currie Cup player of the season
Michalak
6.Junior player of the season
Jordaan
7.Newcomer of the season
Skeate
@Talent (Comment 51) : Skeate can’t be new player of the season, cos he played for the Sharks in 2010…. want a do-over?
1.Player of the season
Bismarck
2.Forward of the season
Alberts
3.Back of the season
Lambie
4.Super Rugby player of the season
Bismarck
5.Currie Cup player of the season
Marcell
6.Junior player of the season
Paul Jordaan
7.Newcomer of the season
Marcell
Quite frankly I am surprised that Biz did not get a IRB player nomination…
In the category of Sharks player of the year, my second nomination would be Pat, as he was the junior who got a Bok call up for RWC.
@robdylan (Comment 52) : haha oh jeez your right!
1.Player of the season
Daniel
2.Forward of the season
Alberts
3.Back of the season
Lambie
4.Super Rugby player of the season
Alberts
5.Currie Cup player of the season
Michalak
6.Junior player of the season
Jordaan
7.Newcomer of the season
Coetzee
Hi All,
1.Player of the season
Bismarck
2.Forward of the season
Bismarck
3.Back of the season
Lambie
4.Super Rugby player of the season
Bismarck
5.Currie Cup player of the season
Michalak
6.Junior player of the season
not too familiar the juniors so am unsure!
7.Newcomer of the season
Marcell Coetzee
@nimalen316 (Comment 56) : nice to see you again 🙂
1.Lambie
2.Bismarck
3.JPP
4.Bismarck
5. –
6. –
7.Marcell Coetzee
Oom Dries:1Pat
2Willem
3Pat
4Bismarck
5Jean
6Paul J
7Marcell
Marcell received yesterday the reward rugbyplayer of the year at the Sharks academy.
@Dries (Comment 59) : fantastic!! Congratulations!!! I am stoked!
@Dries (Comment 59) : Congratulations Oom Dries! Well deserved reward.
@Dries (Comment 59) : Please send him congratulations from everyone here at Sharksworld.
@Dries (Comment 59) : Thoroughly deserved, not just for playing ability, but also for attitude and enthusiasm – Marcell always looks like he *wants* to be on the field, and is not just going through the motions. I also really like the fact that in defense, if he can get so much as one finger on a guy’s jersey, you just know that the guy is going down!
@Dries (Comment 59) : congrats Oom! Richly deserved
@Culling Song (Comment 63) : that’s so true!! I, off course LOVE his “lion attaking a buck” tackles! He claws and clings untill that man is DOWN! 😀
@robdylan (Comment 64) : Who were the other award winners please?
Oom Dries :Monde Hadebe academic and rugby overall ,2 nd year student Jaco v Tonder , best improve player Ruan Allerston (Zorba)
I am not sure of the rest congrats to all of them and hope they have a great 2012
@Dries (Comment 67) : Jafta won most improved conditioning…
Trying to find all of them.
Pieter-steph won U/19 player of the year
Don’t any one know the results?(insider)
Can we get this thread kickstarted? So far it has been mostly the same players being nominated so we need a few more to make up the official nominees.
@war1 (Comment 71) : agreed!
I wish I could say Mvovo for one but……he doesnt get time because of Odwa 😕
1. lambie
2. alberts
3. mvovo
1. lambie
2. alberts
3. jpp
4. lambie
5. deysel
6. sithole
7. marcell
No thread here on the Rugby Awards last night.
So will say it here. Well done to all that won a award.
Especially a big well done to our very own Pat Lambie for winning the Young Player Of The Year Award. From us Durbanites we are very proud of our youngster. Hope to see him winning many more awards.
Plum should seriously now move Lambie to fh that Freddie is wanting to go back to France. Play Lambie from the start of the Super15 at fh and move Freddie to sh until Hoffman plays better there. Just don’t rate Hoffman that much at the moment. Lambie with Freddie at sh should work very well. We have Viljoen coming next year that will play fb. Heck wish we had some good centres for next year too. Hope Plum looks to play some of our youngsters.
Just thinking back to Barritt, Waylon and Fransie. We had some seriously great centres to now be left with the centres we have is just disappointing.
@wpw (Comment 24) : How DID you guess?
Come on guys… got to nominate some more players here?
1. Pat Lambie
2. Bismark du plessis
3. Pat Lambie
4. Willem Alberts
5. Keegan Daniel
6. Sibusiso Sithole
7. Marcell Coetzee
@annezwane (Comment 79) : welcome to the site and thanks for the nominations!
Tell us a bit about yourself 🙂
@annezwane (Comment 79) : based on your picture, I think you and Sharon van Wyk will get on just fine 🙂