With a few movements, let’s re-publish the Currie Cup squad as we have it right now. […]
Posts tagged with: Conrad Hoffmann
Currie Cup squad update
Sharks confirm two departures
The Sharks have confirmed that Mouritz Botha and Conrad Hoffmann have been granted releases and will not feature in the upcoming Currie Cup campaign. […]
The lesser spotted scrumhalf
It’s a momentous day – we have photographic evidence that scrumhalf Michael Claassens has arrived in Durban at last! […]
Build or buy?
It’s 2015, it’s a World Cup year and the Sharks have a lot of senior players in their squad. I don’t think I’d be revealing any state secrets or shocking any of you with truly unexpected news if I pointed out that we should probably expect a few of them to move on from Durban at the end of the season. […]
Saluting bravery
Gary Gold has made some rather ambitious calls ahead of this weekend’s game against the Hurricanes – I for one think some of them are very brave indeed and that it shows great balls for a coach under pressure to make such bold picks. […]
Out goes a youngster (and in comes….?)
Beeld has this morning lifted the lid on a story that has been bubbling under in Sharks circles for some time; promising Sharks junior scrumhalf Cameron Wright appears to be on his way to join Jake White’s growing South African contingent at Montpellier in France. […]
Reinach the first tour casualty
Cobus Reinach is on his way home from New Zealand, having broken his hand against the Highlanders on Friday. […]
Dunedin disaster
The Sharks have succumbed to another big loss against Kiwi opposition, going down 48-15 to the Highlanders in Dunedin. […]
Picking up the pieces
How do the Sharks go about salvaging something from a 2015 season that has, frankly, been nothing short of a disaster? With the benefit of a bye week (and the opportunity to take stock) followed by a tough tour on which nobody should rightly expect them to pick up any wins, could this be the opportunity for the Sharks to start making some sensible decisions? […]
Invest in the future
One of my most frequent criticism of the Sharks during the Plumtree era – and perhaps the single biggest reason that his untimely demise met with my approval at the time – related to his short term thinking when selecting his teams. Allow me to elaborate… […]
The lessons (I hope) we’ve learned
They always say you learn more from defeat than you do from victory; I for one am rather hopeful that even though the Sharks didn’t actually lose against the Force on Saturday, they’ll have taken the opportunity to learn a few lessons regardless. Here are my top 5. […]
Sharks burgle another
The Sharks proved for a second week that ugly is the only way they know how to win – prevailing somewhat fortunately against a game Western Force side by 15 points to 9. […]
Sharks player ratings v Western Province
The Sharks started with a bang, which quickly faded to a rather lame whimper on Saturday, before again finding their mojo and grinding out a relatively convincing win over a rather weak Western Province side. […]
More continuity – all good!
I really can’t find much fault with the side the Sharks have selected this week; with continuity in key areas as well as one or two changes that for the most part strengthen the side. Let’s look at what has been done. […]
Keeping it steady
There’s really not all that much to debate from a selection point of view this week, since the Sharks opted to make hardly any changes for the match against the Kings. […]