Injury to Pat Lambie and suspension to Butch James should result in a reshuffle amongst the Sharks back for this weekend’s final Super Rugby game of the season. […]
Posts tagged with: Hugh Reece-Edwards
Odwa set for fullback shift
10 Jul 13 14:38 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 20 Comments
Sharks “player exodus” talk overblown
10 Jul 13 10:58 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 23 Comments
Sharks scrumhalf Charl McLeod seems to have caused a bit of a stir yesterday when something he said to Rugby365 led to widespread talk of a Sharks exodus at the end of this year’s Super Rugby tournament. While it’s true that a number of players and coaches will be leaving, it’s hardly as bad as McLeod’s words make it sound. […]
Bismarck WAS offered captaincy – Reece
9 Jul 13 08:00 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 27 Comments
Sharks coach Hugh Reece-Edwards has told The Mercury’s Mike Greenaway that Bok hooker Bismarck du Plessis was the initial choice to captain the side against the Bulls last weekend, after it was decided that Keegan Daniel would not be starting. […]
Sharks assistant coaches to leave – reports
2 Jul 13 12:27 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 31 Comments
According to an unverified tweet from EyeWitness News, Sharks assistant coaches Hugh Reece-Edwards and Grant Bashford appear set to leave on completion of the current Super Rugby season. […]
Bashford, Reece-Edwards in charge
26 Jun 13 10:37 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 31 Comments
The Sharks have issued a clarification to yesterday’s media statement regarding John Plumtree and the Sharks’ coaching structures. […]
Deysel, Whitehead set for return
27 Mar 13 08:47 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 18 Comments
Sharks assistant coach Hugh Reece-Edwards has confirmed that two currently-injured players are expected to return to fitness in time for the side’s next Super Rugby outing, against the Crusaders in ten days’ time. […]
Sharks hoping for Pietersen boost
3 Oct 12 08:00 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 11 Comments
In what can only be described as truly excellent news for the Sharks, Bok wing JP Pietersen returned to training this week, after spending all of the Currie Cup season to date on the sidelines. Pietersen broke his thumb during the Sharks’ Super Rugby Final defeat to the Chiefs earlier in the year. […]
Plum’s “indefinite” break is definitely temporary
7 Aug 12 20:38 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 5 Comments
Talk about injudicious word choice setting tongues a-wagging and rugby fans a-panicking! Our friends at SuperSport certainly managed to twist a fair few pairs of panties yesterday by announcing that Sharks coach john Plumtree would be taking an “indefinite” break from the sport. […]
Bresler and McLeod given a rest
7 Aug 12 15:23 by Maria Delport (Letgo) | 30 Comments
With Super Rugby 2012 done and dusted, coaches and players alike have not even had a moment to take a breath; the Currie Cup starts this Friday with not even a weekend’s rest for those of us who managed to reach the final of Super Rugby. […]
So what’s up with Dale’s socks?
18 Apr 12 10:25 by André Meyer (Culling Song) | 140 Comments
Regular readers will have noted how a few off-hand comments made on this site yesterday about Dale Chadwick’s perennially-around-the-ankle socks escalated into the kind of verbal trench warfare rarely seen outside of American politics. […]
Reece explains Tri-Series withdrawal
9 Jan 12 08:31 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 17 Comments
In a recent interview with John Bishop of The Witness, Sharks assistant coach Hugh Reece-Edwards has confirmed that the side will not take part in the annual Neo Africa Tri-Series warm-up competition at Newlands later this month. […]
The Green Machine’s rapid rise to rugby power since 2000
18 Nov 11 10:08 by Alan Morrissey (Grasshopper) | 48 Comments
Glenwood High School (founded 1910) or affectionately known as the ‘Grasshoppers’ or Green Machine by rivals have since 2000 developed into one of KZN’s strongest rugby schools. They have always featured in the Top 10 premier schools in KZN rugby for the past 100 years (producing 6 Springboks, over 50 Natal/Sharks and over 150 KZN Schools players) but it’s only since current Headmaster, Trevor Kershaw and the management at Glenwood decided to improve all sporting codes via a Sports Academy of Excellence has Glenwood seen a rapid improvement in their rugby. […]
The Utopian Ideal
8 Jul 11 08:50 by André Meyer (Culling Song) | 36 Comments
With the Currie Cup looming, and the bitter taste from the Super 15 still lingering like the memory of a surprise SARS audit, I decided to, in the spirit of scientific enquiry, revisit the parallel world (henceforth referred to as Utopia) I encountered a few weeks ago* to see what the alternative Sharks were up to. I must say, even though I knew it had worked before, I don’t mind telling you that it was with some trepidation that I stood once again on the brink of the vat of liquid lysergic acid diethylamide, plugged-in toaster clutched tightly to my chest, preparing to jump… But, as you can see from the fact that you’re reading this article, I escaped the ordeal more or les unscathed bar for some distortion and a certain brightness of colour affecting my peripheral vision. The necessary price to pay in the pursuit of knowledge, I guess. […]
Three more years of Plumtree
14 Jun 10 23:50 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 24 Comments
Despite numerous false starts, the Sharks today finally confirmed that John Plumtree has accepted a three-year extensions to his coaching contract and will continue to subject Sharks fans to his particular brand of rugby until the end of the 2013 season. […]
The official Sharksworld 2010 Super 14 awards
17 May 10 08:30 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 49 Comments
Well, the 2010 Super 14 has come and gone for our beloved Sharks and we decided it was time to hold our very own awards ceremony. Without further ado, here are the official Sharksworld 2010 Super 14 awards… all of which need to be taken with a major pinch of salt, it has to be said! […]