While the Sharks (and I say this furiously crossing fingers, holding thumbs and touching my wooden desk) seem to be doing all right on the injury front this Currie Cup and are now in the position of welcoming players such as Stephan Lewies, Dan du Preez and maybe even Pat Lambie back after lay-offs, other teams have been less fortunate. This week, in particular, has been particularly bloody when it comes to players being ruled out. […]
Posts tagged with: Scarra Ntubeni
Currie Cup injury curse
7 Sep 16 08:05 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 30 Comments
Coenie gets Bok call-up
22 Jun 16 09:16 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 57 Comments
Sharks prop Coenie Oosthuizen has been called into the Springbok squad ahead of Saturday’s third test against Ireland, after injury forced Trevor Nyakane to withdraw. […]
Three Sharks start for Ackermann’s “A”‘s
8 Jun 16 12:51 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 121 Comments
Johan Ackermann has named his South Africa “A” side to play the England Saxons in the first of a two-match series in Bloemfontein on Friday evening. […]
Fleck rotates team for Jaguares
24 Mar 16 13:04 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 79 Comments
Stormers coach Robbie Fleck has opted to make a few changes and rest key players as his team get ready to tackle Los Jaguares in Argentina on Saturday evening. The most notable players to get a break are Schalk Burger and Pieter-Steph du Toit. […]
A bit of Fantasy Rugby
31 Aug 15 12:40 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 21 Comments
We all love picking teams, whether it be the best Springbok XV, the best Sharks XV, A team made up of overseas bases South Africans, whatever it is that tickles your fancy, this concept should get you interested. […]
Not much to be said about hooker
11 Jun 15 08:00 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 17 Comments
Yesterday we started looking at the potential squad compilation of the Springboks to the Rugby World Cup, which yielded very little debate for or against the props mentioned. Whether this is a good or bad thing remains to be seen. […]
Sharks at Newlands – Post Mortem
9 Mar 15 10:37 by Maria Delport (Letgo) | 73 Comments
The Sharks were beaten by the Stormers. It was a hard match to watch, especially after so much of the emphasis last week was on the referees and how “THEY” lost the match. To be trampled like we were against the Stormers, after our team was boosted with Sprinbok returnees and after, in our opinions, we “technically” beat the Bulls, was painful. […]
Scarra joins Bok tour
10 Nov 14 08:00 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 28 Comments
Western Province hooker Scarra Ntubeni has been summoned to join the Springbok tour group in London, following the decision to send Lions counterpart Robbie Coetzee back to South Africa. […]
Strauss banned – updated
27 May 14 11:24 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 106 Comments
Adriaan Strauss has copped a three-week suspension for executing a tip tackle during last weekend’s loss to the Stormers. […]
Five changes for Stormers
14 May 14 13:20 by Clayton Saville (Clayton(PJLD)) | 11 Comments
As has become the norm the DHL Stormers have named a squad containing a number of changes to the one that did duty the week before. […]
Tight five changes for Stormers
11 Mar 14 10:26 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 11 Comments
The Stormers team named to face the Chiefs in Hamilton on Friday features three injury-enforced changes to the unit that narrowly went down against the Crusaders last weekend. […]
Stormers wounds too deep to lick
10 Mar 14 11:11 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 6 Comments
The blows just keep coming for the Stormers, who have fresh injury woes to contend with in addition to the bitter pill of losing at the death to the Crusaders – by a single point! […]
Super Rugby Team of the Round – round 3
4 Mar 14 11:13 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 21 Comments
Given the, um, “nonsense” dished up by the majority of South African teams and players in round 3 of Vodacom Super Rugby, it’s not going to be easy to select a form domestic fifteen. We’ll give it a bash anyway. […]
Coetzee picks his strongest
30 Jan 14 11:03 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 14 Comments
Stormers coach Alister Coetzee has selected what looks like his strongest available side for Saturday’s warm-up against the Bulls in Polokwane. Schalk Burger will start at blindside flank in a loose trio that has no room for Currie Cup captain Deon Fourie. […]
Who will feature in the front row?
5 Nov 13 08:00 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 49 Comments
Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer is set to name his team to take on Wales in the next day or so, and there are a few key decisions that he has to make before then. […]