Uys hopeful for East Coast clash
21 Aug 2006
Despite being knocked unconcious in Saturday’s 43-10 victory over the Pumas, Vodacom Western Province centre Corne Uys may yet play against the Sharks in Durban.
Referee Tappe Henning called the game to a halt when Uys went down as a result of clashing heads with a Pumas player, and it took the medical team some time to stretcher him to the sidelines. At a press conference held after the match, WP coach Kobus van der Merwe confirmed that Uys was feeling a bit better and was back on his feet, and had joined the other players in the changeroom for the post-match celebrations.
Unlike team-mate Joe Pietersen, who was concussed after a high-hit from Gaffie du Toit in Week four of the competition, Uys’ condition was not so bad that he had to attend hospital for observation. However, he has now been placed on a special medical programme that will determine whether it is safe for him to play this weekend.
“Corné is undergoing specific testing and clinical assessments to ensure that it is safe for him to return to rugby,†said team physician Dr Ryan Kohler on wprugby.co.za. “His injury work up will take a few days, as we wait for results.â€
Should the tests prove him unfit to play against the Sharks on Friday night, it’s likely that 22-year-old utility back Sarel Potgieter will slot in at outside centre. Potgieter came on halfway though the Pumas game and played outside Uys, with De Wet Barry being tactically subbed.
“We wanted to give everyone a decent run,” said Van der Merwe, “and Sarel deserved to have a longer spell in that position. He’s been playing some very good rugby this season.”
The team to play the Sharks will be announced on Wednesday at midday.
28 Comments
21 Aug 2006, 11:18 am
No 1 Uys
21 Aug 2006, 11:23 am
he’s the man
21 Aug 2006, 11:25 am
Sharks cost me a lot of money this weekend…..
But now it becomes difficult for me to call this weekends game….Dont know what to predict….
WOuld have done brilliantly in Superbru if the sharks won…… Dammit!!!
21 Aug 2006, 11:26 am
wp by 4-5 points
going to be very tight
21 Aug 2006, 11:32 am
yeah, must admit, the sharks are definitely going to need to pick up there game a bit if they want to feature in the latter stages. Really disappointing in recent weeks.
21 Aug 2006, 11:32 am
Game on Sky Sports Friday eve. – 6pm UK time
21 Aug 2006, 11:34 am
sharks not same team without pienaar, backline lackluster and russel overrated
21 Aug 2006, 11:42 am
I tipped the sharks to win cause they had JP, Russel and Odwa. But somehow they struggled to convert chances into points. Feel the ref let the lions steel way too much ball. At one stage the lions player dived over the ruck, after the ref telling him leave it, he played the ball , turned it over and the ref shouted to Sahrks leave him!! FFS!! They were allowed to play everything and the sharks nothing…
21 Aug 2006, 11:45 am
Ig, Do you have the ref schedule for Sept??
Can someone also give me the schedule for games that are to be shown off air. Wp already had 3 of these (Pumas at Witbank, Valke at Bosman, and now Pumas at Newlands) Is this the same for all teams? Being taken two games off air every round??
21 Aug 2006, 11:58 am
WP,you would also be over rated if you had traveled halfway round the world, sat on your *** or held a tacklebag for two months and not seen any (rugby) action
21 Aug 2006, 12:17 pm
The sharks made too many mistakes…and I thought that Matie had a bad game! Kept on goin the wrong side!
I feel that alot of our scrummies pick the wrong side!!! Look at NZ this weekend…..they work it all the way to the touch line and then use the field to get the try in the corner, where our scrummies would try and bring it back!!!
21 Aug 2006, 12:22 pm
This time round we not going to let them beat us again. We going there to win. I think it’s going to be lots of running rugby comes Fridaynight.
21 Aug 2006, 12:45 pm
oxford
with all due respect, russel very good player, but i do not think he is bok material, but that is my opninion(luckily we all have those)
21 Aug 2006, 13:12 pm
Are they acctually going to show the sharks vs. Wp game? They show the bloody Valke aginst Bulls but they didn’t show the Province-game…pathetic.
And will it be on friday or saturday,because you just can’t trust the schedule posted on this site?
21 Aug 2006, 13:16 pm
To the sharks-
May the best man win! I respect you guys and your coach and what you guys have done to your team set-up this year. I think this game might be the best one in the CC?
21 Aug 2006, 13:18 pm
game is on friday and they are showing it spokie
21 Aug 2006, 13:22 pm
Province should play the Fijian in Uys’s place.
21 Aug 2006, 13:22 pm
PROVINCE will win! going to be a cracker though!i bet my buddy a bottle of jack daniels on this one! GO PROVINCE ! ! !
21 Aug 2006, 13:23 pm
that is the plan if uys is not fit, i wish they will c the damn light with barry and actually let him go, as he was again very very poor on sat
21 Aug 2006, 13:26 pm
can move fijian monster to centre and play chavvies at wing or seconds, my call will be chavvies on wing
21 Aug 2006, 13:59 pm
Is Chavanga fit for a change?
Still think Seconds is a great finisher, and believe after being on the bench he will wanna play in the starting line up…..
Sereli should move to center, with barry making place for Sarel….
21 Aug 2006, 14:18 pm
De Wet is going to the UK next year…
21 Aug 2006, 14:24 pm
22
good riddance (if true)
21 Aug 2006, 14:33 pm
With the exception of Barry, this WP team is unstoppable. I have very little doubt that WP would take the Boks down quite easily if they played this weekend…
21 Aug 2006, 14:51 pm
Yes Benjamin but they need to sell Barry now. They’l get about R10 for him.
21 Aug 2006, 15:30 pm
Barry probably pays WP to play. No other sane reason for him being in the team. Apart from being a pathetic player, he doesn’t fit in the WP game plan. Give him to the bulletjies.
21 Aug 2006, 17:08 pm
Jaa , agree that the Fijian should shift to center with Sarel Potgieter inside him , play seconds and Rylands as the wings or maybe even Seconds and Joe Pietersen if they are scared of a frail defense in the back 3. Another option is to give Joe Pietersen a run at 12 with Sarel Pot on his outside ? Joe seems very much like a player in the Mat Gituea mould and has the benefit of playing flyhalf before. I rate the youngster very high and I think he can most likely slot in anywhere in the backline. Just please dont play barry , he served us well and is a very good player but for now his heart is not in it.
21 Aug 2006, 21:00 pm
Jislaaiked, is it not unbelievable how many options we now have in the team. Nothing creates more depth in positions like winning your games. Just 1 & 3 where we need more options. Fester is sleeping better the past 2 months.
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