123 Comments

• 1.grant10:
  15 Jun 2011, 10:05 am

  go sharks

• 2.Biscuit:
  15 Jun 2011, 10:07 am

  Hopefully keo will be wrong like he was in the CC semi final last year.

  Of course this game is in Pretoria

• 3.Transformation:
  15 Jun 2011, 10:08 am

  any team KEO picks is doomed!

• 4.Taahirah:
  15 Jun 2011, 10:15 am

  @Transformation(Transformation)-3: Agreed.
  Add to that the cavalier attitude with which the Bulls seem to be approaching this game and Im worried.
  Last week Vic was tweeting about how they live for these types of games and how eager they are to get onto the park (against the Stormers).
  This week its all about test-driving new cars, cracking jokes about a mid-life crisis, how he’s looking forward to the US Open.

• 5.DQG 7:
  15 Jun 2011, 10:44 am

  @Transformation-3 you are 100% right..

  KEO has the worst predictions I have ever seen.. I would rather flip a coin than take his advice..

• 6.motomouse:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:06 am

  Even though I am Sharks fan I cant see us winning this one, as much as I would like to believe we have learnt from past mistake this season I can’t see our tactics changing too much, the Bulls will be waiting for Willem Alberts and our other ball carriers. I really hope Plumtree has a gameplan prepared that will surprise us all.

• 7.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:23 am

  Sharks team for this weekend;

  15 – Ludick
  14 – Pietersen
  13 – Terblanche (c)
  12 – Bosman
  11 – Mvovo
  10 – Lambie
  9 – McLeod
  8 – Kankowski
  7 – Alberts
  6 – Daniel
  5 – Hargreaves
  4 – Sykes
  3 – Jannie
  2 – Bismark
  1 – Mtwarira

  Reserves: John Smit, Eugene Van Staden, Jean Deysel, Ross Skeate, Fred Michalak, Adi Jacobs, Jacque-Louis Potgieter.

• 8.bozo:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:24 am

  motomouse, if John Smit is on the field they will play one way, crash , bash, and kick.
  Smit cannot play any other way. Never has never will. He plays one way win or lose. Mostly lose the big ones.
  Check the record and see.

• 9.Caper:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:25 am

  I really can’t see the Bulls losing this weekend. They are on an upwards curve and the Sharks are sliding down a slippery slope. The problem with the Sharks is that they are just too average. Average locks, average scrumhalf, less-than-average centers. The Bulls will once again win with 10-man rugby. Between FdP and MSteyn they’re gonna kill the Sharks. The only chance that the Sharks have is if their forwards really dominate. Alberts, Bismarck, Beast, Sykes – GTFU!

• 10.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:30 am

  @Caper(Caper)-9: The only thing the Sharks will have in their favor, is that they tend to play really well when people expect the least from them.

  Going into this game, there will be a small sense in the Sharks camp that in essence they have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. Nothing to lose, because a loss to the Bulls is widely expected and everything to gain because just prior to the Currie Cup semi-finals last year, the Sharks were ranked 3rd favorites by the bookies and they eventually went on to take the title. The Sharks know, if they can make it through this game, any outcome is possible in the playoffs.

  Good luck Sharks. It’s a tough ask, but you can do it.

• 11.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:34 am

  @motomouse(motomouse)-6: I feel the same way as you, but there is still 80 minutes of rugby to play. I can only imagine how much the Sharks would love to win this game.

  Seriously, nobody expects them to win and it would seriously throw the cat amongst the pigeons. I see the Bulls are already basically booking their flights for the quarter final playoffs. Just like last year with the Currie Cup final, where WP had organized a massive post match celebration, printed T-shirts, mugs etc. with the words ‘Currie Cup Champions – 2010′

  There is the little matter of 80 minutes of rugby to play Bulls.

• 12.TheHon:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:40 am

  As a Stormers fan that is still hurting from this past weekend I am not too fond of the bulls(even though I admit they deserved the win). That being said I honestly see only one scenario where the Bulls lose this game. That is if Keo calls publicly for the Bulls to win. That would surely sink them.

• 13.gunther is feeling bullish:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:45 am

  @Taahirah(Taahirah)-4:

  Ominous signs.

  I expect you to pull him to one side this week for a man to man chat.

• 14.Mistral:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:47 am

  I think the Sharks current malaise runs deep. With what’s available I would play Michalak at 10 and Lambie at 12; this would strengthen the midfield. I would also move Terblanche to 15; he is far more effective there with more space – and Ludick has not come anywhere near the form he had before his injury.
  A backline of: 9-McLeod, 10-Michalak, 12-Lambie, 13-Jacobs, 11-Mvovo, 14-Pieterson, 15-Terblanche. Would be a lot better balanced and offer more threat on both attack and defence.
  They also have problems in the forwards, with a distinct problem with balance at lock, Mostert should be the answer but he is also not yet back to his best after injury. WIthout a real fetcher getting the combo right in the loosies is also posing problems. So maybe it would be best to go with two players who can at least play to the ball so, Deysel at 6 and Daniel at 8 with Alberts at 7.
  Player recruitment and retention seems to me be be the Sharks achiles at the moment. A real fetcher is a requirement along with srengthening at Lock and in the centres.
  Offer Sadie and Brussouw the farm I’d say.

• 15.Taahirah:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:51 am

  @gunther is feeling bullish(gunther)-13: lol. Already on it. They practicing at 3, Ill be there.
  Also taking Bjorn an alarm clock.

• 16.Transformation:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:52 am

  @bozo(genius)-8: are you saying john is coaching the sharks and NOT plumtree?

• 17.gunther is feeling bullish:
  15 Jun 2011, 11:55 am

  @Taahirah(Taahirah)-15:

  ja, take him some koeksusters and tell him how it is.

  @Transformation(Transformation)-16:

  well he’s coaching the boks so it would make sense.

• 18.Transformation:
  15 Jun 2011, 12:00 pm

  @gunther is feeling bullish(gunther)-17:

• 19.race of tan:
  15 Jun 2011, 12:36 pm

  I got the bulls to win this one

• 20.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 14:10 pm

  What do Shark supporters do after they beat the Bulls?

  They switch of the Playstation.

  

• 21.wisp:
  15 Jun 2011, 14:13 pm

  this would be may team for saturday
  •15 – Ludick
  14 – Pietersen
  13 – Terblanche (c)
  12 – Michalak
  •11 – Mvovo
  10 – Lambie
  9 – McLeod
  8 – Alberts
  •7 – Deysel
  6 – Daniel
  5 – Hargreaves
  4 – Sykes
  3 – Jannie
  2 – Bismark
  1 – Mtwarira
  Reserves: Smit, Eugene Van Staden, Kankowski, Skeate, Bosman, Adi Jacobs, Jacque-Louis Potgieter.

• 22.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 14:13 pm

  Security has been beefed up for Loftus on Saturday. Shark supporters trying to climb over the wall, will be forced to take their seats and watch the end of the game.

• 23.stew:
  15 Jun 2011, 15:19 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-22: lol

• 24.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 15:38 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-20: Celebrate that our team are in the Currie Cup final ?

• 25.Blitzbok:
  15 Jun 2011, 15:43 pm

  @bozo(genius)-8: What are you talking about? Smit does not dictate the gameplan you ignorant boob. Have you ever heard of Plumtree you twat! but of course the entire game comes down to Smit kicking and **** like that. what a thick ****** you are. Anything to swipe at Smit huh? What about P!ssmark? have all the players running around flustered with stiff backs and orangutan arms, strangling opponents and whining all game. That to your liking? you git! Smit only knows one way to play, bloody cheek.

• 26.Blitzbok:
  15 Jun 2011, 15:44 pm

  @gunther is feeling bullish(gunther)-17: Muir coaches the Boks. the Dork-villiers buys the tutus and makes sure they are pressed and ready for the game.

• 27.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:06 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-20: Just by the way, in Currie Cup rugby, in the last 14 appearances its Sharks 11 – Bulls 3. So, give it a few months and you’ll be the one relying on your playstation for a Bulls win.

• 28.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:08 pm

  @Blitzbok(Blitzbok)-25: Ja – it’s John Smits fault we had to play in two consecutive tri-nations games with 14 men on the field. It was absolutely no fault of the king of dirty play, Bakkies Botha or in the next game, the bright spark, Danie Rossouw.

• 29.Divz:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:13 pm

  The Stormers have revamped their backline for Saturday’s Super Rugby showdown with the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein.
  Last year’s finalists will run on against the Cheetahs in the knowledge that a four-try bonus point win is all that stands between them and home advantage through the play-offs.
  In a bid to achieve this, Juan de Jongh will partner Jaque Fourie at inside centre while Jean de Villiers shifts to the wing. In another positional switch, Gio Aplon slots in at full-back in place of Conrad Jantjies.
  Good news for the Stormers is the return of fly-half Peter Grant, who is joined in the starting XV by Dewaldt Duvenage in place of the injured Ricky Januarie (hand injury).
  The only change to the pack sees Tiaan Liebenberg starting at hooker.
  If the Stormers (on 58 log points) can get the better of the Cheetahs, Allister Coetzee’s team will have the whole of next week off to plan another Newlands semi-final.
  The Cape side needs just one point to win the South African Conference, while the loser between the Bulls and Sharks (both on 53 points) in Pretoria will more than likely be overtaken by the Waratahs and eliminated from the play-off race.
  Stormers: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Jean de Villiers, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Juan de Jongh, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Peter Grant, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Francois Louw, 6 Schalk Burger (c), 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Rynhardt Elstadt, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Tiaan Liebenberg, 1 Wicus Blaauw.
  Replacements: 16 Deon Fourie, 17 Frans Malherbe, 18 Anton van Zyl, 19 Nick Koster, 2o Louis Schreuder, 21 Johann Sadie 22 Conrad Jantjes.
  Date: Saturday, June 18
  Venue: Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein
  Kick-off: 19:10 (17:10 GMT)
  Referee: Marius Jonker (South Africa)
  Assistant referees: Pro Legoete (South Africa), Stefan Breytenbach (South Africa)
  TMO: Johann Meuwesen (South Africa

• 30.Divz:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:15 pm

  with sadie on the bench that looks a lot better than team that played the bulls

• 31.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:16 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-27: It was a joke. Chill. Your team is the best, Bulls have no chance. Feel better?

• 32.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:17 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-31: So was mine a joke except the 11 – 3 part. That’s fact.

• 33.Blitzbok:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:20 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-27: What’s the Super rugby ratio? hehehehe Sharks do well in the watered down CC, which is to Super rugby as junior level Vodacom Cup is to CC. bwahahaha… keep dreaming! Super rugby is what matters. after last year i warned the sharks were not cc contenders, but you all fell into the same dreaming land as previous years. misguided for sure.

• 34.grant10:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:23 pm

  @Blitzbok(Blitzbok)-33: are u piss ed Blitz?

• 35.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:24 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-32: Facts can be used to prove a point. Do some research on the history of the 2 sides. See who won the most? See who won the most CC’s? And so on…

  Don’t take a snippet and use that to prove something. Those are the facts too.

• 36.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:25 pm

  @Blitzbok(Blitzbok)-33: After last year you warned that the Sharks were not contenders ? Last time I looked at the Super rugby log this year, the Bulls and Sharks are on the same log points, both with one game to go. What you on about ?

  Ja – we hammer the Bulls in the Currie Cup – thats for sure. In super rugby its a bit more even. Sharks 6 – Bulls 8 with 3 draws. You going to pluck your little twinkie over two games ?

• 37.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:26 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-35: I wouldn’t say the last 14 games is a snippet. That’s a good couple of years.

• 38.Vetkoek:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:28 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-35:

  The only people who ever mention history in this game are the people who:

  a) Never played it
  b) Never played it well
  c) Don’t know what they are talking about
  d) All of the above

  History counts for nothing. All that matters is the 80 minutes on matchday.

• 39.nama1:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:29 pm

  Was looking for a thread where there are some Bulls supporters.

  Belated congratulations on a good, deserved win on Saturday. Your boys outplayed us. Matfield was huge.

  Your front row were also very good. It seems that people are not giving them the credit they deserve.

  Now for this weekend. You could not have script the last weekend of the SA conference of the competition any better for suspense.

  Stormers need to beat the Cheetahs to ensure a home semi as well as a weekend’s rest.

  Bulls/Sharks both need to win their derby to ensure a place in the play of.

  Bring it on, I say.

• 40.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:31 pm

  @Vetkoek(Vetkoek)-38: Ag ou vatparra – so, I guess you were moerse good at the game hey ? We all bow down to your almighty greatness

  You’re right though. Its the 80 minutes this Saturday that counts.

• 41.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:31 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-37: Yip, it is, but 50 years is better, don’t you think? How many CC titles do they have compared to the Bulls? How many Super titles?

  Must give it to you, the Shark Barbariabns in the 90′s and early 2000′s were awsome. The Free State, All Black, Scot, and French connection worked well.

  In any case, big game on Saturday. All the best, and as in all games, we will only know who will win (have won), after 80 minutes.

• 42.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:33 pm

  @Vetkoek(Vetkoek)-38: Agree, I just responded to a statistical comment. Statistics mean ziltch, zero, nothing. It is the 80 ahead that counts. See post #40

• 43.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:33 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-42: I mean #41

• 44.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:34 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-41: Do you guys have like a school or something you go to that teaches you what to say to supporters of other teams that dominate the Bulls ? Because it always sounds the same.

  I could give a flying **** if the Bulls have played Currie Cup for 600 years. I am talking about the last 14 games. And as I said, that’s not a snippet – that takes us back to around about when you were born.

• 45.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:37 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-44: You brought it up donkey. I made a joke that has been running for years (for all teams). You brought up a snippet to suit you.

  Now lets leave it, okay. Not in the mood to argue with your dominant pshycee. Your team is great, and I’ve always supported them. It is just that I support my team more. So cut it out.

• 46.Vetkoek:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:40 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-40:

  Yes. I was

  The point though is that you can dig up any meaningless stat to support your argument. But in practice it means nothing.

• 47.grant10:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:40 pm

  i see some serious cases of nerves around today.

  by friday this site gonna be on fire!

• 48.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:41 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-44: How old are you tjomma? My guess is early 20′s? Why? Because you say things like “do you guys have LIKE a schhol or something…”. Using the word “like” in that structure, is typical of youngsters.

  Again, you brought the “age” thing up. Not that it matters a flying faark.

• 49.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:41 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-45: Ok – but get the playstation ready for the Currie Cup. You can play in easy mode and then the Bulls should win.

  I hear HB Studios are about to launch a new rugby game just in time for the world cup. Expected launch date 26 August. Start saving your pocket money.

• 50.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:42 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-48: I was just trying to express myself in terms that you would understand. I started off with boo boo baa baa…but then I thought you had to be older than that, as you seem to be able to reach a keyboard.

• 51.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:43 pm

  @Vetkoek(Vetkoek)-46: I bet.

  I am just getting the youngster revved up

• 52.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:43 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-49: Haha

  Use your booze money to buy the game. Or aren’t you allowed to drink yet? Or any more?

• 53.Transformation:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:44 pm

  @grant10(grant10)-34: why you asking if he is “pissed”?

• 54.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:44 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-51: You getting me reffed up? I eat your type for breakfast sonny-boy.

• 55.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:45 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-50: Weak excuse boy.

• 56.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:45 pm

  @grant10(grant10)-47: I am actually not nervous at all. It’s quite clear the Sharks are going to lose. I am just hear to bring some nervous discomfort to the Bulls fans.

• 57.grant10:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:45 pm

  @Transformation(Transformation)-53: he seems helleva beligerent…..sort of off the charts the moer in….i reckon red wine!

• 58.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:47 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-56: That is so typical of someone in denial. You are failing “like huge” in your attempt. In fact, you are just plain childish.

• 59.grant10:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:49 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-56: no Dusky…

  bulls were not that hot….

  Sharks must throw the kitchen sink

  and leave your aura capitano in durbs…

  no need to fear these bulls imo.

• 60.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:49 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-54: I doubt you eat anything except Nestum for breakfast.

  Didn’t you say this : ‘Now lets leave it, okay. Not in the mood to argue with your dominant pshycee. Your team is great, and I’ve always supported them. It is just that I support my team more. So cut it out.’

  That hardly sounds like anyone that has anyone else for breakfast. You could probably have Nathaniel for breakfast by the sounds of things.

• 61.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:49 pm

  Now, have to meet with a client. Big case coming up, check the papers on Friday.

• 62.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:51 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-60: You are a funny guy. Come see me, lets talk. We’ll have a good laugh. We’ll see who is “older”.

• 63.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:51 pm

  @grant10(grant10)-59: I have thought of this quite a lot, and when you look at the Sharks strengths and weaknesses and then the Bulls, it’s going to be very tough going for the Sharks.

  But don’t worry buddy, the Sharks aren’t going to Loftus to lose, but I honestly cant see them beating the Bulls.

• 64.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:52 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-62: Ah – you want to meet me in a parking lot ? And you call me childish ?

  Go do your homework.

• 65.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:52 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-62: Actually, by the sounds of things, I think you would enjoy having Nathaniel over for breakfast.

• 66.Great White Shark:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:53 pm

  It makes me to cringe to say it but the Bools are the real deal.

  On a brighter note, our RWC winning campaign will be built around the cool steady heads of the senior players coming from this team.

  They are potential world beaters at any level of competition and thoroughly deserve the acolades.

• 67.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:53 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-64: In my office. Not to fight. To have a laugh. Are you suggesting something boy? You want to meet me in the Parkie? Come now, you cant be that young?

• 68.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:54 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-65: Are you, how can I put it, mmmm, batting for the other side? Not for me, thanks.

• 69.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:54 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-67: Ok – where are you.

• 70.grant10:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:55 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-63: bulls and sharks are pretty similar.

  sharks have more game breakers in kanko and Michalak.

  no need to fear these okes…..you know exactly what you getting.

  just choose correctly and i tell you now as nite follows day the sharks will win

• 71.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:55 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-68: Oh no, I wasnt the one with the little quivering lip earlier on in this thread. There is only one of us that is likely to be batting for the other side. I have heard there are a lot of moffies in Pretoria.

• 72.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:56 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-65: Relax now, I’m only “revving” you up. It’s only a game, the best team will win. No need to get so uptight.

• 73.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:57 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-69: Bloem.

• 74.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:57 pm

  @grant10(grant10)-70: Geez, you have too much faith in them

  I don’t think the Sharks have beaten the Bulls at Loftus for a long time. So, even history counts against them.

  But hey, I am glad you are confident. Lets see what happens. Like I say, the Sharks wont be going there to lose, and if there is one coach that can read the riot act to his side, its John Plumtree. Who knows, maybe the Sharks will suddenly come alive on Saturday.

• 75.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:57 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-71: Where? Show me.

• 76.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:58 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-73: Me too. Whereabout ?

• 77.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 16:59 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-75: I did already. You not only a kid, but a doff kid as well ?

• 78.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:00 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-76: Lets say First Avenue, Westdene?

• 79.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:00 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-77: You are an idiot. Honestly, no jokes.

• 80.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:01 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-77:

  “You not only a kid, but a doff kid as well ?”

  You are making no sense.

• 81.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:02 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-78: I am staying at the Windmill. Want to meet up ? I am married though.

• 82.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:02 pm

  Have to run. Leave a time and we’ll meet.

• 83.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:04 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-81: I told you, not your type. I also don’t gamble. Westdene. Have to go, let me know.

• 84.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:06 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-81: One last thing, you are welcome to bring someone to represent you.

• 85.justrugby:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:08 pm

  To use a good afrikaans saying ” moer mekaar stukkend, ek haat julle altwee ”

• 86.Dusky:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:09 pm

  @TheAgent(TheAgent)-84: Have a good evening dude. I am not in Bloem – I was trying to call your bluff Well done

  Remember to watch the eclipse tonight. Last time this type of eclipse came around was 11 years ago, and the next one will only be in 2018.

• 87.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:21 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-86: Well played.

  By the way, I am a Sharks fan. Big one, but Bulls first. So stop stressing, Sharks have a chance.

  Cheers.

• 88.vasteses:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:37 pm

  ag shame have you two now kissed and make up, for saturdays game history counts for nothing. But history and looking back at it is very important, and takimg snippets is just as informative than looking at it over n longer period. You two fanny farts

• 89.TheAgent:
  15 Jun 2011, 17:57 pm

  @vasteses(vasteses)-88: Kyk etterblapsie, moenie jy nou jou neus by sake kom insteek waarvan jy niks weet nie. Jou opinie is nie gevra nie, en is totaal en al onrelevant.

  Now, go wash your fanny and talk k@k somewhere else.

  ;-0

• 90.kwas:
  15 Jun 2011, 18:45 pm

  Johannesburg – Springbok winger Bryan Habana’s request for a R21-million contract has been turned down by French big spenders, Toulon because he is “too expensive”.

  Would anyone want him for free?

• 91.goyougoodthing2:
  15 Jun 2011, 19:00 pm

  @kwas(kwas)-90: doubt it

• 92.Heavens Game:
  15 Jun 2011, 19:14 pm

  @kwas(kwas)-90: Its funny that. Frans Steyn is on double base.

• 93.I am a stormer:
  15 Jun 2011, 20:54 pm

  At least we know Bryan is back in the market again. Just didn’t deliver the Stormers unfortunately.

  Him and that Naqalafukkazuki stifled the home grown talent. And there’s plenty of that coming through now.

• 94.TASSIES:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:07 pm

  @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-93: nand Mnr Stormer. Couldn’t agree more. Hindsight is a perfect science no doubt but that science says; both did not deliver good value for money. Local is lekker certainly trumps the over-valued imports..

• 95.I am a stormer:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:14 pm

  @TASSIES(TASSIES)-94:

  Howzit tassies. One thing that Rassie must be given credit for is all the youngsters coming through at the moment. I think of Sadie, JDJ, Elstadt, Koster, JJ Engelbrecht, van Aswegen, Whitehead bodes well for the future. I hope we are able to keep all of them there.
  The fact that other provinces and supporters are talking about our players shows that Rassie is doing something right.

• 96.wooden spoon: Plumtree must go:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:22 pm

  @Dusky(Dusky)-74: “I don’t think the Sharks have beaten the Bulls at Loftus for a long time. So, even history counts against them.”

  Erm… in Super rugby the Sharks won on their 2nd last visit to Loftus, as recently as 2008.

  29 – 15

  In 2010, the last time in Loftus, the Bulls won 27 – 18.

  Purely a misconception you have dreamed up

• 97.kevin w:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:24 pm

  Habs to replace Oupa at 13 for the Sharks!

• 98.wooden spoon: Plumtree must go:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:26 pm

  @kevin w(kevin w)-97: Ag please man, remember that game when Habana played 13 for the Boks vs Ireland? Turnstile central. Absolute defensive shambles. No thanks.

• 99.I am a stormer:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:29 pm

  @kevin w(kevin w)-97:

  With my blessing. It’ll free us up to keep Sadie and JDJ.

  He’s quite expensive by all accounts, particularly when his daddy gets involved.

• 100.ashampoopaloo:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:29 pm

  so even when skops not around the ouens wanna moer mekaar in parking lots and what have you.. and here I was thinking I’m the one bringing the status quotient down

  shows it must have something to do with this neanderthals football game everyone gets so mightily hit up about.

• 101.TASSIES:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:30 pm

  @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-95: couldn’t agree more. And there are plenty more behind them. Watching young Etsabeth bardge through the Irish at the U20 RWC is a case in point. But yes, plenty of talent this side of the Hex River still to be mined IMO.

• 102.ashampoopaloo:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:32 pm

  Habana is a legend in his own infatuated blessed up koptoe kop, he ain’t even a team player, just a solo legendary loner with a massive ego problemo, seems rugby has sold its soul right down the Swanee mercenary river a long long time ago… anyway back to brass tacks?.. nah… doubt it much

• 103.I am a stormer:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:41 pm

  @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-102:

  This is the sort of Stormers team I would envisage in 2012.

  15 Aplon
  14 Sadie
  13 Jaque
  12 JDJ
  11 JJ Engelbrecht
  10 van Aswegen
  9 Duvenhage
  8 Vermeulen
  7 Elstadt
  6 Schalk
  5 Bekker
  4 Eben Etsebeth
  3 Brok
  2 Liebenberg
  1 Blaauw

  And there’s still Koster, rooi-kop Etsebeth, Deon Fourie,Lionel Cronje, JDV etc on the bench.

• 104.TASSIES:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:46 pm

  @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-103: JdV on the bench is like leaving the Picasso’s in the storeroom on exhibition day.

• 105.wooden spoon: Plumtree must go:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:51 pm

  I’d love to know which way skoppie sees the Bulls/Sharks going this weekend… his two least favourite teams… hates them with a passion… usually he backs the underdog but I can’t see him saying a nice thing about the Sharks

• 106.TASSIES:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:51 pm

  seriously, Rassie and Co have developed a serious and structured support base of talent, who have been groomed and managed exceptionally well to slot into the shoes of older departing shoes. Players want to stay in the setup but when and if they decide to move on, there always seems to be a young talent waiting in the wings. Supporting evidence: the two young props, the long string of young No 10′s and so on. Rassie is planning ahead.

• 107.I am a stormer:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:54 pm

  @TASSIES(TASSIES)-104:

  I hear you. I’m a huge JDV fan. Always have been. But. Life goes on. These guys only have such a long shelf life. In this professional set-up one sometimes has to be brutal.
  JDV is approaching 30 if not already. And he’s still in the match 22. It’s not like I’ve ditched him like I did Bryan. The guys I have selected are the future.
  And the future looks bright.

• 108.TASSIES:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:55 pm

  @wooden spoon: Plumtree must go(wooden spoon)-105: its getting close to Xmas WS. Chill in the air is entirely your imagination. You might get lucky. It’s the Bulls remember. Guppies lesser of two evils.

• 109.ashampoopaloo:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:57 pm

  103.I am a stormer: 15 Jun 2011, 21:41 pm

  This is the sort of Stormers team I would envisage in 2012.

  15 Aplon
  14 Sadie
  13 Jaque
  12 JDJ
  11 JJ Engelbrecht
  10 van Aswegen
  9 Duvenhage
  8 Vermeulen
  7 Elstadt
  6 Schalk
  5 Bekker
  4 Eben Etsebeth
  3 Brok
  2 Liebenberg
  1 Blaauw

  And there’s still Koster, rooi-kop Etsebeth, Deon Fourie,Lionel Cronje, JDV etc on the bench.

  Or you could go

  Viljoen
  Poolman
  Sadie
  JdJ
  Engelbrecht
  Van Aswegen
  Duvenhage
  Koster
  Elstadt
  Carr
  Bekker
  Etsebeth
  Harris
  Fourie
  Blaauw

  Kitschoff, Liebenberg, Steenkamp, Vermeulen, Schreuder, Cronje, Aplon

  JdV, Burger, Fourie, Coleman

  where that Venter in die center No.12 at u20′s from? wtf happened to the all promising Elgar Watts? who’s the No.2 hooker at u20′s? where is the No.15 and No.10 and No.8 from?

• 110.TASSIES:
  15 Jun 2011, 21:57 pm

  @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-107: Yip but Jean is playing some of the best rugby of his career. He’s also the de facto leader of the backline and what a backline that can be when firing. I’d mark him down first. rest to follow.

• 111.TASSIES:
  15 Jun 2011, 22:00 pm

  @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-109: I buy that thinking Skop. Good teams.

• 112.TASSIES:
  15 Jun 2011, 22:04 pm

  I’m outta here. Night girls. Book beckoning.

• 113.ashampoopaloo:
  15 Jun 2011, 22:05 pm

  I reckon Bully Brekers gonna catch a fright Saturday, they were by no means as dominant at Newlands as Keohane and most Bully Breker disciples like to believe, they were actually Stormpies bevrees and played kak, only that Schalk and Bekker and Januarie and Habana were even more Bully Breker bevrees and played even kakker.

  If Lambie and Michalak and Bismark and Beast and Alberts and Deysel and JPP and Mvovo wake up and don’t step back like Stormers did for 70 minutes last week, Sharks can actually pull an upset in Tswane Town under the Jacaranda trees and show the Bully Breeks they not as super duper invincible as they might have thought they are.

  Between, Ludick, Bosman, Terblanche, Steyn, WO, Pretorius and Kirchner you might have the most mediocre one dimensional backs parading around in world rugby. Only the 4 wings got any gas and any rugby revolutionary rectitude going the other 6 or 7 half participants are a snore a minute if and when they get hold of the ball.

• 114.ashampoopaloo:
  15 Jun 2011, 22:06 pm

  @TASSIES(TASSIES)-112: night Oom Tass

• 115.I am a stormer:
  15 Jun 2011, 22:13 pm

  @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-109:

  1 Your team is dependent on Viljoen going to the Cape. Hope it happens.
  2 Poolman is solid – but never really impressed me. Rather have Sadie there.
  3 You left out Jaque – not sure what his plans are post WC -hope he re-signs with WPRU.

  Elgar Watts is with Boland – should’ve started ahead of Coleman as he played in a couple of the warm-up games before the S15.
  That young 10 with the baby Boks is Johan Goosen – from the Free State. That’s one to watch.
  Not sure of the others.

• 116.ashampoopaloo:
  15 Jun 2011, 22:27 pm

  @I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-115:

  I’d possibly go

  9 Duvenhage, 10 Van Aswegen, 11 Engelbrecht, 12 JdJ, 13 Sadie, 14 Fourie, 15 Aplon / Viljoen

• 117.gunther is nazi-loving german rent-boy:
  15 Jun 2011, 23:01 pm

  this former nazi-loving sadf township oppressor boring us to death again with his team compilations which bizarrely includes players that have no inclination to sign for the stormers!

• 118.ashampoopaloo:
  15 Jun 2011, 23:04 pm

  aah what the fck does this self confessed stupefied dumb idiot know about anything let alone rugby?

• 119.gunther is nazi-loving german rent-boy:
  15 Jun 2011, 23:41 pm

  the dumb prick trying to soothe his conscious by allowing his labourers to sit in the front seat of his bakkie thus believing it will transform him into an english speaking cape liberal.how the fck can a springs nazi lover believes he can transform himself into a cape liberal?

• 120.TheAgent:
  16 Jun 2011, 00:10 am

  Wow. Van Asweging must be good as everyone rates him higher than Cronje?

  @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-116: Aplon’s position is non-negotiable at this stage.

  Next year, if de Villiers go and Viljoen moves to Cape Town;

  Viljoen
  Fourie
  Sadie
  de Jongh
  Aplon
  Cronje
  Duvenhage
  Vermeulen
  Elstadt
  Burger/Koster
  Bekker
  Fondse
  Harris
  Fourie
  Blaauw

• 121.cab:
  16 Jun 2011, 00:27 am

  It should be a tight game, there’s not much seperating the top 3 SA teams, they all have their pros and cons.

  The Stormers v Cheetahs game promises to also be a humdinger, the tahs are in spectacular form, reckon not many sides will get a result in bloem at teh moment.

• 122.TheAgent:
  16 Jun 2011, 00:34 am

  News 24:

  Stormers after Hougaard, Bulls after Sadie. Interesting.

• 123.bryce_in_oz:
  16 Jun 2011, 02:19 am

  @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-109:

  Dream on both of you… two players of colour in a 22 does not cut it in RSA!

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