Whoops I forgot about Flip van der Merwe… but still the Bulls are short at lock. The next in line presumably would be Cornell Hess who has had no significant game-time outside of Vodacom Cup. Not sure how good he is if anyone would care to enlighten me?

Lock? They don’t have a lock crisis as such. Compared to the Bulls who have only got (the promising) Juandre Kruger, (the alright but will always be average) Fudge Mabeta…. and then nothing. They’d be wasting their money going after Franco van der Merwe. Hargreaves is a good player who’s gotten bigger the last few years. Ross Skeate can do a job there. Anton Bresler looks highly promising. And Jandre Marais looks just as good. He could jump into the starting line-up in the next couple of years.

The Sharks crisis is at centre. Having brought Michalak in, do they really want to play Lambie at 12 (or more likely 15)? I don’t think it’s fair on Lambie at all. They are probably looking at having another S15 season with Meyer Bosman at 12. May as well play with 14 men because at least then someone will attempt to make a real tackle. Bosman has to be the worst 12 I’ve seen play consistently for an SA team since Grant Rees. The Sharks really were stupid to have wasted the talent of Andries Strauss by never playing him.

And Marius Joubert. I had high hopes that he could go in at the Sharks and really do something good. But after the weekends game I’m thinking he’d do well to just match Stefan Terblanche. The standard of the French Top 14 must be piss-poor if he had a ‘sublime’ career over there. He no longer has that zip that he had back in 2002-2003 (8 years ago, thats probably why).

Outside of centre, the Sharks are fine. They balance the books by holding a smallish roster, but the players know where they stand and they never seem to have injury crisis at any positions.

The Sharks have some VERY promising young front row forwards coming through. Dale Chadwick, Kyle Cooper, Wiehann Herbst and then we still have Jannie Du Plessis, Beast Mtwarira, Eugene Van Staden and Bismark….

Sharks problem is not front row. Sharks need locks quite desperately, and I believe they are going after Franco Vd. Merwe.

@mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-15: I have always thought CJ is a bit timid. He has about the aggression factor of a gummy bear. No mongrel at all.

I just hope they never replace BJ with CJ in the same match…BJ for CJ…. people will think who knows what of our half time team talk.

Does that even need an answer?

Mr slip the bind van der Fatsh*t is kak!

Stormer saviour…ummm nope

Bok saviour…umm not a f*ck-just gives intercepts to ben Foden

Watch BJ do the same thing only being SLIGHTLY better than CJ.

BJ,CJ…..never been,never will be

Bok rugby hasnt had a decent Tighthead since Cobus Visagie & Willie Meyer.

And it continues to be bleak.

Jannie is incumbent and no one is better than him at present however kak he is.

deal with it

You just gave Grant a new topic for a week, John vs CJ

he the penalty king along with steggmann bwaaahahahahaaaaaaaa