Solly satisfied with Kings’ ‘trials’

Solly satisfied with Kings’ ‘trials’

17 Feb 2012

Kings coach Alan Solomons says their pre-season matches were all about giving players from across the region the chance to stake a Super Rugby claim.

The South-Eastern Cape franchise has fielded two different teams over the past three weeks against the five South African Super Rugby sides. The Kings team made up of EP players lost 16-12 to the Bulls and 38-13 to the Stormers in PE, and will play the Sharks at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Friday night. The Kings side drawn only from Border and SWD, the other two provinces in the franchise, went down 33-20 to the Cheetahs in East London before being thrashed 88-0 by the Lions in George.

‘To play five South African franchises in 20 days is a huge ask, in fact it’s physically impossible to do it with one side,’ Solomons told keo.co.za. ‘Having a combined Border-SWD team helped to break up that schedule. More importantly, it gave us the chance to see all the players in the region play against top quality opposition, which enables us to assess them better. That’s what we wanted to achieve from these five games, nothing more.’

Border players dominated the Border-SWD Kings side and while they were humiliated by the Lions, Solomons says he was pleased with their performance against the Cheetahs.

‘[Border centre] Dwayne Jenner did really well in that game and he’s going to play for us against the Sharks on Friday with Jaco Bekker being out. I was also impressed by [Border flank] Roy Bursey, a young boy from Selborne College who spent a year at the Sharks Academy. [Border flank] Gareth Krause and [SWD No 8] Michael Vermaak also played very well.’

Solomons, though, is realistic and admits the Kings will have to bring in players from outside the region if they are to be competitive in Super Rugby next year.

‘We will be going on a recruitment drive, targeting South Africans in Europe who will be out of contract in June at the end of the current northern-hemisphere season, as well as players from other South African provinces, especially those who hail from the Eastern Cape.’

Southern Kings (to play Sharks) – 15 Tiger Mangweni, 14 Marcello Sampson, 13 Dwayne Jenner, 12 Wayne Stevens, 11 Norman Nelson, 10 Shane Gates, 9 Falie Oelschig, 8 Vleis Engelbrecht, 7 Mpho Mbiyozo, 6 Boetie Britz, 5 David Bulbring, 4 Darron Nell (c), 3 Clint Newland, 2 Hannes Franklin, 1 Jaco Engels.
Subs: 16 Bobby Dyer, 17 Zane Killian, 18 Andre Schlechter, 19 Wayne van Heerden, 20 Reynier Bernardo, 21 Thembelani Bholi, 22 Siya Mangaliso, 22 Danie Faasen, 23 Earl Rose, 24 Matthew Tayler-Smith, 25 Kieran Goss.

By Simon Borchardt, in Port Elizabeth


401 Comments

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  • 201.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:12 pm

    Indeed artist.

  • 202.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:12 pm

    @Taahirah(Taahirah)-191:

    hold your smiley still and let me get my pliers.

  • 203.clm: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:12 pm

    @Taahirah(Taahirah)-191: you are nothing but an ‘uncle tom’ character on this forum.

  • 204.Mr Black: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:13 pm

    I wonder how he and his father-in-law gets along? :lol:

  • 205.Bod: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:14 pm

    Despite having the words of Die Stem forced down my gullet by all and sundry as I grew up on a daily mothereffing basis I never got to learn the words.

    Never knew em, still dont and never will

    Begone you racist infidel….

  • 206.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:15 pm

    If I was his father in law ek sou vir hom lankal uit die huis uit geskop het.

    I think the father in law is offshore.

    Bride looks foreign.

  • 207.Bod: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:16 pm

    @charo(charo)-199: So does Katman

  • 208.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:17 pm

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-188:

    how many BEE points is Omar worth?

    I mean what are his struggle credentials?

    apart from dropped suspension and freeflow ricoffee exhaust on his man utd mark 1 golf?

  • 209.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:17 pm

    @Sheriff(Sheriff)-200: Come on, eerwaarde sheriff, don’t ignore my posts on the subject just because they’re tricksy. Tell me why most coloured people don’t sing either part of the anthem. What kind of racist does that make them?

    Also, do you think Die Stem is belted out by black folk across the country when the anthem is played? Be honest.

  • 210.Taahirah: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:17 pm

    @clm(clm)-203: It takes all sorts.

  • 211.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:18 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-189:

    Dawn, you are unknowingly trying to show me that you care about me. Well done.

    I have your best interests at heart as well.

  • 212.clm: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:21 pm

    @Taahirah-Uncle Tom(Taahirah) -210: if you say so tom.

  • 213.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:21 pm

    I don’t care two jots.

    I was pointed in that direction by someone else you are trying to stalk. Unsuccessfully.

  • 214.Taahirah: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:22 pm

    @Sheriff(Sheriff)-200: Ever made room for the following possibilities:

    (1) Not singing the anthem coz I simply dont know it.
    (2)Not doing so coz I think its the result of cheap politicking, a laslappieskombers
    (3)Not belting it out coz I sound like a poodle being loved by Capo
    (4) Not partaking coz I consider patriotism to be the last refug of the scoundrel.

    Etc.

    Yet. For you its a clearcut case of racism?

  • 215.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:22 pm

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-179:

    Embrace your own colouredness; are you not of mixed origin?

  • 216.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:22 pm

    @Bod(bod)-205:

    you have your own anthem in edgemead don’t you?

    @Dawn(Dawn)-206:

    mail order bride?

    on the SACOS expense account.

    maybe she is latvian.

    we shall ask nils.

  • 217.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:23 pm

    @the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-208: He scores big points for regular Galaxy attendance.

  • 218.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:24 pm

    @Sheriff(Sheriff)-215: Dodge, dodge dodge…

    You know, you can just say that you don’t have an answer. No shame in that.

  • 219.Taahirah: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:24 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-206: Mail order?

  • 220.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:24 pm

    :lol:

  • 221.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:25 pm

    @the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-208:

    You get so worked up when you reply to my posts; I read yours and just get a sense of anxiety/sweaty palms

    Calm down, order your thoughts and then write

  • 222.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:25 pm

    @Taahirah(Taahirah)-219: Even that was a mistake. He thought it was a male order catalogue.

  • 223.clm: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:26 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-206: don’t come here with your xenophobic attitude.

  • 224.Bod: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:26 pm

    @the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-216: Yip. Its called something like “10 bullet points on how to avoid inbreeding”

  • 225.Jeraldjay: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:26 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-220:
    Dawn, have you been to the Galaxy.

  • 226.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:27 pm

    Clm

    Klim in jou moer in

  • 227.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:28 pm

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-209:

    Mate, I think you drive the dodge

    All people of colour I know, know the anthem – you will have to post a clip on youtube to show the contrary

    I will concede that some may mispronounce some of the words, but to the best of my knowledge they all sing the full anthem

  • 228.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:29 pm

    What cullart worth their salt HASN’T been to Galaxy

  • 229.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:29 pm

    @Sheriff(Sheriff)-227: Kak.

  • 230.Jeraldjay: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:29 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-228:
    :lol:

  • 231.Bod: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:30 pm

    ‘The worlds greatest one day machine” has just been hammered.

    Luverly

  • 232.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:30 pm

    Katman drives a Dodge?

    Who knew!

  • 233.clm: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:32 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-226: why don’t you jump kaalgat into the cabin with uncle tom alias taahira

  • 234.Taahirah: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:32 pm

    @Sheriff(Sheriff)-227: How many “people of colour” DO you know?

  • 235.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:32 pm

    I like it when I hear Afrikaans music when the guys next door are having a braai.

    I like that there are only 3 kids in that house, not 6.

    I like that they like rugby and not soccer.

    I like that they don’t believe in sacrificing cows in the back yard.

    I like that they don’t have regular family get togethers numbering between 20 and 30 cars, all with personalised number plates like “Mr. Cool” or “Jabulani 1″ on their financed-with-a-massive-balloon-payment Beamers and Mercs.

    I like that these neighbours likely share a lot of my interests.

    And for safety reasons, I like that they will make it easier to identify “suspicious persons” in the neighbourhood.

    Now, all of the above mean that I like to live in a comfort zone. So sue me.

  • 236.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:32 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-213:

    Caring is a sign of moral character and strength.

    Im comfortable with that. As long as you are not secretly in love with me. That I will not allow or approve.

  • 237.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:32 pm

    I used to DJ at a cullart night club in Athlone in the 90′s.

    The cullarts loved me so they did.

    for about a month.

    :lol:

  • 238.Mr Black: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:33 pm

    Be carefull folks, Sheriff will psycho analyze your as s, its his profession.

  • 239.clm: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:34 pm

    what happened to that ***** ‘suffer guy’? typical white scum.when they can’t win the debate they resort to nick stealing.

  • 240.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:35 pm

    @the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-237: Should have kept the Nirvana in the box. That sht either works or it doesn’t.

  • 241.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:35 pm

    @Taahirah(Taahirah)-214:

    You must reflect on the matter privately.

    I’ve tabled it, so you can research and draw your own conclusions. See what I’ve done as guidance.

  • 242.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:35 pm

    @Bod(bod)-224:

    please man.

    there are more working class expat poms in edgemead than there are in Marbella.

    Southenders.

  • 243.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:35 pm

    At last. Toga Tac is back.

  • 244.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:36 pm

    @clm(clm)-239: That’s rich, sodomite. How many nics have you had here?

  • 245.willievz: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:36 pm

    Nee kyk, dinge gaan weer lekker hier vandag :lol:

  • 246.Sheriff: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:38 pm

    @Taahirah(Taahirah)-234:

    A lot

  • 247.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:38 pm

    Sheriff. So glad I made your day.

    Now leave me and my buddies alone, freak.

  • 248.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:38 pm

    @Tacitus(Deucalion)-235: Fair enough, but don’t bleat too confidently about the personalised number plates. Your women are very fond of their Bokkie-1 and Koekie-1 plates.

  • 249.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:38 pm

    @willievz(willievz)-245:

    Almal is gatvol gewag vir die rugby om te begin.

  • 250.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    17 Feb 2012, 12:38 pm

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-240:

    :lol:

    one particularly aggressive young man (he may have been Omar) wearing a Luther Vandroos T shirt accused me of (joupoes) killing the floor.

    In the words of Robin Auld I told I killed bigger floors than that.

    The booze was free though and the drugs were better than anything you could get in Sea Point.

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