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4 Apr 2012
PERCY MONTGOMERY says Frans Steyn must rejoin the Sharks and play at inside centre for the Springboks.
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PERCY MONTGOMERY says Frans Steyn must rejoin the Sharks and play at inside centre for the Springboks.
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4 Apr 2012, 11:44 am
Percy not punting JDV??
4 Apr 2012, 11:51 am
Why the hell does Percy talk like Keo? Is it something in HSM’s building?
Good to have Francois back, let’s get him playing before we start picking him for the Boks.
4 Apr 2012, 11:54 am
Percy and Keo are spending too much time together.
They are even starting to dress the same.
4 Apr 2012, 12:02 pm
No no no noooo JDV playing on the wing. I’d have him play touch rugby on the beach.
We have wings ( Mvovo, Bason, Pietersen Habana, le Roux, JJ…..the list goes on and on) we don’t need to play guys out of position just to accommodate them, hopefully that frame of mind has passed.
4 Apr 2012, 12:02 pm
Poor Percy. Good rugby brain. But not much between the ears intellectually.
4 Apr 2012, 12:03 pm
Percy, lower your b1tc5 hand. It’s annoying enough when Keohane & Vrede do it.
Glad he’s coming back, and that it looks like he’ll finally be playing 12 exclusively.
But deep down I wish he’d join the Cheetahs
Him alongside Goosen would be a heck of a combination.
At least he isn’t joining the Lions. No point playing Vodacom Cup rugby in 2013.
4 Apr 2012, 12:06 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-3: As long as Percy does’nt wear Keo’s monster size pink tie he pulled out the cupboard last year.
4 Apr 2012, 12:06 pm
Come on, Percy. This is as dignified as George Foreman selling those grilling machines.
4 Apr 2012, 12:10 pm
You can’t blame poor Perce.
He went to SACS after all.
Hardly a giant amongst schools.
4 Apr 2012, 12:13 pm
percy is desperate, he needs money for ‘pap geld’…
4 Apr 2012, 12:13 pm
Well not a great deal of thinking there. Of course Fransie will play 12 for Boks if his world cup performance is anything to go on. He was sublime there.
And if he comes back to the Sharks that is a bonus for us Sharkies.
Welcome back Fransie.
4 Apr 2012, 12:15 pm
@hendrikp(hendrikp)-6: Fransie alongside Lambie is just as brilliant.
4 Apr 2012, 12:16 pm
With JPP or Whitehead at 13 with Fransie at 12 and Lambie at 10. Awesome!
4 Apr 2012, 12:16 pm
everyone swooning doing triple backward somersaults to lay the red carpet down for this over fed koptoe meneer as if we don’t have sufficient talents here to fulfill the position
I say he turned his back on SA rugby to go chase the money.. let him keep chasing the money.. and those who stuck it out and stayed true to their franchises and their country should be given the opportunity ahead of him.. He ain’t the be all and end all of first centers in SA, we got others as good to do justice there.
4 Apr 2012, 12:20 pm
I would..uh.. play Frans..uh.. at 12 because..uh….
Ag nee fo kkit man. Rehearse julle nie bietjie nie.
4 Apr 2012, 12:20 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-14: kuk.
anyways, jdv went to munster didnt he?
and liebenberg went somewhere (who gives a toss?)
your team is full of mercs
4 Apr 2012, 12:21 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-14: Like you chasing millions building k akhuise in die platteland.
4 Apr 2012, 12:22 pm
internet download manager.
never download it people.
so the long and the short is i cant be arsed to download the vid, is fransie coming back home to the sharks or what?
(must be judging by skopkuks tirade lol)
4 Apr 2012, 12:22 pm
Hougaard
Goosen
JdJ, JdV,
Engelbrecht, Aplon
Taute
(Duvenhage / Mcleod / Meyer / Shreuder),
Lambie,
(Habana / Basson / Fourie / Viljoen / Le Roux)
4 Apr 2012, 12:22 pm
Percy, you’re a good bloke, but stick to kicking coaching bud. Commentating is not really for you…..
And whilst we’re at it, same goes for Vic. I hate it when they assume players will automatically be great commentators.
Glad Fransie is coming back to the Sharks though! Great news. Maybe they can ship off Timmie to the Stormers again…..The Grey PE boys are just no good.
4 Apr 2012, 12:24 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE(KWAGGA ROBERTSE)-17: heaven forbid fransie was lured by…..ech..blech….PROFIT!!!!!
****** commies shouldnt be allowed to use the internet, if iit was up to them we would all still be planting wheat and trudging back to our hovels to cuddle up next to a pig for warmth.
4 Apr 2012, 12:24 pm
Little Joe, Grant etc.
Fuckadilly is wishing he kept quiet.
4 Apr 2012, 12:25 pm
Funny how last year some bloggers were calling for his selection and now he is an over fed kop toe meneer??
4 Apr 2012, 12:25 pm
@logie_Jumpbuck(logie_Jumpbuck)-20: haha, vic is the most arbitrary commentator on tv.
sure, his insights are great but he just doesnt have the……tv personality?
4 Apr 2012, 12:26 pm
JdV went to Munster toward the end of his career as a stop gap fill in for one season, he didn’t run after the mega buck bonanza at age 21 with his entire international career ahead of him..
F. Steyn reckons he’s bigger than the game and the big fish that SA rugby cannot do without.. I say bullshit there are plenty players here as good if not better to fill his overrated koptoe money grubbing booties…
4 Apr 2012, 12:27 pm
@THE MAULER(THE MAULER)-23: because he isnt joining the stormers bud, thats all.
some like skop take it as a personal insult.
4 Apr 2012, 12:28 pm
Definitely should be first receiver. Francois is big and strong enough to take the first defender and in most cases pile drive through the first defender, which gives The Sharks backline go forward ball. Tim Whitehead and JP Pietersen to alternate for the 13 jersey and there you have the makings of a very healthy combination outside Fred (Lambie will be back eventually to add the extra X- factor).
Riaan Viljoen at fullback to add a supercharger to the backline engine will make this team one of the most dangerous in the Super 15.
4 Apr 2012, 12:28 pm
Skoppie, engage that old melon of yours before typing.
4 Apr 2012, 12:28 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-19: Hougaard
Goosen
(JdJ / JdV ), (JPP / Fourie)
Engelbrecht, Aplon
Taute (Duvenhage / Mcleod / Meyer / Shreuder),
Lambie,
(Habana / Basson / Viljoen / Le Roux)
4 Apr 2012, 12:29 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-18: Sounds like Fransie is coming back to the Sharks Ranger. Not just from this clip, but reading it on all sites now. Would be awesome.
4 Apr 2012, 12:29 pm
Yeah true… It means an all Stormers centre partnership no more…
4 Apr 2012, 12:29 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-29:
Hougaard
Goosen
(JdJ / JdV ), (JPP / Fourie)
Engelbrecht, Aplon
Taute / Viljoen
(Duvenhage / Mcleod / Meyer / Shreuder),
Lambie,
(Habana / Basson / Le Roux)
4 Apr 2012, 12:30 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-25: haha, jdv went at the end of his career and then returned, played in a world cup and is still playing for the stormers?
idiot.
fransie is very smart. his financial future is secure and now he can focus on being an even bigger legend, he has six years til he is where jdv is.
what a guy!
4 Apr 2012, 12:30 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-24: Exactly….No doubt he’ll get better, but he’ll never be a Hugh Bladen or Spiekeries. Lineout coaching is his forte.
4 Apr 2012, 12:31 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-26: haha. Was just about to post that. Definitely cause he is coming to the Sharks now some don’t rate him? Let them dream on. Fransie is the best inside centre in this country and one of the best in the world. For me he was the best 12 during the wc until he got injured. Pure class.
4 Apr 2012, 12:32 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-26: Had he gone to the stormers skop’s kortbroek’s zip would’nt be able to hold back the raging stiff he would’ve had for the rest of the day.
4 Apr 2012, 12:32 pm
Hopefully Frans will be in the Sharks team when they play the Stormers later this season in Durban.
Then he can be measured against the real deals (de Villiers and de Jongh) and see if he can “re-produce” his world cup performance against minnows Namibia and Samoa.
If he can……. then we might be in business.
4 Apr 2012, 12:32 pm
Stormers most definitely do NOT need another koptoe legend in their arsenal.. far better this koptoe mercenary joins the other koptoe mercenaries in Sharkievarkie country..
4 Apr 2012, 12:33 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-25:
No he just saw Pieter duh Villiers as an idiot and didn’t want to have his entire Bok career damaged because of one madhatter dingbat. He’s a smart kid. Like Fourie du Preez, he sees duh Villiers’ departure as a resurgence of his Bok career again.
Francois was the Boks only hope in the RWC until he was injured.
4 Apr 2012, 12:33 pm
@Puma(Puma)-30: man thats exciting news!
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-32: @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-29: @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-19: what is this sh i t? stop it immediately.
and where is peter grant?
4 Apr 2012, 12:34 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-40: en Bolla……
4 Apr 2012, 12:35 pm
@Puma(Puma)-35: yebo, has been for 4 years or more imo.
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE(KWAGGA ROBERTSE)-36:
and …..sies!
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-38: he didnt really give you that option now did he?
4 Apr 2012, 12:37 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE(KWAGGA ROBERTSE)-41: haha, not even skop is that insane surely?
dont forget, skop is the guy who told nick mallet what he was doing wrong.
once upon a time in a parking lot somewhere.
when nick was reversing.
4 Apr 2012, 12:38 pm
Lol @ Ranger! He has to add Grant!
4 Apr 2012, 12:39 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-37: The “real deal” Donkey…
The master of:
- The “no” pass
- Tuck and run, head down and fck the team mates
- On a rare break (as in WC QF) pass the ball forward
- The “no” tackle…
Yup, Fransie’s really going to “struggle” against this Munster “legend”…
LOL. Got to hand it to you, probably your funniest comment ever…
Numbnut
4 Apr 2012, 12:39 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-43:
Car guards think they know everything.
4 Apr 2012, 12:39 pm
Skop, if you’re so dead set against money chasing mercenaries, why do you bracket Fourie’s name in at centre in all your fantasy teams. Doesn’t his R22mil over 2 years represent the biggest money chase in the history of rugby?
4 Apr 2012, 12:39 pm
@White Shark(Predawn)-27: Tjoppie and Frans in the same team. Imagine the two of them having a pi ssing contest in a game to see who can nail the biggest penatly.
Farked from anything within 65m to 70m.
4 Apr 2012, 12:40 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-9: In your wet dreams.
4 Apr 2012, 12:40 pm
So the Sharks backline will consist of:
9. Mcloud
10. Pat
11. Mvvvvvvvovu
12. Steyn
13. Bosman
14. JP.
15. ???? (Taute once they’ve bought him
Not look bad thus far.
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