Barritt in line for top award
25 Apr 2012
England and Saracens centre Brad Barritt has made the shortlist for the Premiership Player of the Year award.
The South African has played an influential role for Saracens and has been rewarded with a call-up to the England national side this season. Barritt is one of six nominated for the award, the other five being England and Harlequins skipper Chris Robshaw, another Harlequin in Mike Brown, Julian Salvi of Leicester, Nick Wood of Gloucester, and James Scaysbrook of Exeter.
Leicester’s Richard Cockerill, Exeter’s Rob Baxter and Harlequins’ Conor O’Shea are up for Director of Rugby of the Season.
The winners of both awards will be announced on 8 May.
28 Comments
25 Apr 2012, 07:10 am
James who??
Schalk Britz?
25 Apr 2012, 07:11 am
these dragons would not make any of the top 4 S15 sides
25 Apr 2012, 07:52 am
They dont even have coaches anymore in England they have Directors of Rugby. Professionalism much.
25 Apr 2012, 07:53 am
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-2:
my feeling too
25 Apr 2012, 08:00 am
@Sasuke(Sasuke)-3:
Reinventing the wheel!
25 Apr 2012, 08:03 am
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-2: Barrit was a great servant of Sharks rugby – i am sure they would love to have him back at the moment.
Barrit / Murray combination was quite a useful combo
25 Apr 2012, 08:11 am
Good on you Barrit! Hope you have a great career that side!
25 Apr 2012, 08:28 am
and quotas claims another victim – just look at cricket – 2 of the top batsmen in the world atm : Trott & pietersen … can’t wait till my kid wears the All Black jersey one day, doing the haka!
25 Apr 2012, 08:36 am
@grant10(grant100)-8: Your kid must cringe when he reads keo.
25 Apr 2012, 08:39 am
@grant10(grant100)-8: You have a kid? Who’s the unlucky lady?
25 Apr 2012, 08:43 am
Dawn
i’m the unlucky one
25 Apr 2012, 08:53 am
@grant10(grant100)-8: who were the quotas in front of barritt, jean de villiers & francois steyn? fokkof!
25 Apr 2012, 08:54 am
J de Jongh
25 Apr 2012, 09:04 am
@grant10(grant100)-8: Move to Bishop Lavis. They’ll love you there.
25 Apr 2012, 09:07 am
we almost lost Joe P because of Jantjes …
25 Apr 2012, 09:17 am
@stew(stew)-6:
Yes. I think he should have being a Bok when he was with Natal. our Aaron Mauger.
25 Apr 2012, 09:18 am
Barrit is a solid player.pity there were pretty good i centres around.he would have been miles ahead of meisiekind with the green n gold.
25 Apr 2012, 09:47 am
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-2:
Not so sure about that.
Robshaw should start at a handful of franchises – tough as nails and very high work rate.
Some of us thought James Haskell wouldn’t make it down South, but look how well he is doing with the Highlanders.
25 Apr 2012, 10:32 am
@willievz(willievz)-18:
yes yes. haskell is asset. Maybe if more pommies did a sabbatical downundwer to hone their skills.
Robshaw is fitness freak. reminds me of Mike Teague
25 Apr 2012, 10:54 am
“Victim of quotas”
That’s naïve. JdV & JF played together for years whenever they were fit.
KP with his unpleasant demeanour is no loss. The Poms must put up with him.
ronnie cooke. Now that’s a loss
25 Apr 2012, 11:10 am
Even the Pom press admits Barritt is a stop-gap. England’s backline has no creativity with him at 12. Look at the (lack of) tries they have scored this past 6N. Most journalists here predict Flood at 10, Farrell at 12 and Manu Tuilagi at 13 for Bok tour and after.
25 Apr 2012, 11:11 am
@grant10(grant100)-13: De Jongh made his Bok debut in 2010, by then Barritt was already in UK.
25 Apr 2012, 11:45 am
got a barrits saraccens jersey signed and framed at home, frikken awesome oke, in great form right now and fully deserved of the award, he has worked dam hard, wish he was still in a sharks jersey
25 Apr 2012, 12:07 pm
@seabiscuit(seabiscuit)-23:
Presume you hang it in your study?
25 Apr 2012, 13:50 pm
Quota Schmota
Barrit would never have become a Springbok, I also don’t think the Sharks really miss him that much, they need an outside centre, Whitehead is doing ok at 12.
Players plying their trade abroad can suck a fat one as far as I am concerned, geez the amount of times I have to hold back my gag reflex if I hear something about quotas, I can’t even begin to count. No quota system kept Barrit out of Green and Gold, his average to poor skills can be thanked for that…
G10, can’t wait for your son to do the haka? Great stuff, though I doubt he will ever make it, All Blacks, in fact, most international sport stars have one thing in common, character, which you, being a piss-poor whiner, have none of, in fact you have so little character, you probably robbed one or two of your future generations of theirs.
25 Apr 2012, 15:00 pm
@thesaint(thesaint)-25: Barritt’s average to poor skills?? Are you effing kidding me? He’s one of the best distributors of a rugby ball, but you wouldnt know anything about that would you?? No quota ever kept Brad out of a Bok jersey, he was just unlucky to be in the same era as world class players like Jean De Villiers and Frans Steyn. He’s a hell of a sight better than Wynand Olivier and Wayne Julies. You obviously also dont know anything about professionalism, only an idiot would say players pyling their trade abroad can suck one. Of course they are there for the money, if you got offered a job paying double your current salary you’d also go abroad. Rugby players have about 5-10 years to make as much money as they can before they retire. Think about that tosser.
25 Apr 2012, 16:13 pm
@ShaunMichaels(ShaunMichaels)-26: What are you, Barrit’s wife?
No, I am not effing kidding you… let’s break it down, he wasn’t good enough to make the Bok team, because he was just unlucky to…wait, unlucky? No, not unlucky, he wasn’t good enough, and what exactly is he then, if a person isn’t the best or the worst, he is average, that is all there is to it, maybe he looks like a great distributor measured against the carthorses of the northern hemisphere, but down south, he’s nothing special, stick your hand in a bucket of water, grab a handful and pull out, the hole that’s left, is how he is missed in South Africa.
I am all for plying your trade overseas if you can’t cut it here, just don’t beeaatch about quotas and not getting opportunities. If you follow the buck, forget about the Bok.
25 Apr 2012, 22:02 pm
Congrats ex Sharkie player, had no decent center after you left, and yes I rated Brad Barritt highly.
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