Bosman tasked with central role
25 Jul 2012
Meyer Bosman will start at No 12 against the Stormers this Saturday while Tim Whitehead has been shifted to No 13.
Paul Jordaan has failed a late fitness test, and so Sharks coach John Plumtree has been forced to make a change in midfield. Without Frans Steyn available and with Whitehead moving to outside centre, the Sharks will rely on Bosman, their third-choice No 12, in that key position.
Pat Lambie has also lost his race for fitness and so Louis Ludik will retain the No 15 jersey.
The pack remains unchanged, but Plumtree has opted for a five-two split on the bench. Jean Deysel has been added to the 22 and should feature in the second half of Saturday’s semi-final.
Sharks – 15 Louis Ludik, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Tim Whitehead, 12 Meyer Bosman, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Frederic Michalak, 9 Charl McLeod, 8 Ryan Kankowski, 7 Marcell Coetzee, 6 Keegan Daniel (c), 5 Anton Bresler, 4 Willem Alberts, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Subs: 16 Craig Burden, 17 Wiehahn Herbst, 18 Steven Sykes, 19 Jean Deysel, 20 Jacques Botes, 21 Odwa Ndungane, 22 Riaan Viljoen.
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25 Jul 2012, 16:15 pm
@stormer in a teacup-44:
oh i see
25 Jul 2012, 16:18 pm
@Spiesisworthless1-50: Look I would rather my team had Jordaan starting. But he is injured and Bosman has played well this year, whether some think so or not. Sure he fell over his feet last week……….hahaha. Damn it was funny, but might have been so funny if we needed that try. However, he played actually well when he came on. Never missed a tackle at all.
25 Jul 2012, 16:19 pm
@Puma-46: I think Meyer is a fine player. If the have to bring him into 10 they will reshuffle their backline in 4 places.
25 Jul 2012, 16:23 pm
Last week I really enjoyed the sharks play even if I am a stormers supporter but I must admit that the highlight was when Meyer Bosman tripped over his own feet with a open tryline beckoning ! It was one of those classic Jorrie Moments.
25 Jul 2012, 16:25 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.-49: Crusaders rising rugby star owes it all to a porker
”When I first found out I had to have an operation I was really down about it,” Fruean said. ”To be told you’re not allowed to play because of a heart condition really upsets a young guy. I was going through a real emotional time back then. Me being me, I just heard the doctor tell us about the first option, which was a mechanical valve which meant I couldn’t play any more. I really broke down, I just walked out of the office and I didn’t know what I was going to do.”
Named the International Rugby Board’s under-19 player of 2007 after leading New Zealand to the age-group World Cup title, Fruean contracted rheumatic fever months later and suffered serious heart complications.
Had Fruean, now 21, chosen the mechanical device – a plastic valve – his career would have been over before it began. Plastic valves can cause clots because the body fights against the foreign device, and patients constantly need to take blood-thinning medication that ends any possibility of playing professional sport.
Pig’s hearts are the closest of all to human hearts, and the valve replacement is more readily accepted by the human immune system.
”My family told me later that the doctor had continued on and told them about a second option, the pig’s valve, and that I could still play rugby.
”It was a big relief, I just really wanted to pursue a career in rugby. If they had told me there was no second option, I probably would have told them not to worry about the operation so I could keep playing … no, I would have been realistic about it, but I am just thankful there was a way for me to keep playing.”
In making the decision to have the pig’s valve inserted, Fruean showed how desperate he was to become a professional sportsman. Pig’s valves last for only 15 years.
”I will need to get it replaced in about 10 years,” Fruean said
Asked if he had a new appreciation for pigs, Fruean laughed: ”Yeah, I do tend to enjoy my bacon more now.”
25 Jul 2012, 16:26 pm
@sparticus-54: hahaha. It was funny bud, think we all had a laugh. Though Bissie was gonna give him a flattie right there…….hahaha. Just pleased we never needed that try otherwise it might not have been so funny. Other than that he actually played really very well.
25 Jul 2012, 16:26 pm
@Puma-52: I guess everyone else is in such good form for the Sharks and Jordaan seems such a prospect that it’s easy to stick the boot into Bosman when he misses a try like that. Apart from that he was OK I suppose.
25 Jul 2012, 16:27 pm
@sparticus-54: A few players slipped over during that game. Meyers was just the most obvious and costly.
25 Jul 2012, 16:27 pm
@Puma-56: though = thought
25 Jul 2012, 16:29 pm
@Transformation-55: Must be why Sunni Bill left the Crusaders.
25 Jul 2012, 16:29 pm
@sparticus-54: I actually thought he was diving early trying to slide onto the whitewash. Or he’d spotted the wrong tryline.
25 Jul 2012, 16:30 pm
Meyer Bosman gave me a good laugh last Saturday. I am glad he will be back on the pitch this week.
25 Jul 2012, 16:30 pm
@Spiesisworthless1-57: Jordaan was superb though. Bosman had a good game except for that trip over his own feet.
25 Jul 2012, 16:31 pm
@rossoneri-62:
Stormersader
25 Jul 2012, 16:32 pm
@stormer in a teacup-53: Think Viljoen will cover fh.
25 Jul 2012, 16:33 pm
@Puma-63: Yip, really excited about Jordaan. Good to see guys like him and Serfontein who may become quality Bok centres in the future.
25 Jul 2012, 16:33 pm
@Transformation-55:
What is Fernley going to do without his valve?
25 Jul 2012, 16:36 pm
It’s a mystery that the Sharks didn’t learn from the dilemma suffered by the Reds last weekend.
Running out of suitable subs cost the Brisbane outfit dearly.
25 Jul 2012, 16:36 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-67:
25 Jul 2012, 16:38 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-67: He’s never made a rasher decision.
25 Jul 2012, 16:39 pm
@Spiesisworthless1-66: For sure. We have some top class youngsters coming through.
25 Jul 2012, 16:39 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-67: jean de villiers earlier today “it makes for a great semi-final this Saturday. There’s going to be a lot of feeling in that match.”
“feeling”?
i would worry and protect the jewels if i was the sharks players
25 Jul 2012, 16:40 pm
Oh L*rd
Stormers by 6 points
25 Jul 2012, 16:41 pm
@Lang Giel-68: I hope the 5-2 split don’t come back to bite us on the backside. Though we did play with a 5-2 split against Stormers at the Tank and we done very well there.
Odwa covers wing, fb and can also cover centre. Viljoen covers fh and fb. We don’t have cover for sh though if Freddie picks up a injury and Mcloed then we will be in trouble.
Think we are sorted otherwise.
25 Jul 2012, 16:43 pm
@stormer in a teacup-70:
I sure he feels like a chop.
25 Jul 2012, 16:43 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-67: our poor porker
25 Jul 2012, 16:44 pm
@rossoneri-62: The funniest was the Aussie commentator say “There must have been a sniper in the crowd” ….. hahahaha. Had a bloody good laugh….lol.
Other than that trip he played actually well.
25 Jul 2012, 16:47 pm
@Transformation-72:
I’d be more worried about this sort of manouevre.
From SMH.com, 3/29/01
Dirty dozen: Hopoate out for 12
Banned: John Hopoate of the Wests Tigers arrives for his hearing at the judiciary last night. He was suspended for 12 weeks. Photo: Tim Clayton
By Brad Walter
John Hopoate was last night suspended for 12 matches for a “disgraceful act” that his legal counsel said would cause the Wests Tigers international “disgrace and embarrassment”.
In possibly the most bizarre judiciary case ever, the National Rugby League tribunal imposed the heaviest ban in four seasons after hearing more than three hours of evidence about players grabbing opponents by “the nuts”, “the stork” and “the arse” in order to intimidate them. North Queensland players Peter Jones and Glenn Morrison testified that Hopoate had inserted his fingers in their anuses after they had been tackled during the match at Townsville last Saturday night.
Cowboys captain Paul Bowman accused Hopoate of doing the same thing to him after he had completed a tackle.
“I felt fingers. He was pushing up my arse,” Bowman said. “I was disgusted, I couldn’t believe it. If he was a man, he wouldn’t do it.” Morrison said: “It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.”
In response to suggestions from Hopoate’s counsel, Bernard Gross QC, that his client had been administering “a wedgie”, Jones said: “It was in the anal area. I think I know the difference between a wedgie and someone putting their fingers up my bum.” Hopoate did not shy away from the allegations completely, telling the panel that his prodding of Bowman was “between his arse and his nuts”. But he denied putting his hand under any of the player’s underwear.
“I’ve reached out to try and pull his undies and shorts up his arse to try and make it as uncomfortable as I can,” Hopoate said of the seventh-minute Jones incident. After watching video footage of the Morrison tackle in the 71st minute, Hopoate said: “I was trying to do the same thing – give him a wedgie.”
In the case of Bowman, Gross pointed out that a Cowboys player appeared to have hold of Hopoate “in the forbidden area”, before he was turned over on his back. Hopoate said he had “jabbed” Bowman in order to move him so that he could get up and complete a quick play-the-ball.
On the other occasions, he said he was trying to slow the Cowboys’ play-the-ball. “It happens all the time,” Hopoate said. “You get wedgies all the time, and jabbed in the stork. I’m a great believer that what happens on the field should stay on the field.”
The verdict may have opened a Pandora’s box for the NRL, with Wests coach Terry Lamb estimating that such incidents occur up to 10 times per game.
25 Jul 2012, 16:52 pm
@Transformation-55: One can only admire him and others like him. I think it is the Force’s hooker, Nathan Charles who has cystic fibrosis. I watched a doccie on the work he does for the CF foundation in Australia.
Julian Huxley playing after his brain tumour.
I won’t be putting Spies into the above category, because he doesn’t actually play rugby.
25 Jul 2012, 16:53 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-78: An indignant Hopoate insisted there was daylight and he was on his feet.
25 Jul 2012, 16:53 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-78: sies
i think that’s what jdv had in mind when he said “feeling”.
25 Jul 2012, 16:55 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.-79: aaron cruden after testicular cancer…
25 Jul 2012, 16:55 pm
@>^..^< katman-80:
Roll away 7….
25 Jul 2012, 16:57 pm
@>^..^< katman-80: a real “fetcher”
25 Jul 2012, 16:58 pm
@Transformation-84:
Hands in the kuk..,
25 Jul 2012, 17:02 pm
You can imagine Hopoate’s horror the next day when he saw the word “ruck” in the newspaper and it was indeed spelled with an R.
25 Jul 2012, 17:08 pm
forget pocock meet john “proctoc” hopoate
25 Jul 2012, 17:43 pm
Hopoate sticking his finger in arses.
Now I know what Tac meant by can of whoopass
25 Jul 2012, 17:45 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-78:
> estimating that such incidents occur up to 10 times per game.
No wonder they don’t shake hands after a match?
25 Jul 2012, 17:47 pm
@>^..^< katman-80:
If he was on his feet, he couldn’t have been using his finger….
25 Jul 2012, 17:52 pm
“In the case of Bowman, Gross pointed out that a Cowboys player appeared to have hold of Hopoate “in the forbidden area”, before he was turned over on his back. Hopoate said he had “jabbed” Bowman in order to move him so that he could get up and complete a quick play-the-ball.”
This should be the official definition of an “Aussie”
25 Jul 2012, 17:53 pm
Most teams would be happy to have Bosman as their THIRD CHOISE No12, and he can cover 10!
25 Jul 2012, 17:56 pm
Okay after team announcement, I still stick by my prediction of a Stormers and Chiefs win.
25 Jul 2012, 17:56 pm
@ 90.92.95.96.08.10
Don’t remember asking for the Lotto numbers?
25 Jul 2012, 18:10 pm
The Stormers can afford to leave Bosman unmarked. Frees up an extra defender.
25 Jul 2012, 18:18 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_-94:
It’s the number for the Keo Call centre
Press #1 to refill Chronic “tobacco” precriptions
Press #2 to order Blow
Press #3 to talk dirty with Ryan
Press #4 to order “Keolings Gone Wild”, the un-censored video of the Keo staff in their small caravan the Wellington Caravan Park
25 Jul 2012, 18:35 pm
At least the Sharks don’t have Bismarck or Graig Burden at no8
25 Jul 2012, 18:40 pm
Hmmm, some big talk and bravado about Bossie at 12… But then again Stormers have JdV there… Hardly a clash of Titans at 12 notwithstanding the fact that JdV is Bok Cappie…
However, I would really be interested in thoughts on a Hooker playing at 8… Lineout option anyone? And no I don’t mean throwing in…
Are the Stormers that convinced of his ability there… or is this just arrogance?
Imagine Plum putting Bismarck at 8 in the Semis of Super Rugby… There would be more than just one FB petition to Fire the chap….
Sheezus… Am I the only one eyed man in this Keo Breezing Farts in the wind land of the blind…?
25 Jul 2012, 18:41 pm
Farken Madness… A reserve Hooker at 8 in the Super Rugby semis….
25 Jul 2012, 18:41 pm
@Puma-77:
, no idea what the fuss here is all about?
I personally would pick Bosman over many other inside centres, no need to be appologetic
Mvovo dropped 5 passes last two games, JP only 4
The Sharks problem are Walsh, Jonker and that woeful TMO, not Bosman
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