Bosman tasked with central role

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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  • 101.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 18:43 pm

    @Heavens Game-99:

    Hello HG, how’s it hanging?

  • 102.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 18:44 pm

    So, we have basically the same Stormers pack who got a 20-6 flat tire blowout in the first half against the Sharks in Durbs…

    And this was a Sharks pack without an in form Kanko?

    Makes me chuckle just thinking about it :lol:

  • 103.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 18:45 pm

    @Heavens Game-99:
    They said he is better than Spies and Ashley Johnson at 8, both are recent ‘Sprongboks’?

  • 104.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 18:47 pm

    @victoriabok-101: Its hanging like after having a long, slow slash in the pisstrough… Wet and sloppy.

    And that is what I am effectively doing… Pissingon the Keo Stormers homecoming Parade

    :lol:

  • 105.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 18:49 pm

    @Hondo-103: Lol… Is that so? So he has transformed miraculously from

    “2nd best hooker in SA”

    to

    “2nd best 8 in SA”

    What price “2nd best 8 in the Semi”? :lol:

  • 106.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 18:54 pm

    Fools on the Hill.

  • 107.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 18:54 pm

    @Dawn-106: Shutup wench

  • 108.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 18:55 pm

    @Heavens Game-102:

    Yeah, except that Bekker is not crocked like he was last time (remember he could not jump in the lineouts or push in the scrums), and that Kolisi will play instead of the useless Canadian. It makes a huge difference, the pack will probably be about 25% better as a result. If you further add the fact that the Sharks will be tired from the travelling (a 10% disadvantage according to Dr Tucker), the homefield advantage….. etc…

    It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there………. (for the sharks)
    :)

  • 109.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 18:58 pm

    @Heavens Game-102: i see your kanko and i raise you siya kolisi….

  • 110.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:01 pm

    @Heavens Game-104:

    How’s the Banshee?

    Would the Sharks be jetlagged?

  • 111.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:04 pm

    :lol:

  • 112.RainbowBanana: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:05 pm

    Just for interest sake :) Sharks “third-choice No 12″ or Bulls 1st choice 12?

  • 113.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:07 pm

    @Robzim-108: So why was Bekker playing then… if he couldn’t do a damned thing :lol:

    Btw, Tucker said it was an 8-10 pt advantage, not 10%.

    Now, according to some Data analysis of Super Rugby stats from last year by some proper Data miners and stats gurus – not a sports science expert who farts in the wind and comes up with a number (not even a number – a range of 8-10 pts advantage) – the average points advantage for the home team in Super rugby is 8 points anyway…

    Tucker the “guru” is not saying anything new… Indeed, he is actually a year behind already…. :lol:

    Since you are so aware of the numbers game… You do know the Sharks are averaging +3.5 tries a game… in knockout situations nogal i.e. the last 3 games and against teams with a stingy defence? (Notwithstanding the cheetahs who held the Stormers to 16 pts just the week before their game against the Sharks)

    Whats the Stomers average… Little over 1 try per game?

    So, add 8 points to the Stormers 7… Thats 15… Sharks score 3 tries and lets not convert all of them… thats 19…

    19-15 to the Sharks… Ceteris paribus :lol:

  • 114.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:08 pm

    @Heavens Game-102: So is the only difference Our Super Bok Etzebeth!?!

  • 115.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:10 pm

    @victoriabok-110: she on skype with GBS… :-)

  • 116.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:10 pm

    @Transformation-109: I see your Kolisi and raise you an offloading Keegan…

    You see my Keegan and raise me a Fourie…

    I see your hooking miracle at 8 and raise you a Kanko…

    See now… Reminds me of a certain song…

    “You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em,
    Know when to walk away and know when to run.”

    Run, buddy run :lol:

  • 117.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:12 pm

    @victoriabok-110: Fark the banshee… Sharks will be jetlagged… But hey, this is redemption time for most of them.

  • 118.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:12 pm

    @Robzim-108: I don’t think Joe Pietersen played either if my dodgy memory serves me. An injured Bekker, no Kolisi, no Joe P and the poor Canadian who was still trying to find his boots……

    And it was an away game…..yet if it had been 5 minutes longer, who knows?

    I await the catcalls from medallion wearing Sharkies bemoaning Aplon’s try right about now.

    (Although apart from HG, the rest are MIA?) I think they are all busy shoving socks down their skinny jeans and posing in front of the mirror, before boarding their flights to the mother city. They be coming to CT…… we be ready.

  • 119.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:15 pm

    So let me get this straight. What we have this time around is a revitalised Bok second Row. The best black SA rugby player that ever played rugby in Kolisi and a mongrel at Flank in Deon Fourie. We all also know how the front row can hold it’s own against the best( I didn’t see the crusaders dominating them that much in Chrischurch, for some parts of the match they even had the upperhand).

  • 120.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:16 pm

    @Heavens Game-117:

    Who’s GBS?

    Won’t the be out of gas in the second half?

  • 121.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:16 pm

    Vok. Are they coming here?

  • 122.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:17 pm

    @Heavens Game-113: Do you think your Sharks might be a little nervous about playing in front of a full stadium on Saturday, instead of the usual 15 cheerleaders, 275 pensioners, 7 ice cream sellers, 70 family members, 10 winners from the fan club raffle and 500 school kids?
    It might be intimidating.

  • 123.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:18 pm

    @Wezwp-114: Super Bok? Lol… No, Super Boks are Bismarck… Beast… Alberts… JPP.

    Undoubtedly world class players…

    In contrast Etsebeth is promising but wet behind the ears still…

    Sharks also got one of them… His name is Wrecking Ball Coetzee :lol:

  • 124.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:18 pm

    @Dawn-121: Can you not smell the Old Spice already? And they haven’t even boarded their fecking planes in KZN.

  • 125.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:18 pm

    Wez

    Bite your tongue

    Best black payer ever is JPP mos

  • 126.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:19 pm

    @victoriabok-120: GBS…? Got no idea. Enlighten

  • 127.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:19 pm

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.-122:

    Yes, seeing 1000 guys with passin gaps teeth biting away at boerewors rolls for hours with no effect is a bit disconcerting :-)

  • 128.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:22 pm

    @Transformation-115:

    GBS?

    Who?

  • 129.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:23 pm

    Victoriabok buddy

    Don’t you have a banshee of your own

    Stop obsessing

  • 130.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:23 pm

    you Guy’s must remember Jebb sinclair was more of a liability at times.

  • 131.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:24 pm

    @Dawn-121: In short, no. Just last week they did play in Reds country… And Reds country had a packed stadium probably twice the size of that tin shack at Farts in the Wind central…

    Guess what…? Sharks won….

    (Now please don’t put finger down throat daaahling… No matter how much you may think that your Stormer fortified self image may not be perfect :wink: )

  • 132.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:25 pm

    And stop talking kuk about Newlands crowd

    Everyone insulting our rugby crowds is sitting in some godforsaken country far far away, I see.

  • 133.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:26 pm

    @Transformation-115: While Rossi giving me fellatio…? Yeah man :lol:

  • 134.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:27 pm

    @Heavens Game-131: Sorry wench. This post actually meant for Keo’s very own bulimious Pedigreed Dog

  • 135.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:28 pm

    Ok ok wanger.

    Put it back in your pants.

  • 136.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:30 pm

    Where you get thie bulimic thing from.

    You always come up with such kuk!

  • 137.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:31 pm

    @Heavens Game-105:
    Fourie is neither of course, but he is the best at 8 for the Stormers for now
    They must be great believers in Walsh and Jonker to use him at 8 I would say

  • 138.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:32 pm

    @Dawn-125: I wasn’t refering to wing Dawn. i’m talking about a black player that can match those big Afrikaner guys in their best positions.

  • 139.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:32 pm

    @Hondo-137: Lol. Classic

  • 140.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:34 pm

    Out for now… Back later

  • 141.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:35 pm

    I said it once and i’ll say it again, i have absolute faith in the stormers coaching. Just like i have faith in Gary kirsten. People like that you don’t question because they know what they doing.Also don’t think Mr Coetzee didn’t steal a few tip fom mr Jake White. He has the blue print in his head and can execute it better with the help of proudfoot and Fleck.

  • 142.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:36 pm

    Quickie… Heard a good one earlier…

    Sharks got more teeth than the entire Newlands crowd put together…

    Yowzer :lol:

  • 143.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:37 pm

    @Heavens Game-113:

    If the the average points advantage for the home team in Super rugby is 8 points is 10 points anyway and one add the 10 points as calculated by Tucker (for the fatigue) the advantage is in fact 20 points :)

    Another thing you need to take into consideration is that the Stormers only “coasted” for most of the regular season and hardly ever played flat out. Remember against the Rebels … they started like a bat out of hell, then coasted, and when the visitors came within striking distance they lifted the tempo- and after Mannetjies scored his second try they coasted again.
    No need to waste energy for nothing.

    I also think the Sharks peaked too soon- at this top level it is cutting edge- no team can hold a “peak” for more than 2-3 weeks- so imo , the sharks will now have a dip in form- such a pity, if they only timed it a bit better :)

    Bad times ahead for the men in black…

  • 144.victoriabok: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:38 pm

    @Dawn-129:

    Yeah, not as agressive though, need to know if she hasn’t killed HG yet, or forcibly removed some appendages

    @Dawn-132:

    They do show the games and the crowd on tv (Google Setanta if you don’t believe me) in faraway countries. We even saw the Newlands crowd on tv in faraway Pretoria

    They don’t all look like the fat guy on the top of this page

    The Keolings gave him front teeth

  • 145.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:38 pm

    @Heavens Game-133: in your dreams….GBS be havin it…

  • 146.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:38 pm

    @Robzim-143:

    farkin hard to post here- i had to retype the damn message after getting a “page is broken” for the zillionth time. Time out now.

  • 147.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:39 pm

    @Robzim-143: Oh dear…

    You not really a numbers guy… are you ? :lol:

    Suck that thumb, my boy…

  • 148.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:40 pm

    @victoriabok-128: GrootBlouSmile…head-Mormon-in-charge.

  • 149.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:40 pm

    @Transformation-145: What Rossi handing our to GBS too…? Farksake man, sorry for yoooo-uuu :lol:

  • 150.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    25 Jul 2012, 19:41 pm

    @Heavens Game-149: Should be Rossi handing “out”… not “our”…

    Definitely not “our”…

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