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, 22:18 pm
I saw a clip about the Gugds wine festival a while back.
The first thing you saw was a giant Nederburg banner.
Those broederbonders are everywhere.
25 Jul 2012, 22:21 pm
@Transformation-197:
I’m from Tshwane
I’ll tell you what I do miss:
lamb chops with fat (here they trim the fat off)
A Ocean Basket Seafood platter (Salmon and Halibut is good, but their cold water shrimp not)
Mangoes and Litchis (picked a day ago, not shipped from Mexico weeks ago)
Warm loud friendly people
Rugby at Loftus with guys braaiing on the sidewalks next to their doublecabs playing Fokkie, Sokkie, Bokkie” music at high decibels
Dust (no dust here, too wet)
25 Jul 2012, 22:27 pm
Stormers should also have gone 5 / 2 split
Sometimes this Coetsee character p’sses me off with his staid old one track minded conservative blindness just like his one track minded stupid ignorant mentor who taught him all these rearguard thinking cowardly tricks..
This is how they should have played it..
We do NOT need that spare tire Burton Francis wasting a vital bench spot in a trench warfare game of bust the door down at the collision stakes.. WTF is Francis going to do if he comes on.. trip over his own feet worse than Hermann Bosman sipping on his Jerepigo can…!?
15 Joe Pietersen, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Juan de Jongh, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Peter Grant, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Quin Roux, 7 Rynhardt Elstadt, 6 Siya Kolisi, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Deon Fourie, 1 Steven Kitshoff.
Subs: 16 Deon Carstens, 17 Tiaan Liebenberg, 18 Frans Malherbe, 19 De Kock Steenkamp, 20 Don Armand, 21 Louis Schrueder, 22 Gerhard van den Heever.
25 Jul 2012, 22:31 pm
volvos 4 -chommiees 1
we on the comeback biatcheees
25 Jul 2012, 22:35 pm
@victoriabok-202: geez boet…hang in there
25 Jul 2012, 22:40 pm
@Transformation-205:
No worries, it’s not all bad
25 Jul 2012, 22:41 pm
@victoriabok-206:
I see Nikita is an Olympian.
Cane us going to have stroke when he finds out.
Maybe two or three.
25 Jul 2012, 22:43 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-207: what code?
25 Jul 2012, 22:45 pm
@Transformation-208:
Hockey it seems.
I will be glued to the screen.
25 Jul 2012, 22:47 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther-207:
I think Keohane might have had a stroke or two there as well
25 Jul 2012, 22:54 pm
They better wrap up this minority sport competition that only a handful of expatriated colonialists play out in the far reaches of the dwindling colonies because the real world sporting extravaganza is kicking off Friday night.. the one where every world wide sporting enthusiast is riveted to the sheer exuberant mystique and guts and glory of it… yup the sporting expression of personal pride and prestige where honor and glory go hand in hand with personal triumph and personal failure.. where guts is the currency and character the legal tender
25 Jul 2012, 22:56 pm
@fitz1ella-211:
Is the Darts Championship about to start?
25 Jul 2012, 23:04 pm
imagine they make skittle sticks an Olympian sport.. they’d need to hold the Olympics over a period of approx 2 years with every two contestants squaring up for 5 whole days at a shot at advancing to the next round and then perhaps they still end up with a draw which means they never get past the group stages….
even Jukskei gets a winner and a loser ..just like badminton and table tennis and archery and fencing where individual skill is the value that determines who triumphs and who don’t..
soccer, rugby and skittle sticks simply don’t belong in the Olympics just like F1 racing don’t… leave such extravagances rooted in the colonies that gave such pastimes their credibility.
25 Jul 2012, 23:13 pm
@fitz1ella-211:
> honor and glory go hand in hand with personal triumph and personal failure.. where guts is the currency and character the legal tender
Bolt isn’t exactly a pauper
Can you still remember Basketball’s “Dream Team”
25 Jul 2012, 23:13 pm
@fitz1ella-213:
They play 2020 cricket now.
The average game finishes before you manage to jumpstart your Nissan 1400.
25 Jul 2012, 23:27 pm
@victoriabok-214: watched a warm up game on saturday US vs Argies….kevin durant, melo, lebron, westbrook. US looked to good againsy them but not convinced they can cruise past the likes of lithuania, greece, spain.
25 Jul 2012, 23:40 pm
@Transformation-216:
Do you know Steve Nash, he’s from Victoria?
25 Jul 2012, 23:47 pm
Olympics is the greatest show on earth.. puts professional team sports like rugby into the pale shade of obscurity and skittle sticks back into the archaic realms where old men would toss leather clad cork balls at willow sticks for Sunday afternoon attempt at rejuvenating juvenile entertainment
swimming, weight lifting, volley ball (not the beach variety – the real thing), athletics, boxing, judo, wrestling, diving, gymnastics, fencing, … every conceivable human sporting test and endeavor chucked onto one huge ginormous stage, where the pride of personal and national triumph reaches the pinnacle of human expression of effort and desire….. a veritable smorgasbord of human emotion and drama where puny mortals reach for the stars of their infinitesimal dreams
soccer, skittle sticks and rugby don’t belong in such a pure adrenalin environment where personal quest for national prestige squares up against the ultimate in personal tests of endeavor and individual character.
26 Jul 2012, 00:06 am
@fitz1ella-218:
I do agree with you to a certain degree- rugby, cricket and soccer don’t belong there, they have their own world cups.
btw.. beach volley ball is very much going to feature in London – they even build a special “sandpit” at the Horse Guards Parade for them to play.
Teack and field and swimming are the real deal for me while the marathon, cycling, triathlon and boxing are not far behind.
Gymnastics belong in a circus
26 Jul 2012, 00:09 am
@Robzim-219:
teack = track
26 Jul 2012, 01:11 am
@Robzim-219:
Hello Robzim
I have an old friend, he does my panel beating usually on my wife’s cars, who has a daughter competing in the Marathon, her name is Kimberley Smith, could be near the front at the start but the African girls usually have a better kick near the end, was fifth in the New York Marathon last year and could be an outside medal chance
26 Jul 2012, 04:47 am
Haha, turnstile Bosman, this should be good, the bloke can’t even stand on his own two feet, forget about his non existent tackling…… Beautiful
5 4 3 2 1 booooo….. Fizzle fizzle fizzle
26 Jul 2012, 08:18 am
@fitz1ella-218: Rugby doesn’t belong in the Olympics, because it can stand on it’s own feet as a sport. THe Olympics is an event that is thousands of years old, even before it became a regular sporting event. Why compare it to sports that are not even 500 years old?
Also your opinion of Jake White and Alistair Coetzee is noted, please also know that your opinion pales in comparison to fact.
26 Jul 2012, 08:25 am
@fitz1ella-211: Golf is going to become an Olympic event soon, you must be stoked?!
26 Jul 2012, 09:19 am
Again, are no Sharks supporters worried about what would happen if they have an injury at 9, 10 or 12 early in the game?
No specialist cover on bench which means a MASSIVE reshuffle that would disrupt them severely. Big risk from Pruimboom…
Any injury will be a massive reshuffle – Freddie to 9, Bosman to 10, Tim to 12, JP to 13, Odwa in at 14…
26 Jul 2012, 09:43 am
@Mongril-225: “Freddie to 9, Bosman to 10, Tim to 12, JP to 13, Odwa in at 14…”
No problem with that at all. Far superior to what the Stormers will have on the field if Pete’s Perfect Patented Penalty Place-kicking Pop-gun jams.
26 Jul 2012, 09:57 am
@kaksioek-226: Yawn,… when repeating something over and over it does not become true, even if it is such clever play on all them P’s (mother must be proud).
Kaksioek is an idiot, Kaksioek is an idiot, Kaksioek is an idiot, Kaksioek is an idiot, …
Sorry, I withdraw – apparently there is a relationship between repetition and truth.
26 Jul 2012, 10:09 am
@Mongril-227: A little tense are we? Ag shame. It will all be over on Saturday
26 Jul 2012, 10:53 am
As calm as a budhist monk on a secluded mountain top, I assure you.
In fact I’d even go as far as to say: As calm as Peter Grant taking a penalty kick from the touch line to win the match in the semi final (which is significantly calmer than even the monk)!
26 Jul 2012, 11:35 am
So i see that judging by the comments on this blog its a one horse race, Sharks needn’t even pitch up what with the travel legs, revolving door syndrome and the mighty Stormers pack. Perhaps the boys can do some R&R and visit the winelands.
26 Jul 2012, 11:50 am
@bananaboy-230: Nope, realistic Stormers suppoerters know this will be a close thing. As tough as they come. Anyone’s game. I’m a Stormers supporter and that is certainly me view.
26 Jul 2012, 12:37 pm
@Mongril-231: I do think the travel will come into it though. Stormers should win this one. I don’t think that home ground has as significant an advantage in SA as it does when playing away games overseas however combined with the travel it should giev Stormers a significant advantage.
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