Sharks to face Leopards, Pumas

Sharks to face Leopards, Pumas

3 Jan 2013

The Sharks will use two pre-season friendlies against Vodacom Cup opposition to prepare for Super Rugby.

Keegan Daniel’s side will play the Leopards at the Woodburn Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on 8 February, before facing the Pumas at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit a week later.

The Sharks start their Super Rugby campaign against the Stormers at Kings Park on 2 March.

Sharks Super Rugby squad:

Fullbacks: Louis Ludik, Gouws Prinsloo, Riaan Viljoen
Wings: Lwazi Mvovo, Odwa Ndungane, JP Pietersen, Sibusiso Sithole
Centres: Meyer Bosman, Paul Jordaan, Wandile Mjekevu, Frans Steyn, Tim Whitehead, Heimar Williams
Flyhalves: Pat Lambie, Butch James
Scrumhalves: Cobus Reinach, Charl McLeod, Conrad Hoffmann
Loose forwards: Willem Alberts, Jacques Botes, Marcell Coetzee, Keegan Daniel (c), Jean Deysel, Ryan Kankowski, Francois Kleinhans, Lubabalo Mtembu
Locks: Anton Bresler, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Jaundre Marais, Peet Marais, Franco van der Merwe
Hookers: Craig Burden, Kyle Cooper, Monde Hadebe, Bismarck du Plessis
Props: Dale Chadwick, Jannie du Plessis, Wiehahn Herbst, Tendai Mtawarira, Julian Redelinghuys


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  • 51.wpallday: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:11 am

    @hendrikp-47: He wasnt great with the Boks ,but then again neither was Guthro if we are completely honest . The Sharks really hit their straps when the Beast returned from injury ,I feel he was the catalyst for their resurgence.

  • 52.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:11 am

    This would be my starting 23? Plum better be reading.

    Ludik
    JPP
    Jordaan
    Steyn
    Mvovo
    Lambie
    Hoffman
    Kanko
    Coetzee
    Daniel
    Van De Merwe
    Bresler
    Jannie
    Bissie
    Beast

    Herbst
    Redlinghuys
    Cooper
    Alberts
    Du Toit
    Butch
    Odwa
    McLeod

  • 53.Gumboots: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:13 am

    We need a Stormer thread… This is so boring… ;)

  • 54.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:14 am

    @WP-Forever-46:
    i honeslty hope that’s not going to be AC’s mantra this season.

    @wpallday-49:
    true bulls didn’t have a good CC and left it too late.

    however, lets be clear on one thing, ‘THE BULLS KNOW HOW TO SCORE TRIES’
    irrespective of the ‘style of rugby’… big difference.

  • 55.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:15 am

    wplldau 51… the truth, you speak it.

  • 56.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:16 am

    out for now

  • 57.wpallday: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:20 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-54: and kick and kick and kick . Anyway thanks Ruby ,back to the tractor it is for you.

    It would be a cold day in hell if any Bulls player could score anything as attractive as some of our least attractive tries.

  • 58.hendrikp: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:28 am

    Changes to Sharks probable line-up I’d like to see:

    Pieter-Steph du Toit as the starting 5 and given responsibility of calling line-outs. We need him to come through as a 5-lock. Would make a great combination with Etzebeth.

    As said, I’d personally pick Kankowski as the starting 8 ahead of Daniel. Ideally a rotation, but it’s tough with Daniel as captain. They have 4 outstanding loosies. (Deysel not in that 4 -_-)

    Conrad Hoffmann as the reserve halfback behind Cobus Reinach. McLeod blerry useless.

    Mjekevu, or Ndungane as the left wing ahead of Mvovo.

  • 59.wpallday: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:37 am

    @hendrikp-58: I agree about Du Toit . The guy just isn’t ready yet ,but he will be soon, whether that’s this season or not remains to be seen. I think Bresler is going to show people his worth this season provided he stays injury free.

    How can you select Hofman ? Because you just don’t like Mcleod , that’s your logic?

  • 60.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:38 am

    @hendrikp-58: hoffman has done zilch since turning pro…he was nowhere behind duvenage & he left for the guppy tank & is still useless behind mcleod & now leapfrogged by reinach.

  • 61.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:54 am

    Sharks need a scrummie with excellent service to his 10… Not one of these sniping rabbits now a dime a dozen in SA… Hoffman is this man or McLeod when he is not trying to do too much. Reinach is good but his passing from set piece needs to improve.

  • 62.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:55 am

    @wpallday-57:
    that’s ridiculous.
    you dont score tries.

  • 63.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:57 am

    This is a fair to good squad at best. Decent loosies and Frans Steyn and Lambie is better than average, not too much else to get excited about. Du Plessis brothers always good for 9 to 12 points for the opposition.
    The majority of this lot couldn’t beat a depleted Province side in the CC final just a short while ago, but now they are touted as possible Superugby winners.
    I don’t see it.

  • 64.WP-Forever: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 09:58 am

    Sharks are defo clear contenders for the Super 15 title.

    Defo.

  • 65.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:00 am

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  • 66.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:02 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-65:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256641

  • 67.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:03 am

    Best Sharks scrummies in modern era were Du Preez and Hentie maartens. Both bullet passers. Pienaar too before Dippy mindfcked him.

    Hoffman has potential to be no 1. no better passer of the ball in SA.

  • 68.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:09 am

    Super XV crown basically a too close to call toss-up between Chiefs, Saders, Sharks & Stormers, with the Landers the value-for-money longer shot…

    Don’t diss any of these; don’t back any others for the title

    and that’s that

  • 69.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:09 am

    Hoffman is extremely talented but sadly he is a sick note and as a result will probably never reach his potential. Same goes for Gary van Aswegen.

  • 70.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:11 am

    Sharks lost the CC final more than WP won… They were overconfident because up til then they had rogered Stormers/WP all season long. Wont happen again though… Doubt the Stormers/WP will make either final this year… Going to be Sharks vs Landers/Saders in S15 and Sharks vs Bulls in CC. You read it here first. HGs crystal ball. Bet your mjondolo on it…

  • 71.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:16 am

    Robzim, chaps reckon a few guys in the Sharks squad are looking in tip top shape and conditioned already… Notables are Hoffman, Bosman, Kleynhans…amongst others. Could be a few emerging surprises yet

  • 72.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:17 am

    @Heavens Game-70:

    There is no reason to believe that your predictions for 2013 will be better than during 2012 when you set the all time low standard (prediction-wise) in the history of this blog. Therefore i am very happy to have read what you have just predicted :)

  • 73.Theres something about stormers: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:21 am

    HG u can have DD. Send us reinach. Well give bolla 4 free. Deal?

  • 74.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:21 am

    Ango, at 8/1 Sharks are excellent value… Stormers way overpriced… Landers definitely way undervalued. Sharks have one of if not the best schedule… Stormers have a similar schedule to Sharks last year, one of the worst but they dont have the quality or depth to emulate the Sharks miracle run… Simples.

  • 75.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:22 am

    @Robzim-72:

    HG and keo are two pees in a pod when it comes to making predictions. You can put your house on those two being wrong. Thank god for that.

  • 76.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:28 am

    @Heavens Game-71:
    Which chaps will that be?
    Also, even if Hoffman, Bosman and Kleynhans is in great shape, what difference will that make. not exactly the players who will instill fear in any opposition.
    I enjoy and admire your faith and belief in your team, but don’t get carried away with it.
    You have a decent front row, but as stated, with the DuP brothers in the side, easy penalties for the opposition, you have good loosies and you have STeyn and Lambie.
    The rest don’t make up for the hype.

  • 77.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:29 am

    my predictions especially for S15 were 2nd to none… I predicted Sharks being in the final while fools were calling for Jimmy Stonehouse as coach… I never thought they would win, a step too far even for the Sharks… I did predict a CC win, but then so did most of the rational rugby world… I was wrong but thats whats great about rugger as the supreme underdog always has a chance depending on how much the overwhelming favourites really want to win or not… Try as you might, you dumbfuck WP fools who populate this Stormfront mouthpiece can never box this astute poster – too farken clever and knowledgable by far… :lol:

  • 78.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:30 am

    @I am a stormer-75:

    After reading his predictions and taking his historical success rate into consideration I reckon the sharks must now be about 50/1 and the Stormers 1/2.

  • 79.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:31 am

    P-S du Toit & Cobus Reinach are thoroughbreds – its in the bloodlines, confirmed by last season’s form
    But not YET necessarily the best in their respective positions (for the Sharks)
    but barring injury, or moves to other pastures, they’ll surely get there.

    Mvovo will probably be a 1st choice winger for the Sharks, but imo he does not deserve it until he ups his defensive game – however he remains a very good prospect provided he remedies the defensive deficiencies

    Kanko was magic towards the end of last season (& on that form the 1st choice No 8 for the Sharks), but will that be the player that returns from Japan, or the one that blows hot and cold as in some previous seasons? He will have to re-establish late last season’s impressive form to usurp Keegan’s position as No 8.

    Willem Alberts could play No 7 (most likely), No 4, or off the bench covering both No 7, No 4 & even No 8.

    Be that as it may, I expect the Sharks will mostly (most often) play this loose trio:
    8. – Kanko
    7. – Alberts
    6. – Keegan
    with the human dynamo Marcel Coetzee covering all three loosies off the bench

  • 80.Liewe Luiperd: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:31 am

    HG backs the Sharks, simple pimple. The Sharks made 2 out of 2 finals last year. He couldn’t have been very far wrong…..

    Stormerpricks :roll: it’s all about them :roll:

  • 81.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:36 am

    Nortierd… Its not blind faith… Its rational logic… You farken fools cant see past the Cape bubble – this is not my fault or problem… Chaps? Read my lips, “its the Sharks stoopid”…

  • 82.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:43 am

    @Liewe Luiperd-80:

    You have to look at the wider picture- he also predicted the stormers to lose nearly every match they played, and also other stuff like the outcome of the American elections etc. etc…etc… just about everything turned out the exact opposite.

  • 83.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:44 am

    @Heavens Game-81:
    Lol, got you loud and clear.
    Good luck with your team and predictions.
    Will follow it with baited breath

  • 84.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:45 am

    HG does at least know that Bruce is the true boss so I will give him that.

  • 85.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:48 am

    Luiperd… I do back the Sharks but not blindly… Its just that on this propaganda mouthpiece it seems strange for all the blind Stormers sheeple that a poster would rate a teams chances other than the Stormers and be right most of the time… It mindfucks the poor closedminded fools :wink:

  • 86.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:57 am

    @Heavens Game-85:

    Stormers supporters, the one’s I know anyway, don’t go out on a limb predicting a win in any final before the season has commenced. We’re too clever for that and prefer to take it one game at a time.

    Following the Sharks this year is going to be very interesting. And entertaining. For all of us.

  • 87.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:59 am

    Robzim… was given a Boss anthology by female banshee Santa in red skimpy outfit… loving rediscovering some less well known songs like Tougher than the rest and Leap of faith… Ye, the Boss truly…

  • 88.NZINCHINA: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 10:59 am

    If an NZ side wins it this year it’ll be 12 titles to SA’s 3.

  • 89.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:00 am

    @Heavens Game-67: Pienaar was mindfucked by Jake & Eddie Jones – “ruan could be the new larkham” before Div.

  • 90.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:03 am

    IAAS… you a good oke but you talking bunkum shittt now… Stormers fans never going out on a limb…. ??? Farkoff thats all you okes do to your eternal disappointment… :lol:

  • 91.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:03 am

    @Heavens Game-77: blowing smoke up your own a.rse :lol:

    ” my predictions especially for S15 were 2nd
    to none”

    how many times did u predict the adva ce of tge Guppys to the top of the conference? ;) never materialised tl tl tl

  • 92.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:04 am

    @Transformation-91: advance

  • 93.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:08 am

    TSAS… Farkoff man. DD wouldnt even make the Sharks squad…

  • 94.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:08 am

    @I am a stormer-86: yeah…the Sharks have been favourites to win S15 since 2009 on this ” Stormfront mouthpiece” :-) and what have they produced?

    Zilch, fokkol…nada..

    chokers of note ;)

  • 95.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:12 am

    Transie… The revisionist… Your incessant fibs would have done well with Thabo, umfana… :lol: Pity the Zulus now rule the roost, ne? AmaXhosa balekile… as usual :wink:

  • 96.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:19 am

    its the only credibility this Stormfront mouthpiece has, rationally installing the Dynamite as favourites… Other than me and some other Sharkies giving a different, certainly welcomed POV, by the silent majority at least… Makes a change from the fawning oft nonsensical quite g.ay WePee adulation at least… The Truth that even a Xhosa revisionist cant run away from :lol:

  • 97.NZINCHINA: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:20 am

    SAFFA teams need to concentrate on the real threat in super rugby and that doesn’t lie within the republic, when they finally work that out they might win more titles, your over the top provincial rivalry is killing your title chances.

  • 98.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:20 am

    Atfuckinglast, a guppieworship session in all it’s morning glory.

    Hardonsmormonlovemakingandworshipallround.

    I am concerned that I find myself agreeing with HG on 2 things…. Hoffman’s pass, and the Landers as a sneaky bet to top the NZ conference.

    Apart from those 2 rather sane statements, you talk 50 shadesofbrownbullshyteandcrud. If the Guppalulus don’t sort their lineout and deck playing sh y te out in Bissie’s absence at the start of the season – there’s a worldoffuckingpain waiting for them. Even you should see that Nostradamus?

    And ahemmmmmmmmm, it’s not only a few select guppalulus looking “fit” pre season. I have seen quite a few Stormer fellas looking mighty fit & ready to dish out 7 worlds of sh y te :) (only to the most deserving though…)

  • 99.grant10: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:22 am

    Stormers got kak draw…..AwayBulls…away Sharks…home Chiefs…..

    Farkit

  • 100.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    4 Jan 2013, 11:25 am

    NZChink… Of course the Sharks know their greatest challenge will come from Saders, Landers, Bulls, Chiefs in descending order… Only complacency and overconfidence will enable some banana skins… Thank goodness the Kings are in… One less Lions bananaskin to negotiate… 10 pts guaranteed instead…

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