Sharks get fresh ideas

Sharks get fresh ideas

29 Jan 2013

Springbok defence coach John McFarland and former All Blacks flyhalf Carlos Spencer have helped the Sharks to prepare for Super Rugby this season.

Coach John Plumtree told the Sharks’ website that McFarland’s input, which is part of a new initiative by the Springboks to help and share ideas with South African franchises, had been invaluable.

‘He has had a lot of experience coaching at a top level for a long time, he’s a specialist in defence and we wanted to pick his brains, to make use of his knowledge this week. It’s a good change for the boys with some fresh ideas.

‘It’s important that we adopt the philosophy of sharing information from the Springbok management to us which will also give John a better idea of our players by working with us. We’re able to open up the working relationship with the Springbok coaches, starting with him.’

Plumtree said his players had also enjoyed having Spencer, the ex-Lions backs coach, in Durban.

‘I’d like him here a little longer – he’s not here for the whole tournament as he has family back in Joburg – but he will help us through the course of the season, he’ll see how we go and he’ll come down periodically.

‘He will be good for not only our flyhalves but also our backs, he’ll also be working on our kicking game. But really, he’s just touched the surface of what I want from him.’


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  • 1.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 08:11 am

    BOOM!

  • 2.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 08:28 am

    Most of us would agree that the team is actually doing quite fine with or without all the outside coaches.
    I would suggest the Sharks Co. invest in someone like Dale Carnegie to assist their fans in ” how to win friends and influence people” or to get Gary Player in to teach some of them humility.
    :-)

  • 3.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 08:44 am

    @nortierd-2: GTFOH… Take your Poppers too..

  • 4.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 08:52 am

    @nortierd-2:

    Their whole team and management are “outsiders” anyway(right down from Herr Strauli to the ballboys) – if they had to rely on locals they would still have been a struggling team in the Vodacom cup lke they used to be a struggling team in the B section or Sport Pienaar cup in the old days

  • 5.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 08:54 am

    @Heavens Game-3:
    I thank you HG
    Herewith I rest my case

  • 6.Chico the Chihuahua: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:01 am

    @Robzim-4: jealousy makes you nyaaasty Robzim.

  • 7.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:20 am

    I need a detox. Guppiefuckingoverload……

    Although, all PR, adoration and brown nosing certainly adds to the entertainment factor when their sh y t e gets real – usually the 2nd game of the season :)

  • 8.Stawm: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:32 am

    HG believes in the ‘broken clock’ theory. Even it is right twice a day!

  • 9.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:35 am

    @nortierd-5: You rest your case?

    You mean your assumption that Sharks fans want “to win friends and influence people” on this Stormfront Propaganda mouthpiece is true, valid and not absolute bullshitt?

    Let me help you out with a suggestion: Howzabout finding a quack who might help Stormer fans with their delusions of grandeur?

    Maybe find one who has farken no idea what the fark is cutting, also has delusions of grandeur and sleeps with a dog eared DSM iv under pillow while pondering how to portray credibility as a Rottie loving “Doc”… on a rugby site…

    Maybe you could score yourself some muti from this consultation… or a little dance around the Stormer maypole…

    Farken WePee fantasists…

  • 10.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:37 am

    @Stawm-8: In HG’s case not. He is the broken clock in which the hands of said clock have been ripped off the face….. rendering the clock totallyfuckinguseless 24/7/365

    (He can’t even get the gender of his playmates right…..rugby predictions may be a stretch 2 far ;)

  • 11.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:37 am

    @Stawm-8: HG also believes in the Stawm ‘bwoken back’ theory…

    Over rigor not good for you Stawmy… Makes you stoop…

  • 12.Stawm: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:38 am

    @Heavens Game-9:

    Give us your amazing predictions for this year. Enlighten us.

  • 13.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:40 am

    @Heavens Game-9: Why do you hate me :( :( :( :( :( :(

    Mortified…..horrified….broken….. :(

    ‘Farken WePee fanatisist’ leaving the building, shattered by the depth of HG’s hatred. Sobbing and wailing as she goes….. sniff.

  • 14.Stawm: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:40 am

    @Heavens Game-11:

    Tell us again how you have shed blood on the battlefield of rugby. Brothers in arms etc. Brought a tear to my eye that one.
    Maybe finish off by telling us all how you only like to pleasure women, because that is very relevant to this blog.

  • 15.Britney Spies: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:40 am

    @Robzim-4:

    :lol: So waar as vraggies

  • 16.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:41 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-10: Fark… that makes complete sense…

    Hysteria…

    cackles…

    (Calm down Doggy… them ovaries do seem to go into overdrive when yours truly explodes onto a thread… Must pace yourself darling… )

  • 17.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:41 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-13: Ok, I’m over it.

    Back again.

    Howzit hanging HG?

  • 18.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:42 am

    @Stawm-14: Bitchy… :lol: You sure a real “man” Stawmy?

  • 19.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:42 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-17: Going down leg…

  • 20.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:43 am

    @Stawm-14: Only bring out the hysterical sh y te HG says once I have finished my coffee please? Don’t want to be laughing so bad that coffee exits via my nostrils.

  • 21.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:44 am

    @Heavens Game-19: Left or right? Freedom fighter or terrorist?

  • 22.Stawm: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:46 am

    @Heavens Game-18:

    According to your own words, you are a lover of women, and women only. You felt a very strong need to make this information public.
    What could you be hiding?

  • 23.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:48 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-21: middle leg… talk right… walk left…

  • 24.Stawm: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:48 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-20:

    Sorry about that. :)
    The really good hysterical sh y te HG says only really starts when the rugby starts. Then he predicts victory for the Sharks every week. Of course he has to be right sometimes and this is when he loses his way.
    Groundhog day.

  • 25.Stawm: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:49 am

    HG seems to be babbling now. Very excitable.

  • 26.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:50 am

    @Stawm-22: Very insightful, Stawmy… This Blue and White, Kingly Propaganda site and especially this humble Black and White thread truly does not deserve you…

    How many Noddy badges would you like, big boy?

  • 27.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:52 am

    @Heavens Game-23: Indeed. Look left. Look right. Look left again. Still fuckall to be seen without significant magnification.
    The Rules of HG’s Road….

    “Magnification is the process of enlarging something only in appearance, not in physical size.”

  • 28.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 09:55 am

    We are black, we are white, we are we are dynamite.
    dynamite with a short fuse :-)
    n kort lont hang nie link of regs nie

  • 29.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:01 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-27: When middle leg is a serious obstacle, and looking straight ahead is a permanent risk of skwonky nose, looking left and right is this humble ruggerbugger’s only options to move forward with intent…

    You know this is true doggy…

    Deep breaths now…

  • 30.Stawm: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:02 am

    @Heavens Game-29:
    Sounds like you have very good personal experience of this, from the same angle and height?

  • 31.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:03 am

    http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Cape-Town-sharks-only-female-study-20130129

    Fuckinghell. Same sh y te applies to Sharks fans. Unreal.

  • 32.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:03 am

    @nortierd-28:
    The WePee BOOM! Song… Specially for you Norty

    We are White
    We are Blue
    We like
    We like
    To Push farken Poo

  • 33.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:06 am

    Guppys are now enlisting the services of “north & south traditional” rugby experts along with more IRANZ rugby students :mrgreen:

    mcfarland? the guy that oversaw our defence getting ripped to shreds at soccer city is the panacea the guppys need for success…oh dear this is shaping up to be a classic season.

  • 34.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:07 am

    @Stawm-30: Stawmy… You flatter me, daahling… But no, I am not interested…

  • 35.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:08 am

    @nortierd-28: do.you know the lyrics to the famous Sharks song “Not Quite”? :-)

  • 36.Stawm: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:09 am

    @Heavens Game-34:
    So you agree then that you are an expert in this precise scenario?

  • 37.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:09 am

    @Transformation-33: Yes… A true classic… A different kind of classic to the Kings debut though…

    SARU’s very own Bantustan Franchise vs the Mighty Sharks…

    Any price a century at dynamite stadium and Puke in traction at St Augustines, umfanawami? :lol:

  • 38.nortierd: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:11 am

    @Heavens Game-32:
    :-)

  • 39.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:11 am

    mcfarland to meyer ‘turnstile’ bosman…

    “don’t drift meyer you’re leaving gaping holes in the middle”

  • 40.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:11 am

    @Stawm-36: No Stawmy, of course not… Although I am an expert in many things… Here, I am afraid, I must defer to you…

  • 41.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:13 am

    @Transformation-39: “you’re leaving gaping holes in the middle”… eish Transie, get a room cuzzie… Rossie wont be happy with pillow talk on a public forum like that…. :lol:

  • 42.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:14 am

    HG, just for you…….

    This from a huge guppie fan named Poisy from another site.

    “15 Feb that’s when it starts
    Razor teeth a wave of black & white
    Last year we travelled and just fell short
    This year our campain shall stay afloat
    From Beast to Lambie, old Butch will come in handy
    To JPand Steyn – Cheetahs are 1st up, oh what a shame!
    They have Rhule but we have Mvovo
    He’s our Lamborghini, the other guy is just a Volvo
    We have quality from 1 to 15
    Too bad for the lions it isn’t Super 16
    Stormers as usual are making a noise
    They’ll crash in a semi they such funny ou’s
    The pride of Pretoria, a wave of blue
    Please ask Dean oh when is he due
    They are called the bulls and they so proud
    Can’t wait till we klap them in front of a Loftus crowd
    New kids on the block they dress in red
    Its feasting time the Sharks will be well fed
    For some reason they called the Kings
    Before all they matches the fat lady will sing
    Oh a joyous year awaits
    So bring your flags and don’t be late
    Our favourite team is ready for battle
    They melt our hearts like it’s a burning candle
    Much has been said, much has been written
    This year I’ve got a special feeling
    Oh dear Plum we need to win
    3,2,1 let the rugby begin
    GO SHARKS

    @Transformation-33: Check out the guppie PR doing the rounds on the interweb…..

  • 43.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:15 am

    @Heavens Game-37: talk about delusions…Super Rugby classic examples are the Crusaders vs Guppys at Twickenham…Tsunami scrums, criss-cross Sader backline moves – vintage stuff :-)

  • 44.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:16 am

    @Transformation-35: I only the lyrics to the guppie song titled, “A bridgetoofuckingfar”.

    Know it?

  • 45.Mr Black: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:16 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-42:

    Well said Poisy :lol:

  • 46.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:17 am

    @Heavens Game-41: i plugged Banshee’s hole ages ago hence the silence…you should thank me :-)

  • 47.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:18 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-42: Sheez… specially for me? I am touched :lol:

    Btw, what you doing on a Sharks fan site…

    Obsessing again?

    Familiarising Rottie with dynamite? :lol:

  • 48.Stawm: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:18 am

    @Heavens Game-40:
    Dont back track now. You made yourself very clear in your first reference.
    It does tie in nicely with all your other inferences in this regard.

  • 49.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:19 am

    @Mr Black-45: Mr Black…….. why is it ony guppie fans who write these corny and insipid little poems for their team? :)

    (Although, I must be honest, this attempt is FAR better than the ‘Moment like this’ guppie version doing the rounds before the S15 and CC finals…. ;)

  • 50.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    29 Jan 2013, 10:21 am

    @Heavens Game-47: Entertainment….pure and simple. I will honestly admit, that guppie fans, ARE (without a doubt and not even a hint of serious competition) THE MOST ENTERTAINING in the country, the world, the galaxy.

    No other tribe comes close……

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