The official Sharks web site have announced the Team to face WP this weekend.
The Sharks have confirmed that Juan Hernandez and Rory Kockott will start this Saturday’s Absa Currie Cup match against Western Province at The Absa Stadium Durban.
John Plumtree who today was presented with the Absa Coach of the Month Award for August agreed that the match would be a real cracker – Province the only side to have beaten The Sharks this season.
“The boys are obviously very excited. We have a lot of respect for this Province side, it’s loaded with talent. They’ll come here knowing they can beat us, the plus for us is that we’ve been playing well and are expecting a large crowd. The players look forward to these challenges so it’s not been hard from a coaching perspective to get the team up for this game.”
With good weather predicted, this after the first round match in Cape Town, played in wet weather, ended in Province’s favour, Plumtree admitted that the conditions play a big role.
“The weather conditions change the dynamic, so let’s hope it’s dry. It’s going to be intense and physical, both sides are pretty stingy in terms of conceding tries so defence is going to be up there. We also have a good referee, we’re pleased to have Jonathan Kaplan.”
Riaan Swanepoel returns to the side after missing out last week through injury, with Waylon Murray reverting to the bench and Andries Strauss shifting to outside centre in the other changes along with the new halfback pairing.
With Wiehahn Herbst having been cleared of any misdoing last week, he joins either Patric Cilliers or Deon Carstens on the other side of the scrum with Skipper Badenhorst adding experience to the front row as he celebrates his 50th Absa Currie Cup cap for The Sharks.
Johann Muller has been handed the captaincy for this game, his leadership important for The Sharks after Stefan Terblanche also captained the side with aplomb. “The team has been well-led,” admitted Plumtree. “We have some outstanding leaders in the team and the belief the team have and trust they have for each other is a major factor behind our success. The team has confidence which is huge for any team, we’ve worked hard all season and all week and kept our preparation for this game consistent.”
Team:
15. Stefan Terblanche
14. Chris Jordaan
13. Andries Strauss
12. Riaan Swanepoel
11. Lwazi Mvovo
10. Juan Hernandez
9. Rory Kockott
8. Keegan Daniel
7. Jean Deysel
6. Jacques Botes
5. Johann Muller (Capt)
4. Steven Sykes
3. Wiehahn Herbst
2. Skipper Badenhorst
1 Deon Carstens / Patric Cilliers
Replacements:
16. Craig Burden
17. Patric Cilliers / Deon Carstens
18. Albert van den Berg
19. Michael Rhodes
20. Charl McLeod
21. Monty Dumond
22. Waylon Murray
VisJanne
Strong pack (don’t know the tighthead though) but may come up short in the backline.
Think a lot is going to be on their 9/10 – they will probally keep the ball infront of their strong forwards.
2@Ex Player – Vergelyk die Tjarks agterlyn se verdedigingsvermoeë met die van die gekwose WP agterlyn….
Sonder om snaaks te wees, WP se agterlyn is damn dun op uitstekende verdedigers…
Tjarks gaan die ene maklik vat.
@Ex Player – Herbst is a proper tighthead… he’ll do fine.
BTW – who did you play for before you became an Ex Player?
Sharks will take this one easily, as a goodbye gift to Luke.
Pietman ek hoop jy is reg… Puke moet so gou as moontlik waai!!
Martin, you’ve registered and been APPROVED
Start blogging fella !
4@robdylan – Boland
@grootblousmile – Bothaville budgies!!
@Cuzzy Vix – Hallo Cuzzy. Wonner of jy steeds geban is op Keo? Hiehiehie
@isigidi – Hi Issi!!!!!! Nee eks altyd geban daar, dis net die tydperk wat verskil! 👿
@Cuzzy Vix – Hie word mens nie geban nie, net verwyder. Ma moetie worry, ek ken die webmonster goed. Koop hom net ‘n paar patydroppers/sletsappies en hy’s OK.
i live in hope that wp will win. and by the way all this talk of poaching players etc also applies to the guppies. they just signed two wynberg youngsters for their u21 team. the bulls signed a youngster from one of our schools too.it seems wp have so much talent available it is overflowing to the rest of the country!
13@Martin – Welcome here…
Give us an Idea what you think of the site !!
@Martin – Martin we argued the point extensively. Conclusion is simple. Don’t cry over lost talent if you can’t keep them in WP.
By the way, I support WP. Stories like yours just piss me off right from the beginning.
dag sê, almal..
@isigidi – Ek hoor die web monster is n vuil ou ding? Is dit waar??
Nee ag ek is wie ek is Isi… 😉
@isigidi – ahem…..thats why i wrote the last sentence….we have so much talent it is overflowing……so…time to unpiss yourself off from the end lol
@grootblousmile – gbs..not too shabby…well done.
Guys one thing we must understand is rugby is professional and the players’ is only 10 years max! They need to go where the money is to “skep terwyl hulle kan”!
@Cuzzy Vix – Jou inligting is reg. Hy’s meeas confused of hy ‘n webmonster is en of hy ‘n urinemonster het.
A wel, mens kan seker altwee gelyktydig wees/hê. 😀
Wonder waar ou K9 die tietkop is? Hy is maar stil deesdae!!
@isigidi – 😆
Isi/Martin
Let’s keep it clean boys.
You WP okes want to fight amongst yourselves, take it to the beach.
Please.
@Cuzzy Vix – Praat kuk van Rose en hy’s gou hier.
@Cuzzy Vix – Hoe gaan dit met die laaitjie?
@Pietman – Moer mekaar ek haat vrede…??? 😆
@Pietman – Huh? Ek iets verkeerd gesê?
@isigidi – WP supporter se net dinge verkeerd wat bedoel jy…
@isigidi –
Nee, jy het waar gepraat.
Martin praat van WP talent ‘over-flowing’….
ek dink hy bedoel bank ‘over-draught’ 🙂
Dit was eintlik as verwelkoming aan hom bedoel!
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