Sharks select a strong team

Published 31 January 2011 | By Sharks_forever

Coach John Plumtree has named a strong sharks team to play the Lions, although there are a few surprises, that will be due to some niggles players picked up.

The article below that’s to Sharksrugby.co.za

 January 2011 (16:21) – Sharks Coach John Plumtree has named a strong starting line-up for Tuesday evening’s Neo Africa Tri-Series warm-up match against the Lions in Cape Town.

John Smit will captain the side from hooker to form an all-Springbok front row with Tendai Mtawarira and Jannie du Plessis either side of him. With Steven Sykes sporting an injury, Ross Skeate, himself over a groin injury sustained during the Absa Currie Cup tournament last year, will partner Alistair Hargreaves in the second row.

Jacques Botes, Willem Alberts and Ryan Kankowski present a formidible loose-forward combination. “I wanted a little bit of contact before we went down to Cape Town,” Plumtree explained of last Tuesday night’s run against The Sharks XV side – a physically intense match that did have it’s victims, “and we did pick up a couple of knocks which is understandable. Steven Sykes didn’t travel due to a calf muscle strain and Keegan Daniel has a slight back injury. I’m not playing anyone carrying any injuries.”

The halfback duo of recently-capped Springboks Charl McLeod and Patrick Lambie is re-united after a much-hyped demonstration over the course of the successful Currie Cup in 2010 while Stefan Terblanche, at outside centre, has a new partner in Meyer Bosman, the off-season signing from the Free State last year who will wear the number 12 jersey.

The back three of JP Pietersen, Odwa Ndungane and Louis Ludik offer a mix of stability and excitement.

With thirteen players named on the bench, there is room to test combinations as well as give some new players an opportunity, notably Daniel Adonga (pictured), Conrad Hoffmann, Jacques–Louis Potgieter, Jacques Engelbrecht and Mark Richards.

The Sharks

1. Tendai Mtawarira
2. John Smit (Captain)
3. Jannie du Plessis
4. Ross Skeate
5. Alistair Hargreaves
6. Jacques Botes
7. Willem Alberts
8. Ryan Kankowski
9. Charl McLeod
10. Patrick Lambie
11. JP Pietersen
12. Meyer Bosman
13. Stefan Terblanche
14. Odwa Ndungane
15. Louis Ludik

Replacements:
16. Craig Burden
17. Eugene van Staden
18. Gerhard Mostert
19. Daniel Adonga (Ojiambo)
20. Conrad Hoffmann
21. Jacques–Louis Potgieter
22. Adrian Jacobs
23. Bismarck du Plessis
24. Anton Bresler
25. Jacques Engelbrecht
26. Riaan Swanepoel
27. Lwazi Mvovo
28. Mark Richards

7 Responses to Sharks select a strong team

  • 1

    grootblousmile on 31 January 2011 at 6:34 pm

    More than 90% of the Sharks strongest available… very impressive team.

  • 2

    sharky_forever on 31 January 2011 at 6:37 pm

    Besides this squad , here are some of the fringe players that are really good and some of the main players out with niggles.

    INJURED:
    Keegan Daniel
    Jean Deysel
    Steven Sykes

    FRINGE:
    Piet Lindeque Center(13)
    Guy cronje (FH)
    Ross Cronje (SH)
    Kyle Cooper (hooker)
    Tiaan Meyer (10 or 09)
    Wiehann Herbst (TH)
    Wynand PIenaar ( FB or 13)

  • 3

    sharky_forever on 31 January 2011 at 6:39 pm

    Dagse Rudi

    ya nie sleg nie

    Bissy en mvovo het a bietjie seer so dus begin hulle nie

  • 4

    superBul on 31 January 2011 at 6:40 pm

    MTN Lions coach John Mitchell has moved closer towards his strongest line-up for his team’s second Neo-Africa Tri-series game against the Sharks on Tuesday night.

    Lions team:

    15. Jaco Taute, 14. Tonderai Chavhanga, 13. Waylon Murray, 12. Deon van Rensburg, 11. Michael Killian, 10. Andre Pretorius, 9. Jano Vermaak, 8. Warren Whiteley, 7. Joshua Strauss, 6. Derick Minnie, 5. Franco van der Merwe (capt), 4. George Earle, 3. Pat Cilliers, 2. Martin Bezuidenhout, 1. JC Janse van Rensburg

    Reserves: Bandise Maku, Ross Geldenhuys, Wikus van Heerden,Cobus Grobbelaar, Rory Kockott, Jannie Boshoff, Burton Francis, Edgar Martuhlulle, Caylib Oosthuizen, David Bulbring, Dries van Schalkwyk, Joubert Engelbrecht, James Kanmana/Lionel Mapoe

  • 5

    Loosehead on 31 January 2011 at 9:00 pm

    Question for J-LP: Would you rather get splinters in your arse in Pretoria, or actually play the game in Bloem?

  • 6

    Loosehead on 31 January 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @ Loosehead:
    I should have included Deben in the question.

  • 7

    Scrumdown on 2 February 2011 at 7:35 am

    So this side leaked 40 points against the Lions.

    Can we read anything into the score, or is it just a pre-season “warm up” where the coaches don’t really give a monkey’s uncle about the result.

    At least publicly, but we all know that no coach like to lose any game.

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