The misery of being defeated 41-10 by the Lions in their opening Neo Africa fixture has been compounded for the Sharks by an injury that could force Alistair Hargreaves to be out of rugby for some time.
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Hargreaves left the field during the match with a back injury that forced him to spend the night in hospital. Early on Wednesday the Sharks coaches reported that Hargreaves was still in hospital, and while they are still unclear over what the injury is – it was described by assistant coach Grant Bashford as “one of two scenarios” – they are gearing themselves for the worst.
“It does not look good, it is a big concern for us,” said coach John Plumtree, who said that Hargreaves’ condition was caused by either a disc or vertebrae injury.
The Sharks will know later on Wednesday how long Hargreaves will be out for, but the coaches are anticipating that it will probably be for a lengthy period. It will be a massive blow if those fears are confirmed, for Hargreaves was expected to play a vital role as a key member of the Sharks pack in the Super Rugby season. Johann Muller, the stalwart in the No5 jersey over most of the past six or seven Super seasons, is now playing overseas.
To make matters worse, another lock, Ross Skeate, sustained a fractured finger against the Lions, which leaves the Sharks in a pickle as they search for a second row for their match against the Stormers at Newlands on Saturday. With Steve Sykes not having made the trip to Cape Town because of injury, the injury blows to Skeate and Hargreaves leaves the Sharks short of frontline second row cover.
Gerhard Mostert played in Hargreaves’ place for most of the Sharks match and the former Lions player will be expected to front the second row challenge against the Stormers, who will include the fit again Andries Bekker in their lineup.
Hargreaves just doesn’t impress me.
No great loss.
Regardless of whichever team they play for it is never nice to hear of a rugby player suffering from a serious injury. Hopefully for Hargreaves this is all precautionary stuff from the medical team and that he hasn’t got a bad injury. All the best young man.
Gehoor van die jong getroude knaap wat vir sy pragtige vroutjie sê:
“Hiert jou sexy ding – op, kamer toe is jy.”
Sy kyk hom diep in die oë, giggel en sê “O nee, jou ou stoute kabouter.”
Hy: “Nee ernstig, die rugby gaan nou begin – fokkof.”
3@ Ashley:
Ek wed jou, jou vroutjie het noggie daai grappie gehoor nie!
The boys are pushing and shoving, in the “ tuckshop ” queue
and then the tuckshop teacher hears one of the boys say ” jou ma se @#*$ ”
She is outraged and sends him off to the headmaster’s office
The headmaster asks him ” So what did you say ?? ”
” Nuuthing Meneer ”
The teacher heard you swearing !!
” Nay Meneer ”
” Well, What did you say ?? ”
“Meneer , all the guys was out of order, so I jus tol them “ you maasen poesh “
gbs @ 4
ek het haar vertel
maar snaaks genoeg
het sy dit nie so lekker verstaan nie 😀
..
ekt probeer om dit weer oor te vertel
maar sy was bietjie besig
so sy kon nie eintlik weer daarna luister nie 😉
loosehead @ 5
lol
@ Ashley:
Lucky Man!
loosehead @ 8
why? 😀
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