John Smit
Cell C Sharks CEO, John Smit, has a message for disappointed Sharks fans after the team’s failure to reach the Currie Cup semifinals.
After playing to a 34 / 34 draw to the Toyota Free State Cheetahs in Bloemfontein at the weekend, the Durbanites finished 5th on the overall Currie Cup Log, to miss out on a playoff spot.
The Cell C Sharks appeared to have the game in the bag, leading 34 / 20 with 4 minutes remaining, but 2 late converted tries gave the Toyota Free State Cheetahs a draw – and a place in the semifinals at the expense of the Cell C Sharks.
Smit wrote a message to fans on the Cell C Sharks’ official Facebook page.
As Sharks fans, we have become accustomed to reaching the Currie Cup semi-finals year in, year out and it’s obviously disappointing we have not done so this season.
However, we move on. Our planning for the 2016 season is well advanced. We have a young team in transition, further signings are planned and we will compete strongly next year.
To all our supporters, thank you for your continued faithful support. The players and coaches are completely committed to making you proud again and filling us all with the joy that only this team can give us.
John Smit, Sharks CEO
Reported by Sport24
Just exactly WHEN are the Sharks supporters going to boot this inept CEO of theirs out with a big fat kick on the butt?
He and Gary Gold makes such a uselees combo at the Sharks!
The Sharks performances just keep deteriorating week by week, since John Smit and then Gary Gold’s arrival at the Sharks!
@ grootblousmile:
Hi GBS it seems to me that one needs to be logged in to see the comments. It showed one comment on the outside part of this thread but on opening it to read rest of article couldn’t see the comment, then went to the bottom and logged in and your comment appeared. Don’t know if this is a bug on my browser (IE) or in general.
2 @ Bullscot:
Have had a good look… also had the same querie yesterday from Turkey & Nortie.
Must be our Caching Plugin we use, it is used to serve pages faster to readers and to reduce CPU usage on the Web Host server.
I have gone and tweaked some settings a bit…. let’s see how they run… please keep reporting to me about these issues.
Basically the Caching Plugin (WP Super Cache), the way I’ve set it, handles known and unknown readers differently…
By saying that I come to the conclusion and am of the opinion that it provides an easy answer as to why one would see all the comments when logged in (known user) as opposed to not seeing all the comments when not logged in (unknown user).
Pages are basically “more deeply cached” for unknown users, thus supplying a sometimes older cached file version but loading much quicker AND for known users it is “less deeply cached” so that newer file versions are served… it makes good sense doing it this way for comment reading and contribution.
To set the balance exactly right, so everybody sees everything… is the goal… so here’s hoping!
Caching is essential, there is no getting around it… we would not be able to run on a shared server environment without it!!
Should Heyneke’s tenure at the Boks finish, he is a shoo in to take over the head coach position at the Guppies….he is already quite adept at apologizing after losses, so that’s one box ticked already
3 @ grootblousmile:
Ok will let you know if this happens again. Phew that is a lot of technical stuff way over my head but sounds like you have been adjusting things that side, at least not the standard first IT answer of “reboot your computer” 🙂 Another thing I noticed earlier today and think have seen this before is when I go on site on my mobile (Android) sometimes the videos that were uploaded in comments don’t show up, instead the SUPERBRU logo appears, somehow today I got ‘scrolling down’ on it and the Bru table and rest of that logo on the right for Superbru appeared. Don’t know how to make a screen shot from phone otherwise could have done that, it is fine now.
@ grootblousmile: so basically speaking; you’ll categorising me as an old-toppie????
6 @ Tassies:
Huh??
Nooooooooo, you’re a spring chicken… newly off your mommy’s breast… hahaha
@ grootblousmile: ja, no, well, fine GB. I’ve always been partial to chicken.
So John Dobson reckons we have squat chance of lifting Bill. Hed him live on air this pm. Says we lack the attacking penetration to do the business at the sharp end. What’d u oaks reckon?
8 @ Tassies:
Well, seems we now have a fit squad… and the half-injured bets Heyneke placed by selecting certain recupering players paid off well.
The only one we’ve lost is Jean de Villiers and to my mind it was sad for him but maybe best for the team overall.
We’ll have to see how we go against Wales… the proof of the pudding is now in the eating of it during the difficult games!
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