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This is good, good, good.
Was hoping the Lions would make it to 50, to give Plum a little harder thoughts, but hopefully this will make Plum have a little introspective look over the close season.
Terblanche and Smit gone, the man out in the cold Jacque-Louis Potgeiter off the wage bill, Joubert to go and 'mentor' the youngsters in the Vodacom Cup next year. McLeod back to fitness,
Season's finished, now is when supporters are allowed to rip into the players and management properly.
Things that need to be done:
A) Either give Lindique a chance next year, or bring in a quality 13.
B) Decide now what is going to be done with Lambie. With Goosen, Jantjies and Ehbersohn, SA don't 'need' to have the Sharks play Lambie at 10. So decide now who is going to start the season as our first choice 10,12 and 15. Then change as form/ injury dictates.
C) Keegan Daniel cannot go on like this, conceded 4 penalties by himself, and should have been penalized on three other occasions. No f***ing way can he be our captain whilst being a walking penalty machine.
D) Either get, develop or convert Daniel into a proper fetcher, the last would be the hardest as he doesn't have the same frame as Pocock/ Brussouw/ McCaw. Again we must look at either getting a quality one, or we can look to Chris Cloete/ Klienhans.
E) Deysel must be managed properly so he gets back to his former self, not getting around much. Before his injury was a threat at the break-downs, now he is only a threat to our own players the way he dives in.
F) Get this bloody habit of diving into the rucks out of our teams mentality, it's bloody disgraceful. It gets said time and time again, do as the Kiwis and Aussies do, play the ball and not the man. Mitchell has hammered this into the Lions these last two years, and it is paying off big time.
G) As with 10, 12 and 15, sort out our locks. No switching mid-season, we played great with Jan-Andre Marais and Bresler. If you want an enforcer lock Plum, Deysel isn't any use if he can't get to the rucks/ when he gets the ball he goes alone without any support.
H) Kanko needs to be given the ball in space for him to do anything, Coetzee is a great prospect who has Kanko's speed (if not hands), great strength and can break tackles. As with Deysel just get him out of the schoolboy mentality of going alone and beating back the opposition. In senior rugby big players are tackled in twos and threes. Make a plan for Kanko.
I) Scrum-half- Hoffman has been given enough time, he hasn't quite got there but we know the talent is there. Put him aside and let him sort out his distribution in the Vodacom Cup. Ross is most likely off with his boet to the Lions and UJ, so get somone in to back up McLeod seeing as Michalak is intent on playing 20, or play hardball with Froggie.
J) Argh, one could type up a whole lot more, pretty much just fustrated and trying to sort my thought, you guys know more than me and can also plainly see where problems lie.
Well done the Lions, you deserved the cup this year, my happy thoughts to all the 5-6000 hardcore Lions support who have followed your team through thick and thin. To all the fair-weather glory hunters, GTF.
Was hoping the Lions would make it to 50, to give Plum a little harder thoughts, but hopefully this will make Plum have a little introspective look over the close season.
Terblanche and Smit gone, the man out in the cold Jacque-Louis Potgeiter off the wage bill, Joubert to go and 'mentor' the youngsters in the Vodacom Cup next year. McLeod back to fitness,
Season's finished, now is when supporters are allowed to rip into the players and management properly.
Things that need to be done:
A) Either give Lindique a chance next year, or bring in a quality 13.
B) Decide now what is going to be done with Lambie. With Goosen, Jantjies and Ehbersohn, SA don't 'need' to have the Sharks play Lambie at 10. So decide now who is going to start the season as our first choice 10,12 and 15. Then change as form/ injury dictates.
C) Keegan Daniel cannot go on like this, conceded 4 penalties by himself, and should have been penalized on three other occasions. No f***ing way can he be our captain whilst being a walking penalty machine.
D) Either get, develop or convert Daniel into a proper fetcher, the last would be the hardest as he doesn't have the same frame as Pocock/ Brussouw/ McCaw. Again we must look at either getting a quality one, or we can look to Chris Cloete/ Klienhans.
E) Deysel must be managed properly so he gets back to his former self, not getting around much. Before his injury was a threat at the break-downs, now he is only a threat to our own players the way he dives in.
F) Get this bloody habit of diving into the rucks out of our teams mentality, it's bloody disgraceful. It gets said time and time again, do as the Kiwis and Aussies do, play the ball and not the man. Mitchell has hammered this into the Lions these last two years, and it is paying off big time.
G) As with 10, 12 and 15, sort out our locks. No switching mid-season, we played great with Jan-Andre Marais and Bresler. If you want an enforcer lock Plum, Deysel isn't any use if he can't get to the rucks/ when he gets the ball he goes alone without any support.
H) Kanko needs to be given the ball in space for him to do anything, Coetzee is a great prospect who has Kanko's speed (if not hands), great strength and can break tackles. As with Deysel just get him out of the schoolboy mentality of going alone and beating back the opposition. In senior rugby big players are tackled in twos and threes. Make a plan for Kanko.
I) Scrum-half- Hoffman has been given enough time, he hasn't quite got there but we know the talent is there. Put him aside and let him sort out his distribution in the Vodacom Cup. Ross is most likely off with his boet to the Lions and UJ, so get somone in to back up McLeod seeing as Michalak is intent on playing 20, or play hardball with Froggie.
J) Argh, one could type up a whole lot more, pretty much just fustrated and trying to sort my thought, you guys know more than me and can also plainly see where problems lie.
Well done the Lions, you deserved the cup this year, my happy thoughts to all the 5-6000 hardcore Lions support who have followed your team through thick and thin. To all the fair-weather glory hunters, GTF.
I know it happens by my word it annoys the ***s off me.
