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Venue: Mbombela Stadium
Time: 19:00 CAT (SA, GMT+2)
Venue: Emirates Airlines Park
Time: 16:30 CAT (SA, GMT+2)
Venue: Loftus Versfeld
Time: 19:00 CAT (SA, GMT+2)
We are looking good with outside back depth at the Sharks. I know pro x rugby teams need big depth especially when Internationals overlap with the comp.
Our outside back depth going forward looks something like this now
Makazole Mapimpi
Sbu Nkosi
Aphellele Fassi
Werner Kok
Madosh Tambwe
Lwazi Mvovo
JP Pietersen
Thaakir Abraham's (Junior Springbok)
And now Yaw Penxe from the Kings
Think Muller du Plessis can also play wing
I don't know about the other teams but is this the most stacked outside backs depth in the world right now?
Yea haha Mvovo is very much over the hill, almost did not even make that hill. He has become just as slow as Ndungane was in his final years. I remember a Cursaders prop running down a Ndungane breakaway, then we all knew his days was over. Seen something similar with Mvovo, i think Thomas the tank is clocking a faster 100m than him
What's the Fourie du Perez influence you speak of? Is he an assistant coach and or Has he been particularly involved With that one player?Well played the Bulls !! In the game against the sharks everything seemed to fall into place after we scored the first try.
Hendricks had a good game and combined well with Gans, which was good to see ! Hopefully they can keep it up and grow their chemistry ! I was critical about their centre combination, but now I am sceptically optimistic ! They played all the small match-ups well !
The forwards were very good and nr 7 Louw was phenomenal ! Van Zyl also had a good game, and it's almost if one can already see Fourie du Preez's influence starting to pay off. It's not fair to single players out because everyone gave it their best so hats off to all the players. Nortje was also a monster and there I have to eat humble pie, so well played young man !
I hope Jake can keep the guys grounded and focus hard for the Stormers game !
Pity about the Cheetahs v Lions being cancelled. That cat fight was close to pick of the round IMO. As it turned out Bulls v Sharks wasn't a contest and just as odd the Stormers v Pumas was a nail biter and a half.. I know nothing. Happy enough for the log points (again) but we barely made it over the line (again). Two games is not much in terms of a pool of information but if I had to set up something in the way of "power rankings":
1 Cheetahs
2 Bulls
3 Stormers
4 Sharks
5 Pumas
6 Lions
7 Griquas
Thoughts? I do expect however that there will be a lot of movement still. My expectation still is for the Lions to climb a bit and Cheetahs to drop a tad. Which is why that match getting cancelled irks me so but possibly I really do know nothing. Luckily for my Superbru it seems my league knows even less.
So, the pumas, griquas, and cheetahs, have they picked up any of the talent from the super teams or are they (particularly the first two) just using the leftover players and somehow still managing to compete?
What's the Fourie du Perez influence you speak of? Is he an assistant coach and or Has he been particularly involved With that one player?
I understand that but I wonder whether they will actually get to it. maybe that is just me being pessimistic.The Cheetahs vs Lions game was postponed (PP), as in to be hopefully made up later.
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The only transfer between these competing teams I know of is lock Le Roux Roets going from the Sharks where he was a bench player to captaining the Pumas though he got injured in the 1st round (delivering a MotM performance in my book).So, the pumas, griquas, and cheetahs, have they picked up any of the talent from the super teams or are they (particularly the first two) just using the leftover players and somehow still managing to compete?
What's the Fourie du Perez influence you speak of? Is he an assistant coach and or Has he been particularly involved With that one player?
I understand that but I wonder whether they will actually get to it. maybe that is just me being pessimistic.
I understand that but I wonder whether they will actually get to it. maybe that is just me being pessimistic.