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As a player Robert du Preez was ultra-competitve, as a coach he is possibly more so, and on the eve of the Currie Cup final between the Sharks and Western Province, the 54-year-old refreshingly cut through the hype and hot air that will always accompany a major sporting event. How are the Sharks are going... Continue Reading →
This week it has been something of a mutual admiration society between the coaches of the Sharks and Stormers but nobody is under any illusion that it will be all-out war at Newlands come 5.15pm this evening. In the best traditions of derbies between the sides, Gary Gold and Robbie Fleck have been talking up... Continue Reading →
The Du Preez twins, Daniel and Jean-Luc, have been picking up Man of the Match awards with eyebrow-raising regularity this season ( including the pre-season tour to France) thus precluding their no doubt proud Dad from being involved in selection issues just yet in his portfolio as Sharks attack coach. But Robert du Preez senior... Continue Reading →
There was no masking the emotion on Bismarck du Plessis’s face as he gave possibly his last ever interview in Sharks colours ahead of his Sharks career finale against the Stormers at Kings Park on Saturday. Just how much the Sharks mean to him was etched into every contour of his battle-scarred features. “I read... Continue Reading →
Sharks players that are suspended from rugby because of foul play will now be docked their wages. This was the no-nonsense resolution passed at a meeting of the Board of the Sharks Directors at Kings Park yesterday. The notorious disciplinary record of the Sharks in Super Rugby this year - three red cards and three... Continue Reading →
We are 20 years into Super Rugby, and there have been detractors that have said the competition has run its course, but how can you give a death sentence to a competition that after just one round has a premier team in the Sharks fighting for their lives? For those who think this a melodramatic... Continue Reading →
Sharks captain Bismarck du Plessis has never been drawn to hyperbole so when he declares that his team is ready for war, the Super Rugby opposition had best draw up their shields and raise their swords for an onslaught, starting with the Cheetahs at Kings Park tomorrow (5pm). The battling Bok hooker reckons the Sharks... Continue Reading →
The writer has been covering Sharks and Springbok rugby for 17 years and in that time I have seldom encountered one of my journalistic colleagues getting it as grieviously wrong as the Beeld man who effectively labelled Keegan Daniel a fascist and a zenophobe. The inference in the scurrilous report was that Daniel dislikes Afrikaans-speaking... Continue Reading →
A tough one to call. That is the general prognosis on the return Super Rugby match between the Stormers and the Sharks at Newlands today . The problem with this fixture is that both sides have an injury toll edging into double figures and so it is difficult to evaluate just how good each team... Continue Reading →
The word from the Sharks this week is that they are going to have to up their physicality tonight against the Crusaders and the retort from the New Zealanders is that they will give as good as they get. Yesterday, Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder told The Mercury that the need to win the physical battle... Continue Reading →
The Crusaders play their fourth consecutive South African side this weekend when they meet the Sharks in Durban. The Sharks are currently sitting near the top of the table having won 4 out of 5 games and have come off a bye last week so will be rested and rearing to go. The two teams... Continue Reading →
On Monday, John Plumtree wore a slightly mischievious grin when he pointed out to reporters that the Stormers were firm favourites to beat the Sharks at Kings Park tomorrow, but while the Sharks coach has clearly wanted to harp on the underdog status to his charges to whip them up into battle rage, this match... Continue Reading →
SHARKS (15) 28 HIGHLANDERS (9) 16 by Mike Greenaway at Kings Park Way back in 1997, Gavin “Flawless” Lawless scored a to-this-day Super Rugby record 50 points against the Highlanders at Kings Park in a match won 75-46 by the Durbanites, but in the context of a very different match last night between the same... Continue Reading →
The Sharks have not lost to the Blues since going down by 36-13 in Auckland in 2005. That is seven straight victories over the team that won the Vodacom Super Rugby crown in 1996, 1997 and 2003. It’s quite remarkable, because in that time, the KwaZulu-Natalians twice beat the Blues in New Zealand and also... Continue Reading →
THE accidental blow Patrick Lambie took to his jaw from a Waratah’s knee in the first half of his team’s match against the Waratahs last week may prove to be an even more telling blow to his team after he was yesterday ruled out of Saturday’s match against the Brumbies in Canberra. The 21-year-old has... Continue Reading →
119 not out. That is the Currie Cup, the world’s longest innings in provincial rugby if you will forgive the terribly mixed metaphors. In this Rugby World Cup year, it has been suggested that the Grand Old Dame will become a forgotten aunt. This scepticism in 2011 is nothing new. She has shrugged off similar... Continue Reading →
by Mike Greenaway From a Sharks’ point of view, if ever a trend needed to be bucked in Super Rugby it is tomorrow at 9.35am. The KZN team have never beaten the Crusaders in New Zealand in the 15-year history of the competition while the Christchurch-based team – even if they are not allowed to... Continue Reading →
The Sharks departed Johannesburg last night quite literally on a wing and prayer given that Sydney airport was closed yesterday morning because of volcanic ash in the atmosphere, although the weather forecast from New South Wales was favourable for clear skies by the time the team is due to land today – otherwise the flight... Continue Reading →
There was something quintessentially French about Frederic Michalak’s description of his recent departure from the rugby club he had played for since he was seven and his arrival in his new home, Durban. “It is the end of a love affair, the heart breaks, but a new affair begins,” he said of his break from... Continue Reading →
Last week, the Sharks packed themselves off to a reclusive residence in Rustenburg, far from the madding crowd and the niggling negativity that had dogged their stuttering Super Rugby campaign, and an immaculate plan was hatched to beat the champion Bulls and record one of the most famous wins in Sharks and Natal rugby history.... Continue Reading →
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