On the lighter side - Can anyone of you guess

What Paul Jordaan's nickname is?  it  has some similarities to the way he plays his rugby.   Price for correct entry - genius of the month award.

rocket seat???

Sasue

Sorry - but wrong.  Try again, please

35 Visitors and no-ome knows.  Keep on quessing.

Rumpelstiltskin

Sharkbok

Thanks for trying - but way off the mark.

Rumpelstiltskin, LMAO, :oD

hey mikey, is is an afrikaans name???
 

Yo clevermike,  my guess is this hapless Shark's nick name is Tollie or " butter fingers" for short.

Sasue

No it is an English one.

Big Far Yarpie

Tripe as per normal - he is a better ball player than any other 13 in SA.  Definitely not what you said and I said it is in line with his performances on the rugby field.

Hear you've got a Spencer in your coaching staff this year clevermike. Should be interesting to see what havoc Frank brings to your club.

Since nobody knows - I will give you his nickname as reflected on the SARU site,  It is BRUMBLE BEE apparently given to him by his teammates.

He really is fast and illusive - a really slippery customer - and has a real stng to him in playing the game.   Before the Reds game last year - I said in a posting to Sasue - the Reds must be really careful - this guy is going to give them problems and he did in no uncertain terms.   He did the same in the final and was caught about 5 meters out - but thereafter he had to leave the field of play as a result of injury and due to a vatiety of factors the Sharks lost the plot.

Very dangerous opponent and his performances last year showed that    It will be interesting to see how he performs this year in Super 15.   What is clear is that he has ball sense - an element of the game only displayed by a few other backline players in SA - those being Goosen, Lambie, Habana and Pietersen.

The rest only believe in power play and is clueless about how to optimize balls they get to maximum advantage often enough crashballing and dieing with the ball.   

I saw some change in the way De Allende played for WP in the CC Final - he did crashball - but did not die with the ball in hand he off-loaded and passed balls in tackle situations and kept the backline movements alive.

The possession of ball sense - coupled to reading of the game and very effective attacking skills inclusive of  running at speed with the ball  - is an element of the game I was so excited about when I saw the way Swiel  played his game.   He really looks like a future star in the making  - hence my designation of him as the Ball Sense Wiz Kid.

I am thinking the slow and ineffective backline players  must beware there is a string  of youngsters coming through that has the ability toi change the face of backline play in SA.   That is if the move is not nulliefied by coaches such as Meyer, Ludeke and Coetzee.   What is required is to allow the ball sense players to use their natural play to the maximum and not to kill their natural abilities that was the norm in the past.

I know the Sharks will benefit by the usage of Spencer - but whether he will be able to change Francois Steyn and make him from an ambling backline crashballer without off-loading skills into an attacking backline player,  remains to be seen.   I hope he succeeds - but Steyn should remember that De Allende and Serfontein is coming and he may just not make the team in future.   The same applies to De Villiers.     

@mikey,

thats some nice info on jordaan there, i remember him stepping digby hard in that try, no mean feat but that reds team was a pale shade of its former self and when those boys dont have an injury count like they did last year, they are a different kettle of fish altogether.

i had an answer for the question when i came to the thread just now, but u have already answered it lolz, :oP
i was going to use simple sherlock holmes deductions in uravelling that mystery nickname, u said the name is a bit of a refelction of how he plays his rugby, so by that he is super fast, super skillful and a very excitiing player with ball in hand, so by simple logic, his nick name according to the info u provided should have been kiwi,  LMAO, :oP