White is a coach I admire

White is really the one coach that has a very good knowledge of rugby and he is the influence that actually carry the Sharks forward.   He s extremely loyal and publicly supportive of his players - but that seems his one weakness.  

 If one look at the actual performances of some players one wonders how it could be that White in fact actually persists with them.   Statistically the two worst players in the Sharks team is Francois Steyn and Willem Alberts.

Steyn is the regular destroyer of any backline play and if you look objectively at the matches which the Sharks lost - he figured prominently in causing the losses.   The problem with Steyn is that he can play for about 15 minutes in games and then his wobbly knee takes over.   His main problem is that he cannot make line breaks for his team - there was only one such break in all the games Steyn played in - and he cannot create space for players on his outside or inside as a matter of fact.  His defense was not up to standard and his constant ball possession losses - more than any other player in Super 15 - is notorious.   If Plumtree or anybody else was the coach - Steyn would have been in Japan already.

Then we have the case of Willem Alberts - the slowest and most defective loosie in SA - who fails to play a role in most aspects of the responsibilities of loosies.   He never protects or recovers balls from breakdown situations and his ball handling skills is non-existent.    His tacking range from poor (the Alberts - Treeby tackling technique) to very average - and his ball carries is really non-productive.   If you do not believe me just go and watch some games - especially the ones they lost and study his statistics.   

The two players mentioned have huge reputations - but never really delivers on those - so they are hyped up without playing any role in performances.

Where Whit e is to be admired is his selection of Du Toit this weekend as loosehead prop.  That guy is still Under 20 - but he is going to make waves in future.   

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Same here Mike

Wherever he has gone, he has been successfull, just looking at what he did for the Brumbies in the short time he was with them shows this.

He will make the Sharks a formidable side with his astute rugby brain, but more so his technical side 

Jake's side keeps losing as he is getting his selections wrong.

I don't like the way he is treating Swiel.......who had a good game on the weekend and now finds himself out of the match 23 and once again we have Frans at 10 who is not a 10 and even more concerning is Jordaan at 12.......Jake is losing the plot again

No what Jake should be doing is investing in Swiel at 10 and not chopping and changing week after week. Its hardly settling for the player. He is obviously a talented player and therefore he should be doing the obvious thing and showing some faith in the lad.

Bloody hell he was one of the better players on the weekend in a poor Sharks display and now we see the average Zielanga on the bench and Frans back at 10.......poor, poor move.

It should be plainly obvious to Jake that Frans does not really work at 10, that he is a far better 12 and that Jordaan is clearly not a 12.......its poor selections like these that reminds why I never rated the man back in his Bok days.

They are just piss poor selections, much like Alberts at lock at points in the season.

 Serfontein is better than Jean as is Frans

Habana still has a case for being the best

Beenkop - what utter bullshit.....I cant recall when last Jean did anything of note

Jan is far more gifted and is the future. Jean like all the other old farts in the Bok side is selling our side short