Kings will give next clash 100%
POTENT prop Ross Geldenhuys has promised that the Southern Kings will throw everything at the Brumbies in a Super Rugby clash at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Saturday.
The Kings, on a high after beating the Sharks, will be gunning for a fourth consecutive Super Rugby win after downing the Waratahs and Melbourne Rebels in their previous games.
“We are going to throw everything into this game,” Geldenhuys said.
“As our loose forward Chris Cloete always says, we will give it 120%, although I don’t know where he gets that extra 20%. But we will definitely give it 100%.”
The front ranker has predicted that the Kings will face a massive battle in the scrums.
“The Brumbies pack reminds me of a big South African team that has big men in the back five and in their front row. We have got another big battle ahead of us,” Geldenhuys said.
“The Brumbies also have a good maul, so we are going to have to stop that. At scrum time, we have to have a big scrum. All eight must scrum and hopefully we will reap the rewards.”
Geldenhuys said there had been a lot of off-field interest in the week leading up to the Sharks clash, but it had not affected the team.
“There was a lot of hype which made it like a test match. For us, though, it was just a normal win,” he said.
“We believed we could do it and just needed to stick to our systems and play really well against a good Sharks team.”
The prop said the narrow 19-17 defeat to the Sharks in Durban earlier in the season had been painful.
“We were hurting from the last time we played them and that did not help with the emotions,” Geldenhuys said.
“It was a really good win because we wanted to beat a South African team and we owed them one from last time.”
Geldenhuys said his team had always had strong belief, even before their winning streak started. “We had belief from the first game,” he said. “The structures were new to us in the beginning, while other Super Rugby teams had one or two years’, or even 10 years’, experience. They also had only one or two new players coming in. “It took time for us to know what was going on.” Earlier this week, the Sanzaar foul play review committee said Geldenhuys had not been issued any further sanctions after a third yellow card against the Sharks.
“The committee conducted a detailed review of all the available evidence on all three incidents, including video and referee reports,” Sanzaar said.
“The committee deemed that no further sanction was appropriate due to the fact that both the second and the third yellow card offences were for technical offences, with the third card relating to repeated team infringements.”