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The Citizen
5 days ago
- Sport
- The Citizen
Heavy defeats but Sharks maintain youth strategy as Junior Bok star starts
The Sharks are sticking with their approach of giving youngsters a chance, believing the long-term rewards outweigh their short-term challenges. According to The Citizen, the Sharks lost their first two Currie Cup matches heavily (46–5 to the Lions in Johannesburg and 64–0 to the Bulls in Pretoria). The Gauteng sides have opted to back more senior, though fringe, players, and this has worked well for them in the competition. Both teams have 10 points after bonus-point wins. The Sharks, however, sit with no wins and a points difference of -105 with five games to go. Believing their strategy of building depth will pay off in the prolonged seasons ahead, they selected another young and relatively inexperienced side to play the Cheetahs tomorrow at 17:10. Vusi Moyo earns first start This means that Vusi Moyo, who shone in the Junior Springboks' World Rugby U20 Championship title win, receives his first professional rugby start after appearing off the bench against the Bulls. He is one of many bright lights emerging from the U20 side, a flyhalf with excellent composure in front of the posts, slotting kicks from over 50m. He replaces Jean Smith, who will play from the bench, and teams up with Sharks vice-captain Bradley Davids at nine. When asked about this, coach JP Pietersen said after scoring just five points in two matches, the Sharks were desperate to find combinations that would yield results. 'We are just trying combinations with Bradley [Davids] and [Vusi] Moyo and then Jean [Smith] and Ceano [Everson] off the bench,' Pietersen said. 'See if they can enlighten the team and give us more of an attacking opportunity or something that can spark the team. 'We don't have a lot of time. We hardly had a pre-season. So in quite a short amount of time, we need to look for solutions.' Sharks back youngsters for future rewards Another SA U20 player, Matt Romao, features in the side that has seen some chopping and changing for the Cheetahs. See the Sharks' matchday 23 here. 'Every union has their own plan,' the Sharks coach added. 'If you look at us and Western Province, we have a plan where we want to develop youth, get growth for our United Rugby Championship because we know it is a long competition. 'You can see the Bulls and Lions have a different route, and only time will tell which is the right way.'
BBC News
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Iconic VE Day Leicester Clock Tower conga picture recreated
An iconic picture of revellers celebrating VE Day by dancing a conga around the Clock Tower in Leicester has been recreated on its 80th Radio Leicester tracked down a number of people in the picture to recreate the dance in the city centre on Kempton-Hayes said she remembered her favourite aunt, Jean Smith, being in the conga, and she can be seen wearing a soldier's Glengarry hat in the picture from said: "[Jean] found it memorable because it happened spontaneously." Jill, from Syston in Leicestershire, said the photograph was well known within her family. She said: "Jean was on the buses as a conductor, that was how she came to be in the photograph because she'd come into town to the bus station to see what her next rota was and got caught up in it."Jill said her aunt had talked about the VE day celebrations on anniversaries over the added: "She was a bit of a rebel, she pushed the boundaries so I think she would be very proud and pleased to know that she's still remembered for that photograph."Life wouldn't be as it is today if it wasn't for that occasion." Also identified in the photo was Sheila niece Julia French, from Evington, said she remembered her aunt talking about the day."She told us how exciting it was, how fun it was, the noise, the elation," she said."I think she and her friend skipped out of work to do the conga."Julia said looking at the photograph now, she felt "proud"."To think that today we are walking in their footsteps," Julia added. "She loved a party."Among the other people identified in the 1945 photo were Jean Carter, who was then aged 15, Dennis Hastings, Doris Brown, Iris Smith, Peggy Cort and police officer Percy reporting by Ady Dayman and Matt Smith
