John Plumtree on a ‘good day’
Sharks head honcho John Plumtree looks harmless enough. He looks like the kind of guy you’d be happy to let your wife have a golf lesson with. The kind of guy you’d feel comfortable buying home insurance from. The kind of guy who just happens to have a surname that sounds like a new brand of air-freshener.
However, as we all know you can’t always judge a book by its cover (with the exception of ‘Lawrence Dallaglio – An Illustrated History’ which frankly WAS as shit as it looked!) and sources within the Shark-tank ‘circle of trust’ have recently revealed another, darker, General Kurtz-like side to the man.
Here’s part of a ‘conversation’ that was recently leaked to the Big Daddy team. It allegedly took place while the team was out celebrating their ‘game of two-halves’ victory over the Cheetahs, and immediately followed an amusing anecdote shared with the players:
Willem Alberts: You’re really funny. You’re really funny!
Plumtree: What do you mean I’m funny?
Willem Alberts: It’s funny, you know. It’s a good story, it’s funny, you’re a funny guy!
Plumtree: [dangerously] What do you mean? You mean the way I talk? What?
[Everyone becomes quiet]
Willem Alberts: It’s just, you know, you’re just funny. It’s funny, the way you tell the story and everything.
Plumtree: Funny how? I mean, what’s funny about it?
Jannie Du Plessis: Plumtree, no, you got it all wrong —
Plumtree: Oh, no, Du Plessis. He’s a big boy, he knows what he said. [to Willem Alberts] What did ya say? Funny how?
Willem Alberts: Just —
Plumtree: What?
Willem Alberts: Just, ya know, you’re funny.
Plumtree: You mean, let me understand this, ’cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little fucked up maybe, but I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny? Funny how? How am I funny?
Willem Alberts: Just… you know, how you tell the story, y’know — what?
Plumtree: No, no, I don’t know. You said it! How do I know? You said I’m funny. How the fuck am I funny? What the fuck is so funny about me?! Tell me, tell me what’s funny!
[Long pause]
Willem Alberts: Get the fuck out of here, Plumtree!
[Everyone laughs]
Plumtree: Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him! You stuttering prick, you! Lambie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Alberts.
John Plumtree on a ‘bad day’
On a serious note, one has to wonder whether Plum is the man for the job in KZN.
Judging by the talent in that side, it’s terrible for them to be playing so inconsistently.
I hear you….like the character he’s been compared to in the above post – his days may be numbered.
Hmm… I don’t know. Not sure you can say that finishing in the Top 6 in a brutal tournament like the Super 15 is a let down. Any team does well to qualify if you ask me. Locally though, you have to ask some hard questions about Currie Cup etc.
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I am trying to get a group going on wordpress for rugby or any South African sport for that matter and I have a few friends on my wordpress blogroll that have opened new sites. Follow my blog and theirs if you’re interested and invite some mates to start blogs and we can get a group going.
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