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PSL action resumes, analysis of which team could win it

Round 2 … FIGHT!

Posted: 2012-02-06 14:59

Fans are desperate for the League to start again – after a long eight-week break – but which teams are on track for a successful second round?

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Few people will argue that the League champions will come from the top five teams at the halfway mark. So here's what their coaches feel about their prospects for the second half of the season:

Johan Neeskens, Mamelodi Sundowns
"We have to pick up where we left off in the last League match when the season restarts. We have only five months to go untll the end of the season, and it's going to be a very tough period not just for me but for each and every one of the 15 teams in the PSL. From now on, every game will be very important and as difficult as the next.
"My wish for the season is for the team to keep playing attacking, attractive football while winning matches."

Gavin Hunt, SuperSport United
''Our finish to last year was disappointing, but we are not out of anything yet. We have Sibusiso Zuma and John Arwuah coming back from injury and it will be like two new signings for us; add the two we have signed [Franklin Cale and Mabhuti Khenyeza] and we have four players capable of going into the starting line-up.
"There is still a long way to go so our intention is to take one match at a time and be involved in the shake-up. We're not even worried about ending the campaign against Chiefs, Pirates, Sundowns and Celtic … our only focus is the Free State Stars match [on February 15]. In this League you can't get ahead of yourself, but the champions will come from the top four teams.''

Vladimir Vermezovic, Kaizer Chiefs
''I am very satisfied with some players' progress this season. George [Lebese] finally started to play like I know he can play, and I am very glad that this guy is part of the Bafana Bafana set-up. But I would have loved to see him and the likes of Lucky Baloyi and Mandla Masango in London for the Olympics. This would have helped their development and of course it would have benefited the team in the long-run.
"We have set clear objectives for 2012; among them to win the League, and I would like to urge the fans to continue rallying behind the team through thick and thin. We are stronger when we work in unity, and with our supporters backing the team as a 12th man, everything is possible.''

Gordon Igesund, Moroka Swallows
"From our point view I'm very optimistic and very happy with how we did in the first half of the season. This season was always going to be about consolidation, and our goal remains to fight for a top-eight place.
"In terms of our squad I'm very happy with what I've got. We used up our budget to make drastic changes last season, so I haven't put pressure on our chairman [Leon Prins] to sign any players."

Julio Leal, Orlando Pirates
"We have done very well in the cups, but not very much in the League. We needed to beat Golden Arrows to close the half-season. As defending champions we needed to be closer to the teams at the top, and for the final sprint from now up to the end of the season.
"We have a good squad but it is difficult sometimes to replace three, sometimes five players simultaneously."

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Undisputed Double-Trebble Champ Mopheme: 2012-02-06 15:12

Who on his right frame of mind can bet against the Mightiest team in the land ORLANDO PIRATES..? They will retain the league title..! OMEGA..!!

Bra Aubs: 2012-02-06 15:13

According to Mr Hunt Pirates won't defend this cup ha ha ha, can Kickoff please remind him to repeat his words come end of the season.

Wandile : 2012-02-06 15:15

Mr Editor I recall K.O running a de facto opinion on the first coaches to be likely fired this season. You had Sir Neeskens and Mr Leal as your first two candidates.

Can you run a fellow up opinion and the likely coaches to be fired at the end of the season. From the above qoutes one concludes that K.O woefully got it wrong.

YELO SECHEBA until a certain family business files for liquidation and starts to respect their fans (even though some are cabbage wielding hooligans).

Manqah : 2012-02-06 15:16

Stop complaining Mr Leal In England or Spain they always replace 3 or 5 players due to injuries its called giving other players a chance to prove themselves if a player is that bad release him simple as that as i said go to Barca and ask how many players have signed but never play regularly even ManCity if you do well youl play you suck you hit the bench why shall we be different?

Sweyts : 2012-02-06 15:38

We are surely poised to finish-off what we started, we have a stable set-up and signed only one good player and kept the same leading pack.....I say this race is as good as done.
My only wish though is for Cheeseboy to stay injury free, especially from the "invisible" tackles that haunt him against this one particular club with a stuttering coach who speaks with 10 comma's in one sentence! mh.

Yellow we remain, futhi ak'jiki!

sphola07: 2012-02-06 15:39

Mr leal already complaining yet he has a big squad of players mxm and hope the new striker at chiefs is good enough to keep parker on the bench

Nebo: 2012-02-06 15:50

Obviously KO we know the winner and even the winner knows very well, sunflops will as ususally be runner-up, while supersport wil donate points more away games, Swallows and Kaizer Zim fc doesn't had never win anything that worth more than R10 million,

RATS HLALAKWABAFILEYO FC : 2012-02-06 15:57

we r already collected 6points 4rm Rats and Sunbaboon.And we r going 2 collected it again.We r going 2 demolish Sunflop with or without there 300 supporters.To Amagundwana is business as usually,with or without Musona.

Bra Aubs: 2012-02-06 16:02

Its 1 game at a time, coach Leal will never put his players under pressure, he knows what he wants, knows what is at stake, players know so does us supporters... some people expert Leal to play the game in the meadia like the Zebras coach? We don't do that OPFC! We win titles on the field of play.

Dooba OPC: 2012-02-06 16:09

I have never heard of a top 5 in any competition- so Mr. Editor, whoever you are, please cut down to top three of the teams in the log because there is no prize for position 4 and 5: we gold, silver and bronze, we cant add nikel and copper to satisfy the incompetent!

Van Basten: 2012-02-06 16:17

After watching Man United v/s Chelsea last night,one cannot miss PSl matches where players are judged for stuff like foul throw,kicking the ball after the whistle has blown thus getting unneccesary caution,inability to spray a pass across the field,wrong trapping technics and so forth.My personal feeling though.

Kekana KC: 2012-02-06 16:24

Nebo: 2012-02-06 15:50

Dude ,go back to skool n learn proper sentence construction.i mean,even if u r using colloquial u must at least make sense. U must show sumtin for the Zulu else. Kikikikikiki.

Baroka fc : 2012-02-06 17:08

This one will be between Sundowns & Pirates.As for other three,they lack quality to last the distance.

mr cool : 2012-02-06 17:12

let the games begin i see Gavin Hunt is still on a high because Of that red wine his freind Foppe de haan gave 2 him last year .... once and always till guluva and sons grow some hair

Dooba OPC: 2012-02-06 17:23

Kekana KC

Eish yah, I agree, this Nebo guy is not gifted in the queen's language; if it was football we would simply bench him for that kinda skill- ke kgomo autie ee!!!

@ Nebo,

Using vernac is not a sin broer!

SpecialOne : 2012-02-06 17:27

SIR NEESKENS, SIR NEESKENS, SIR NEESKEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!

Did he say ATTACKING?.....

Did he say ATTRACTIVE?.....

Did he say WINNING?.....

Sir Neeskens you're speaking my language right there. In Chloorkop we believe in WINNING, but not just WINNING, but WINNING in STYLE, so let the games continue. The YELLOW NATION will soar to new heights cause The Sky Is The Limit!




Yellow Is The Colour! (of HAPPINESS) Yes I clearly said HAPPINESS.

lucky : 2012-02-06 17:38

as far as i can see, the league is very tough,especially 2nd round, case those teams at the bottom will fight to reach the top.actually they awill desturb alot.this year we gonna crown new chapms.i can't see pirates defending it ,infact the won't.the team that is going 2 b new champs is Kaizer Chiefs.every one will b shock.watch them are dangerous

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brazilitto : 2012-02-06 18:45

Round 2...is for the chasing pack. 1c beaten twice shy. Those who are praying that any sundowns player will go on strike must be dreaming. Dis year we say no more to fonk kong champions who fluke the championship with kick an run football. No more to champions who pay their way thru bribing and corruption. No more to "iywasho neytelezi" champions.
2012 is the year of style. The world is fed up of unattractive football.

Long live yellow long live. Long live Sir Neeskens long live. Ayibuye i-super diski ayibuye.

tebotouch : 2012-02-06 18:55

@ phamela
...
I think nono was not writing a novel. But a comment on a blog...
So since u knwz queen lingo why dont u go hang.
Diz is a blog. Not your grade 5 english classroom!!! Yoooo rubissh zebra!!!

Tolly.ba.Thathe : 2012-02-06 19:33

Those who rule out the defending champions are doing that at their own peril. Either they are bankrupt in terms of football knowledge or they ****yze and observe with their hearts.

I am saying all these because a richly football knowledgeable person will tell you that the league is a marathon not a sprint and it's for that reason that because team A performed extremely beyond expectations in the first half of the season therefore it's cut and dry for them in as far as winning the championship is concerned.

Those who know football will again tell you that it's the first 5 games of the second half of the season that are key and can give an indication of where the league is going...before that anything can happen.

However, I wish my team all the best in their endeavour to defend the league because they have done it in the past there's absolutely no reason why they can't repeat it.

Mamoduwe : 2012-02-06 19:57

ROUND TWO ("'ting'")..... FIGHT!!! Damn I like this headline.

Attacking-attracting-winning football, Yeah thats how we like it Sir Neeskins.

You see CHLOORKOP is that place where we go to seek new talent, new adventures, new journeys. Is that place where we go to sing & dance in unison, to samba & unite yellow in spirit, and go round and round in a spherical circle until the sweat from our collective movements form an ocean of love, that pours vouch into the streets, drowning everyone that passes those doors,


NOOOW THEY CAN BRING IT ON, NOOOW THEY CAN BRING IT ON!!!


Much like the caterpillar we are transformed into something beautiful, something so glorious that even nonbelievers have to stop and stare in wonderment, and ask themselves, what is this place that you've created that makes your spirit soar like eagles?, what exactly do you get from this SAMBA music?, this repetition of tiki-taka melody steps, make me understand, because I wanna be YELLOW, I wanna breath what you breath, I wanna feel how you feel, I wanna twist and turn and make my body yearn, I wanna shout out his name, and say Sir Neeskens, Sir Neeskens, make me understand, show me the way!


Don't get it twisted, we are not the only in the jungle, we are one of many, a rare nation of believers, but yet conquered the PSL right to be free, and left alone to ourselves,

No radio shows, no TV shows, no newspaper articles or sport magazines, no one to tell us what's hot or not,

The spirit of shoe-shine-piano guides to our destination.


HERE & NOW, NOW & HERE, we stand with two arms and two palms with thumbs and index fingers forming a seven-up sign facing Sir Neeskens, Mr. International, The Maestro, The Samba Director, The Special Motivator, The Mover & Shaker of piano and shoeshine, the tiki-taka football seeking leader of the MEAN YELLOW MACHINE.

Here to take us on a trip to that one place, to that crack in the PROMISED LAND's walls, where we all can sneak a peak to see what lies ahead, whether before or during and after games.


So push on my MASANDAWANA!, push on my YELLOW NATION!, push on KA BO YELLOW kingdom!

Rarararararaaa!!!







Yellow I Was, Yellow I Was & Yellow I Will Remain! [SMILING:-)] cause the GLORIOUS CROWN shall be mine!

drooza : 2012-02-06 20:13

We hv 2 take it.....sky is da limit!!!!

Faka i-safety belt ku driver Kaizer Manje: 2012-02-06 20:20

Re tla boka ha di oroha.......

Gore ke dipitsi re dibona ka mebala........

brazilitto : 2012-02-06 21:14

Push on Masandawane. The poetry Mamoduwe has spoken. I tell u yellow am gonna copy dis poem, Captain Google need to know this poem by heart. Dis is the same poem yellow will be singing from now on. Promise land here we come. We still owns de psl. One heat wonder may make all de noise, until they learn to defend it. Baseyizingane titititi titi

KhosiBoy : 2012-02-06 21:49

Bobsteak should have signed this Mamoduwe poet for the love and peace family, we need him for motivation! Khosi i was born.....!

Champ Always in the TOP 8 : 2012-02-07 05:48

@Mamoduwe uyarasa nje kuphela! Sundoms iyinja engenamazinyo

CHRONICALS OF THE YELLOW NATION : 2012-02-07 06:37

And on the PROMISED LAND, soldiers wearing the famous yellow and blue strips unison in the spirit of ubuntu-batho shall emerge from the trenches beneath led by the great Sir Neeskens.
Captain TEKO MODISE will be carrying the league title, he would have conquered his doubters, once fans but now foes, thus leading SUNDOWNS to it's rightful place.
The YELLOW NATION is not that of forefathers passing on their unwitty nobles to their sons and grandsons- NO,
YELLOW NATION is for the true believers of what is beautiful. WE REFUSE TO COMPROMISE ON STYLE THUS TRADING IN OUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL- NO YELLOW CITIZEN shall celebrate anything less than stylish.
OUR FOREFATHERS are not from the stands along the footbal pitch,
Our FOREFATHERS are those who have samba'd on rainy, hot, windy, dry days.
Our FOREFATHERS are- the GREAT GENERAL FETUMBA, ISAAC SHAI, HAROLD JAZZY QUEEN, ZANE MOOSA, ALEX BAPELA,
The great train which conquered the civil war in the neighbouring Ivory Coast- made it's way through the passages of the hazardous DRC, never encircled the Kilimajoro but it's tracks went completely over it.
Soon it passed lake Zambizi and the grandest waterfall of THEM all in Africa: THE Victoria Fall- This train was from Nigeria- The man who would SOON torment his opponents ushered himself to the Southern tip of Africa, chuuu-chuuu!!!!
NO striker has literally carried his memphis on his back like CHUKWU!!!
YELLOW TO THE BELIEVERS OF THE BEAUTIFUL GAME, YELLOW TO THOSE WHO FALL THE TEAM TO EVERY CORNER, YELLOW TO MOTSEPE FOR BELIEVING IN THE TRUE IDENTITY OF THE TEAM. YELLOW TO YOU OUR ENEMIES AS WELL AS RIVALS.
YELLOW TO THE GREATS WHO HAVE CONQUERED BEFORE, YELLOW TO THE PRESENT- MAY GOD BLESS THEM WITH WHAT MATTERS MOST TO A SANDAWANA......THE LEAGUE.

SpecialOne : 2012-02-07 06:41

Mamoduwe ~ My Oracle Shepard, A Noble Champion who carries himself with Honour & Intergrity. Halala My Yellow Champion Halala!

Soweto baboons never understand written words, so thats the reason I'm never puzzelled with their respond to them.

@khosiLOST, Mamoduwe shall never cross floor, he shall remain YELLOW, PERIOD! Hobos shall remain with their uncaring money hungry family business officials. And you're also not welcome in the home of philosophies and championships. BLAADY SOWETO IDIOTS!

@Mamoduwe, my Yellow Fellow you've always demonstrated "humility" of a TRUE champion, and genuinely so!

@Mamoduwe, I love it & I shall remain yellow and inspired!




Yellow We Will Remain!

SpecialOne : 2012-02-07 07:06

WOW, WOW, WOW!!! I love this!

CHRONICALS OF THE YELLOW NATION! I love it, I love it, I looove it!!! Thanks @CHRONICALS! Thanks @Mamoduwe! I'm inspired!

This Yellow Nation is truely a unique nation of believers, ZERO TOLERANCE to skop en donor, stylish football is non-negotiatable. Thats why we are Yellow all the way.


Yellow to nonbelievers!




Yellow Is The Colour! (of LOVE, PEACE & HAPPINESS) I'm sure I said ALL those positive words.

D0M3STO5 : 2012-02-07 08:35

Rubbish,True Champions are a team that is wearing a champions batch which is Orlando Pirates FC.
For u Sundunusas remember this;Teko Modise has neve won a league title with any team so u should stop hoping for miracles.
Triple

zweli.m : 2012-02-09 11:24

undoubtadely, downs are gonna make it to the top. No simba chips, no pie-rats

brazilitto : 2012-02-10 18:45

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