They need to be in nine (second) shape to go at me, Simbine warns pretenders to 100m crown

In Pietermaritzburg

With the main focus of this year's SA Senior National Track and Field Championships on "Generation Next" hopefully finally making a breakthrough in the national conscience, Akani Simbine - one of the two remaining old dogs with Wayde van Niekerk - sounded an awful lot like a man not in a rush to be helped off centre stage. 

Considered that rare thing in track and field - a gentleman sprinter - the 30-year-old has been in defiant mood this season.