Plummo’s men are on a high as they roll into the Mother City.
Will the mighty Sharks, bolstered by the return of four key backline players, teach Province a rugby lesson?
Or will the precocious WP youngsters, led by Nick Koster, have a surprise in store?
Kick-off at Newlands is at 19h10.
Teams:
Western Province: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Wylie Human, 13 PJ Vermeulen, 12 Gcobani Bobo (captain), 11 Tonderai Chavhanga, 10 Joe Pietersen, 9 Bolla Conradie, 8 Nick Koster, 7 Francois Louw, 6 Pieter Louw, 5 Ross Skeate, 4 Adriaan Fondse, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Schalk Brits, 1 Wicus Blaauw.
Replacements: 16 Simon Westraadt/Deon Fourie, 17 JC Kritzinger, 18 AJ Venter, 19 Conraad Britz, 20 Dewaldt Duvenhage, 21 Matthew Rosslee, 22 Morgan Newman.
Sharks: 15 Stefan Terblanche, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Waylon Murray, 12 Francois Steyn, 11 Chris Jordaan, 10 Frederic Michalak, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Keegan Daniel/Nikolai Blignaut, 7 Jean Deysel, 6 Jacques Botes, 5 Johann Muller (captain), 4 Albert van den Berg, 3 Jannie du Plessis/BJ Botha, 2 Skipper Badenhorst, 1 Deon Carstens.
Replacements: 16 Craig Burden, 17 BJ Botha/Jannie du Plessis, 18 Steven Sykes, 19 Skholiwe Ndlovu, 20 Scott Mathie, 21 Bradley Barritt, 22 Riaan Swanepoel.
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan
Touch judges: Phillip Bosch, Marc van Zyl
TMO: Shaun Veldsman
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SHAAAAARKS!
And over at Kings Park (well actually KP 3), the Murray Cup final is being played tonight…between Crusaders and North Coast Rhinos.
Just like their antipodean namesake, the Crusaders will be red-hot favourites.
Sharks/Wildebeeste involved in the game include the likes of Pampoen van Jaarsveld, Shaun Pammenter, Dumi Matyeshana and Danie Dames. In addition to them, promising utility back Prince Mofeking, former SWD loose flanker Warren Graff, and former Border players Welcome Nomzanga and young flyhalf Luylo Tobezweni.
@Le Requinny (Comment 2) : hola Quinny 😉
Hola Rob!
So are we gonna wip some WP B-grade ass tonight?
Go Sharks! 🙄 I might as well support tonites winning team. 😳
@wpw (Comment 5) :
😯
😎
I ALWAYS knew you were a cup above the AVERAGE WP supporter, Wes…
er, CUT above!
@Le Requinny (Comment 4) : Hope so. My feed is shocking, as always. It’s like powerpoint with commentary
Let the pain begin.
GO SHARKS !!!!
Go Sharks!
Work has been crawling all morning..at noon I had enough and ran over to the mall returning with just enough time to get logged into mediazone to see our boys do some damage against WP.
ok so what have we missed …..
SHARKS (skipper badenhorst) score 47seconds into the game
ruan misses the kick 🙁
5 minutes in …
5-0 SHARKS
Score anyone?
Yipee…
Sharks manage to “interfere” with the play JUST before WP score a try
WP get a PK from it but at least it saved the 5 points 😀
10 minutes
5-0 Sharks
evening WPW how goes it with the family ?
Johan Muller stays down after a tackle ….
Sharks doing some decent defending
Deysel off with blood
12minutes
visits to opponents 22 :
WP 1
Sharks 3
WP going for poles – penalty for high tackle by sharks 🙁
Toks is a Boks.
Replay shows the High tackle and toks says “DEFENITIEF!!!!!!!…….50 / 50 daar”
BOKS!!!!!!!!!
and the kick is …..
not good 😉
5-0 Sharks
15 minutes
Hi kette, fam doin fine. The new boss of our home will be 2 months on Tuesday. Oh, and im hardly getting any sleep… 😳
Proooooooviiiiiiiiiiiince!!
Is Pietersen kicking at goal. What a joke!
@wpw (Comment 25) : wow already 😯
enjoy the lack of sleep, finally have ours trained 😆 taken years though 😕
McLovin… Shuddap! U the only WP supporter here…
PK by the Sharks
8-0 Sharks
18 minutes
Lets get the BP before halftime boys…
@wpw (Comment 29) : priceless
😆
@wpw (Comment 29) : No christmas card for you this year. 👿 😉
sharks are lucky, WP knockon the ball over the tryline 😯
@wpw (Comment 29) : Hope the Reds will make you feel better…
Pietersen Penalty
3 – 8 Sharks
22min
seriously kaplan has great control of his field, he does not take kak from players
Nice sailor theme from the dancing girls.
deysel back from his blood sub
23 minutes
handling errors :
WP 3
Sharks 1
sheesh no porn allowed in saudi but we got an EYE-FULL of a WP backside thanks to a sharks player 😯 😆
Super kick from Pietersen.
obviously the supersport guys enjoyed it too cos they had to show a closeup replay 😆 😆 😆
KSA switching channels to check the conversion by LIONS……13-10 Lions, 28 minutes 😕
@KSA Sharkette (Comment 45) : It is Cape Town after all. 😉 😆
WP are holding Sharks well 👿
30 minutes
8-3 Sharks
c’mon sharks !!!!
Some poor defence from Province. Fortunately Murray knocks on.
SHOCKING WP DEFENCE BY Pietersen and Vermeulen sees Murray go through and then he knocks it on 🙁
Goliat Aplon looking for a fight with Jannie Dup. 😯 😆
Come on Sharks…
@McLovin (Comment 50) :
How you watching? media Zone?
sharks going for poles ……
@KSA Shark © (Comment 54) : Yes sir.
@McLovin (Comment 52) :
GOLIAT
@McLovin (Comment 50) : @KSA Shark © (Comment 51) : A lovely example of provincialism!! 😀
ruan stop kicking !!!!
another miss 👿
36 minutes
8-3 Sharks
Koster playing well. 😎
sheesh sharks look like they WANT WP to score, standing around WAITING for the player to come to them instead of going TO the tackle 👿 😯
He looks much older than 19.
@McLovin (Comment 60) :
Tooooo Well 👿
@McLovin (Comment 62) :
That he does, he looks close to retiring.
WP going for poles …..
and miss 😈
8-3 Sharks
40 minutes
HALF TIME
8-3 Sharks
We’re not looking good. Steyn is doing nothing at all. And all the stupid kicking is back
Deysel makes such a huge difference too. We were going nowhere while he was off
@robdylan (Comment 68) :
Bryce COINED the phrase “see you later Europa!”
boys coming back on the field ….
time on ….
WP All Over our line. 👿
C’mon Sharks!!!!!!!!!
8 phases 5m out and they give away a PK 😎
shew ruan gets a chance to kick the ball out, giving us a little more breathing space
Good defence from sharks.
Michalak missed tackle on Bobo and he almost scores 👿
Thankfully we have Stefan to save us
What a balls up. 👿
and we score ….
stefan and michalak work together beautifully !
TMO pending though ….
I reckon that’s it. Game over.
and the TMO says :
“there was no forward pass in the last pass”
the try is ours
Go Stef
and the kick is …. great 😈
15-3 Sharks
45 minutes
KSA checking ANOTHER conversion by the Lions 😯
Province not much penetration on attack. 👿
just in case KSA accuses me of not posting score again ….
48 minutes
15-3 Sharks
AJ on for Louw
Oupa Venter on the field.
WP moaning about Deysels’s AWESOME clean out at the ruck.
Jonno Kaplan: “Looked like a good counter ruck to me”
😆 😎
Koster TRY!!!!!!!!!!
Try!!!!!!!!
&^&%*&^$ WP score under the poles
50 minutes
@KSA Shark © (Comment 89) : Yeah baby! 😀
Koster on fire. 😎
conversion is good …
15-10 Sharks
51 minutes
seems its not over yet mclovin 👿
It’s like shades of RWC all over again. First Fred’s bananna kick over to Chris (so close) then his pass to Stefan (not forward this time!) and once again has his hand in a beaut (and much needed) try.
I think with that try I gave away the fact that I was watching the game at work (as if the jersey didn’t already) 😆
Koster the new Bobby Skinstad
michalak drop goal 😀
18-10 Sharks
55 minutes
18- 10 Sharks
Michalak w/ the drop
@Milissa (Comment 95) :
May as well take the head phones off now then 😆
@wpw (Comment 96) : Hopefully we’ll never have to see Brits at 8 again.
@Milissa (Comment 95) : hehehe 😆
@wpw (Comment 96) :
Not even close to pretty enough. 😆
Territory
53% Sharks
47% WP
TMO pending ….
who grounded the ball ??? Stefan or Bolla
McLovin. Brits se ma se e-pos 😀
clearly stefan bolla doesn’t get close
No Try. 👿
no try, 22 drop out….
58 minutes
Sharks on attack. I smell a try. 👿
@wpw (Comment 105) :
You have her email address???????????
Michalak TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WP scrum to buckle.
It will require a miracle ay WP to make the semis this year… Another year without a trophy. Im beginning to feel like a Sharks supporter.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs GO FRED!!!!!!!
Conversion Over
10 – 25 Sharks
62min
@wpw (Comment 113) : You are one, remember. 😉
Wylie Human seems slow.
His legs & brain.
Better…2 more tries will do…
Province plenty of bluster but going nowhere.
@McLovin (Comment 117) :
SEEMS????????????????? 😆
Bobo very selfish near the line.
If only Aplon was 20kg heavier. 🙄
@McLovin (Comment 123) :
Would make him 4 seconds slower 😉
woohoo theres the BP try
and the kick is …..
absolutely perfect
32-10 Sharks
74 minutes
albert vdberg scored the try btw
Sharks very good at breakdown. Plenty of turnovers.
ok so maybe its over now mclovin, no chance WP can score 22 in 2 minutes 😉
@KSA Sharkette (Comment 129) : Not unless we use the duckworth-lewis system. 🙄
Well done Sharks. A deserved victory. Far superior at the breakdown. And simply better all round.
Well done boys!
FULL TIME
32-10 Sharks
yay
well done boys, and thanks to the guys who did the running commentary. Helps guys like me who don’t have a tv…. 🙄
Great work Sharks!
A 100 percenter for me, 😀 ,but oh boy,do not talk about the rest 🙄
Wolla! Wolla! Wolla! {In the tune of ole, ole, ole}
That was well done. We’re on track!
logs updated and after the Dust Settles The Sharks are top with the Lcheetahs second Followed by the Lions
Interesting, Sharks front row scrummed differently today. They never really crouched before the hit, and hit down on the WP front row. Was not particularly effective in the first half, but seemed to take its toll by the second half.
Pienaar MOM.
Pienaar starts of with a sermon. 🙄
Great game to watch. Amazing how much the delivery from the base slowed down when Mathie replaced Ruan at SH. Ruan was superb today, and never isolated himself.
@Dancing Bear (Comment 141) :
The new article going up in a bit is a bit of a surprise for me.
The Sharks have bought a new prop.
Rovigo have announced that their prop Juan Pablo Orlandi is joining the Sharks until the end of the CC.
SA have just entered the Stadium at the Olympics
@KSA Shark © (Comment 146) : What do their track suits look like?
@McLovin (Comment 147) :
They were wearing shirts but we looked a bit scruffy compared to most of the other guys wearing blazers
@McLovin (Comment 147) : crap, even zimbabwe looked more colorful and “put-together” than us 👿 🙄
Spectacular lighting of the olympic torch. 😯
Watching highlights of opening ceremony. I’m impressed.
@McLovin (Comment 150) : missed that, but was watching a spectacualr game of rugby instead 😉
@KSA Sharkette (Comment 152) : hehehe. 👿
Colourfull. 😯
Lots of flashing lights.
@McLovin (Comment 155) :
Is that the police cars taking the protesters away? 😉
@KSA Shark © (Comment 145) : I hope he’s a monster of a tighthead
@KSA Shark © (Comment 156) : 😆
@robdylan (Comment 157) : I can’t find any reference to him on the internet anyway
@robdylan (Comment 157) :
no he’s a loosehead 😉 Article is up.
Swaziland Just walking in Only about 6 of them.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 161) : Is it live?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 161) : but they’re dressed better than the 100 odd of us 😆
@McLovin (Comment 162) : watching opening ceremonies on Supersport 6 been on since 6:35 (SA time)
@KSA Sharkette (Comment 164) : I see. thanks.
Chinese flag bearer is 2,26 tall 😯 😯
@KSA Shark © (Comment 166) : The basketball player?
No Wonder China can put on such a good show.
Half the teams there are wearing clothes “Made in China” 😉
@robdylan (Comment 167) :
YEAH!!!!!
He is accompanied by a little 6 year old who saved two peoples lives in the recent earthquake in china. 😎
Yao Ming
@McLovin (Comment 170) : Yao ma! 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 171) : Everybody’s very witty tonight it seems. 🙂
@McLovin (Comment 143) : not for nothing but I sort of find the fact that most of MOMs thank a higher entity at some point during their moment. Here in the US any reference that could be construed as being religious sadly becomes the target of criticism.
and why can’t I type with out great gaping holes in my thoughts? 😕
Take 2:
not for nothing but I sort of find (and like) the fact that most of our MOMs thank a higher entity at some point. Here in the US any reference that could be construed as being religious sadly becomes the target of criticism.
@Milissa (Comment 174) : Fair enough. Each to his/her own I suppose.
@Milissa (Comment 173) : I don’t mind a tasteful thank you. I just cringe at Jaco-style antics
Watch your TVs!!!!
Flame is about to be lit.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 177) : Quite a sight.
Sorry. Olympics do nothing for me
@McLovin (Comment 178) : must be absolutely awesome to be in that stadium now 😯
@KSA Sharkette (Comment 180) : Absolutely.
Lighting of the flame and the fireworks is awesome.
There goes the demand for NGL again. 😆
@robdylan (Comment 179) : I’m not overly into the olympics..I’ll watch diving or gymnastics if I happen to be flipping around the channels and it’s on. Otherwise I can’t be ars*d to plan out my day around a particular event.
Now if rugby gets back in a future olympics then I might be inclined to watch more of the games.
A heck of an effort put together here, must admit to that. I do enjoy the actual action more than the opening seremonies though.
Great result, I love it when my least favourite team in the world gets klapped!
@walter van transvaal.co.za (Comment 185) :
You mean you dislike our opposition as much as i dislike your opposition. 😉
Sounds about right…
Sharks now have a 21 Day break with their next match only being on 29 August against the Kavaliers in Wellington.
Cannot wait to see this game NEXT Friday… (thanks Foxtel) 😈
@bryce_in_oz (Comment 189) : 😛
@bryce_in_oz (Comment 189) :
IMO rather try and watch the Bulls v Lions game, from the bits I saw while switching channels it seemed like an Awesome match.
Im so chuffed that my team beat WP. 😳 those WP supporters really need to grow up… 😈
@wpw (Comment 192) : you gonna change your nick to “sw”? 😉