The Sharks will hopefully only be good hosts at the after party this evening.
Will the Sharks delivery another scintilating performance and carry on where they left off last week?
Will the Cheetahs bounce back from their first home defeat in 2 years and show that they are STILL a hoodoo side for the Sharks?
The Cheetahs have it all to play for and, should things not bounce their way, could see themselves slip another position down the table.
Kick-Off in Durban at ABSA Park at 17:00 SA time.
Referee: Willie Roos
ARs: Phillip Bosch, Reuben Rossouw
TMO: Shaun Veldsman
Sharks: 15 Stefan Terblanche, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Waylon Murray, 12 Francois Steyn, 11 JP Pietersen, 10 Frederic Michalak, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Keegan Daniel, 7 Jean Deysel, 6 Jacques Botes, 5 Johann Muller (captain), 4 Steven Sykes, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Deon Carstens.
Replacements: 16 Skipper Badenhorst, 17 Patric Cilliers, 18 Tendai “Beast” Mtawarira, 19 Albert van den Berg, 20 Ryan Kankowski, 21 Rory Kockott, 22 Adrian Jacobs.
Cheetahs: 15 Bevin Fortuin, 14 Eddie Fredericks, 13 Robert Ebersohn, 12 Meyer Bosman, 11 Kabamba Floors, 10 Tewis de Bruyn, 9 Neil Powell, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Juan Smith (captain), 6 Hendro Scholtz, 5 Barend Pieterse, 4 David de Villiers, 3 Kobus Calldo, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Wian du Preez.
Replacements: 16 Richardt Strauss, 17 Coenie Oosthuizen, 18 Nico Breedt, 19 Heinrich Brüssow, 20 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 21 JW Jonker, 22 Hendrik Meyer.
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For the last time…GO SHARKS!!! Check you after the game…
Anyone know if the game is being shown on Sky Sports here in UK?
Finally we can watch some decent rugby. That Lions game was painful to listen to!
Looks like I will have to try and watch the game on my laptop. Damn stupid Sky!
@Villie (Comment 2) :
No idea sorry.
Go Haaitjies!
Bath Rugby 5 – 9 Gloucester LIVE
Harlequins 12 – 6 Bristol Rugby LIVE
Leicester Tigers 10 – 10 London Irish LIVE
Wind is Howling in Durban
@KSA Shark © (Comment 5) : I will give MyP2P a whirl. I have picture but no sound at the moment!
In the name of the holy Disa…. Go Sharks.
10 boks plus michalak in our Starting XV AND 4 boks on the bench 😯 😯
@McLovin (Comment 10) :
Thanks for the support 😉
50 caps for Jacques!
Teams on the field.
Ag nee dis Willie Doos!! 😥
Ping
Pong
ping
pong
@klempie (Comment 15) : Well Kaplan, Joubert and Lawrence were in Brisbane. And we can’t have Marius Jonker so not much left 😉
Jannie Dup welcomes Vermeulen to Durban.
Cheetahs put it out on the full
Sharks LO in Cheetahs half
Frogman throws a 50/50.
Michalak and Murray do a scissor move that doesn’t work
Botes cleans up and gets PKd
Cheetahs set up LO inside our half
PK Cheetahs 30m out right in front.
Bosman going at goal
@KSA Shark © (Comment 12) : It’s just the kind of person I am.. 😉
Geez look how heavily is knee is strapped up!
HAHAHAHA!! How did he miss that??
Bosman slips and pushes it right
0 – 0
4min
Cheetahs knock on
scrum Sharks inside our half
KSA you’re on your won this week. I’m not in the mood for a running commentary.
PK Cheetahs at the scrum as Ruan goes the wrong way
Those no to racism banners on the chests seem a tad over the top…imo. Not commenting on the message, only the size & design of the chest banners.
Not much wind in Bloem then..
@McLovin (Comment 30) : The Lions ones were the same I think.
@klempie (Comment 32) ..and the Bulls if I remember correctly.
Glos lead 14-5 65min.
When is the game going to start?
0 – 0
10min
Come Sharks we need you to win this..
Dawid De Villiers and Stefan clash heads.
Breedt on for De Villiers blood bin
Stefan is fine
Is there a statue of Helgard Muller in Bloem yet? If not it’s a crying shame.
JPP tackles fredericks into touch on our 22
LO cocked up and juan Smith bursts through for a TRY!!!!!!!!!
Sharks need to wake up. 🙂
@McLovin (Comment 39) :
They have been trying to get one going for ages. 😉
Bath Rugby 5 – 14 Gloucester LIVE
Harlequins 12 – 6 Bristol Rugby LIVE
Leicester Tigers 10 – 17 London Irish LIVE
Conversion by De bruin over.
0 – 7 Cheetahs
14min
Glos ahead 21-5 now. My SB crashes & burns again… 👿
Willie D ag Roos!!!!!!!! How can you say the Cheetahs were going forward at that ruck 😯
scrum Cheetahs in their 22
61 – 39 territory to the Cheetahs
States point diff 73 before this match & WP 71. Go you bleddie Sharks!!
Sykes takes well at the back of the LO for the Sharks
RP up and under.
Time off
White 7 used the knee on a player. Dangerous.
Using the knee on a player is surely a yellow at least…
Come on Ruan! You can do it!
replay shows a knee in the face for Sykes and Juan just gets a Penalty against him.
Ruan going at goal straight into the wind
@McLovin (Comment 51) :
AND in the face as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@klempie (Comment 52) : Waarskynlik nie.
raun misses
17min
0 – 7 Cheetahs
HAHA!!! Go the props!
Steyn the RWC 12 breaks throught he middle and feeds Carstens for a TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@KSA Shark © (Comment 54) : I wanted to say red…. 😈
Prop scoring a try is poetry in motion….
GREAT vision by Steyn there to look for support WELL before he was going to be tackled.
Conversion Over
7 – 7
19min
@McLovin (Comment 60) :
Can you see or are you reading/listening?
@McLovin (Comment 60) : I wouldn’t go *that* far! 😆
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Almost another try by the Sharks.
That should have been a try! 👿
@KSA Shark © (Comment 62) : I are having moving pictures thanks to mediazone. 😀
@klempie (Comment 65) : Botes’ pass just a little behind Odwa 🙁
Michalak set up a GREAT move with a outside foot chip through.
@McLovin (Comment 66) :
cool 😆
Sharks steal the Ball at the back of the Cheetah scrum and Michalak puts it through into touch
Kom nag maak
From the LO RP charges down a Fortuin kick but it still finds touch.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 68) : Sound is a bit ahead of the picture, I hear a kick about 1-2 seconds before I see the player kicking. 🙄
LO Sharks on defence 8m out.
Almost forgot..How is Floors doing at wing ❓
@McLovin (Comment 72) :
HEhehehehehhee
@KSA Shark © (Comment 73) :
Sharks mess up the LO as they take the ball inside the 5m line.
FK Cheetahs, opt for scrum
@McLovin (Comment 72) : That defies laws of the physics… 😉
Bath Rugby 17 – 21 Gloucester FULL TIME
Harlequins 24 – 6 Bristol Rugby LIVE
Leicester Tigers 17 – 17 London Irish LIVE
7 – 10 Cheetahs
29min
Not sure how they scored. Am a single parent 😉 🙁
@klempie (Comment 77) : I must be in a parralel universe… 😯
Go Sharks!!!!!!
Sharks steal Cheetah ruck ball and spread it wide.
JPP stopped 5m short.
PK Sharks for Cheetahs not rolling away.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 79) : This is your chance to shine.
@McLovin (Comment 80) :
Your ear is in the other universe and your eyes are in this one. 😉
@Silver Fox (Comment 78) :
bugger had Bath by 3
Sharks opt for scrum.
Cheetahs take it off us.
TJ intervene’s and we get a new PK for their 9 playing a man without the ball.
Sharks opt for scrum again.
I bet there be a headline somewhere that reads, Gloucester pull plug on Bath. 🙄
FLOORS people how is he playing?
@McLovin (Comment 83) : 😳
SYKES TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tepid Bath go down to Gloucester.
@CoffeeShopBok;-) (Comment 88) : Have not noticed him yet.
was from a quick tap at penalty.
Ref wanted to stop the game, will not be surprised if there is a yellow
Sounds like Steyn is back to his best 😀
Ruan Converts
14 – 10 Sharks
34min
Odwa looks heavily injured but off the field
Odwa not coming back on and Adi jacobs comes on.
@McLovin (Comment 92) :
shot
Nearly kakked myself when Bis took that quick tap and ran straight into that ruck! 😯
Adi is on for his 50th cap
@KSA Shark © (Comment 89) : I’m sommer talkng kak. Have no experience of raising/looking after kids myself. Huge respect for anyone that does. I still feel like a kinders.
@CoffeeShopBok;-) (Comment 97) :
Sorry. Frenetic on this side.
Floors is not having a bad game, a bit all over the place instead of on the wing, but that could be by instruction from the coach.
@McLovin (Comment 100) :
Kette is off at iftar with her friends.
😯 Steyn 😯 😯
STEYN!! From well inside his own half into the wind!! 😆
@CoffeeShopBok;-) (Comment 85) : Sandshark and myself and Debs 100% correct!!!!
Francois Steyn from 5m INSIDE his own half INTO the wind and he SLOT A DROP GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!
17 – 10 Sharks
38min
if anybody ever went to Fathers Moustache in Durban you will remember Lammie. he was jsut shown in the crowd.
PK Cheetahs
pushed wide
@Silver Fox (Comment 105) :
Sandshark is me 😎
Half time
Sharks 17 – 10 Cheetahs
@KSA Shark © (Comment 102) : I see. So ramadam is over then. Had to google that. 🙂
@McLovin (Comment 110) :
Close!!!!
The Day is Over. ramadan ends on 28 September
Iftar is Breakfast at the end of the day during ramadan, for those of you who don’t know.
@Silver Fox (Comment 105) : 🙄 And I did Debs’ predictions for her!! 😆 🙁
@KSA Shark © (Comment 111) : I need to pay more attention to what I read… 😳 😆 I had a full English breakfast, baked beans, muchrooms the lot. Makes for some windy conditions… 😉
As I’ve been fasting since breakfast I’ve decided to break my current fast with some lager. 😀
@McLovin (Comment 113) : Muchrooms?? 😆 😆
Go Sharks…2 more tries!
@McLovin (Comment 114) :
hehehhehehehe
JL Potgieter starts the 2nd half for the Cheetahs
@Villie (Comment 115) : You have to leave much room for the bacon and eggs. I always ask for extra bacon.
@Villie (Comment 115) : 😳 😆
@Villie (Comment 115) : Lager impairs my spelling.
Jacobs has to stop and go and still manages a mini break of the line.
6 phases and then the Cheetahs go off their feet at the ruck and the Sharks get a PK.
RP going at goal from 22m out
Hits the upright, Fredericks clears
Sharks chip it back and De bruin knocks 10m out
Sharks scrum
@KSA Shark © (Comment 108) : That I know sir.
Bath Rugby 17 – 21 Gloucester Finished
Harlequins 31 – 13 Bristol Rugby Finished
Leicester Tigers 24 – 22 London Irish Finished
Sharks win the scrum and spread it.
Adi knocks as he takes the ball at pace.
scrum 5 to Cheetahs.
reset
Quins 31 – 13 Bristol
Leicester 24 – 22 Irish
Full time scores.
@Silver Fox (Comment 124) : Are you my evil twin? 😛
Cheetahs caught ingoal but manage to get it out.
LO Sharks 10m out.
Cheetahs take LO and clear.
Sharks LO just outside the Cheetahs 22
Daniel gains 10m on his own.
PK Cheetahs
Do you guys know i have 4 from 4 so far this week in the Guinness SB and 3 from three in the CC SB.
Is there a special BP for getting a grand slam in more than 1 comp 🙄
JW Jonker on for Ebersohn
@McLovin (Comment 127) : Hehehehe.
LO not straight for the Cheetahs
Scrum Sharks
spread it wide and put it on the foot.
Cheetahs boot it back
Steyn BOOOOOOOTs it back and Duane vermeulen knocks on in his 22.
Scrum Sharks
Sharks are missing a lot of chances if I have the commentary on the radio correct. 😡
Sharks almost score.
Cheetahs take ball at the ruck and clear. 😕
BEEEEAAAAAAAAST on for Carstens
@KSA Shark © (Comment 131) : You still need to work on your lotto picks. They didn’t come in last time. Not in the UK anyway.. 😀
@Silver Fox (Comment 135) : What’s a radio? 😛
Crowd and Players calling for try.
Roos on the wrong side of the ruck.
TMO
Beast is a legend! 😎
Definite TRY by Bismarck
try!
@McLovin (Comment 139) : My TV!! 😡 🙁 😡
Onwettige drie. 😆
TMO says “onwettige drie is gedruk”
Bismarck came in the side of the ruck 👿
@McLovin (Comment 143) : no try!
@McLovin (Comment 145) :
yeah I though the same thing.
If it was onwetting then it wasn’t a try 😆
@Silver Fox (Comment 144) : I used to like ‘Klop die kampioene’. Those were the days. 😳
Cheetahs LO in their 22
throw not straight
Sharks opt for scrum.
Muller showed excellent captaincy earlier by calling for the skew throw before the LO.
We should be 14 points up by now.
Daniel gives a chip and JPP gathers but is forced into touch.
Sharks are looking good at the moment.
Daniel TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s better!
Yeah baby.
Try scoring machine according to commentators. 😆
Keegan and Botes are both prolific try scorers!
Conversion missed to the right
22 – 10 Sharks
59min
Kankowski on for Daniel
Is that try number three?
The HOFF is on!!
Waylon Murray!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome tackle on a flat out Duane Vermeulen 😎 😯 😎
@klempie (Comment 161) :
yes
Hendrik meyer on for Fredericks
Whose Francois Michalak? 😆
Whose = Who’s
Sharks show some awesome running and suddenly we are 5m out again
an awesome Burst through a tackle by Bismarck
Albert on.
@McLovin (Comment 166) :
Who made that mistake?
That Adi Jacobs is quite good, wonder when he’ll get his Bok call up? 🙄
@KSA Shark © (Comment 169) : The oke with Bladen.
@McLovin (Comment 171) :
oh okay, i wasn’t listening. That is Brosnihan BTW. 😳
All off a sudden, when the Cheetahs come up against proper teams, they don’t look so flash. 😈
@McLovin (Comment 166) : He’s a slippery French flyhalf who can slot drop kicks from his own 10 metre line.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 172) : He said it twice before realising is own mistake. 😆
Cheetahs scrum on defence 5m out after turning over one of ours.
Cheetahs run it out and then clear from the ruck.
LO Sharks 20m out.
Cheetahs seem to be arguing, exactly what we need from them.
Have to give the jagluiperde their dues. Some stellar defence.
Cheetahs ARE arguing amongs themselves.
Sharks have been in the Cheetahs 22 for 41% of the time.
Beast off, Cilliers on 😯
Hope he is not injured.
Fortuin caught in his 22 after a Sale pass from Floors.
Cheetahs get it from the ruck and clear up field.
Michalak puts it on the foot and gets us back down into their half for the LO
Can’t believe we don’t have a bonus point yet. What’s more is we’re softening the Cheetahs up for the Bulls. 🙁
PK Cheetahs
JL Potgieter set up a LO in our half.
We steal the ball
Charged down by the Cheetahs
Stefan cleans up WELL
Bladen: Terblanche eluding people like a spring chicken. 😆
FIERCE tackle by Michalak.
First Roos says that all is okay and then decides to refer to the TMO.
TMO says was dangerous and only a PK to White.
Francois Michalak penalised. 😯
@KSA Shark © (Comment 185) : I’m sure he said to Juan Smith ‘all three are happy’ 👿
Sharks win PK on their tryline. 😳
Changing the subject…Robinho has just scored for Man City against Chelsea!
Cheetahs seem to be having a ‘domestic’.
4 mins to get the BP!
I need a Bloody Sharks try for a Margin point
Come on now Sharks! Score!
@McLovin (Comment 184) : He’s obviously been on the sauce again! 😆 🙄
@McLovin (Comment 190) :
more than once
@Villie (Comment 189) : Where are our resident Liverpool fans? Beating Man U and top of the table.
Last chance…come on okes! Big push now!
@McLovin (Comment 196) : Jammy gits. I am NOT happy with that result. Anyway, they will fade soon!
The terrier is on in place of Ruan.
RP drops a Bomb on meyer at the back from a ruck.
Meyer knocks
scrum Sharks 35m out.
RP moves to 10 as Kockott comes on and Michalak goes off.
Kockett on now!
1-1 now….Chelsea scored
Steyn awarded man of the match
@Villie (Comment 194) : Has he ever been off the sauce? 😉
Just seen George Laas on the telly!
Shit. there goes the BP.
Wait a minute!
Last chance for BP.
How did Bismark not score there? 🙄
Tap and go by Kockott
Bismarck stopped on the line.
Cheetahs trying to at least win the fight now.
scrum 5m out Sharks on attack.
80min
@Villie (Comment 204) : Who?
C’mon Sharks SCORE PLEASE
for my SB and for the LOg
What happens if it’s deemed held up? Game over?
@klempie (Comment 212) : Indeed. 👿
That’s it. Pinot Noir & Boerewors for me. Have a good evening gents & ladies.
Full Time
Sharks 22 – 10 Cheetahs
Log updated
Sharks go top
Cheetahs drop to 4th
@McLovin (Comment 210) : hehe…Chairman of Sharks supporters club in Durban1
Go Sharks! Why do I feel a little disappointed, though?
@robdylan (Comment 218) : Because we’re only 2 points ahead of the Kalfies now?
11 guys 😯 picked the Sharks by 12. 😆
Sheez they are only but going to streeeeeeeeetch that closest pick point.
@robdylan (Comment 218) :
Same here but we are 2 clear ahead of the bulls so no reason to feel unhappy.
WP and Lions.
You guys can address your thank you emails to the KZNRU media liaison. 😉
@robdylan (Comment 218) : I think you feel as I do that the Sharks have not played to their potential maybe? 😕
okay so now it is the Club Championships final on SS1 😎
@KSA Shark © (Comment 221) : I’ve never met a grateful Province supporter.
@Silver Fox (Comment 222) :
Thank you Sharks..appreciated!
Lions 3rd now 😀
@CoffeeShopBok;-) (Comment 225) :
We had to pay you back somehow for the 3N commentary. ;wink:
BTW look who is in 20th on the user stats. 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 226) :
Ha-ha excellent..guess it helps to do the commentary 🙂
@CoffeeShopBok;-) (Comment 227) :
just look at my comment count and then it will be clear 😉
@KSA Shark © (Comment 220) : I is one of them. 👿 🙄
A number of frankly baffling decisions, to be honest. Not completely sure that Bis’s try shouldn’t have been awarded. That said, Fred deserved a red card
@robdylan (Comment 230) : A red card? Nah…think more like yellow but I guess if JP Nel had done the same we would have called for a red! 😆
@McLovin (Comment 229) :
Hey That 0,09 points really pushed you up the table though 😉
@robdylan (Comment 230) :
MOST baffling one to me was, why stop play to check for the try at the end if we still had the ball in our possesion?????
We could have scored from the next phase?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 232) : I’m not greedy, I take what I can get. 😆
I have made mu SB picks for next week and conservative is OUT the window.
Damn congested table this.
1 superviv 49.25
2 blackshark 48.35
3 Bricktop 47.75
4 geraas 47.22
5 Salmo 47.18
6 Bat 47.08
7 Jagluiperd 46.50
8 Gerhardt 45.92
9 Western Sauce 45.75
10 robdylan 45.75
11 Alpha male 45.67
12 Sandshark 45.67
13 Kandas 45.61
14 Fatality 45.42
15 Mike 45.17
16 Letgo 44.61
17 Reds 44.58
17 KC 44.58
19 Werner Boyen 44.33
19 Lylmik 44.33
@KSA Shark © (Comment 233) : Because he has no feel for the game, at all.
Tempers flared as Stade Francais consolidated their lead in the French Top 14 championship with a 19-13 victory at Toulon on Friday, with both teams playing the second half a man down.
Moments before half time a mass brawl broke out that had props Rodrigo Roncero of Stade Francais and David Banquet Toulon’s getting red cards from ref Jean-Pierre Matheu.
Toulon were already a man down as Jerry Collins had been sin-binned in the 31st minute for stamping, which must have had something to do with the new look of the Stade Francais jersey.
Although the fight started in the front row, and they received the immediate punishment, it was Toulon’s seasoned campaigner Norman Jordaan who landed a couple of the best haymakers, knocking down two big guys in two seconds, something not often seen from a little number nine.
It was an ugly scene of mass chaos though, as both teams gave it a full go with little pods of brawls branching off, making it virtually impossible for the officials to regain immediate control.
check rugbydump dot com for a video. 😯 😯
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k10wNqswTyszstLudE
@robdylan (Comment 230) : Rob, I think the Michalak spear tackle deserved a yellow not red. He picked him up and dropped him, he didn’t drive him into the ground. As for the Bissie disallowed try, I think he was offside, and if not, he definitely had hands in the ruck.
There were several times I saw the Cheetah loosehead drop his bind or bind outside the tighthead’s arm, and the referee was on that side of the scrum. The loosehead should have been penalized for dropping his bind, and binding incorrectly.
@McLovin (Comment 239) :
Was watching the match live. It happened JUST after the Lions game. They don’t mess around in the french league it seems.
Now i know why Vicky came back to SA. he is a lover not an enforcer.
Would be keen to see the Owner of Toulon’s response to their loss though. There were rumblings last week that manager Tana Umaga was no longer safe in his job after one loss and one draw from three matches. Now he has two losses and one draw from three matches.
@Dancing Bear (Comment 241) :
Agree on all three those decisions.
“live” I actually thought the Michalak tackle deserved nothing, but on seeing the replay I changed my mind.
it actually raizes a question in my main about the replay. In this instance the ref said he and the TJs agreed there was nothing wrong. he said something along the lines of “twee, drie van ons stem saam” Yet a few second later he decided to refer it. Are we getting to a position where the ref will let a player have the right to ask for a referal? I hope not.
But back to the replay. In normal speed the tackle looks fine even after watching it a second time. yet the replay makes it look dangerous as the replay removes the “momentum” from the tackle. Michalak had no option but to go over with the player.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 242) :
Even Jerry Collins was kakking himself 😆
Well to answer my question from the Match intro.
No the Sharks weren’t scintilating by any means but we did do what was needed to go to the top again.
@bryce_in_oz (Comment 244) :
Hehehehe. he had right to be pissed off though. 😆 He must be the first player ever to be carded for NOT stamping on a player?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 245) : This is a bit of a worrying factor. Like in the Super14, winning but not really performing as they should. Sometime or other it will catch up with you, usually in the play-offs. Let us hope this was only a stutter.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 243) : KSA, correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that momentum from the tackle is not taken into account in the laws. My understanding is that if a player does happen to pick a player up in such a way that his hips are above his head, it is the responsibility of the tackler to return them to the ground in a safe manner. I also thought it was generally accepted that if a tackler drops the player from this position, they get a yellow, if they drive them into the ground, it is a red.