Sharks coach John Plumtree has named his strongest lineup possible for Saturday’s showdown with the Bulls at The Absa Stadium Durban at 6.05pm.
From the Sharksrugby website:
With The Sharks still in the running for a semifinal place – and even if they go into the match with their hopes dashed – this match represents the opportunity to finish the pool stages on a high and give something back to the fans as well as enjoy a measure of personal reward following three grueling months of Vodacom Super 14 rugby and a further three months of preseason training in readiness for the tournament.
Two changes for the backline have been made with Rory Kockott returning from a week’s suspension which sees Charl McLeod reverting to the bench and Brad Barritt sadly not having recovered from the concussion he sustained against the Waratahs last weekend. Riaan Swanepoel who has done a sterling job in only his first Super 14 tournament will pair up with Adrian Jacobs in the midfield.
Amongst the forwards, Keegan Daniel gets a start ahead of Jacques Botes while John Smit and Jannie du Plessis are the other rotational changes, the former starting at tighthead prop.
Andries Strauss will wear the number 22 jersey ahead of Luzuko Vulindlu in the final matchday 22 change.
The Sharks
1. Tendai Mtawarira
2. Bismarck du Plessis
3. John Smit
4. Steven Sykes
5. Johann Muller ( Capt )
6. Keegan Daniel
7. Jean Deysel
8. Ryan Kankowski
9. Rory Kockott
10. Ruan Pienaar
11. JP Pietersen
12. Riaan Swanepoel
13. Adrian Jacobs
14. Odwa Ndungane
15. Stefan Terblanche
Replacements
16. Jannie du Plessis
17. Deon Carstens
18. Albert van den Berg
19. Jacques Botes
20. Charl McLeod
21. Monty Dumond
22. Andries Strauss
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Go Sharks!! 😎
Good lineup…I have felt that JB needed a rest. Keegan is a great replacement
From SUPERSPORT, not IMO
Sharks v Vodacom Bulls ABSA Stadium 18.05
Fourie du Preez has been cleared to play for the Bulls and when he was absent last week against the Cheetahs it showed just how pivotal he was to the Bulls game. This game is hard to predict as much depends on whether the Sharks are still in the competition when it kicks off. Should they have been knocked out, the Bulls will be the side that wants it, and needs it, more. That could just give them the edge. But if the Sharks have been thrown a life-line, they might just catch fire in a manner which they haven’t so far this season, and then the Bulls could be in trouble – particularly if, unlike last week, the game is played in dry conditions.
Prediction: Too many variables – Sharks to win if they have reason to, otherwise Bulls.
@wpw (Comment 1) : LEKKE WES, NOU DAAIS DIE MOVE 😆
Put him back in VC to learn some manners. 👿
@Charlie (Comment 3) : or a draw
@Rahul (Comment 6) : My brain’s smoked after all the permutations, I will rather wait till before kick-off
@Charlie (Comment 7) : Sharks win…. Only permeatations are bonus point or no bonus point!
Smit 3 Bismarck 2 – they simply dont want to learn.
Top 20 Commentors
User Total Comments
1 KSA Shark © 25524
2 robdylan 18531
3 McLovin 8825
4 blackshark 5373
5 Hmmm 4815
6 wpw 4674
7 Prof. Ice 4384
8 Claytie 3925
9 klempie 3726
10 try time (history forgets losers) 3286
11 KSA Sharkette 2739
12 bryce_in_oz 2558
13 Nessa 2239
14 Charlie 2067
15 Big Fish 1985
16 Salmonoid 1784
17 Villie 1782
18 Morné 1656
19 CoffeeShopBok;-) 1611
20 Silver Fox 1585
Sharks by 4, no bonus point – yet again.
What happened to Hmmm? 😉
@Charlie (Comment 10) : Hey I am way up there chasing down Prof drol and wpw. 😎
Even if most of my posts are just about kak.
@Villie (Comment 12) : Maybe he down a Lion, did not feel satisfied and went into hiding 🙄
@Morné (Comment 11) :
sharks by 9…watch this space.. 😉
@Villie (Comment 12) :
Who cares?? 😈
@klempie (Comment 13) : And I’m beating TT. 😎 Which is no mean feat considering that Stefan Terblanche plays fullback for the Sharks. 😛
@klempie (Comment 13) :
😈 
@Villie (Comment 12) :
He was here last nite… 😕
@Prof. Ice (Comment 15) : You dumped your boyfriend ❓ 😈
Do you guys think you still have a chance of making the semis??? 🙄
@klempie (Comment 13) : This site is about quantity and not quality?!?!
Riaan Swanepoel (pictured)?
Cant see him 😕
@wpw (Comment 20) : I did dream Sharks were heading to New Zealand! It was ona bus though 😕
@Rahul (Comment 21) : Have a good look 🙄 😆 🙄
@wpw (Comment 20) : I don’t really care anymore. We don’t deserve to win the S14 playing the kind of rugby we are. The NZ of SA rugby has morphed into the England of SA rugby. 🙄
Good forwards bench, backs, not so much. 🙁
@klempie (Comment 24) : I agree. If the Sharks go into the game and they can’t make the Semi’s, I’ll want the Bulls to win (note I said want to win not support). If this is the end of the Super 14 as we know it I would like a SA team( read Bulls) to have a home semi and home final. The Bulls should win at Loftus and this will be a big F&^K you to O’Neill that the last Super 14 trophy is in SA.
@Rahul (Comment 22) :
F^%% Hell!! Dit gaan maar lol!!
@Charlie (Comment 19) :
Hmmmmmmmm … let me think… 😆
go sharkies!!! This weekend ill be close to having a nervous breakdown 😛 i might not visit the site after the game due to me having a violent fit
Can you believe there is some “vet kadet, kussing byter” out there who believes the Sharks will opt to play the man and not the ball.
Apparantly Streauli’s influence. 😆 😆
Maybe he got hold of some Bundaberg. 😛 🙄
@JarsonX (Comment 28) : 😯 😯 😯
@KSA Shark © (Comment 29) :
A leopard cant change its spots.
And a brain that is dead cannot be revived. I find it best to leave the sad and deluded to stew in their own misery.
@JarsonX (Comment 28) :
@KSA Shark © (Comment 29) :
laat ek gou gaan kyk… 😕
vet kadet, kussing byter 😀 😆 wtf is that
@KSA Shark © (Comment 29) : well i’d rather let them play the men in blue, then them playing with their balls 😯
@wpw (Comment 33) :
What a waste of time. 🙄
@Pokkel (in Ruan I Trust) (Comment 26) : Nah. Fuck the Bulls.
@JarsonX (Comment 34) : I believe it’s a fat military gay man.
@klempie (Comment 16) : you anger me. 👿 no its just cos you talk more shit than i do. i don’t tell everyone the record time i ate a beans bunny in every twenty minutes. 😆
@Charlie (Comment 10) : This is my 1350 😆
so still some way to go.
afternoon all ….
@Charlie (Comment 10) : so far away 🙁 then i must start posting kak 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 29) :
Bulls page?? 😈
@Prof. Ice (Comment 42) :
😉
@JarsonX (Comment 41) : just say you hate stefan. you’ll write at least 500 posts defending yourself from the up and under lovers out there. 😆 😆
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 39) : i just ate a beans bunny 😕 in 60secs 😛
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 39) : I had baked beans on toast for dinner last night. 🙂
@klempie (Comment 46) : and did you break your speed record of 2 minutes odd? 😆
@klempie (Comment 46) : i can’t remember last time I had baked beans
@JarsonX (Comment 45) :
And the Gas took how long to come out? 😉
Anyway i have a game to go and ref at 6pm. Bye!!!!
@JarsonX (Comment 45) : you were robbed, that wasn’t a quarter bunny you got. a quarter takes at least 90 seconds. 😆 😆
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 44) : stefan sucks big time, all he wants to do is, kick possession away and kick up and unders, he must love looking at the stars coz he aint one of them 😉 sorry stefan
@JarsonX (Comment 45) : New Movie Release – JarsonX on the Run
@KSA Shark © (Comment 49) : poors players. they will be more confused about the laws of rugby, than before the game started. i still don’t think ksa actually knows the laws. i think he improvises. cheers. 😆 😆 😆
@JarsonX (Comment 51) : Skop Stefanus, skop jou bal 😈
@Pokkel (in Ruan I Trust) (Comment 26) : What happened to Ruan ?
@Charlie (Comment 52) : you forgot the s. onthe runs. 😆 😆
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 53) : Jy soek wee vir kaka 🙄
@KSA Shark © (Comment 43) :
Thought as much…net hulle wat met soveel BS vorendag kan kom!! Quite imaginative for Brainless people..
😈
@Charlie (Comment 54) :ja skop en donner. hy sal skop en ek sal hom donner.
So Brad lasted one game – eish
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 47) : What speed record? Time required to crack one off after digestion? 😕
@rekinek (Comment 48) : It was a convenience issue. I couldn’t be arsed cooking.
@rekinek (Comment 48) : did you block it out your memory banks? 😆 😆
@Charlie (Comment 52) : @try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 53) : @Charlie (Comment 54) :
@KSA Shark © (Comment 49) : Beat me to it. 😳
@JarsonX (Comment 51) : damn. sorry ksa just left. hopefully someone else will take offence. 😆 😆 everyone online now (other than ice) agrees with that comment.
here it comes-gas that is 😳 😯
@rekinek (Comment 60) : told you nh rugby is for softies. you leave sa a man and come back a ponce. look at matfield, percy and stefan
@klempie (Comment 61) : i don’t know, you keep coming online telling everyone about some run you do in 12 minutes.
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 66) : hehehe, maybe i should take on robdylan and critisize barrett
@JarsonX (Comment 67) : Just be careful for a accidental number 2 🙄
@JarsonX (Comment 67) : i’m gassing myself laughing at how much kak we are talking cos we can’t face the idea of watching the sharks play again. 😆 😆
@JarsonX (Comment 70) : Do you want your access to be blocked to the site ❓ 😈 ❓
@JarsonX (Comment 70) : yeah that will work. i will fight you on that one.
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 69) : 3kms in 13:58 last night. Rob’s not impressed though. There was a runner’s club on SW a couple of months ago but everyone else has faded. Commitment phobes.
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 69) : lay of the beans klempie, its no wonder toilet paper is sooo expensive 😆
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 66) :
Damn right you ass! 😈
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 69) : JarsonX will break that record with the help of his gas 😆
@klempie (Comment 75) : ah is that what its about. 💡 💡
oh hang on is this 💡 a light bulb or someone mooning. if it is the latter it goes with the gas thread.
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 79) : 😛
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 74) : everytime brad touches the ball…. 😳 just kidding
@JarsonX (Comment 76) : it is the great leveller. paper is expensive, but the beans are cheap. so it averages out. 😆
@Charlie (Comment 78) : unlike the sharks that have run out of gas. 😆
@Charlie (Comment 78) :
Nitro?? 😯 😆
anyone for peanuts? Im in the mood 🙄
@JarsonX (Comment 82) : 😆 😆 see he is so good you just can’t blacken his name like that. but how easy was it to knock stefan. 😆
@JarsonX (Comment 86) : What type, Durban ❓
@Prof. Ice (Comment 85) : Nosh ❓
@JarsonX (Comment 86) : i like linus and snoopy. chalie brown was a bit of a girl like stefan. 😆
@Charlie (Comment 88) : are you charlie brown? 😆
did anyone see stefan passing the ball 😳 sorry that was Gas
now everyone is talking gas
@KSA Shark © (Comment 29) : Thats cause the bulls have no balls (Had them removed CC final Last year)
@JarsonX (Comment 92) : 😆 😆 damn right it was a gas. does anyone know stefan’s kick to pass ratio? i suppose he has to have passed a ball to have a ratio.
@JarsonX (Comment 93) :
id like to call it something else…but it woudl come back to me as being part of the gas subject.. 🙄
@Prof. Ice (Comment 96) :
GOOD LUCK TO THE SHARKS!!, I hope you are still in a position to challenge come game time!! 😀
@Rahul (Comment 94) : 😳 was missing for longer that I thought?!?
@Prof. Ice (Comment 96) : ice you are full of gas. which is good, cos smirnoff ice isn’t nice flat. good thing you aren’t flat. or are you?
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 95) : not as good as his kick to gas ratio
@Whindy (Comment 98) : if brumbies or saders win the only position they will be involves bending over… 😆 😆
this blog smells-like gas 🙄 no offence intended
@JarsonX (Comment 101) : 😆
@klempie (Comment 75) : what kinda club? that you actually run together or just exchange results? if latter i can join – if you people wanna feel better – i do running on treadmill but am extremely slow
@rekinek (Comment 105) : the only running i do is after bunny runny. 😆
to all the gas jokes
think about bottling it and sending to the team for sat – they will need it 
wished to improve my comments ratio but needa run. going on study leave tomorrow and the work just does not want to finish 😕
cheeriooooo
ok i am off like my last batch of comments. 😆 enjoy your evenings in the knowledge we only have to watch one more sharks game for a long time. i never thought i would be so relieved.
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 100) :
Flat or flatulant??
No…i cannot believe I am actually partaking in this…. 🙄
is this rugby or cricket you are on about 😯
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 108) : Relieved – getting rid of the gas 🙄
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 91) :
@try time (history forgets losers) (Comment 106) : Now that sounds gay 😆 😆 😆
@rekinek (Comment 55) : 👿 At least he didn’t mis ant kicks
@Pokkel (Comment 114) : any
@rekinek (Comment 105) : We just brag about our times. There’s no physical club as such.
Cheers, guys & girls, till 2morrow
Saw on Keo that its PA’s birtday today, so happy birthday Morne.
@Villie (Comment 12) : site got blocked at his work…