I’ve heard a lot of talk this week – and most of it has been coming out of the Cheetahs camp. Don’t kid yourselves, chaps. There’s only one team that’s running scared ahead of tomorrow’s game and it’s the team who’s doing all their talking off the field.
Why are the Cheetahs making such a fuss about not seeing the Sharks players as Boks? Is it because they know, deep down, that they’re not in the same class, but are trying to psyche themselves up nonetheless? What happened to the gentlemanly approach of talking up your opposition – or better still, not talking at all? Until afterwards, that is.
Look, I’m nervous about this game, just like I always am before a big game, but despite all this “form team” nonsense, we need to acknowledge that it’s the Sharks who haven’t lost a game in 6 weeks. The Cheetahs have beaten the Leopards and Boland in recent weeks, but in the two outing before those, they lost to both the Bulls and the Sharks. They may have been narrow losses, but they were still losses. It’s the scoreboard that counts.
There aren’t going to be any points for scoring pretty rugby this weekend. The Sharks have their best pack available – a pack that has played together for two years at Super 14 level and has seldom been bested. The Cheetahs may have some individual stars – Wian du Preez and Hein Brüssow being the ones that come to mind immediately – but for the most part are journeymen. The same applies in the back division where, apart from a pair of hugely exciting wingers, they don’t have too much real class.
Riaan Swanepoel, in contrast, is the only uncapped member of the Sharks back division.
So good luck to both teams – I’m sure it will be a hard match. Let’s not fall into the trap of accepting all the pressure here, though. The Cheetahs need to find a way to beat the Sharks, something they have failed to do on two prior occasions this year. If the Sharks get suckered into trying to play too much rugby against them, then they could be in trouble.
Still, there’s an air of quiet confidence coming out of Durban this week and I just don’t see the boys losing this one. Bring on the game. Sharks forever!
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@provincejoulekkading (Comment 1) : PROOOOOOOOOOOVIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEE
Just had some oke go on about how the Bulls and Cheetahs need to win so they can have a “boerefinaal”. For that reason I amd supporting the coastal teams even more vigorously than before.
I Just Looks at the Scoreboards
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@robdylan (Comment 2) : You not freaging serious 😯
@Baldrick (Comment 3) : 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 2) : that’s not a good reason.
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 5) : I am, I’m afraid. Makes me glad I left.
Sorry, not the place for that, but yeah.
@robdylan (Comment 2) :
Dutchman of the World Unite!!!!!!!!!!
Seems nobody understood the call and stayed as individuals. 😳
Coastal Teams ROCK!!!!!!!
Jeremy mansfield recons a bulls cheetahs final in pretoria! Must be the drugs talking…
basted
i’m off to grab a bite. have a lekker evening and for tomorrow:
GO SHAAAAAAAAAAARKS!!!!!!
@Rahul (Comment 11) :
He is so used to talking kak that he now just does it for the sake of getting ratings. He is the Keo of the Radio world.
He was probably doing this while wearing a Lions Jersey. 😛
Lol… I can picture him in the studio wiff his lions rags on! 🙂
@Rahul (Comment 14) :
DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!! How did you manage to comment on the LMS leaderboard page? I can’t even see your comment without going in to edit the page?
i have to admit the media has really irritated me this past week along with the cheetahs players and staff who have been ranting and raving about how the cheetahs, and as they put it basically brussow will upset the big sharks boks, after some thought i hope our players read all the crap because if i were a sharks player that would be motivation enough to smash the Brussow team
I wish the bookies would agree with the media and the big mouthed cheetah’s, I’d make a packet 😆
@scrumpyjack (Comment 17) :
Good point!!!!!!!!!!
What ARE the odds on the match?
@scrumpyjack (Comment 17) : welcome to the site, BTW.
I secretly hope that Brussow gets his self DEYSEL’ed in the first five minutes and spends the rest of the game looking for his teeth.
No upsets this weekend, Bulls to beat province comfortably and the Sharks to kick some serious cheetah butts.
Go SHARKS 😈
The cheetahs are going down 15 / 30 to the SHARKS…then thay gonna rename them FUBAR cause the SHARK TANK is gonna be so full of of spotted yellow Fur the FUBAR cheetas are get sponsord by imac Brazalian hair removal next year, which will suit the little bald p ..”kittens”..ies.
Common SHARKS let plant a field of FUR… 😈
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@[email protected] (Comment 21) : nice one, K… like the passion.
Welcome to Sharksworld!
Cool Rob just wanna WIIIIN.. 😛
@[email protected] (Comment 23) : I know the feeling 🙂
And next week time for Blue (bull)e balls
Ken
@[email protected] (Comment 25) : the week after. But first things first. Let’s beat the Cheetahs. And then Province 🙂
Boerefinaal, ha,ha.
Some may even see a Bulls / Sharks final as such anyway.
Funny.
@Salmonoid (Comment 27) : du plessis farmers would definately fit the picture 😆
@rekinek (the battle has begun…) (Comment 28) : .
😆 , imagine having to fight a war against those 2s great grandparents or even their grandchildren.
There is a good reason for pacifists.
@Salmonoid (Comment 29) : i’m sure we would manage. just imagine this medevial Pole with his bear skin and pork on a spit.
Go Sharks!!
@rekinek (the battle has begun…) (Comment 30) :
Here comes Jan,
Jan Sobieski.
You need some wings on your armour, maybe some Red Bull.
Oh man would I like some pork on the spit right now, Im sure the dup brothers would join me, as a peace offering.
@Salmonoid (Comment 32) : just hope they’d leave you some 🙂
@Salmonoid (Comment 32) : hussars – late invention (XVI – XVII century) – i’m going back to basics 😆
@robdylan (Comment 33) :
@rekinek (the battle has begun…) (Comment 34) : man, I’m hungry now! This diet is getting old
@robdylan (Comment 33) :
They would have fierce competition from me when it came to munching.
@rekinek (the battle has begun…) (Comment 34) :
You mean way back to the age when a Barbarian was a …Barbarian.
@Salmonoid (Comment 37) : when the life was simplier .
That is a little arrogant for a team prone to choke.
Game over!
VRYSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
@Loosehead (Comment 39) : it’s a lot easier to be clever after the game, isn’t it? Well done, I think you guys definitely wanted it more
@Rahul (Comment 11)Har,de,ha,ha,ha
@robdylan (Comment 40) : I never doubted it.
@Loosehead (Comment 42) : well, congratulations. Hope you guys can keep the intensity up in two weeks time. The Bulls look beatable. Actually beating them in a final is another story.
Food for thought: Whenever one or another statistic is mentioned, ie, ”Stefan has a 100% win record as captain” the other team wins. Another example, the Sharks havent lost at home for ‘so many matches’ wham they lose. 😈 mind games
@JarsonX (Insomniac) (Comment 44) : my plan is to stop writing positive articles about the Sharks
In fact, from now on, I’m going to call them the Charks 🙂
@Rahul (Comment 11) : Rahul. do you still think mansfield is on Drugs, only joking bothe teams gave good accounts of themselves!!
@robdylan (Comment 45) : Rob what about an article on how to win the super14 and then let Plum have a copy of the answer. lol
good game Kak end score..sharks seemed to lost the intesity in the scrums and that translated into slower ball to the line, OS Durant seems to have made a formabile 5 pac scrum for the cheaters, so the end score is a fair coment on the game, still is a KAK final score..