The Sharks face The Stormers at Newlands in the final game of the Neo Africa Tri Series, although a warmup each team will undoubtedly like to take the mental edge out of this fixture.
Kickoff is at 19:05 and Sharksworld will be bringing you updates via this thread and twitter.
Tweet
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwww
😳 my nerves are pretty much jangling now, gotta work cant watch the game but will be chatting here during the duration, oh golly
Enjoy the game all! Go the Stormerrrrrrrrrrs!
ok let me dream, Sharks win 24 -10, Tries to Alberts, Lambie, Deysel and Smitty!
I hope i didn’t rush home for a drubbing. 🙁
GO SHarks!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not on local TV 🙁
The Sharks
15. Patrick Lambie
14. Odwa Ndungane
13. Waylon Murray
12. Andries Strauss
11. JP Pietersen
10. Monty Dumond
9. Rory Kockott
8. Willem Alberts
7. Jean Deysel
6. Keegan Daniel
5. Johann Muller
4. Gerhard Mostert
3. John Smit ©
2. Bismarck du Plessis
1. Jannie du Plessis
Replacements
16. Craig Burden
17. Tendai Mtawarira
18. Steven Sykes
19. Ryan Kankowski
20. Charl McLeod
21. Riaan Swanepoel
22. Stefan Terblanche
23. Patric Cilliers
24. Alistair Hargreaves
25. Steve Meyer
26. Luzuko Vulindlu
27. Lwazi Mvovo
@Miguel (Comment 4) :
No Not Alberts then the breezers and the Lions will say we didn’t win coz Alberts isn’t supposed to play for us. 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 7) : haha i want him to score so they can feel the pain of his loss even more!!!!
I do hope Kanko gets on i am still infatuated with the idea of a Kanko, Alberts and Deysel loose trio, they would make me one happy chappy!!!
yeeha! Got a good feed and wife permission to watch
OK. The commentator extraordinaire has arrived. 😎
@klempie (Comment 11) : Although I have Nando’s so I may be a bit distracted early doors. 😛
@robdylan (Comment 10) : Nice Rob! Prediction?
@klempie (Comment 11) :
Geez that is a nice welcome for Rob.
feed would be better if my bloody network connection would behave
Still not a Shark A side that IMO
No Swannie, No Ruan, No Stefan in the starting XV
@Miguel (Comment 13) : Stormers by plenty and hope I’m wrong
@KSA Shark © (Comment 14) : 😆 Will my erstwhile commentary sidekick be assisting me tonight? 😎
@robdylan (Comment 17) : aaah Rob my hearts confident!! Sharks guna do it
Kickoff at 19:10
@klempie (Comment 18) :
NOPE not being shown on local TV and DSTV is not available. 🙁
Good evening and welcome from a bit of a gusty Newlands stadium, and a warm welcome the the Sharks rugby representative on my immediate right blinded by the harsh Cape sun. 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 21) : http://www.livetv4ever.com
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 22) : howzit Cleytie! Howzit MM!
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 20) :
5 min delay to allow for Gel application to the Joe P? 😛
No changes to starting lineups as the Sharks take the field
@robdylan (Comment 23) :
go there now lemme see.
If it works my 23″ monitor should come into good use. 🙂
Vic looks amped
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 26) : aaaaw cmon
hell of a Stormers team that
minute of silence for big RJK
Minutes silence for Ruben Kruger….respected by the Newlands crowd,for once
nice beard, Janneman
Penalty to Stormers from 20 m out, puts it through the uprights.3-0 Stormers
1 penalty for Keegan already
3-0 stormers
@robdylan (Comment 23) :
Okay have registered and purchased 1 Month membership. Now i’m waiting for them to email my login info to me.
Pat Lambie and Rory K combine to attack but Lambie gets tackled, Schalk B gives away penalty on 10 m and Kockets goes for poles.
Login information will be sent to you within few Minutes to Hours 😯
schalk blown for not rolling away
KSA, once you get it, it works very well. Took mine about 10 mins to come though
Wide
@robdylan (Comment 28) :
Alberts looks amped you mean!!!!!!! 😈
Vic looks like a queen most of thime.
and still no points in 2010 for the Sharks
huge work on defence by Dries
CAnt see who is down
a second penalty against schalk
Flow, but he gets up.
looks like Flo
@robdylan (Comment 41) :
just come through.
logged in, no problem.
clicked on the game, asked me to login again with a pop up window and now i am starring at a blank screen.
Kockott looks like an idiot.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 50) : probably downloading the players
now Vic gives away one for not rolling
Joe P however nails his second penalty
Man, but Joe P looks a LOT like Percy. It’s 6-0 now
Strauss steps his way through Stormers defence only for JP to kick the ball away
Dries read the article today! 🙂
can Rocket seriously miss this one too?
6-3 🙂
Kocket nails his third attempt – 6-3 Stormers attacking Sharks line but cough the ball up
Who TF is Flo?
Schalk Burger TRY – Stormers run a set move off a line out with Peter Grant and Gio Aplon combining to put Schalk through for the 5.
First try to Burger. Aplon does us for pace
@KSA Shark © (Comment 61) : Francois Louw – a friend of Sharksworld, check the links 😉
lovely, lovely try. Sharks look really slow by comparison
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 64) :
I know who Francois Louw is didn’t know the nick though. 😳
first scrum
First scrum and Sharks penalised for …. pulling scrum down…i think
penalty against Jannie for dropping
bliksem, but we’re staring a pakslae in the face tonight
@robdylan (Comment 55) : Monty is wearing neon green boots 😳
I have picture and sound, good quality
what is sodding Bismarck doing trying grubbers in the backline?
FULL Scrteen is not such good quality though, small screen is perfect
Craig Joubert: you know the rules. 😯 😯
THEY ARE LAWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And i am a RETIRED referee.
Sharks very physical, but decision making is poor. 11-6
@robdylan (Comment 51) :
Just saw him slot a PK. I agree, he is trying to see what can look more untidy his hair or his beard. 😕
Stormers 11 – 6 Sharks
24min
keegan blown for a high tackle
Klempie’s Nandos must be good. 😆
Shit, but Mostert is quite a large slab of man
Joe P misses a shot at goal.
Joe P now misses his 3rd pen for the night.
helloooo
Juan de Jongh dances through Sharks defence but takes wrong option
Inside pass to Schalk was on
So let me get this straight. Our scrums are kak. Our backline is kak. Our placekicking is kak. Our tackling is kak. Our discipline is kak.
Am I missing anything?
juan De Jonge looks like he is running between training cones, it was that easy for him to beat our midfield, from a SET phase. 😕
Game is getting just a little charged
okes just want to fight now
@KSA Shark © (Comment 79) : Damn Highveld storm hit just before minute of silence. 👿
@KSA Shark © (Comment 87) : Monty’s defence not looking great
Matt and Bobbie talk kak, the players in front of the ball must NOT freeze, they have to make an active effort to move away from the ten meter offside line where the ball comes down.
Grant gets WOLLAD
@klempie (Comment 90) :
turned it into 20min of silence for you?
GREAT clean by Alberts.!!!!!!
some good continuity from the Sharks now
@robdylan (Comment 93) : 😀
11-9
@klempie (Comment 86) : Oh yes. We’re playing the exact same gameplan as this time last year!! So kak gameplan too. Yup. I think we’ve managed to uncheck all the check boxes! 🙄
Kocky makes it 11-9
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 98) :
flip that is like a minute aherad of my stream. 😯
Kockott slots the PK and the Sharks close the gap to 2points.
Second scrum of the night, getting cold up here
Jannie gets pinged again, and once again Joe lines up a kick
keegan’s third kickable penalty conceded
Jannie goes down at TH.
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 103) : nah dude. Keegan blown for kicking the ball back in.
Sharks scrum looked all right that time
@klempie (Comment 86) :
Yeah you missed the fact that we are playing finals type rugby instead of seeing how our gameplan/style of play works.
@klempie (Comment 105) : BS, klamps. Watch the game, man
Joe P slots a PK
Stormers 14 – 9 Sharks
36min
@robdylan (Comment 106) : Shot dude, couldnt see properly from this lofty perch
Flo yellow
jannie involved twice in loose play. Two nice carries.
Flo now carded
Yellow card for “Flo” 😛
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 110) : nor could klempie 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 108) : Whoops! I meant LH!! 😳
some nice interplay between Jannie and Smit there. The former certainly more visible at 1…
@robdylan (Comment 112) :
two nice carries and then one nice PK give away. 😛
HALF TIME
Stormers 14 – 9 Sharks
that’s half time. A far better-than-expected half from the Sharks. Alberts has been quiet, I thought.
ja, but everyone’s given away 5 penalties so far 🙂
anyone seen the turbo reverse thing yet, BTW?
Oh can someone please get a message to Beast to get the Rocket a spare Bic?
Our midfield is certainly missing “Charlie” and Swannie.
Kockott
Ruan
JPP
Swannie
Adi
Ndungane
Stef.
i will not be too concerend once we have our full side back
Sharks missed 7 tackles… reckon Monty’s done about 3 himself 😡
@robdylan (Comment 121) : According to the half times stats, no one at SS has.
Tackles missed
Sharks 7 😯
Stormers 1
@klempie (Comment 122) : LOL 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 121) : ❓ Whats’ that
@klempie (Comment 125) : starting to regret hopping on the “Smit can’t play 3£ bandwagon earlier. Bis has been a demon in the tight-loose, too. Still selfish as hell with ball in hand, though
@KSA Shark © (Comment 128) : it’s become a fashionable way to describe John Smit’s scrumming
@robdylan (Comment 127) : 🙂
Meyer on
Stef on, Zuks on
Sykes, Kanko, Charl, Swannie, Beast all on
Great counter ruck by the Sharks!!!!!!!!!!
Meyer looks drunk 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 134) : it’s making a difference already IMO
Try JP.Connection stuffed.Restart
Beast, Smit, Jannie, Sykes, Muller, Daniel, Deysel, Kank0, Charl, Steve, JP, Swan, Zuks, Odwa, Stef
Now THAT is Sharks rugby. They’re holding onto the ball longer now. 😎
@KSA Shark © (Comment 137) :
And Stefan as well.
TRY SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apologies.Vulindlu try
ZUKS scores!
@robdylan (Comment 129) : It’s not that he CAN’T play 3, it’s that he SHOULD be at 2 with Bis coming off the bench. Jannie/Deon at 3, Beast at 1.
lovely team try that. SHARKS rugby at its best.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 141) :
Try by Zuks BTW.
Steve botches his first kick. It’s 14 all
JPP nice tackle on Joe P
Charl is such a classy player
only 3rd scrum of the game. 😯
At least the feed at the scrum was straight. 🙄 😕
score??
Habs coaching the ref
@Jarson’s (X + V) (Comment 152) : 17-14 now. Pietersen just slotted a penalty
Habana crying to the ref that the Sharks aren’t binding when they clean out. NOBODY does that nowadays. Habana plays two games for the Stormers and he already becomes a softy. 😛
sorry – Sykes is, in fact, not on yet
Are Sharks players dumber than Stormers players? It appears so.
BEAST plus A.N. Other kills Duvenhage. 😆
Jannie’s having a huge game!
@KSA Shark © (Comment 155) : Geez you are BEHIND! 😯 Try a rebuffering ouboet. 😆
@robdylan (Comment 159) : and he gets carded… jinxed him
Jannie vloeking Bekker!! The P-word came out. 😆
Anyway he is off for ten minutes.
Jannie Dup highly incensed as the Stormers play french Rugby and stick their fingers in their eyes.
Penalty Stormers. Someone in from the side. They go for the lineout at 5m.
Aaaaaand im back, Stormers lineout on Sharks 5.Driving and Liebenberg goes over for a try
Stormers through… TMO
@klempie (Comment 164) : Try off the lineout.
They are trialling a ridiculous system whereby the on-field ref is actually the TMO. He has to run off to a TV on the side of the field.
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 165) : not awarded yet
the boyz seems to play better today
17-14 ,conversion to come
and awarded now
@robdylan (Comment 168) : Awarded, and converted
Converted.
24-14
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 170) : 22-14, conv to come 🙂 Been at the beers?
And Joubert becomes the 1st referee to use the new system and awards a try to ther Stormers
@klempie (Comment 167) :
NOTHing ridiculous about it at all. He knows what he is looking for and doesn’t have to try and impart that info to the TMO through a limited series of questions that he is allowed to use.
Update from Proteasworld. The Dolphins are getting hammered.
@robdylan (Comment 174) : Sorry robbo, but this is the first time im trying this update thing sober….and its freaking COLD
I like Meyer
Erm,was that the stormers pack + aplon that just broke out their 22, asking, because i really missed most of it
@KSA Shark © (Comment 176) : I like the concept. But it’s faffy him having to run to the TV. What they need is wireless devices. Like this. http://www.apple.com/
@klempie (Comment 177) : 😳
Keegan going to go
sorry – it’s Wolla. Wheels coming off now
Deysel off for high-tackle on Aplon. Jannie back.
Deysel yellow for high tackle on Aplon
Deysel 🙁
Flo spoils promising attack from Stormers, Sharks ring changes again as Burden and Hargreaves come on
More Sharks changes… can’t keep up 🙂
Frikkie Welsh and Bolla look to be coming on for Stormers
Burden’s on at flank!
can’t get any feeling for the scrums tonight, cos they’re all going to penalties
@robdylan (Comment 191) : 3 hookers, you guys need some sort of intervention.Bladdy Tigers fault
The Stormers fillies in the crowd doing the City of Cape Town proud. 😎
hargo’s a pretty tall bugger
Smit held his Hammy after that tackle from Habana. i hope it’s just a tweak.
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 193) : still 10 short of Tiger’s record
Joe P gets greedy and goes for gold himself instead of passing to Apples screaming on his outside and knocks on in goal
Pietersen smokes Lwazi? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
😳
Thank goodness Joe P didn’t catch that
@robdylan (Comment 23) :
Have you used LiveTV4Ever alot? Do they cover most of the games? I am losing Setanta at the end of Feb and need to find an alternative way to get some rugby.
Sharks can’t live with the Stormers pace-wise, that’s for sure.
@Milissa (Comment 201) :
From the bit i have seen they will cover ALL the S14 games.
@Milissa (Comment 201) : first time. It’s a live feed of Supersport, so they’ll have everything
We are nowhere in this game now.
Looks like Vermuelen went over for try
Sweet! I have to go sign up right now. Yay! You have saved me from a horrible painful rugbyless demise this winter.
Sharks forwards are showing real steel here. Bodes well for the season
@Milissa (Comment 207) : I can’t believe it’s legal, so don’t get used to it 🙂
Crowd attendance is 22 656
Crowd attendance is 22 656.No try
WHY TF does the producer take forever to come up with the best angle that they have?
good work Sharks!
Monty back on
Try Woekie.
NAQELIVUKI PUTS ON THE POWER TO SCORE> OH MY SOUL….I really cant believe it.
and after all that, we let the bloody Fijian run straight through the whole team
Kalie Woekie must have lost his stash!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try after Kalie runs fast for a change
@KSA Shark © (Comment 212) : It’s actually the VT operators’ jobs to alert the director that they have the relevant footage. He’s got like 4 or 5 okes shouting in his ear.
29-14. Sigh
@robdylan (Comment 220) : Depressing I know. Curiously I will not even be frustrated when the Moffie Brigade are on in 5 minutes bragging.
at least we got some points this time 😈
@robdylan (Comment 209) : At least something is better than nothing..so I’ll take it as long as it is available. Right now I wish they’d hurry up and email me my credentials.
not as good as I’d hoped… not as bad as I feared
29-14 on the buzzer
@Milissa (Comment 223) :
Make sure you notify them to not auto renew your subscription. They ahve an auto-renewal policy unless otherwise informed
29-14 is the final score. Well done Stormers. Just that much better organised on the night.
Dolphins need 148 off 88 balls
@KSA Shark © (Comment 226) : Thanks will make sure I take care of that. Auto renewals are the bane of my existence. Just when i think I have my checking account balanced something sneaks up on me.
were the Sharks really that bad?
@robdylan (Comment 230) : Yes.
@Milissa (Comment 223) :
I’d be very reluctant to give my CC details to a setup that sells illegal content.
Stormers surely must be contenders this year though, not so?
Sharks supporters should be worried.
@robdylan (Comment 230) :
NOPE. I am not too concerned. Not our 1st choice side by some measure, Plumtree was trying combos and trialing players
@Loosehead (Comment 234) :
About?
@Loosehead (Comment 234) :
Maybe, only MAYBE, we might not make the semi’s but we will not be in NEARLY the same situation as the Cheetahs or the Lions who will be playing for S14 survival.
@fyndraai (Comment 232) : that’s the wonderful thing about PayPal 🙂
119 needed of 72
I’m worried now that I watched different game to everybody else.
Sharks scrums were solid-to-dominant. In fact, apart from the few that went to penalties, we got the better of the Stormers in every one. We didn’t lose any lineout ball on our throw. We competed well at the breakdowns – the new interpretation was a lottery for both sides.
What let us down was discipline (high tackles), decision-making and defensive alignment. The latter two will come right as the first-choice combination gels.
Impressive cameo from Meyer as well.
After 29 Overs the Warriors were 192/2 Dolphins are 191/4
@KSA Shark © (Comment 236) : Scrums were kak, lineout a lottery, Daniel a walking yellow, Alberts was nowhere and the backline was shite. Did you not watch the game?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 237) : Uhm, neither the Cheetahs nor the Lions have the much vaonted team taht the Sharks have….. think about it for a minute.
@Loosehead (Comment 242) :
Scrums were kak?
L/o’s a lottery? how many did we lose on our throw?
Alberts will not be the 1st choice. Kankow will be
backline WAS shite but then again very few of the 1st team players were there, No Jacobs, Swanepoel, Pienaar, Terblanche at the start. When the ones who were available came on the game changed.
You can be concerned (or happy I suspect) all you like. I am NOT concerned. A top 5 finish is on for us as opposed to the Cheetahs who will be lucky to get 5 points let alone end 5th.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 244) : Sensitive?
@Loosehead (Comment 243) :
No thought required, my biggest priority is to end above the other SA teams. ending above one of them is already certainty, hell even EP may end above them if they could get into the competition.
Ending above another of them will be harder work and ending above the Stormers and Bulls will be even harder work.
This work will be easier when the trial games stop and the 1st choice combos are fielded
@Loosehead (Comment 245) :
about? A faceless character saying my team is kak?
And if I didn’t respond to you then I’d be in hiding. Win Win situation for you? 😆 🙄
@KSA Shark © (Comment 247) :
😆 ing at you not with you, just to be clear.
200/6 🙁 100 needed of 49 balls. 🙁
202/7 😳 need 98 from 45 balls
goeiste!
Man i need to watch more cricket. Hall playing for the Dolphins 😯
205/8 🙁 95 required off 41 with 2 wickets in hand.
Seems the Warriors have the trophy in hand. 😥
Kak game.
I know it wasnt our first side, but the lack of structure and creativity or direction on attack was woeful.
The 13, 14 and 15 never got good attacking ball.
Its clear that without Ruan and Adi we dont have flair in the backs.
212/9 ALL OVER 🙁
Congrats Warriors.
228 All Out.
Well Done Warriors. (1st trophy for them since franchise cricket has started)
until the sharks accept that the turbo reverse smit is the cause of a lot of problems at tighthead….i am afraid the season is headed all downhill….be brave,honest and truthful….Smit at 3 is a problem….bury the heads in the sand…and take the consequences…
That was a shoddy performance by the stormers, and yet it was an easy win…..come on guys….!
@grant10 (Comment 257) : I’m not sure how you can actually draw the conclusion that Smit’s scrumwork had any bearing on the result? There were hardly any scrums in the game, for one thing
I agree Rob. Meyer looks a better bet than Monty but Ruan will prolly start at 10 ahead of him.