Game 13……. bad luck for which team.
The Blues are coming off a good win over the ever successful Crusaders. The Sharks are coming off a simlar win over the Cheetahs.
This promises to fight for game of the weekend along with the final game of the weekend. Sharks to win a VERY tight game.
Ref: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
ARs: Stuart Berry (South Africa), Reuben Rossouw (South Africa)
Venue: Kings Park Stadium – Durban
Kick-off: 17:05 RSA Time
Sharks: 15. Louis Ludik, 14. Odwa Ndungane, 13. Stefan Terblanche (Captain), 12. Meyer Bosman, 11. Lwazi Mvovo, 10. Patrick Lambie, 9. Charl McLeod, 8. Ryan Kankowski, 7. Willem Alberts, 6. Keegan Daniel, 5. Alistair Hargreaves, 4. Steven Sykes, 3. Jannie du Plessis, 2. Bismarck du Plessis, 1. Tendai Mtawarira
Replacements: 16. John Smit, 17. Eugene van Staden, 18. Anton Bresler, 19. Lambert Groenewald, 20. Conrad Hoffmann, 21. Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 22. JP Pietersen
Blues: 15. Isaia Toeava, 14. Joe Rokocoko, 13. Jared Payne, 12. Benson Stanley, 11. Rene Ranger, 10. Stephen Brett, 9. Alby Mathewson, 8. Chris Lowrey, 7. Daniel Braid, 6. Jerome Kaino, 5. Ali Williams, 4. Anthony Boric, 3. John Afoa, 2. Keven Mealamu (Captain), 1. Tony Woodcock
Replacements: 16. Tom McCartney, 17. Charlie Faumuina, 18. Kurtis Haiu, 19. Luke Braid, 20. Toby Morland, 21. Luke McAlister, 22. Sherwin Lee Stowers
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LMS
1 x Blues
2 x Sharks
At least one elimination on the cards.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 1) : And at least two from the next game. At the most there will be 19 in it at the end of the round.
News just in. Smith is out for the rest of the S15 and possibly will miss the WC.
Oh I’m half an hour late. 😳
@klempie (Comment 4) : 🙄
@klempie (Comment 4) : 🙄 it’s okay we are aware of your shortcomings. 😛
you DO make it easy to pick on you. 🙂
@klempie (Comment 4) : Oh and just in case you want to tell us in an hours time……..
The Sharks touring squad has been named and has been posted here already. 😉
@KSA Shark © (Comment 7) : Thanks for the headsup Oubaas. 😛
@klempie (Comment 8) : 😉
Good luck Sharks. Damn it is getting overcast just like it did last week. Though my feeling if it rains, we have a better chance this week. 😛
GO SHARKS.
No chance of rain here..
Its a belter of a day!!
And again I will mention this..
Stef is practicing kicks from 55m out..
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 12) :
And he hits the cross bar..
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 13) :
And he nails the next one..
And now going for 60m.. just short..
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 13) : useless! 😉
Good luck Sharks !
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 11) :
belter as in
Bliksems mooi or Bliksems warm
@KSA Shark © (Comment 18) :
Fokken warm.. if thats any indication..
It feels about 38 degrees..
@KSA Shark © (Comment 18) : quick score update… Swansea 3 – 0 LEEDS
@csb (Comment 17) : I have picked you guys on Superbru.
So good luck to you as well and I REALLY MEAN IT. 🙂
@Rahul (Comment 20) :
Who are Leeds? 🙄 😛
Jeez but these Sharkette’s are a beautiful bunch!!
is Twitter on the blink?
Crusaders to play the rest of the season in Nelson and not Christchurch.
Go Sharks!!
Blues to play from left to right. Sharks kicking off.
10min to Kick-off
19. Jacques Botes looks exactly like Lambert Groenewald 😉
@robdylan (Comment 24) :
Hasn’t worked in about 2 hurs..
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 29) :
Maybe they are scared tank Lanning will say something and get fired from another job. 😛
Lambie try!
LAMBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome start by the Sharks, full of running.
conversion over
Sharks 7 – 0 Blues
6min
Sharks have won the last 6 encounters?!?!?!?!?!?!? 😯
Penalty Lambie converts
10 – 0 Sharks
Lambie PK
Sharks 10 – 0 Blues
8min
Ranger, Johnson and Polota-Nau goes to the same hairdresser, might be the same one that wpw uses 😛
Sharrap Joel. Ludik was NOT tackled early there.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 38) :
Maybe that is why WPW has to go during games, coz the guy does the VIPs in between games. 😉
@KSA Shark © (Comment 40) : 😛
Brett PK
Sharks 10 – 6 Blues
17min
What was Alberts thinking 🙄
Stop calling him the Figian ..He is a All Black ..tool
@KSA Shark © (Comment 21) :
Cheers !
@csb (Comment 44) : Yeah that winds me up as well. the guy left Fiji when he was like 5 years old. 😕
@csb (Comment 44) : @KSA Shark © (Comment 45) : He’s still a Fijian 😛 😉
Lambie slots a PK
Sharks 13 – 6 Blues
24min
Shouldve made Lambie my Captain 😈
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 46) : Then he must give his Kiwi passport back.
I have Sharks by 12
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 48) :
he isn’t even in my squad. 🙁
@KSA Shark © (Comment 45) : but everyone still calls me a scotsman! Off to work… Keep the scores coming
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 46) :
Sure but try telling the kiwi viewers that ..
Like it would grate me if Beast was being referred to as Zimbabwean constantly .
@KSA Shark © (Comment 49) : Are you an Arab? 😉
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 54) :
No, but I don’t have an Arab Passport. 🙂
@Rahul (Comment 52) :
yeah but that is becasue you are tight with money, not because of where you come from. 🙂
@KSA Shark © (Comment 55) : @KSA Shark © (Comment 56) : 😆
30min
Sharks 13 – 9 Blues
I dont like the idea of the Blues scoring from penalties, Sharks should work on that.
Lambie PK (4/5)
Sharks 16 – 9 Blues
32min
What a pass by Brett 😀
🙂 Shame Stephen Brett finds out that the humidity is not a myth as he passes so fast that his hands slide off the ball.
I like how Brett tries to steal a metre with that penalty and then when he turns his back the ref pulls the ball back
Brett misses a slot at goal from 5m inside his own half.
HALF TIME
Sharks 16 – 9 Blues
Brett attempts a 55m penalty…… miss!
@lostfish (Comment 63) :
wow… we need to sharpen up on the first-time tackling and maybe also try keep things a little bit tighter.
Awesome first half, though… this is Super Rugby!
Great first half! Let’s cut out those small errors boys.
@robdylan (Comment 67) :
Tackles missed
Sharks 5
Blues 5
Tackles made
Sharks 34
Blues 38
Handling errors
Sharks 7
Blues 6
Turnovers conceded 😯
Sharks 1
Blues 5
Penalties conceded
Sharks 6
Blues 3
Come on Sharks! Finish them!
Bissie pass the ball please!
19 – 9 Sharks
43mins
John Smit on for Biz, blood replacement
Welcome back captain Smitty!
Lambie slots a PK
Sharks 19 – 9 Blues
43min
Super kick by Super Pat
@KSA Shark © (Comment 75) : OOPS I paused the game to post the stats and never caught up. 😆
Alberts over. TMO
Alberts try! Tmo pending.
No try. 🙁 lost forward.
Aaaarrgghhh, unlucky.
McAlister on for Brett
Bismarck back on after being cleaned up
Biz on and Smit off
50min
Sharks 19 – 9 Blues
That forward pass had NOTHING to do with the conditions!!!!!!
The guy was facing forward, he passed forward, neither of which is influenced by the humidity
Pretty sure that throw in was skew.
JPP on for Mvovo
JPP on, Mvovo off
Alberts should not have dummied there. 🙁
Another brain fart by Alberts
60min
Sharks 19 – 9 Blues
A few minutes of great attack by the Sharks. JPP involved a few times and looking good.
Odwa you beauty! Great tackle on Ranger!
McLeod is sloppy today.
Think guys think 👿
Wake up call for the sharks! This game is not over yet.
CAPTAIN Stefan Terblanche cleans up a very dangerous loose ball as the Blues are all on attack. 😳
offside Adv to the Blues inside our 22.
2nd adv 😕
PK Blues going at goal on the 15 1m outside our 22
McAlister slots it
Sharks 19 – 12 Blues
66min
Smit, Bresler & V Staden on
10mins remaining.
70min
Sharks 19 – 12 Blues
Our defence really needs some work.
@Ben (Comment 104) :
how many tries have the Blues scored?
How many tries have been scored against us this season?
ZERO on both counts. our defence is fine.
JPP TRY!!!
Yes please!!! Thank you JLP!
JPP!!!!! TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JPP!!!! You bloody beauty
You have no idea (Actually I suppose you ALL do) how relieved I feel at the moment 🙂
@KSA Shark © (Comment 105) : Okay oom
Converted
Sharks 26 – 12 Blues
75min
Current Margin – 14
My Margin – 12
@Ben (Comment 111) :
Well, Sharks scrum is giving them horns right now
@KSA Shark © (Comment 110) : Me too 😛
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 113) :
My margin 11
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 116) : And the whole of KZN, half of the Vaal and all us poor bastards 1000s of kms away!!
Huge kick by JLP
@KSA Shark © (Comment 114) : Seems to be a few holes, nothing serious but they should patch it up. 😉
@Pablo Dinero (Comment 118) :
@Ben (Comment 120) : 😛
We CAN do better but is IS fine at the moment.
Seems I’m the only 1 praising JLP for that try? Great take and offload from him to put JPP in! 🙂
TIME UP
Scrum engage
I get a 20 point 15 Starting XV bonus 😎
FULL TIME
Sharks 26 – 12 Blues
😎 😎 😎 😎 😎 😎 😎
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 125) : NICE!!!!
Well done Sharks! 😀
Nike is eliminated from LMS.
Finally and now for the real Rugby 😛
Congrats Sharks good win against a formidable Blues side.
THAT was a very important result. JLP proved worth his weight in gold!
Great win Sharkies! Proud of you guys! Blues aren’t easy to beat! Heck they won the crusaders last week. Great game
@csb (Comment 130) :
Hehehehehehehehe
@KSA Shark © (Comment 127) : If I’m extremely lucky, I might get the mvp bonus aswell 😛 Hold thumbs for me.
I just can’t believe we have 7 straight wins against the Blues in 7 years.
😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯
I have always considered these guys a MAJOR threat.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 134) :
Please don’t be upset if i don’t 😉
Lambie is my FL captain!!!
@KSA Shark © (Comment 135) : Home and away! We are their bogey team 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 136) :
I’m not so happy about the 26 but the 12 against us. Turning to the dark side are we Stef? Hahaha 🙂
Pat Lambie Official Man of the match 😎
@Ben (Comment 140) :
Basically Alberts cost us 2 tries. I’m not complaining but I think he will be a bit disappointed with himself.
@Ben (Comment 143) : agree. Some uncharacteristic errors from Vic, but he’ll bounce back on tour.
I’m worried about Lwazi and Eugene, though.
@robdylan (Comment 144) : Yeah no doubt whatsoever he will bounce back. Actually other than those 2 try scoring chances, he had a pretty decent game. Hope those 2 will be fit and ready next week