Our beloved Sharks take on the Lions at Coca-Cola Park today and we are all calling for a resounding victory, keeping the playoff dream alive in the hope to play an extra game after the league phase of the competition.
The Sharks have been forced into a few changes with suspensions and injuries amongst the loose forwards, with a seriously light weight loose trio, which if the plan is to run at the Lions, is perfect. Should they try bash it up though, the Sharks will come off second best.
The Lions have dropped Elton Jantjies for some stupid reason and will play Butch James in his preferred flyhalf position. This gives their backline some serious grunt and the Sharks will have their hands full.
The game kicks off at 16h00 for which I predict a good Sharks showing with a bonus point win by 15 points.
Lions:Jaco Taute, Dylan Des Fountain, Doppies la Grange (capt.), Alwyn Hollenbach, Deon van Rensburg, Butch James, Jano Vermaak, Josh Strauss, Derick Minnie, Cobus Grobbelaar/Jaco Kriel, Franco van der Merwe/David de Villiers, Wikus van Heerden, Patric Cilliers, Bandise Maku, JC Janse van Rensburg.
Replacements: Edgar Marutlulle, Jacobie Adriaanse, David de Villiers/David Bulbring, Warren Whiteley, Michael Bondesio, Elton Jantjies, Michael Killian.
Sharks :1. Beast Mtawarira , 2. John Smit (Captain) , 3. Eugene van Staden , 4. Steven Sykes , 5. Gerhard Mostert , 6. Jacques Botes , 7. Keegan Daniel , 8. Ryan Kankowski , 9. Charl McLeod , 10. Patrick Lambie , 11. Lwazi Mvovo , 12. Meyer Bosman , 13. Stefan Terblanche , 14. JP Pietersen , 15. Louis Ludik
Replacements , 16. Bismarck du Plessis , 17. Wiehahn Herbst , 18. Alistair Hargreaves , 19. Marcell Coetzee , 20. Frederic Michalak , 21. Jacques-Louis Potgieter , 22. Adrian Jacobs
Match Officials
Referee: Marius Jonker
Assistant referees: Jason Jafta, Johan Greeff
Television match official: Gerrie Coetzee
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Lets GO SHARKS!!!!!!!!!
Boksburg brekers to lose by PLENTY, Butch must just play along. 😉
Go Sharks! Black and White! Nothing else matters! Sharks Forever! 😛 And this is my 10 000th comment.
Come OOOOOOOOOOOn the Sharks!!!!
oh wait, too early.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 3) : yea why u come and do it here, I’m waiting for it on the other side.. 🙂 congrats mate…
@franshark (Comment 5) : To show my love for the Sharks 😛
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 6) : I wanted to be first to say congrats… Still was 🙂
@franshark (Comment 7) : KSA congratulated me on the other thread, but you are the 1st on this one 😆
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 8) : ja but his doesn’t count for the first, because it was before hand…
@franshark (Comment 9) : Ok you were 1st. Thanks buddy 😉
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 10) : Gee I can be persistent 😆
Sharks by 15-20.
GO SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 14) : Indeed!
@Pablo Dinero (Comment 15) :
Whip them jhb boys! 😈
JP Pietersen to score a hat trick!!!!!
Sharksssssssss!!!
@Pablo Dinero (Comment 18) : That would be just to funny for some to deal with 🙂
I would love for Beast to score a hatrick 😛
I’ll be mostly watching and not talking in this game. Keep the comments coming guys.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 22) : Me too, unless the sharks start cocking up, in which case this shall be my forum to swear.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 21) : beast, jhon, keegan, Kongo, ludick, botes, and about half the rest…
Lambie takes the 1st kick-off.
First lineout won
PK lambi
SHARKS 3 – 0 “ions
3 min
Solid start
Mvovo into action from both kick offs…
Penalty Sharks. 50m out. Lambie just misses it.
Lions 0 – 3 Sharks
6mins
PK lambi 51 meters missed
SHARKS 3 – 0 Lions
6 min
First scrum…
Sharks intensity looking good….
Mcloed knock on…
14mins gone.
Lions attacking wildly and getting atvantange for them…
Has Lambie been Butched yet? 😉
Sharks not looking to great right now. Need to snap out and get some pressure on Lions. Virtually no ball so far!!
Botes won the lions line out and looses the ball 🙁
Sharks won another lions line out
And now lost ours 🙁
81% possession for Lions. Ridiculous
PK James
SHARKS 3 – 3 Lions
19 min
and thats 3 – 3. Lucky only 3
@Pablo Dinero (Comment 42) : it is
@Pablo Dinero (Comment 42) : Things will change as the game goes on.
butch MONSTER oupa! hahahaha
The sharks loose trio is mismatched. Being bullied big time at the breakdowns
PK James
SHARKS 3 – 6 Lions
21 min
@Megatron (Comment 47) : 👿
We just not getting any ball
Oh dear. @KSA Shark © (Comment 46) : I hope your right. Sharks havent played any rugby yet
Mcloed slower than my granma 🙁
Geez, sharks are playing shite. I cant believe they are actually 6th on the log. This is diabolical.
PK going for the line out.. “Ions
Try cobus
Hie’ kom kak. 😐
Converstion over
SHARKS 3 – 13 Lions
28min
10 point hole…
@McLovin (Comment 57) : en dit stink 🙁
At last the sharks have the ball
Well, the question as to whether the sharks are going to change their style has been answered. Still trying to bash it up but without the big ball carriers.
PK Lambi
SHARKS 6 – 13 Lions
31 min
Juuuuuuuuuust relaaaaaaaaaax there are 2 halves to a a game and we only ever play one good half.
@franshark (Comment 61) : and gained…… 0 meters
@KSA Shark © (Comment 64) : What if this is our good half ? 😯
Lambi.. Good cover to stop vermaak
@lostfish (Comment 66) : Then we are in kak, but lets wait for 60min before we decide which is our good half. 🙂
Beaaaaast knocks
Beeeaaa oops dropped it 😆
Oh boy. No possession and when Sharks have it they give it away.
Mvovo has to work on his pacce…he tried going around Vermaak with loads of space to work with and Vermaak cut him down with eaze….
@KSA Shark © (Comment 68) : Sorry, I was just stirring a little there. 😈
This isn’t looking good
35 min
@Hmmm (Comment 72) : He has the pace, he just needs to side step a bit better or do the gazelle hop like Cooper.
@lostfish (Comment 73) : All you did was voice my thoughts 🙂
PK Lambi
SHARKS 9 – 13 Lions
36 min
At least lambie is keeping our score going…
@Hmmm (Comment 72) :
Why are YOU worried about OUR players.
concern yourself with yourself. 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 77) : We seem to be improving slightly
Vermaak try
Fuck!
The Sharks pack seems a bit light withbout a Deysel or Alberts…or Bissie for that matter…
Why are they not playing…I hope it is cause they being rested and they not injured…
This must be the bad half. 😈
OK, where the hell are the sharks going and why are they in that handbasket
Tmo called on try awarded
So what’s the score?
Ok just scratch my previous comment.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 68) : Think this isn’t it?
John Smit could have run through that gap!
Time for a coffee. 😎
Convertion over
SHARKS 9 – 20 Lions
39 min
@lostfish (Comment 81) : Less than 30seconds after that jinx the scored 😉
Woolies Ginger Beer….hmmm… not bad. 😎
Great try…what a pass by Pat and Vermaak was ALWAYS going to beat Mvovo on the outside….
great effort by mvovo to stop the try – bladen!
Cool so that was our bad half out of the way.
HALF TIME
That was absolutely awful. I dont think the sharks have even got the ball past 1st center. Possession in Lions 22… 5 seconds.
What a mess,bring on marcell, botes ain’t doing shit and bring on adi!
Oops.
This is bad 👿
so 4 second half tries by the sharks..
The Sharks are shit! Pass it on!
How many games in a row now where we play kak in the first half?
another Saturday, another shit Sharks performance
@Stu (Comment 106) : I have a feeling we’re gonna be shit in the second half too this week
@McLovin (Comment 85) :
@Greg (Comment 90) :
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🙂
😕
😳
🙁
😥
Atleast glenwood won!! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
@robdylan (Comment 107) :Willem Alberts is the reason why the sharks look flat….they miss him alot…kankowski looks as if he does not want to be there…
@Poisy (Comment 110) : How did stefan ungerer play
And we have to be content and support that shit? I dont think so. How the hell can so many ‘Springboks’ keep on dishing up shit week after week.
I’m loving the positivity.
@robdylan (Comment 108) : Me too
RuckingFun….I think it was good effort….he just did have the pace…
Mvovo is as bad a defender as he is a great runner…so he cancels himself out…lol
@robdylan (Comment 108) : I hope not..
gumede lions putting up a fight 😉
@Muzi (Comment 111) : were so bad alberts not making a difference
@franshark (Comment 119) : I think you guys will come back in the second half….plumtree will give them then a tongue lashing….
@Poisy (Comment 110) : Oh man if we lose this game, then Sharksmad will be slitting her wrists.
sharks gonna turn it on now!
Is Plumtree fucking blind or what?
Ai 🙄
@Hmmm (Comment 116) : LOL Basson is the same great on attack rather pathetic on defence…also van den heever he hates tackling…and he has a bad habit of running out of steam….
Even as a Lion….I want the Sharks to win…but if you lay like this you dont deserve to go to the playoffs…
Lions are pumped!! When was the last time the Sharks were pumped.
Lets at least wait until we actually lose the game before we start bitching FFS.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 121) : SHARKS gonna win man don’t worry about it,just believe in them 😛
@Hmmm (Comment 126) : Fo real.
@Hmmm (Comment 126) : Just like the bulls who have been kak the whole season now they want to win the super 15 comp without actually palying well wishfull thinking…
@Muzi(comment 125)…at least Basson and van den Heever have pace to close down space…unlike Mvovo…
I have never seen a player palmed off like Mvovo was last week…and it happened to him 3 times…
we believe.4 tries in second half.WE BELIEVE
PK James
SHARKS 9 – 23 Lions
43 min
This game is one more lions score from being done and dusted.
Sharks getting slaughterd
@Hmmm (Comment 132) : hehehehe are you a lions supporter?
@franshark (Comment 136) : What the f… is wrong with the sharks don’t they want to be in the play offs..?
Looking lost boys.
Penalty lions, line out
No comment. Sharks couldnt play this worse. Oh well, looks like next week is the big one and to be honest, I just cant see a sharks win regardless of the result next up.
The Sharks need Bissie on…the Lions a hysically destroying the Sharks…
Sigh this looks so bad
Hahhahaaaa. Loving this blog.
Lions try
🙄 🙄
shit
@Speed7 (Comment 139) : Maybe the sharks are saving themselves for next weeks game at loftus knowing for a fact the bulls will lose to the stormers 😉
SHARKS 9 – 30 Lions
48 min
@Hmmm (Comment 142) : Sharks are missing bissie..deysel…alberts….
What a disgrace to the brand
3 tries in 30min for us to draw if they dont score again…
@franshark (Comment 149) : Wow hehehehe OMG if i was a sharks supporter i would be 👿 👿 👿
@Muzi (Comment 148) : 🙂
You’re gonna win 31-30.
Hope management has learnt from this season. We need more coaches, Plum can’t do eveything and it is time he realizes it. Cheers guys.
@Muzi (Comment 148) : if we lose this game I won’t care about next week lol
words cannot describe!!!!! WTF was Kanko doing
@Muzi (Comment 153) : 👿
Our Coaches need to be fired… seriously niaeve and under prepare our players….for a number of weeks now the opposition have us worked out..we go on with out a plan to stop THEM. GRRRRRRR
Looks like the 1st half was the sharks good half
@Muzi (comment 137)
Yip the biggest Lions supporter out there…
However…if you a Shark the joke is on you…. 🙂
Plum getting desperate ringing the changes
Come on guys let’s be positive GO SHARKS!!!
@Pablo Dinero (Comment 158) : Kankowski probably knows he will not go to the world cup so he has lost confidence he does not want to be there at all
Don’t give up so soon. This is a great Sharks team.
@Hmmm (Comment 162) : Ek’s a blou bull hehehe but my team will get slaughtered tonight….
Lambi scores
Try sharks YES
Need a few more of those!! Still a full 2 behind though
@Muzi (Comment 167) : Hope so. 😈 😉
SHARKS 16 – 30 Lions
54 min
@Speed7 (Comment 155) : PLEASE no my SB margin is more than that. 😛
Come sharks
Come on SHARKS!!!! You tonsils!!
still need 3 tries.come on sharks
Ribbit ribbit, who’s at flyhalf? 😈
Guys i’m out it’s nearly time for the big game…i have my tissues already next to my hunters dry bottle
sharks supporters rlax the bulls supporters have it worse..the whole od pretoria will be on stand still the bulls have to win…cheers
24 minutes to go
That was a shocking backline move. Sharks backline just has no clue what to do when they get the ball. So much bashing the ball up that now the backs are shellshocked
@Pablo Dinero (Comment 175) : Hehehehehehe there is a name I haven’t heard in a while.
Butch James yellow carded for high tackle on Keegs.
Yellow for james
Butch tries to decapitate Daniels. 😈 😉
Nouuuuu sharks
WTF was that Freddie? 🙄
Mich what are u doing
Ahhhhhhhhh
Butch first tried to take out Oupa…
18 minutes to go “ions scrum
Get the bloody ball!!
Lions driving the phases atm to eat up time.
The time clock is killing me
It ends with a fumble on the ground. Sharks scrum inside our own half.
Now we have to do something, anything
Now its hoping on Lions mistakes…guys if we lose this, we don’t deserve it..
Nice run Kanko!
Konko put us in great possition
SHARKS CLOSE!!
JP!!!!
JPP try
Lions in trouble now.
Fuck YES!!!! Whooooooooooooo
Forwards drove up the right hand side to about 8m out. Then it went through the hands to the left for JP to finish off.
Doesn’t matter if the Sharks win or lose. This is a disgrace!
SHARKS 23 – 30 Lions
68 min
CONVERTEDDD!!!!
Lions 30 – 23 Sharks
69 mins.
Butch back on.
Butch is back. 😎
COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
70 mins.
10min to go.
Come oooooon
Vermaak knocks on at the back of a ruck right in front of the Lions posts!!
Lions under pressure and buckling it seems.
Nouuuuuu
Sharks forwards close again!
MVOVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Mvovo try!
Wooooooow try
Pressure conversion coming up.
Please get the kick. please get the kick and then get back up there
Lambo with a little grubber behind the Lions defense and Mvovo falls over the line on it!!!
Convertion
30 all
3min to go.
I just got back now and OMG OMG
Go Sharks!!
CONVERTEDDDDDD!!!!
Lions 30 – 30 Sharks
77 mins!!!
Comne on!!!! 3 points. Just 3
YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!! Go boys!!!!!!!
LAMBIE!!!! You beauty!
Keeeeeeer
DONT give it up now!!!
WTF Stefan!!!
One minute
79 mins.
Its going to be a draw. Sad but true
Onderskep
Last play will be off a Lions scrum on their 10m.
Looks like the knock-outs start at Loftus next week for the Sharks & Bulls.
Neeeeee
Lawrence you dick!!!!!!
DAMN IT!!
FT Lions 30 – 30 Sharks
FUCK!!
wow!
Pathetic. These guys don’t deserve to be in the top 10 of the Super 15.
One more f%&king scrum!! Just one f$%king more!!!!
FULL TIME
30 all
@Pablo Dinero (Comment 241) : here here!
Next week at Loftus is going to be huuuuuge.
Already looking forward to that.
Strange how motivated our players were when our two awesome captains went off the field.
Fuck this
@Ben (Comment 250) : O_O u have a valid point there!
Xola Ntshinga. “That’s 3 wins on the trot for the Sharks, so John Smit will be happy with that.” 😕
Willem or Deysel back next week is an absolute must. Terblanche out for Adi and Macleod to get a smack on the side of his head and told to clear the ball and sharks could do it. If Terblanche or Smit start Im mailing Plumtree anthrax.
As shit as the result is, let’s be fair and congratulate the boys on coming back from that absolutely KAK first half.
@Pablo Dinero (Comment 254) : agree 100% with you there, both deysel and alberts should be back, and adi and bis must start
So now I ask the question, do we really still need John Smit and Stefan Terblanche in the team?
@Ben (Comment 257) : i think we just saw the answeer to that
@RuckingFun (Comment 258) : they can bring there experience on at the end to close out matches if the need be
@RuckingFun (Comment 256) : Looseforward trio should be Deysel, Alberts and Keegan. We need JdP back!! Van Straten is a supersub, but not a starter.
who was MOTM?
Well done Sharks and a very good come back. Thought we were gonna see our butts good and solid after the disasterous first half. We woke up late again. Pity. Will take the 2 points though, cause thought we would have not picked up a point at all.
So well done Sharks. All to play for next week.
@robdylan (Comment 261) : Pat Lambie
@robdylan (Comment 261) : SuperPat
@Ben (Comment 263) : Brilliant. He deserved it.
@ Ben we will be nailed by all the “unbiased” excusionists but I don’t believe in coincidences and it was amazing how the whole game changed when those two left the field!
Pablo u get the Anthrax I’ll deliver and make sure he gets it! 👿
@Sharksmad – The Blog’s Dudette (Comment 266) : Deal. Im so sick of watching passengers in the sharks team. Also sick of watching the sharks play a scant 15 minutes of decent rugby each week.
@ klemp 243: don’t talkn about things u have no clue about! 😉
Pablo we are at the same place! I’m truly fed up!
@Sharksmad – The Blog’s Dudette (Comment 269) : As of now I’m past that place.
@Sharksmad – The Blog’s Dudette (Comment 269) : did someone lose a bet 2day ahem 😉
@Ben (Comment 270) : same
Who reffed the game? I see Jonker was punished afterall?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 273) : Mark Lawrence.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 273) : Marius Jonker is AR at the Stormers vs Bulls game.
Well just maybe we will win the Bulls on Saterday then they are out 😕
So lets get a all great game with lots of trys conversions and PK
@chaz (Comment 276) : looking for you everywhere to say congrats with team captain rating
@franshark (Comment 277) :
thanks