Time for both of these teams to take their shot at redemption. Both lost at home in the opening week and both will be desperate to avoid a repeat this time out.
Decent conditions are expected at Kings Park, with the game kicking off at 17h05 PM.
Sharks: 15 Odwa Ndungane, 14 SP Marais, 13 Louis Ludik, 12 Heimar Williams, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Butch James, 9 Charl McLeod, 8 Jacques Botes (captain), 7 Jean Deysel, 6 Brynard Stander, 5 Marco Wentzel, 4 Edwin Hewitt, 3 Wiehahn Herbst, 2 Kyle Cooper, 1 Dale Chadwick.
Replacements: 16 Craig Burden, 17 Rayno Gerber, 18 Peet Marais, 19 Tera Mtembu, 20 Cobus Reinach, 21 Fred Zeilinga, 22 Jaco van Tonder.
Lions: 15 Marnitz Boshoff, 14 Deon Helberg, 13 Robert De Bruin, 12 Dylan Des Fountain, 11 Anthony Volmink, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Guy Cronje, 8 Willie Britz, 7 Derick Minnie (captain), 6 Jaco Kriel, 5 Hugo Kloppers, 4 Chris van Zyl, 3 Ruan Dreyer, 2 Martin Bezuidenhout, 1 Jacques Van Rooyen.
Replacements: 16 Robbie Coetzee, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Lambert Groenewald, 19 Warwick Tecklenburg, 20 Tian Meyer, 21 Lionel Cronje, 22 Chrysander Botha.
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5pm kick off friday…. and i am at work till 6….. gona miss the 1st half !!! 😥
It’s on Sky Sports 3 for the UK based. Thankfully not red button so available online and can be recorded.
now thats a kak kickoff time for a Friday,sure not at 7pm rob??
@bobby 26 (Comment 3) : it was originally meant to be 7pm, then they moved it because of the Bok game.
Now the Bulls get the 7pm slot and we get the hind tit.
I’ll be amazed if there are more than a few thousand spectators
@robdylan (Comment 4) : at my age any tit is better than none.
@Jasongibb (Comment 1) : I also work until 6 except I’m in the UK. Might have to stream the game though
Go Lions!!!!!!
Gona be a good game 🙂
@Mutley (Comment 8) : Lost?
@DBOY (Comment 10) : lost or stupid, haven’t figured out which yet 🙂
:p :p
Hope you Sharkies are recording the game so you can show Butchie on Monday witch side Jantjies passed him….
Crunch time. We absolutely have to crunch these guys, otherwise we may as well kiss the tournament goodbye.
Kick off by James
GO SAAAKS!!!
Uninspiring start.
Jantjies taking a shot at goal and over
Lions 3
Sharks 0
6min
This is like watching Vodacom Cup… 😐
ai
James levels the scores
Sharks 3
Lions 2
9min
James levels the scores
Sharks 3
Lions 3
9min
What a try Volmink
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT????
BUNCH OF USELESS SOFT COCKS!!!
@Mutley (Comment 23) : Oh please dude. That was the most inept piece of defence I have EVER seen!
Fucking high school man…
Jantjies converts
Lions 10
Sharks 3
11min
ai ai ai
Fortunately the stadium is empty and nobody saw that pathetic try. 🙁
@KSA Shark © (Comment 28) : Have we gone from the Plumtree frying pan into a fire?
Butch adds another 3
Sharks 6
Lions 10
13min
@klempie (Comment 29) : 😆
@KSA Shark © (Comment 31) : Bloody frustrating dawg.
Volmink gets his 2nd
Right I’m switching off….Venter and co….you are a major disappointment.
At least not as pathetic as the 1st but close. 🙁
Jantjies adds the 2
Lions 17
Sharks 6
19min
@KSA Shark © (Comment 35) : Both brilliant tries by Volmink…. Only thing pathetic is the Sharks defence at the moment
Stander scores for the Sharks
Butch converts
Sharks 13
Lions 17
22min
Maybe the Sharks should let every team score early tries against them?
It seems they need that to wake up
So apparently Marco Wentzel can’t tackle today..
Looks like we have a fowards coach … major difference between last week and this week
Sharks are dominant in the scrums
Heimar Williams scores
James converts
Sharks 20
Lions 17
31min
Sharks are dominating possesion and territory.
Lions are looking planless on the attack
Deysel is ON FIRE!
Odwa off for 10min
Wow. That’s a yellow card? Jantjies slips and Odwa hits him on the collar bone. Ridiculous.
@Mutley (Comment 47) : and that surprises you, why?
Hmmm, on the replay the yellow card looks justified
McLeod has been god awful. So many mistakes and this is one again. Not fatal though.
Halftime
Sharks 20
Lions 17
thanks for yhe updates guys. i’m stuck at work till 9 and not one single radio station is covering the game
Sharks with 64% of the possesion and 65% of the territory
Power failure in durban north so keep the scores coming
2nd half started by Jantjies
Franna du Toit and CJ vd Linde on 4 the Lions
Come on Sharks… we need that bonus point
Odwa back on
Try Jaco Kriel
Conversion missed
Lions 22
Sharks 20
49min
Butch retakes the lead for the Sharks
Sharks 23
Lions 22
51min
Such soft tries, its like we are determined to keep the Lions in this game…
Defence is pathetic…
Penalty Jantjies
Lions 25
Sharks 23
66min
Come now Sharks….
Zeilenga gives the Sharks the lead again
Sharks 26
Lions 25
72min
SP Marias scores an intercept and the winning try for the Sharks
Zeilenga converts
Sharks 33
Lions 25
75min
YES SP!!
Whoo Hooo…. go boys
Impressed with Heimar and SP! Not impressed with the general Sharks defence. So many holes, so many holes… 😯
Final score?
Sharks win 33-25
Suck it naysayers!! 😀
Go Sharks!!!!
Thank goodness. My weekend is still safe.
well played Lions, but not quite enough. Good work Sharks.
We have some special players – SP Marais among them.
Truly, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
How’s the commentator ” an injustice has been done”
[email protected]&$ oooooofffffff the guy was offside, what did you want the TMO to do? Give them a try so they could get 2 free BPs?
@SeanyJMc (Comment 74) : Williams and Ludik being two of those holes. 🙁
@KSA Shark © (Comment 81) : jeez, but that Gareth Wright is a disgrace!
@KSA Shark © (Comment 81) : Glad I’m not the only one who was thinking that!
@robdylan (Comment 83) : @gregkaos (Comment 84) : @KSA Shark © (Comment 81) : The snoiL cheerleader 🙄
Deysel was brilliant but mid game we were hardly setting up any phases for him to break over the gain line. Way too much pointless kicking when we had plenty of space to run it up.
Whats the story with the commentator?
@Stu (Comment 87) :
The Lions went over to (they thought) score a BP try and get within 7 for another BP.
Stuart Berry, Assistant referee, then told the ref to have a look for offside as he suspected there had been.
TMO checked and found that, a Lions player hacked the ball forward into a Shark and that it was then played by a Lions player who was in front of the kicker. the TMO confirmed what Berry had suspected and disallowed the BP try for the Lions, with 20sec left on the clock.
Both Shimange and Wright then went on about an injustice being done and the Lions being robbed of 2 BPs.
Idiots both of them.
congrats Sharkies 😉
@Zibbie (Comment 89) : Your team can now pick up the pace and start performing! You guy’s need it now!
@R Hayward (Comment 90) :
Not getting any easier from here on in … need to win next week !!!