It’s a must-win game for Jake White’s Sharks, who have been rocked by injuries this week.
Let’s hope Durban comes out in numbers again to support the team.
Kick off is at 17h05.
Cell C Sharks: 15 Lwazi Mvovo, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Sibusiso Sithole, 12 Frans Steyn, 11 JP Pietersen, 10 Fred Zeilinga, 9 Charl McLeod, 8 Ryan Kankowski, 7 Jean Deysel, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Stephan Lewies, 4 Willem Alberts, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis (captain), 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Kyle Cooper, 17 Dale Chadwick, 18 Lourens Adriaanse, 19 Etienne Oosthuizen, 20 Keegan Daniel, 21 Stefan Ungerer, 22 Heimar Williams, 23 SP Marais.
Waratahs: 15 Jonno Lance, 14 Rob Horne, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Kurtley Beale, 11 Peter Betham, 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Nick Phipps, 8 Wycliff Palu, 7 Michael Hooper, 6 Dave Dennis (captain), 5 Kane Douglas, 4 Jacques Potgieter, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Tatafu Polota Nau, 1 Benn Robinson.
Replacements: TBC
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Be the ‘Maneaters’ we know you can be!! Go Sharks!!
@Son Of Mayhem (Comment 1) : No, we need to go vegan today. 😉
Game time. Go Sharks!!
How did we keep them out there? 😯
Great defense by Alberts on Ashley-Cooper.
i’m in Stellenbosch, anyone know what conditions are like in Dbn weatherwise ?
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Who is doing updates here. I dont want to rely on SS?
Shocker of a stiff arm on Frans Steyn
Travesty!! 😯
good scrum! But then again… We got a springbok pack
How are we looking so far?
@Feather (Comment 12) : A lot more like Sharks 2010.
Players obviously still rusty after so much Plumtree, so not going 100% according to plan. Too many players still not passing or not expecting the pass.
Jeez but Frans got his own back with that ‘spread’ of Beale.
Looking too over eager..need cool heads and keep ball in hand and KEEP CALM.
I like Zeilinga. Look a quality player.
Fred is doing well so far. Yet to be convinced by Mvovo’s shift to 15. Hope I’m made to eat my words though.
9 – 3
30min
Crunching tackle by Deysel on Palu. He’ll have loose teeth for weeks to come.
Just love to see Deysel tackling the sh1t out of opp.
Beale got an attitude issue
Neither team is gaining much on attack at the moment. Defense is frentic.
12 – 3
The Steyn Gun.
54m kicking into the breeze
Gona be sore bodies tommorow
I am thoroughly enjoying this game! It’s a freakin warzone out there!
I see more off the ball flaming up 2nd half- this ref is NOT in charge of this game
@DBOY (Comment 21) : Half his attitude is still out on the field….looking for the other half of his brain which was smeared over the field by Steyn.
How many missed kicks from both sides?
so we just need to gel better in our attack, but otherwise, things are going well. Bismark is pissed though 🙂 and the tension is there!
Damn, i started a drinking game where I down a shot for every knock on and now I erfgk vbfg hevdtyulzzzzz
@vanmartin (Comment 25) : Oh yeah….Sharks found what they somehow lost last weekend.
Gonna be an epic second half.
@Son Of Mayhem (Comment 28) : zip from the Sharks….I think 2 from the tahs
@The Great Couch Shark (Comment 30) : 🙂
@FireTheLooser (Comment 31) : Hope so! Might come down to bench tactics if scores stay close
Do we look like scoring tries?
Fred not looking out of place in Super Rugby. There, I said it. Happy now grasshoppers?
@FireTheLooser (Comment 27) : Did you see Beale hesitate in that last movement? Someone put the fear of Frans Steyn into that poor man 🙂
@Feather (Comment 35) : Too impatient on attack. Both teams applying huge defensive pressure on each other.
Marcell chuckling like a school kid outside the headmasters office after stealing that ball.
Butterfingers are ruining this game.
@Gerhardt (Comment 26) : as i said—-this ref has lost it, yellow the ref
And the idiots at SS broke their site 🙄
It’s a game of big hits and forced errors. Very entertaining.
Dennis yellowed!!
17 – 3
50min
Penalty try???
Waratahs losing their cool. And the sharks score off a nice driving maul.
bismark just showed why you should never screw with him…
19 – 3
poor potgieter only trying to maintain the peace, lol
Loved the tackle from Alberts on Pottie
Awesome tackle Odders
Huge tackle from Odders!!
this game makes the bulls chiefs match look like a netbal match
We are looking dangerous now.
@Gerhardt (Comment 53) : wait? what? wasnt it a netball game? shocked.
Think we missed a certain try there 🙁
Sharks have knocked on so much this game.
@The Great Couch Shark (Comment 57) : To be fair so have the Waratahs 🙂
Still humid in Durbz?
Ok this game has devolved into an error fest.
Come on boys…20 mins to go!
Fred with a good first half…
Marcel is just having a great season…
Locks are looking good tonight…
Pity about the handling!
Come on!!!
@DBOY (Comment 55) : bal/ball speed vs spelling? is that your shock?
Definitely a wet ball with the humidity!!
@The Great Couch Shark (Comment 60) : Yip.
Tahs are emptying there bench. Wonder how Jake will play it. Cooper could be helpful at this point in time.
So who scored the try? Bizzie or Alberts?
Yeah the humidity must still be a factor.
22 – 3
🙂
Yeah…Freddie…3 more points makes it 22-3 with 15 mins to go!
All in all I’ve been so impressed with our defence against this dangerous backline…
I’m sorry but that ain’t even a penalty. Poor call (in reference to Steyn’s supposed high tackle)
@Son Of Mayhem (Comment 65) : Difficult to see who scored the try…the live scoring sites have it as Kanko…
News24 has the try scorer as Alberts.
Keep knocking away at that line men…almost game over… 🙂
SS had it as Bizzie but now says Alberts
Keegan!!! Try time…plus the conversion…Fred on 100%…good stuff…29-3…
sharks demons lol
Oh no…Keegan injured. Bismarck also off…
Yip…two sites now have it as first try to Alberts and two have it as Kanko…
Tahs discipline really letting them down.
Sharks site has it as Kanko
Good, good win over a good side and one we’ve lost 6 of the last 8 to! I guess I can say that now without worrying about jinxing us for the last 5 mins… 🙂
It was Kanko
who on earth would mom be?
Just great defence!!!
Oh no…try time…so much for not jinxing…try to Tahs…29-10…
Fred ends with another penalty right at the end…32-10 final score…
32 – 10 FT.
Great game from the Sharks. Good to see all Jakes big calls come through.
MOTM must be young Fred.
Well done boys. Now go enjoy the weekend off!
@Gerhardt (Comment 83) : Deysel? Don’t really know. Tough one.
who could have guessed this score? eish……
amazingly good result. Well played 1-23
@vanmartin (Comment 90) : good choice, perhaps also alberts.
Yes Sharks! Great game. 🙂
@Gerhardt (Comment 93) : That would be my MotM.
strange to see a Super Log with only 2 NZ teams in top 9
Bissie man of the match. Sort of appropriate come to think of it.
@vanmartin (Comment 97) : Well done Bissie! Yeah true. When he leads from the front it propagates throughout the whole team. He kept our guys composed in what could very well have turned ugly.
@gregkaos (Comment 98) : Agreed, we are hard on him at times in his captaincy but we also need to give credit when due.
It was a bit tough to pick a MoM…good performance all around. I enjoyed the performances of Fred and Lewies…
Ashwin trying to pronounce Kurtley Beale just had our whole couch in stiches. Kurtlibielie. 😀
My wife: why does Bismarck get a prize for behaving? 😀
The whole team stood up as a whole….hit the Tahs like a fist.
Even got the Tahs coach to again throw his toys out of his cot 😈
FED Z
@FireTheLooser (Comment 103) : sore loser if you ask me. Both teams got some bad calls against them but it seemed to upset him alot!!! Must be a Ozzie thing?!?!?!?!