Chiefs edge Durban scrap
21 Apr 2012
RYAN VREDE reports on the Chiefs’ 18-12 victory over the Sharks at Kings Park.
The Sharks spoke this week about finding the synergy and cohesion that has been lacking for most of their campaign. It didn’t happen for them tonight for a plethora of reasons, most notably their inability to retain the ball through enough phases for them to build line-depleting pressure on their opponents.
When they weren’t knocking the ball on in contact or, at times, under no pressure whatsoever, or overcooking lineouts, their ill-discipline further undermined their cause. Unseasonable humidity complicated handling, and while both sides were guilty of fundamental errors in this regard, the Sharks could have aided their effort by holding the ball through their forwards more often than they were willing to do.
Indeed they bossed possession and territory and when they were direct they looked capable of unlocking the Chiefs’ stingy defence. Instead they often went wide without earning the right to do so first, and were met by organised, physical and intelligent defence.
The Chiefs absorbed early pressure well then struck against the run of play. A multi-phase move eroded the Sharks’ defensive line and they shifted the ball wide to Aaron Cruden who cut through amidst calls of obstruction from Sharks players. A review of that score suggested they may have had a solid argument for a penalty. Cruden converted and later kicked a penalty to give his side breathing room.
Much of the Sharks’ focus had been on nullifying the efficient strike runners in the Chiefs’ pack as a means of diluting Sonny Bill Williams’ potency. But the midfielder rendered himself a relative non-factor with his worst performance in Super Rugby. His offloads failed to find their mark and his hands seemed to have been dipped in industrial strength lubricant before kick-off. However, even with the Chiefs’ most dangerous attacking weapon blunted, the Sharks couldn’t get the precision into their attacking game to capitalise.
Pat Lambie kicked three penalties either side of half-time to draw his side within a point. The Chiefs reverted to a more forward-orientated in the second half while the Sharks retained faith in their sterile method. Their fans would have hoped their replacements would have injected some penetration into their play, exploiting the Chiefs’ travel-weary legs and minds.
And they gradually grew in stature, Lambie kicking a penalty to set up a tense finish. You sensed the Sharks would end stronger but they never had the patience and tactical purpose to steal the victory. They became increasingly frantic as full-time neared and in so doing became easier to repel. Chiefs scrumhalf Augustine Pulu scored an audacious try after the siren sounded, faking to kick for touch then breaking through a gap and dancing down the touchline.
The Sharks needed to win this one to keep their charge for the conference title on track. Dropping home points has often been terminal to teams’ ambitions and you have to think that this one will come back to haunt them.
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22 Apr 2012, 20:30 pm
It always makes me so sad when other people dont share my interests.
Not really.
22 Apr 2012, 20:32 pm
Lol. Joel Skopshyte with the final call on who is and who isn’t an “African”! What a charlie.
22 Apr 2012, 20:33 pm
@Pee Wee(Pee Wee)-448: At least the Springs Jumping Gerbil has a bit of imagination to come up with a half decent insult… You my little PeeWee hermaneutic comparative nothing man aren’t there yet… And I don’t think you will be… Ever.
You just aint got the ballas…
22 Apr 2012, 20:35 pm
People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it
They say loose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions
They talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to live it
There’s slow, slow train coming up around the bend.
22 Apr 2012, 20:36 pm
@CAPECRUSADER (seven-times champions)(CAPECRUSADER)-418: great stuff stormersboy.do you know that there is a street named after jessie owens in germany today?how times have changed since those war days.
22 Apr 2012, 20:36 pm
Bwaaaaahaaaaaa skop nearly got shot by his lieut for picking ****** oranges on patrol.
22 Apr 2012, 20:38 pm
Well, ask me why I’m drunk alla time
It levels my head and eases my mind
I just walk along and stroll and sing
I see better days and I do better things
(I catch dinosaurs
I make love to Elizabeth Taylor …
Catch hell from Richard Burton !)
22 Apr 2012, 20:38 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-446: ok lets make this a whole lot simpler for you to understand then. In my opinion I don’t think Mahlangu is the kind of person whose deeds warranted a street being renamed after him.
Swales, on the other hand, was a true and distinguished South African hero and died bravely in the service of his country.
#jus sayin
#no doubt you will disagree
#no doubt you will hit me with a smiley
22 Apr 2012, 20:41 pm
@CAPECRUSADER (seven-times champions)(CAPECRUSADER)-455: should be directed at post 440
22 Apr 2012, 20:42 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-456: Wonder what medal was awarded for that act of skopskietandbendover “African” courage…? The Croix L’Orange… Spring’s highest order of “Bravery
22 Apr 2012, 20:42 pm
So wtf u doing here skopshyte?
Fekkoff back to palestine.
P.s’ if it wasnt for those white pseudo africans the jewish people may not exist today.
Idiot.
22 Apr 2012, 20:45 pm
@CAPECRUSADER (seven-times champions)(CAPECRUSADER)-459: Ag, shutup man… You confused enough already… Wakey wakey…the Breezers are not the Crusaders…. No matter how much you want them to be…
They aint got the ballas…. in fact they probably got less ballas put together than Cruden… And he unfortunately hasnt got them all…
22 Apr 2012, 20:46 pm
skopshyte, the weasel security guard of Caprivi is here trying to tell us Swales was not South African?
Born in Inanda, lived in Berea, went to DHS, worked in Barclays Bank in Durban before joining the Natal Mounted Rifles.
He was a true African through and through.
22 Apr 2012, 20:47 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-458: unlike the st.james’s ones old groot krokkedil snapped this mahlangu’s neck before he could kill again.we should be thankful for small mercies.it could have been worse with him still running around the streets of durban killing for fun this time.
22 Apr 2012, 20:48 pm
Lol. Jewish Joel is here today because of men like Swales. The massive chip on Joel’s shoulder is the weight of irony.
22 Apr 2012, 20:50 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-447:skop race doesn’t preclude people from being african…
donald woods was an African, so was ruth first, beyers naude, bram fischer & many more
22 Apr 2012, 20:55 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-462: that’s gonna be the final mate.only the best contest finals and not second-rate teams like the sharks.
22 Apr 2012, 20:55 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-458: fine, solomon mahlangu died fighting for his people too.
22 Apr 2012, 20:57 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-450: we not discussing bravery or cowardice.. nor manliness or womanliness ..
wtf you bringing my non eventful sightseeing trip to the Caprivi for in such a unrelated context…
we are discussing why Edwin Swales means fck’all to the people of Dirtbin.. unless of course you are of the minority Caucasian colonialist persuasion.. same as he was… hence his street been changed from a European hero’s name to an African one
How complicated is that to comprehend for you WW11 museum visiting warmongering goose flesh reminiscing pale face heathens ?
22 Apr 2012, 20:58 pm
Poor little bakkie builder.
No wonder he doesnt feel african.
Not even born in africa.
But he just needs someone to tell him its alright, no one can claim ownership of a feeling.
Its alright skop.
22 Apr 2012, 20:59 pm
@CAPECRUSADER (seven-times champions)(CAPECRUSADER)-467: Sharks have been in many finals… A lot more than the Gerbils in contemporary rugby pro era history…
I know… I know… it takes a bit of getting used to… being in finals and all that… Especially since the Breezing Gerbils weren’t in Super rugby one year… banned for daring to wear a Christmas tree instead of a rugby jersey….
22 Apr 2012, 21:00 pm
In order for evil to flourish all that is required is for good men to do nothing.
A lot of good men gave their lives so that Hitler’s evil didn’t flourish.
I’m not debating this.
I’ll be back in the morning when there is fresh news
22 Apr 2012, 21:01 pm
skopshyte has conveniently forgotten that 77,000 black people and 46,000 coloured and Indian people volunteered for full time service in the South African Army during WWII.
I guess Swales didn’t die for them…
22 Apr 2012, 21:01 pm
Haha tell him transie.
Poor oke is a product of apartheid.
His head still fukked up with all that racial kuuk.
22 Apr 2012, 21:04 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-471:
jy is n mal donner
22 Apr 2012, 21:04 pm
Haha so the white population of durban dont count as people?
Silly old man
22 Apr 2012, 21:05 pm
How about the 607 black troops of the South African 5th Battalion Labour Corps who perished when the SS Mendi sank in the Great War? And here is Caprivi Skopshyte telling us that WWI and WWII means nothing to black people…
22 Apr 2012, 21:05 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-458: You and Edwin Swales are NOT African..
get that THROUGH your thick white skinned pale face head !!
Edwin Swales was NEVER African
Solomon Mahlangu WAS
Edwin Swales died for Britain or the Allied European forces he did NOT die for Africa
Solomon Mahlangu DID
How f’ng THICK are you, you dumb little pale faced silver spoon fed colony hopping white boy??
22 Apr 2012, 21:08 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-469: Edwin Swales is a nothing man… He is known for NOTHING more than his BRAVERY… Not for his political affiliations… not for any racism… not the colour of his skin… Just his COURAGE…
Your Caprivi exploits were just an interesting juxtaposition… He fought for freedom, and died in the attempt… while saving his brothers in arms. Caprivi version of courage under fire?
Swales was African… He was honoured as an African… He showed the best of what it is to be an African… Despite the fact that he was white.
A pity he isn’t honoured in his Country as he is Universally.
22 Apr 2012, 21:08 pm
Aha
All the sharkies in one pond!
Happy I am
22 Apr 2012, 21:08 pm
@CAPECRUSADER (seven-times champions)(CAPECRUSADER)-475:
22 Apr 2012, 21:09 pm
Haha edwin swales was acrican through and through.
Pointless trying to argue otherwise.
No one agrees with you pal.
22 Apr 2012, 21:10 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-473: wtf were they doing fighting in somebody else’s war??
They died for somebody else’s liberation.. NOT their own..
Same as I participated in patrolling the cut line on the Caprivi strip for SOMEBODY Else’s political persuasion and somebody else’s war..
Same as the African American and English and French soldiers died in Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq over Yankee Doodle Dandies quest to usurp more middle east oil… or for somebody else’s indoctrinated politics…
22 Apr 2012, 21:11 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-479: Somehow this didn’t make it through:
Your Caprivi exploits were just an interesting juxtaposition… He fought for freedom, and died in the attempt… while saving his brothers in arms. You apparently dodged bullets from a comrade while nicking Oranges…Caprivi version of courage under fire?
22 Apr 2012, 21:12 pm
Me too.
Proudly south african.
Its awesome.
22 Apr 2012, 21:14 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-483: Skop Skiet and Bendover…
Fighting the Swartgevaar, Rooigevaar… and apparently the Oranjegevaar too…
Caprivi Man van Staal…
22 Apr 2012, 21:14 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-479: Courage is a good attribute .. a good human value and a sound human principle to emulate and admire..
But it has NOTHING to do with Africa or her history that Edwin Swales died after a bombing raid over Germany.. NOTHING at ALL whatso f’ng ever.
IF he had died while trying to bomb John Vorster square for all the atrocities that took place within there.. then I reckon he might have kept his name on his boulevard..
but your little woesie spoonful of spittle reminiscing of Edwin Swales and his European acts of bravery have benefited Africa or her people Fark ALL.!!
22 Apr 2012, 21:16 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-478:
so i guess guys like michael jordan are not american….
and the usain bolts of this world are not really jamaican/caribbean?
where do you draw the line?
somewhere convenient?
edwin swales (my relation by marriage) was honoured for his bravery and fighting for the forces of light against the evil axis – an exemplary human being.
22 Apr 2012, 21:16 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-487: Courage and Edwin Swales has EVERYTHING to do with Africa…
He is AFRICAN
22 Apr 2012, 21:18 pm
iT was a WORLD WAR idiot
And when my grandfather helped liberate the people of ethiopia from the italian occupation force i am pretty sure they were grateful.
Or not?
What a fool. How can u have been on this earth so long and know so little?
22 Apr 2012, 21:21 pm
you people that get goose bumps and goose flesh from visiting European war museums and holocaust museums must fck off back to Europe.. that is where your reminiscing blood lusting goose flesh shivering heathen affiliation to your motherland rests and where your heart is bound..
it is SO f’ng obvious that you have F’ALL affiliation to Africa yet you sit here and scum off the continent while eulogizing over your European war heroes exploits in a European war..
WTF ARE you doing feeling attached to Africa when you hanker after Edwin Swales name on one of your colonialists streets of the last bastion of Colonial Empirical exploits in AFRICA.??
22 Apr 2012, 21:22 pm
Yay
Leave Usain out of this
22 Apr 2012, 21:23 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-483: Skop. It was a World War.
Not a little regional conflict.
If it wasn’t for the actions of those guys we’d all be speaking German with Japanese as a second language and there’d be no more Jews, Gypsies, Blacks (who Hitler thought less of than the Jews) or anyone who wasn’t Blond with Blue Eyes.
I’d be Ok as it turns out.
Would you?
22 Apr 2012, 21:23 pm
whites have so-called european racists as heroes
blacks have so-called terrorists and killers as heroes
coloureds have so-calle papsakke as heroes and
indians have the mahatma
where are we going to end up as a country with this ongoing daily bickering?
22 Apr 2012, 21:25 pm
@charo(charo)-488: The debate is NOT about whether he was an exemplary human being or not .. he most undoubtedly was a huge man of character and bravery and courage.. BUT his bravery and courage had NO bearing on ANY peoples plight in Africa.. NONE WHATSOEVER.. It had everything to do with the people of Europe and their plight.
these little white skinned impostor colonialists sons like Woesie Spittle wanna insinuate that Solomon Mahlangu was LESS of a hero than Edwin Swales because he fought against the oppression of his OWN African people and NOT for the liberation of some European people from OTHER European people..
22 Apr 2012, 21:27 pm
Haha so insular.
Dare not mention europe or u arent african
Pathetic old man. Trying so hard to be left you end up being more right than eugene.
Idiot.
22 Apr 2012, 21:30 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-492:
and chris gayle?
8)
22 Apr 2012, 21:31 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-495: Didn’t do anything for the people of Africa?
If the Allies had lost the Germans would all have holiday houses in Camps Bay and this place would be whiter than the Oranje first XV.
22 Apr 2012, 21:31 pm
I see ethiopia was ignored
Inconvenient lmao.
22 Apr 2012, 21:33 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-498: Well ironically there are a lot of Germans who own places in camps Bay.
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