Sharks rally into play-offs
14 Jul 2012
GARETH DUNCAN watched the Sharks break down a 15-6 half-time deficit to record a crucial 34-15 bonus-point win over the Cheetahs in Durban.
It was mission accomplished for the Sharks, who delivered a strong second-half performance to pick up the win needed for a place in the knock-out phase. Skipper Keegan Daniel, scrumhalf Charl McLeod, flank Marcell Coetzee and No 8 Ryan Kankowski all scored tries after the break as the hosts attacked well and were resilient on defence.
But this all formed part of a complete turnaround, following a poor showing in the first half which saw the Cheetahs lead 15-6 at the break.
The men from Bloemfontein did well to frustrate the Sharks in the opening 40, and capitalised on their ill-discipline. With a good territorial game, the Cheetahs punished the Sharks via the boot in kickable areas.
Inside centre Frans Steyn was also a big loss early on as he was yellow carded for a dangerous tackle on outside centre Robert Ebersohn. Without his aggression in the midfield, the Cheetahs won the ascendancy and patiently built a comfortable lead.
The Sharks created try-scoring opportunities, but lacked the composure to find the finish. All the points were scored via goal attempts, with flyhalf Riaan Smit trading five penalties with opposite number Frederic Michalak’s two three-pointers.
But then came the comeback.
The Sharks showed a great sense of cohesion in the second stanza, and their interplay (especially among the backs) improved. The forwards dominated the breakdown battle, which was an easier contest for the home team as opensider Heinrich Brussow was taken off at half-time because of a knee injury. The introduction of Willem Alberts and Bismarck du Plessis off the bench also gave the home team more grunt.
Daniel dived over early, setting the momentum for the comeback. McLeod scored a controversial try moments later, as it looked like the No 9 lost the ball forward when he caught wing JP Pietersen’s hack ahead. However, referee Jaco Peyper believed the ball came off the leg and not the hand, and the try was awarded.
Coetzee’s score came from a turnover in the Cheetahs’ red zone, and the flank dashed into a gaping hole in the opposition’s defence. Kankowski’s try at the death, which came from an outstanding offload from outside centre Tim Whitehead, completed the win.
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15 Jul 2012, 17:14 pm
@Pee Wee(Pee Wee)-449: how so? They returned with a two from four on the road…. hardly “k@k” now is it?
15 Jul 2012, 17:16 pm
Got to Love these Brokeback Cowboys crowing about their win against the Reds earlier in the Season…
Newsflash: The Reds now are a very different team to the one that began S15 this year… Those same Reds got manmolested at Loftus… Where the Bulls scored more tries against them than the Breezers have this entire season.
The Sharks are also a different team peaking at the right time… Its going to be a great game, but the SharkBoks should prevail against the RedWobblies…. Its what all South Africans should expect from the team with the most players in the current Bok setup….
15 Jul 2012, 17:19 pm
hg
preach it
that is one rightoues post
never mind these feckin backspitting stormers supporters
15 Jul 2012, 17:19 pm
Absolutely correct weepeee.Don’t forget Fransie and the recently completed derby against the Cheetahs as excuses as well.At the end of the day Stormers fans will have the last laugh while Hg and jokerboy still battles to pull each others pants off.
15 Jul 2012, 17:29 pm
Not sure what it is, but the Sharksworld report is supposedly happening in 2minutes time here:
http://www.pharside.co.uk/pharsidelive/
I’m going to pop over and see what it’s about.
15 Jul 2012, 17:30 pm
I have seen Stormers fans urging caution and suggesting to their fellow fans on keo.co.za not to be arrogant and count their chickens before they hatch. Gumboots Bill is always stressing a take one day at a time approach.
So it is surprising although it should not be to see no such humility from Sharks fans or any cautioning of the Fritzl Freaks HeavenShame and his Little SisterDaughter Fern who have already mapped out the Sharks route to the cup engravers door. These Freaks arrogance is matched only by their alcohol fuelled drunken stupidity. These distasteful idiots exhibit all the worst traits of an arrogant abusive alcoholic South African that gives South Africans such a bad name around the world. They insist the Sharks are the best team despite the indisputable fact that the Stormers have ended he season at the top of the Super Rugby Log. They continue to demonstrate their complete lack of character sportsmanship decency or good humour. This illbred repugnant loudmouth alcoholic is the reason why the rest of South Africa will support the Queensland Reds and hope they hand out a few lessons in humility in Brisbane. I even hear that Tacitus has sold a few cans of whoopass to Ewan McKensie. Brisbane is going to resemble a Japanese fishing bay after a dolphin slaughter.
And yet is appears that SharksGirl and Puma are the only two Sharks fans on keo.co.za who have any problem with this revolting alcoholic. The deafening silence from the majority of other Sharks fans does serve up much food for thought.
15 Jul 2012, 17:35 pm
@Dirty Harry(FckU2)-456: what a moron you are. You are what you denounce.
15 Jul 2012, 17:41 pm
spooner just look at its classy nic
15 Jul 2012, 17:43 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-458: “FckU2″
says all you need to know about this cretin.
15 Jul 2012, 17:46 pm
true spooner,very true
check the sharks haters go apesh it on here this week.
15 Jul 2012, 17:58 pm
Hahahahaha.Now I have seen it all!!one varkie crying out to another: ‘spooner have you seen his nick’hahahagahaha.
15 Jul 2012, 18:07 pm
Our current crop of Sharks need to be reminded of the Ian Mac 1996 vintage of Andre Joubert, James Small, Jeremy Thompson, **** Muir, Henry Honiball, Kevin Putt, Gary Teichman, Wickus Van Heerden, Wayne Fyvie, Mark Andrews, Steve Atherton, Adrian Garvey, John Allen and Ollie le Roux who waltzed into Brisbane for a semi and trounced the Reds 45 – 21 scoring 7 tries in the process. The history is there to be repeated.
15 Jul 2012, 18:56 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-450:
Most of these sad,sorrowful MORONS do not know how to play you at your wit and wilyness. Pathetic fools all of them simply because they cannot handle the hard facts of life.
Enjoy the few weeks ahead because, come what may, that bubble of theirs is about to burst again, however it does and will. You will still be laughing all the way to ‘Pirax’.
15 Jul 2012, 19:01 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-452:
Note how they steer absolutely clear of admitting they never played the Chiefs(home or away) and the Brumbies(away) this S15 season.
I stay in the shadow of that same mountain range but I cannot stoop to their Stormer-level of deceptive hypocrisy and “snot en trane” which follows as night follows day.
15 Jul 2012, 19:19 pm
@Jokerstotheright(Mostofyou)-464: What NZ team did the Sharks manage to ‘miss’ in the regular rounds? Oh wait……..
15 Jul 2012, 19:27 pm
ET trying his best to meet up or is that mate up with Hg again?So schweeeeeet to see the attempt to restart the former love relationship…although it’s still a case of ET trying his best and Hg not biting yet.So schweeeeet,ai jitte.
15 Jul 2012, 20:03 pm
@The Shemale pedigree that is packaged by Keo K.K. Productions.(This Shemale pedigree that is packaged as dog S hit
Still writing like a ‘malle’ male and thinking like an itchy ‘botch’?
How relevant is your shemale-****** question to the character of the Joker? Who cares, although I know that answer, and more, better than you ever will?
Do you for one weird moment think that anyone passionately related to “Dawid Kruiper” and respectful humanity would support any-but-the best-teams(and thus sport) in S.A. like the ’74 B&L and such-like types in all sporting codes?
Explain why the Cape majority make ALL Black(double edged sword,be careful) and very many visiting teams so comfortable and acceptable in the shadow of the mountain,shehe?
15 Jul 2012, 20:16 pm
I am officially declaring ET a ‘mal donner’ When I type ‘donner’ the word ‘donna’ appears.Maybe the farker is nothing but a prima-donna …even my phone recognizes that fact.
. In any case smoking weed or burning it doesn’t make you a descendant of Kruiper or the Khoe/San.Stop jumping on the back of these poor peoples struggle for recognition as they have suffered enough already.They certainly don’t need a leech on their backs.
15 Jul 2012, 20:29 pm
@Jokerstotheright(Mostofyou)-467:
all those stars refer to hitty with an initial ‘s’
To anyone else, why not try cow-dung patties as a filling for your burger bun? The fruits will be sweet, all and any.
15 Jul 2012, 20:30 pm
Smoking weed or burning it on the grand parade
15 Jul 2012, 21:10 pm
@stormerforlife1(stormerforlife1)-466:
Extraball’s back?
Maybe he missed all the insults?
15 Jul 2012, 21:12 pm
@Jokerstotheright(Mostofyou)-469:
> why not try cow-dung patties
The Scatologist have spoken
We’d rather prefer steak or chops
We don’t study rat dropping for a living like you…
Sterkte
15 Jul 2012, 21:50 pm
angry stormers fans.
its naaice.
15 Jul 2012, 22:12 pm
Yeah Victoriabok.Just getting seriously pissed-off at every rasta now jumping on the Khoe and San bandwagon.In any case howzit daar in die koue.
15 Jul 2012, 22:25 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-462: Too right Woody… A great team who played a great game.
The current team is packed with as much ability, hopefully they go and perform to the same level as previous Sharks legends have.
15 Jul 2012, 22:38 pm
@Jokerstotheright(Mostofyou)-463: You also back in Mzansi… For good or temporarily?
You probably looking forward to the England vs Proteas series… Boucher copped a bad one.
Ag these little newbie fools, they have nothing on real flaming and proper bulldust baffles brains squabbles…
I still remember the day you nearly caused a mabhunubreakdown on Keo with your BoereRedmeat testosterone theory…. A true classic.
Also the day Charo upset your sensitivities when he talked about the “shame” of his little nephews…
The once when you nearly wet your pants after I asked “Are you Black”?
Then the days when Ebony and Ivory regularly made Skopskietendonner have a stroke and thrombosis all combined….
Beyootiful…
Ja, these little Newbies got no blogging class in comparison…
15 Jul 2012, 22:40 pm
@Jokerstotheright(Mostofyou)-467: Lol… here we go…
15 Jul 2012, 22:50 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-473: It truly is naaice… The Bulls and Mighty Sharks denied their team exclusivity of an SA presence in the playoffs…
They also denied them their Northern envy “right” to give Heyneke flak due to their team being the “best” out of SA super rugby teams…
Sharks and Bulls being in the playoffs destroys their narrative, and denies their raison d’etre for their very blogging existence…
No wonder the hormonal levels are high
15 Jul 2012, 23:06 pm
@Dirty Harry(FckU2)-456: Hormones a little awry, Harriet?
Bad enough that the Bulls make the playoffs, just like the “Top” team did, and then the Sharks go and do the same?
Ag come now, Sharksgirl Lite – as Fern quite rightly labelled – after her twisted wish for the Sharkies to lose just so that Plum could get the boot, is obviously a slightly immature Sharks TrueBlackandWhite supporter… In time she will learn to be a real Bananaboy, Last Outpost fan… She will also learn from these obvious unpatriotic mistakes surely stemming from a misguided need to impress her Brokeback supporting “friends” on Keo…
Puma… now he is Sharky thru and thru… Only utmost respect from this bulldustbafflesbrains humble contributor for the Pooms… And if he had something to say to reel in some of my more extremist truisms then I would listen… However I think you may be telling an exaggerated, hormone driven porky here…
I do understand though and have forgiven you already – you’re obviously upset and this consequent lack of control has clearly resulted in a clear breakdown of logic and intellect…
All because the Sharks and Bulls are also at the business end of the comp… As I always said they would be…
16 Jul 2012, 00:33 am
Ain’t it funny how HG mentions the Bulls and Sharks LOFL. Its sad when you need back up and in this case it ain’t enough.
16 Jul 2012, 07:07 am
You are a pathetic individual but then most drunks are pathetic. You and your sexually obsessed Fritzl Family Freaks Peedon and Fern accuse other Sharks fans of not being genuine yet your own petrock Predawn posted comments that he wished the Sharks avoided meeting the Crusaders in the playoffs and that the team should manipulate the result to ensure this. Then you criticize newer bloggers as if you are a blogger of long standing on keo.co.za so why dont you tell everyone exactly when you first blogged on keo.co.za. You are an acolyte compared to most regulars. You are also obsessed with ‘multinics’ because under your drunken binge induced hazes you blog under several nicknames. You are a fraud a liar a coward and a most repugnant excuse for a human being.
16 Jul 2012, 10:18 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-479:
HeavensA ss
Why do you feel the need to constantly remind everyone of the fact that you are a sad, immature moron?
A sad immature moron, who gets pleasure insulting everyone from behind the safety of his keyboard.
And then you’ll come back and say something like you dont care what anyone thinks of you, just further entrenching the fact that you are a moron.
16 Jul 2012, 10:26 am
@Dirty Harry(FckU2)-481: Hehehe Harriet, you are such a chick.
Once, long ago, near the time of the “great trek” I did blog under another Nic… Was known as one of the wise men…
Ever since I have blogged under this current Nic only, other than losing some name changer bets to Skop, Cab and Stormersboy, of course.
If you do know of any other Nics that you think I blog under please tell me… It will be news to me… However it seems you and the rest of my cheerleaders – WeeWee and Stawmy the HiddenHomo are seeing HG shadows everywhere… I am in your minds
16 Jul 2012, 10:32 am
@Stawm(Stawm)-482: Oh dear, Stawmy… Such emotions… Such uneasyness… Just because the Mighty Dynamite are also in the playoffs…
Never mind… I promote you to Chief Cheerleader – HG…
16 Jul 2012, 10:57 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-484:
Not at all, I’ve just realized that you are a waste of time.
I’m pretty sure that if I copy some of your abusive posts, which are practically all of them, to the Sharks CEO and board, and ask what they think of you as a fan, I’m sure they wont want anything to do with you.
And that pretty much sums you up.
16 Jul 2012, 12:33 pm
@Stawm(Stawm)-485: Awww, Stawmy… please don’t…
16 Jul 2012, 14:34 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-486:
d umbass, you are only around when the sharks win. You can only abuse people from behind your keyboard. You are a coward.
Seriously, humor me, how old are you?
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