Sharks sink WP
11 Aug 2012
GARETH DUNCAN watched the Sharks sneak in for a 25-23 win over WP at a wet Newlands on Saturday.
A Riaan Viljoen drop goal was enough give the Durban a winning start to their Currie Cup campaign. It was an impressive comeback as they broke down a 13-3 half-time deficit to claim the victory. WP, who were composed in the first half, delivered a poor defensive showing in the second stanza, which cost them the game.
With heavy rain creating wet conditions at Newlands, Province’s accurate tactical kicking game saw them hold the ascendancy in the opening 40. They forced play into the Sharks’ territory and Joe Pietersen punished the visitors from the kicking tee. He slotted two three-pointers before WP scored the first try of the match.
With another penalty awarded to the home side in a kickable area, captain Deon Fourie decided to opt for touch. The gamble paid off as a strong rolling maul saw Tiaan Liebenberg dive over. Pietersen added the extras.
The Sharks only managed three points before the break as Meyer Bosman slotted a penalty shortly before half-time.
But then came the comeback.
Within four minutes in the second half, the Sharks found themselves 15-13 ahead thanks to WP’s poor composure under the high ball and poor tackling.
First, Paul Jordaan showed great pace to finish off a smart attack. Viljoen’s chip was gathered by Bosman, who offloaded to the Baby Bok centre to score. Then from the resulting kick-off, Burden gathered the ball and sped to the whitewash.
Pietersen managed to regain the lead for WP with his third penalty, but it wasn’t long before Burden completed his brace. Again from the kick-off, WP failed to control possession and the fiery hooker enjoyed an easy run to the tryline. Bosman added the extras to make it 22-16.
However, the Sharks were dealt a blow when Jacques Botes was yellow-carded for a trip on Gary van Aswegen in the 67th minute.
Province capitalised on their one-man advantage, scoring a try via another strong driving maul. This time, Fourie emerged from the pile of bodies with the ball. Pietersen converted the extras for a slender advantage.
With 10 minutes to go, WP looked like they had enough to close out the game, before Viljoen slotted a drop goal to put the visitors ahead yet again. It proved to be a telling blow as WP failed to score any more points at the death, with Pietersen missing his first kick of the match in the 77th minute when he pulled his fourth penalty attempt.
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12 Aug 2012, 19:34 pm
@carol-543:
Yeah, fantastic Olympics, the best ever that I have seen, London rules.
Re the music….. I admit that u guys in England have the best musicians in the world, but it’s going to be hard or impossible to beat the closing ceremony in Sydney 2000 with Midnight Oil doing “beds are burning” dressed in overalls with a huge “SORRY” printed on the backside.
That was before lead singer Peter Garrett became Minister of Environmental affairs in the Aus government, lol.
12 Aug 2012, 19:35 pm
@carol-543:
What South Africa and Britain now have in common is to put pressure on Brazil. And get them to raise the bar. Seeing that the next SWC is there and the Olympics in Rio two years later.
12 Aug 2012, 19:38 pm
@wnbb-549: had the opportunity to watch the game but didn’t bother. Says it all doesn’t it. I’ll go to extrodinary lengths to watch a game of decent rugby normally but this one, a game too far. Must be the quality. Or what?
12 Aug 2012, 19:39 pm
Pedigree @ 539.Was not me accused you.Assume that you are
using post number merely as a post box.
12 Aug 2012, 19:40 pm
@Robzim-551: that so Rob. Interesting.
12 Aug 2012, 19:43 pm
@IAAS-552: don’t hold your breath. With all due respect to the Brazilians, I don’t think they have the skills of the Brits to stage events such as these. Sure they can do it I’d imagine but not top what we’ve just witnessed. I’d keep my dough in my pocket on that one. Where’s their experience and track record.
12 Aug 2012, 19:45 pm
not much traffic on here tonight. So I’ll bid youall gudnite and a most satisfactory week ahead. AND there is always the cricket to look forward to. Cheers.
12 Aug 2012, 19:51 pm
@TASSIES-557:
Cheers Tassies, good week for u2– too much distractions here tonight.
12 Aug 2012, 19:53 pm
@TASSIES-556: Their passion and emotion will make
their hosting special. What they lack in other departments, will be overshadowed
by the pure fanaticism and passion their people will bring. (Especially the Soccer WC)
Will also be memorable, but for entirely different reasons I reckon.
(Then again…the world ends in a few months, so I guess I’m just guessing
FuckingMayansstuffinguptheplanetssportingspectaculars.
12 Aug 2012, 19:57 pm
@TASSIES-556:
I know that they have been talking to some saffas involved in our SWC. But their major stresses will come from their infrastructure or lack thereof. There seem to be deadlines that are just flying passed ears at the speeed of light.
12 Aug 2012, 20:02 pm
HG is correct regarding which Olympics was best ever…
In terms of pure aesthetic and artistic quality especially in terms of opening and closing ceremonies Beijing still tops the list ahead of Barcelona,. Athens, London, and Sydney
In terms of perfect sporting excellence London and Beijing are narrow competitors with I think London shading some athletics and swimming performances but not all of them.
From a spectator spectacle in terms of viewer coverage and expose to the variety of sport on display London tops the lot.
Great games in terms of attention to detail in coverage and close action of all the competitions and all the momentous achievements by athletes from every corner of the earth. London could be termed the ‘Cosmopolitan Games’ with a tinge of British patriotism which came bursting through toward the end with Britain finishing 3rd in overall medal tally behind USA and China, where once upon a time they wouldn’t have featured anywhere near the top 8.
12 Aug 2012, 20:07 pm
the Brazilians will put up a very good show.. they won’t get undone… unless the Mayans get in first and shut the whole razzmatazz ring around the human extravaganza civilization circus down.
12 Aug 2012, 20:08 pm
Sorry chaps, called away for a bit there let me try to answer you all.
12 Aug 2012, 20:12 pm
@sharks_lover-544:
Thanks Sharkie
12 Aug 2012, 20:13 pm
@carol-564: YVW hun , and ya see we whipped WP AGAIN
12 Aug 2012, 20:24 pm
@ufo-546:
Hi UFO on behalf of Her Majesty and the British People I would like to thank you enormously for you kind words.
We have had a wonderful time entertaining people from all over the globe and are delighted that so many of you have joined in from the comfort of their own sitting rooms and favourite chairs.
We all have our favouite moments to savour and at this point we can thank the athletes for bringing so much drama and pride into our lives!!
12 Aug 2012, 20:29 pm
I didn’t see the second half yesterday as I switched to the far more appealing Olympics.., but what I did see on the news was Jordaan feeding off a miss field and Burden picking up a loose ball from high kick which BOUNCED exactly the same as Daniel and Coetsee did in Durban and same as Ludick did in Cape Town in the S15 to go and score two against the run of play lucky packet gimme tries..
just like in the S15 this WP team has handed sharkieshits another lucky packet win on a gilt edged plate.., seems Stormers / WP don’t WANT to win against Sharks for some strange inane inexplicable reason.
Its the HIGH kick and chase game that is doing Stormers / WP in.. and Sarkies are milking this malaise syndrome by WP for failing to COLLECT and counter said high kick and chase game for all they are worth.
12 Aug 2012, 20:32 pm
@TASSIES-548:
Hi Tassies
Good question how has the games affected the nation?
Well you know how we Brits like to deprecate ourselves, well this time after the really rather good opening ceremony then the first rowing medal we started to lift our heads up and really rather enjoy it.
Then when the gloom and doom about the organisation etc all whipped up by the media was shown up to be just a bit of hot air we all really got behind the games.
The buzz word is ‘legacy’ and we hope our political parties can get together to build on what we have witnessed in the last two weeks.
I have to say after our Royal Jubilee and now the games I can say I am very proud to be British.
12 Aug 2012, 20:35 pm
@carol-566:
cool…
12 Aug 2012, 20:36 pm
@Robzim-551:
Get you glass on wine in hand…There are rumours that that the music will be fantastic the hint is that it will be the ‘Playlist of all Playlists’
Sit back at 10pm and enjoy Great Britains goodbye, I can tell you as a nation we are ready to party!!
12 Aug 2012, 20:38 pm
@IAAS-552:
I think Brazil will feel huge pressue on them after the flame is extinguished tonight!!
12 Aug 2012, 20:38 pm
When the Earth Nearly Died
Compelling Evidence of A Catastrophic World Change 9,500 BC
(c) 1995 by By D S Allan and J B Delair. 386pp.
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who knows how accurate or inaccurate the Mayans actually were.. and how far wrong our friend Charles Darwin determined the relative relevance to his theories of human evolution is from actual salient fact.
12 Aug 2012, 20:41 pm
@fitz1ella-567: We are allowing them a few wins before December, because as we all know (confirmed by various Hollywood blockbusters and the sort), Cape Town will be the only city on the planet to survive the apocalyptic destruction. Which means the WPRFU will be the only one standing post doomsday. We will be claiming many titles next year, and the next, and the next, and the next…
Sharks had one remaining opportunity to bag a S15 title, and they fluffed it.
12 Aug 2012, 20:48 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.-573: @fitz1ella-572: dont you two just make the cutest couple??
you dont even need clown suits,
12 Aug 2012, 20:52 pm
From the Cricinfo website. It is a normal and perfectly understandable feeling to miss home. But first you have to know where that is. For Kevin Pietersen, home for the last four years has been a swanky abode in Chelsea, southwest London. Home for the last eleven years has been the UK but home, real home, may have always been Kwa-Zulu Natal.
It showed as much in the week where Pietersen’s isolation with England led him to text former team-mates in the South Africa squad in search of comfort. Pietersen is reported to have confided in his former countrymen, perhaps revealing a deep-seated longing for a place he left behind more than a decade ago.
His abrupt about turn on Saturday evening, when he again swore undying allegiance to England, only served to emphasie the fact that his sense of belonging had never been more insecure.
You can’t blame him for being conflicted or to be dismissive about his confused sense of identity – now officially and perhaps conveniently explained as a temporary aberration.
Who wouldn’t be a Durban-dreamer, knowing that the ocean always greets you with a warm embrace, the Golden Mile has been revamped to look like something worthy of its name and the sun always shines, not just on television, but in the actual city? Durban, unlike Johannesburg where the rat race can seem as grey and soulless as it sounds or Cape Town, which can appear too uppity, Durban is welcoming, friendly and real.
Pietersen seems to crave some of that reality. Lost, partly in the allure of making the kind of cricketing money that footballers have been able to command for years and partly in his own sense of self and how difficult he is finding it being part of the England team, Pietersen has spent much of the worst week of his career caught between the Johannesburg and Cape Town of life and it is not difficult to understand why he may crave the third way: Durban.
Durban has now come to him, in the form of the South Africa squad. Although only two of them, Hashim Amla and Imran Tahir, have played in the city and only Amla would have been around when Pietersen was there, the squad, by its nature, is Durban-esque.
One could even go as far as to say they are Pietermaritzburg-esque, with the same simple, wholesome attitudes that define the town where Pietersen grew up in. Sunny, calm and without a cloud of doubt to darken their skies, South Africa appear to be the most problem-free side in world cricket.
South African cricket has not always been this way, of course. Having to contend with underachievement in all formats, particularly major tournaments, and the lack of inclusion bred a variety of issues.
Pietersen remembers one of them as the quota system, which he cited as the reason he left. In reality, the plan to fast-track players from previously disadvantaged backgrounds did not marginalise white players as much as Pietersen would have people believe.
Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and AB de Villiers all managed to come through. Marchant de Lange and Richard Levi are examples of young white players who continue to get recognised while Makhaya Ntini, Amla and Vernon Philander may never have come to the fore without some push to find and nurture players of colour. Race is barely a discussion point at higher levels any more as players of all skin colours come through the system. It would be naïve to say all things are equal in South Africa, but efforts are being made to get there.
The ‘chokers’ tag; the perennial Test underachievement (in terms of ranking); rumours of a clique that controlled the dressing room: all of those issues have shrunk as Gary Kirsten and his management team brought with them a recipe of togetherness, serenity and – depending on how things go in the Lord’s Test – a culture of winning.
For someone like Pietersen, who has persistently been seen as an outsider in his adopted country, the bond between the members of the team he could have played for must have struck a chord. The “could” is a big word in that sentence, because when Pietersen left South Africa he was nowhere near contention for the national side. He was considered mediocre and although it may well have been a case of his talent not being spotted and nurtured, he did not register on the radar of those to watch.
That does not mean he did not want to be part of that set-up or look it up to it. In fact, the opposite is true. He has previously called Hansie Cronje his childhood idol and named Jacques Kallis as the “greatest allrounder ever”. He did not hesitate to say Allan Donald was one of his heroes, after he heard Donald’s praise of his innings at Headingley. He was generous in his assessment of the South Africa attack, labelling them “fighters”, and said they “never, ever stop”.
Unless Pietersen is up to another four-year qualification period, which is what he will need to be put through if he wants to represent another Test-playing nation, he will never know what it feels like to be part of the South Africa side. He will never know what it means to be on the other side of the crease when Kallis is playing the textbook cover drive or in the field when Steyn is steaming in, with nothing but blood on the mind.
Until this week, it has looked as though he has never wanted to know that. Playing for England was his ultimate, and has now been restated as his ultimate again. He tattooed the Three Lions on his arm, he has captained the side, he has won matches and tournaments for them. He has emphasised his commitment to them as often as he has been given the opportunity to, especially when coming up against the country of his birth.
Recently, that seemed to have wavered. Once, in jest with Ed Cowan over his inability to recognise bread and butter pudding, Pietersen quipped that he was “not English, I just work there”. When he was looking for form after a slump in 2009, he went back to Kwa-Zulu Natal’s Dolphins, who accepted him with open arms.
The first thing he did after controversially retiring from one-day cricket in May was take a holiday in Durban, the town he left with a chip on his shoulder but returned to when looking for comfort. Then as England played their first ODI after his retirement, against West Indies, he extravagantly flew to South Africa for the weekend to watch South Africa meet England and joked about his mixed allegiance by saying that he had a foot in each half.
He has been seen in conversation with the South African players, reportedly speaking in Afrikaans, sending them text messages that their team manager maintains are only “friendly banter”. It may be that Pietersen is longing for home and a cricketing environment he gave up – but has discovered it is too late to go back.
7.30pm GMT: This piece was adjusted to reflect Kevin Pietersen’s statement on Saturday evening restating his commitment to England in all forms of the game.
12 Aug 2012, 20:57 pm
@sharks_lover-574: And don’t you and the rest of the get-along-gang make for an ideal audience…..
Clowns don’t perform unless their are at least 15 ice cream licking, snot nosed toddlers with bum rash watching and listening in awe…..
Who would be the bigger fools in this scenario?
12 Aug 2012, 21:05 pm
Poor Kevvie he’s missing home.. another poor lostfart who abandoned his last bastion of colonialist comfort back in the warm sub tropical breezes of her majesties last abandoned sugar plantation paradise on the east coast of southern Africa..,
He tried to make up with his long lost boeties and got caught out as being just another mercenary gun for hire who actually wanna play for his REAL home country..if it were by any chance a perfect world.. which it ain’t… so whats new in banana country.., one more mercenary missing home.., ain’t that just par for the course from where he comes from?
“A curious aspect of the theory of evolution,” said Jacques Monod, “is that everybody thinks he understands it.”
http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/
12 Aug 2012, 21:18 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.-576: U2 are because we all know this world is all about making money, so the daily free shows does not b ode well for you futures
lol
12 Aug 2012, 21:34 pm
@sharks_lover-578: Sub standard comeback, sub standard grammar, sub standard humour.
Would you like to try again before the closing ceremony kicks off?
Over and out…..
12 Aug 2012, 21:47 pm
@fitz1ella-561: Beijing was a mindblowing spectacle… a scary mindfucking display of excellence, power, achievement and performance on the track, field and venues, not to mention the capability of the country itself…. London by comparison are hosts of the Happy Games… The centre of happiness where sportsmanship and camaraderie amongst participants has come to the fore like in no previous games….
I love London, I have lived there for more than a few years… it is truly the best City on the Planet with an incomparable vibe… and it has hosted a special games… but dammit Beijing was total farken shock and awe by comparison.
12 Aug 2012, 22:01 pm
Wnbb @ 575.Brilliant post.
12 Aug 2012, 22:03 pm
Off to watch the closing ceremony… in the words of KOL
All of London sing
‘Cause England swings the extra love the tales I bring
You know the rainy days they ain’t so bad when you’re the king
The king they want to see
And the Clash
London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared, and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don’t look to us
12 Aug 2012, 22:14 pm
madness – what a band – suggs is one cool dude.
12 Aug 2012, 22:16 pm
So how can you tell me you’re lonely,
And say for you that the sun don’t shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I’ll show you something to make you change your mind…
12 Aug 2012, 22:16 pm
pretty good, i thought it;d be **** corney with the spice koeksusters, but not too shabby.
12 Aug 2012, 22:49 pm
@Heavens Game-498:
That’s better.
I knew the other HG was an imposter. Only way to find out was post a hit at ya as i know you just cant help yourself. Where as the other HG just let it slide….you know you being a coward and a stuff, other HG did not mind me saying that, which is kind of odd.
Anyway see you have finished drying your eyes and decided to join the threads again, just a coincidence that the Sharks won again.
Oh and by the way the Chiefs is a kiwi team, i was wanting the Kiwi team to win, its just about like you claiming a South African win over the ABs when the Barbarians beat us….remember
But anyway still good to have you back you old w@nka
12 Aug 2012, 23:45 pm
Now that’s a sassy bird
12 Aug 2012, 23:55 pm
Oohh fok nee just when it was going well we got these fools..
12 Aug 2012, 23:58 pm
I think I just saw Boris boogeying
12 Aug 2012, 23:59 pm
Greatest song of my generation – no question
13 Aug 2012, 00:09 am
Eric liddell – cracking stuff
13 Aug 2012, 00:27 am
lol wtf’s boris playing at – looked to be pulling a fast one on messieur jacques frogs
13 Aug 2012, 00:39 am
Pele – most famous sportspersom on the planet. Now that was pure coordinated skill and poetry in motion – and not an Olympic medal in sight.
13 Aug 2012, 00:48 am
Bordering on American-style patriotism grandstanding is old Seb
that’s that – now time for some proper sport.
Let the rugby begin
Over & out.
13 Aug 2012, 01:28 am
What a grand finale by the last 2 members standing of arguably the greatest live rock band of all times.
“People try to put us d-down (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby “
13 Aug 2012, 07:57 am
Congrats Sharks! Knocked us down again at home!
I must say I didn’t watch the game at all so cannot comment on it.
13 Aug 2012, 09:01 am
Daar is nog plek by die Bulls , Sharks en Lions om aan te sluit as supporters….
13 Aug 2012, 13:43 pm
Shark pedigree.Sorry for taking more than 5 minutes.The learning disability
more severe than originallly thought.
I did not accuse you of anything.I have had no communication with
you or about you(Ever).Joined the site shortly before RWC.
Am not GWS.(Assume Great White Shark).
Please read all of the relevant posts.You outed some posters
and you were then immediately accuseed by other posters.I am and will always
remain “Ryecatcher”
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