Sharks smash woeful WP
15 Sep 2012
RYAN VREDE saw the Sharks comprehensively beat Western Province 43-27 in difficult conditions at Kings Park.
Durban was battered with a sustained torrential downpour which completely waterlogged the surface. This made any sort of skill beyond a high punt or forward-based phase play near impossible and consequently adversely affected the quality of the match. The Sharks mastered the conditions while WP sunk. Furthermore, their discipline was atrocious, with Jebb Sinclair and Tyrone Holmes red carded for punching and Wilhelm van der Sluys (harshly) yellow carded.
Bombs were blended with grinding forward play, the Sharks better at taking advantage of the infringements forced through this method, Meyer Bosman kicking five penalties to go with four conversions for a 23 point haul.
Despite dominating large passages of play, WP simply never threatened to regularly break down a physical and accurate Sharks defensive unit. Their rolling maul got some purchase, but beyond that their tactical kicking game lacked the consistent precision to drive them into good field positions and their ball-in-hand play was uninspiring. The Sharks absorbed the pressure well, refusing to undermine their cause by becoming loose and profited as a result.
Bosman and Demetri Catrakilis traded three pointers to get the scoreboard going before Sharks flank Jacques Botes finished a slick move. The match meandered through dour passages thereafter, Bosman and Catrakilis continuing their boot war to leave the Sharks 16-12 ahead at the break.
Bosman banked six more points after the restart and the odds swung in the Sharks’ favour when Sinclair decked Jean Deysel to earn an early shower. Keegan Daniel scored shortly thereafter, sniping through the middle of a ruck to score.
WP’s rebuttal was good, Louis Schreuder driving over from close range after the defensive line had been depleted, Catrakilis adding the extras. But that good work was undone when Holmes jabbed Botes, who rubbed salt into the wounds by scoring shortly thereafter.
Schreuder intercepted and sprinted 80m to score, giving WP faint hope of what would have been a remarkable result in the circumstances. But Joe Pietersen missed the conversion that would have put them in contention for a draw. The game ended with a five-man WP scrum conceding a penalty try.
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16 Sep 2012, 07:25 am
@viewer-233:
charming
@nama1-239:
nope, but admit to being a tad crass sometimes
16 Sep 2012, 07:29 am
Guppies were always going to down the WP in those conditions. Playing in a swimming pool is no fun and very dangerous – if you are not a fish.
16 Sep 2012, 08:24 am
@charo-251:
oh, and nama1, i wouldn’t be so quick to throw out criticisms of fellow saffas.
just read your comments on the steyn thread. you clearly have race issues buddy.
i may be crass at times but you carry a lot of anger.
16 Sep 2012, 08:55 am
@RL-252: Cape type winter weather
No?
16 Sep 2012, 09:04 am
@ryecatcher-254:
Newlands has decent drainage mate. At Kings Park, they haven’t fixed that problem since the 1995 semi final against France in 1995.
16 Sep 2012, 09:12 am
@I am a stormer-255: No matter how good the drainage is with that amount of rain nothing will really help. This was not a drizzle it was torrential rain. for almost 3 days. At times it was coming down like a Joburg thunderstorm. I actually thought the game might have been called off.
16 Sep 2012, 09:17 am
@Puma-256:
Then it was the call of the officials. Unless that official was Louis Luyt seeing his grandson was leading out the Sharks!
16 Sep 2012, 09:33 am
@I am a stormer-257: Have no idea. But kudos to both teams playing in those conditions.
16 Sep 2012, 09:56 am
@charo-253:
I’ll respectfully disagree with your assumptions about me.
I have no anger and no race issues.
I am friends with white people.
@Puma-258:
Good morning Puma.
Congrats on your team’s victory.
Atrocious conditions, wasn’t it? I thought Meyer Bosman kicked well in that conditions.
16 Sep 2012, 10:12 am
@nama1-247:
Red is red whether the person goes down or not.
Look at the decision. Was the ref correct under the guidelines.
Spot on.
16 Sep 2012, 10:31 am
@Biscuit-260:
No problem with the red card.
It was the right decision.
16 Sep 2012, 10:34 am
Gotto agree , that was a solid punch on Deysel , the second red as well . no argurements about that. WP stupid silly play and very bad dicipline , now we will probably have 2 suspensions as well and WP are already on the 26th loosie for the year lol.
The last yellow was a little harsh but at that time WP created such a a bad image that a forward pass would have been a yellow.
Thought WP played well in some play and bad in others , controlled the ball ok in the conditions but our scrummie struggled a lot. Cannot fault the players as the conditions were really pathetic , howcome they cannot sort out Kings Park drainage ? Been so since 1995 !
Anyways , well played sharks and k@k play WP especially on the discipline. This year we have been the sharks bunnies !
16 Sep 2012, 10:54 am
You see how Quickly Deon Greyling Influenced the Curri Cup!
16 Sep 2012, 10:58 am
@nama1-259: Thanks Nama. Yes the conditions were terrible.
16 Sep 2012, 12:35 pm
The only thing that made me smile this weekend after the boks getting beat and the the bulls getting beat was the slaapstaders getting beat and may i say dear oh dear they must learn to keep their tempers in cape town hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehhehehe.
16 Sep 2012, 12:44 pm
@nama1-247:
Naw, Deysel really went down, it was a fairly solid punch, a well excecuted short right cross, not the typical rugby player’s swing. Jeb knew exactly what he was doing. Deysel should ask him for a boxing lesson- his open handed girly like slapping was disgraceful.
16 Sep 2012, 13:21 pm
@Robzim-266:
Girly like slapping…..!!
16 Sep 2012, 13:34 pm
@carol-267:
Ja, lol, I must not generalise…. I guess some girls can deliver a good punch, unlike sharky Jeanie Deysel
16 Sep 2012, 20:01 pm
Well done Sharks.
@Robzim-268: We delivered our ‘punch’ on the scoreboard….
16 Sep 2012, 20:21 pm
@Robzim-268: The Sharks definitely have your moffies wobbling around like a boxer that has just received a strong upper cut straight to the button so I doubt we have anything to learn from your girls.
16 Sep 2012, 22:37 pm
@Robzim-268: Sorry Rob, but look again and see Deysel trying to continue play, your player instead kept on trying to fight and hit a man with a man with a punch that was not even looking his way, a COWARD INDEED, SAME WITH Holmes, pretty disgusting mate, Again shows the dirty play from WP in the last few years, I was castigated in here for calling them dirty before, again they prove my point.
I am sure Dedysel is more then man enough for the little CAnadian scumbag, difference is Deysel knew he was playing Rugby
17 Sep 2012, 18:27 pm
@sharks_lover-271: Ag Deysel will knock the little tail gunner out without even raising a sweat man. Thing is Deysel is a sportsman, not a dirty, rabid pig like half the WP side are.
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