Sharks finish in pole
12 Oct 2012
JON CARDINELLI reports that a 42-3 victory against Griquas has allowed the Sharks to finish the Currie Cup league in first place.
The Sharks went into this match having already secured a home semi-final. And yet, John Plumtree will be thrilled to have ended the league phase with such a resounding victory.
Friday’s result at the Shark Tank will see them taking plenty of momentum into the play-offs. It also places them in a strong position to host the Currie Cup final.
They cannot be overtaken by the other play-off contenders, and if they can win next week’s semi-final, they’ll feel confident that they can go all the way in a decider staged at Kings Park.
Griquas struggled to match the Sharks’ physicality in Friday’s match, and were guilty of too many basic errors. They were mistakes the Sharks punished, scoring 15 points inside the first half hour. It was a barrage from which Griquas did not recover.
The visitors had a chance to strike back when Sharks captain Keegan Daniel was sin-binned for cynical play in the 31st minute. But again, Griquas failed to hold on to the ball, handing possession back to the Sharks.
In fact, it was the Sharks who would score next despite the disadvantage, Lwazi Mvovo finishing to further stretch a commanding lead.
Griquas suffered a further setback when wing Jannie Boshoff was yellow-carded for a spear-tackle right before half-time. Pat Lambie failed with the ensuing penalty attempt, but managed to convert a subsequent opportunity after the break.
Lambie played a telling part in two of the Sharks’ three first-half tries. A well-weighted grubber created a try-scoring chance for Louis Ludik, as did an inside ball to Mvovo.
The Sharks flyhalf kicked well out of hand, and was successful with seven of his nine kicks at goal. It was an all-round performance that will boost Lambie’s confidence ahead of the play-offs, and also give national coach Heyneke Meyer food for thought ahead of that end-of-year tour to Europe.
Special mention should also be made of the Sharks’ defence. Once Griquas were more than two scores behind, they began kicking every penalty opportunity to touch. And on every occasion, the Sharks defence managed to hold out.
Griquas’ failure to secure any log points from this fixture means that they will remain in fourth position below Western Province. There is a chance, however, that Griquas will be overtaken by the Cheetahs and Blue Bulls on Saturday.
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12 Oct 2012, 20:54 pm
Could someone please explain where Mtembu comes from. He’s not in Keos Sharks team listed here.
12 Oct 2012, 20:58 pm
Lambie MOM,
12 Oct 2012, 20:59 pm
@David-51: David Botes had a back injury ans was withdrawn just before the match, Mtembu was brought in from the under 21 side
12 Oct 2012, 21:02 pm
@sharks_lover-53:
Thanks.
12 Oct 2012, 21:06 pm
@David-54: Mtembu is also a bright young prospect, strong as an ox
Must say besides Lambie, JPP and Deysel had huge games
12 Oct 2012, 21:09 pm
Lambie still heavily overrated .. keeps a cool head.. keeps a clean nose.. does most things right.. kicks so so.. passing game middle of the road.. like a nice clean cut Mr. Clean at the laundromat.. but he ain’t no mean machine flat out game breaker.. no sir he ain’t..
If Boks no. 10 jersey is a toss up between Lambie, Jantjies and Morne Steyn then we all the way back to middle of the road melodrama dead end nowhere.. what a glorious place to be staring at mediocrity forever and again.
12 Oct 2012, 21:16 pm
@fitz1ella-56:
Give Lambie a break. It was his first full game in about 6 weeks and he slotted nicely.
If not Lambie, Jantjies or Morne at Bok 10, then who?
You ask questions but don’t provide the answers.
12 Oct 2012, 21:17 pm
@fitz1ella-56: Passing not good?? BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, OMG UR FUNNY BUT ENOUGH SAID BHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
12 Oct 2012, 21:18 pm
@I am a stormer-57: Hiyas boet, dont worry, we never expected him to say anything good about the Sharks or a sharks player, its nothing new
12 Oct 2012, 21:18 pm
No mean machine burt Reynolds types – all Poe-faced netso – goosen talented but too injury prone – no honiball dus fkn verseker.
12 Oct 2012, 21:21 pm
the Mtembu kid look like he got some firecracker energy and a little bit of bust through potency.. some these kids don’t have too good hands to go with their bluster but this kid looks like he got a reasonable grasp of how the game works and how to handle a rugby ball pretty clear without too much fluster.. perhaps he develops into another Kolisi type tough cookie.. more impressive than all the frenetic flurry going on all over he place..
Griekwas just played an outright stupid kamakazi game of adrenaline rush to nowhere all 80 minutes long.. stupid rugby don’t bring no bacon home.. just ask Heyneke Meyer and his Bok bullshit style of rugby.. don’t do no justice to the brand nor the jersey whatsoever.
12 Oct 2012, 21:28 pm
Ludick outplayed Le Roux big time
12 Oct 2012, 21:30 pm
Fkme if I gotta watch these Boks go from Steyn to Lambie to Jantjies and back again ring a f’ng ring a rosies like a f’ng pocket full of posies.. its just going to be more husha husha all fall down nowheresville for another 4 years of seeking but never finding nuttin at no end of any rainbow..
like I said passing game middle of the road.. kicking game middle of the road.. running game middle of the road .. you mean to tell me in the whole of SA that is the sum total of our rugby general stock.. Lambie, Jantjies and Morne Steyn with Goosen the only real quality standard 10 but made of f’ng glass so he can’t carry out the class because he gonna bust into a thousand pieces every time he takes a tackle.. what a crock of nowheresville with not that much to look forward to.
What I would probably suggest under current circumstances is take Jordaan or the kid Andries Coetsee and play one of them at 10 and turn this whole fckup of an SA rugby scenario on its head and revolutionize this sh’t once and for all and get GOING already out the f’ng doldrums we been stuck in since pa fell off the buss in 1999.
12 Oct 2012, 21:31 pm
Le Roux was on a hiding playing behind a team with no shape and no coordination and just playing STUPID rugby.. you can’t rate Le Roux vs Ludick in a one sided game like that.
12 Oct 2012, 21:36 pm
@fitz1ella-64: Uhm Skop the handling errors and poor defense he showed has nothing to do with the team being good or bad.
12 Oct 2012, 21:41 pm
@fitz1ella-63:
> turn this whole fckup of an SA rugby scenario on its head
If you really want to turn it on it’s head, play Hougie at ten for the last fifteen minutes or so against Scotland or one of the smaller teams
12 Oct 2012, 21:44 pm
Le Roux could be a candidate for 10.. that is where I would venture to play him.. he’s more of a play maker than a defensive last line of defense..
my suggestions for 10
I would switch Hougaard to 9 immediately and play Pienaar at 10 though that horse is probably already bolted
while I get the following potential up to standard
Goosen, Coetsee, Jordaan, Le Roux, maybe Riaan Smit and then perhaps Pollard, Jean Luc Du Plessis, Swiel.. etc .. to follow
while blooding the likes of Rhule, Serfontein, Brache into the back line.
the Lambie, Jantjies, Morne Steyn train is just too goddamn slow and mediocre and middle of the road for my liking.. can it before it bogs us down another whole cycle of hair pulling waiting for Godot to come show us the way home.
12 Oct 2012, 21:46 pm
Oz to host *** rugby champs
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WTF?
Fullback is probably the safest position
Locks fondling the props while binding for a scrum is de rigueuer
The eigthman has the hardest time of all, all these guys bending in the scrum in front of him…
12 Oct 2012, 21:47 pm
@victoriabok-66: better idea than more middle of the road slow coach train to China with Steyn or Jantjies or Lambie
I would even play Frans Steyn at 10 before I played one of those 3 .. and that is taking one fat chance into revolutionary country..
but Hougie must go back to 9 where he belongs and chuck that FdP garbage crapshoot sh’t they tried force feeding him the last 3 years and stuffing up his natural game to hell and back already.
12 Oct 2012, 21:47 pm
@fitz1ella-61: tera is EC pedigree, captained dale college…he’ll get there
12 Oct 2012, 21:47 pm
@victoriabok-68:
Oz to host g-ay rugby champs
Why is g-ay banned?
Mark Konyn batting for the other side?
12 Oct 2012, 21:53 pm
@fitz1ella-69:
Hougie is a very talented player, but his scrumhalf skill levels are atrocious
He’s slow to pass, his passes are inaccurate, he’s slow to arrive at rucks
All scrumhalves need to kick effectively, even fat Weepu does, Hougies kicks can be measured on a calender
12 Oct 2012, 21:54 pm
@Transformation-70: wtf he doing in a sharkshit jersey.. don’t these EC kids have any pride.. Streauli just comes wave his cheque book under his nose and he’s off to Durbs.. just like Keegan, Ryan, Lwazi, S’buro, Odwa, Paul Jordaan and the rest before him..
he looks like a good tough prospect.. he got some tough cookie credentials you can see he’s not chicken to handle a rugby ball so he should go places.
12 Oct 2012, 21:58 pm
@victoriabok-72: Hougie must play his natural game.. you are all reading Hougie entirely wrong.. Hougie is our modern day Joost but they trying to turn him into an FdP.. that JW / FdP cr@p has stuffed our rugby backward at least 2 generations and about 20 years retrograde.. its going to take a WHOLE attitudinal change by the coaches but these schmucks are just plain too f’ng chicken to do it.. even though by sticking with this FdP style garbage they going down like the Titanic at dawn.
12 Oct 2012, 22:03 pm
@fitz1ella-73: Rather a sharkshit than a MOffiewpscumbucket, you own team is far more bought players, word wakker ou kerel.
12 Oct 2012, 22:16 pm
@sharks_lover-75: I thought you had this argument out with Stormersboy the other day already
WP have at least 50% if not more local bred and matured talent.. should we go through all the names and positions again?
while sharkieshits are 90% bought in merchandise.. so no it don’t wash.. WP at least hold SOME kind of local is lekker credentials while Sharks HAVE to buy in their goodies else they be swapping places with EC Kings and Cheetahs if they had enough boodle to hold the talent you okies swipe from across the borders.
12 Oct 2012, 22:26 pm
Ludick – Jo’burg
Viljoen – OFS
Ndungane – EC
Pietersen – WP
Jordaan – EC
Whitehead – EC
Frans Steyn – OFS
Reinach – OFS
Bosman – OFS
Sithole – EC
Mvovo – EC
McLeod – Jo’burg
Kankowski – EC
Daniel – EC
Deysel – Jo’burg
Alberts – Jo’burg
Mtembu – EC
JSDT – WP
JdP – OFS
BdP – OFS
Lambie, Coetsee, Bressler, Marais, Sykes, Chadwick – KZN
Botes – ??
That just off the top of my head
WP got at least 30% maybe closer to 50% more local bred players than Sharks
12 Oct 2012, 22:35 pm
@fitz1ella-77: NOt so as most mentioned are not first choice players at WP
and it is no use talking about where they are born. talk about where they started their careers,
12 Oct 2012, 22:43 pm
Ludick – Jo’burg
Viljoen – (As a junior was at the Sharks academy so started there)
Ndungane – (Sharks)
Pietersen – ( Sharks academy)
Jordaan – Sharks academy
Whitehead – WP
Frans Steyn – Sharks academy
Reinach – Sharks acdemy
Bosman – OFS
Sithole – (sharks academy)
Mvovo –(sharks academy)
McLeod – Jo’burg
Kankowski – (sharks academy)
Daniel – (sharks academy)
Deysel – Jo’burg
Alberts – Jo’burg
Mtembu – (sharks academy)
JSDT – (sharks academy)
JdP – OFS
BdP – (sharks academy)
Lambie, Coetsee, Bressler, Marais, Sykes, Chadwick – KZN
Botes – Puma’s
Thats 8 players that applied there trade as a career before they came to the Sharks, now please check your team????????
12 Oct 2012, 22:46 pm
yes, the sharks are done for the season.
do we get some kind of trinket for ending top of the log?
who cares.
its trophies that count
12 Oct 2012, 22:52 pm
@rangerman-80:
Hiyas Ranger, and now it is back to trying to tell us all our players are bought 
12 Oct 2012, 22:54 pm
Not sure if anyone is watching the H Cup but great to see Jared Payne and Ruan Pienaar combining for a try in the dying seconds for ulster. Don’t think i ever saw Pienaar run that much for the Boks!
12 Oct 2012, 22:56 pm
@sharks_lover-79: So they were stolen while still at school from Craven week because other provinces didn’t have bucks to have fancy floating academies don’t make them any less bred and nurtured in their home province before they came to Sharks under bought in parameters..even Luke Watson went to Sharks academy but he was an EC boy through and through.. just like Daniel, Kankowski, Ndungane, Mvovo, Sithole, Mtembo
and the others from Grey College like Sten, BdP, Jordaan, Viljoen, Reinach were OFS nurtured before they were bought into the Sharks academy by mogul mercenary money
How many went to school in KZN ??.. about as many as are in the bottom group
Lambie, Coetsee, Bressler, Marais, Sykes, Chadwick – KZN
Those are the only real pucker Sharks boys .. all the others are brought in or bought in merchandise .. they just bought in straight from school and not later which skews the idea that Sharks are a hotbed of natural rugby talent.. which its not.. WP, EC and OFS are, with KZN and NTvl and Jo’burg filling in the gaps.
12 Oct 2012, 22:56 pm
@rangerman-80:
Conference Lite Trophy?
12 Oct 2012, 22:58 pm
@sharks_lover-81: ja who cares really?
its the last refuge of a loser imo.
watchin the game tonight i realised that the griquas play bok style rugga whilst the sharks play kiwi style.
meyer better be watching.
12 Oct 2012, 22:58 pm
@gonzo-82: Yeah Gonzo, because Ulster coaches allow the players to play rugby, Our coaches are damned stuck on stupidity, well atleast Plum lets the Sharks play
12 Oct 2012, 23:00 pm
@rangerman-85: lol Meyer will say Sharks play losing rugby
12 Oct 2012, 23:01 pm
Good luck to the Dangerman – slapping to grikwas is no mean feet
12 Oct 2012, 23:01 pm
@fitz1ella-83: who cares?
only you pellie.
p.s. who is mtembo you halfwit?
@victoriabok-84: ag we dont want to make like a wpian now do we?
12 Oct 2012, 23:02 pm
@sharks_lover-87: well he is the expert…..
@cab-88: shotalot cabbie. was a really enjoyable game.
12 Oct 2012, 23:04 pm
@cab-88: HIyas Cabby, Old Deysel is back to his huge self too, hell he monstered some Kwas players in the tackling.
12 Oct 2012, 23:06 pm
@rangerman-90: So we all thought
12 Oct 2012, 23:06 pm
Sharks do play the best rugby but stormers got the better team – get plumtree coaching stormers and they win – problem is half the peckerheads in Sa want to fire plumtree and refuse to recognize wp got a 90% win record over not 1 but 2 seasons (unheard of)
got some Aussie tufness another fkn time – poefdas and yanks
12 Oct 2012, 23:08 pm
SL -Deysel playing v well u right there for sure
12 Oct 2012, 23:08 pm
@sharks_lover-86: You need more kiwi coaches. Look at how well things went for Mitch
12 Oct 2012, 23:10 pm
@sharks_lover-79:
He probably thinks that every schoolboy playing rugby at Greys was born in the Freestate too…
12 Oct 2012, 23:12 pm
@cab-93: Lets agree to dissagree
I’ll take one example, watch Jordaan at 13 and see the inter play and ball distribution, watch JDJ and see very few passes,
and so match up every player
We keep hearing Daniel is too small??? hell he out plays every loose forward in this country week in and week out
I am not saying every SHarks player is better than every WP player, not at all, Lambie again shows today he is our no1 FH, watch how he controlled the game, his decision making?? defense, calmness with ball in hand??
WP said Whitehead is KAK, hell he seems just fine as a play maker to me,
12 Oct 2012, 23:12 pm
Mitch was actually fkn good alhoevel he queerer than a 2 dollar bill by all accounts which explains alot – get him driilling the boks (forward play nie agterspel ekse) and possibly a trophy but BH is right he’s a bit too loose – heyneke a bit too tight – pdv a bit too cuckoo – bring the grreatest back but he’s gotta pick Bismarck ekse.
12 Oct 2012, 23:13 pm
@gonzo-95:
remember PLum played most of his rugby fior the Sharks 
Married a SA gal, so he one of us now 
@Predawn-96: lol this is true
12 Oct 2012, 23:14 pm
Pietersen – OFS
Aplon – WP
De Allende – WP
Arendse – WP
De Villiers – WP
De Jongh – WP
Brache – WP
Vd Heever – NTvl
Grant – KZN – Stellenbosch
Catrakillis – WP
Coleman – EC
Groom – WP
Shreuder – WP
Duvenhage – WP
Vermeulen – TvL – OFS
Elstadt – WP – Montague
Carr – WP
Kolisi – EC – (Schooled WP)
Koster – WP
Burger – WP
Armand – WP
Holmes – WP
Fourie – NTvl
Kitschoff – WP
Kritzinger – WP
Malherbe – WP
Harris – NW
Ntubeni – EC – schooled JHB
Liebenberg – OFS
Hell of a lot more WP born-bred-schooled players in WP than there are KZN born – bred – schooled players playing for Sharks..
Like chalk and cheese in comparison.
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