Lambie boots Sharks into final
20 Oct 2012
JON CARDINELLI writes that Pat Lambie’s cool game management was decisive in the Sharks’ emphatic 20-3 win over the Blue Bulls in Durban.
If Saturday’s semi-final at Kings Park was a movie, Lambie was the show-stealing leading man.
This blockbuster boasted a strong supporting cast, with Marcel Coetzee and Keegan Daniel producing influential performances at the collisions, and Jannie du Plessis perpetuating the physical dominance with a powerful scrumming display.
But above and beyond all of that was Lambie’s decision making and execution. This allowed the Sharks to take advantage and eventually finish the game as deserved victors.
The wet conditions prescribed a conservative approach, and it was the Sharks who adapted best. The hosts enjoyed a wealth of possession and territory in the first stanza, and much of these advantages were earned through a superior kicking game.
Lambie, scrumhalf Cobus Reinach and fullback Louis Ludik shared the tactical kicking duties, keeping the Bulls pinned in their own territory with a series of probes and high-hanging up-and-unders. While the Bulls employed similar tactics, it was the Sharks, and especially Lambie, who were more accurate in the implementation of this strategy.
The Bulls were often beaten in the air when the ball went high, such was the precision of the Sharks’ kick as well as the timing of the chase. When they attempted to reply in kind, they were guilty of booting the ball too deep. It was because of these errors that they were unable to put the Sharks under the necessary pressure.
Morné Steyn has struggled with his kicking all season, and had another awful outing in Saturday’s semi-final. The out-of-sorts Bok flyhalf made mistakes from the kickoff that resulted in turnovers. There were several instances where he was charged down and where he kicked the ball out on the full.
But the blame for this defeat cannot be laid solely at Steyn’s door. The forwards were outplayed physically and technically, and the patent lack of discipline and composure of the Bulls’ collective cost them at key moments.
In the first half, Lambie had done well to switch between kicking and running. As the Sharks launched an attacking move on the Bulls’ 22m line, Lambie made the decision to chip and chase. It looked to be an excellent option with nobody sweeping at the back, but as Lambie raced to collect his own kick he was felled by Bulls prop Morné Mellet. Referee Mark Lawrence didn’t hesitate in sending Mellet to the sin-bin for tripping, and the Sharks proceeded to score six more points in Mellet’s absence.
The Bulls finished the first half with zero points and virtually no territory, and found themselves chasing the game in the second period. They enjoyed a brief period on the front-foot but were repeatedly undone by their own errors and indiscipline. To be fair, the Sharks did respond to this onslaught with a determined defensive display.
The hosts’ lineout wobbled and their scrum looked less secure when Du Plessis left the field before half-time, but they will be happy with the way they performed at the collisions, and the manner in which their flyhalf dictated play in the battle for territory.
They will enjoy home ground advantage in next week’s final, but these are the attributes that will make them favourites to win the Currie Cup trophy. They played to the conditions and kept their composure in the semi-final, and they have the right balance between individual brilliance and collective clout to ensure that they will go all the way.
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351 Comments
20 Oct 2012, 16:22 pm
Will have a few sad Shark Dragons today…..
20 Oct 2012, 16:22 pm
right on time with the thread dragons.
die blou bul eet nie vis van die vloer af nie.
go bulle!
20 Oct 2012, 16:22 pm
As nice as a potential Newlands final would be…
Go Sharks!
Supporting the Bulls is unfortunately just one step too far for me…
20 Oct 2012, 16:23 pm
@phil72-1:
trigger fingers
20 Oct 2012, 16:23 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-2: Well no Bulls are ruminants so they don’t eat any forms of meat…
You’d think you would know this by now…
20 Oct 2012, 16:25 pm
@Bagel-5:
they will tonight.. shark soup, there’s always a first
20 Oct 2012, 16:27 pm
Bulls to edge this by less than 7.
25-20 is my prediction.
20 Oct 2012, 16:30 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-2:
gaan jy forkoff as julle verloor?
20 Oct 2012, 16:31 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-4:
Beter as n nat sharkie nappie…..
20 Oct 2012, 16:32 pm
why do the bulls always embroid their jerseys if it is a knock-out game?
pathetic
20 Oct 2012, 16:33 pm
brainfart daniel
20 Oct 2012, 16:37 pm
@Fern-8:
nee, ek sal hier wees om groot bek sharkie kak te vat soos n man as die bulle verloor, fern.
ek is nik bang vir n BOOM! nie
@phil72-9:
20 Oct 2012, 16:38 pm
lambie kicks missed = 1
morne = 0
20 Oct 2012, 16:41 pm
“Straight down” says Lawrence. What is he smoking?
20 Oct 2012, 16:42 pm
general play no tackle?
what a load of kak
20 Oct 2012, 16:43 pm
referee suspect
20 Oct 2012, 16:43 pm
tight game
naais
20 Oct 2012, 16:43 pm
This Arno boy is something special!
20 Oct 2012, 16:43 pm
Mark Lawrence looking a little iffy at this stage.
20 Oct 2012, 16:44 pm
mvovo is nie n springbok nie
20 Oct 2012, 16:44 pm
Jean Deysel still seems punch drunk since the Canadian gave him a boxing lesson.
20 Oct 2012, 16:45 pm
I know kings are kak etc… But there will be more supporters at next weekends game than there are in the sharks tank 2day. Weather no excuse, are there even 10k? Thats why kings deserves super rugby = full stadium… Last year in shark tank semi there werent much more than 2day
20 Oct 2012, 16:46 pm
@phil72-18:
But.. not as special as bambie!
20 Oct 2012, 16:46 pm
Lots of aimless kicking. Sharks scrum disintegrating.
20 Oct 2012, 16:46 pm
lambie’s tactical kicking fokops = 1
morne = 0
20 Oct 2012, 16:46 pm
@Robzim-21:
Like one of those heavyweights who carries on swinging while he’s being counted out.
20 Oct 2012, 16:47 pm
@mikeybrass-24:
sharks losing the tight stuff
kicking a lot too
20 Oct 2012, 16:47 pm
Passing is slow.
20 Oct 2012, 16:48 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-27: Sloppy stuff. Taking a lessen from the Kiwi-Wally game.
20 Oct 2012, 16:50 pm
bullshitt scrum penalty
sharks at fault not bulls
20 Oct 2012, 16:52 pm
what about the farknig obstruction you doos!
20 Oct 2012, 16:52 pm
tail gunning! tail gunning?
you’re a farking tail gunning doos ref!
20 Oct 2012, 16:54 pm
The silence of the Lambie
Naais!
20 Oct 2012, 16:55 pm
fark me
he jsut changed the laws of the game
20 Oct 2012, 16:55 pm
Banggat keegan
20 Oct 2012, 16:56 pm
That is a bit technical though?
20 Oct 2012, 16:56 pm
not many sharkievarkie supporters at the tank today.Not even Sharksgirl will be able to convince the rest this time that that stadium is full.
20 Oct 2012, 16:56 pm
i cant beleive he told the ar not to be overly technical
just like that
he makes up his own rule for the sharks
20 Oct 2012, 16:57 pm
justice
20 Oct 2012, 16:57 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-34: Careful Bakkies. Don’t want to eye gourge the ref
20 Oct 2012, 16:58 pm
3rd mistake by m steyn….kak op sy beste
20 Oct 2012, 16:58 pm
naais chassisbender come scrumtime for the sharks:-)
20 Oct 2012, 17:03 pm
@phil72-18: Phil, I have to agree with you x1000000000. And to think Spies will keep him on the bench next year for the Bulls……it’s enough to make one vomit and vomit and vomit and vomit and vomit.
In the absence of CJ Stander: Arno Botha is our Bok captain in waiting (IMHO), but he’s going to be blocked if that plastic poser Spies sticks around too long – and I don’t care what franchise people support, only the blind will not see his influence and potential.
@wnbb-37: Very disappointing turnout. Even the fiercest Sharks fan HAS to question this. And NO, the weather is not a valid excuse.
Actually sad for a Currie Cup semi final – then again it could be rugby overload? Or the Currie Cup really doesn’t mean as much as what it did……
20 Oct 2012, 17:03 pm
Should be red and penalty try
20 Oct 2012, 17:04 pm
This Morne Mellett is kak
20 Oct 2012, 17:04 pm
How thick is that Bulls mullet?
20 Oct 2012, 17:04 pm
lambie milking
20 Oct 2012, 17:04 pm
Sin bin well deserved. Nice chip Lambie.
20 Oct 2012, 17:04 pm
@suffer_guy-44: You still learning this game?
20 Oct 2012, 17:05 pm
Captain Keegan!
Saluut Ma se kend!
Respect.
20 Oct 2012, 17:06 pm
Bullies bewildered and confused at the moment……not a good look.
20 Oct 2012, 17:06 pm
This is why I dislike the Bulls.
For all Bakkie’s rants about the Kiwis, the Bulls are by far the most consistently dirty Rugby team I’ve ever watched.
20 Oct 2012, 17:06 pm
Jacque Potgieter handed off like he was a plastic dummy.
20 Oct 2012, 17:06 pm
Lambie showing Morne wie’s baas….
20 Oct 2012, 17:07 pm
@Bagel-52: The Natalians under Ian Mac took the cake for their streetwise legal play.
For outright dirtiness, ABs and the Bulls (thinking of the late 1990s for the latter).
20 Oct 2012, 17:09 pm
@mikeybrass-55: I didn’t even know what Rugby was. I only properly started watching Rugby in about 2003.
20 Oct 2012, 17:10 pm
Morne’s kicks are uselessly aimless.
20 Oct 2012, 17:10 pm
@Bagel-56: That’s why I’ll always like Jake White, because despite the kak he so often spews, 2004 was the reason I started loving this game.
Magical year after 2003…
20 Oct 2012, 17:11 pm
@Bagel-56: Me since ’87.
20 Oct 2012, 17:11 pm
@Bagel-58: Take a look at the Cecil Moss-coached Boks of ’86. There was true Bok rugby.
20 Oct 2012, 17:11 pm
Sannie du plessis se kop n bietjie seer?
20 Oct 2012, 17:12 pm
lawrence so far up the sharkies noughts i can’t see him on the pitch.
20 Oct 2012, 17:15 pm
@Bagel-52:
come now, one little individual indiscretion for which he was rightly carded.
20 Oct 2012, 17:16 pm
sharks scrum just did exactly what the bulls were penalisd for yet lawrence waves it off for play on.
20 Oct 2012, 17:16 pm
That Reinich has serious speed. He’d have given his dad Jaco a run for his money.
20 Oct 2012, 17:17 pm
Sharks deservedly in the lead. Lambie outshining Morne.
20 Oct 2012, 17:17 pm
This game is boring
20 Oct 2012, 17:19 pm
@mikeybrass-60:
Cecil Moss was probably our finest Bok/Provincial coach, IMO.
20 Oct 2012, 17:19 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-62: you should see his socks at least Bakkies – is Morne playing didn’t see much of him either.
20 Oct 2012, 17:19 pm
@mikeybrass-66:
referee influenced.
20 Oct 2012, 17:20 pm
Sharks dominance much greater than the 9-0 lead would suggest.
@Dawn-67: you are boring.
20 Oct 2012, 17:20 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-64: always the ref huh?
20 Oct 2012, 17:20 pm
Lambie owning Steyn.
20 Oct 2012, 17:21 pm
Guppy supporters!
Where are they?
Disgrace for CC rugby
Otherwise nice play from Lambie!
Showing the Sloth Stain how its done
20 Oct 2012, 17:22 pm
BTW
Must feel it for Wallabies, they shouldve won it!
20 Oct 2012, 17:22 pm
@RL-69:
morne said ‘howzit’ to patrick earlier on, did you miss it?
referee definitely influencing the outcome so far, which is a pity.
guess with a kiwi coaching you it comes with the territory.
20 Oct 2012, 17:23 pm
Luiperd
Do you know how much kuk you talk
20 Oct 2012, 17:26 pm
Bulls playing the usual skop & jag & hope rugby!
Bring back Johan Heunis and Naas Botha!
LOL!
20 Oct 2012, 17:29 pm
@Liewe Luiperd-72:
can you honestly say in this instance its not?
he’s just changed the laws of the game right there for the sharks with that scrum as opposed to a 22… how is it i’m the loon?
lets not go near some of his other ‘interesting’ calls.
20 Oct 2012, 17:29 pm
@David-68: Totally.
@Mighty Horua-78: Heunis and Naas? Now there was some running Bulls rugby, seriously.
20 Oct 2012, 17:30 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-79: Bulls have only themselves to blame for playing stupid rugby.
20 Oct 2012, 17:31 pm
Dewalt Potgieter looks like a Waterkloof wife who got a beating! All puffy eyes
20 Oct 2012, 17:31 pm
Players STILL have the habit of going to ground instead of leg driving in contact and of not aiming for the shoulder of the tackler.
20 Oct 2012, 17:33 pm
bullshitt not surporting their weight off their feet and the ball WAS available
20 Oct 2012, 17:33 pm
Poor Potties couldn’t even budge Coetzee an inch off that steal. Like he was trying to lift a bridge.
20 Oct 2012, 17:33 pm
Maybe a blessing for the Boks that Jannie sits out the rest of this game and the final next week….
Hate to say it – but I’m one of those who wished that ALL the Boks (bar the fringe players) were rested for the remainder of the Currie Cup.
Losing a Currie Cup semi or final – honestly: who really cares?
Losing against Ireland, Scotland or the Poms – who really cares? Half the fuckingworld……. and ME!
20 Oct 2012, 17:35 pm
How in the hell did Potgieter become a bok?
20 Oct 2012, 17:36 pm
@mxhosa-87: He won a raffle…..
20 Oct 2012, 17:37 pm
Lawrence is fcking the Bulls up the poopshoot a bit here.
20 Oct 2012, 17:37 pm
this is a joke
20 Oct 2012, 17:37 pm
what a farkin joke
20 Oct 2012, 17:37 pm
@Mighty Horua-82:
Jeandre K is going to moer Mark Lawrence today.
20 Oct 2012, 17:38 pm
And they said Lawrence was a Bulls man….
20 Oct 2012, 17:38 pm
Reynhard kills hougaard
20 Oct 2012, 17:38 pm
@Robzim-92: Ek sien ook daai ding.
20 Oct 2012, 17:38 pm
Hougaard is making an immediate impact.
20 Oct 2012, 17:39 pm
Min 50
The fun starts now
20 Oct 2012, 17:39 pm
@katman-89:
this is larfable refereeing
and shows why he could never cut it at international level
20 Oct 2012, 17:39 pm
Bulls will be kakker with tuinboy ralepele on the field
20 Oct 2012, 17:39 pm
@Robzim-92: 1k says Hougaard moers Markey Mark first. (I don’t really feel much for the Bulls or Sharks – but Bulls getting a raw-ish type of deal here….)
20 Oct 2012, 17:40 pm
chad le clos watching the game with the sharks.
we sure do look after our own.
20 Oct 2012, 17:40 pm
King beastttttttttttttttttt and domkrag albertsssssssssssssssss
20 Oct 2012, 17:40 pm
@katman-95:
Hy beter dit gou doen voor Lawrence verder skade aandoen.
20 Oct 2012, 17:40 pm
@Robzim-92:
Jeandre K been moaning the whole afternoon!
I thought he was the captain
Bulls got no more leaders! BIG PROBLEM!
20 Oct 2012, 17:41 pm
bryce or
mark
a lawrence
has no
option
they were
born
to be
cheats
20 Oct 2012, 17:42 pm
illegal maul defense
higfh tackle on potgieter
nothing
20 Oct 2012, 17:42 pm
Deysel…most overated domkrag donkey!
Dont even think about passing!
Would fit perfectly within Bulls setup!
20 Oct 2012, 17:42 pm
@Robzim-103: Dis hoekom Lawrence dit nou so baie doen. Hy weet hy gaan geklits word, en dan moet daar ‘n kussing wees.
20 Oct 2012, 17:43 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-100:
Jip, same here….. I cannot support either of these teams, its just not possible.
Sharks look better but Mark is helping them a bit today.
20 Oct 2012, 17:43 pm
nothing by the ref
nothing
20 Oct 2012, 17:44 pm
Bulls passing is pathetic.
20 Oct 2012, 17:44 pm
Lol bjorn basson is net so kak… And every one skipping zane…
20 Oct 2012, 17:44 pm
Poor passing from Slothy Stain…
20 Oct 2012, 17:45 pm
@katman-108:
hehe, ek dink sy werk is afgehandel……bulls gaan baie moeilik terugkom in die game.
20 Oct 2012, 17:45 pm
all brawn and no brain whatsoever…….
20 Oct 2012, 17:45 pm
All I hear is Mark’s mouth
20 Oct 2012, 17:45 pm
how was that a straight throw into the lineout?
how
20 Oct 2012, 17:45 pm
Jeandre Kruger in the middle of it!
Send him off!
20 Oct 2012, 17:45 pm
Very impressed with Reinach. He’s been great the whole competition, and today he must be a candidate for MOM.
20 Oct 2012, 17:46 pm
Juansre kruger jou vuilgat danville d00s….
20 Oct 2012, 17:46 pm
fokjou jou doos
if you did your job properly the players would not resort to this
fok jou!
20 Oct 2012, 17:46 pm
Stuur hom marikana toe…
20 Oct 2012, 17:46 pm
Suffer
Go take your suffering elsewhere
20 Oct 2012, 17:47 pm
Bulle word i les geleer, nou wil hulle baklei….
20 Oct 2012, 17:47 pm
Ha ha, that little fight was a perfect example of how to be very angry and swing away, but deliberately not land a real punch.
20 Oct 2012, 17:47 pm
sharky swung first
lets see what lawrence does
20 Oct 2012, 17:48 pm
Nothing to report – you can do a replay of any collision and see the same thing.
Pffffft!
20 Oct 2012, 17:50 pm
The Beast and Chilibooi were not in a hurry to join the melee
20 Oct 2012, 17:50 pm
tmo told the ref to talk to both the blue and the black player
only the blue gets a talking
nothing for black
huh
20 Oct 2012, 17:50 pm
@Robzim-109: You win. Kruger losing it big time
Although this Bresler tonsil too, has a face that screeches, “HitmeashardasyoufuckingcanforIamatotaldoos”.
Guppies sadly, do incite others to the point of ‘taking the law into ones own hands’
@suffer_guy-122: Is there anyone you DO like? Wifey, kids, pet terrier, goldfish?
20 Oct 2012, 17:50 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-117: I have seen a few non-straight throws from the Bulls.
@RL-127: Right call by Lawrence.
20 Oct 2012, 17:50 pm
Keegan Daniel is a duplictious fu ck er calling for the yellow – I got my eye on you guppy and you better be clean or else.
20 Oct 2012, 17:51 pm
Cullen is playing good rugga
20 Oct 2012, 17:51 pm
@katman-125: Jebb is the master…..all these other fellows are posers.
20 Oct 2012, 17:52 pm
20 Oct 2012, 17:53 pm
These ******* love the Sharks, must be the black jerseys…
20 Oct 2012, 17:53 pm
Why didnt Andy “Postman” Capost???? get the Semi Final gig?
Dis darem die Shark tank!
20 Oct 2012, 17:54 pm
Horua where have you been
20 Oct 2012, 17:54 pm
i am shocked the ref has done that
20 Oct 2012, 17:54 pm
Morne’s first kick…
20 Oct 2012, 17:55 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-139: Done what?
20 Oct 2012, 17:55 pm
@Mighty Horua-137: Nodearfuckno. Listening to him creaming, screaming and throwing his XXXXXL Y-fronts at Lambie for 80 minutes is more than ANY decent person should have to put up with.
(Brosnihan – woo-hoooooooooooooooooooo, is bad enough…..)
20 Oct 2012, 17:55 pm
trying to fake respectibility this late in the game.
20 Oct 2012, 17:56 pm
Oh snap am allowed to say d a r k i e s
20 Oct 2012, 17:56 pm
@Bagel-141:
given the bulls a penalty in a kickable position in the sharks 22
20 Oct 2012, 17:58 pm
Lambie showing up the limited Steyn big time!
And greyling as k ak as ever!
20 Oct 2012, 17:58 pm
Look, the one blessing thus far: Morne Steyn should not feature for the Boks, and Lambie might feature a little more. That has to be a win for the good guys?
20 Oct 2012, 17:59 pm
Nope not allowed to say d a r k i e s
20 Oct 2012, 17:59 pm
@Dawn-138:
Hi dawnie,
Been working……
Plus no reception to get on Keo
How you been?
20 Oct 2012, 18:00 pm
Min 66
Chilibooi dropped scrum
20 Oct 2012, 18:00 pm
Ol’ Puma must be thrilled to little bits
20 Oct 2012, 18:00 pm
Chilloboy must be the kakkest bok ever
20 Oct 2012, 18:01 pm
Can’t watch the game. Watching UFC instead. Never seen some much blood coming out of a dude that is still apparently alive.
20 Oct 2012, 18:01 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-147: Meyer’s gonna be telling everyone how Morne dominated the game lol
20 Oct 2012, 18:02 pm
Ndugane’s been so kak today he’s been replaced by a fylhalf lol
20 Oct 2012, 18:02 pm
Outstanding thanks Horua
Nice to have you back
20 Oct 2012, 18:02 pm
@Predawn-153: Which UFC bud? Did you see the EFC fights last night
20 Oct 2012, 18:03 pm
Predawn are you squeamish you grootbek
20 Oct 2012, 18:04 pm
Fatty grayling folded like wet cardboard… Lol whatafuckingdooooos!
20 Oct 2012, 18:04 pm
Min 70
Another turn over by Kirchner the ‘springbok’
20 Oct 2012, 18:04 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-142:
May Andy Capos???? will be the DJ during the Lions/Wp gig
20 Oct 2012, 18:05 pm
Wonder whats more fake… Wwe, ufc or chilliboy’s hard work
20 Oct 2012, 18:05 pm
@Atreides-154: So they pull Morne off the field…….on comes Fouche, and same shy te
Honestly, Meyer is REALLY going to have a hard time pulling the Morne card….there will be blood.
20 Oct 2012, 18:05 pm
Predawn.
The only shark not watching the sharks game
The only shark scared of blood!
Skaam jou
20 Oct 2012, 18:05 pm
So it’s official then? Morne Steyn has bombed out in the twilight of his career.
maybe he has women problems…or men…who knows. Too much money in the bank..keeps him up at night wondering how to spend it?
Farking softcark laaities of today. Don’t have the mental strength to last the marathon.
20 Oct 2012, 18:05 pm
this game has been ruined
i’ve got better things to do
i feel its undeserved but well done all the same for winning the game sharks.
MOM: mark lawrence
cheers for now
20 Oct 2012, 18:06 pm
Or hougaards tatoos
20 Oct 2012, 18:06 pm
@Dawn-164:
Only blood I’m scared of is my own.
20 Oct 2012, 18:06 pm
That man Marcel,,,,
20 Oct 2012, 18:06 pm
Why and what is so difficult to have a go and run the ball?
The Bulls i mean
20 Oct 2012, 18:07 pm
Oh FFS
You can’t even look at a little blood
20 Oct 2012, 18:07 pm
Hougaard is kak pathetic! Never again should he play for the Boks, same as that Morne has been.
20 Oct 2012, 18:07 pm
Bulls rugby is fast going down the drain, living on a game plan that is way out of date. where do these coaches come from? It seems conformity (toeing the official blue bull blue print) is the only criteria they need. You see the brilliance coach out of the young players slowly but surely. OZ and NZ probably look at these spectacles and think, nothing to worry about there, they will always be their own achilles heel. Mark Lawrence must be the most irritating ref in the world a cross between Bruno and a ozzy rules ref with clenching his buttocks using them as exclamation marks. Please give Lambie a chance as bok flyhalve.
20 Oct 2012, 18:08 pm
@Mighty Horua-161: Well then house full of guests or not, I will turn the sound rightfuckingoff or switch to the Afrikaans commentary.
@suffer_guy-162: Nah, fakest of the lot:
your wife’s orgasms….I’m prepared to put money on that being the case.
20 Oct 2012, 18:08 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-166: Boohoooooo do u ever stop whining?
20 Oct 2012, 18:08 pm
@suffer_guy-152: Dean Greyling holds that title I’m afraid…
20 Oct 2012, 18:08 pm
Huis toe pappa! Bulls!!
20 Oct 2012, 18:08 pm
try, game over
20 Oct 2012, 18:08 pm
@suffer_guy-162:
UFC fake?? You get in the octagon with Brock Lessner and talk to me afterwards…a few months afterwards when you’ve recoverd in ICU.
20 Oct 2012, 18:09 pm
hougaard back to his 2009 kak self getting his boxkicks charged down elke tyd…
20 Oct 2012, 18:09 pm
Morne Steyn played himself out of the EOTY…
20 Oct 2012, 18:09 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-174: She doesn’t fake with me
20 Oct 2012, 18:09 pm
Morne Steyn played himself out of the EOYT…
20 Oct 2012, 18:09 pm
Well deserved home final for the Sharkies. It must be said.
Where to now for the Bulls Bakkies?
20 Oct 2012, 18:10 pm
There are more ppl at jurie els’s concert than at the shark tank
20 Oct 2012, 18:10 pm
@Predawn-179: Which UFC you watching?
20 Oct 2012, 18:10 pm
@Dawn-171:
Sorry to have irritated you. I’ll try to bleed quietly.
20 Oct 2012, 18:10 pm
Sharkies Black and White Dynamite!!
20 Oct 2012, 18:10 pm
@Atreides-182:
@mxhosa-183: Don’t be too sure……..one can hope though.
20 Oct 2012, 18:11 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-166: hard luck Bakkies – bullies were never going to win in that public pool the guppies swim in.
Guppies my boys will see you in the final.
20 Oct 2012, 18:11 pm
@Hondo-160: Min 74 hougaard charged down….Mvovo scores a try
you must be squirming
20 Oct 2012, 18:11 pm
@Transformation-180: needed the centipede
20 Oct 2012, 18:11 pm
Lambie can kick, I tell ya,,
The Kings Park Swirl, the rain, the underfoot
Not affected a bit!
20 Oct 2012, 18:12 pm
Predawn everyone thought that of wwf wwe aswel, then tey changed the name and the rules… Bring him… I dare you
20 Oct 2012, 18:12 pm
And HM wanted all the unions and franchises to play his style of rugby. Well, we see where that’s got the Bulls and Boks.
20 Oct 2012, 18:13 pm
@suffer_guy-152: no that title goes to that uitenhage stuntman Jaque Potgieter
20 Oct 2012, 18:13 pm
@Big Hit-192: I saw the Wallabies pull a centipede move against the AB’s this morning
20 Oct 2012, 18:13 pm
Die Blou Bul eet van die haai se hol uit….
20 Oct 2012, 18:13 pm
is it just me… but Arno Botha has been very impressive. Your thoughts?
20 Oct 2012, 18:14 pm
@suffer_guy-194:
It’s MMA you dumb drol.
20 Oct 2012, 18:14 pm
@David-195: it wasn’t the worst idea in theory, trouble is he presumably wanted them all to play his one-dimensional limited style
20 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm
Dewald trying to jump over a ruck to score is one of the silliest moves I have seen…
20 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm
Ag man poor Hondo can’t help himself
20 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm
Same thing predawn.. U guys keep falling for the same fake kak… Time to grow up.. Do u still believe in the tooth fairy and santa clause?
20 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm
Morne pulling a Greyling?
Now I have seen it all………
20 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm
Bloody hell. Stiff arm slug from Steyn.
20 Oct 2012, 18:16 pm
F ucking shitstain is so kak, can’t do jackshit on the field so takes a liberty!
What a prick!
20 Oct 2012, 18:17 pm
@Atreides-175:
the sharks probably deserved it but you have admit the refereeing was pathetic.
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-184: sharks were always the fancied team going into this, so deserved i guess. but we can all agree the ref had a negative and ultimately influential influence on the game.
bulls are sitll building and about one or two seasons from being title contenders.
i’m off,
enjoy the rrugby and best of luck for everyone’s teams
cheers
20 Oct 2012, 18:17 pm
@suffer_guy-185: You know how many people at are the Jurie Els concert ?
20 Oct 2012, 18:17 pm
Sharks_Lover must be beside himself……..They better give Bambie additional protection when he leaves the stadium.
20 Oct 2012, 18:17 pm
Well done Sharks… Bar full of happy black people. Too bad for the Bulls, was gonna buy a Bulls jersey and move to Despatch next week…
20 Oct 2012, 18:17 pm
@Atreides-207: Exactly. I logged in just to comment on that. Lambie made him look like a fat **** tonight so he loses it against Ludick.
20 Oct 2012, 18:18 pm
And Dusky appears.
20 Oct 2012, 18:18 pm
Best team won but Mark Lawrence cheated from the first whistle. May he burn in hell.
20 Oct 2012, 18:18 pm
If Meyer doesn’t play Lambie above Steyn after that then there is no hope.
Now let’s see how Jantjies goes.
20 Oct 2012, 18:18 pm
@Big Hit-192: remember saracens – mouritz botha or something – showing him up in 2009?
he is no FdP!
20 Oct 2012, 18:18 pm
I said the Sharks would win by 15.
They won by 17.
Nice result.
Die Currie Cup kom weer.
20 Oct 2012, 18:18 pm
@Atreides-186:
Jon Jones breaking okes in the ring.
20 Oct 2012, 18:19 pm
The Bulls play similar and are almost as kak as the Boks.
20 Oct 2012, 18:19 pm
Got to give Lambie credit.
No big mouth, no complaints, no whinging…
Just continues to make a statement where it counts.
Interresting to see if Morne Steyn is picked at 10 ahead of Pat for NH tour.
Bok 10′s in order:
Goosen
Lambie
Jantjies
James
Steyn
20 Oct 2012, 18:19 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-208: Sharks dominated in every single facet. Mark Lawrence had two or three clangers in the game. TWO OR THREE.
The fact that you guys slipped into the semi-finals by a hair, and haven’t won a Currie Cup match in Durban since 2006 also holds some weight. And I think now in the last 18 Currie Cup games – Its Sharks 14 – Bulls 4.
Your flou nulletjies were always on a hiding to nothing.
20 Oct 2012, 18:19 pm
Hougard haaaaaa haaaa haaa let’s kick up & unders even though we well behind & time basically up
20 Oct 2012, 18:19 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-208: Lawrence did suck Bakkies. But you have to admit your Bulls desperately needed a playmaker at 10 today, and not a bot.
Bad luck Bakkies – the Bulls will live to fight another day
And just remember – it might be a Sharks/Lions final – but the Bulls and Stormers will still be playing super rugby next year
All is not verloren just yet.
20 Oct 2012, 18:19 pm
@mikeybrass-215: it was a wet, soggy field. Not unlike those up north. And Lambie outshone Steyn by a country mile.
If Meyer selects Steyn then there is no hope.
20 Oct 2012, 18:20 pm
@Dawn-213: Dont get wet.
20 Oct 2012, 18:20 pm
Well done to the Guppies!
For the Bulls, their drought will continue for at least another 5 years, both SuperRugby as well as CC
TRANSIE,
Poor performance by Kings.
They will win next weekend!
20 Oct 2012, 18:20 pm
Lambie was composed and his positional play & support play outstanding. He can take it in the pocket and play flat as the situation demands.
20 Oct 2012, 18:20 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-208: Dude you have a pathological problem with refs, why do you even watch the game, it doesn’t seem like you take any enjoyment from it? Serious question. It literally consumes you.
20 Oct 2012, 18:21 pm
@Liewe Luiperd-224: Like the conditions the Boks will face soon up north!!!
20 Oct 2012, 18:21 pm
Saffas always complain about the ref huh? Usually the bonehead Saffas.
When a team dominates so much the ref calls tend to go their way.
If the Bulls were better perhaps they wouldn’t have ad to defend all game and get a snotklap.
20 Oct 2012, 18:22 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-205: morne needs a LONGER “mental break”
20 Oct 2012, 18:22 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-210:
20 Oct 2012, 18:23 pm
Wetter than an otter’s pocket.
20 Oct 2012, 18:23 pm
I see little evidence of Pine Pienaar evolving the Bulls game.
20 Oct 2012, 18:23 pm
Well done to the Sharks for making their second final this year.
Clearly the best in SA in 2012, as next weekend will show.
20 Oct 2012, 18:23 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-208: Bakkies i thought there were some calls in Sharks favour however you have to agree with the talent available for the Bulls they are badly coached and didn’t deserve to win. Arno Botha and CJ Stander are two of the best loose forwards in SA and if you had to put them under a different coach would be phenomenal. Man for man this Bulls side is bigger and may even have more potential but they can only play the “python” game and with defences so flatly lined they battle to break them down and defences can absorb the attacks all day long as the ABs did to the Boks.
20 Oct 2012, 18:24 pm
For all the other teams’ supporters. Please show some compassion towards us. We had to play the entire season with Morne Steyn and when the Boks played he also played.
The cancer for this Bulls team is the following.
1. Morne Steyn and the Bulls gameplan
2. Hougaard, who is a good player, but if you cannot play in the rain then you cannot play for the Boks. His kicking is useless.
3. Our props binding. The number of penalties Greyling and Werner Kruger conceded between them is shocking. The fact that any new prop has the same problem shows the coaching team needs to be blamed.
In Arno Botha, Ralepele, Juandre Kruger, Basson and some other we have enough to take this team forward, but we need to get rid of this cancer first.
To be humiliated in playing with pink jerseys does not help!
20 Oct 2012, 18:24 pm
@suffer_guy-204:
Go to the Africa Fight League 12 at Greyville Race Course on the 3rd November then we’ll talk.
20 Oct 2012, 18:24 pm
@Transformation-231: Morne needs a 3 week break in a MENTAL asylum. That swinging arm at the end told one tragic story…….
20 Oct 2012, 18:25 pm
Lambie sounds like a shy grade. 7 les been
20 Oct 2012, 18:25 pm
No Leadership and bignames costing the Bulls bigtime.
Plus the skop;jaag;pray;hope;faith;dirty bully techniques not working anymore!
Dont go pubbing in Tswane tonight!
20 Oct 2012, 18:25 pm
@mikeybrass-227: I still thought he wasn’t at his best and will get better playing there more often.
20 Oct 2012, 18:25 pm
If Bakkies isn’t banging on about the “filthy kiwis” its about “cheating refs”!
20 Oct 2012, 18:25 pm
Go Province!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
20 Oct 2012, 18:25 pm
Vok if the next game is as boring as this am gonna watch MIB 3
20 Oct 2012, 18:26 pm
@Predawn-218: his win over Machida is my favourite…killer guillotine
20 Oct 2012, 18:26 pm
Go Lions.
Lions by 12 I said.
20 Oct 2012, 18:26 pm
@Horings-237: The Bulls will be back dude. You have some stupendously talented youngster scoming through. If the management make the correct decisions i.e. DROP Spies, play Botha etc etc etc…no reason the Bulls won’t be rocking on shortly.
20 Oct 2012, 18:27 pm
@Liewe Luiperd-224:
It looks like the next game is going to be played in a massive thunderstorm.
20 Oct 2012, 18:28 pm
@Big Hit-201:
Not for the national coach to determine, when you consider their lifespan.
20 Oct 2012, 18:28 pm
@phil72-244: Even the WP fans (such as I) aren’t expecting a knockout game Christmas miracle
….one can always hope the trend has to change at some stage, in some knockout game…..
20 Oct 2012, 18:29 pm
@Mighty Horua-226: very naive performance, will need to step up QUICKLY!
20 Oct 2012, 18:29 pm
@Dawn-245:
Have you seen Taken 2? That Liam Neeson? guy?
20 Oct 2012, 18:29 pm
Morne has not even had a F break, he needs a fkin 6-12 month layofff. 6 months off rugby and 6 months playing as far away from the bulls as possible.
Not picking lambie as bok 10 in Goosens absence is plain fking stupid only a seriously biast, short sighted, conservitive chop would not lick lambie for EOYT.
20 Oct 2012, 18:29 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-248: Yes we can, but a guy like Venter regressed because he played alongside two deep standing mediocre flyhalves. He will not evolve. Hopefully when Pollard arrives at the Bulls they will hand him a dvd off all Honiball’s games and say “Just copy that”.
20 Oct 2012, 18:30 pm
SA Rugby needs a mental shift, how does one explain kicking the ball when you are 9 points behind in the last 10 min.
This safety first mental is killing chances of any comebacks in the last 10 min of play and in general.
Guys like Hougie are awesome talent but are limited by the system. Something needs to change.
but in the meantime, SHARKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
20 Oct 2012, 18:30 pm
Well done Sharks! Deserved winners.
Hard luck to the Bulls supporters too. It has been a tough few years but they will be back. As Horings says Steyn has proved once again just how his play has deteriorated and adds no value with his aimless kicking. The Bulls will be back…
20 Oct 2012, 18:30 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-239: Is there a bed open in your ward.?
20 Oct 2012, 18:31 pm
Bulls and Meyer have also almost single handedly fuked up Hougard as well. BUT if he can rise above it good stuff.
20 Oct 2012, 18:31 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-251:
Yeah! Expecting the Lions to come through. Lions Sharks final looking a good bet. It is wet here too…
20 Oct 2012, 18:31 pm
@Transformation-252:
Agree,
Nowhere on defence…..
20 Oct 2012, 18:31 pm
Not yet Horua
On my list
20 Oct 2012, 18:31 pm
There is nothing wrong with the up and under, right time right place. Alternate with with the little kick over the defenders heads but most of all running the ball, offloading and if its not on protecting your ball at the breakdown. If a flyhalve and backline can master those skills there will always be openings in defence.
20 Oct 2012, 18:31 pm
@suffer_guy-240: Your mother was a shy grade 7 ‘les been’ thats before someone stepped in the gutter and kicked her between the legs when she got pregnant with you. After that she became a ‘harbour favourite’
20 Oct 2012, 18:32 pm
@Transformation-252: itsho uphinde ntanga!
beku kakwa amapaina phezolo…
20 Oct 2012, 18:32 pm
Dear Bulls. You mofos need skills and not 2m 120kg giants. Domkrag is lankal dood al.
20 Oct 2012, 18:32 pm
@Horings-255:
Toughies mate! Us Province fans know the feeling… Things can only get better
20 Oct 2012, 18:32 pm
@Horings-255: It’s all down to WHAT your Ludekes and co work on in the off season.
Heyneke’s influence HAS to be ditched – totally.
In fact – you fellows should get some healers in to ‘cleanse’ Loftus of all the Meyer spirits full stop.
I hope the Bulls leadership have the b #lls to do what needs to be done…..it’s not that hard.
In all honesty – the Boks really DO need the Bulls to be strong.
20 Oct 2012, 18:33 pm
@Lang Giel-258: I own the place.
20 Oct 2012, 18:34 pm
Sies Dusky
20 Oct 2012, 18:34 pm
@bananaboy-242: Agreed. The game made me a convert to Lambieness.
20 Oct 2012, 18:34 pm
@Dusky-264:
You still in SA?
20 Oct 2012, 18:35 pm
@Horings-237: you’re asking for “compassion”?
bwahahahaha
20 Oct 2012, 18:35 pm
Lambie made a statement for sure…
20 Oct 2012, 18:35 pm
@Horings-255: Honiball, Stransky, Heunis (when he played flyhalf in ’89), Naas on attack… Anyone but copying bloody Morne.
20 Oct 2012, 18:36 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-269: They all say so. Now go and ask the male nurse if you can watch the Lions’ game too.
20 Oct 2012, 18:36 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-268: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, cleanse Loftus of all the Meyer spirits, Ha ha ha ha.
20 Oct 2012, 18:36 pm
Must say Arno Botha is an immense talent. He rarely goes back in the tackle and has a huge physical impact. He has the heart (NO SPIES), and his ball handling is very good. He keeps the ball alive. Very few players have all these attributes in one.
20 Oct 2012, 18:38 pm
@Horings-278:
Arno is a good player for sure. I hope the Bulls nurture him properly. Let Spies go to Europe, he adds very little to the Bulls…and SA…
20 Oct 2012, 18:38 pm
@Horings-278: Agreed. Send Spies to France; hell, I’ll pack his bags myself.
20 Oct 2012, 18:38 pm
Well played to the Sharks, congratualtions to their supporters.
Bulls weren’t really in it the whole game unfortunately.
It’s just been that kind of season for them.
Things will get better, they will be back.
20 Oct 2012, 18:39 pm
@Dawn-270:
20 Oct 2012, 18:40 pm
@Horings-278: I was also impressed by him.
20 Oct 2012, 18:40 pm
phew…
thanks mark lawrence…
and coetzee and reinach and lambie and mvovo and jpp and ludick.
who next at the tank?
heart says lions….
but let’s see.
20 Oct 2012, 18:41 pm
@mabu-265: hahahaha inene…sp marais = deer in headlights, falie oelschieg edlala umbolo wodwa ekhaba ipossession yethu!
20 Oct 2012, 18:41 pm
@Mighty Horua-272: Nope.
20 Oct 2012, 18:41 pm
Blame Heineken Meyer for the Slothy Stain!
Blue Bull rugby is going nowhere slowly. Such a shame, they buy all the local talent, converting the schoolbois into 1trick ponies with that filthy attitudes!
20 Oct 2012, 18:41 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-268: Funny you say that. Heyneke Meyer always spoke of important assets to have in finals rugby. Discipline is nr 1. Defense nr 2 and controlling the game tactically. I think the Bulls conceded the most tries at one stage in the Currie Cup. What was the penalty count in this game? Did you notice our accuracy in our kicking game today?
We are currently playing the opposite of good Heyneke Meyer rugby.
20 Oct 2012, 18:42 pm
@Horings-278: I am NO Bulls fan….but in my 1st post today, I stated very clearly that he is a Bok captain in the waiting. (CJ leaving has pushed him up the list….) He is a real, “I will lead, you will follow” player. Great ball carrier, great in the lineout, great defence and he has deceptive speed.
If you fellows start with Spies at 8 in Super rugby – you are effectively ruining Botha’s career and destiny.
20 Oct 2012, 18:43 pm
@Dusky-286:
Where you at?
20 Oct 2012, 18:44 pm
@Mighty Horua-290: Svalbard, Norway.
20 Oct 2012, 18:44 pm
@Horings-288: They are trying to play Meyer rugby without Meyer’s intelligence. Not going to work.
20 Oct 2012, 18:44 pm
Well you know how totallyfucked my beloved WP’s chances are, when the only person backing them for a win, is the Bulls captain……….(who happened to be a WP fan when he was a kid) Oh dear.
20 Oct 2012, 18:45 pm
At least our U21s and U19s won today. Hopefully the Lions win tonight for us to see where our U21s are against a full strength WP U21 team.
The Bulls have the talent, but do not need them to play alongside Steyn, Spies, Olivier and Kirchner. We needed them to play alongside FdP, Matfield and Guthro.
20 Oct 2012, 18:45 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-293: I reckon WP will win. Also the bookies actually have them as favourites. Just BTW.
20 Oct 2012, 18:45 pm
@mikeybrass-292:
Meyer’s intelligence??? Really…
20 Oct 2012, 18:46 pm
Creative rugby has won over rigid and stereotypical rugby.
20 Oct 2012, 18:47 pm
@Dusky-291:
So you done with SA? or just for a holiday?
20 Oct 2012, 18:47 pm
@Dusky-295:
As a Province supporter I don’t think so… I hope so though…
20 Oct 2012, 18:47 pm
@Gumboots-296: Intelligent people can and do do stupid things.
@Peter Mkata-297: Totally.
20 Oct 2012, 18:48 pm
@Dusky-295: Well then THOSE bookies have obviously NOT watched us play knockout rugby before?
20 Oct 2012, 18:49 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-301: LOL LOL
Let’s see if today is any different. JdV is out after all.
20 Oct 2012, 18:50 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-289: I actually predicted that Meyer will pick him as his captain at the start of the season. Sort of like a John Smit pick, but he unfortunately did not play in the Super 15.
At least Meyer, by picking Botha, Coetzee, Etzebeth, Goosen, etc this season he has an eye for talent. It is just the old players that he sort of feels the need to pick, but they do not pull their weight. I mean you cannot pick 15 uncapped players for the Boks like some bloggers want, but you cannot continue with Steyn.
One Meyer selection I can see no way to defend him was unfortunately the Jacques Potgieter pick, but I think he will not be in the touring group.
20 Oct 2012, 18:53 pm
@Horings-303:
Botha?
20 Oct 2012, 18:54 pm
allister, whatever he is as a coach he is an outstanding statesman…
good look on paying respect to tommy madigage & george davids.
#respect
20 Oct 2012, 18:57 pm
Well done my Sharks. Good win and now into the another final.
Well done to Lambie too. Very good performance from the young flyhalf again and getting mom. Hope Meyer was watching. Can’t keep a brilliant player like that on the bench Meyer!
20 Oct 2012, 18:57 pm
@Mighty Horua-298: Done with SA for now I think – but who knows what the future brings.
20 Oct 2012, 18:57 pm
@Transformation-305: He is an incredible man full stop.
One I will certainly defend to the end. In terms of integrity, he has no competition.
20 Oct 2012, 18:57 pm
@Horings-303: i bet u Pottie will tour…meyer is convinced he is the next Bonnairre.
20 Oct 2012, 19:00 pm
Arno Botha, future Bulls and boks captain… In 2015 this could be our loose trio:
8 Botha
7 Coetzee
6 Kolisi
20 Oct 2012, 19:00 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-308: no arguments from me…from rugby/technical perspective…lacks dynamism
20 Oct 2012, 19:02 pm
@Transformation-311: All lacks dynamism means is:
pull in a few consultants – wild and creative ones
20 Oct 2012, 19:14 pm
Lambie and Daniel showing Heyneke a big up yours!!! Well done Sharks!!
20 Oct 2012, 19:16 pm
@mabu-265:
Amava namabhabathane. Kufuneka balungise 1, 9, 10(Whitehead) kule veki izayo.
20 Oct 2012, 19:18 pm
@mikeybrass-300: I think Meyer intelligence is an oxymoron
20 Oct 2012, 19:25 pm
well done sharks, well deserved. hope my bulls learned something at least.
20 Oct 2012, 19:25 pm
313…and mark lawrence to
20 Oct 2012, 19:30 pm
316….what was there to learn?
I dont believe either side played particularly well.
Difference is that one side was able to get some rythmn through penalties the other side was not.
20 Oct 2012, 20:02 pm
@Brigadier Van Zyl-317: Ditto and may he burn in hell.
20 Oct 2012, 20:06 pm
@David-304: Arno Botha. Meyer brought him into the Springbok group before the NZ/ Aus games.
20 Oct 2012, 20:43 pm
Well done to all you sharks fans you won fair and sqare,the bulls have no excuses,they have been playing SHITE all season and they played shite again today.Pienaar must now eff off back to the free state,as the bulls have went backwards under him.They were lucky to make the semis as their play did not deserve it.
20 Oct 2012, 21:36 pm
Bakkies…..told you mate….Bulls got nothing!
Lambie and sharks were a country mile bettter….
Hope the M Steyn debate is ended .
20 Oct 2012, 21:56 pm
thanks for the warmup bulls
20 Oct 2012, 22:26 pm
Well done to my Sharks, Stayed patient and slowly wore the Bulls down,
Tough Luck Bulls,
Conditions were very difficult, I see some fool making comments in total stupidity, then again not surprised taking into account whom the persons were.
20 Oct 2012, 22:28 pm
BUtch with the Sharks next year done deal, you read it here first Lol
20 Oct 2012, 22:29 pm
@blueboy-321: Tough luck mate and well done on not being like some making all the excuses in the world,
20 Oct 2012, 22:29 pm
@sharks_lover-325: dont f uk around!
you have made my year!
butch is one of my sharks hero’s.
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
20 Oct 2012, 22:31 pm
@Horings-320: Bad luck Horings,
20 Oct 2012, 22:32 pm
@rangerman-327: NO jokes Ranger bro, he is our back up 10 next year. sharkssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
20 Oct 2012, 22:32 pm
CJ Van De Linde off to france.
20 Oct 2012, 22:36 pm
@sharks_lover-329: bud you just made my night seriously.
you know how hard it was seeing butchie in lions colours?
no man, he is a shark thats it thats all.
i will stand and applaud his first step back onto our hallowed turf.
butch, i cant wait to see you back in black my man!
20 Oct 2012, 22:48 pm
@rangerman-331:
Mate i agree, Butch always a Sharks in my eyes, and atleast now we have good cover at 10.
20 Oct 2012, 22:55 pm
@sharks_lover-332: whoooooooooooooohooooooo!
21 Oct 2012, 00:34 am
Congratulations Sharks.
See you…scratch that…Win you next week.
21 Oct 2012, 00:45 am
@Mxhosa 310
well said, i agree! However, kholisi and coetsee play too much of the same game, I would love to see CJ Stander stay, he could fill the gap at 7 and have kholisi at 6 and arno botha at 8.
21 Oct 2012, 06:28 am
Well done Sharks….really good to see.
I really dont like the Bulls for some reason…… just personal hatred
But i see going by Bakkies posts that South African refs cheat as well.
What is going on here. Is it that the refs hate Bakkies himself or is it every team Bakkies backs is just bad luck…..
21 Oct 2012, 08:11 am
@Hurricane-336: Thanks mate. Actually you can become a honorary Shark Supporter this week..
We welcome all to support us in the final of Currie Cup at the Tank … 
Currie Cup here is huge mate, as big as Super Rugby for some of us. This will be the 3rd year in a row that Sharks have made the Currie Cup final and the 4th time in 5 years. Won it in 2008 and 2010. So hoping we can do it again.
21 Oct 2012, 08:19 am
@sharks_lover-325: That is brilliant news. Great back up for Lambie then. Actually after Butch played so well for Lions last week he SHOULD have started at fh for Lions again last night and they would have won.
Read in the paper that Ackerman wanted to start Butch at inside centre and he said no, would then rather sit on the bench. As he said he really does not like playing at 12. Ackerman should have started Butch again this week at fh after a brilliant performance last week. Jantjies was out of form last week and again last night and it cost the Lions.
Sharks can do with Butch for another year to cover Lambie. Good move by our Sharks to get him back. Those old knees of Butchie, still have another year of rugby left in em.
Hope somehow we can get the Lions LH to Sharks next year on loan to cover Beast. Then we sorted.
21 Oct 2012, 08:20 am
@rangerman-331: Feel exactly the same. Good words there Ranger.
21 Oct 2012, 09:11 am
I hope srain gets cited for that stiff arm.
21 Oct 2012, 10:24 am
Well if Lawrence was pro-bull…. he performed just as bad as the Bulls.
Bulls not going anywhere with this gameplan anymore.
Time overdue to re-think the plan for the next ten years.
I back the Bulls to actually get it right by S15 next year.
Shouldn’t be to difficult.
Congrats Sharks.
21 Oct 2012, 10:25 am
….shouldn’t be too… difficult, I mean.
21 Oct 2012, 10:27 am
@Puma-337:
And you will have my support Puma.
21 Oct 2012, 10:41 am
@Hurricane-343: Good on you young man
21 Oct 2012, 11:39 am
@RL-190:
thanks RL, and hard luck for your boys too. you played a better game than the bulls did and you actually had an impartial referee.
both the lions and wp deserved to win but only one team could get it.
now then, wp or the sharkies… i’m torn…
@Atreides-175: @Atreides-228:
if looking forward to good positive rugby is a sin then ja well no fine… i’m guilty…
@Dusky-221:
how does history have anything to do with this game..?.. this was about the here and now, and in the here and now the bulls got shafted by a mediocre joker ref. sharks were the fancied team and in all probabiltiy should have been rightful winners but lets be honest about what went on here.
@bananaboy-236:
cheers bananaboy, ja this bulls team is still in transition and maybe one or two seasons aways from being earnest contenders. well done on your teams win all the same but the ref did leave a sour taste in the mouth.
@grant10-322:
nothing about the referee, grantie..?.
not a word…?..
@Hurricane-336:
ja, its personal… i think they hate me… and every man and his dog loves to hate the bulls and their players… in the case of the ref i honestly dont know what to say….
was it gross incompetence… was it something more sinister than even that…?..
its hard to say hurri, but i can tell you that the ref actually changed the laws of the game at point, in favour of the sharks.. literally did… i know this usually only happens for the ab’s and nz teams so it was rather shocking to witness.
even though it was pointed out to him by hs assistants and the tmo he chidied them off for being ‘overly technical’
with the rules.. i shitt you not..
21 Oct 2012, 11:43 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-345:
hehe
As always a lovely post by you Bakkies.
Sorry about your cheated loss.
Next time dude.
21 Oct 2012, 11:49 am
changed the laws of the game at point, = changed the laws of the game at one point,
21 Oct 2012, 11:52 am
@Hurricane-346:
hehe cheers and thanks hurri,
you had to see it to believe it with the ref last night. mark lawrence was outta this world with some of his rulings.
21 Oct 2012, 13:17 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-345: Coochy coo… Ag Shamies…
Looks like its more difficult than I thought for a Bulls supporter with obvious tunnel vision to actually accept that a team with superior players, 1 to 22, despite them being too small or better 15s than 10s with various other closedminded blindness to superiority excuses intersperse – got absolutely manshamed once and for all on the hallowed Kings Park turf…
And that with two egte “soft” souties at the coalface – Cooper and Chadwick actually embarrassing the “might” of the Bulls frontrow before Beast cam on actually annihilated them once and for all…
Followed by too small Keegan stealing a vaunted Bulls lineout nogal, and the other soutie Lambie absolutely embarrassing the flyhalf emperor with no clothes…
You poor pitiful live in the past Bull glories dumbfuck fool
21 Oct 2012, 13:31 pm
@Heavens Game-349:
ejoy your win hg
enjoy it
21 Oct 2012, 15:01 pm
When okes start moaning about a ref I can shite in my favourite undies. Im a Bulls supporter, but we were out played fair and square, there is no two ways about it! There was a high penalty count against the bulls, but that’s because they had no discipline! Jaques Potgieter was mostly guilty, he should have been on the bench in CJ Stander’s place. Well done sharks, I hope you give WP an absolute hiding in the final!
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