Sharks to see off Stormers
28 Feb 2013
MARK KEOHANE writes Stormers fans must prepare for more Super Rugby misery in Durban.
The Sharks will beat the Stormers in Durban. It won’t be an easy victory but when these two teams play one point is emphatic enough in the chase to being the best South African team in the competition.
The Sharks were magnificent in beating the Stormers in Cape Town in the 2012 semi-final season and in turn the Stormers, in the guise of Western Province in the Currie Cup final, were as magnificent in winning the title in Durban.
The Sharks were surprisingly edgy and tentative in the final quarter in Bloemfontein to hang on against the Cheetahs, but then the Cheetahs did beat the Stormers in Bloemfontein in a pre-season match.
I know Elton Jantjies will be better but the Stormers are missing the colossal presence of lock Eben Etzebeth more even than the Sharks are missing the influence of Bok hooker Bismark du Plessis.
The Sharks pack is good enough to get an edge, especially in the collisions, but it’s the Sharks back division that will trouble the Stormers more than the Bulls did.
Pat Lambie asks more attacking questions at flyhalf and Frans Steyn has a physicality at No 12 that wasn’t there in the Bulls line-up.
The back three of the Sharks, as a unit, also shades the visitors.
It is going to be difficult for the Stormers and while away defeats aren’t a train smash in the tournament, it does add to the pressure of a ‘must win’ situation when playing at home.
The Bulls will win easily against the Force and get the bonus point and the Cheetahs will be competitive against the Chiefs and may just get a bonus point for tries scored if the game opens up as expected. The Chiefs will win and get five league points.
The Kings will enjoy their second great weekend in the competition because of the bye. Thereafter it will become decidedly tougher and demanding for a squad blessed with passion and desire but very limited on pedigree at this level.
For those who like to forget when I do get it right, 3/3 last week in relation to the SA teams. That’s right I couldn’t find too many on Twitter and the inbox was predictably empty with the clever guys who offered such articulate abuse at me picking the Bulls and Kings to win.
I expect another slow post match response when the Sharks do the business in Durban.
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1 Mar 2013, 21:00 pm
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” you should horsewhipped like the wretched .. ”
Is that your best private school English on show?
I will do the horsewhipping of you for you if you really ask me politely.
1 Mar 2013, 21:07 pm
Shut it you stupid f’ng moron the only one taking anything you mumble out your garbage infested imbalanced brain is yourself. Who the fck you trying to lecture on morality of life you dumber than dumb dummy sucking pathetic morally bereft fckdup queen.
1 Mar 2013, 21:23 pm
lol. skopishit calling someone else a £stupid f’ng moron”. Speak for yourself you senile old snoek-breathed goat.
1 Mar 2013, 21:24 pm
@BULLET-698: I’m less surprised seeing Stormershits at the bottom.
1 Mar 2013, 21:28 pm
lol so far the stormershits the only team without even a bonus point.
1 Mar 2013, 21:32 pm
Get fckd you stupid pathetic little pompous piece of sharkshit infested ingrained garbage
1 Mar 2013, 21:33 pm
Long live the Queen.
And Jake White.
1 Mar 2013, 21:37 pm
@ShaunB-707:
And John Smit
1 Mar 2013, 21:38 pm
@victoriabok-708:
And Schalk Burger.
1 Mar 2013, 21:40 pm
And Ziggy Stardust.
1 Mar 2013, 21:41 pm
@ShaunB-709:
And Bruce Springsteen
1 Mar 2013, 21:44 pm
And Rassie Erasmus.
1 Mar 2013, 21:45 pm
And Heyneke Meyer.
1 Mar 2013, 21:46 pm
@ShaunB-713:
And T-Bone steak
1 Mar 2013, 21:47 pm
and Elton Jantjes
1 Mar 2013, 21:51 pm
@Robzim-715:
And Kobus van der Merwe
1 Mar 2013, 21:57 pm
And E.T
1 Mar 2013, 22:01 pm
@ShaunB-717:
No he likes ET, they’ve both been born in the same Asylum
They played with each other’s Matchbox cars in Valkenberg’s “Krazy Kleuter” kindergarten
1 Mar 2013, 22:05 pm
And “skittlesticks” cricket.
1 Mar 2013, 22:15 pm
@Angostura-602:
Did that old UPE degree that any Afrikaner was entitled to on registration not prepare you to separate fact from fiction and thus not leave so confused as you now are?
” METAPHORICALLY ” violence (then, in a word and cutting the rest of that paragraph) :
Explain please how that enters the equation then in the cyber world where physical socialising is not possible?
What is the set purpose of that wasted paragraph?
In short , it is plain rubbish, not so?
” Also, there are things men just don’t do:” says who and to whom?
Did some god-like apparition suddenly appear before you one day and wrote those rules on your pale Afrikaner backside(is that obscene or is arse a better fit?). And since it filled that arse-space, no similar rules were given or written for the opposite gender?
Man you are some extreme work of a creator.
As for that 2nd or last paragraph, you can save your patronising, condescending and paternalistic attitude and advice for those whose sick, vulgar deeds you cover-up and protect by sparing your brush from making even sweeps on the canvas of life.
Why do you evade the truth and especially the cavalier use, insensitively so of the 47 mineworkers killed at Marikana in a pathologic rugby joke?
Advice:
” …never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee….”
1 Mar 2013, 22:18 pm
@ET.-720:
Should read ” not leave you so confused …”
1 Mar 2013, 22:25 pm
Eish Keo, you can’t talk up the Sharks like that, its like a matador waving a shiny red cape at a enraged Bull to some.
Comments should be interesting.
1 Mar 2013, 23:27 pm
@grant10-51: Careful Tank, ” because those universities simply will not change their entrance requirements or downgrade their degrees on offer” that certainly is a serious comment to make. Although you try to give the impression of a neutral referee I get the impression you long for the amateur days like Mr. Skopskiet. Remember in those days you there were not a lot of guys around doing what they love and writing about rugby for a living.The world is moving forward fast and the Bulls recognise that. Move with it or get left behind.
2 Mar 2013, 00:20 am
@ET.-720: Truth? Confusion? Fact & Fiction? Rubbish? How would you know?
You are not about the truth; you are about self-indulgence.
I have no intention of feeding that.
G’nite
2 Mar 2013, 00:27 am
For the first time, I agree with Angrystura about something.
2 Mar 2013, 08:14 am
@Treehugger-722: Hi TH.You well.?Good article & pic last week
2 Mar 2013, 17:39 pm
Huzzit Rye, sorry don’t which one and where, I cancelled the the witness interview and the E tv one until a later date, for the main trial when we can prosecute, me in court is minor.
3 Mar 2013, 03:55 am
@NZINCHINA-440: Anybody going into a bar in jhb or pretoria should be concerned for their safety.
3 Mar 2013, 04:35 am
@Fern-565: you seriously think I delight in the barbaric torture and death of someone through acts as dispicable as this? GTFOH… I find it reprehensible but sadly an all too common occurance, especially on your continent.. the base level of humanity is crass, abhorrent and downright evil… but continue, you only ever make yourself look the fool when trying to assert my true feelings or opinions..
lol you really do have a bee in your bonnet about me huh Fern?
I’ll repeat, the times I post SA crime stories are in direct correlation to the times NZ crime stories are mentioned…FACT.
or are you still upset because I remind everyone that you faked your own death on this blog? Lazarus, Ive seen you say some pretty crass things, especially about the fairer ***, so best to shut it yeah?
thing is, as ET has so rightly pointed out (and I dont condone his comments to the ladies either), there is very much a huge hypocritical divergence on this blog..
When some Saffas mention crime stories about NZ, wife beating etc hardly any other Saffas will speak up and deride the commentor, yet when I post similar or relevant crime stories, for e.g domestic violence in SA, I am seen as scum and filth..
this really is an indictment on your society as a whole, willing to mock others for their social ills but then get quite perturbed when someone from that other country points out your own failings..
use it or dont, I dont really care Lazarus..
as Ive said often, I’ll gladly have a beer with anyone on this blog if they happen to be in Sydney.. hell, I’ll even shout the first 5 rounds..
3 Mar 2013, 04:41 am
forgot to add Fern
you should make a joke about my dead mother in response to this post..
it is after all yours, HGs and whatevers “fall back” to any point or post I make..
hell, HG was making jokes about it 3 weeks after the event, even after I asked him to desist… he thought it was hilarious, much like you and whatever do too..
but all it does is show how little respect you have for human life
please let me know when you lose a loved one within three weeks of their passing, and we’ll see how you like jokes about it all..
3 Mar 2013, 05:23 am
@the curse-730: You should not judge him too harsly, being a loudmouth shark supporter living in pretoria who hates afrikaners and with his personality. It cant be easy. He might be physically abused on a regulas basis. That might explain the hate and desire to hurt. He is the proudest “damduiker ” I know.
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