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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28 Feb 2013, 18:40 pm
@ET.-499:
> about 47 deaths of mineworkers striking
> Marikana massacre[9] was the single most lethal use of force
Are you referring to these guys?
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Marikana-miners-burnt-sheep-alive-in-ritual-20130225
” A group of striking mine workers gathered near a river on a dark night to undergo a series of rituals that would make it impossible for bullets to penetrate their bodies when fired at”
Why would an innocent protester want to be impervious to bullets?
28 Feb 2013, 18:40 pm
Bakkies
Vir jou aandag
SA Rugby magazine
TOMORROW on http://www.sarugbymag.co.za: Gareth Duncan speaks to BAKKIES BOTHA about life in France
28 Feb 2013, 18:45 pm
@Dawn-500: I think that’s like when you scratch your poephol and nobody sees.
28 Feb 2013, 18:48 pm
Too close to call for me. If the Sharks had looked cohesive against the Cheetahs for the full 80 minutes I would be more confident. They however had a lot of chances against the Cheetahs which they failed to round off and there was also that 15 minute period when the Sharks took a nap.
The Sharks have to round off opportunities and play for 80 minutes if they are going to win this. The two parts of their game that could be rated as poor from last weekend.
Elton Jantjes had a nightmare last weekend but we all know we can expect more than that from him. If he comes right in this game, I think the Sharks might have a long day at the office.
I would say this might come down to whichever team makes the least mistakes. Discipline will be very important.
Reason tells me 50/50 – Heart tells me Sharks by 7 or less.
28 Feb 2013, 18:48 pm
Shame another .itch that does not want to see the period(.) before the ‘i’.
28 Feb 2013, 18:50 pm
Sharkies will be singing:”stop draggingn my arse around” – the new SAPS ad.
28 Feb 2013, 18:50 pm
I wonder why the period has been placed there by this poster.
28 Feb 2013, 18:52 pm
Or would you prefer me to write itch (starting with a ‘b’ )?
28 Feb 2013, 18:53 pm
@Dawn-500:
I think he’s talking about his small wanger with lice.
28 Feb 2013, 18:56 pm
@ET.-508: I would prefer you to shut the **** up, now that you’re asking.
28 Feb 2013, 18:59 pm
I have feelings ET
It destroys me internally when such stand up folk and interweb heroes of the ET and Tyrone sort attack me so viciously for what seems to be no reason
Indeed, it destroys me and I bleed inside.
But that is because I laughsofuckingmuch at how much effort they put into their “campaign of hate”
I reckon they should focus on something a little more communal in nature? Interwebmorons without Borders? They should be sharing their gifts with a wider audience?
28 Feb 2013, 18:59 pm
@ET.-508:
No, we’d prefer you to get treatment for the itch and all-round lunacy
A precription for Penicillin and Thorazine should to the trick
28 Feb 2013, 18:59 pm
pedigree doggy poo
Elsewhere, to build that fake image, lies flow endlessly like the spittle dribbling from the lips of a 120yr.old unable to keep it in :
” I must be honest, the boredom associated with living in a country with political stability would kill me off…”
Yet your ivory tower is in so very stable ‘Republic of Dirtbinville’. Can you appreciate the irony from that so obvious lie?
You just cannot seem to control body fluids(lies) for if you are not spraying ‘jou pis’ from somewhere ‘dan is dit jou spoeg van daai bek van jou’ elsewhere.
28 Feb 2013, 19:01 pm
@Dusky-504:
Sharks did allow Cheetahs back into the game, and Mvovo’s try was lucky in that he turned a poor and overthrown line out into 7 points through his own brilliance rather than a team effort, but they are definitely still favorites for Saturday.
28 Feb 2013, 19:03 pm
Do some realise the gender of a B itch? Does not seem so.
All they have are dreams, wet ones from what a Hungarian professor jokingly describe as ” their pimple”
28 Feb 2013, 19:04 pm
@ET.-513:
MOT
We’re going up!
28 Feb 2013, 19:07 pm
Some so-called “men” have no clue how to speak to women.
The culture of violence lives on.
28 Feb 2013, 19:09 pm
Utterly sick “rugbyMarikana for my Stormers” no reason?
Still lying and shamelessly so? Your emotional linking are just too worthless.
28 Feb 2013, 19:13 pm
It’s a metaphor you stupid brainless fool
A metaphor
An accepted English grammatical phrase you useless underside of a maggot
Stop abusing women anonymously online you lily livered coward
28 Feb 2013, 19:14 pm
Attack? Is it not physical too?
Here is more then but for once try some answers as your ‘image’ is virtually vanishing :
pedigree doggy poo-61:
Instead of spraying ‘jou pis’ like a .itch on heat and displaying your groupie ‘jagsheid’ to all the globe via the internet, why not address your seriously lacking rugby credibility?
Tell us groupie, what are ” … all the right reasons” you, as a ‘lightie’ growing up in your parentally desired racist environment, supported just racist sports(rugby, cricket) played at racist venues until the present? Have you ever been to Langa Stadium, Vygiekraal, City Park, Green Point Track(not Stadium), Florida Park, UWC, Dan Qeqe Stadium, Adcock Stadium and more where those sports were played too by the fathers of Kleinveld, Carr, De Jong, Philander, Kolisi, Bobo, Duminy, Barnes, Domingo, Peterson( X 3) and millions more?
If not, why not? Is it because of your closeted racist heritage?
Tell us too what are “… all the wrong reasons” that you know just ‘fokkol’ about Kwaru(clubs like Union, St.Cyprians, Spring Rose R.Cs etc.), E.P.R.U( St.Marks, Swans, Wallabies R.Cs etc – A..C’s. home union), Sedru, Tygerberg R.U., W.P. R. Board, City & Suburban R.U., W.P. Country Distr. and a host more?
What do you really know about Gavin, Ronnie ,Valence and Dan Watson(and teammates Peter.Mkata, Temba Ludwaba, Norman Xhoxho, Yeye, Speelman and more)?. If not, why not? Is it that protective, beneficial ‘apartheid’ ivory tower existence that rounded you with a questionable credibility, so well?
What about Jabaar, Fredricks, Majiets(X4), Lefty Adams, Tiffie Barnes, Yacoob Omar, Hardie Dollie and tons more? Have you or you folks seen them play sport? If not why not? I have seen countless of your racists from before and after Dawie Snyman and Hansie Cronje and others. It was shoved down our gullets by radio and tv day after day.
Are you still a “Coloured” woman now? If that has not worked why not claim to be “Indian”? They are so gentle.
And what is so wrong and off-putting that you have not tried to claim to be Venda(like Ramphele) or Zulu or Xhosa(your ‘gatgabba’ would like that)?
Credibility, ‘celeb’ groupie?
What, where, groupie?
28 Feb 2013, 19:15 pm
I am out for tonight
The abuse and bile spewn towards women by et sharks lover and hg makes me sick.
Got better things to do with my time
28 Feb 2013, 19:17 pm
@Jinx2-516:
Only with Adkins but that is next season.
NW will be talking too much after early game Sat but will shut up permanently after Leicester and Palce which are next.
28 Feb 2013, 19:17 pm
Hello darkness my old friend.
I come to talk with again.
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
“Fools,” said I, “you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence
28 Feb 2013, 19:17 pm
@ET.-513: You dedicate so much of your ‘valuable’ time to me. I honestly don’t know whether I should be delighted that I have this incredible effect on you? I mean hellsbellsrollingthunder, you rise to the occasion like a fuckingtripoddriebal on a stand at my every post….my every comment….
OR: (Option ‘B’)
I should feel physically ill and more than a little concerned…… in a ‘ohmyfuck he is stalking me and showering me with attention’ sort of way?
Decisions, decisions.
28 Feb 2013, 19:19 pm
Go vent your 1970 spleen elsewhere
She is worth ten of you and has more class in her little finger than you have in your whole fecked up body
She is not responsible for apartheid nor Marikana so feckoff you waste of space
28 Feb 2013, 19:21 pm
Vok these men make me befuck
28 Feb 2013, 19:27 pm
524
Because you are the most genuine fake I have encountered, you are the gift that keeps on giving, endlessly, with many stupid, silly, senseless, thoughtless, si, politically insensitive comments thinking it is all so smart.
And now with wet ‘gatlappertjies’ you want more body fluids to emanate from your eyes? Are you not tired of leaking body fluids?
Try answers, honest answers and with humility when you are in someone else’s land of origin.
28 Feb 2013, 19:28 pm
-526:
Is it because they have what you cannot get?
28 Feb 2013, 19:32 pm
@Dawn-525: Men? What men
The ones you refer to couldn’t be called men, even with poetic liberty.
The gold chain wearing walrus like waiter Tyrone…..the computer says NO.
The pingpongpongshuttlecocking refugee and part time ‘revolutionary’ ET….the computer says NO.
28 Feb 2013, 19:32 pm
@Jeraldjay-523:
Sounds of silence.
There’s good advice.
Now, if only people listened!
28 Feb 2013, 19:48 pm
524
Lies, more lies and still no shame?
” so much of your ‘valuable’ time … ”
First posts today since Sunday and it is Thursday 12.45pm EST here and I am having a lunchtime laugh at your easy, fake expense.
” at my every post….my every comment…. ”
Now you lie again and again and are blind too and cannot count and you cry like a baby — hallmarks of a pinkpiggy bully clearly. Or is it that 28 day cycle that makes you now so teary? Count all your posts just today and all silly and worthless and how many do I respond to ’til this moment?
BTW who ignored your “every comment” Saturday during the Kings game and more with your immature comments as you looked for trouble(thinking you are smartarsed) with your silly “for the right reasons” garbage plus,plus?
Be advised to leave well alone.
Option? You have no right to any option .itchy.
If you can’t stand the heat when seeking it then do the sane thing and leave the kitchen, shallow one.
Know now and well that I am a heat-seeking missile. Learn and do it well.
28 Feb 2013, 19:49 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-511: Youre always innocent huh??? for once do not be a typical woman that never shuts the hell up and move o0n by, you are the one always making snide remarks towards me.
I told you before, leave me alone and i will reciprocate, but see you never do, you always come with your smarty pants comments. It really is easy, YOU ARE NOT AS INNOCENT AS YOU TRY SQUEEL ABOUT,
And lastly i am not tyrone, now move on.
28 Feb 2013, 19:51 pm
@ET.-527: I might not always agree with you and the whole race issue thing, but fake she is, I agree 1oo%
28 Feb 2013, 19:51 pm
@Jeraldjay-523:
How is Alan Dersho?
Hope you learn that lesson well, very well. Just the truth,pumpkin, and not your questionable understanding thereof.
28 Feb 2013, 19:58 pm
What race issue? I know exactly where all stand on that as I am the only one here that has a SACOS tie and it is black with some gold Olympic torchon that black background.
The Durban July race is only, as it says, in July and the winner will be CapeTown Noir(if he is entered). He won me much money in 2 races just recently in Cape Town.
My weekly lunchtime gig is done.
28 Feb 2013, 20:02 pm
@ 532
Yes you are Tyrone
28 Feb 2013, 20:03 pm
@ET.-535: ET now you know all your posts are either politics or race issue based. talk rugby on a rugby site amd i will gladly discuss that with you.
But like i said when it comes to the fake woman?? i agree lol
28 Feb 2013, 20:04 pm
@Rage-536: No i am not you idjut, now run along, go do the dishes for your wife.
28 Feb 2013, 20:06 pm
pedigree doggy poo-529:
After the cry of the .itch, the false bravado creeps back uncontrollably but it is all so childish.
That last sentence has meaning only to the child that is you. No fellow toddler around you, and that includes your killer “rotti”, will follow that. Say it in Afrikaans or even Latin then some might follow.
Now you can cry in peace before I leave you in pieces. ‘Totsiens, brakkie.’
28 Feb 2013, 20:08 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-532: Tyrone,Tyron,Tyrone……..
You are more obvious that ET’s crush on me…..
The Mormon and the Moron sitting in a tree;
Wailing and whinging bout little old me
28 Feb 2013, 20:09 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-537:
Are you in the same S.Africa I was in 8 weeks ago for the 3rd time in four years?
It is still the same as before. Sport is politics and politics is sport.
You have read that before from me hence I write about both simultaneously, very often.
28 Feb 2013, 20:11 pm
Blues vs Crusaders – Blues
Warathas vs Rebels – who cares!
Reds vs Hurricanes – Canes
Chiefs vs Cheetahs – Chiefs
Bulls vs Force – Bulls
Sharks vs Stormers – Sharks
28 Feb 2013, 20:16 pm
” You are more obvious that ET’s crush on me….. ”
Now is that English or merely more of your emotional, senseless “jagsheid” spraying again?lease try more of that sick stuff “colustrum” (sic) again as the opposite extreme to your life fast approaches.
Have yo not claimed all of both ‘M’s already?
28 Feb 2013, 20:24 pm
Go straight to hell you two stupid bas tards
28 Feb 2013, 20:39 pm
@ET.-531:
> that I am a heat-seeking missile.
6″ only qualify as a small Vienna Mr Extraball
28 Feb 2013, 21:53 pm
@ET.-543: how come you can’t banter with the women on this blog without referring to their sexuality or calling them derogatory names?
what part of the SACOS doctrine do you espouse when you refer to women as b.itches?
you are a disgrace to the men who dutifully ran that organisation!
sies!
28 Feb 2013, 22:00 pm
@Transformation-546:
Ngubani lomfo? Ngumntu okanye lidlagusha?
28 Feb 2013, 22:08 pm
some thoughts:
SAPS brutalising & killing inhabitants … AGAIN – making us the the polecat of the world … AGAIN (all over international news networks).
Some SA men need to learn to respect, & protect women (a good rule of thumb is to treat (incl. speak to) women the way one would want your mother, your daughter and your sister to be treated).
What’s happening to us?
28 Feb 2013, 22:11 pm
@Angostura-548: err & your wife or girlfriend, of course!
eish
28 Feb 2013, 22:14 pm
@mxhosa-547: ngowebala, ukhulele apha eBhayi naseKapa, umdala nokuba mdala kuba ukhe athethe nangela xesha lo cheeky, yeye, majola…
kodwa ukrwada kwaye uyazicingela, pha kuye ubhadle ngaphezu komntu wonke olapha kwaye yena nguye yedwa oyaziyo okuba umzabalazo yintoni.
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