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.
731 Comments
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28 Feb 2013, 13:30 pm
@nama1-228: I am not worried too… I know it is true… I have accepted it…
The Sharkshit Mercenaries with no tradition, loyalty or success in comparison to the mighty Stormers wont win…
Done deal…
So, two peas in a pod, both not worried and satisfied that the Stormers – Conference Title favourites – will definitely win against the choking Sharks, apparently favourites for just this game…
28 Feb 2013, 13:30 pm
This is a nice little side show but I’m picking a NZ team will win the title again this season, early days but im not seeing anything from the SAFFA sides that will worry us, the Chiefs will put the Cheetahs to the sword on Saturday and put the Sharks win into perspective.
28 Feb 2013, 13:31 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-225: Lol… A rumpsteak rave…
28 Feb 2013, 13:36 pm
@nama1-248: Sorry again my esteemed kenner from the Richtersveld – forgot to make it “favourites”…
But yes, they are favourites according to the esteemed kenners – especially Keo – therefore according to other kenners, like yourself and Rottie Bender, they will definitely choke….
All over Rover… I will start coughing/choking soon in preparation for the monumental Saturday choke from the favourites…
28 Feb 2013, 13:39 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-230: Tyrone? Calmthefuckdown. Take a deep breath (yes, you can smell your wrinkledbuttcrack if you wish, just take a deep breath…) Now count to 10, and no 12 doesn’t come before 10.
Now focus thefuckup.
The guppies are the favourites, whether you and your posseofpussies like it or not. Now you can swear at folk, and call them ***, and accuse them of contaminating the water in your toilet – it changes nothing…….
Now readthefuckingmemo, and chill. We don’t want you ‘leaving’ the site before another Sharks vs WP/Stormers game. Hobbitonafuckingmissionyouare.
I once knew a fella named Ty
Such a coward and classless barfly
He once ran away
Cos he shouted ‘foul play’
He’s back and he loves humble pie.
(Not my finest effort….but good enough for Tyrone the drone)
28 Feb 2013, 13:40 pm
@@whistle@blower@-246:
The $200 is the amount of money you have to buy players.
You need to click on the “Manage my team” bar to select players.
You can select your team until one hour before the 1st game kick off.
If I can give you some advice: Go to the “How to play” bar 1st and print it out. It will give you all the rules wrt scoring points, substitutes, transfers etc. It will give you a better indication of how to select your team.
28 Feb 2013, 13:40 pm
Kaaaa…
Boomaluka, Boomaluka, wha, wha, wha
Chilalaka, Chilalaka, cha, cha, cha
Bommaluka, Chilalaka, who are we?
We are, we are the Stormers
Yeah Stormers, yeah Stormers, yeah Stormers
Vat hom, vat hom, vat hom, Yeah!
28 Feb 2013, 13:40 pm
@NZINCHINA-252: Looking forward to the Chiefs playing the side that finished no 1 last year and never faced the champs.. will be nice yardstick for where the Stormers stand this year…. Newlands.. gonna be tough for the Chiefs..
28 Feb 2013, 13:41 pm
@Heavens Game-254: Nope. I don’t think the guppies will choke this time round, as I believe they will have hardenedthefuckup mentally in the off season
Choking is for the unfortunate clients in that guppyguzzlers restaurant……
28 Feb 2013, 13:46 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-255: Again you assume i am sone I am not? should you not be back ar work on that street corner you frequent you “insignifacunt” know it all over opinionated wench?
And I am as calm as the ocean in Ballito, no waves today, must be because that foul winds from the Cape have died down.
28 Feb 2013, 13:47 pm
@Provvas-258:
That’s next week from memory it will be a cracker, the Chiefs have the best coaches in the comp.
28 Feb 2013, 13:48 pm
@mikeybrass-257: Lol Mickey, thats the way to chune us. and we know you going to win.
28 Feb 2013, 13:48 pm
@Heavens Game-251:
Now all you need to do is go out there and buy the jersey.
28 Feb 2013, 13:50 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-262: Don’t you worry. We don’t let the false Sharkie matrydom complexes get to us
28 Feb 2013, 13:51 pm
@TooMuchRugby-241: True, but don’t understand why our centres keep taking crash ball. Just think with this game plan if we had Alberts, Spies and Vermeulen at flyhalf and centres (ok Spies needs to catch the ball then) we wont even need wings except to chase up and unders. Will definitely make it over advantage line,
28 Feb 2013, 13:51 pm
…so Sharks are gonna get you is Sharks_Lover after all….huhahaha….
28 Feb 2013, 13:53 pm
@mikeybrass-264: No martyr, just gut feel simple really, do i wish for a Stormer victory?? hell no
28 Feb 2013, 13:53 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-260:
“work on that street corner you frequent”
Funny, ole Sharks-Lover also loved to use that phrase when talking to women, specifically Dawn.
That and “streetlight vendor.”
Don’t go and use “streetlight vendor” now. It may just convince everyone that you are indeed
Sharks-Lover.
28 Feb 2013, 13:55 pm
@Rage-266: No he is not, just because a wench tries to assume does not make it so, obviously not knowing anyone in here for real i will never give out my phone no, but hey whatever you want to believe? go for it, blaze away, take you best shot,
28 Feb 2013, 13:55 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-260: Now listen to this opionated wench carefully you intellectualfuckingmidget.
You are not intelligent enough to pull off a double profile Tyrone. Apologies for the hurty feelings caused in saying that (not).
Do you honestly not realise your ‘cover’ never quite got off the ground? Onlyafuckingmormonspecialneedsoldie.
You have brought an outdated Bic pen/pea shooter to an intellectual gunfight. In no way does this end well for you Ty…….
28 Feb 2013, 13:56 pm
@nama1-268:
Too late with my warning. Sorry SL
You have given it away now.
Ah well…
28 Feb 2013, 13:58 pm
@nama1-268: Stop trying to think you know something about me little BOY, you know zilch, now come with more proof,
you’re way off base
28 Feb 2013, 13:58 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-267: Yeah I think the Stormers will be up for the clash. I expected the Stormers to lose against the Bulls – there was something about their preparation work I didn’t like.
28 Feb 2013, 13:59 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-270: try again little puppy, ur losing it typing in a state of frenzy,
Want some tissues??
28 Feb 2013, 14:00 pm
Daar spat die kak nou……Jerry Jerry Jerry!!!!!
28 Feb 2013, 14:00 pm
@mikeybrass-273: LIke i said, just gut feel,
28 Feb 2013, 14:00 pm
boys I need help.
canes vs Reds who is going to win.
Canes have not played Reds in QLD whilst Mackenzie has been coach! they last played in QLD back in 2009. the two games from 2010 have been close encounters in NZ.
28 Feb 2013, 14:01 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-270: “should you not be back ar work on that street corner you frequent you “insignifacunt” know it all over opinionated wench? ”
This is vintage Sharks_Lover shy te this
In fact I believthedumfuck used exactly the same ‘insult’ last year.
FuckIcanthandlethislevelofretardation. If I had more patience Ty, I would play along, but I honestly don’t entertain those stunted in the ‘intelligence’ dept. I waste my time…and you get filled with a false sense of achievement (which you don’t deserve) and you then attribute (said achievement) it to an intelligence you just don’t have……
Plankfokkendom.
28 Feb 2013, 14:02 pm
@Rage-266:
“…so Sharks are gonna get you is Sharks_Lover after all….huhahaha…”
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-269:
“@Rage-266: No he is not,…”
Why do you speak of yourself in the 3rd person?
The correct thing to say would’ve been: “No, I am not.”
Don’t you think so?
28 Feb 2013, 14:03 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-275:
kwagga, the usual some stormer morons trying to convince themselves they know it all, so typical, iot is like the script was written over and over.
28 Feb 2013, 14:03 pm
@wallabie.-277: Canes for me on this one but not by much
28 Feb 2013, 14:03 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-274: Tissues from you? Dearestfuckno. All crusted from your Lambiekeyboard sessions. Eeuw eeuw eeuw.
Have to go. ***Blows kisses to thedumbestfucker on the blog***
28 Feb 2013, 14:06 pm
@nama1-279: No because irrespective of how many times i have said i am not S-L, you and your buddies keep trying to tell me i am, now where does SL live?
I live in Ballito, now get your Cape buddies that work for Keo and tell them toi check out the IP addy, pretty simple really
Actually who gives a flyingfuck what you or dogzilla believes?? fire away. keep wasting your own time.
28 Feb 2013, 14:07 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-282: ET gaan de moer in wees……………….
28 Feb 2013, 14:07 pm
@nama1-279: Of course he is. He was cracked open like a smashed testicle the day he returned…..
Total fuckingeejit. Best of all, he is still trying to remain ‘undercover’. If he were an undercover/deep cover FBI agent, he would have been disembowled and made to eat his own butthair already…..
Not the brightest star.
Chat later.
28 Feb 2013, 14:07 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-281:
I am caught between a rock and a hard place. Reds had many injured last year and Canes were on the up in 2012…which is making me twiddle sticks.
thanks for your tip. why? I need to find the difference…I am on top in my superbru of 20 participants. looking for a differentiator to make my tip!!
I am having the win by 4 but dont know – when it is tipping I dont use emotion!!
28 Feb 2013, 14:08 pm
@wallabie.-277:
What was the result in Qland?
Go with the home team if unsure.
28 Feb 2013, 14:09 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-282: Run you imbecile, you so far off the mark it is scary, now like i said, your corner awaits you, just don’t over do the perfume as you normally do.
28 Feb 2013, 14:10 pm
@wallabie.-277:
Reds
28 Feb 2013, 14:10 pm
See skop’s post #111 and the reply at #115 for further proof that SL is indeed Sharks are gonna getcha!!
28 Feb 2013, 14:11 pm
Just go with it. To me the Reds have become a bit stereotype and yes they do have individual brilliance but the Caners are indeed on the up and as unpredictable as always but I think with enough savvy to outsmart the Aussie boytjies. Good luck though
28 Feb 2013, 14:11 pm
@NZINCHINA-289:
why do you think Reds?
28 Feb 2013, 14:12 pm
@Sharks_are_gonna_get_you-283:
You opened up a restaurant there?
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-285:
Till later.
28 Feb 2013, 14:13 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-291:
Even tougher one to predict?
Bulls or Force?
28 Feb 2013, 14:13 pm
@wallabie.-286: Yeah Wallah i still cannot decide who to back for that match
28 Feb 2013, 14:15 pm
Typical Tyrone
“260.Sharks_are_gonna_get_you said:
28 Feb 2013, 13:46 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-255: Again you assume i am sone I am not? should you not be back ar work on that street corner you frequent you “insignifacunt” know it all over opinionated wench?
And I am as calm as the ocean in Ballito, no waves today, must be because that foul winds from the Cape have died down.”
28 Feb 2013, 14:15 pm
@nama1-293: Uhm fool keep guesing, I am not in that industry, thus of course i do not own a restuarant. want to donate me one?? Ballito is growing rapidly and i am sure there is good money to be made.
28 Feb 2013, 14:16 pm
@Dawn-296: NOw how did i know you would come stick your nose in?? like i said to you before? TYPICAL.
Thanks for proving me right yet again
28 Feb 2013, 14:17 pm
@Heavens Game-213: Sharks are overwhelming favourites to win the WHOLE bang shoot…
28 Feb 2013, 14:17 pm
@wallabie.-294: Walk in the park that one!
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