Lambie kicks Sharks to victory
2 Mar 2013
The Sharks proved the more physical to edge the Stormers at Kings Park.
The hosts beat the Stormers 12 – 6 after the match was scoreless at half time.
The match was hyped to be great viewing pleasure, but what followed was a disappointing show of what South African rugby has become. Four penalties beat two penalties as neither team looked close to getting over the tryline.
The first half was an error strewn kicking match in which both flyhalves attempted to gain the upper hand with clever kicks into space, but neither succeeded in putting their flyers away. Gio Aplon had the best opportunity of the half, but coughed up a cross kick, that could have been a five pointer had he held on.
After no points in the opening fourty, the second half got off to a flying start as Lambie and Pietersen exchanged penalties in first five minutes after the break. Another penalty each kept the game even, before the Stormers conceded another two for Lambie to extend the lead to six.
All the cliché’s will be thrown around this week, ‘battle of attrition’ and ‘clash of the titans’, and yes it was, but the distinct lack of try scoring opportunities and creativity from both sides will be worrying.
Man of the match Jean Deysel was immense for the Sharks, pilfering numerous balls at the breakdown and being a strong runner in the loose. The Sharks loose forwards will be happy to have matched the Stormers’ trio, both physically and with some good runs.
The Stormers battled at the lineouts, the set piece they were expected to dominate, and with the Sharks having the upper hand at scrum time, the home side got the better of the set pieces.
Many will feel a draw would have been the fairest result as neither team really deserved to win the match more than the other.
Conditions were difficult because of humidity but more was rightfully expected of the match because of the class of player on both sides.
By Richard Ferguson
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3 Mar 2013, 20:51 pm
Can anyone one hear the FOOL on the Hill?
3 Mar 2013, 20:54 pm
tiresome.
sharks snuck a win
in difficult conditions
by dominating the scrums
and scrum penalties are often contentious anyway.
stormers will still do well this season.
in fact, i fancy their chances against the chiefs.
why, because strong line outs and organised defence stymie the free-flowing style of the nz sides.
3 Mar 2013, 20:55 pm
ya this fool on the hill has got you two lowlife sniveling pieces of toxic waste arselicks taped .. no f’ng chance in hell your gaylord tendencies gonna escape these rapier like fool on the hill sights… you’re both dead meat.. as the saying goes.
3 Mar 2013, 20:59 pm
@ET.-1099: Yeah, I wasn’t watching but from just reading some of the posts prior to his silly one I got the distinct impression that it was only a matter of time before the proverbial floodgates opened.
I wasn’t going to tell him that though!
3 Mar 2013, 20:59 pm
Only a FOOL of fools believe such garbage.
3 Mar 2013, 21:00 pm
That’s correct Stormers will beat the Chiefs and then Stormers will go on to challenge for the long run title..
Sharks know they got given a handy little gimme lucky packet at home and they sweated it out… 4 lucky packet penalties to 2… the relief on all their faces proved by how much they sweated it out at the final curtain…. they were on the rack and Stormers didn’t close it out dropping balls in the final end zone left and right.
Anyone thinking that little stanza is the end game of how the cookie gonna crumble is not only deluding themselves they also deluding anyone else sucking off their exhibition of grandiose expression of self congratulatory fake glory.
3 Mar 2013, 21:02 pm
@ET.-1104: This fool got you little punkeyed piece of toxic waste taped.. you and your Hormonal Gwathole full of yourselves and all your inverted ingrained inherently STUPID toxicity….
3 Mar 2013, 21:03 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-1103:
Never let the many ‘grootbekke’ shake a confident opinion.
It was really entertaining from the 60 min. onward.
I look forward to the Chiefs in C.T.
3 Mar 2013, 21:03 pm
@skopdiekan-1095:
huh?
what did i do?
3 Mar 2013, 21:06 pm
SA rugby has become a horrible mess to watch. I don’t think it is worth the money and effort anymore.
3 Mar 2013, 21:17 pm
@skopdiekan-1106: Skop you really should try a laxative…..seems you are way too uptight about losing a rugby match pal!
3 Mar 2013, 21:32 pm
@Vinny Petrol-1110: I don’t mind the losing Vinny in fact I am the first to lambaste our own coaches and strategists (and players) for ******** the opportunities to the wall through their uncanny lack of strategic ingenuity, its this gloating sharkshit humping self congratulatory glorification that gets me going into overdrive..and when I see these idiots parading around sucking up each others self infatuated over inflated fanny’s is when I let them know how far up shitcreek they’ve projected their fake false fantasies of inflated self congratulatory extrapolations
watch them implode 2 lucky wins and they already reckon they’re in the home straight ready to collect all the plaudits as the rollicking fanfare champions.
3 Mar 2013, 21:43 pm
@skopdiekan-1111: Skop I say this with all sincerity as a sharks supporter, you guys give out plenty and rub everyone’s noses in it when you win and then can’t handle it when it comes back to you. You may not realize it but just the fact that they manage to get up your nose and get you to react the way you do makes you and your team their ***** if and when you guys lose. Its hilarious and very entertaining to watch though i must admit. You have become so blinded by this, if you guys lose to the chiefs this weekend you will probably still blame it on us Guppies! Chill boet and good luck for the season……don’t die of a heart attack on account of the Sharks!
3 Mar 2013, 21:47 pm
Some “new” Shark supporters on this site. I hope they’ll still be here when their team start losing.
We know there are a few who make holiday plans when that happen.
3 Mar 2013, 21:54 pm
@nama1-1113: judging by how you guys handle losing maybe you should consider a holiday! Reality is you guys were better than the week before but just lost end of story! It’s not the end of the world just a loss in the beginning of the season! Reality check…….this weekend is a big one for you guys and I hope you pull it off.
3 Mar 2013, 22:05 pm
@Vinny Petrol-1112: you take yourself and yourselves way too prominent in anyone else’s reasoning
You won’t see me rubbing anyone’s noses in anything if and when Stormers win…I might get passionate about their potential to win but if they win or lose I take it dispassionately either way… however I will climb into the areas I assess as shortsightedness by coaches and players alike for falling short of the team potential on the day.
Where I will not back down is at the oppositions self congratulatory alter of boastfulness. You want to stand up on your pulpit and preach how your mighty team is already at the pinnacle of the chosen ones for fluking a game where you were pretty much soundly beaten in certain facets of the game and in other areas your team was barely dominant.. then a little regmaker is in order and will be forthcoming as directly as the boastful attitude requires a reaction to its self indulgent audacity.
3 Mar 2013, 22:12 pm
@Vinny Petrol-1114:
From what I’ve seen nearly all Stormer supporters came on here and congratulated the Sharks on their win. Naturally we were disappointed in the loss. I really don’t understand what you mean with “how you handle losing.” Maybe you guys wanted us to become praise singers for the Sharks because they beat us, I don’t know.
In my experience Stormer supporters for the most part look inwards when their team lose ie at the players and the coaching staff. Yes, some will blame the ref but that is true for supporters from all the other teams, not so?
Yes, next week will be a big one for us. Chiefs are looking good but I believe we can do it if we improve even further on the performance we put up yesterday. Imo yesterday’s performance was already a 200% improvement on last week.
Any idea how the Chiefs performed in SA over the years? I know they won both of their matches last year but that was against the Lions and the Cheetahs.
3 Mar 2013, 22:30 pm
One thing I took out of Hgs posts is the Sharks being able to fight it out in trench warfare against a team who are one of the best if not the best at that style of Rugby dominance…If you want to win this comp you have to be able to play this way as well as being able to cross the try line with a dynamic free flowing approach, something the Sharks can also do….
3 Mar 2013, 22:39 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-1108:
haha…..you’ve done plenty mate….sowing the seeds of discontentment against Nz franchise SR 2013, based solely on the scorelines….evil man….hehe
3 Mar 2013, 22:54 pm
@Vinny Petrol-1114: When you say “you guys” who do you mean? I’m not seeing too many Stormers supporters on here taking the loss badly. Speaking strictly for me, the Stormers’ boring game plan is what is slowly killing my interest in rugby. I’m not emotional about the loss, I just don’t care any more. There are plenty of other things to do. Like talking **** on a blog.
3 Mar 2013, 23:11 pm
**** me, if this is dispassionate I’d hate to see Skop get mildly excited. Load of bollocks.
4 Mar 2013, 03:44 am
I’m passionate about teaching you self congratulatory congress of codswallop champions that all your overrated over the top self-proclaimed congratulations are premature …
and to top it when you get sniveling slimy arsecreeps creeping up each other’s arses congratulating each other on a fluke non emphatic kicking duel win that’s when my passionate disposition kicks in to teach you overrated self congratulatory arseholes what dispassionate rugby supporting is about.
4 Mar 2013, 04:25 am
A.c. is one dumb bloody idiot which gdam idiot chucks a green overrated non SR ready kid into the muddy midst of a kicking duel expecting some gdam miraculous result? Only a dumb delusional idiotic fool does that. If Stormers wanted to beat BullShitters and SharkShitters in their 2 opening games they should have left Jantjies to soak his unresolved unready head on the sidelines and played any of the other more ready candidates in Duvenhage Schroeder Pietersen or Grant or even Gary van Aswegen and they would have come away 2 from 2. Now as a result of their clutching at straws chickenshit cowardly knee jerk conservatism they’ve come away 0 / 2 instead.
4 Mar 2013, 05:52 am
@Vinny Petrol-1114: It’s bad the way the Stormers handle a loss, true, they are passionate about rugby and their team. Some people hide when their team losses, the stadiiums start getting empty, when they start winning they crawl out of the woodwork once again, I know which team I would want to play for, and that goes for cricket as well.
4 Mar 2013, 06:06 am
I am struggling to understand what is happening at the scrums, is it the Johnnie Walker thats effecting my eye sight, how do you drop a scrum when the other teams prop is already on his knees (last week) or flat on his face. Please I need help on this matter, it cant be rocket science. These calls happen to both teams, some just more often than others, It’s as though the ref makes his decision before hand.
4 Mar 2013, 06:23 am
@Te Rangatira-1117: I will put my head on a block, the Sharks won’t win the competition, if they do I will be here to take the abuse. Every year it’s the same old story, they are SA’s best hope, this is the year. They haven’t got it, Saturday was proof in the pudding, half a Bok forward pack, almost the Bok front row, in a tight game against a powder puff front row, sperm whales as loose forwards, didn’t happen.
4 Mar 2013, 06:35 am
Another thing, what happened just before the half time whistle, did the TV ref even look, anybody?
4 Mar 2013, 06:40 am
@KEA-1125:
I think you are safe, Kea….. My Blues will recapture what is rightfully theirs…
4 Mar 2013, 07:06 am
@Te Rangatira-1118:
hehe
morning, TR
4 Mar 2013, 07:36 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-1016: Morning Ped Lady.Good day to you.
4 Mar 2013, 07:45 am
@skopdiekan-1050: plagiarism (again)
4 Mar 2013, 08:04 am
Both teams were poor on attack, most of all my beloved Stormers. Kaplan should pack up and bugger off, his attitude this weekend was poor. He refused to listen to any of the stormers complaints he even had the gull to reply, “I handled my way…”, so yes I think Kaplan needs to leave, he is obviously not in it for the long run anymore and thinks he is bigger than the game.
Kaplan, please leave before your record is smeared by your big head!
4 Mar 2013, 08:37 am
Don’t think I’ll be following too much Super 15 this year. My team’s playing the same ultra-boring game of last year. Difference is they’re not winning. Last year’s comp was the first time I fell asleep watching the Stormers, and it was the first time I actually did not look forward to their games.
OK, so they’ve had two hard away matches so far, and things can change, but the signs are that I’ll be catching up on lost sleep for the next few months…
4 Mar 2013, 11:04 am
@rocco-1132: Fully agree, Last year we were winning some games closely that could have been lost very easily!!
This year we are losing those games…. It is the worst thing to watch 80 minutes of rugby without a try being scored… either way!! No clever thinking, moves quick hands f0kkol! Just this drivel of kick and chase and 10 channel bashing!! I mean I don t watch soccer due to those ridiculous cores of 0-0, but in rugby??
Playing like its a Semi FGS have some balls and run the ball man! I also couldnt wait for the game to finish so I could attend to bette matters…
I see a long and hard season for AC, Fleck and the coaching staff… pathetic how they waste such good talent..
4 Mar 2013, 12:26 pm
@Provvas-1133:
Yup, but it’s sadly the Souf Efrican disease with few of our teams showing a great deal of innovation on attack. Dunno what happened to Nick the Mallet during his stay in Italy, but he’s been saying all the right things regarding the clueless game we’re playing in this country at the moment and what we need to do to fix the glaring problem. Given the noises he’s making, I can’t help thinking this guy could’ve been the solution to all our woes at national level.
Then again, during his tenure as WP director of rugby, he was the one pushing the “big –is-always-better” philosophy. And while the Boks played some of their best attacking rugby during his stint as coach, I tend to think he had inherited a highly talented team from Carel du Plessis…
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