Comments on: Lambie kicks Sharks to victory

By: rocco

rocco — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:26:51 +0000

@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…

By: Provvas

Provvas — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:04:27 +0000

@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..

By: rocco

rocco — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:37:32 +0000

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…

By: goodstuff

goodstuff — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:04:37 +0000

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!

By: ryecatcher

ryecatcher — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:45:12 +0000

@skopdiekan-1050: plagiarism (again)

By: ryecatcher

ryecatcher — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:36:41 +0000

@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-1016: Morning Ped Lady.Good day to you.

By: i_love_u_bakkiesbotha

i_love_u_bakkiesbotha — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:06:54 +0000

@Te Rangatira-1118: hehe morning, TR

By: Te Rangatira

Te Rangatira — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:40:52 +0000

@KEA-1125: I think you are safe, Kea..... My Blues will recapture what is rightfully theirs...

By: KEA

KEA — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:35:43 +0000

Another thing, what happened just before the half time whistle, did the TV ref even look, anybody?

By: KEA

KEA — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:23:32 +0000

@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.

By: KEA

KEA — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:06:58 +0000

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.

By: KEA

KEA — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:52:18 +0000

@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.

By: skopdiekan

skopdiekan — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:25:07 +0000

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.

By: skopdiekan

skopdiekan — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:44:23 +0000

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.

By: kaksioek

kaksioek — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:11:44 +0000

**** me, if this is dispassionate I’d hate to see Skop get mildly excited. Load of bollocks.

By: playtheball

playtheball — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:54:57 +0000

@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.

By: Te Rangatira

Te Rangatira — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:39:36 +0000

@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

By: Te Rangatira

Te Rangatira — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:30:12 +0000

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….

By: nama1

nama1 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:12:17 +0000

@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.

By: skopdiekan

skopdiekan — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:05:34 +0000

@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.