Can the Sharks do better than the Transvaal Lions against the Br/Ire Lions

Not sure at all...to me at face value looks like a David versus Goliath showdown...but no miracles here.

On Saturday, A powerful B&I Lions’ side despatched Joburg’s Lions in an eight tries to two display on Saturday.

The result should serve as a big warning for the Sharks.

Sharks: 15 Manie Libbok, 14 Werner Kok, 13 Jeremy Ward, 12 Marius Louw, 11 Thaakir Abrahams, 10 Curwin Bosch, 9 Jaden Hendrikse, 8 Phepsi Buthelezi (captain), 7 Thembelani Bholi, 6 James Venter, 5 Hyron Andrews, 4 Ruben van Heerden, 3 Khutha Mchunu, 2 Fez Mbatha, 1 Khwezi Mona.
Replacements: 16 Kerron van Vuuren, 17 Ntuthuko Mchunu, 18 Wiehahn Herbst, 19 JJ van der Mescht, 20 Reniel Hugo, 21 Dylan Richardson, 22 Grant Williams, 23 Anthony Volmink.

Date: Wednesday, July 7
Venue: Ellis Park, Johannesburg
Kick-off: 19.00 (18.00 BST; 17.00 GMT)
Referee: Jaco Peyper (SARU)
Assistant referees: Wayne Barnes (RFU), AJ Jacobs (SARU)
TMO: Marius van der Westhuizen (SARU)

Bosch at 10 could get ugly. 

Lots of new players on the Sharks team. Has a serious B team, or even C team feel. 
They could take even more of a bea ting than the lions

I'm not  holding  my breath  on this one, these  guys are so  far of the pace. Don't even think they can compete against any French 2nd Division  neither any English. Long gone are the days when  our super rugby teams were near test standard. 

Lets just hope the BIL gets use to  soft matches  and get  complete destroyed by the proper boks

We vey rarely had super rugby sides close to test level. Meyer and Ludeke's Bulls were there, and the Stormers for a couple of seasons based on their defence and kicking. Nobody else. 

What about back when  it was super 14 / 15 and we had the sharks, bulls and stormers dominating super rugby back around 2011 - 2014 before they introduced the conference systems because the Aussies want participation trophies and didn't want  to miss out on the finals 

We had the stormers win all their games in NZ etc. 

I  think from 2007 until around 2012 our Super rugby teams were doing really well

Sharks had one season on top in 2007, and made a brief resurgence in 2014. By 2014, super rugby was already well into decline. 

Great pity we will not see full strength sides against the B& I Lions.

Reckon they could the Lions  good go.