Yes as Jaque Botes so rightly obseved there had been a momentum switch and the game saw the sharkies hanging on for dear life at the end.
Now oaks get all excited and say how wonderful the sharks loose trio were. Yes it was good to see Alberts at last playing some rubgy and marcell is certainly putting his hand up.(I would play him Bok number 8) However those lacking rugby acument will not have noticed that life was made easy due to the lack of SA Player of the year Schalk Burger and of course the world class Duane Vermuelen. Yet dispite the massive impact to such great plaeyrs made the Stormers bossed the possession stats 54 to 46%! Jebb Sinclair is way out of his depth.
The Stormers of course need to be more accurate come lineout times and as I have often said aganst better Nevertheless it as good to see the 20 year old Kitshoff driving ou jannie back on more than one occassion. In fact the much vaunted sharks scrumming superiority amounted to very little on the day.
Much is being made of the forward pass try by Aplon. However the try by Movov was als no try as his foot had very clearly touched the line. What may not of registered with the oaks however is that Duvenage caught Mvovo from behind. How fast is Mvovo really? So these two errors canell eachother out.
The key moment in the game was the knock on by Deon Fourie when he was over the tryline. Had he scored we would surely have won this away match. The two penalties Jean turned down would not have been turned and the Stormers could well have won by 8 points.
The Fourie try would have made it three tries all as well. The Aplon try was well worked as was the Deon Fouire - if it had come off. We are talking about small margins of error.
So the Shakies can feel quite fortunate that they played an understrength Stormers pack missing two world class players. No person with any rugby acument can doubt the result if those two had been playing.
Mishalak showed up Grants limitations and the lack of real creativity again showed up Alistair and Flecks backline coaching credentials. Stormers have to beat the bulle now. After the tests series both Kostner an Schalk should be back and hopefully shortly thereafter Duane as well. Once back to full strength, as the sharks were for this match, no SA side will beat them simply because the Stormers pack is too good.
I do note the chest beating of some bulle on another board. They went into orgasmic spasms of delight because the Stormers lost - real bad hateful stuff.These oaks quite forgot they lost to the Chiefs and of course dont realise they have a trip to durbs as well. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Dispite the stormers being s obad the yare still top ofthe SA Conference oaks - so suck it up just suck it up!
As for da Aristocat his calls on Lambie and Bissie (he never poaches a ball!!!) must be givng him bad dreams. Come on Card admit you called these two wrong.
Meanwhile the sapster is highly embarrassed, or should be, for imagining chilli boy is remotely in the class of Adriaan Stauss!! Hahhahahahahahahaha lots of laughs this weekend.
No bleats please oaks accept the facts as they plainly stand.
