Sharks vs Connacht - ECPR 2026

Great rip by Con and another good pass by Aki almost big trouble for the Sharks

Hooker with a nice take from his opposite number.

Hooker immediately making an impact

Advantage ball and Braude just boots it straight to Connacht.

Penalty Sharks and Smith will go for poles. He misses.

Another fucking pointless kick from the Sharks...WTF!!!!!!!

but they back for the penalty and this'll shrink the lead to 4 if he gets it

nope

19-12 Cons

Stav wasn't joking about the wind.

Mdanda penalised for holding on.

And now the sharks get rucked off the ball...to be fair, Con went past the ruck there right in front of the ref

Pathetic defence from the Sharks and it's another try for Connacht.

Stav will be grinning.

Con in again.

Haha 26-12

I think that's enough for me.

Later dudes

#JPmustFALL

Hooker charges it down and then tackles the man without the ball. Penalty Connacht.

Had some stream hiccups, just in time to see Connacht score again. Potgieter missing a tackle Andre would never.

LOL, Hooker smashed him. Some frustration in that hit.

ouch ... 26-12

Hooker does well to keep that in and then make it available but then it's hoofed away aimlessly.

Jesus, kick, kick, kick.

Now Masuku kicks it away.

High tackle by Tshituka gives Connacht a penalty to take the game out of reach.

It's over. 29-12 and that's almost certainly the game.

Forde has had a good game for Connacht.

SOS to Jake White, Sharkies.

I've never heard of this scrummie Everson Ceano but he's already an improvement on Braude.

17 down and still the Sharks kick.

Sharks put a few phases together but then Smith fumbles and gets clattered in the tackle, Connacht get possession.

It's a tough job being a Sharks supporter. Spare a thought for me, I also support Tottenham Hotspur.

LOL, three or four phases and then the Sharks kick it away.

Credit to Connacht. They dominated the second half . . . as Stav predicted.

Well done Connacht. Shamus Double-Barrell is MotM.

Wat 'n kakspul. Well done to your boys Stav and good half time call, good stuff in the second.

I'm off to bed. Sympathy, Rooi.

Now Smith kicks it out on the full. It's a shambles.

Full time 29-12. Well done Connacht.

Sharks are never going win anything major without a global calendar. They don't have access to their full strength team often enough and there seconds are either not good enough or the coaches are not good enough to get enough out of theirs seconds to mount any sort of consistent challenge.

Think that's 5 wins out of 6 for Connacht in their last 6 encounter with the Sharks so for all their South African Galactico's they have on their roster Connacht have made them their bitches.

Well done Stav ... our lot were an embarrassment

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Glad i missed the shit show...

What you missed Draad...

"Sharks get momentum as they break into Connacht's half. They rumble ahead and get past Connacht's 10m. Sharks kick the ball away"

Totally braindead.

They don't have access to their full strength team often enough

It's just as shit as this one. Take Esterhuizen's influence out and there's nothing. They don't even know how to use him properly. Last game it took them almost the entire first half to give him one ball to run onto.

Imagine being 17 points down with 8 minutes to go and you're still kicking the ball to the opposition. What even is that?

Ja. We tend to kind of blame coaches like Jake and Meyer for wanting to play how they do.

I've been guilty of slating Meyer.

But one has to wonder if they are not simply doing the best with what they have. There doesn't seem to be an understanding of what momentum's is and how to bring your backs in to capitalise on momentum. And it's not just the Sharks. It's a theme in our rugby.

We have pace, power and raw telnet but I swear lack about 20IQ points on average.

Yestrday I WROTE THAT THE S harks ware abd travellers with what I call dosastrous hal-backs and centers,

I could not watch the whole game - but Etzebeth played and was what I would call insignificant,