Sharks vs Leinster talkie talks

Sharks are terrible. No synergy.

Esterhuizen now gets them rumbling. Just short.

Much better play from the Sharks but they're penalized. Good contributions from Esterhuizen, Mapimpi and Julius.

LOL, 4 guys trying to get Esterhuizen down. Julius almost through. Sharks still not getting there. And now they dive in on the ruck and get penalized.

Sharks attack again but it's into touch and that's half time. Pretty forgettable first half,

Sharks with no ideas on attack while on Leinster's line.

Constantly passing to flat footed players, nobody getting front foot ball, zero planned plays.

Good work by Koch to secure a loose lineout ball. Now there's handbags, my feed caught a dip so I don't know what happened.

So far Mapimpi looking to get busy, Esterhuizen gets over the advantage line effectively, but too many errors and no real structure. Jordan is not running the game, looking bog average.

Sharks attacking under advantange. Julius makes good meters. Esterhuizen with a great pickup from his feet to feed Kolisi. And then Sharks concede a penalty for holding on. Lots of frantic stuff from one side to the other, hardly a meter made.

And Leinster score again.

All set up by lazy ruck work giving Leinster a penalty on halfway through a steal.

Conversion missed...

10-0

Leinster score and Frawley misses the simple conversion. 10-0 to Leinster.

Leinster appears to have scored while my feed was refreshing. Not a good look for the Sharks. 10-0.

Now the Sharks fumble their lineout ball. They get a penalty though.

More like ot Sharks. Boingi is over after an excellent maul.

Lekker Bongi!!!

long range maul and Bongi dives over near the posts.

This should be converted

10-7

Sharks finally score, Bongi off a strong maul.

The SA teams have been exiting poorly this weekend.

...and they knock on off the kick off.

Terrible knock off the kick off by Tshituka. Sharks under pressure. Their scrum saves them.

Hooker over but held up.

Sharks playing much better here. Julius passes to Hooker who is over but held up.

That side step from van Heerden took about 20 minutes.

It took so long for him to change direction that that he was risking been penalised for time wasting

Jaden knock on to destroy another attacking chance. Time for Bradley Davids. He can't do any worse. Bring on Masuku as well.

More errors as Jayden knocks it at the base of the ruck.

Jordan Hendrikse fluffs all the Sharks momentum with a pad that slips out of his hand.

He's been very average to today

Strong counter ruck by Esterhuizen gets the Sharks possession. Jordan's poor pass to Penxe stops it all and Sharks lose 20+ meters.

Masuku warming up

James Venter has biceps the size of my garage.

Sharks with a penalty around halfway...

And Jordan fails to kick it out.

bloody hell!!!!!!

Now Jordan misses touch with a penalty.

Second game in a row that both Hendrickse brothers are having shockers.

I'm getting the feeling my time would have been better spent elsewhere. No flow or momentum in this game.

Leinster's handling hasn't been much better than the Sharks.

Scrum to the Sharks in midfield . . . but only 5 mins to play.

Sharks are not clicking. A few decent passages of play, but it looks like a new team or a game plan that is not working

There's the final whistle. Well done Leinster. Poor from the Sharks.

Plumtree is having a heavyweight team hitting like featherweights. This team looks uncoached.

The Sharks famed bacjline was somewhere between non-attacking bar for Mapimpi and really nothing else, Their Defence was sound but ball skills were substandard,

I read the above praise songs about Esterhuizen and it is amusing, He made no real carrying of balls of any substace and went down in tackles quickly and made no real forward move and caused attacking opportunities The Sharks backline on the whole achieve zero in the game and Hooker showed again he is a far better wing than inside center,

Esterhuizen most successful carries in the side: 6

Esterhuizen most defenders beaten in the game: 6

But of course Ou Maaik will contend he did nothing of substance.

Distance gained 5 of what substance or is it 6 meters - tackles made 6 - not much and how many time did he not even attempt tackles or he missed? Still a very average franchise level performance. He is slow and very very average for an inside center on franchise level, .

If you can't even read, I really can't help you.

There isn’t a game where Andre Esterhuisen did not perform for the sharks.

He is also a performer on Bok level…the guy should get more Starts…

Uncle Romulan is biased and nothing he says about Esterhuisen is truthful.