Sharks vs Scarlets URC 2025 R5

I have no hope for the darks and hazbeen pap boks

Big old maul and Kolisi over. 26-19

Siya puts them back in the lead via scrappy maul.

I don't get why the Sharks don't just slow these games down and play territory. They have al they players they need to play a squeezing type of game

Kwotalisi is so over rated, can't catch for ship

Smith with a lovely little delay and pass only for Kolisi to drop Eben's pass.

Haha Siya drops a simple catch to stunt the momentum

Apart from a bit of cleaning at a ruck here and there Kolisi has been invisible again.

King, we get it, you don't like tie black players.

Sharks scrum winning them a penalty.

Plumtree puts Kolisi on his ass at a ruck scuffle.

Hooker just has a great rugby brain. He's so calm and seems incapable of making bad decisions.

I dunno, but whatever Sacha does, Hooker isn't a million miles away in terms of what he brings.

Hooker needs to be in a position where he can be more involved. He lives off scraps now.

Sharkshit.... The worst-coached team in the URC

Agreed Pakie...12 or 13. I like him for 12. A bit more creating and protein powder, another 5kgs and he'll be a nightmare

Juju Malema on for Am. Shit's about to go down.

Smith loses it in contact and another opportunity derailed.

I see Juju has gone for the full Afro.

Can he really afford anything that adversely affects his speed?

Nice penalty Smith, 29-19

Smith knocks over a penalty from range and the Vissies now have a semi respectable 10 point lead

That afro has an inverter built in - converts resistance into pace.

Sharks keep going with the hoist from inside the 22 after the kickoff and I don't think it's worked out for them once.

So close for Scarlets.

I think that poor old Jujubos so far down the pecking order at the moment that I very much doubt he'll see any Boks caps.

Even if he improves by 20%...there are jso many better guys.

Discounting the current Boks, there's still Horn, De Klerk, Van Wyk, Dawid Kriel...I'd pick them long before Juju. He'll I'd rarher have Jordan Hendrikse in my squad before Juju

Juju breaking the line. That inverter is working.

And as I typed the above, Juju got a break

Just say "it's only Scarlets", Plum :)

Man this was a suck show of a game. Why do we even bother watching the Sharks.

Esterhuizen makes 15m in contact, Sharks on the front foot.

Eben drops it. Sums up the whole show.

"Man this was a suck show of a game. Why do we even bother watching the Sharks."

Its the hope that kills us ;)

I'm out. Will be back for the Stompies game, Paks

Butrfinger PapZebeth drop a basic pass 10 meter from the line, be it in traffic

Its the hope that kills us ;)

For damn sure. Crowd is more entertaining than the rugby.

29-19 and thank fuck that's over.

Why even bother with this team. The lions game was so much better. I still think that half the players in the team are not first class players, obsession pushing average black players.

I'd like to see Hooker at #13.

Whatever else, having two players as versatile as Ethan Hooker and Damian Willemse on the park means you can have more specialist options on the bench.

"Butrfinger PapZebeth" is a fair description these days. So much hype, so little in terms of delivery.

Sharks remain the underachievers of SA rugby.

Stompies looking really good and doing it without Sacha as they did today just shows how effective a winning gees can be.

"Sharks remain the underachievers of SA rugby."

12 Boks...TWELVE! That is how many were in the 23 today!!!

Yet they made hard job of it against the bloody Scarlets!?

What possible excuse could a coach have for these types of performances? Oh, and they drew to the Dragons a few games back.

I don't know if they spent all their money on players and have none left for a coach but FFS, get rid of him NOW.

Williams, AE, Hooker...those are some of the best players in the world, not just SA.

I'm not even gonna mention all the talent and experience in the pack because it's embarrassing.

Meanwhile, Plumtree has had them for multiple seasons so whatever "plan" he is playing to should not be a secret to nobody in the side.

Let's be real, if the scrums were even, the Sharks would have lost that game. They'd have lost. Thats how little Plumtree has created for them.

You have all the players, your gameplan is fully implemented...and yet you scrape it against probably the worst side in the competition?

Plum, Jurie Mathee is very underrated. He is not as flashy as Zulu or Manie but he can get the backline moving, comfortable with ball in hand and good kicker.

I think plum is done, Saarks living off his old legacy of being a sharks man. This is his 2nd and it is even worse.

We need to talk about Even. I think he is done. Love the guy but we can see he is a shadow of his former self

Even needs a long break. No way he can play all the way into the World Cup.

I mean, you look at how effective Oosthuizen was yesterday, guy is a tank - he made a rhino type run yesterday that had me laughing/cheering/screaming all at once.

Eben has been a Goliath for us, but Father Tome ain't nobody's friend. You have to rate players on performance. Experience matters a lot too, but it's not everything.

We have so many proper hard locks. Guys coming into their prime and who can seriously bash people.

At some point we have to address whether Eben is still capable of that, it sucks so much to say, makes one feel like a traitor, but it's what it is.

Jurie was excellent yesterday, but Smith was also very very good.

Makes me feel a tad silly because on Friday I made a post saying that we are struggling a bit for 10a...then those two go an embarrass me.

It's fine, I'll eat my crow

Etsebeth takes a sabbatical next year & then has the 27 season to show whether he's a RWC contender or ............