Great, Stransky on commentary. Mute button better be on standby.
Great, Stransky on commentary. Mute button better be on standby.
Damn we have the mouth commentating and Joel giving us expert opinion.
"It's a game that is difficult to describe in a way" - Stransky already spoiling us with his expert insights.
Dixon with the early turnover from the kickoff and Stormers score. Sharks fast asleep with their support of the kick taker there.
Fastest ever start?
Sacha misses. 5-0
Take that !!
Fastest ever start?
Might be for the URC, not sure.
Great cleanout on Roos by Hooker helps the Sharks win the penalty.
Strong Hooker clean out.
Nice little combination between Hooker, Fassi and Siya there
Are the idiots at this stadium going to play thumping music during every little break in play?
Sharks fluff their lineout.
Sacha charged by Vinnie. Dixon with another turnover.
Stompies looking flustered early
Sharks blow a certain scoring chance with inaccurate passing.
Poor Fassi pass…try on.
Yellow for Paul Div.
Early yellow and De Villiers eats it
Stompies up against ot
Sharks lose their lineout again, Stormers play Russian Roulette in their own goal area. 5m scrum.
Crazy play…enjoyable, but stupid.
Hahah what was that!!!???
passing in their in-goal area and fluffing the clearance...the spirit of Galant lives on
Williams over, well taken.
Williams mimicked Reinach
Nicely done Williams.
He came to play with the quick taps and energy
Jordan with the trick shot off the upright, 7-5 Sharks
Nice carry up by Vinnie. Ox spoils it with a kak pass and now the Sharks have a defensive scrum on their 22.
This ref is so skinny!
If anybody touches him on this field he's dead
Weird call there
Not gonna have many scrums at this rate. Another immediate penalty on collapse.
Ox definitely down there.
Sacha nearly pulls it from right in front but it sneaks in. 8-7 Stormers
Jordan boots the kickoff straight out. Amateur stuff.
Sharks now rumbling the Stormers scrum, bit lucky to get a reset.
Siya penalized, Sacha for goal. 11-7
Bit of a war of attrition at the moment...
Sacha calling for a shot from just inside the Vissies half. Smart call...if he slots it
Kolisi actually looking engaged today
Lovely nudge from our darling boy...
11-7
Sharks have really capitalised as the Stormers yellow is over
20 minutes in and barely a back has seen the ball beyond 10.
Edwil puts away Roos
Paul Div again not supporting his bodyweight on the attempted jackal.
How are these short power rangers always so good in the air!?
Sharks passing too slow out back, tons of time for the Stormers defense to get in between them. Jordan took way too long to decide what pass he wanted to throw and then took the wrong option anyway.
Willemse telling Fassi "I'm not a 12, I'm the best 15 in SA!"
Fassi didn't agree
Fassi out of sorts
Reinach eating it twice in 2 minutes, first stepped by Edwill and now handed off by SIya.
Williams causing all sorts of shit with these quick taps
Hooker over. Might have been a knock on just before. Nah, backwards.
Hooker in as the Vissies rumble after the Williams quick tap
That cleanout by who was it, Vinnie, set up the momentum.
14-11 Sharks
This is gonna be some game
Sacha kicks the kickoff dead now.
Is this Sacha captain thing a smart move
I can't understand why Willemse isn't the Captain of this Stompie side
Jordan throws the intercept, Reinach kicks away good turnover ball.
Hendrikse making mucho unnecessary mistakes.
Sacha for touch with the penalty now, lineout 5.
Stormers now overthrow the lineout.
Stompies fluff a lineout in a great position
That should be a penalty surely
Lucky for the Stormers they had an advantage there otherwise Williams was good and gone.
Stormers win the lineout by losing it. Novel tactics. Big gap opens for Adre Smith to score but the ref wants to check the suspicious gap that opened for him.
Fouche took out the defender, no try.
Perfectly legal in American football.
Bit of a let-off for the Sharks there. ..
I dont think that was Fousche taking the Sharks player out, looked to me the like the Sharks playing pulled him onto himself
Sharks can't put much together.
Fassi is passing like a moron, Willemse is invisible so far.
I dont think that was Fousche talking the Sharks player, looked to me the like the Sharks playing pulled him onto himself
Ja is was something like that.
Way too deep by Fassi. He's completely off the boil.
And now Fassi yet again boots away turnover possession and the Sharks end up back where they were.
Nice clearance by Roche
We've seen nothing of the centers or the wings so far. It's almost like back play doesn't exist anymore apart from bits of broken play.
We always talk about the Cape Town girls, some good talent out there!
Pitch breaking up under the scrum.
Sacha with a chance to level the scores from halfway...
he slots It
14- 14
Sacha with a 50+m penalty, 14-14.
Sacha more likely to make the 50 meter kicks
Jordan again can't get the ball wide. Better kick by Fassi, Hooker gathers.
Let's hope for a bit of rugby in the 2nd half.
this is so stop start it's almost unwatchable
Jordan again throwing a pass that Fassi had to jump for. He's killing the Sharks out back.
What a player that kid is!
Fassi clattered...
Sacha trying to put the Stompie into the lead from inside his own half...
Damn...that was a great strike with room to spare
17-14
Now Sacha slots an almost 60m penalty with travel miles to spare. 17-14 Stormers HT. Hasn't been particularly entertaining.
Can't believe I'm actually tempted to say the Sharks should get Masuku on. Either that or get Juju on for Jordan and move Andre to flyhalf, he's a fuck of a better distributor than Jordan.
Two epic kicks by Sacha, you can’t keep him out of the game. Very poor first halves by Fassi, Hendrikse…no shows from Roos and Willemse….Ox ineffective. Best player on the park is Edwil.
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Vinnie has been tireless at the rucks and breakdowns, some great cleanouts.
Roos with a strong 12 carry sets up the phase from which Paul Div hits the line into the gap to score. Nice little pass from Fouche to release Div. 24-14
H.O. would've been proud
Divvy breaks though and gets over after Sacha puts up a perfect highball to just outside the 22
Seeing that carry from Roos and what it set up makes it even more perplexing why the Sharks haven't used Esterhuizen at all today.
Stormers up nicely…the Sharks bumbling. It all started with another Fassi missed high ball
Nice maul defence by the Stormers to force the scrum
Anyone know if Plumtree sneaked in a secret practice session this week? This is looking a bit Plumtreeish for the Sharks today.
Esterhuizen over plus yellow for the Stormers.
24-21, Sharks back in it.
an AE walkover
Lots of pressure on the Stormers line and eventually AE dives over.
Deficit reduced to 3
21-24
Plumpster is overwhelmed with joy as the Brilliant Esterhuizen scores from a meter out. Hahahahaha
Grant with that quick tap again and Fassi again boots it away.
Finally the Sharks convert from inside the 5meter line.
What the hell was Fassi there!!!???
So damn stupid!
They had the Stompies on the back foot
HasBeen stick to the game will you
Siya with a strong run, Hooker almost through.
Phew the stompies have a lot of absorbing to do here!
Howzit Beens
Fassi wastes more ball…I think he’s trying to compensate for Hendrikse
Beautiful line by the other Williams off Grant with the pull and pass.
Sharks though again as Williams sells a slick dummy and puts his namesake through unde the posts
De Villiers over the ball again
Grant Williams has been what's kept the Sharks going, dynamic performance.
Why the hell is Jaden on? Williams is literally what's keeping the Sharks in the game.
Why is Jayden in!!!???????????
LOL Pakie
Joel talking up Kolisi
The was a bit of a cruel call again the Stormers at scrum time
Jordan kicks too deep. Sharks wasting so much possession.
Gelant is on, that should cancel out the Jaden fiasco.
The Stomers need to play set piece to set piece here.
Just calm things down for 10 minutes
Phepsi outwrestles Roos.
Damn...the penalties keep coming and the Stompies just can't get off the back foot
Gelant is on, that should cancel out the Jaden fiasco.
haha
and then some
Sharks blow another lineout.
Pisses me off to see box kicking 30m out. Fuck me have sides lost all sense of attacking play?
Hi Plumpster., Gups have recovered thei mojo.
Stormers struggling but still in it.
Mozzietard wants me to stick to the game. This toad is unreal! Bwahahahaha.
LOL, Esterhuizen bearing down on Damian but the play is called back.
Willemse needs to change his shorts...
In that situation nobody is stopping AE
Willemse stops himself from flattening AE. Very sporting!
Gelant the steady Eddie
Sharks just kicking the skin off the ball.
Hooker with a great take. Sharks spill it in an attacking position. Man the Sharks have no fucking idea out back.
Hooker another high ball.
Hooker brilliant take of the high ball in the Stompie 22.
I swear, I'm not intentionally copying what you guys say haha
Willemse stops himself from flattening AE. Very sporting!
lol Beeno, you knucklehead haha
Imagine Roos up there as a MOM candidate….utter nonsense
Koch could be a Viking extra in the next series
Gelant with a dummie for the ages. Another flyboot from Sacha.
Jeez man this game is tough going. How can Grant Williams not be on that man of the match nominations? Farcical.
Favoritism…our rugby is rife with it.
Jirre what are the Sharks doing? Just tossing the ball wherever. The Stormers need to kick themselves if they can't beat this Plumtree redux outfit.
Scrums have been a proper lottery.
Willemse goes off.
Pretty much a nothing game from him.
He didn't look happy
31-24 Sharks
Hendrikse slots a penalty and the Sharks lead by 7
Plumpster Willemse understands that with Kolisi slowly fading AE is important to the Boks.
See tbe bigger picture!
Quan Horn is the form SA 15 at the moment
Nice take Fassi.
Nice pressure take there by Fassi
Kak kick by Sacha.
OMG...Galant you damn idiot!!!!!!!!!
Hahahahahahaga
LOL, did Gelant just cost the Stormers a try? Haaahahaha! The gift that keeps on giving.
Yes Dave, he does seem to have hit a bad run of form.
Absolutely the right call…Gelant does a Gelant
Jackals Jaco ...
36-24
See what I mean!!!??????
The guys is the biggest moron in SA rugby!My word.
Unbelievable
WTH. No downward pressure!
Was touching the ball.
That is the game.
Jurie the GOAT is on and immediately almost creates a try. Just gets it wrong on the cross, but only just.
Gelant gets lit up….call of the day, but on the wrong play!
Gelant does too many stupid things.
JJ is on
In enjoying Gelant we forgot to give credit to Jaco Williams for never giving up the chase.
Stompies not dead year...last chance saloon
LOL, Esterhuizen leading the MOTM vote despite barely seeing the ball all game, and then Stransky tries to chat him up to justify it. Comedy gold. My MOTM is Grant Williams.
AE leading the MOTM race...
Take note BeenoBallas
The fans call bs on the Roos nomination
Agreed Pakie
Ja Roos has done fuck all except that carry that set up Div's try. Dixon's been good at the breakdowns, Div also had his moments. Vinnie has also been really good at the rucks and breakdowns. But Williams was the only momentum this Sharks side had, those quick taps were deadly and he kept speeding the game up while Jordan did his best to tank the momentum. Without him I doubt they would have been in this position now.
Stormers held up...that the game.
Sharks hustled the Stormers today.
JP will be happy.
Lots to improve on but they're turning the corner
Sacha tackles himself as no one else could get to him.
Not the best game but good win for the Sharks. Stormers will need to ask themselves some tough questions, this was not a good Sharks performance yet they got smacked.
Pretty awful game…but contested. Esterhozen….center, hybrid, captain.
Plumpster AE is the captain so he gets credit for the win as well as his own play.
What exactly did he SO that was, so brilliant.
I dunno about this Sacha captaincy business.
Ask yourself the same question about 12 years of Dud Allende.
Lekker noobs
Thats for the company as always.
Now we wait for Dawie to watch the highlights and we can discuss the performances haha
Dankie chaps, the chat was often more enjoyable than the game.
God bless you, Worry Gelant.
Poor Mozzietard still smarting about his very poor call re Springboks great Damian Allende.
Let's not mention Du Toit or Rassie!.
Pop goes the weasel!
Now we wait for Dawie to watch the highlights and we can discuss the performances haha
I unfortunately can't find this amusing otherwise Dave will call me a fucking twat again, which will ruin my sensitive constitution.
Congrats Sharks. For a second weekend in a row, the Sharks took their chances when it mattered most. AE again played a good game.
The Stormers have only themselves to blame. No wonder Rassie does not pick Roos, he was useless. All show, but no real impact...I wish the Stormers can get a real 8th man.
Adre Smith, Ruben van Heerden, Neethling Fouché, Paul de Villiers, Ben Jason Dixon, Marcel Theunissen, Mchunu and Jonathan Roche worked hard.
Only for the backline to kick possession away or blunder it. Sacha was not good today. He missed too much with his kicks at goal. His tactical kicking was also poor.
Jurie Matthee is the better flyhalf at the moment. Gelant, like I said in a different post, is consistently KAK! Honestly, why Dobson still picks this fool, no one will know.
Willemse had a very quiet game. So did the rest of the backline. Pathetic showing by the Stormers.
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