Sharks Supporters Thread

[PhreeMe]

We can't seem to string together three phases in attack without f*#king up. The basic skills are just not there.

I must say, when we're building up for a try now, I either expect us to "seal" the ball off or knock it on... The number of opportunities we've missed are plenty

That being said, I will never write out team off! For some reason seem to either start the season well and end badly, or vice versa... the latter hopefully ringing true this season.

 

[Pixual]

We had a really crap draw this year compared to the jokers in the Cape and the flamingoes in the North. At least we have obtained bonus points in all but one of our games, which might prove very useful in the latter stages PROVIDED we can knock over the local teams when we have our chance against them.

 

[hungrybeaver]

Well I have to say Michalak had a good game at 10. In fact the entire team had a good game! The last 3 minutes were disastrous to my health.. being a Sharks supporter I think we ALL know that when the Sharks are in the lead, its not guaranteed. There was a nervous atmosphere at the bar where I was watching and a huge sigh of relief when it was over.

How was Mvovs try? He just put his head down and turned on the gas! Man he is fast.

 

[hungrybeaver]

Oh yes how blatantly forward was that one pass when the Brumbies scored? The oke passed it while his foot was on the 20m line and the dude received it 2-3m in front of the line! Shockingly poor by the touch judge!

 

[Creag]

@Pixual, you always have a different view of players, what are your thoughts on flyhalf? I ask because there is no word on Lambie and Freddie isn't impressing at the mo.

 

[Creag]

Oh yes how blatantly forward was that one pass when the Brumbies scored? The oke passed it while his foot was on the 20m line and the dude received it 2-3m in front of the line! Shockingly poor by the touch judge!

Too many forward passes are being missed. Too many judgement calls by refs and assist. refs are being messed up.

So even if your side plays out their socks, on the day it could all come to nought if the ref blunders things.

 

[PhreeMe]

The last 3 minutes were disastrous to my health.. being a Sharks supporter I think we ALL know that when the Sharks are in the lead, its not guaranteed. There was a nervous atmosphere at the bar where I was watching and a huge sigh of relief when it was over.

How was Mvovs try? He just put his head down and turned on the gas! Man he is fast.

That made 2 of us...... when the Brumbies scored that last try, the clock disappeared, but I KNEW it was close to full time. When he was laying on the ball I thought to myself, that's right, Stay a while and listen..... to the crowd Sadly they took a quick conversion and when the game restarted, my nerves were already shot!

The commentator had me laughing with that try "HITS THE TURBOOO's"

Too many forward passes are being missed. Too many judgement calls by refs and assist. refs are being messed up.

So even if your side plays out their socks, on the day it could all come to nought if the ref blunders things.

Yeah the speculative calls are called incorrectly and the blatant ones seem to slide... I really hope there is no mini-bias given to the home team....

 

[Pixual]

@Pixual, you always have a different view of players, what are your thoughts on flyhalf? I ask because there is no word on Lambie and Freddie isn't impressing at the mo.

We don't really have a specialist play maker at 10 these days. I haven't seen Freddie playing at 10 this year (I missed the last two games), so it's a bit of a nut scratcher for the coaches. If I had my way I would opt for the services of Willem De Waal, who I have always rated. Who knows where he plies his trade these days?

 

[PhreeMe]

We don't really have a specialist play maker at 10 these days. I haven't seen Freddie playing at 10 this year (I missed the last two games), so it's a bit of a nut scratcher for the coaches. If I had my way I would opt for the services of Willem De Waal, who I have always rated. Who knows where he plies his trade these days?

I imagine this will be met with some flames, but I would like to see Charl given a shot in Lambie's absence.
That being said, I hope Lambie isn't absent for too long!

I'm not sure whether he's in the Stormers 'B' side as some of the 'second choice' Sharkies are?

 

[Pixual]

De Waal got a rough deal at the Stormers. Great pity because he is one of those freakishly accurate kickers. Together with Tewis De Bruyn they made an excellent pair. Just a pity the FS forwards were never giving them enough ball to work with.

 

[Creag]

Also talk if Steyn coming back... although I'd rather have him at inside center.

 

[BobsLawnService]

I must say, when we're building up for a try now, I either expect us to "seal" the ball off or knock it on... The number of opportunities we've missed are plenty

That being said, I will never write out team off! For some reason seem to either start the season well and end badly, or vice versa... the latter hopefully ringing true this season.

The problem is that I just don't see the team improving. We still don't seem to know what to do on attack, our handling is still terrible and if anything our defence is worse than it was earlier in the season.

I really want to see something change now.

 

[PhreeMe]

The problem is that I just don't see the team improving. We still don't seem to know what to do on attack, our handling is still terrible and if anything our defence is worse than it was earlier in the season.

I really want to see something change now.

I see it in a different light.... I'd say surely we CAN only get better....?

 

[Creag]

I see it in a different light.... I'd say surely we CAN only get better....?

Agreed.

 

[Pixual]

Hugh Reece-Edwards MUST be axed, once and for all from the Sharks coaching lineup, together with the big gay-boy Strauli.

Reece-Edward's is a coach's bum. Remember when he had his stint as the head coach back in the day and we came stone last under his guidance? Yup. That paved the way way for Strauli to take over and everybody thought he was such a great coach, but in reality the Sharks couldn't get any worse, so naturally any improvements made him look great. We all know where that led SA rugby.

The problem is in the coaching. It's very simple.

 

[Creag]

The starting line-up for the weekend's game:

1. Dale Chadwick
2. Craig Burden
3. Jannie du Plessis
4. Steven Sykes
5. Jandre Marais
6. Marcell Coetzee
7. Willem Alberts
8. Keegan Daniel (Captain)
9. Charl McLeod
10. Frederic Michalak
11. Lwazi Mvovo
12. Tim Whitehead
13. JP Pietersen
14. Louis Ludik
15. Riaan Viljoen

Replacements:
16. Bismarck du Plessis
17. Wiehahn Herbst
18. Anton Bresler
19. Jean Deysel
20. Jacques Botes
21. Meyer Bosman
22. Marius Joubert/Paul Jordaan

 

[Pixual]

Kiwis have to cheat and rely on refereeing bias to beat SA teams. Scumbags, all of them.

 

[BobsLawnService]

Kiwis have to cheat and rely on refereeing bias to beat SA teams. Scumbags, all of them.

We can't blame the ref for that one I'm afraid. Our defence just keeps getting worse and worse and we didn't take our opportunities when we got them.

I suspect we've seen the best we're of going to see of the Sharks and it is only going to get worse.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

As shyte as we played today, 2 things would have had us much closer/winning:

1) For a ref to give 14 points which were not points can sink a team, any team. For him to also only police one side of the rucks and mauls and give ALL 50/50 calls to the home team on top of that, well. It's disgusting and blatantly obvious bias and we see it week in and week out when it comes to the SA teams.
2) There are absolute idiot players in the team, nevermind the coaching staff. I say get rid of the 3 joker coaches, as well as Strauli and then send Chadwick, Freddy, Joubert and Jannie packing.

 

[Pixual]

That ref was shocking. There is no excuse for that kind of crap when it comes to refereeing.