Sharks vs. Bulls

You guys just made it, if the game ended at 80 minutes you okes would have been ****ed. Nothing worse than seeing such an arrogant team win.
 
Bulls - Trample ~~, Sharks - belly up

Congrats to Bulls, Job well done !

Both team were great, and equal in strength and other aspects of game.
but
Sharks thought victory already in its belly.

Bulls just kept on trampling ..trampling ...trampling...until last second

never gave up
What a Victory !
 
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Toilet_Duck said:
You guys just made it, if the game ended at 80 minutes you okes would have been ****ed. Nothing worse than seeing such an arrogant team win.
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Arrogant team? Did I just happen to step into an alternate reality? :confused: If you want to see arrogance, head over to the Sharks' website and see some of the comments left for the Bulls supporters.

Why can't people just support their team without bad-mouthing the other teams?! :sick:
 
WKJ?:beanie said:
Arrogant team? Did I just happen to step into an alternate reality? :confused: If you want to see arrogance, head over to the Sharks' website and see some of the comments left for the Bulls supporters.

Why can't people just support their team without bad-mouthing the other teams?! :sick:
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I'm not a Sharks supporter, but I support any team who is playing against the Bulls :D

Anyway never mind, was a ****ing excellent game!
 
Toilet_Duck said:
I'm not a Sharks supporter, but I support any team who is playing against the Bulls :D

Anyway never mind, was a ****ing excellent game!
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I agree, I hope we see a lot more such games. Not too sure that my blood pressure will handle it, though... :D

Why do most of the rugby supporters revert to support "anyone playing against the Bulls/Blue Bulls"?! Just something I have been wondering about the past week :confused:

The Bulls deserved to win, but the Sharks didn't deserve to lose (if it makes sense). I love rugby! :)
 
Last time I went this crazy with a rugby game was the 1995 final.....

The Bulls have the fist SA Super Rugby trophy!!!!

Well done my boys!! But to the Sharks as well, thanks for hosting a great SA Super Rugby Final!
 
Sorry sharkies maybe next time :D :D :D

The Bulls will test drive the cup before any other SA team can ever have it..

Let's hope the SA teams can keep the cup here in SA for a couple of years :o
 
Great game. Don't support either but it was fantastic to watch!
 
Yes, agree. It was a physical and static game, but in the end the team with the most composure and character prevailed. All the non-bull supporters will see the bulls as an arrogant team only because they choose to play an intimidating and physical game.

In the end the 28 players chosen for the South African team, both from the Bulls and the Sharks climbed into a bus and put their difference aside and I'm sure had a beer afterwards to a very good Super 14 Final.
 
Elf1nDrak3 said:
Yes, agree. It was a physical and static game, but in the end the team with the most composure and character prevailed. All the non-bull supporters will see the bulls as an arrogant team only because they choose to play an intimidating and physical game.

In the end the 28 players chosen for the South African team, both from the Bulls and the Sharks climbed into a bus and put their difference aside and I'm sure had a beer afterwards to a very good Super 14 Final.
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Yes they are all buddies now, but I am sure there will be a few more shark jokes heard on the bus :D


Anyway thanks for the win Sharks if it were not for you guys the Bulls would have lost the game!
 
Handle Sharks' fans with care

Handle Sharks' fans with care

Posted on 20 May 2007 - 23:20

If you know any Sharks supporters, anywhere, you will not need reminding that they have endured the most traumatic of weekends. Handle them with care.
The Vodacom Super 14 final against the Bulls at King's Park on Saturday was, for the Sharks and all who have sailed with them, the stuff of the most vivid of nightmares; for the Bulls, who will still be pinching themselves, it was a dream victory, a triumphant end to a romantic, fairytale season.

After 15 games in 16 weeks, more than 20 hours or 1 200 minutes of biff-bash rugby, day after day of preparation and travel, the Super 14 competition came down to the final move of the competition, a try in injury time, after the final hooter, by a Bryan Habana and a Derick Hougaard conversion for a 20-19 Bulls win.

No one could have imagined a closer, more dramatic climax to an extraordinary competition. But no one can be in doubt that the script-writer was dressed in blue.

The Bulls team and their management were quick to concede that the Sharks had the edge on the day.

"The Sharks outplayed us for 79 minutes but our character won it for us in the final minute," said Bulls captain Victor Matfield. Coach Heyneke Meyer agreed:

"The Sharks were the better team on the day but the character of my players came through at the end."

Dick Muir, the devastated Sharks coach, blamed basic error in those decisive final moments for the loss.

'DESERVED TO WIN'

"We are shattered. I think we deserved to win. We did all the playing. We did not drop the ball, we dropped the trophy. We've won games in this way before and now we've lost one. It all boiled down to a small basic error at the end."

The Sharks missed several golden opportunities to close the door on the Bulls in the closing seconds and botched them all. They, and the King's Park crowd, thought the game was over when reserve lock Albert van den Berg stretched over a ruck to score a try with just over two minutes left on the clock.

The Sharks went 19-13 ahead and a successful conversion would have taken them out of reach.

Francois Steyn missed the relatively easy kick and Matfield, with 80 seconds left on the clock, told his men "to get the ball and hold on to until we score".

They did just that but the Sharks played perfect hosts by twice handing (or kicking) them possession in the closing moments. The final kick - by Steyn - missed touch as the final hooter sounded and the Bulls took the ball superbly through six phases before Habana, cutting back across the flow of the cover defence, scored close to the uprights.

"I asked Bryan (Habana) for a special try and he gave it to me," said Meyer.

Muir refused to blame the missed conversion for the defeat. "When we beat the Crusaders, scrumhalf Ruan Pienaar grabbed the ball and kicked over a vital kick and this time Frans said he would take the kick.

But it wasn't just because of that conversion. We made too many mistakes. We just had to hold on to the ball in those closing seconds and we did not."

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

Muir refused to admit it was his biggest disappointment on a rugby field.

"I don't think we should lose perspective here. It has been an excellent Super 14 and the players have done exceptionally well. That shouldn't be forgotten in the disappointment of defeat."

Sharks captain John Smit described the contest as "an epic final".

"It is obviously massively disappointing to lose like that in the final minute but credit to Victor Matfield and the Bulls for showing the character to come from behind and scoring a try to win. Our disappointment is the Bulls' ecstasy."

Meyer, with every reason, was emotional about the victory, dedicating the trophy to his wife who has been ill, paying glowing tribute to his players and adding that it was an honour and privilege to coach the Bulls.

"I don't coach for trophies but the reward is seeing how these players are growing as men. I hope to earn their respect and if one of two of them name their sons Heyneke in the future that will be my trophy."

The Bulls, who turned the match on its head in a flash, celebrated extravagantly and none more so than their prima donna Jaco van der Westhuyzen, one of their reserves and former Natal Shark, who climbed up the poles moments after the final whistle and stood on the cross-bar waving at the crowd before rushing from the field to re-appear wearing a T-shirt with the words 'Jesus is King' emblazoned on the front.

The Sharks, for 78 minutes, did just about everything according to the Muir plan. They were more urgent, played at a higher tempo as the Bulls tried to slow the game and they looked sharper.

The one area where they were constantly exposed, predictably, was the lineout and they provided the Bulls and the towering Matfield with eight turnovers in that area.

But they outscrummed the Bulls and with flank Jacques Botes leading the way they were stronger at the breakdown. "It was very physical," said Matfield, "and credit to the Sharks. Their counter-rucking was superb."

The Sharks defence, with Butch James in exceptional form, was strong and they were able to pressure the Bulls backs and Hougaard for most of the afternoon.

In the end, though, it came down to a hectic, gut-wrenching final minute, one that will be a part of Bulls' dreams and Sharks' nightmares for weeks to come.
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http://www.superrugby.co.za/default.asp?id=215908&des=article&scat=superrugby/super14

:) :o
 
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