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FalseBayFC wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:51 am Lizo Gqoboka withdraws for compassionate reasons. His dad died yesterday.
Terrible news
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7 -3
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Sharks forwards look sharp.
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Yes please! Can't get more technically perfect than that.
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$harks have way too much power for the powder puff Bulls pack.

7-10
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Greetings from the Bulle
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Bulls finding their stride here.
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$hark$ defense solid
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Good crowd in
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OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:17 pm Good crowd in
Fantastic....
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Zakkie is besig om kak aan te jaag
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Both teams want this
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OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:27 pm Zakkie is besig om kak aan te jaag
Yip
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Eisch Bosch
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Mapimpi not having a great outing today.
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Bulls too good close to the line
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Floodgates opening.
Sharks being blown away now.
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Too good and too blue
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If Bosch is hobbling after each fuckign kick just take him off. Missed touch, shit passes, doesn't need an injury to be taken off. Just shuffling ball.
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Greta reply by the Sharks to close the gap again.

Storming run by Phepsi, but equally impressive tackle by Moodie on the line to finally stop him.

Hendrickse with the snipe score in the end.
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I just don't have enough praise for Phepsi
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That pass by Mchunu! Aaaaargh! I'm going to cut myself!
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Lots of Afrikaans from the crowd.
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Sharks to win this
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Great final quarter comeback by the Sharks.

27 all with 4 mins to go.

Not sure why the ref said that Sharks ball wasn’t out though. Sharks pinched a similar ball off a Bulls ruck earlier in the match.
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Come oooooooooooon!
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Bulls discipline costing them dearly.
Giving the Sharks a lot of momentum.
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Bulls squeak through with a drop goal after the hooter.
30-27

Bulls made hard work of that. Kudos to the Sharks for the comeback.

Glad the good guys won.
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Hard luck Sharks
If it weren't for the superior blue gene you could have won
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That's dissapointing
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Hard luck to the $hark$ supporters. Thought they would pull it through right at the end.
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Nice one Bulls! Feel kak for my Sharks but they just weren't consistent or accurate enough this season.
I'm now in an Uber on the way to Greenpoint to watch my second favourite team the Stormers. Early pub dinner in Seapoint and then onwards and upwards to the game.

Good luck to the egte Stormers supporters tonight! I'll be wearing a streeptrui too.
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FalseBayFC wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:51 pm Nice one Bulls! Feel kak for my Sharks but they just weren't consistent or accurate enough this season.
I'm now in an Uber on the way to Greenpoint to watch my second favourite team the Stormers. Early pub dinner in Seapoint and then onwards and upwards to the game.

Good luck to the egte Stormers supporters tonight! I'll be wearing a streeptrui too.

Agree. Sharks just not accurate enough
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FalseBayFC wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:51 pm Nice one Bulls! Feel kak for my Sharks but they just weren't consistent or accurate enough this season.
I'm now in an Uber on the way to Greenpoint to watch my second favourite team the Stormers. Early pub dinner in Seapoint and then onwards and upwards to the game.

Good luck to the egte Stormers supporters tonight! I'll be wearing a streeptrui too.
Sounds like a brilliant night out. Enjoy.
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Anyone got a stream for the Leinster match?
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.OverThere wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 2:14 pm Anyone got a stream for the Leinster match?
https://rugbystreams.me/rugby-union-streams

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Bosch has been disappointing, he hasn't progressed. He's ended up a provincial level fullback and that's it. Which seems a really poor return on his potential.

Good kicking from hand, place kicking not particularly memorable but not terrible, good running from the back on the counter, speed average and not fast enough for wing or 13, option taking not good enough for 10 or 12, distribution below average and not good enough for 10 or 12, really quite bad in the contact he still seems a bit scared. A lot of the trouble he's getting into at 10, is about not being in position properly, then getting the ball and not having any carrying option (he's scared of contact) to limit the damage, then taking some poor option to pass or kick, and if it's kick we lose possession and if it's pass his distribution isn't good enough for 10 so that too becomes a 50/50 call on losing the ball.

The problem he has now, is that he's playing a position he's not good enough to play and Fasi is the better prospect at 15, which seems the only position he's able to play in.

If Bosch was new into this team, and had never played for the Sharks before, would he even be making it into the team? Pair him with a rookie/erratic 9 and the wings are stuffed by the time they get the ball.

Such a shame Lambie was too brave and took too many knocks to the head. He was many times better than what we saw today.
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That was dense by Gray,, he's bloody lucky to not get a RC for that
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So Glasgow start really well and then their 5 decides to do something really stupid. :eh:

There should be a penalty between yellow and red for that. Gets the yellow card penalty but has to sit on a high chair in just his y fronts for the duration.
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_Os_ wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 2:27 pm Bosch has been disappointing, he hasn't progressed. He's ended up a provincial level fullback and that's it. Which seems a really poor return on his potential.

Good kicking from hand, place kicking not particularly memorable but not terrible, good running from the back on the counter, speed average and not fast enough for wing or 13, option taking not good enough for 10 or 12, distribution below average and not good enough for 10 or 12, really quite bad in the contact he still seems a bit scared. A lot of the trouble he's getting into at 10, is about not being in position properly, then getting the ball and not having any carrying option (he's scared of contact) to limit the damage, then taking some poor option to pass or kick, and if it's kick we lose possession and if it's pass his distribution isn't good enough for 10 so that too becomes a 50/50 call on losing the ball.

The problem he has now, is that he's playing a position he's not good enough to play and Fasi is the better prospect at 15, which seems the only position he's able to play in.

If Bosch was new into this team, and had never played for the Sharks before, would he even be making it into the team? Pair him with a rookie/erratic 9 and the wings are stuffed by the time they get the ball.

Such a shame Lambie was too brave and took too many knocks to the head. He was many times better than what we saw today.
Agree with all of that and especially the Lambie part. He was one of the most level-headed, competent and reliable players we’ve ever produced.

Bosch was the complete opposite. Hope he stays at the Sharks for many seasons to come :twisted:
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