Ruan Pienaar kicked an extra time penalty for the Sharks to snatch a 26-29 victory for the Sharks in Wellington earning his team their second win of the season.
The Sharks looked to have sealed victory going into the final 10 minutes with a try by JP Pietersen but the Hurricanes hit back with two late tries which when both were converted by Piri Weepu levelled the scores at 26 all.
Aaron Cruden however gave away a penalty just inside the Hurricanes half so Ruan Pienaar took the kick and sealed victory for the Sharks.
Pienaar finished with 19 points from five penalties and two conversions – seven goals from eight attempts – to lift the Sharks to their second straight win and consign the Hurricanes to their fourth straight loss.
“I didn’t think too much about it,” Pienaar said of his winning goal.
“Obviously I really wanted to kick it and luckily it went through the posts.
“I was just happy to get a win and now we can home and try to capitalize.”
The Sharks, who broke a five-match losing streak at the start of the season with a sixth-round win over the Highlanders, lifted themselves further from the bottom of the standings with Saturday’s win in Wellington.
The Sharks led from the fifth minute when 19-year-old fullback Lambie scored his first try in his second start in Super 14 rugby.
Hurricanes Flyhalf Willie Ripia kicked two penalties to cut the margin to 7-6 but penalties to Pienaar in the 35th and 40th minutes allowed the Sharks to take a 13-6 lead to halftime.
The Hurricanes changed their inside back combination at halftime, replacing Tyson Keats and Ripia with Piri Weepu and Aaron Cruden, strengthening their backline.
Weepu kicked penalties in the 42nd and 52nd minutes to make the score 13-12 before a further penalty to Pienaar put the Sharks 16-12 ahead.
Pietersen finished a brilliant counter-attack down the right flank in the 64th to score the Sharks’ second try and to give the Durban-based team a 23-12 lead.
The Hurricanes responded only five minutes later with a try to All Blacks center Ma’a Nonu, converted by Weepu, which restored a four points margin.
Pienaar nudged the Sharks further ahead with his fourth penalty in the 73rd minute before Vito and Weepu combined to equalize near fulltime.
The Hurricanes made the mistake of trying to run the ball through midfield late in the match, infringed and conceded the penalty which allowed Pienaar to decide the match.
“It was an excellent game but the sort of game that takes years off you as a player and a coach,” Sharks captain John Smith said.
Final Score Hurricanes 26 Sharks 29 Scorers
Hurricanes
Tries – M Nonu, V Vito
Pen – W Ripia 2, P Weepu 2
Con – P Weepu 2
Drop –
Cards –
Sharks
Tries – P. Lambie, JP Pietersen
Pen – R Pienaar 5
Con – R Pienaar 2
Drop –
Cards –
Match Officials
Referee: Ian Smith (Australia)
Assistant referees: Kane McBride (New Zealand), Glenn Newman (New Zealand)
TMO: Shane McDermott (New Zealand)
Teams
Hurricanes – 15 Cory Jane, 14 Tamati Ellison, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 Andre Taylor, 10 Willie Ripia, 9 Tyson Keats, 8 Rodney So’oialo, 7 Karl Lowe, 6 Victor Vito, 5 Michael Paterson, 4 Jeremy Thrush, 3 Neemia Tialata, 2 Andrew Hore (c), 1 John Schwalger.
Reserves: 16 Dane Coles, 17 Jacob Ellison, 18 Bryn Evans, 19 Nick Crosswell, 20 Piri Weepu, 21 Aaron Cruden, 22 David Smith.
Sharks – 15. Patrick Lambie , 14. Stefan Terblanche , 13. Adrian Jacobs , 12. Riaan Swanepoel , 11. JP Pietersen , 10. Andy Goode , 9. Ruan Pienaar , 8. Ryan Kankowski , 7. Willem Alberts , 6. Jacques Botes , 5. Alistair Hargreaves , 4. Steven Sykes , 3. Jannie du Plessis , 2. Bismarck du Plessis , 1. John Smit ( Capt )
Replacements: , 16. Tendai Mtawarira , 17. Wiehahn Herbst , 18. Wilhelm Steenkamp , 19. Jean Deysel , 20. Rory Kockott , 21. Waylon Murray , 22. Odwa Ndungane
28 – Super, no ‘Fuckadilly’s’ tho so he has been quite calm….give him his due the team were not ENTIRELY made up of Stormers!! 😉
yup Puma , they have my full support too , well untill they meet my Sharkies
i said this to Rudi the other day and i’ll say it again ,
only team from SA that has the abillity to beat the bulls is the Sharks, and i am not saying we will be them , but we know how close sharks and bulls games are
Dont be misled , if we lose our first you will see the support disappearing. Also when we play back in SA the Lions, Sharks and off course the Stormers. Then we will lose more than 50 percent of sympathy. 😆
lol blue bird nope grant is a little more subtle in sharksworld
29 – BB,Yes he does and really he it out of order there. Starting to let him self down big time. Not the same person I knew for the first 6 months when I first spoke to him on keo. Also has mini-me that follows him around …..hahahahahahaha. I know who that poster in the red jersey is 😉
Now they will copy and paste this 😯 I should actually copy and paste what he said the other night to me but really it is CHILDISH. So wont. 😀
35 – mini-me means the poster in red on SH 😛
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i wonder if skoppie knows about the new sites and the breakup between his so called broeders
30 – Puma, your cholesterol reading was brilliant, mine was 3.5 I think so I have some prawns in the fridge!!! Live dangerously…..
Are you sure they are bad for you? My pack is 65 calories and low in fat, sat fat and only high in salt!!
I think Treehugger is trying to scare you!! 😉
33 – Super, Don’t think Bulls will lose, if they do they wont lose much and they can afford a loss and still get to the final. They have HUGE confidence in themselves. That brings plenty success.
lol puma he aint worth it mate , i also enjoyed grant at first and then saw the real him
to be honest he would be wuite a man if he wasnt such a woman 😆
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just give a link to that
32 – Sharky, Of course when Bulls plays Sharks. My support will always, always be behind the Sharks. Also understand the Bulls supporters to support the Bulls.
Our games in the past few years against each other have been like test rugby. Really awesome stuff to watch. 2007 final brilliant, 2008 CC final brilliant and last year the last game of the S14 between Sharks and Bulls another thriller. Great, great games all of them.
34 – Sharkie I would fear for his blood pressure if he has skirmishes on that site too!! 🙂
yeah me too 😆
43 – BB……hahahahaha. 😆
37 – Superbul, I don’t know? 😯
lol puma he says he dont hate john smit :lol::lol: 😆
Sharky and Puma, honestly you would like Grant if you met him, he is a great bloke….I’m not sure why he has got it in for JS…anyway that’s my take….lets leave that one.
Sharky I could do with you here, I am cooking an organic chicken….poor thing deserved better than me for it’s final journey!! 😆
Nice to catch up guys…I need to give this chicken my undivided attention now….!! 😉
Laters….
41 – Super, Will do. Some nasty stuff he said now saying I twisted things 🙄
He also said that Ruan of all people is a quota player and should never be selected by PdV for the Boks.. Also John is a quota player and should never be selected for the Boks by PdV. 🙄
Some horrible politcal post from him too, to Rangerman. I was totally speechless when I read it. That should never ever be put on a blog. People like that are a disappointment really. Rangerman is a superb person and I always enjoy his posts. Have never seen him be nasty to anyone. He only stands up for this team. He has a right too. Ag, anyway that is why I LOVE THIS BLOG SO MUCH. None of the nonsense here. Thank you GBS for this blog.
Ruan Pienaar’s huge last-minute kick was the highlight of the South African Super 14 weekend, while the poor performances of the Cheetahs and Australian referee Stuart Dickinson stood out at the other end.
The Sharks were perhaps a trifle lucky to clinch Saturday’s match against the Hurricanes 29-26 in Wellington. The home side made most of the play in the second half of a match marked by too many errors from both sides to give their fans any hope that they could somehow miraculously get to the play-offs.
Pienaar was outstanding – as a player in his rightful position of scrumhalf.
He proved that he can kick as he showed throughout the match and that he can also kick under pressure as he demonstrated with the last act of the match.
One hopes that Springbok coach Peter de Villiers will now drop the notion that Pienaar is a flyhalf or that Ricky Januarie is a better scrumhalf than Saturday’s Sharks hero.
47 – Sharky, I know and he was insulting S. Burger for a long while too. Now all of a sudden he changes his mind. That Burger is playing so well it has shut his mouth up.
48 – BB, Maybe but not too sure. 😉 I know you both get on and I respect that.
amen puma , ignore that shit
this blog is awesome , here we have nothing but fun and good times , and awesome bloggers here
also knowing Rudi personally , i know he has or wants nothing to do with the keo types there,
as for rangerman , great guy , wish he would come here and blog
#52 lol true puma ,
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Thats my feeling too, there is a few out there who will enjoy this place, sadly they dont know of this place or believe some of the rubbish spewed about this site.
** Dickinson, for so long the scourge at times of all South African rugby sides including at Test level, had one of the days that South Africans would like to forget. He was inconsistent, often wrong and ruined a good match for two sides that wanted to play rugby.
Ill-discipline there definitely was on the Lions side, but 17 warranted penalties there certainly were not.
In the end, Highlanders fullback Israel Dagg’s six well-taken penalties saw the home team through to only their second win of the season with the 39-29 scoreline cruelly keeping the Lions winless after seven matches.
The Lions scored five tries to three, and the five could have been more if Dickinson had referred two efforts by the visitors.
However, a lapse in focus that cost the Lions 26 points in 23 minutes before and after halftime won and lost this match.
The reality is that the Lions must start learning their lessons.
51 – Super, Ruan should be our back-up Scrummie to FdP. Like he used to be.
Then I also agree with Morne on a thread he wrote a article here about having a player that can play in a few postions. I agree with Morne there. Good to have one player on the bench or two that can play a few postions. Like having a all-rounder in cricket. Ruan could be back up FH and scrummie.
Next year is a long time away and anything can happen. Maybe another younster comes out of the blue. Like Frans Steyn did for the last world cup. Who would have thought he would have got selection at the time? He was only 19 and he did.
Naas on Boots the other night said watch out for Lambie for FB at wc!! I respect Naas on his views. So really who knows. Lambie is young and needs a few games at FB, but he will be a great in a year or two. Hope Sharks don’t mess about with him and play him at FH. I know he can play there but think he is playing superb at FB. Well these two last games for the Sharks he did. FEARLESS under the high ball. He is a gem of a player. We need to look after him.
53 – Sharky, I feel the same. We have awesome okes and gals on this blog. We all like a family here. I enjoy this blog more than anywhere. I go onto keo to speak to some of my mates there and always enjoy Johan Fourie there too. Such a really good person. Alway enjoy SodaJoe a lot Jinx, Rangerman, Charo those are my favourite bloggers there. Maybe a few more. I rather just blog here really. It is fun. I go to Sharksworld too. Enjoy it as sometimes its nice to speak with other Sharkies. But this is the site I enjoy the most.
I enjoy all the posters here. Rudi has done a good job.
3 great sixes by Morkel against Warne , o i love that
8 – Winston, I do remember that kick Ruan got in 2007. That too was right in the end and had to go over. Pressure kick for sure.
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