Crusaders (34) 44 / Sharks (18) 28 (Final Score)
The Crusaders and the Sharks did battle in a game “Hosted” by the Crusaders at Twickenham, London, England at 17:00 SA Time. This was the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 on TV in SA.
What a game!
Scintilating rugby, game of all time in the History of Super Rugby!
5 Tries by the Crusaders, 4 tries by the Sharks.
Scorers:
Crusaders: 3 Penalties & 5 Conversions & 1 Try Dan Carter, 2 Tries Sean Maitland, 1 Try Israel Dagg, 1 Try Zac Guildford
Sharks: 1 Conversion & 2 Penalties & 1 Try Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 1 Try Willem Alberts, 1 Try Alistair Hargreaves, 1 Try Odwa Ndungane
Teams:
Crusaders: 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Robbie Fruean, 12 Sonny Bill Williams, 11 Zac Guildford, 10 Dan Carter, 9 Andy Ellis, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Matt Todd, 6 George Whitelock, 5 Sam Whitelock, 4 Brad Thorn, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Corey Flynn, 1 Wyatt Crockett.
Replacements: 16 Quentin MacDonald, 17 Ben Franks, 18 Chris Jack, 19 Jonathan Poff, 20 Kahn Fotuali’i, 21 Matt Berquist, 22 Adam Whitelock.
Sharks: 15 Louis Ludik, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Stefan Terblanche, 12 Meyer Bosman, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 9 Charl McLeod, 8 Ryan Kankowski, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Keegan Daniel, 5 Alistair Hargreaves, 4 Steven Sykes, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 John Smit (captain).
Replacements: 16 Eugene van Staden, 17 Tendai Mtawarira, 18 Gerhard Mostert, 19 Jacques Botes, 20 Conrad Hoffmann, 21 Adrian Jacobs, 22 JP Pietersen.
Referee: Steve Walsh (Australia)
Assistant referees: Wayne Barnes (England), Stuart Terheege (England)
TMO: Dave Pearson (England)
Fark, my PC was farked for a while….
Sharks playing the better rugby now….
Saders Now hot on attack…. luckily we have a 22m drop out
Carter off injured
Dankie tog die sharks het wakker geskrik.daardie senter van die crusaders is gevaarlik.
This is a hard game, the tackles are monsterous
Beast is sooooooooo much better and harder and faster at loosehead compared to John Smit
It is helter skelter rugby now…. try Maitland
Saders 44 / 28
10 min to go
Come on Sharks… eish man
Saders cleverly now keeping the ball
Clver stab through by Sonny Bill Williams
Less than 5 min to go
The commentators are waxing lyrical about this game
Sharks hard on attack… 5m out
crusaders lyk vir my na die vorm span in die super reeks sonny bill is besig om alle ander senters te leer bol speel
Almost a 90 m try for the Saders… penalty Sharks… it is frenetic stuff now
O flok, only got back now, didn’t expect THIS !
Saders scrum, 10m out
78@ Pietman:
Mater, hierdie was fireworks all the way…
Penalty Saders, they tap and go
gelukkig is n sa span nog bo die log,die sharks was swak vandag.
Final Score: Crusaders 44 / 28 Sharks
82@ Piet visagie:
Sharks was blerrie goed, die Saders was net eenvoudig fenominaal!
Jy is seker reg,dalk is dit die teleurstelling wat inskop.die crusader span gaan moeilik geklop word.
This was indeed a memmorable match!
Sonny Bill Williams’ distribution skills next to an on-fire Carter was the difference. The Saders scrum was very dominant.. their overall play well-rounded.
On the Sharks side Willem Alberts was great, so too Bissie. Beast subbed John Smit and made a huge difference.
Well folks… let me return to a bit of woodwork, before going in…
Goooooooooi Mieleissssssssss
The only way to play the Saders is “IN YOUR FACE”, hard forwards oriented and structured rugby… slowing Saders possession to a crawl and forcing your pattern on the Saders….
How one achieves that… that is the question
I am waiting to see if Sonny Bill will be cited.
gbs @ 88
by keeping the ball away from them for long periods of time
and
making them play from deep in their own half … sharks have shown in patches that it can be done … if they had a higher percentage of successful kicks, they wouldve had a very good chance of winning this one … unfortunately, because of a lot of missed kicks they were forced to play catch-up rugby … not the thing you want to do against the crusaders!
oh
and for all the talk of how good the crusaders were
and what it would mean for the all blacks,
there were a period when their shoulders started to drop
..
things is
they’re looking good again (when it doesnt matter)
but
when the pressure is applied
they’ll
just go and do a protea!!
…
oh
and
gooooooooooodmorning everyone!!
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