Sharks (9) 12 / 11 (11) Chiefs (Final Score)
The Cell C Sharks and Chiefs did battle in Super Rugby at
Growthpoint Kings Park, Durban at 19:10 SA Time (17:10 GMT, Sunday 06:10 NZ Time).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1 & M-Net on TV in SA.
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Scorers:
Sharks:
- Penalties – Patrick Lambie (4)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – 0
- Conversions – 0
Chiefs:
- Penalties – Aaron Cruden (2)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Sam Cane (1)
- Conversions – 0
Teams:
Cell C Sharks |
Chiefs |
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Referee: Angus Gardner (Australia)
Assistant Referees: Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa), Cwengile Jadezweni (South Africa)
TMO: Marius Jonker (South Africa)
So 2 SA spanne het gewen die week, en een koloniespan het gewen.
Slegte rugby orals, ongeag nat omstandighede.
Bulle en Shaaks wen sleg en lelik, maar wen is ‘n wen.
Stormers nie te gelukkig nie, maar elkeen moet sy eie fight veg.
And stormers supporters hearts breaks 😀
Anytime. Was fun. But tough keeping up with my typing skills
Remember tomorrow morning’s game between the Waratahs vs Brumbies, 07:05 SA Time!!
183 @ Lion4ever:
Ja, now you guys see what I do every Friday & Saturday… hahaha
Please just go out of the Live Edit Window for us, so I can just clean up a bit and take the “Sticky” (White Tag on the Home Page, keeping it right at the Top) off… tell me when you are out…
Well done Sharks.
Reminiscent of last year’s game when you beat the Saders playing with 14 men (13 at one stage) for most of the game. Good fighting spirit shown by the Sharkies.
Who captained the team after Bissie was sent off? Lambie?
Lekker 5 punte vir beide spanne volgende week.
Bulle en Stormers het baie moeilike games wat wag, gaan lelik raak.
Messam calls it an ugly game of rugby. Agree with him. Sam Cane man of the match. So that is the game. Ugly game, Red cards and weather not helping. Maybe Gold should fire Bissie as captain, and appoint Lambie as captain. He seems to be a calming influence on the team in adverse conditions. Sharks seem to know how to win with one man down. Well done to him. Got to pop away from the thread for a while.
As Gold slim is, sal hy dadelik Lambie kaptein maak en Bissie vir ‘n woede kursus stuur.
Enige sprake van Bissie as bokkaptein is finaal verby, die man is nie baie gelukkig nou nie, en hy is ‘n baie goeie speler.
So Ireland win 6 Nations. Well done to them. Are they the NH favourites to lift the World Cup?
@ grootblousmile:
I am out of the dashboard.
191 @ Lion4ever:
I saw thanks… I have already done the final edit & cleanup… A-OK!
Once again thanks!
OK fellas… me out… need to go talk to some people who need advice, after the hubby / dad died middle of the night… this morning shortly after midnight.
@ grootblousmile:
Pleas @ grootblousmile:
Pleasure
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Guess Lambie is now firmly in the pound seat as the no. 1 fly half after tonight. By all accounts Pollard was not that great apart from that last minute penalty to win the match for the Bulls. Lambie, on the other hand, guided/led a 13 men Shark team to victory against the former champions and one of the favorites to win the competition this year.
Good Night all
Now this made me chuckle. A Shark supporter:
“Ek glo as hul Bismark en Frans se bietjie breins in ‘n mossie inplant sal die mossie agteruit vlieg.”
@ Nama:
I also enjoyed the one on Rugby365 where the bloke said that “once Bissie and Fransie were sent off the IQ of the Shark’s team doubled”
pffft
Fugly, but brave 13-man Sharks victory (wish that was all that there was to say)
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Sharks should be better next week without Frans & Bismarck pursuant to those 2 boneheads’ brain explosions which happen all too often to the detriment of the team. Bismarck & Frans may even have “rested” themselves for a few consecutive weeks since they’ll surely face a disciplinary hearing & be suspended?
But let’s be honest, Bismarck is not captaincy material, & his appointment as such last year & again this year reflects very badly upon the judgment of those who participated in or acquiesced to that decision.
I’m disappointed & sorry to say both players have a bad attitude not worthy of Bokke & definitely not worthy of senior players in the leadership core of the Sharks.
I can’t see Frans making the Bok WC squad (which is a blessing), but Bismarck’s undoubted selection to that squad is worrisome – the Bokke playing in the knock out stages of the WC simply CANNOT AFFORD a disciplinary fiasco like the Sharks’ were subjected to last night. So can Bismarck change, & reign in his temper & show discipline & self restraint? I have my doubts …. 🙁
“rein in”
88
G’Nite
@ Angostura:
Bismark is no better than an English football supporting thug!
As far as Steyn is concerned between the game v the Stormers where he consistently targeted one player, eventually to his detriment, and his implosion last night, he is not much better.
Between the pair of them, what an advert for young Mothers trying to decide whether to let their kids play Rugby or not!
Compare Bismark’s captaincy traits to others like Vermeulen and Whiteley. Night & Day.
So sad for Rugby.
Think he got off lightly, will probably offer some half hearted apology like after his go at Victor that all the Guppies in Durbs will lap up as sincere.
According to his lawyer his offense is a lower end offense and he is “a model” player. Pull the other one you ambulance chaser.
I guess Steyn will fight his ban, he tackles very fair and gently now, doesn’t he?
A red and a yellow for “tackles” in 3 matches, that’s some record of being a hard and fair tackler isn’t it?
Of the two incidents, Steyn’s was worse, as he could have broken Cruden’s neck.
Durban – The SANZAR Duty Judicial Officer Adam Casselden has accepted a guilty plea from Bismarck du Plessis of the Sharks for contravening Law 10.4 (c) A player must not kick an opponent, after he was sent off following a Super Rugby match at the weekend.
Du Plessis has been suspended from all forms of the game for four weeks up to and including 18 April 2015.
The incident occurred in the 18th minute of the match between the Sharks and Chiefs played at Kings Park in Durban.
SANZAR Duty Judicial Officer Adam Casselden assessed the case.
In his finding, Casselden ruled the following:
“The player’s kick was pre-meditated, intentional and unprovoked.
“It was reckless, that is the player knew (or should have known) there was a risk of committing an act of foul play.
“In my opinion the offence was a grave one and the possibility of serious injury existed.
“The Chiefs’ No. 8 was in a vulnerable position on the ground. He did not see the kick, even if he had, he had limited means available to him, given the position of his arms and body, to protect himself from the player’s actions.
“Whilst the player claims he was frustrated by Chiefs’ No. 8 not releasing him from the tackle earlier that does not, in my opinion, entitle him to retaliate by kicking his opponent in the area of the head with a studded boot. The head is of course sacrosanct.
“Swart, the Player’s representative, submitted that the offence was in the lower end of seriousness, particularly given no injury was sustained by Chiefs’ No. 8. I was unable to accede to that submission.
“Whilst it was fortunate that the player did not sustain an injury, he was nonetheless placed in a vulnerable position and the risk of him sustaining an injury to his head including in and around the eye area was clearly present.
“Accordingly, I found that the offence should be categorised as a mid-range offence and that the entry point of an eight-week suspension was the relevant starting point.
“I was informed that the player was suspended for three weeks in 2008 for dangerous contact to the head area of an opponent.
“Apart from that indiscretion, the player has not been found guilty of any foul play.
“In 2012 he received two yellow cards (a red card offence) in the one Test match against New Zealand which resulted in him being ordered off the playing enclosure.
“At the subsequent judicial hearing there was a finding by the judicial officer that the referee’s decision to issue one of the yellow cards was wrong. As a result, the red card issued in that Test match was expunged from his record.
“Although the player was suspended seven years ago for dangerous contact to the head of an opponent that does not, in my opinion, categorise the player as a repeat offender of the game to warrant any uplift on the entry point as an aggravating factor.
“Since 2008 it seems he has been a model player and in my opinion, no other aggravating factors existed for consideration other than those which were taken into account in determining the appropriate entry point.
“The player has played professional rugby for approximately 12 years.
“He has played 77 Test matches for South Africa, 125 Super Rugby matches and in the order of 47 Currie Cup matches.
“Apart from a three week suspension in 2008 the player’s disciplinary record is unblemished.
“This is his first red card offence in a lengthy first class playing career.
“I accepted that the player’s remorse and contrition for his offending was genuine and his acceptance that he committed an act of foul play at the earliest opportunity.
“Having regard to the above mitigating factors and the overall culpability of the player’s offending, I was satisfied that the eight week entry point should be reduced to four weeks.
“Accordingly, I offered the player a four week suspension as a preliminary indication of penalty in accordance with the DJO process, which was accepted.”
“The player is suspended from all forms of rugby up to and including Saturday 18 April 2015.”
All SANZAR disciplinary matters are in the first instance referred to a duty judicial officer hearing to provide the option of expediting the judicial process.
For a matter to be dispensed with at this hearing, the person appearing must plead guilty and accept the penalty offered by the DJO.
Seen on a few sites that even Shark supporters condemn the action of the two “players”…..yet, their coach defends them?
Pity the Sharks couldn’t get Todd Blackadder as coach, in his pre professional days he was a garbage collector and I’m sure he at least would have taken the trash out and sent those two packing, unlike Gary Glitter who has his head so far up their arses he wouldn’t know if it’s day or night outside.
Sharks coach Gary Gold has not condoned Bismark du Plessis’s red card offence but he has come to the support of his physical captain’s fiery nature.
The Sharks captain was shown a red card in his team’s one-point victory against the Chiefs in Durban on Saturday for kicking Michael Leitch’s head.
This came only a few minutes after the opposition hooker, Hika Elliot, was sent for an early shower for an illegal clean-out on Tendai Mtawarira in the first half.
Du Plessis is already well known as an incredibly abrasive and physical character on the field, but more and more it seems that teams are figuring out he has a short fuse.
Gold made it clear that what Du Plessis did to earn his red card was uncalled for and that he did not justify the foul play.
“I am not going to justify foul play, it is not right to do that,” Gold said after the match.
“I feel it was a silly thing for Bismarck to do, he lashed out from trying to free his foot – but you cannot make contact with someone’s head.
“For what it is worth, he has apologized to the group, and in his words he said he is ashamed by his behaviour.”
The coach may not have condoned the foul play, but he did defend Du Plessis’ playing style and his physical approach that seems to landed him in hot water on a few occasions.
“Bizzy [Du Plessis] is a fiery character, and by his own admission he made a mistake,” Gold continued.
“I do not think that there was malice for him to go and kick a guy in the face, I think he was just trying to free his foot.”
There have been questions raised about the Sharks captain’s short fuse, and perhaps other teams are starting to target his temper to their benefit.
Gold agreed that Du Plessis has been targeted a few times, but was at pains to point out the times where the firey hooker has kept his cool in tough situations.
“I certainly felt at Loftus he was targeted by Victor [Matfield], and we had a conversation with him about that,” Gold said in defence of his star hooker.
“I feel there is a lot of times that we don’t see where he does actually keep his cool.
“I don’t feel I have to sit here and defend Bismarck, but I choose too because there are a lot of incidents where he does get targeted.
“He is a great player, a physical player in a physical game.
“I do think that he does get targeted a lot off the ball, but that has nothing to do with today [Saturday – against the Chiefs], today was an error by his own admission and we will have to suffer the consequences – whatever that will be.”
On discussing the consequences of the poor discipline, Gold was hopeful that centre Frans Steyn may escape sanction from his red card offence due to the circumstances around the Aaron Cruden tip-tackle.
“We need to see what will happen with Frans’ red card and how that will be managed,” Gold added.
“If the authorities also feel the way Marius Jonker [the TMO on the day] felt, that it could potentially have been a yellow [card], things might be different.
“I understand that there was no malice in that and I hope that they feel his punishment has fitted the crime already.
“But I might be being a little bit over optimistic then.”
The bad news for the rest of us is that lambie taking over the captaincy will be a blessing in disguise.
@ MacroBull:
Lambie should have been made captain from the beginning.
Anyway, he must rest this weekend 😆
I’m sure Gary Glitter will spin another excuse not to do so, and give SARU the finger again.
Hoe goed tackle Frans nie? So skoon en hard, textbook tackles van daai klong. Refs wat vir hom kaarte gee weet niks van verdediging nie 😆
@ nortie:
Ag nortie ek kan iets duisend keer se en jy sal dit nogsteeds nie vang nie.
Altwee kaarte was verdien. Moet ek vir jou n prentjie teken?
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