Sharks vs Cheetahs

The Currie Cup champion Sharks team win 60 per cent of their matches at home in Super Rugby but against the Cheetahs that figure drops down to 33 per cent.

The Cheetahs are famous for struggling in Super Rugby but playing like a different team when they face another South African or Currie Cup team. However statistics don't lie and they show that the Cheetahs have actually only won 40 per cent of their matches against all South African teams. It's the big matches that the Cheetahs win against other South African teams which is why we remember them easier.

While the Cheetahs lose more matches than they win against South African teams in general during the five years that the Cheetahs have been in Super rugby they have beaten beaten the Sharks on 60 per cent of the occassions that the two teams have met. In two of the three Cheetahs visits to Durban they have come away as winners.

The Cheetahs are not quite a bogey team for the Sharks but they obviously have some kind of edge over them. When these two teams met last year it was also in Durban and the Cheetahs won.

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what a great defeat the sharks had against the waratahs.we played extreamly well and we should keep it up.
Johannesburg - The Sharks have indicated they are keen to repeat their success as new Currie Cup champions next year in the Super rugby series.

This year in the Currie Cup, the Sharks received much praise for the way in which they played.

"We are going to continue with that style and only want to improve on a few things to become even more effective," said assistant coach Grant Bashford. 

"We are all excited about the rugby that we played and now we only want to improve on it," he says.

The Sharks are boosted this week by the return to training of their Springboks, who were in Britain on the Grand Slam tour. They will have a break from the 17th to the 3rd of January, after which the team will meet to commence training.

There will also be a training camp in January in Rustenburg, after which the Sharks will be involved in a tournament in Cape Town in preparation for the Super series.

The Sharks adapted well this year to the rule changes and, come next year, there will be stricter action taken against the attacking team at the breakdown points if they don't remain on their feet.

The Sharks are focused on mastering these subtle changes in the rules as quickly as possible.

Newcomers Jacques-Louis Potgieter, Meyer Bosman and Conrad Hoffman have also joined their new team and are now doing conditioning work with the rest of the group.

Bashford says the Sharks are also satisfied on the whole with their match programme for the Super series.

They will begin their campaign on 19 February at home against the Cheetahs, followed by the Blues in Durban the week after.

The Sharks will then go overseas for four weeks, taking on the Western Force in Perth and then playing the new kid on the block, the Melbourne Rebels, before going to New Zealand for matches against the Chiefs and the Crusaders.

"On previous tours we sometimes flew as much as four times between Australia and New Zealand. This is therefore much better, also because we first play in Perth, which doesn't make it such a long flight initially. It should be much easier to acclimatise," said Bashford.

"Everyone is also excited about seeing a new city (Melbourne) and playing there," he added.

Jean Deysel, who is getting married this week, as well as JP Pietersen, John Smit and Ross Skeate are still busy with their rehabilitation after longterm injuries. 

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what a great defeat the sharks had against the waratahs.we played extreamly well and we should keep it up.
Johannesburg - The Sharks have indicated they are keen to repeat their success as new Currie Cup champions next year in the Super rugby series.

This year in the Currie Cup, the Sharks received much praise for the way in which they played.

"We are going to continue with that style and only want to improve on a few things to become even more effective," said assistant coach Grant Bashford. 

"We are all excited about the rugby that we played and now we only want to improve on it," he says.

The Sharks are boosted this week by the return to training of their Springboks, who were in Britain on the Grand Slam tour. They will have a break from the 17th to the 3rd of January, after which the team will meet to commence training.

There will also be a training camp in January in Rustenburg, after which the Sharks will be involved in a tournament in Cape Town in preparation for the Super series.

The Sharks adapted well this year to the rule changes and, come next year, there will be stricter action taken against the attacking team at the breakdown points if they don't remain on their feet.

The Sharks are focused on mastering these subtle changes in the rules as quickly as possible.

Newcomers Jacques-Louis Potgieter, Meyer Bosman and Conrad Hoffman have also joined their new team and are now doing conditioning work with the rest of the group.

Bashford says the Sharks are also satisfied on the whole with their match programme for the Super series.

They will begin their campaign on 19 February at home against the Cheetahs, followed by the Blues in Durban the week after.

The Sharks will then go overseas for four weeks, taking on the Western Force in Perth and then playing the new kid on the block, the Melbourne Rebels, before going to New Zealand for matches against the Chiefs and the Crusaders.

"On previous tours we sometimes flew as much as four times between Australia and New Zealand. This is therefore much better, also because we first play in Perth, which doesn't make it such a long flight initially. It should be much easier to acclimatise," said Bashford.

"Everyone is also excited about seeing a new city (Melbourne) and playing there," he added.

Jean Deysel, who is getting married this week, as well as JP Pietersen, John Smit and Ross Skeate are still busy with their rehabilitation after longterm injuries. 

on saterday 21st may at 19:00 the sharks will go up againt the bulls for an epic south african battle to see who will win. the bulls win and move up or will the sharks win and go into 3rd place if they get the bonus try.  

S15 Log Table

Position	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Draw	Bye	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	BP	Points	Updated
1	Reds	12	10	2	0	1	355	239	116	38	26	6	50	15 May
2	Blues	12	9	2	1	1	319	252	67	35	26	7	49	15 May
3	Stormers	11	8	3	0	2	256	172	84	19	11	4	44	15 May
4	Crusaders	12	8	3	1	1	356	212	144	40	22	6	44	15 May
5	Sharks	11	7	4	0	2	279	215	64	30	17	7	43	15 May
6	Waratahs	11	7	4	0	2	257	177	80	30	13	4	40	15 May
7	Highlanders	12	8	4	0	1	237	230	7	26	22	3	39	15 May
8	Bulls	11	6	5	0	2	287	267	20	29	28	4	36	15 May
9	Cheetahs	12	4	8	0	1	321	317	4	30	36	9	29	15 May
10	Chiefs	12	5	7	0	1	268	275	-7	28	25	5	29	15 May
11	Hurricanes	12	3	8	1	1	229	309	-80	22	32	7	25	15 May
12	Western Force	11	3	7	1	2	223	307	-84	14	31	3	25	15 May
13	Brumbies	11	2	9	0	2	237	336	-99	24	32	6	22	15 May
14	Lions	12	2	10	0	1	256	358	-102	26	36	7	19	15 May
15	Rebels	12	3	9	0	1	216	430	-214	23	57	3	19	15 May

PF = Points For

PA = Points Against

PD = Points Difference

TF = Tries For

TA = Tries Against

BP = Bonus Points

The winner of the 2010 Tri-Nations crown may yet to be decided but the fixtures for next year's title race have already been confirmed.

The World Cup means a shortened version of the competition will be contested next year with the Wallabies, All Blacks and Springboks only playing each other twice instead of the standard three times.

The action kicks off with Australia playing host to South Africa in Sydney on July 23 and finish with the Wallabies tackling the All Blacks in Brisbane on August 27 - less than two weeks before the start of the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. The 2011 battle for southern hemisphere supremacy is set to be the last three-team competition with Argentina set to enter the fray from 2012.

South Africa will stage a Tri-Nations match in the Eastern Cape for the first time with the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth hosting the Springboks v All Blacks encounter on August 20. The Boks will launch their title challenge against the Wallabies in Durban on August 13.

The All Blacks open their campaign against South Africa in Wellington on July 30 and host the Wallabies a week later at Auckland's Eden Park. The re-vamped stadium in the New Zealand capital will host the opening game of the World Cup among four pool games, as well as both semi-finals, the third/fourth play-offs and the tournament finale.

In Australia, the tournament opens at ANZ Stadium in Sydney while Brisbane will again host a Bledisloe Cup clash as the Wallabies play host to the All Blacks at Suncorp Stadium for the first time since 2006.

2011 Tri-Nations schedule (kick off times to be confirmed):

Saturday, July 23 - Australia v South Africa, Sydney
Saturday, July 30 - New Zealand v South Africa, Wellington
Saturday, August 6 - New Zealand v Australia, Auckland
Saturday, August 13 - South Africa v Australia, Durban
Saturday, August 20 - South Africa v New Zealand, Port Elizabeth
Saturday, August 27 - Australia v New Zealand, Brisbane

   the tri nation will start in june and finish in july all three teams will only play eachother twice insted of three times to make it more hard and intresting the team for 2011 tri nation has not yet been decide but 50 players have been picked out to do training and are been closely watched.