Jaco Peyper. Photo by Grant Pitcher/Gallo Images)
WATCH | Jaco Peyper warns Springbok duo: You speak to officials with no respect!
Referee Jaco Peyper had stern words for both Bismarck du Plessis and Bongi Mbonambi during the clash between the Sharks and Bulls.
Jaco Peyper. Photo by Grant Pitcher/Gallo Images)
Referee Jaco Peyper had stern words for both Bismarck du Plessis and Bongi Mbonambi during the clash between the Sharks and Bulls.
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For most of the first half, there appeared to be some real niggle between Du Plessis and Mbonambi who went head to head in a hard-fought United Rugby Championship (URC) match on Friday night.
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Players could often be heard talking to referee Jaco Peyper and he eventually had enough with the back chat.
The referee stopped play at one point in the first half, called Du Plessis and Mbonambi together for a stern reprimand, reminding them that they might be good players and Springboks, but that they needed to “go back to their values” when it came to speaking to officials with respect.
Check out the moment below as Jaco Peyper had the final say:
David Kriel touched down against the run of play as the Bulls took a 13-9 lead into half-time, but skipper Lukhanyo Am’s terrific intercept try and Kerron van Vuuren’s late touchdown helped the Sharks pick up their second win of the season.
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Am was one of several Springboks returning to a strong Sharks side for a Round 12 clash brought forward following the postponement of cross-hemisphere clashes in South Africa in Rounds 6 and 7, with Siya Kolisi and Makazole Mapimpi also among those making their first URC outings.
Boeta Chamberlain kicked 20 points for the Sharks, while Morne Steyn racked up 11 for the visitors at Jonsson Kings Park, which hosted 2,000 fans for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
Sbu Nkosi squandered the Sharks’ first real sight of the try line having dusted himself down after sustaining an apparent shoulder injury in making a crunching tackle on Madosh Tambwe.
Chamberlain missed an opportunity to open the scoring from the tee before Nkosi spilled the ball as he looked to touch down in the corner after a kick forward from Am had sparked a period of Sharks pressure on the Bulls’ line.
The home fly-half did put three points on the board with a straightforward penalty as the match approached the 20-minute mark, but the Bulls scored the game’s opening try with their first meaningful attack thanks to Kriel’s stretch for the line, with Steyn adding the extras.
Steyn and Chamberlain then traded a pair of kicks apiece to send the Bulls in with a four-point lead at half-time.
Chamberlain dragged a penalty wide of the posts early in the second period, but he reduced the deficit to a single point with his next attempt and was on target again after Am superbly intercepted a Steyn pass to charge half the length of the field and under the posts, opening up a 19-13 lead.
Steyn pulled the Bulls back within three in the 57th minute, but Chamberlain kicked two more penalties either side of Lizo Gqoboka being sin-binned for collapsing a scrum, and two more misses on the night mattered little as Van Vuuren went over from a driving maul to put 14 points between the teams.
