The visitors were again full of trickery and invention but they simply lacked the white knuckle grunt to compete with the Sharks.
They went the confrontational route, kept bashing, and eventually wore the Rebels down in a match that arrested their mini slump which saw conference defeats to the Stormers at home and the Bulls away.
That left their coach Dave Wessels incredulous and he would have been filled with similar sentiment at the break. The Rebels could have done with the experience of the influential Will Genia and captain Dane Haylett-Petty who both sat out. There was an early show of force from the Sharks. From a line-out maul they hit left with Andre Esterhuizen predictably committing defenders before a rushing Dan du Preez bounced out of a tackle or two as first receiver after the ensuing ruck. Although they were being knocked back in the collisions the Rebels, in the first half, probed intelligently and met a measure of success.
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