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Kankowski starts for Sharks against Stormers

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Sharks coach John Plumtree has made a number of injury-enforced changes to the Sharks team that lost to the Bulls last weekend.


The backline remains unchanged aside from the combination at halfback where Rory Kockott returns at scrumhalf and Ruan Pienaar at fly half where the pair have finished most of the Sharks games this year.


Ryan Kankowski gets his first after missing two weeks of action with a finger injury. He joins a loose forward trio made up of Willem Alberts and Jean Deysel on the flanks.


Kankowski will earn his 50th Super Rugby cap having made his debut back in 2007 (against the Bulls).


The loss of Johann Muller means Alistair Hargreaves starts alongsideSteven Sykes while the front row trio of Jannie du Plessis, captain John Smit and Tendai Mtawarira remains unchanged from last week.


The Sharks will will be playing for pride and coach John Plumtree says that they won’t be doing the Stormers any favours for their charge to the play offs.


“In 2007, we went down there and were top of the pile then while they were where we are now,” Plumtree on the Sharks site.


“They weren�t going to do us any favours that day but we were too good for them.


“They�ll know it�s going to be a tough contest up here, we�ll give it a go.”


Having seen how referee Stuart Dickinson persistantly blew up the Crusaders last weekend against the Stormers Plumtree says that the Sharks will be concentrating on their discipline.


“We are going to have to be well-disciplined with the referee ,” says The Sharks coach.


“Especially at the breakdown where he hurt the Crusaders last week. Our discipline needs to be very good and we have to make sure we need to listen to him.


“The scrummaging is going to be a big area of interest, we will have to be lily-white there.”


The Sharks


15. Patrick Lambie , 14. Odwa Ndungane , 13. Stefan Terblanche , 12. Riaan Swanepoel , 11. Lwazi Mvovo , 10. Ruan Pienaar , 9. Rory Kockott , 8. Ryan Kankowski , 7. Willem Alberts , 6. Jean Deysel , 5. Alistair Hargreaves , 4. Steven Sykes , 3. Jannie du Plessis , 2. John Smit (Captain) , 1. Tendai Mtawarira


Replacements: , 16. Craig Burden , 17. Patric Cilliers , 18. Wilhelm Steenkamp , 19. Keegan Daniel , 20. Jacques Botes , 21. Andy Goode , 22. Andries Strauss

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