24.45 Downpipes with the ball, taking a run at Sam Green. He bounces off Green, and offloads to Perry. Perry to Hunt. Hunt to Cambridge. Cambridge tackled by Dafter. Good tackle, but Miokovic, Narang and Man secure clean ball for the Vikings. 25m short of the line now. Perry looks to spread the ball. Perry to Hunt. Hunt to Marshall. Marshall goes for a huge pass out to James on the far touch line...
...but Hutchinson has telegraphed that like a money transfer from Western Union. He jumps up on the run and snatches the ball; and he's away. He's caught the Vikings napping there, and only a good bit of running from Jacobs prevents Hutchinson spotting under the posts. He dots down about 10m to the left. That's a cheap try, and a 2nd for Hutchinson. Scoble with the conversion. Sharks 12 - 7 Vikings.
30.15 Penalty to the Vikings. This is from straight in front, but 25m out. They opt for the 3 points. Good kick. Sharks 12 - 10 Vikings
38.15 Scrum feed to the Vikings. But that's an infringement from Perry. He's deliberately fed the ball into the feet of the 2nd row. Free kick to the Sharks. Scoble takes the kick but that's remained in play. Delonge gathers the ball, and he passes to Miokovic on his shoulder. Miokovic goes for a big run, and he charges off downfield. Straight into trouble though. He's nailed by Verigotta. Miokovic didn't even see him! Only Cambridge can get to the ruck for the Vikings, and Dafter easily knocks him off the top. Turnover! Quick ball for Bakkum to Logan. Logan with a big kick.... It's inch perfect. It bounces once in field and dribbles into touch 6m from the try line. Pressure on the Delonge line out here. Verigotta snatches the ball from Boland! Great steal. The Sharks rumble the maul up to the line before it disintegrates. There's a ruck here. Sweetman with the pick and go... And he finds a big enough gap to squeeze through! TRY!!! Scoble converts. The Sharks will enter half time with a 9 point lead. Sharks 19 - 10 Vikings
Half Time stats - Possession is about 50/50, but Vikings have had about 70% of the territory - they've just been held out by some good defensive work. The Vikings have actually spent 10 minutes in the Sharks 22. The scoreline is definitely against the run of play. Morris having a great game on the tackle bag. Vikings failing to gain any metres from their backs. Most of the metres gained have been on the pick and go or through Jacobs' boot.
45.15 Sam Green looks to have picked up a thigh strain. He limps off the field and is replaced by Elliot Witters.
55.15 Another piece of weak defending from the Vikings here. From the back of a scrum innocuously on the half way line, Bakkum sets up Scoble on a good run. He shrugs off an attempted tackle from Aaron Hunt and is through. All Jacobs can do is stop Scoble getting an easy conversion. Try to the Sharks And Scoble misses the conversion from out wide. Sharks 24 - 10 Vikings
59.00 Penalty to the Vikings. Masters penalised for bearing in at the scrum. This is a tough looking penalty kick for Marshall - it's about 40m distance he's got to kick this to score, but it's worth a go. Good connection... But it comes up short. Logan charges off the line to clear up and tries to hook clear. He's shanked this, and it's gone for a line out only 10m from the Sharks line.
60.00 From the line out, the Vikings spread the ball wide, but Ben Herd drops the ball. Vikings really fluffing their lines here.
