As many of you know, last week I got married. My wife is a strong supporter of the Natal Sharks, as is her family who live in Durban.

On the evening of our wedding, the mighty NSW Waratahs (then 4th placed) were playing the Natal Sharks (2nd placed) – as you can imagine a lot of talk was to be had between myself and my (now) brother in law Steve. The bookies had the match about even.

In the end a wager was had on the outcome of the game – the supporter of the losing team would switch allegiences until our first anniversary.

Kickoff was 7.40, however with no access to a television or mobile coverage we were all unaware of the score.

During Steve’s speech he was jibbing me about how I was to become a loyal Sharks supporter, even managed to dig up a Sharks T-Shirt that I would be wearing for the next week in the case of a loss.

We both managed to duck out and check the score just before my speech, at this time it was 25-10 with 1 minute to go.

Steve held on to the slim hope that the Sharks were 5m out and looked likely to score, I was quick to remind him that they were unlikely to score 3 times in 90 seconds, especially with that wall of blue in their way.

So, now Steve is a Tahs Supporter until the 26th April 2009. Living in Durban this is likely to present some challenges, however he does have my old Tahs jersey (circa 2003) which does give the wearer super powers, so should come through unscathed.

We’ll be posting regular pictures of Steve enjoying his new found Tahness in this thread, so be sure to stay tuned.

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