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Zero, zilch, nada: Sharks suffer a rare embarrassment on SA soil with Cardiff shutout

For any team, being left scoreless in a match is ignominious.

However, when it happens on South African soil - which generally isn't considered a mitigating factor because local teams know each other and their home grounds pretty well - such a result is rendered a disaster.

It's little wonder Eduard Coetzee, the Sharks' CEO, personally attended the post-match media conference following his team's 0-35 URC loss to Cardiff at Kings Park on Sunday evening to apologise to supporters.

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The Durbanites' defeat is only the ninth time since 1996 that a local franchise failed to score a point in a Super Rugby or URC (and PRO14) match on South African soil.

Even worse, it's only the third time to have happened to a home team.

News24 looks back at the other proverbial shutouts.

1999: SHARKS 29-0 BULLS, DURBAN

Ian McIntosh's great side might've been ageing and winding down, but they still had far too much firepower for a Bulls squad that had no business masquerading as a Super Rugby side.

Left with scraps in that era's contracting model - they only had four Boks in contrast to the Stormers (13), Sharks (8) and Cats (8) and missed out on two of them in Joost van der Westhuizen and Ruben Kruger for most of the season - the men from Loftus were never going to truly be competitive.

With Henry Honiball directing things from flyhalf, the Sharks enjoyed a productive outing without firing on all cylinders ... and clearly didn't need to.

2008: STORMERS 0-22 CRUSADERS, CAPE TOWN

Rassie Erasmus had his fair share of growing pains as a young coach too, none more so than this depressing evening at Newlands.

Armed with a potent backline that included Conrad Jantjes,

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