Bulls coach Pine Pienaar will no doubt be ruing the lack of options at his disposal, as he names an unchanged starting fifteen for his side’s second Currie Cup clash of the season, against the Cheetahs at Loftus.
Pienaar’s side looked horribly underdone, particularly amongst the forwards, against the Sharks last Saturday, in a match which they lost by 35 points to 16. Props Corne Fourie and Rossouw de Klerk struggled against an equally young Sharks front row, while there was little sign of any fire or aggression from the more experienced men on the park, such as Gary Botha, Juandre Kruger and Dewald Potgieter.
Without the luxury of other players pushing for places, the new coach has little option but to persevere with what he’s got, but has at least been able to strengthen his squad a little, through the return of scrumhalf Ruan Snyman and prop Frik Kirsten. Both players are making a gradual comeback to the game after injury and have been included on the reserve bench this week, with the likes of Lohan Jacobs and Juan Schoeman dropping back to the under 21 side.
Blue Bulls: 15 Jurgen Visser, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Stephan Dippenaar, 12 Stefan Watermeyer, 11 Akona Ndungane, 10 Francois Brummer, 9 Dustin Jinka, 8 Gerrit-Jan van Velze, 7 Dewald Potgieter, 6 Derick Kuün, 5 Juandré Kruger, 4 Fudge Mabeta, 3 Rossouw de Klerk, 2 Gary Botha (captain), 1 Corné Fourie.
Replacements: 16 Willie Wepener, 17 Frik Kirsten, 18 Okkie Kruger, 19 CJ Stander, 20 Ruan Snyman, 21 Marnitz Boshoff, 22 Francois Venter.
I wont put money on this game but I think the Bulle might just lose their 2nd game.
Free State Cheetahs: 15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Riaan ‘True Blue’ Smit, 13 Corné Uys, 12 Andries Strauss (capt), 11 Rayno Benjamin, 10 Sias Ebersohn, 9 Tewis de Bruyn, 8 Boom Prinsloo, 7 Lappies Labuschagné, 6 Johan Wessels, 5 Waltie Vermeulen, 4 Francois Uys, 3 WP Nel, 2 PW van Vuuren, 1 Marcel van der Merwe.
Substitutes: 16 Michael van Vuuren, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Izak van der Westhuizen, 19 Pieter Myburgh, 20 Piet van Zyl, 21 Philip Snyman, 22 Philip Burger.
Not sure who I went with on SB but I hope it was the Cheetahs.
Bulls will have quite a bit of ground to make up once the Boks not going to the RWC return.
Eina we have the worst currie cup draw EVER!!!!
the sharkies pretty much smashed us to pieces…now we have the impossible task of playing the cheetahs at loftus why the cheetahs…then lions and wp 
This bulls team is like a vodacom cup team…the problem in my honest opinion is the tight five and the scrums like ‘tge great naas said yoo can have the best backline ever but it all starts in the tight five without a good platfrom then álles falls apart…..the loose trio leaves lots to be desired van velze is a poor mans aj venter a hard worker with no speed…or x-factor needed.
Thank god ruan snyman is back jinka’s 1…2…3…step passes are killing our momentum…
I’d give it to the free state boytjies by 10…
i think i might just go with Cheetahs to win narrowly
Where is Sarel?
@Ben (Comment 6) :
With the Griquas i believe…
@G West (Comment 7) : But when is he playing again?
@Ben (Comment 8) : according to twitter, 2 more weeks out
@Muzi (Comment 4) : van Velze reminds me more of Jaco Gouws than AJ Venter
@robdylan (Comment 9) : Okay cool. He is in my FL team.
@Ben (Comment 11) : Think I’m gonna trade him out.
@Ben (Comment 12) : for who?
@robdylan (Comment 13) : Replaced him with Brummer. Should be a good move as Morne will go to the WC. Unless Brummer gets injured.
@Muzi (Comment 4) : What about the huge staring you in-your-face glaring problem at 10. The man on the bench is better.
The Watermeyer-Dippenaar centre combo more often than not comes out with Watermeyer at 13 these days but on match day things are switched. So confusing