The first of the weekend games, and yet another 5pm kick off on a Friday night as the Bulls host Griquas at Loftus, quite keen to make up the ground they have lost during the start of their campaign. They have managed to lift themselves out of the danger zone, winning a close encounter against a rabid Pumas outfit.
They do host a team that is higher on the log and a massive 9 points clear of them on the log, and the Bulls will do well to hold of the Kimberley based team and pick up some points this afternoon. The Bulls are without their captain from the last few weekends, Dewald Potgieter, and will field a largely inexperienced loose trio. It is interesting to note that the Bulls are the only team that are yet to score 100 points in the Currie Cup this season.
Griquas on the other hand have had a reasonably successful start to the season, and will hope to kick on and remain in the top four positions and so doing getting that elusive semi-final spot.
Join us for updates from 17h00, which is the early kick-off time.
Blue Bulls: 15 Jurgen Visser, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 Zane Kirchner, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Louis Fouché, 9 Jano Vermaak, 8 CJ Stander, 7 Warwick Tecklenburg, 6 Arno Botha, 5 Juandré Kruger, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Gary Botha (captain), 1 Dean Greyling.
Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 Rossouw de Klerk, 18 Gerrit-Jan van Velze, 19 Jono Ross, 20 Dustin Jinka, 21 Marnitz Boshoff, 22 Francois Venter.
Griquas: 15 Monty Dumond; 14 Riaan Viljoen, 13 Jean Stemmet, 12 Matthew Rosslee, 11 Dusty Noble; 10 Earl Rose, 9 Sarel Pretorius; 8 Jonathan Mokuena (capt), 7 Davon Raubenheimer, 6 Justin Downey, 5 Martin Muller, 4 Hendrik Roodt, 3 Lourens Adriaanse, 2 Ryno Barnes, 1 Jean Botha.
Replacements: 16 Matthew Dobson, 17 Ivann Espag, 18 Frikkie Spies, 19 Marnus Schoeman, 20 Marnus Hugo, 21 Barry Geel, 22 Wilmaure Louw.
This one will be close but Griquas don’t usaly play good away and the Bulls have a lot of young guys playing for them but the Bulls will just sneak it just
Griquas!!!
Go Griquas!!!!
Go the KWAS!
Only a few supporters at the field… Early game for the Pretorianers…
The game has started, Griqs gets the first penalty but in their one half…
Jano vermaak try
Conversion Over
Bulls 7 – 0 Griquas
4min
Bulls all over Griqs in this first period of play….
Fouche misses with penalty attempt..
Another chance…
PK Over
Bulls 10 – 0 Griquas
9min
Griquas getting a PK and Dumond has to kick it from the grass cause they forgot to bring a kicking T…
PK bulls Over
Bulls 13 – 0 Griquas
15min
Great brake by SP, gives the Griquas their first attacking chance
20 min passed
Griquas scrum 5meters from the bulls line
And they loose the ball… Ai
TMO asked for try or no try…
Try awarded to Kruger,
Conversion Missed
Bulls 18 – 0 Griquas
26min
Ugh
Griquas struggling to get into the game…
PK Dumond
Bulls 18 – 3 Griquas
29min
Fouche kicks the ball a mile into the air when kicking off…
Basson try…
Griquas missed the bus…
Conversion over
Bulls 25 – 3 Griquas
32min
Bulls steel Griquas line out ball…
And knocks the ball to give Griqs a breather…
Griqs make a big hash of an opportunity, actually looking poor…
2min
First half
Aikona intercept try…
Conversion Over
Bulls 32 – 3 Griquas
39min
Griquas penalty, going for line out…
HALF TIME
Bulls 32 – 3 Griquas
Ag come on!!!
Everytime I bet against the Bulls, they wanna freaking win. 
Hope the Kwasse come back in the 2nd half.
TMO asked again for Bulls try, 40 seconds into the 2nd half
Bulls 37 – 3 Griquas
41 min
Fouche missed the conversion from straight in front…
I’m not joking, TMO asked for bulls try…
No try, penalty awarded..
42 min,
Going for line out…
Griquas steels the line out..
Viljoen (FL player.. Not that it matters) is off injured…
Bulls back on Griquas try line, SP knocks the ball out from Botha’s hands and saves a certain try…
Penalty for not binding against the Bulls… Line out
Barnes drops the ball 5meters from the try line, not a good pass from SP
Sarel makes up for it, steels the ball and dives over for a try…
Converted by Dumond
Bulls 37 – 10 Griquas
51 min
Penalty for Griquas, line out…
Griquas penalized for playing the player without the ball… Bad play…
Griquas are blowing hot and cold. Most inconsistant team in the CC by far.
Griquas passing the ball about six times in their goal area..
TMO now asked for Bulls try, luckily Kruger knocked the ball otherwise it would have been very embarrassing…
Chillyboy now on…
Chilly turn over…
Sarel gets a rest….
Fouche gets his first CC try…
Converted by Himself
Bulls 44 – 10 Griquas
61 min
Bulls running from everywhere now…
I’m baking a Mieliebrood, its more exiting to watch it rise than this game at the moment… Maybe not if you are a bull supporter..
17min
Jinkaaaaaa for Jano
This is very disappointing.
At least I`ve got the bulls on superbru.
I really really really really dislike the Bulls.
Jonathan Mokuena try…
Convesion missed
Bulls 44 – 15 Griquas
71 min
@JarsonX (Comment 63) : same here
Adriaanse scores….
Convesion missed
Bulls 44 – 20 Griquas
76 min
Griquas chasing bonus point for 4 tries, 3min
Griquas run from their try line, strugling, penalty, 1min
, line out…. Last move
Penalty for Griqs, times up…
FULL TIME
Bulls 44 – 20 Griquas
MOTM – Arno Botha… CC debut try scored..