The Currie Cup kicks off tonight, with the Bulls taking on Griquas at Loftus.
Pote Human brings a side that looks the business at this level of the game. Will they be able to get one over the Bulls, who have been hit hard by Bok callups?
Kick-off at Loftus is at 19h10.
Blue Bulls: 15 Jurgen Visser, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 Ulrich Beyers, 12 Francois Venter, 11 Clayton Blommetjies, 10 Louis Fouché, 9 Ruan Snyman, 8 Dewald Potgieter (captain), 7 Arno Botha, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Cornell Hess, 4 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 3 Frik Kirsten, 2 Willie Wepener, 1 Dawie Steyn.
Substitutes: 16 Robbie Coetzee, 17 Werner Kruger, 18 Grant Hattingh, 19 CJ Stander, 20 Lohan Jacobs, 21 Lionel Cronjé, 22 Jan Serfontein.
Griquas: 15 Willie le Roux; 14 Luzuko Vulindlu, 13 JP Nel, 12 Stephan Watermeyer, 11 Rocco Jansen; 10 Francois Brummer, 9 Jacques Coetzee; 8 Leon Karemaker, 7 Jonathan Adendorff, 6 Justin Downey, 5 Martin Muller, 4 Ligtoring Landman, 3 Lourens Adriaanse, 2 Rayno Barnes (capt), 1 Stef Roberts.
Substitutes: 16 Matthew Dobson, 17 Janro van Niekerk, 18 Frikkie Spies, 19 Jaco Nepgen, 20 Marnus Hugo, 21 Marnitz Boshoff, 22 Wilmaure Louw.
Gooooooo Kwassssse !!!!!!
Wearing my Griquas shirt for this. Griquas is my sympathy team and I want them to win 8 matches this season (see what I did there?)
@TRF_Ezequiel (Comment 2) : Yes, you forgot to mention which 2 they should lose
@ Die Kriek
He is saying only the Lions will beat them, and go on to win 12 games in the CC
nou die POUBLOU!!!
Go Griquas!
Go Willie le Roux!
Kick off
@Ben (Comment 7) :
Come On Griquas!
Bring on Upset no 1 !
Oi Willie . . . sigh
Griquas lead 10-9
9 – 13 less than a minute to go . . .
Halftime
Bulls 9
Griquas 13
Just got out off a seriously hot(43deg) swimming pool…
Close game this…
@Franshark (Comment 15) : I am sooooo over winter, count your blessings!
@Original Pierre (Comment 16) :
camping at Badplaas…
Bulls 19
Griquas 13
+- 49min
Hmmmm one dubious tip tackle and Willie sees Yellow, a malicious well premeditated combination high tackle and elbow charge from the bulls only warrants a penalty?
Bulls 22
Griquas 20
+- 61min
35 – 20 now with 6 min to go
Bulls win 35-20