The Waratahs start their tour of SA with a meeting against defending champions the Bulls.
While that may sound like a daunting task, the Bulls performance of late seems to indicate it will not be that daunting. I believe however that the Bulls may come to the party this weekend and surprise us all.
Will the Tahs remain in 2nd spot after the dust settles this week?
Or will the Bulls do the Stormers and Sharks a great favour?
Kick-off in Pretoria at 15:00 SA time.
Ref: Lyndon Bray (New Zealand)
TJs: Brent Murray (New Zealand), Pro Legoete (South Africa)
TMO: Michael Cupido (South Africa)
Bulls:
Starting XV: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 JP Nel, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bryan Habana (vice-captain), 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Wikus van Heerden (captain), 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Derick Kuün, 1 Gürthro Steenkamp.
Replacements: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Rayno Gerber, 18 Jaco Engels, 19 Danie Rossouw, 20 Fourie du Preez, 21 Derick Hougaard, 22 Pedrie Wannenburg.
Waratahs:
Starting XV: 15 Sam Norton-Knight, 14 Lachie Turner, 13 Rob Horne, 12 Tom Carter, 11 Lote Tuqiri, 10 Kurtley Beale, 9 Luke Burgess, 8 Wycliff Palu, 7 Phil Waugh (captain), 6 Rocky Elsom, 5 Dan Vickerman,
4 Dean Mumm, 3 Al Baxter, 2 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 1 Benn Robinson.
Replacements: 16 Adam Freier, 17 Matt Dunning, 18 Will Caldwell, 19 David Lyons, 20 Sekope Kepu, 21 Matt Carraro, 22 Brett Sheehan.
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Go Bulls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😳 😥
come on you big fat biltong biting bastards!
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SB picks for this match
fattmann Bulls 12
Pissant Bulls 11
Whindy Bulls 10
sharkboy Bulls 9
SauronShark Bulls 8
Hmmm Bulls 6
namboer Bulls 6
Sandshark Bulls 6
Wehan Bulls 6
Salmo Bulls 6
Western Sauce Bulls 5
Kandas Bulls 5
Villie Bulls 2
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the_finman Waratahs 3
Ghost10 Waratahs 5
bryce_in_oz Waratahs 5
Nita Waratahs 5
Dive Pass Waratahs 6
IceBabe Waratahs 8
shark-tank Waratahs 9
PaarlGimmie Waratahs 9
Fatality Waratahs 9
Sinbinners Waratahs 9
Sharkie Waratahs 10
Debs Waratahs 10
KSA Kette Waratahs 10
blackshark Waratahs 10
robdylan Waratahs 11
Lylmik Waratahs 12
Ollie Waratahs 12
SeaShark Waratahs 14
I hope I get no points from this match
So do I…………for TWO reasons 😆
He he he
Go Bulls!!!!!!!!!
I will miss the first 15-20min of this game as that will be while i am driving home.
For God’s sake Bulls please come to the party and do us all a favour.
hahaha..Burgess dropped ball over the line!! 😆 😆
7-0 to Waratahs could so easily have been 14-0!
Drop goal Hougaard. 7-3 to Tahs now
Jirre this Francois Hougaard looks very much like a young Fourie Du Preez!
bulls i dont like u, but if u win this one, then we’ll talk again
Gooooooo Tahs….
bulls!
Bulls putting loads of pressure on but can’t crack |Tahs defence. Hougaard misses another drop
Nou die blou! Snor snor!
Are Frans and Derrick Hougaardt brothers?
YES…penalty Steyn. 7-6 to Tahs
If the Shark wanna get into the semis they gonna have to do it on their own…
They actually need to score some points….
Bulls starting to play well now and feeding on Tahs mistakes!
As far as I am aware, they aren’t related
Come on Bulls!
The Sharks wasted my excitement this season…..
This season they were surely boring….possibly the most borring team to be in contention at this stage of the touno ever….
Thanks Robbie….
I knew he had a lil brother…just neve sure what pos he played….
Jeez SA teams play DUMB rugby at times. Always try and rely on brute strength instead of skills!
Stegman having a good game so far. Penalty Bulls.
Rain coming down harder at Loftus now. Conditions very tricky!
Ha-Ha Lotu is going for goal…..LoL
Steyn inches short with his penalty attempt and then Steenkamp flattens Beale and penalty to Tahs.
Tuqiri to take penalty and Hugh Bladen says HE’S NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE…obviously wasn’t watching the Sharks – Tahs game!
Missed sooo far….looked like he was doing a low missile….without homing….
Lions are far more exciting. There’s nothing as nail-biting as wondering when they’ll finally win a match! 🙂
If you read that post again you will note that I said the most boring team to be in contention at this stage of the tourno…
You won’t expect the wooden-spooners to be exciting now would you….
Or are you just trying to be silly….
You know me. Anyway, not sure I would say the Sharks are really still in contention
I get too frustrated watching the Lions as they have 4 or 5 really good players and then the rest are just not good enough to be playing Super 14 rugby. I mean some of the basic mistakes they make are embarassing for players at this level!
At lest the LIONS looked better against the Brumbies and Tahs than the Sharks id…
Try Kuun….
TRY Derrick Kuun!!! YES YES YES
So you guys think the Bulls can take this? Or will we see another typical Tahs second half?
And OVER 13-7!
Great defense Olivier…Bulls attack….Guthro runs 20 plus meters with the ball…Score…
DHougaardt kicking very well for a change…
They still lost, Hmmm. Sharks and Lions were both stuffed by the Tahs and were both unlucky not to beat the Brunches. The horse boys played a lot better against the Sharks than they did against your lot, too
Yip…..DHoug kicking well…
So have they stopped eating off the floor at last? 🙂
The Bullshe advantage line with every run…. forwards geting over t
If Bulls take this, Sharks will be very much back in with a semi chance.
We lost against the Brumbies and you were beaten by them….they took you out of the game the last 30 min….
And if not for Kanko you would have lost further….
Lote going for goal again….
Has Lote ever slotted a kick?????
He misses them by miles….
Not really, Villie. We need them to lose next week as well. And if they do, it’s the Stormers who’ll benefit, not us
FDuP on for FHoug…
The Bulls not getting out of their half….
The ref blew us out of the game! You had them on a plate and you couldn’t finish the job.
Lote got one over against us last week
Oh my WOOOOOOOOOOOOOORD did you see that?
I got home as Wynand olivier passed inside before the bulls scored their try. 😯 When he got the ball, i thought. “Jong vlagman, ek hoop jy vang die bal” and then he passed INSIDE……
Go bulls!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on Bulls! Beat them by 50, please
Lote got a LONG range onne over last week.
Yeah but Stormers will lose today and then beat Tahs next week!
Go go go you blue things!
Villie, that would be best case for us. Assuming the bulls win here and there are no bonus points handed out anywhere. Bulls need to win next week as well, or else the brunches will come into contention
Bulls making loads of mistakes now. Kirchner playing really well
Yes and then we will beat both Cheetahs AND Chiefs with BONUS points! 😆
What’s a bonus point? 🙂
Why oh why did they not take the kick for poles? STUPID!!
That went backwards….sure of it….
65 😆 😳
It was a short arm Villie…..
Villie
It was a Free kick. 😉
habana looked to be jogging
Still 20min to go & only a 3 point lead.
Are you SURE? I’m pretty sure I saw a fullarm penalty!
😯 Hougaardt drives tuqiri back in the tackle
I don’t think the ref blew you out of the game…your discipline was very poor…every ruck for of niggles….
Time for these dutchmen 😉 to show some backbone.
Score unchanged?
Beale DG!!!!!!!!!!! 👿
13 – 13
65min
Great chance for a BUlls drop goal now
Bulls maul
2m out
Bulls look worse with FDuP on the field….
That was really STUPID. I’m going for a lie down. Can’t handle this!!
intercept sees the Bulls’ drive come to nothing.
LO Tahs in their own 22
Bulls great oppo but FduP gives a poor pass a prop with feel guilty about…
Here comes another heartbreaker. 👿
Hmmm, over the last few years, I’ve come to the conclusion that you tend to watch a different game to the rest of us, most of the time 🙂
Bulls winning the Ruck by a mile and then a dof Bull plays it on the ground 🙄
ROb,
Strangely enough I was thinking that myself! 😛
Oh dear. Here we go
70min
13 – 13
I think the term ‘comic relief’ could apply, villie! 🙂
First side-step of Akona’s life and the ref call him back…..LoL
Who’s bench will make the biggest difference? That is the question. Bulls should use Hougaard to drop a goal
Those Bulls supporters are a fair weather bunch. If it rains and/or the Bulls are struggling they stay away. 😕
A draw is better for us than a Tah win. Better for me than a Bulls win, sb wise
Time off for the ref to get his mic fixed
#96
GO BULLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not really Rob…but is I was a Shark I might have swayed to your views too…..but I am usually brutally honest about myself…
even when the LIONS made a good few lines breaks a few games in a row I said it means absolutely nothing….looking good in patches don’t win matches….scoring does….bottom line….I think that is the dif…
Bulls should use hougaard to man the gates. Stop the fans leaving before full time 🙂
Look how DUMB that is!!! Jirre I’m tearing my hair out. It’s WET…..take the 3 points man! Easy drop for Hougaard
rachel
They were expecting a thumping so that reduced the 5000 expected supporters to 3000 and then it started raining so they only got 1000
Hugh Bladen doing a Bill McClaren impression. 🙄 The oubaas should really lay off the booze until he’s off air.
DROP STEYN!! 16-13
2nd drop my Morne is over….
Bulls 16 – 13 Tahs….
Morne Steyn DG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
16 – 13 Bulls
73min
Won’t surprise me one bit if the Waratahs mamnage to score from kick off.
LOL @ Rachel.
The boy can’t talk ANY sense
Well, Hmmm, I think you will see some very critical articles aimed at the Sharks in the coming weeks. One thing that they are not, though, is WORSE THAN THE LIONS!
Villie you cannot kick at goal with a short arm…not a penalty…it was a free kick…..
Dunning, the picture of the modern athlete. 😆
Jeez Akhona is nowhere near as good as Odwa!
Bulls! Try now! More than 7! Come on!
Hmmm….I am talking about a DROP GOAL. You can drop ANY time you like!
No that is for sure Rob….the LIONS have that label trademarked….
However…they only 2 points a gave ave worse than the Sharks on attack….
If the bulls lose this they need to be investigated for match fixing
That’s why they called him that, Villie!
Villie they id….twice….but you need to draw in the defenders first…
2 points a gave ave…………………. ❓ ❓ ❓ You been hanging around with Hugh Bladen 😉
Yes. Sharks at least have good defence to go with the kak attack, though!
Zane is playing well today…running very strong too…bumped off Lote and a few others a few times today…
Someone please remind me to update the mobile template to show comment numbers
I have JUST realised why the Bulls are winning.
It’s because their field is so slippery when wet.
Even if they miss the tackle the opposition player goes to ground because of the surface.
I am serious…………look how many players they BUMP to the ground rather than tackle.
They drew in the defenders 3 times and then drove another time and lost it. Fortunately they got another chance due to Tahs mistakes
Ha-Ha…..a game ave….how the heck did the v get in there….not even close to the m….LoL
He’s a hell of a big boy. Wish he wasn’t a bull
Seems those brandy & coke swilling neanderthals are gonna do it after all. 😯
A Bulls try now and NO bonus point for Tahs
Bulls scrum on the Tahs m line just reset.
30sec to go
But Villie he had 2 attempts at DG in like 3 min…missed teh first got a fre kick an went for it after driving the def to the goal line…
Bulls 16 – 13 Tahs
Full time…
Hooter goes Bulls win.
MY SB IS STYLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lekker. I love it when the Oz/Kiwi’s lose to the Bulls.
The Tahs move back to 2nd and the Bulls go past the Landers and Reds…
Yes it’s no longer SA 12/13/14…
LoL
FULL TIME
Bulls 16 – 13 Waratahs
The LIONS just need to et double figures….
Log updated
Bulls go 10th
Waratahs go 2nd
Villie gets the SB Bonus Point all to himself for this game
Phil Waugh sommer misluk in his interview.
De Wet Barry in the SKy studio. Seems seriously laid back.
Didn’t show is the interview. 🙁 already in CT