Okay we are back on home soil again with a Saffa team involved so the interest in this game will be just that little bit higher.
I am sure our very own Hertford Highlander will be following proceedings very closely tonight.
This is actually a difficult game to call and I won’t be sticking my neck out at all. The Cheetahs could be on a high after their first away win since 2007 but the Highlanders are NEVER a pushover.
Ref: Pro Legoete (South Africa)
ARs: Craig Joubert (South Africa), Cobus Wessels (South Africa)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
Venue: Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein
Kick-off: 17:05 SA Time; 15:05 GMT
Cheetahs: 15 Riaan Viljoen, 14 Danwel Demas, 13 Lionel Mapoe, 12 Meyer Bosman, 11 Jongi Nokwe, 10 Naas Olivier, 9 Tewis de Bruyn, 8 Frans Viljoen, 7 Juan Smith (captain), 6 Heinrich Brussow, 5 David de Villiers, 4 Nico Breedt, 3 WP Nel, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Wian du Preez.
Replacements: 16 Ryno Barnes, 17 Coenie Oosthuizen, 18 Waltie Vermeulen, 19 Ashley Johnson, 20 Sarel Pretorius, 21 Sias Ebersohn, 22 Hennie Daniller.
Highlanders: 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Ben Smith, 13 Kenny Lynn, 12 Jason Shoemark, 11 Fetu’u Vainikolo, 10 Michael Hobbs, 9 Jimmy Cowan (captain), 8 Adam Thomson, 7 Alando Soakai, 6 John Hardie, 5 Tom Donnelly, 4 Josh Bekhuis, 3 Clint Newland, 2 Jason Rutledge, 1 Jamie Mackintosh.
Replacements: 16 Jason Macdonald, 17 Chris King, 18 Hayden Triggs, 19 Tim Boys, 20 Sean Romans, 21 Mat Berquist, 22 James Paterson.
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Glued to proceedings
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 1) :
60min to kick-off.
Go Highlanders!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody else I shout for loses, so let’s see if this works. 😉
No chance …i think we can do this today…have just watched the other three kiwi teams today…and we are easily the worst of the nzer’s. I thought the Blues looked surprisingly good.
VRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Ita 16-12 Sco
69min
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 3) :
I KNOW that feeling. We are easily the BES… (Old habits die hard) 😆 I mean worst SA team at the moment
@McLovin (Comment 5) : 😯
Everybody is out to screw up my Superbru!!!!!!!!!! 👿
Andy Cap… 🙁 Why do i like these guys so much? 🙄
Cheetahleaders musta left home in a hurry, forgot to pack their boobs. 😛
TMO Scot try?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) :
Dirty old man. 
@McLovin (Comment 10) :
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
No try.
@McLovin (Comment 13) : 👿
5m scrum Scots. Pushed off the ball. Great play from Ita.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 14) : Gets worse. Pen Ita 45m out in the middle of the field.
Man I dislike pitches with the shade halfway across them like that.
@McLovin (Comment 16) :
My SB is in it’s moer in.
Short.
Pack weights
Landers 891
Cheetahs 832
@KSA Shark © (Comment 18) : Much like Scotland’s 6N.
Go the States! 😎
@McLovin (Comment 19) :
Naas olivier doesn’t make that mistake.
Cheetahs 3 – 0 Highlanders
5min
Highlanders intent on spreading ti wide but always ends up with a forward in backs getting the ball. ❓ ❓
Kendrick Lynn TRY!!!!!!
@KSA Shark © (Comment 25) :
And that was from a ball that WASN’T spread wide. 😆
Conversion over
Cheetahs 3 – 7 Landers
8min
Come on !
@McLovin (Comment 21) :
What was the final score?
Italy win! 😯 😎
@KSA Shark © (Comment 28) : 16-12
@McLovin (Comment 30) :
Thanks. 🙁
@McLovin (Comment 29) : 👿
So far ive got 3/5, hope i get the last 2 games right 😈
Later guys
Cheetahs 3 – 7 Highlanders
15min
Dagg Drags a PK left.
19min
Cheetahs 3 – 7 Landers
Olivier slots a PK
Cheetahs 6 – 7 Highlanders
22min
😯 Since Cheetahs have become a franchise on their own they have never won back to back matches. 😯
Wish I’d known that when I made my SB picks.
Cheetahs are getting murdered in the scrums. Highlanders are damn good.
Pro doesn’t have a clue at the engage.
He is calling Crouch touch pause and the players comply and then when they start engaging he calls engage.
EXACTLY my gripe last week. In the first half the real ref nailed the Cheetahs for engaging before the call at least twice in the 2nd half this ref let it go. As he is this week. 👿
@KSA Shark © (Comment 39) : 🙂
Vainikolo TRY.
Ball lying loose at the other side of a ruck, he picks it up and runs 75m unopposed.
Conversion missed
Cheetahs 6 – 12 Highlanders
30min
Get in …. come on lads we can do this !
At least the end result is correct.
Cheetahs take a tap penalty by just tapping the ball onto the foot 😯 Ref let’s it go, but Cheetahs cock up at the maul and Highlanders get the scrum.
missed PK by Olivier
Cheetahs 6 – 12 Highlanders
34min
Hometeam call by the TJ gives the Cheetahs a PK and they decide to set up an LO,
which if justice prevails they will not win.
Not sure what happened but being refered to the TMO for “try no try”
no try
back for penalty to Cheetahs NOW they go at goal.
Olivier gets it
Cheetahs 9 – 12 Highlanders
39min
This ref is guessing
Ref: Put him down safely (As Olivier lifts a player and then let’s him go.
The next thing he says about 5 seconds later: STILL playing advantage for the dangerous tackle. 😯
YOU NEVER CALLED THE INITIAL ADVANTAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Highlanders lot the PK
HALF TIME
Cheetahs 9 – 15 Highlanders
@KSA Shark © (Comment 51) :
my suspicion on why the original TJs for this match were pulled have been confirmed (well to me anyway)
They need senior ref on the touchline to coach the new ref in the middle.
So that explains why the one ref was pulled but why was the Aussie Assistant referee also pulled? A closeknit group of Saffas officiating the match, that way no other union can comment on any of the radio traffic during the game. 😳 😳
@KSA Shark © (Comment 52) : Still in it.. educate me what the difference in the altitude affest between B’fontain, Jo ‘ burg and Pretoria….and will we fall apart due to it’s affects in the second half ?
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 54) :
Johannesburg and Pretoria are only 56kms apart so no real difference,
Bloemfontein lower than them but also at a high altitude.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 55) :
Bloem 1,395m above sea level
Pretoria 1,350m above sea level ❓ ❓ ❓ (Find that suspicious)
Johannesburg 1750m above sea level
Have missed a Cheetah PK
Cheetahs 12 – 15 Highlanders
44min
Gee that worries me explains why the Chief fell apart last week !
Great stats thanks
Brussouw going over the top at Ruck
Highlanders slot PK
Cheetahs 12 – 18 Highlanders
46min
Get Matt Berquist on he will get us home…..best kicker in the country!
Lazy Runner by the Cheetahs and the Highlanders get another shot at goal.
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 60) :
Nothing wrong with Dagg’s kicking. 🙂
He slots the PK
Cheetahs 12 – 21 Highlanders
51min
And that tackle bt Brussow wasn’t late??????????????? Where is that TJ that called the other one earlier?????? 😳 😳
@KSA Shark © (Comment 62) : Doesn’t even really kick ?
Nokwe taken into touch on the corner flag.
Second half possesion
Landers 83% 😯 😯 😯
Cheetahs 17%
brussouw hands off and goes over, but what the 1st tackle lacked the 2nd one surely had and he is held up.
being refered to the TMO.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 66) : Hang in there boys !
Try awarded.
Conversion over
Cheetahs 19 – 21 Highlanders
57min
Game ON!!!!!!!
PK Cheetahs for Landers not releasing
going at goal from 3m behind the Landers 10m line.
miss
60min
Cheetahs 19 – 21 Highlanders
Do we look like we are flagging now !
65min
Cheetahs 19 – 21 Highlanders
great call by the ref as Daniller has his foot ON the 22 and takes a mark which the ref awards. 😎
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 73) :
Not YET. 🙂
Dagg going at goal
miss
Cheetahs 19 – 21 Highlanders
67min
PK Highlanders going at goal again
Well Done Cheetahs you have sunk as low as the rest of the Country with your booing. 😕 😕 😕
Little girl and an adult shown booing.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 77) :
Over
Cheetahs 19 – 24 Highlanders
71min
TRY Highlanders Hobbs
Conversion over
Cheetahs 19 – 31 Highlanders
72min
S14 Top Try Scorer now ….his Dad will be proud Jock !
Cheetahs LO 5m out. On attack
75min
Cheetahs 19 – 31 Highlanders
PK Cheetahs 5m out
Opt for scrum
76min
Cheetah #3 slipps on the emgage after Highlanders cleverly take forever to get ready. 🙂
@KSA Shark © (Comment 86) : 😕
And with that my TV siganl goes away. 👿 I am blind 👿
🙄
Try Cheetahs Juan Smith
@KSA Shark © (Comment 88) : you’re a ref, thats what we expect 😉 🙄 😆
Very poor from the Cheetahs. 🙄
365’s live commentary is saying Soaki got a Yellow card?????????????
i thought he was just subbed off as he got penalised, didn’t see the Yellow card being shown.
But wait till they play another SA side and they play out of their skin. 👿
@McLovin (Comment 92) :
i’m blind. is the game over?
Final Score
31-24
@McLovin (Comment 94) :
i was thinking that earlier, when I saw the stat that they had nevr won back to back games. I thought that’s becasue they have never played SA teams back to back. 😆
Do we have a massacre coming at LMS?
Vodacom Cheetahs 26
Highlanders 1
@KSA Shark © (Comment 97) : Exactly.
‘Sea Level’ here we come …thought the Stormers showed nothing in attack last night ?
@McLovin (Comment 96) :
Thanks let me do the updates quickly
@KSA Shark © (Comment 98) : Molly is a wise lady !
@KSA Shark © (Comment 98) : I lost my lifeline 😥 I hate the cheetahs, damn losers 👿
8 dead on LMS. 😯
140 teams entered the game:
40 still alive with a lifeline.
71 still alive with no lifeline.
29 out of the game.
And we are not finished with round 3 yet. 😯
@Jarson’s (X + V) (Comment 103) :
Hehehhe I lost mine last week. :lol
Cheetahs fans and the rest of the country had a lot to say about the Sharks supporters booing at the stadium, well the Cheetah supporters showed their true colours by booing = not a very good example for South African fans
Did I mention that I hate the Cheetahs… even more than the Bulls
@KSA Shark © (Comment 104) : I entered LMS but had no idea what I was doing, did however choose the Hurricanes for round 3 😀
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 102) :
She HAD to be wise with her lifeline being gone already.
I see you are sitting pretty with no lives lost yet.
@Jarson’s (X + V) (Comment 107) : I know it was an SA team playing but after the currie cup semi final and after last weeks game I was kinda hoping the Cheetahs would lose, their heads are too swollen anyway, they needed the loss
@dawnwallenkamp (Comment 108) :
How are you doing so far?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 104) : I thought that this could be the 1 game that the losers will win. The Cheetahs has cost me more points than any other team 👿
@KSA Shark © (Comment 111) :
it’s so much easier when you guys use the same names then it’s easy to look. 😆
@KSA Shark © (Comment 105) : Cheers for your work today !
@dawnwallenkamp (Comment 110) : I hope they end 14th, losers 😈 Time to adjust my strategy, cant afford to take a gamble again.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 111) : LOL I think I am like at 113th
3 from 6 on SB 🙁 not a good weekend for me 😥
@Jarson’s (X + V) (Comment 115) : Just don’t back the Stormers next week 😀
@KSA Shark © (Comment 111) : only have 246 points so sitting in last position, not sure if I get any points for highlanders win
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 118) : 😆 thanx
@Jarson’s (X + V) (Comment 120) :
I HAVE SIGNAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Flippen DustStorms!!!!!!!!
@dawnwallenkamp (Comment 119) :
No No i’m talking about Last man Standing.
http://www.justrugby.net/about-last-man-standing/
11 LMS Picks for the Bulls.
0 for the Waratahs
@Jarson’s (X + V) (Comment 103) : my sentiment exactly 😈
@rekinek (Comment 125) :
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 114) :
No Worries, Well done on your side’s performance. I used to know what that felt like but it is a distant memory now. 😉
@rekinek (Comment 125) :
Join the club. 😳
@KSA Shark © (Comment 111) : Please can you tell me what the difference is between last man standing and fantasy leaugue? I am really not sure what I am doing there 😳 and who do I choose for round 4?