This one really shouldn’t be so hard to call at all.
The Bulls have been simply unstoppable this year and the Force quite the opposite.
Then again, it was the Perth team who came close to upsetting their more-fancied Sydney rivals last week, while the Bulls themselves were the ones under pressure at home to the Hurricanes. On paper, there can only be one winner but based on last week’s evidence, perhaps this one might be a little closer than we would think?
Then again, nah… Bulls to walk it!
Ref: Nathan Pearce (Australia)
ARs: Steve Walsh (Australia), Damian Mitchelmore (Australia)
TMO: Steve Leszczynski (Australia)
Venue: ME Stadium, Perth
Kick-off: 13h10 SA Time, 11h10 GMT
Western Force: 15 Mark Bartholomeusz, 14 Scott Staniforth, 13 Ryan Cross, 12 James O’Connor, 11 Nick Cummins, 10 David Hill, 9 Chris O’Young, 8 Richard Stanford, 7 Matt Hodgson, 6 Ben McCalman, 5 Nathan Sharpe (captain), 4 Tom Hockings, 3 Tim Fairbrother, 2 Ben Whittaker, 1 Nic Henderson.
Replacements: 16 Pek Cowan, 17 Kieran Longbottom, 18 Luke Jones, 19 Ted Postal, 20 Mark Swanepoel, 21 Sam Harris, 22 Mitch Inman.
Bulls: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Jaco Pretorius, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Dewald Potgieter, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Danie Rossouw, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Gary Botha, 1 Gurthrö Steenkamp.
Replacements: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Bees Roux, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Derick Kuün, 20 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 21 Jaco van der Westhuyzen, 22 Pedrie Wannenburg.
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well got Bulls by 10 on SB 😆
I’M sitting this one out going to have a thick steak braai on the sharks game cheers till 2 morrow if anybody will be on the sharksworld cheers
eeeeaaaahhhh
James O’connor in the pre-match interview, we have found the chink in the Bulls’ armour.
Brave talk from a winless team. Going to bite them in the arse IMO.
update so far Bulls 7/0
go Bulls go
pently for force
conversion over 7/3
the bull should of had 14 by now must be the flight eeehh 🙂
14 min into the game will this be the bulls 1st loose 😕 ❓
Bulls must be glad to play on some decent field 🙂
forward ball by bulls shit
force ball bulls making to many mistakes i guess
and there goes the force and with pen gets a conversion over 7/6 to bulls
very slow game between the 2 teams to slow and lost F by bulls
Come on Bulls you can do it
sloppy ball buy force
morne kick to hard and over the touch line it goes shit
FP by force
ok me out for the day cheers good luck bulls
Kuun must have been bliksemed a lot at school, he has such a “please moer me” face
steyn cant kick today
@provincejoulekkading (Comment 23) : hmmm
well done bulls me got 5/6 for SB
I only have 3/6 on SB this weekend 😳 😥 Can someone give me tips for the next round please, I’m dropping fast ❓
@JarsonX (Comment 26) : 3 weeks ago I was in the top 20, now I’m 71st 😳 😥