The only really big match of this round sees the weakened Province head down to Bloem to take on last year’s beaten finalists.
The Cheetahs had a better-than-expected Super 14, but how keenly will they feel the loss of their Griquas backline stars?
How, indeed, will Province cope with the loss of their entire first-choice backline to the Bok effort? It will be an intriguing game.
Free State Cheetahs: 15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Philip Snyman, 13 Robert Ebersohn, 12 Meyer Bosman, 11 Jongi Nokwe, 10 Louis Strydom, 9 Tewis de Bruyn, 8 Ashley Johnson, 7 Francois Uys, 6 Hendro Scholtz (captain), 5 Waltie Vermeulen, 4 Izak van der Westhuizen, 3 WP Nel, 2 Skipper Badenhorst, 1 Coenie Oosthuizen.
Replacements: 16 PW van Vuuren, 17 Kobus Calldo, 18 Juan Smith, 19 Kabamba Floors, 20 Tertius Carse, 21 Sias Ebersohn, 22 Corné Uys.
Western Province: 15 Conrad Jantjes, 14 Fabian Juries, 13 Tim Whitehead, 12 Paul Bosch, 11 Frikkie Welsh, 10 Willem de Waal, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Rynardt Elstadt, 6 Pieter Louw, 5 Anton van Zyl (captain), 4 Adriaan Fondse, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Tiaan Liebenberg, 1 Wicus Blaauw.
Replacements: 16 Deon Fourie, 17 JD Moller, 18 JC Kritzinger, 19 Martin Muller, 20 Pieter Myburgh, 21 Conrad Hoffmann, 22 Lionel Cronjé.
Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein – Kick-off: 17.00
Referee: Marius Jonker (SARU)
Assistant referees: Tiaan Jonker (SARU), Christi du Preez (Eastern Province)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (Boland)
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Go Cheetahs ❗ 😛 ❗
😳 got WP by 5 its another gut feeling i didn’t go by 😕
Oh my. The Cheetahs dancing poppies. 😛 droooooooooool
GO WP GO 😳
Hey hang on. I thought all FIFA stadiums had to be in lock down after the tournament? 😕
GO VRYSTAAT!!!!
3 points a piece
Kom nou Vrystaat
Thus far 18 lives have been lost, hopefully a Cheetah’s win will increase that number 😈
I think it’s the WC2010 thats got us 👿 that we can’t even say in our game who is going to win 🙁
@Jarson (Comment 9) : well me not in that list of LMS 🙂
Score FS 8/6
After about 35mins of play, the scores are 8 – 3 to the Cheetahs. T de Bruyn just scored the 1st try of the match.
come on WP for SB got u by 5 😳
Conversion missed
Penalty over
8 – 6 Vrystaaaaaat!!!
8 – 9 WP
FL squad member Fondse Score for Province!
Halftime
VRY 8 – 16 WP
@Jarson (Comment 18) : five stars! Congrats
@Jarson (Comment 9) : : that’s almost a reason to support cheetahs despite taking SB points knock 😈
@robdylan (Comment 19) : Thanx, it happened about 25 comments ago already
@rekinek (Go Klose!) (Comment 20) : I picked Cheetahs on SB 😳
2nd half on!
FL member De Waal kicking plenty penalties
8 – 19 WP
oh my what a score got doing things and my 22 for WP / 8
@Jarson (Comment 24) : Make that 8 – 22 😛
@Jarson (Comment 26) :
Proooooovince!!!!!!!!!!
Still 8 – 22
🙄
@KSA Shark © (Comment 27) : If WP wins, which seems most likely, I’ll have 2 from 4 on SB 😥
14 points difference, I dont think Vrystaaaaaaat will make it.
I’m guessing there’s about 20mins left of this snorefest.
Freestate penalty 😯
11 – 22
P against P Louw
go Cheetahs for me hubby 😳
PK for FS right in front of the try line 😆 😳
Tryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy for FS going LMO
Still 11 – 22
🙄 🙄
can’t c the ball 😕 no try 5m scrum to FS
Goooooooooooo Cheetahs thats all u hear on tele Cheetahs
Kom Vrystaat!!
oh my turn over ball for wp
@chaz (Comment 40) : How much time left?
73 min
score still 22 / 11
@Jarson (Comment 43) : 6 min
@chaz (Comment 44) : 2 more tries of VS required. sorry – don’t think will happen…
What a beautifull start to my SB aspirations. 3N: 0/1 & CC: 2/4 with no bonus or margin points to speak off 🙁
william D going for a Pk score 25 / 11
@Jarson (Comment 47) : well my whole p is in the Shit 👿
Go Prroooooovvvviiiinnnnccceeee!! 😎
Am expecting a decent FL score for the round, if The Sharks have won, it would have been an awesome score 🙂
@wpw (Comment 50) : Well done 🙂
Only 1 min left!!
Rob, update Fantasy League asap 😉
Thats 20 lives lost for the 1st round. Sweet 😆 😛
Thanks Jarson! Hard luck with your team’s loss!! 🙁
@wpw (Comment 56) : I’m getting used to losing
@Jarson (Comment 55) : 😆 😉
Fulltime
Freestate 11 – 25 WP