A knee injury to regular captain Gary Botha has opened the door for former Pretoria Boys High hooker Henry Bantjes to make his long-awaited Currie Cup debut.
Botha was initially feared to be out for the season after a recurrence of the problem that kept him on the sidelines for three months last season. He will only miss the next month and in Bok hooker Bandise Maku and Bantjes, the Pretoria team will feel they have adequate cover. Derrick Kuün takes over the captaincy from Botha for this weekend’s game against Griquas.
Other changes to the side that faced Western Province see Jaco van der Westhuyzen and Fudge Mabeta come into the starting team.
Blue Bulls: 15 Jaco van der Westhuyzen, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Jaco Pretorius, 12 Stefan Watermeyer, 11 John Mametsa, 10 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 9 Ruan Snyman, 8 Gerrit-Jan van Velze, 7 Dewald Potgieter, 6 Derick Kuün (captain), 5 Fudge Mabeta, 4 Juandré Kruger, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Bandise Maku, 1 Dean Greyling.
Replacements: 16 Henry Bantjes, 17 Bees Roux, 18 Jaco Engels, 19 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 20 Dustin Jinka, 21 Stephan Dippenaar.
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Do u think these Bulls can beat the Griquas??
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Ruan Snyman seems to be a very decent player. He had a good game against WP last week.
What happened to Deon Stegman? 😐
@JustPlainSHARK (Comment 4) : Injured. Think he will still be out for 3 weeks or so. I saw him in the crowd at the Sharks v Leopards game. Bloody Spy! 😈
Such a quiet start to the day..
Nothing really going on.. Looking forward to the sharks team announcement..
Didn’t you tell me Bjorn Basson was playing last week as well. 👿
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 7) : That hurt my FL aswell.
@Jarson (Comment 8) :
…absolutely robbed (literally)….. only 14 winning players ! 😕
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 9) : 3rd week in a row that I only had 14 players, I did manage the mvp bonus for the round though.
@Jarson (Comment 10) :
Really impress me and get one in the ITM !
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 11) : If there was a FL for the ITM, I wouldve tried
@Jarson (Comment 12) :
Did you get the MVP 50 points for top in the round ?
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 13) : Yes, that’s what I said 😉
@Jarson (Comment 14) :
🙄
Come on Griquas!!
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 15) : Don’t roll your eyes. Congratulate me 😛
@Jarson (Comment 17) :
Congratulations mate ! is it your first one ! 😎
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 18) : Thank you and yes it is
Am I the only one that noticed that the Bulls only selected 21 players? Where is player 22??
@war1 (Comment 20) : That’s a surprize 😉
@Jarson (Comment 21) : @war1 (Comment 20) : I believe it’s CJ Stander
@Jarson (Comment 19) :
I got one in the Super 14 FL…..proud moment, wife couldn’t understand the significance of the achievement ! 😆
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 23) : Very well done, my wife doesnt understand it either
COME OOOOOOOON GRIQUAS!!!!
Damn! I thought this was an article on Joost…
@Rahul (Comment 26) : 😯 Joost is a DO!S and no [email protected] we can make good points on that but not allowed with out bringing Family politics into it 👿 😉
@Jarson (Comment 1) : Got my 😕 i don’t think so and if its only going to be by like 5 points Grikkies ❗ come and go to often, so really don’t know and the Bulls arn’t really the full package are they 🙄
but got the Bulls by 5
but if u really look at the log i think we need to get the Grikkies to win 😳 😕
Wouldn’t it be great if the Bulls didn’t make it to the semi’s this year…