Welcome to Dunedin where the Bulls will seek their first tour victory in the second week of their trip to New Zealand.
Kick off is at the slightly later time of 09h35.
Highlanders : 15. Ben R Smith (Captain), 14. Richard Buckman, 13. Malakai Fekitoa, 12. Shaun Treeby, 11. Patrick Osborne, 10. Lima Sopoaga, 9. Aaron Smith, 8. Elliot Dixon, 7. Shane Christie, 6. Gareth Evans, 5. Joe Wheeler, 4. Brad Thorn, 3. Chris King, 2. Liam Coltman, 1. Kane Hames
Replacements: 16. Ged Robinson, 17. Craig Millar, 18. Ma’afu Fia, 19. Jarrad Hoeata, 20. John Hardie, 21. Fumiaki Tanaka, 22. Trent Renata, 23. Nasi Manu
Vodacom Bulls: 15. Jurgen Visser, 14. Bjorn Basson, 13. JJ Engelbrecht, 12. Jan Serfontein, 11. Francois Hougaard, 10. Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 9. Piet van Zyl, 8. Grant Hattingh, 7. Jacques Du Plessis, 6. Jono Ross, 5. Victor Matfield, 4. Flip van der Merwe (Captain), 3. Werner Kruger, 2. Callie Visagie, 1. Dean Greyling
Replacements: 16. Mbongeni Mbonambi, 17. Marcel Van Der Merwe, 18. Paul Willemse, 19. Jacques Engelbrecht, 20. Handre Pollard, 21. William Small-Smith, 22. Ulrich Beyers, 23. Morné Mellett
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Good Team
Bulls 3 HLD 0
7 min
Bulls 6 HLD 0
12 min
@gregkaos (Comment 2) : thanx can you keep the updates coming can’t watch at work people watching the Oscar trail
@sharks4eve2013 (Comment 4) : wow…. I like your office. Friday morning is a choice of what to watch on TV 🙂
The Bulls are looking quite good, to be honest.
Let’s see if they can keep it up for the full 80 minutes
@robdylan (Comment 5) : ja nogal nice big screen tv all we still need is the bar and normally it’s on sports but with this trail on everybody more interested in that than rugby
Bulls 6 HLD 3
21 min
Bulls try! Basson scores under the posts.
Bulls 13 HLD 3
23 min
@sharks4eve2013 (Comment 7) : and work? 🙂
@sharks4eve2013 (Comment 7) : Anyone interested in working there? 😈
@robdylan (Comment 10) :
@Salmonoid the Subtle (Comment 11) :
What is this ‘work’ you mention?
My understanding is that this ‘work’ is not allowed on Fridays?
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 12) : 😆 I need to be where you guys are.
HLDers Try! Up to TMO to check for forward pass.
Otago Highlanders
We Know the Game
Welcome to the house of Pain!
Try awarded!
Bulls 13 HLD 10
34 min
Coooome on Landers!
Bulls 13 HLD 13
37 min
@Salmonoid the Subtle (Comment 13) :
I am ‘working’, but the Walka is working harder…
@robdylan (Comment 10) : Monday to Thursday’s Fridays more goofing around than work lol @Salmonoid the Subtle (Comment 11) : depends on what work you looking [email protected]Richard Ferguson (Comment 12) : you right it’s a sin working hard on a Friday
Half time
Bulls 13 HLD 13
Bulls dominating set pieces and up front physically. However whenever the game gets scrappy and unstructured the HLDers are excelling. HLDers are running from anywhere. From that first half the Highlanders will certainly be far happier with that score than Bulls.
I’m glad I “work” form home
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 19) :lucky, and Supersports live streaming is not working for me, contineous error message. No problem thanks to you guys keeping the scores coming.
I love the way every time there is another SA team playing, a Sharks advert comes on!
@robdylan (Comment 22) : that’s even nicer working from home
2nd Half starting
Blow to HLDers. Brad Thorn is off with what seems like a bicep injury.
Try Landers!!! Kick to come.
Try! Highlanders score.
Bulls 13 HLD 20
46 min
20-13 Landers, 46mins played.
Nice thanx again for updates
Disagree with that call,that was not taken out, both went for the ball.
Flip off injured, Willemse on.
Blow for the Bulls! Flip is off.
Try Landers! Kick to come…. Bulls showing holes now.
Try to the Highlanders! Right under the posts
27-13 Landers! 55 mins
@Seth101 (Comment 35) : Oh right. Didn’t notice you commentating on this now too. all yours then
@gregkaos (Comment 27) : Another tear.
I still say that we lost to the Bulls because we tried to play ‘their’ kicking game.
@Salmonoid the Subtle (Comment 39) : Not sure. He didn’t look like in a huge amount of pain but was definitely uncomfortable with it. He was obviously wanting to continue playing but eventually said that he thinks he should go off.
@gregkaos (Comment 38) : Haha I was enjoy racing you to the post 😛 don’t mean to steal your thunder 😀
@Son Of Mayhem (Comment 40) : We went in to match their game, they surprised us and played our game, they won the mind games.
@Seth101 (Comment 42) : Oh no worries! I’m “working” at the same time. 😎
I find the defence of driving mauls to be a real problem with current rules/reffing. Unless you get the early sack its pretty much impossible to defend a driving maul with out conceding a penalty.
@Son Of Mayhem (Comment 40) : So agree with you on that one
@gregkaos (Comment 44) : Ok well I am sitting on my ass :D. So I will happily take over. Landers defend 3, 5m driving mauls, concede to penalties, but get the ball through a knock on eventually.
Balls seam to be falling apart, fail to score a try 3 times from 5m’s, lose the ball, now kick the ball out on the full in their own half….
Landers playing solid running rugby now, typical NZ offloading, good to watch.
Bulls line looks flat and uninventive, have just had their 13th knock on.
Bulls again knock on 5m from the try line.
Yoh! Bulls just cannot finish.
What ever happened to Chillyboy? Where has he gone?
@Seth101 (Comment 53) : playing in France if I’m not mistaken
@gregkaos (Comment 52) : That’s putting it mildly, this is shocking…..
@sharks4eve2013 (Comment 54) : He kind of just disappeared off the rader. I honestly kind of just forgot he existed lol.
Highlanders defence.
I found it surprising that so many people and websites predicted a Bulls win. That loose trio was never going to be good enough.
The Bulls are looking terrible today. Almost as bad as the Lions last week
@Mutley (Comment 59) : Yet at the same time they are dominating this game in so many ways. They simply cannot score.
Bulls manage to get over the line after the 80, kick to come.
Bulls get a point. 27-20 F/T
Bulls finally get the try.
@Seth101 (Comment 62) : Cool, had landers by 9!
@gregkaos (Comment 60) : The Aussie game is all yours mate 😛
@Seth101 (Comment 65) : Haha! Unfortunately I have to do real work now. 🙁
Great start to Superbru 1-0 for a change 😛
@Seth101 (Comment 56) : yes he did same as the half of the bulls team haha had Landers by 7 good start now go reds
@Pokkel (Comment 58) :
If they could catch a bloody ball, they would have walked this game..
Handling let them down.
They will give the Waratahs a good run next weekend..
@Seth101 (Comment 62) : Ahh, forgot the Bulls were playing this morning. The score explains the deathly silence of certain Facebook friends
Great match to watch. Bulls were good in the first 25 to 30 mins and then fell apart. I called Highlanders by 4. Good result for the Sharks not so good for S.A. Outside centre for the Landers, Malakai Fikitoa, was superb. So was flyhalf Sopoaga. Cant wait for our crunch game at Ellis park tomorrow. Hoping for a Chiefs loss tomorrow too to boost us up the log.
@willemv10 (Comment 71) : yes, was just saying to a friend during the match, Sopoaga is a superb flyhalf. Very underrated.