Welcome to Newlands for a game that is meaningless to everyone other than the 46 players taking part.
Kick-off is at 17h05 SA time.
DHL Stormers: 15. Jaco Taute, 14. Gio Aplon, 13. Sailosi Tagicakibau, 12. Juan de Jongh, 11. Cheslin Kolbe, 10. Kurt Coleman, 9. Nick Groom, 8. Duane Vermeulen (Captain), 7. Schalk Burger (Captain), 6. Nizaam Carr, 5. Ruan Botha, 4. Michael Rhodes, 3. Pat Cilliers, 2. Deon Fourie, 1. Alistair Vermaak
Replacements: 16. Tiaan Liebenberg, 17. Sithembiso Sithole, 18. Martin Dreyer, 19. Manuel Carizza, 20. Siya Kolisi, 21. Louis Schreuder, 22. Peter Grant, 23. Seabelo Senatla
Vodacom Bulls: 115 Jurgen Visser, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Jan Serfontein, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Handré Pollard, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Grant Hattingh, 7 Jacques Engelbrecht, 6 Jono Ross , 5 Victor Matfield (Capt), 4 Paul Willemse, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Callie Visagie, 1 Dean Greyling.
Replacements: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Marcel van der Merwe, 18 Mornè Mellett, 19 Marvin Orie, 20 Roelof Smit, 21 Piet van Zyl, 22 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 23 William Small-Smith
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Jeepers, but Oupa Victor is grouchy today! When was the last time you heard someone speak to Craig Joubert like that?! I think the word is cantankerous!!
13-0 after 26 mins…
I must say, I thought the Bulls would be up for today…but they haven’t pitched at all…
Set piece…mistake…set piece…mistake…set piece…you guessed it…mistake…*yawn*
Ooh look: set piece…mistake…followed by a set piece…and a mistake. I hope the next game is better…
13-0, 37 mins…
Stormers attack…they are certainly FAR more fluent and dangerous than the Bulls…and they win a penalty…
Have the Bulls been quite so poor this season?
Stormers 77% possession, 80% teritory!!
16-0 just on halftime…
Bulls continue after the hooter…but stuff it up as Matfield gets tackled back…and that’s halftime. Poor stuff for the Bulls…pretty good play by the Stormers. But for a few mistakes they could’ve been mich further ahead than the 16-0 they lead by…
I sure hope Heynecke is not considering Francois Hougaard as his Bok scrumhalf replacement for Fourie du Preez!! If his service was any slower it would be like the service you get from ESKOM!!
Wow, this is not great…I think I’ll go catch a snooze before the Sharks game…
Bulls put a bit of territory and possession together…
And then an overlap is stuffed up royally by Hougaard, who passes it behind, in front of and between everyone to no one…
Ah, Piet van Zyl is on now…
And after 3 minutes of possession, the Bulls concede a breakdown penalty…
Pouring in Cape Town now…
This is not going to help an already scrappy game…or the Bulls in getting the win and bonus point the need to have a faint chance of reaching the playoffs…
Either Shimmy has grown fat…or he’s wearing 4 or 5 coats!! 😈
Torrential!!
Bulls with a great mall…but ultimately turned over by Burger and he wins a penalty!!
Nothing going right for the Bulls but surely the Stormers should be capitalizing more?
16-0 after 59 mins…
@vanmartin (Comment 23) : The Stormers looked pretty good in the first half, but silly mistakes in the Bulls 22 cost them points. In the second half both sides have been super swak!
Look the bulls are playing poorly but craig is not doing them any favours either …
And THAT was a poor Bulls kick…touch in goal…
Haha…Coleman calls a mark when he didn’t catch it cleanly… 🙄
But ultimately the Bulls can’t do anything with it and concede another turnover penalty…
That looked like a forward pass in the Stormers attack…but a knock on brings the play to an end anyway…
@byron (Comment 26) : Although Craig hasn’t got many decisions wrong…the Bulls really have been poor!
Entertaining game, especially for those who couldn’t care less.
The rain has stopped for the moment…although it is freezing! A mate of mine told me that it snowed on Table Mountain today…
@rhineshark (Comment 32) :
When is Carr going to get due recognition?
@rhineshark (Comment 32) : Perfect rugby weather…especially for those who couldn’t care less!
@rhineshark (Comment 35) : He’s been the best player on the park by some way…and he’s been in my fantasy league side for most of the season…but I guess that’s not the recognition you were talking about…
For those who are interested: the score is 16-0 after 70 minutes…
@pastorshark (Comment 33) : Great quality considering the conditions then! 😯
That’s 0-0 in,the second half…
@pastorshark (Comment 37) : Nope. The only recognition, which counts, is the green and gold.
Coleman hits the upright with a penalty attempt…before the Bulls knock it 57 times (actually just 2 knocks…I was just describing what it felt like!)…
Pollard has also been pretty solid. That boytjie is special.
@rhineshark (Comment 39) : Sure…
@pastorshark (Comment 38) : You’re only talking to me.
I hope the weather is not like this next week!!
Sooooo many handling errors…since that downpour it’s been horrendous in that department…
STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3 minutes to go…still 16-0…
@McLovin (Comment 48) : Deserved win…
I’m completely unbiased today, but it would be awesome if the Bulls walked away with zero.
Although he is off the field now, Carr is my man of the match…
Always enormously satisfying klapping the Bulls. Even if it means nothing in the greater scheme of things.
Ooh look…excitement…a little bit of wrestling!
@rhineshark (Comment 51) : Amen brother! 😈
@rhineshark (Comment 45) : Still watching but all my energy is going into trying to keep awake at this point 🙂
They will walk away with 0…in more ways then one…
Blou nulle.
😈
Final whistle…16-0…
😆 FT
Hak hak I guess… 😀
@McLovin (Comment 55) : I now expect the same support from you for the next game.
@McLovin (Comment 58) : 😆
@rhineshark (Comment 62) : You know me. Vrystater at heart. 😉 😈 😆
@McLovin (Comment 58) :
I guess that Vic used up all his captaining mojo in defeating the Welsh and Scots.