The Blue Bulls hosted the Vodacom Free State Cheetahs in round 2 of the Currie Cup. The Bulls won 30 / 27 in a nail-biter.
The official web site of the Bulls summarises the match as follows:
A workmanlike performance by the Vodacom Blue Bulls saw them beating the courageous Vodacom Free State Cheetahs 30-27 at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday afternoon.
Captain Victor Matfield said during the week that he expects the Blue Bulls to take two or three games to ‘settle in’ after ten players have been involved in the Vodacom Tri-Nations, but they started off pretty well and after 13 minutes the Bulls have built up a neat 10-0 lead thanks to a Gerhard van den Heever try and five points coming from the boot of Morne Steyn.
Shortly after Van den Heever’s try Dewald Potgieter, who was again at his rampant best, charged down a kick to dive over for the Bulls’ second and with the score at 17-3 the Bulls were dominating all aspects of the game.
With Matfield and big Danie Rossouw back in the mix the Bulls had no problems in the lineouts and the set scrums were fairly evenly contested throughout the first 40 minutes although neither of the teams could stamp down their authority at tighthead (but on this point it has to be noted that there isn’t a tighthead in world rugby that consistently dominates the right hand side of the scrum because you scrum in effect against two opponents).
The Bulls’ fetching duo of Potgieter and Deon Stegmann had a titanic battle with Heinrich Brussow and Ashley Johnson in the loose and with Steyn continuing where he left off in the Super 14 the Bulls’ scoreboard were constantly ticking.
Steyn kicked three penalties and converted both tries in the first half to take the Bulls into a 23-10 lead at the break after the Cheetahs’ Fabian Juries scored a brilliant individualistic try shortly before halftime.
As underdogs playing away from home the Cheetahs had absolutely nothing to lose and could therefore afford play high risk rugby and this eventually paid off in the 44th minute when Juries’ partner on the wing Lionel Mapoe scored another five pointer.
With the score at 23-17 the Bulls realized they were in for a game and being one of the world’s most professional outfits they immediately shifted to a higher gear and it wasn’t long before Wynand Olivier cut through the visitors’ midfield for try number three.
Olivier scored a minute after Johnson (Free State’s number 8) had to leave the field following a yellow card for a professional foul, but with Johnson on the sideline the Cheetahs showed that they are NOT going to be pushovers as they succeeded in quickly scoring ten points of their own as a result of another try by Juries and five points via Potgieter’s boot.
During the last 15 minutes the Bulls were clinging to their 30-27 lead and although they could not score the fourth try they did enough at the end to see off the desperate Cheetahs.
Points:
Blue Bulls: 3 Penalties & 2 Conversions Morne Steyn, Try Gerhard van den Heever & Dewalt Potgieter & Wynand Olivier
Cheetahs: 2 Penalties & 3 Conversions Jacques-Louis Potgieter, Try Fabian Juries (2) & Lionel Mapoe
Sat Sep 26 2009 at 17:05 (local time)
Venue: Loftus Versveld, Pretoria, South Africa
Altitude: 1330m / Capacity: 52 000
Teams:
Blue Bulls: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Jaco Pretorius, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 François Hougaard, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Heini Adams, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Dewald Potgieter, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Danie Rossouw, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Derick Kuün, 1 Gürthro Steenkamp.
Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 Ross Geldenhuys, 18 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 19 Pedrie Wannenburg, 20 Dean Greyling, 21 François Brummer, 22 John Mametsa.
Free State: 15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Lionel Mapoe, 13 Corné Uys, 12 Meyer Bosman, 11 Fabian Juries, 10 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 9 JP Joubert, 8 Ashley Johnson, 7 Frans Viljoen, 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 5 David de Villiers, 4 Nico Breedt, 3 Western Province Nel, 2 Adriaan Strauss (captain), 1 Wian du Preez.
Replacements: 16 Richardt Strauss, 17 Coenie Oosthuizen, 18 Izak van der Westhuizen, 19 Hendro Scholtz, 20 Tewis de Bruyn, 21 Louis Strydom, 22 JW Jonker.
Referee: Ian Smith (Australia)
Assistant referees: Dilbert November, Cobus Wessels
TMO: Johann Meuwesen
@carol – Do they show this afternoons cricket in England. It will end quite late tonight so we might have a lively chat then.
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Oh and by the way, reading up a bit… a friendly request… leave the Voldy people well alone now, please… we are on our own here, our own masters of what happens here.
No need to refer to them… we have had lots walking over to our site without referring back, exactly because of the example of simple fun and rugby banter we set here.
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I have been waiting on you.
Mooi man, nice to see all you EC Southern Kings joining up… : :evilgrin:
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Lyk my die Black Caps sit ‘n goeie score op teen Srilanka.
Siende dat Srilanka gewen het teen die Proteas hoop ek maar die Black Caps wen.
@Pietman – Hellllloooooo Pietman and anyone else online
@grootblousmile – Ek is nogal bekomerd oor die Bulle se momentum. Gister was maar erg met rukke en stote.
PS kort n ruskans ek hoop hy en Matfield word Saterdag gerus
Think Bluebeard has a very valid point and agree with him.
@grootblousmile –
Oops!
:quiet:
@Treehugger –
Hello Boomdrukkertjie!
339@superBul – Pedrie Wanneburg MOET nou retire…. hy is oneffektief verby, speel eerder daai skewe-neus Namibier met die bos hare.
Dewalt Potgieter beindruk my… sal nie omgee as hy met sy goeie hande en hoë werksverrigting No 8 speel nie.
Pierre het gedurig agteruit beweeg gister…
Matfield was besonder stil.
Ons het groot guns nodig teen die Kwas, komende naweek, ons moet hulle nie onderskat nie.
In die laaste wedtryd teen die Leopards kan ons so 2 of 3 ouens rus…
Ons MOET 9 punte vat uit die volgende 2 games !
@grootblousmile – 337
Hoop NZ wen en bring daai Nett Run rate kwaai af van Sri Lanka, dan kan ons dit selfs maak as ons nie sleg verloor nie.
341@Pietman – Ek weet julle het goed bedoel… maar ek dink ons kan maar die mob op Voldy met rus laat.
@Pietman – Lol What do think of what Bluebeard had to say.
i always thought the guy that scores a try gets all the glory and then you have players on the field that do so much defending and helping towards tries all the time and dont really get any of the credit.
I might vanish from time to time my signal is good but still the edge or gprs goes or takes a few minutes to send through
I will put up a Thread for the Proteas / Pommies Cricket game later…
@grootblousmile –
I hear you, and I will abide by your ruling….and next time I talk about the Voldy mob I will do it English…. if you get my drift 😀
@grootblousmile – 343
Ja Pedrie speel nie meer lekker nie, hulle kan hom nou maar te koop aanbied.
Iemand het gister gese Victor is beseer hy spring glad nie, wonder of dit sy manier van rus is?
Maar ek dink Griekwas kan gevaarlik op droe land wees, daar in die modderpoel het hulle gedink dis n siek joke om onder in Kimberly se gat te speel. Hulle het nou regtig deurmekaar gelyk in die reen.
Hello OLD :island: blue eyes
@Treehugger – ok that was for GBS. The old thing 🙂
@superBul – Die Bulle moet Loftus goed nat maak.
Hulle speel mos daar?
Gaan n bietjie :cake: eet. Tot dan.
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@The-Pill – Ja hul beter want ek hoor die WP gaan tot die semi nie weer gras sny nie, net met die trekker oorry.
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@grootblousmile – so are your eyes really that blue or did you touch up your photo
358@Treehugger – Really that blue…
357@superBul – Kyk heel regs, heel bo op elke Thread en Bladsy en die Home Page is ‘n nuwe feature net beskikbaar vir ons 4 Administrators, pos gou ‘n comment daar !
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