The Currie Cup promotion / relegation match between Boland and the Pumas took place today at Boland Park, Wellington. Boland won the match by a whisker, 36 / 35.
The match and the other relegation match showed that there is not much between the bottom 2 Currie Cup Premier Division sides and the top 2 sides in the Currie Cup First Division.
The match see-sawed with both teams leading from time to time, the Boland snatching their narrow win close to full-time.
The stand-out player for Boland was Zandré Jordaan, who also scored a brace of tries.
The stand-out player for the Pumas was Allister Ketteldas, who also crossed the try-line twice.
Some action Photo’s from the match:
Points:
Boland: 4 Conversions Justin Peach & 1 Penalty, 1 Try Marnus Hugo, 1 Penalty Try, 2 Tries Zandré Jordaan, 1 Try Wendal Weir
Pumas: 2 Conversions & 2 Penalties Braam Pretorius, 1 Try Hyron Thysse, 2 Tries Allister Ketteldas, 1 Try Jacques Coetzee, 1 Try Jaco Bouwer
Teams:
Boland Cavaliers: 15 Justin Peach, 14 Wendal Wehr, 13 PJ Vermeulen, 12 Cornal Hendricks, 11 Deon Scholtz, 10 Elgar Watts, 9 Marnus Hugo, 8 Zandré Jordaan, 7 Hilton Lobberts, 6 Carel Hoffman, 5 George Earl, 4 Rito Hlungwane (captain), 3 Kobie Adriaanse, 2 Harry Vermaas, 1 Janro van Niekerk.
Replacements: 16 Clemen Lewis, 17 Michael de Neuilly-Rice, 18 Angelo Brinkhuys, 19 David Hendricks, 20 Danie van der Merwe, 21 Dewey Swartbooi, 22 Danré Gerber.
Pumas: 15 MJ Mentz, 14 Braam Pretorius, 13 Shaun Venter, 12 Hyron Thysse, 11 Allister Ketteldas, 10 Tiaan Marx, 9 Jacques Coetzee, 8 Doppies le Roux, 7 Pieter Meyer, 6 Jaco Bouwer, 5 Marius Coetzer, 4 Eduaan van der Walt, 3 Ashley Buys, 2 Hannes Franklin (captain), 1 Ronnie Uys
Replacements: 16 Dee-Jay Terblanche, 17 Dawie Steyn, 18 Savage van Heerden, 19 Corné Steenkamp, 20 Martin Sithole, 21 Hendrik van der Nest, 22 Ashwin Scott
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan
Assistant referees: Joey Salmans, Marc van Zyl
@ 52 lol probably Jaco Bouwer.
Huge cloud burst here, my windows are now clean. lol. But no signal, so need to know whats happening in the rugby when it starts again.
Signal back Kavaliers 29 Pumas 27
No scores yet in the 2nd half
Try Allister Ketteldas for Pumas
Pumas 32 / 29
Grootblou…jy het darem maar mooi oe jong 🙂
67@ Modder Fokker – Hey… gedra jou, al is dit sleg !
rofl
Wens dit was al volgende naweek…verveel my dood
Yellow for Boland player…. Harry Vermaas
bos otter if you have a cell phone take a photo of yourself and email it in then you can see the photos and see his preeeetty blue eyes. Thats what i did.
Pumas 35 / 29
Treehugger… I did just that 🙂
nice charge down that.
Then i am off to ave a gawk.
Farking stalkers… hehehe
The only game I can watch atm is London Irish vs Leicester 9/3 for the Irish
Try Wendel Weir for Boland
Groot…jy al daai reply button ge-fix?
ag demmit…eki raak nou sommer jaloers….hoog tyd ek terug trek SA toe.
Boland 36 / Pumas 35
@ 77 hey !!! a girl has got to have some pleasures in life.
otter is that a spook and diesel i see in your hand.
An where is every one this is rgby day.!
Come on Pumas man, I want you to win… and time’s running out
otter- where are you ? and you not missing much with this game
The Pumas do look the better team, but whats with that huge backwards pass and then some more.
Tree….what the hell is a “spook and diesel”
I have been in London for the last 10 years. The pic of me was taken last year in JHB visiting friends
1 minute 30 seconds left… Boland will probably win
Last scrum of the match… now or never Pumas
Hahahahaha spook and diesel is brandy and coke , well that what the guys at Sodwana used to call it, me i call it yuk.
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