Bulls (10) 13 / Stormers (12) 23 (Final Score)
The Bulls hosted the DHL Stormers at Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria at 19:10 SA Time. This was the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1, SHD and M-Net on TV in SA.
The Stormers were deserved winners, not so much for their attack but for keeping better dicipline and dogged defence.
Scorers:
Bulls: 2 Penalties & 1 Conversion Morné Steyn, 1 Try Bjorn Basson
Stormers: 6 Penalties Peter Grant, 1 Try Bryan Habana
Teams:
Bulls: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Jaco Pretorius, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Dewald Potgieter, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 1 Gurthrö Steenkamp.
Replacements: 16 Gary Botha, 17 Rossouw de Klerk, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Danie Rossouw, 20 Derick Kuün, 21 Francois Hougaard, 22 Francois Brummer.
Stormers: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Danie Poolman, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Jean de Villiers (captain), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Peter Grant, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Francois Louw, 6 Pieter Louw, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Rynhardt Elstadt, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Deon Fourie, 1 Wicus Blaauw.
Replacements: 16 Ethienne Reynecke, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 De Kock Steenkamp, 19 Nick Koster, 20 Ricky Januarie, 21 Gary van Aswegen, 22 Juan de Jongh.
Referee: Keith Brown (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Glen Jackson (New Zealand), Phillip Bosch (South Africa)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
VRYSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
Goooooooo Bulls!
Ahhhh, I see the Cheetahs won convincingly, good for SA but extremely badddddd for my Bru.
Enjoy the game, have to go feed the hungry masses.
French warplanes have fired on Libyan armed forces. Hier kom groot kak.
1st scrum a strong one for Ireland and they got a penalty from it, come on England. Will be able to keep an eye on the Bulls score online here thanks Gbs, GO BULLS!
Players out on the field… time for action
Game on!
Peter Grant kick straight into touch, scrum middle spot
Ball spurts out of the mouth of the scrum, Stormers grab it… arghhh and penalty against Bulls, Grant will line up for posts
Stormers 3 / 0
Another Stormers penalty and from the resultant lineout the Bulls get a freekick
Bulls penalty… it’s a loooong one, Morne takes aim from inside his half
Afternoon GBS, I am watching Ireland v England, currrently score standing at Ireland 6 – o England…
Had the distance but missed just to the right
13@ Blue Bird:
Hello, keep those scores coming as they change
Tight head for the Stormers from a scrum
2 scrums for the Bulls, both went awry…
Bulls scrum, this one works… but Bjorn knocks
Stormers get their own ball off the scrum… Bulls better cut their errors, and quickly so
Hi folks, heart Stormers but head says Bulls…
Now a skew throw by Chiliboy into the lineout… dammit
Stormers hard on attack, 3m out…. penalty advantage to the Stormers
Eaaaaaasy one to slot
@ grootblousmile:
Fark, O’Driscoll scores a try…..BUT…..one moment…….
Stormers 6 / 0 after 14 minutes
There was a forward pass to they are just allowed a penalty kick so Ireland 9 – 0 England
Demmit, have to do some serious work at the office, no time to watch, will pop in here now and then……..die tille moet rol hier innie woestyn!
Bulls scrum now better… Stormers defence bloody good, Bulls knock, Stormers scrum, right to the left of where I am sitting
Lots of pressure on Grant as he kicks out, Bulls attacking lineout… Spies knocks, Stormers run.
What’s with all the Bulls errors????
Toby Flood misses his change to get England on the board!!
Another Irish try for Tommy Bowe…… 14 – 0
Bulls kick away possession… arghhh
Now another Stormers penalty, kickable…. middle of the field, about 40m out
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