SANZAR have announced the dates and times for the Super Rugby Semi-Finals, to be played in the second week of the 2012 Super Rugby Finals Series.
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The Stormers, South African Conference winners and top-of-the-table finisher after the regular season, will host the lowest ranked winner from the Super Rugby Qualifying matches this weekend on Saturday 28 July.
The Chiefs, New Zealand Conference winners and second overall on the points table, will host the highest ranked winner on Friday 27 July.
The Super Rugby Finals Series sees the franchises who finished first (Stormers) and second (Chiefs) take a break this weekend, while the Super Rugby Qualifiers will see the Crusaders (4th, wildcard) hosting the Bulls (5th, wildcard), while the Reds (3rd, Australian Conference winners) welcome the Sharks (6th, wildcard).
The match officials and opponents will be announced after the Qualifying matches have been completed this weekend.
Super Rugby Semi-Finals (Week Two of SRFS) dates and kickoff times
Semi Final 1:
Chiefs v highest ranked Super Rugby Qualifier winner
Friday 27 July 2012
Waikato Stadium, Hamilton, New Zealand
Kick Off Times: 19:35 NZ Time, 09:35 SA Time, 07:35 GMT
Semi Final 2:
DHL Stormers vs lowest ranked Super Rugby Qualifier winner
Saturday 28 July 2012
Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa
Kick Off Times: 17: SA Time, 15:05 GMT, Sunday 29 July 03:05 NZ Time, Sunday 29 July 01:05 NSW/ACT
Stormers vs Crusaders and the Chiefs vs the Reds
1 @ Spooony:
Damn, that might just result in an all New Zealand Final….
stormers vs sharks
and
crusaders vs chiefs (unfortunately the bulls dont have the best of records against the crusaders in nz … think their last win there was in 1996 when the crusaders ended last … hope that the bulls can change that around this week though) goooooooooo bulls!!!
@ grootblousmile:
Ja. Die Stormers vaar uiters kak teen daai skelme eye rakers van Christchurch. Hoop net die Bulls bliksem vir McCaw en Carter vir ons. Waar is Bakkies as jy hom nodig het?
Crusaders : 1. Wyatt Crockett ,2. Corey Flynn , 3. Owen Franks , 4. Luke Romano , 5. Samuel Whitelock , 6. George Whitelock , 7. Matt Todd , 8. Richie McCaw (c) , 9. Andy Ellis , 10. Dan Carter (vc) , 11. Zac Guildford ,12. Ryan Crotty , 13. Robbie Fruean , 14. Adam Whitelock , 15. Israel Dagg
Reserves16. Quentin MacDonald17. Ben Franks18. Tom Donnelly 19. Luke Whitelock 20. Willi Heinz21. Tom Taylor 22. Sean Maitland
Bulls: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Mornè Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies (captain), 7 Dewald Potgieter, 6 Jacques Potgieter, 5 Juandrè Kruger, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 1 Dean Greyling.
Replacements: 16 Willie Wepener, 17 Frik Kirsten, 18 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 19 Deon Stegmann, 20 Jano Vermaak, 21 Louis Fouchè, 22 Francois Venter.
#5
can the bulls pull this one off? i sure hope they can!!
The Bulls got a hiding in the scrums against the Sharks and the Lions. What happen to that mighty Blue Bull scrum?
The Sharks
1. Tendai Mtawarira
2. Bismarck du Plessis
3. Jannie du Plessis
4. Willem Alberts
5. Anton Bresler
6. Keegan Daniel (Captain)
7. Marcell Coetzee
8. Ryan Kankowski
9. Charl McLeod
10. Frederic Michalak
11. Lwazi Mvovo
12. Tim Whitehead
13. Paul Jordaan
14. JP Pietersen
15. Louis Ludik
Replacements
16. Craig Burden
17. Wiehahn Herbst
18. Steven Sykes
19. Jacques Botes
20. Cobus Reinach
21. Meyer Bosman
22. Odwa Ndungane
7 @ Spooony: Dejan Greyling and Werner Kruger happened. But don’t tell the Bulls supporters that their props wouldn’t even make the Stormers side.
Alberts is wasted at lock………………..he should be at 8 with Sykes at 4 and Kanko in Deben.
10 @ Loosehead:
Look we can never start this game without Alberts imo. So having him at lock is not a bad thing at all. We also have to neutralise them in the lineouts. The only was we will do that is playing Kanko at 8 and he has been sublime in that position the past two weeks, especially against the Bulls. Best game he has ever had. Our loosies are working well together. For now really no need to distrupt it.
My only concern is where is J. Marais? Thought he would be on the bench, as not sure if Sykes is match fit or even over his injury 100%.
So Odwa will cover wing and fb it seems and Bosman covers fh and centre. Fine with that.
@ Loosehead:
I hope they have some front rowers on that shopping list that they collected because piling up all the best backline talent is useless if your pack is not up to scratch.
But lets hear from Steve Walsh
On 33 mins: (to De Villiers whilst showing him his tattoo) – “Can you speak Mandirin, Jean? No? Then shut the f^$k up!”
On 51 mins: (to Hartley) – “Who produced The Flaming Lips second album? No, nothing?… … Yellow card.”
On 68 mins: (at the breakdown) – “England… leave it! I want to see if Spies will actually do anything if he is given the ball. Leave it!”
On 71 mins: (to Spies) – ‘Take that f$%king headband off your head son. You’re not fooling anyone. What are you pretending to be? Someone hard? We all know you haven’t been through a “thing”. You’ve just been standing two paces off the ruck pretending to look involved.”
spooony @ 13
maybe this is what spies is doing at the ruck? 
lmao
loved the one @ 71 mins!!
….
ou gbs sit vroegoggend en suip op sy plaashuis se stoep. sien hy hoe gaan die bobbejane aan in sy landerye.
sê gbs: “ja vreet maar, vreet maar. 1 vd dae suip ek dié plaas onder julle gatte uit!!”
..
ok. i’m out!! cheers everyone!!
hey gbs
will you open a new thread for the cricket starting today?
see on cricinfo that the game will start at 12:15 (our time)!! come-on boytjies … bliksem hulle!!
england won toss … will bat first
..
England 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Ian Bell, 6 Ravi Bopara, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Tim Bresnan, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 Stuart Broad, 11 James Anderson
South Africa 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Alviro Petersen, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers (wk), 6 Jacques Rudolph, 7 JP Duminy, 8 Vernon Philander, 9 Dale Steyn, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Imran Tahir
wicket!!!! strauss OUT!! 0/1
yeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
england 70/1 at lunch …. come-on guys …. wickets please!!!
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