WP (17) 42 / 6 (6) Blue Bulls (Final Score)
DHL Western Province and the Vodacom Blue Bulls did battle in the Currie Cup, Premier Division at Newlands, Cape Town at 19:10 SA Time.
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1, SHD & M-Net on TV in SA.
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Scorers:
WP:
- Penalties – Demetri Catrakilis (3)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Nic Groom (1), Deon Fourie (1), Marcel Brache (1), Damian de Allende (1), JP du Plessis (1)
- Conversions – Demetri Catrakilis (4)
Blue Bulls:
- Penalties – Louis Fouché (2)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – 0
- Conversions – 0
Teams:
Western Province: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 JP du Plessis, 12 Marcel Brache, 11 Ederies Arendse, 10 Demetri Catrakilis, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Jebb Sinclair, 7 Rynhardt Elstadt, 6 Deon Fourie (captain), 5 De Kock Steenkamp, 4 Don Armand, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Siyabonga Ntubeni, 1 Deon Carstens.
Replacements: 16 Steven Kitshoff, 17 Brok Harris, 18 Wilhelm van der Sluys, 19 Helmut Lehmann, 20 Nic Groom, 21 Damian de Allende, 22 Kurt Coleman.
Blue Bulls: 15 Clayton Blommetjies, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 Johann Sadie, 12 Jan Serfontein, 11 JJ Engelbrecht, 10 Louis Fouché, 9 Ruan Snyman, 8 Dewald Potgieter (captain), 7 CJ Stander, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Grant Hattingh, 4 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Willie Wepener, 1 Dawie Steyn.
Replacements: 16 Robbie Coetzee, 17 Frik Kirsten, 18 Cornell Hess, 19 Warwick Tecklenburg, 20 Rudi Paige, 21 Lionel Cronje, 22 Jurgen Visser.
Referee: Lourens van der Merwe
Assistant referees: Jonathan Kaplan, Marc van Zyl
TMO: Johann Meuwesen
296 @ grootblouBokJan:
The bit that I watched thought Dean and Scarra were the best.
Felt great for Scarra getting mom, especially after he said it was great because his mother for the first time came to watch him. Well something like that.
Okay now out of here.
299 @ fender:
Cheers Kitaartjie
OK, I’ll switch off the lights….
Oh, and particularly bad on the Blue Bulls side was Dawie Steyn, Ruan Snyman, Louis Fouché, Jan Serfontein, Johann Sadie, JJ Engelbrecht…. more so than the rest.
Think the Blue Bulls best backline going forward for the rest of the Currie Cup, will be Rudi Paige (9), Louis Fouché (10), Clayton Blommetjies (11), Francois Venter (12), Ulrich Beyers (13), Akona Ndungane (14), Jugen Visser (15).
Sadie, JJ Engelbrecht and Ruan Snyman brings NOTHING to the party… zero!
How did Engelbrecht EVER make the Bokke side?
Just got home now. Watched 2 very entertaining games at Twickenham. Wasps were unlucky not to win vs Harlequins. And Sarries moering the Paddies. Also very proud of my Province boys, rewarding my loyalty on Superbru. I think this may have been the highest points difference win vs Bulls ever? What was the one in 2003 at Newlands?
Gbs, got to agree with you on JJ. His selection at this stage of his career has baffled most people.
So pleased with my team, they really played well.
This was against my expectations I must add, WP without Siya and Duanne, and with the midfield of Brache (who Ive never rated) and Du Plessis against Serfontein and Sadie, and with Scarra at hooker (who is a fantastic player in the loose, in the DFourie mold, but I’ve never seen him throw a ball in straight) and a very mediocre lock pairing, and our first choice front row on the bench. Oh yes and with Joe out too. In fact I even bet on the Bulls in the Superbru picks.
OK. That was a little embarrassing.
Brache played really well. Created lots of opportunities for guys running off him. Scarra threw (mostly) in straight. The locks found their line out balls and drove extremely well in the rolling malls. Scarra and Deon played like they were possessed with ball in hand.
Our wings ran really well, and their workrate was impressive.
Karl Kikilus played like the player that GBS insists he is (although I’m not yet convinced). He kicked really well and kep the scoreboard ticking over. A couple of misses in the 2nd half but by then it didn’t matter.
So humble (yet proud at the same time) pie for me this morning.
2nd on the log, and leading in the bonus point tally. Who would have thunk it.
Well played manne!
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