Right, the day has finally arrived! Only minutes… and counting to the kick-off of the 2009 Currie Cup Final between the Blue Bulls and Free State Cheetahs.
The Bulls enter this game as firm favourites, at home with a record this year second to none. Sure, they only finished third on the CC log but they have a shining Super 14 title to show for their efforts thus far and they are playing the team that came fourth…and only because of a points difference! If you want to put the house on it you will be mad to go anything else than the Bulls.
And for the Cheetahs, well they have been there, done that, literally! It is not the first time they will be visiting Loftus as underdogs and we know what happened last time it happened. Will they be good enough again and will Ollie be on the sideline with a few cigars to hand out after 80 minutes? Time will tell but I think it will be a toss between the boot of Morne Steyn and the magic of Heinrich Brussow with a little Kaplan to mix it all up and make it a memorable occasion for all.
And the winner…? Will tell you after 80 minutes of rugby but my money on the team that scores the most points! Enjoy!
Blue Bulls: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Francois Hougaard, 13 Jaco Pretorius, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bryan Habana, 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 Derick Kuün, 1 Gurthrö Steenkamp.
Replacements: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Rossouw de Klerk, 18 Danie Rossouw, 19 Pedrie Wannenburg, 20 Heini Adams, 21 Burton Francis, 22 Gerhard van den Heever.
Free State Cheetahs: 15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Lionel Mapoe, 13 Corné Uys, 12 Meyer Bosman, 11 Danwel Demas, 10 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 9 JP Joubert, 8 Ashley Johnson, 7 Frans Viljoen, 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 5 David de Villiers, 4 Nico Breedt, 3 WP Nel, 2 Adriaan Strauss (captain), 1 Wian du Preez.
Replacements: 16 Richardt Strauss, 17 Coenie Oosthuizen, 18 Izak van der Westhuizen, 19 Lukas Floors, 20 Tewis de Bruyn, 21 Louis Strydom, 22 Fabian Juries.
Date: Saturday, October 31
Venue: Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
Kick-off: 17.30 (15.30 GMT)
Predicted weather: Early showers and morning clouds, otherwise mild. High of 25°C and a low of 13°C. The win will be at about 15km/h NE and there’s about a 50 percent chance of precipitation.
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan
Assistant referees: Pro Legoete, Cobus Wessels
TMO: Shaun Veldsman
Points:
Bulls:
4th minute – try Francois Hougaard
Converted – Morne Steyn
14th minute – try Brian Habana
Converted – Morne Steyn
17th minute – try Brian Habana
Converted – Morne Steyn
25th minute – penalty Morne Steyn
40th minute – drop-kick Morne Steyn
43rd minute – penalty Morne Steyn
54th minute – penalty Morne Steyn
67th minute – penalty Morne Steyn
Cheetahs:
31st minute – try Frans Viljoen
Converted – JL Potgieter
35th minute – try Corne Uys
Converted – JL Potgieter
45th minute – try Nico Breedt
Converted – JL Potgieter
48th minute – drop-kick JL Potgieter
Voorspoed aan julle spanne. Ons WP ouens kyk darrem mos vir ‘n slag net Rugby.
Ek support maar vandag die span met die meeste WP bloed in…
GO BULLE!!!!!
Vrystaaaaaaatttt!!!!
Moet dan, hoe dan.
Gee daai maer hond wind, Vrystaaaat!!!!
Ek het ‘n idee hier gaat vandag ‘n baar bubbles gebars word!! Sal maar net moet sien wie dit is? Sommige manne was taamlik grootbek die laaste ruk!
Mirrag KP. Dis dalk n moosa blou bubble…
O ja. Vir Loosehead: VRYSTAAAAAATTTT!!!!
Trup
hehehe, sal maar sien jong. Alles hang af van hoe vinnig hulle Werner Kruger se kop uit sy eie h@l kan kry na elke skrum!! En of Spies en kie kan kompeteer by die losskrums. Agterlangs het die Bulle die flair en die Cheetahs die spoed!!
Maar ek gaan gou nog ‘n dop gooi, hierdie Saldhana lug maak mens dors. Praat weer later.
Cheers Paulus. Enjoy!
18/18 at the moment bewteen the Under 21’a in the final.
Come now Sharkies. Just a drop will do it. Only 8 min to play.
meant between. Typing for me is rubbish…hehe
That missed kick going to cost the U21’s Sharkies. Need to get the kicks over.
18/18 each after full time for the U21’s
Think they going to play 10min each way now.
Go Sharkies.
Okay off to braai now.
Good Luck Bulls and Cheetahs in the CC final. May the best team win.
op die blik-oor hak vrystaaaaat.hart siel en p!@l !
Greetings everyone, fantastic day for rugby. Am now firmly lodged on the the bed with laptop and tv on watching the babies play GO SHARKSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
For the main game may the best tream win.
Hello smallies how are the nerves 🙂
Chit Free State score 🙁
@treehugger die nerves is moertoe en my tv ok
Kom Bulle!
Of dit gaan baie close wees, of die Bulle gaan weghardloop. Hoop dis laasgenoemde!
I’ll give my right pinkie to be at Loftus today!
Hi Daisy, looks like its going to be a blast there. But think of it this way you dont have to worry about parking and you will have a good view of the game and have replays.
Eish Fre State is now creaming us, i read somewhere they play so well against us to show the Shark scouts how good they are so they can come down to Deben 🙂
Yes Treehugger, but it is the vibe that makes up for everything else. It is really depressing to sit here in Canada; no blue & orange jerseys or flags, no Leon Schuster music, no smell of braai’s….
no 19- smallies – moertoe ! what a fab word, will be useing that quite a bit.
Example: the fecking horse kicked me moertoe this morning LOL.
DD Blom, can you at least watch the game?
Shame Daisy i thought you were in SA, well really hope you can watch the game. I know they post links on voldy all the time so you should have a look or wait for Carol she will know.
Swanie. Will see f it is on the net somewhere, otherwise it is on Setanta at 5pm our time, midnight SA time.
Well Free State just beat us (sharks) and those young guys look very happy to have done so. Wonder if that is a sign of things to come. 🙂
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