So we were beaten, by the team that adopted the best strategy for the day. Congratulations to all my fellow bloggers who happen to be Bulls. Be sure that this isn’t the end of the rivalry, and the Stormers will come again, stronger, better prepared, and more experienced.
I will never get used to the Vuvuzela noise as it was in the Stadium on Saturday, and without wanting to sound negative, I sincerely hope that the Vuvuzela fad isn’t carried over to Loftus. It doesn’t have a place in rugby, and personally, I will stop attending rugby matches permanently should it become a regular occurrence.
That being said, what everyone said was true, experience has been a major factor, the Stormers came, but they were found wanting. We were behind from early on, having to chase a game, against a fanatic home-crowd, and having 50/50 calls ALL go against one, it would never have been easy.
A few light points…albeit some iffy handling Andries Bekker showed that he meant business, with at least 4 line-out steals, 3 or 4 turnovers and some powerful defence.
Pierre Spies, dissappeared from the game after 25 minutes, and Duane Vermeulen and Francois Louw had exceptional games.
But in the end we lost, it was sad, and I will never understand why we only left our best game for the final 30 minutes.
Again, congatulations Bulls, on a well deserved victory…
90@ Blouste:
Ek het vir Victor gevra… hehehe
Hy sê verseker hou hulle hom permanent!
Ek weet die Stormers supporters hier het nie hulle toys gegooi nie…
Dievolgende vir interessantheid…
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The statistics of the match provided by South Africa’s refereeing boss Andre Watson, make it quite clear there was no “coaching” of the Bulls by referee Joubert at the breakdowns as alleged by Burger, who after the match said that two sets of laws were applied by Joubert.
“After reports in various newspapers and websites I looked at whether there were grounds for the allegations,” said Watson.
“According to the reports Craig Joubert allegedly “coached” the Bulls while the Stormers were simply penalised.
“With that as background, I went through every clip of the match – we have the technology to do so – and came to the following conclusions: “There were 167 rucks in the match. The Stormers took the ball in 85 times and the Bulls did so on 82 occasions. Craig (Joubert) spoke 25 times to the Stormers and 28 times to the Bulls at the breakdowns.
“On not a single occasion did he repeat any warning. He throughout warned both sides only once where it was applicable and then penalised them if the persisted.
“The Bulls were penalised seven times at the breakdowns and the Stormers six times. Every penalty but two, where he penalised immediately, came after warnings to the offending side.”
The statistics were gathered by Watson because Burger, after the game, openly said two sets of rules were applied by referee Joubert in what is widely construed as an act that comes close to accusing the referee of cheating.
Watson would not respond to whether action would be taken against the Stormers captain — and coach — for their utterances.
“That is not my place, its Sanzar’s decision.”
Sanzar’s director in South Africa, Johan Botes, said a decision whether to take the matter further will only be reached on Tuesday.
“At this stage the allegations are just hearsay. We are gathering all the facts and detail and Sanzar will take a decision tomorrow (Tuesday),” Botes said.
Brumbies flyhalf Matt Giteau was fined $5000 after critisising referee Steve Walsh’s handling of their Super 14 match against the Waratahs.
Walsh was replaced as referee for the Brumbies’ following match against the Reds after having been previously appointed to officiate in this fixture
91 @ grootblousmile:
Mooi man !!!!
Blouste
Ek wou my toys gooi, maar dit het geen invloed op die uiteindelike uitslag nie. Joubert was uiters kak, maar in sy verdediging, die Stormers was OOK uiters kak in die eerste helfte.
VanStraaten jou moegoe…Pierre Spies is ‘n kwota speler, uit en klaar, EEN linebtreak in die hele game, verder onsigbaar…
@ The Saint:
Schalck het die Stormers meer gekos as wat baie mense dink.
In plaas van die span lei het hy die heeltyd gemoan !!!
Die ref moes tot op ‘n stadium vir hom se ” jy praat nie so met my nie “…
Terwyl hy oor die ref geworry het, het Steggies lekker amok gemaak.
Sy uitlating aan die einde is myns insiens ook onverskoonbaar.
Hy behoort verskoning te vra….
Spies is goed man, drop dit nou 😉
Hoe k@k was J.Fourie op die dag…Meisiekind het hom lekker sy b!tch gemaak 😆
TheSaint – Die meeste van die Stormer spelers is myths. Hulle praat groot maar daar is nie regtig substance nie. Die Bulle aan die anderkant is die definisie van substance, en jy kry dit net deur kompetisies te wen ;).
In die land vannie blindes is Saint koning….
Erken maar net jy hou nie van Spies nie… nie nodig om sy spel af te kraak nie… anyway, die Bulls Loosie combo (met tradisionele fetcher) het die Stormers loosies (sonder tradisionele fetcher) ore aangesit, al 3 van hulle… sulke laaaaang blomkool ore.
Sulk Burger… 👿
92@ Blouste:
Eish, dit laat die Stormers (en veral Burger en Coetzee) in ‘n nog slegter lig na hul gekerm na die wedstryd. Die Stormers het ‘n baie goeie seisoen gehad in vergelyking met vorige jare, iets om oor trots te wee, maar hierdie ge-moanery oor die ref dreig nou om van daardie glans weg te vat. Plaas dat hul dit op die kinnebak vat en begin fokus op die CB. Wat het geword van ‘cowboys don’t cry’ ?
Die volgende spelers is verseker van hulle plekke in die bokspan:
JF
WO
Habana
MS
FDP
Spies
Vic
Bakkies
Smit
Guthro
Snorre wonder nog oor die res.
100@ bdb:
Ek sou nie so seker wees as ek Bakkies was nie…
Ahhhhhhhh, busy receiving photo’s on Mail from Masi, a Photographer for Pretoria News…..
Fark, he says there are 3 mails… first one is 25Mb big…. guess there will be lots of high resolution pics….
@ grootblousmile:
Bakkies sal daar wees, het jy nie SuperRugby gekyk met Snorre oppie 😉
hellooooooooooooooo everyone!!
this bee’s been busy busy busy!!
“At this stage the allegations are just hearsay. We are gathering all the facts and detail and Sanzar will take a decision tomorrow (Tuesday),” Botes said.
Hearsay? We all did hear them say it on live television.
Flok, I received some excellent photo’s now…. damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!
Fark, for the Net I would have to lower the resolution though!
One would be able to see the warts on a flee’s ball bag, their resolution is so high!
ONERB @ 105
care to fill me in, bru?
ive been quite busy today, therefore didnt have much time to browse the net!!
There is quite a difference between the Burger and the Giteau allegations.
At least Giteau was right.
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“Passionate kiss like spider’s web, soon lead to undoing of fly.”
dweeper @ 108
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goodnight everyone!!
enjoy the rest of the evening!!
@ dWeePer:
You crack me up… 😆
Geluk Bulls, julle was Saterdag die beter span oppie veld en het die beste rugby gespeel?
@ KingPaul:
Hoekom die vraag teken aan die einde van jou stelling….
Ons almal weet dit is waar !!!! 😉
114 @ KingPaul:
Dankie in elk geval…
Almal lekker stil hier vandag….
Ek het myself oop gemaak vir groot pakslae… Sou hier gewees het om dit te vat ook !!!
Nou is almal so te se “non-existent” !!!
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes the Bulls are the better side etc, but I think it would have been fantastic to see a game where the ref was not as Murray Mexted would put it “the No1 man”
Thats the essence of the disappointment
The biggest compliment to a ref is when there is hardly any mention of his influence in a game.
Im still amazed as to Craig had to handle the final, what about Mark Lawrence or Jonathan Kaplan.
I/we spotted Joubert out of position several times, which again shows that he not there yet.
Stormers lacked composure on Saturday and Joubert just made it that extra bit harder. Joubert is very much in the Dickenson mould for me, the type of guy/ref that wants to show he is in charge.
That of course speaks of a deficit within
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