Bulls (13) 43 / Chiefs (20) 27 (Final Score)

The Bulls hosted the Chiefs at Loftus Versveld, Pretoria at 17:05 SA Time. This was the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1, SHD & M-Net on TV in SA.

After a shocker of a first half, the Bulls came out of the blocks in the second half to score 3 converted tries in 9 minutes, resulting in the fact that they built up a good lead and causing the Chiefs to play catch-up from thereon in.

They solidified their lead with great goal kicking by Morné Steyn and denied the Chiefs a single Log point.

Mission accomplished fot this week, now every week needs to be like this, a 5-pointer!

Scorers:

Bulls: 1 Drop Goal & 4 Conversions & 4 Penalties Morné Steyn, 2 Tries Wynand Olivier, 1 Try Gerhard van den Heever, 1 Try Pierre Spies

Chiefs: 3 Conversions & 2 Penalties Stephen Donald, 1 Try Mils Muliaina, 1 Try Brendon Leonard, 1 Try Fritz Lee

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Teams:

Bulls: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 Stephan Dippenaar, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Danie Rossouw, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Gary Botha, 1 Dean Greyling.
Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 Rossouw de Klerk, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Derick Kuün, 20 Francois Brummer, 21 Bjorn Basson, 22 BGerhard van den Heever.

Chiefs: 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Lelia Masaga, 13 Richard Kahui, 12 Dwayne Sweeney, 11 Save Tokula, 10 Stephen Donald, 9 Brendon Leonard, 8 Fritz Lee, 7 Scott Waldrom, 6 Liam Messam, 5 Romana Graham, 4 Craig Clarke, 3 Ben Afeaki, 2 Aled de Malmanche, 1 Toby Smith.
Replacements: 16 Hika Elliot, 17 Sona Taumalolo, 18 Isaac Ross, 19 Sam Cane, 20 Tawera  Kerr-Barlow, 21 Tim Nanai-Williams, 22 Jackson Willison.

Referees: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Tiaan Jonker (South Africa), Marc van Zyl (South Africa)
TMO: Gerrie Coetzee (South Africa)