Two wins from a possible four gives the South African team a 50% win result for this weekend. This is how i rate this weekends rugby.
IRB Sevens in Adelaide 8/10
South Africa played well to reach the final against New Zealand. Both teams scored 4 tries and the difference was the perfect kicking of the NZ team. South Africa played a good game and although coming second is not the result they wanted they can feel proud of their achievement.
Blues vs Cheetahs 8/10
The best performance by a South African team was from the Cheetahs. You make your own luck but you dont need the Referee to dish out lucky breaks to the other team. The Cheetahs fought until the end and a draw was a great possibility in this game.
Huricannes vs Bulls 7/10
Bulls played a on/off game on Saturday. Started on, switched off in the middle part and on again in the last quarter. playing this way will cost them many more games this year. The positive is , they played a bit of rugby this time. If they can build up from here they might restore their supporters confidence in them.
Lions vs Reds 6/10
Lions did much better than most expected. Before someone bites my head off , i base my statement on who picked what on Superbru, Average Reds pick Reds by 13, Picks for Reds 56917 (77.56%). By losing this game again by such a small margin the Lions showed us the right signs.
Sharks 4/10 vs Stormers 7/10
The Sharks blew so many great chances one tends to make the assumption that they lost to them-self. The Stormers were in their face from the first scrum. That first penalty at scrum time set the trend for the game. The Stormers look like the most complete team in SA at the moment. Their defense is absolutely brilliant. They only conceded 4 tries in 6 games so far.
Players
My rating of the best players
10/10 None
9/10 None
8/10 Schalk Burger, although he went a bit quiet in the middle he came back at the end.
7/10 Peter Grant, Sarel Pretoruis, Ryno Elstadt, Wilhelm Steenkamp
6/10 Coenie Oosthuizen, Wynand Olivier, Dean Greyling, Jaco Taute, Meyer Bosman, Duane Vermuelen, Willem Alberts, Deon Fourie
5 –
You pick that , let us see who is nominated as the worst performer.
What Supersport said about the Cheetahs.
In terms of possession and scoring opportunities the Blues deserved to win by that score, but the Cheetahs can also consider themselves unfortunate.
The Cheetahs should not have been down 14-3 at the break, with just a Sias Ebersohn penalty on the stroke of halftime cancelling out tries for the Blues from Joe Rococoko and Stephen Brett.
It could so easily have been the Cheetahs leading as the second Blues try was gift-wrapped for them by a Cheetahs breakdown on attack, and the South African team also had an excellent counter-attack try disallowed because Blues flyhalf Brett was held back on the other end of the field when chasing down a kick before the Cheetahs started their counter.
It was the correct ruling by the touch-judge, but with none of the players on the field being aware that the call was going to be made, it was still an instance where the Cheetahs showed just what they are capable of when they get their hands on the ball and are able to attack from long-range.
If that was an instance where they were unlucky, there were also times when the Cheetahs made it more difficult for themselves, and there was a kickable penalty that was tapped instead of kicked at goal when there was seven points in it and the Cheetahs should have been looking to just get onto the scoreboard.
At the start of the year the Stormers players and management identified the two games against the two teams that beat them in the big finals last year, the Vodacom Bulls and the Sharks, as the ones they needed to win to make a statement about their own mental growth and ability this year to go one better than 2010.
The Crusaders, who were not in action this weekend, have probably now emerged as the team to beat in this competition, and not the champion Bulls or the Sharks, but right now the Stormers have done everything that has been asked of them. Not only have they won away games against their big South African conference rivals to put themselves in the pound seats in that competition within a competition, but they also head the overall log from the Crusaders and Reds.
diink fdp moet ok agt wees as ook hougaard
Agge nee man! Die rugby was shit die naweek. Kom ons praat eerder krieket…
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