Bulls to feel Blue
30 Mar 2006
The Bones have been rolled and it is not good news for the Bully Boys. But those in Cape Town can smile. Perth will be kinder to the Stormers than Newlands has been this year.
With the bones having worked their way to 71 percent after a shocking start to the season, this weekend presents some of the trickier match-ups in the Vodacom Super 14 where form won’t necessarily be the only factor in determining results.
There are such things in sport as bogey teams and there are some results that can’t be explained. How the hell do you explain AJ Venter never having been on the winning side of a Sharks versus rubble Reds showdown? That’s just one example.
The Bully Boys, if form is the yardstick, should smash the Bumbling Blues. But it isn’t going to happen. Form will go out of the window and sheer desperation on the hosts’ part will see them upstage the Bulls’ charge for a play-off.
The Bulls were hardly rampant against the Farce in Perth and while the team spoke up the fact that they won a game overseas, the fact that the Bulls looked so vulnerable in the last quarter will have given the Blues some hope.
The Blues have been shocking this year, but they’re at home and they have shown themselves capable of stepping it up a gear, if only rarely this season.
The bones are backing the Blues to win by 1-12.
In Sydney the Waratahs will confirm their class and the Cheetahs will showcase their vulnerability. Victory to the Tahs by 12 plus.
And so we go to Perth where the Stormers won’t make history and give the Force their first win in the competition’s history. It won’t be convincing from the men in black and I fancy them to only win by five, meaning there will be a first ever bonus point for the Farce.
The Stormers certainly don’t have the championship flavour to their squad that they had eight weeks ago, but a team with Schalk Burger and the like in it should never be losing to the Farce hopefuls and pensioners. 1-12
In other action, expect the Sharks to triumph by 15 in Durban and the Crusaders to sneak a titanic battle against the Hurricanes, a team that traditionally has made them struggle in the competition. Saders by 1-12.
The other match will see the Hicks from Hamilton have too much in boring old Hickville for those southern suckers, the Highlanders. Hicks by 1-12.
Friday
31 March Blues v Bulls Auckland
Blues 1-12
March Waratahs v Cheetahs Sydney
Tahs 12 plus
March Western Force v Stormers Perth
Stormers 1-12
Saturday
1 April Hurricanes v Crusaders
Saders by 1-12
Chiefs v Highlanders
Hicks by 1-12
Sharks v Reds
Sharks by 12 plus
283 Comments
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30 Mar 2006, 17:24 pm
wpw, en nog so 500 000 ander Pretorianers…
30 Mar 2006, 17:26 pm
lol katman, why are they called frontloaders, were they like muskets?
30 Mar 2006, 17:26 pm
Katman,
ontspan, ons haal n spanfoto van die Cats uit en dan lag ons eers ons gatte af…
30 Mar 2006, 17:28 pm
If the Bulls are gonna make the top 4, then they have to start scoring tries and getting a few bonus points.
To get into the top 4, you have to win 80% of your games, and score bonus points – that’s most important.
Bulls backs have to start running more – and scoring tries – and it doesn’t help to save the tryscoring for the games against the Stormers, Reds, etc – they have to be able to score tries against the groot manne too – else they can pack up and go jol in Hatfield.
30 Mar 2006, 17:28 pm
cab,
Ja, muskets. jy laai hom mos van voor af. Nie soos die Stormers ondersteuners wat van agter af gelaai word nie…
30 Mar 2006, 17:29 pm
LMAO
30 Mar 2006, 17:30 pm
wpw,
please post a rugby comment and i’ll respond. if not bye.
30 Mar 2006, 17:30 pm
Keo,
I think you’ve got the bulls game wrong. Bulls to win by 5. As for the Stormers….I’m not to sure either.
30 Mar 2006, 17:31 pm
cab,
ongelukkig het die boere nie al Mausers by Bloedrivier gehad nie, soos by Amajuba. Dan sou wpw nie nou so lastig gewees het nie…
30 Mar 2006, 17:32 pm
staal, los die gamiet. jy mors jou tyd.
30 Mar 2006, 17:32 pm
Stan
Jy is te skerp.
30 Mar 2006, 17:34 pm
staal, want do you wanna talk about? Rugby…
OK, i think that the Bulls have a good team, they are a very strong team especially amnongst the forwards(we all know this) but they need to be more creative… I know many Bulls fans dont agree but if they play Steyn, Olivier and Habana and give Roets license to run from the back, they will stand a great chance of winning the S14. They are also missing Leonard and need a some1 to replace him… I think P3 will do well as captain as he is their most consistent player… Matfield, we will have to wait and see but i doubt it very much…
30 Mar 2006, 17:35 pm
Stan,
jy’s dalk reg – mens kannie iemand verander wat nie wil verander nie.
30 Mar 2006, 17:35 pm
the same might be said for the boers and the pommie gattling gun.
30 Mar 2006, 17:36 pm
stan, dit was in God se plan dat ek hier is vandag…
30 Mar 2006, 17:38 pm
staal, praat maar n bietjie met jou maat stan oor verander… dit is iets wat hy nie graag wil doen nie…
30 Mar 2006, 17:40 pm
hahahah nice wishfull thinking wpw but ……. Hougie is on top form he an point machine and when he gets his kicks firing at the Blues….. oooo behold the furry of the kicking … tackling Bull.
All shall shout Hougi … Hougi
30 Mar 2006, 17:41 pm
**** me wpw, i am almost impressed!
sewe sinne sonder om kak te praat oor velkleur, die vorm van jou neus of die hartseer van apartheid.
Doen so voort, dalk is daar hoop vir jou!
30 Mar 2006, 17:42 pm
Grappie,
3 ooms sit en gesels oor hulle siektes.
Die een van 60 jaar oud kla dat hy 7 uur elke oggend as hy opstaan hom dood druk maar hy kan nie pee nie.
Die een van 70 jaar oud kla dat hy 7 uur elke oggend as hy opstaan hom dood druk dat sy ambeie op die grond hang maar hy kry nie “n drie gedruk nie†want sy rioolwerke is nie lekker nie..
Die oom van 80 jaar se nee wat manne laat ek julle vertel van my probleme.
Elke oggend om 7 uur pee ek soos ‘n transport os – die skuim staat eintlik so.
My riool werke gaan so erg ek voel of my kop induik.
Die ooms van 60 en 70 vra vir hom toe of hy nou “brag�?
Nee man julle verstaan nie sê hy….
Ek word eers 8 uur wakker.
30 Mar 2006, 17:42 pm
No cab, not fluent and neither grew up on a farm.
I did not translate it all myself, my Tswana friend help who’s Xhosa isn’t that fluent either but between the 2 of us I think we got it.
Zulu and Xhosa are more similar than Afrikaans and Dutch, so if you know the one you could partially understand the other.
Then again the slang Zulu used by especially the younger ones have many Afrikaans words like niks, niemand, geld, etc. I always tease them on why they cannot invent their own words and they always joke that they never had for example tables (e-tafula) before whites came along.
Do yourself a favour and what a bit of the SABC 1 programs with subtitles, you’ll get the idea.
Not the pure language though, but then again who does speak any of their pure languages.
30 Mar 2006, 17:45 pm
wpw,
dis waar dat jy deel van die skeppers se plan is.
So is muskiete, malaria, klitsgras en kakiebos.
Ons betaal nou nog vir Adam se balhorigheid. Want die bliksem wou mos nie luister nie. Amper soos die vroue in die Vuildriehoek…
30 Mar 2006, 17:50 pm
hmm,
yes they did seem to have overlapping words, but thought xhosa had more click sounds. Dont really get to see much SABC (in London), but quite liked some of the talk shows when i went back last year. They had this one presented by young black girl who was very lively and intelligent, a good program all about the yanks and iraq.
SA seems to have become quite a reflective country in many ways. In the old days all you’d have to look forward to on SABC1 was vytig/vyftig.
30 Mar 2006, 17:51 pm
or noot vir noot…which i believe still has a strong following up north, my ouma is a big fan, but i dont understand a ****** liedjie.
30 Mar 2006, 18:00 pm
Tsotsie, If you’re still around could you send me that there mail. bluecap3@hotmail.com
30 Mar 2006, 18:34 pm
cab,
Did not know that you lived in London, sorry man. Seems on this blog that you an outsider if you live in SA.
Some language info:
People speaking Khosain languages are the oldest surviving inhabitants of the territory of South Africa. Most of today’s black South Africans belong to the Bantu language group, which migrated south from central Africa, settling in the Transvaal region. The Nguni, ancestors of Zulu and Xhosa, occupied most of the eastern coast by 1500.
(The now known as Xhosa took more to the San than taking over I guess hence the more clicking sounds)
The AmaZulu believe that they are the direct descendants of the patriarch Zulu, who was born to a Nguni chief in the Congo Basin area. In the 16th century the Zulu migrated southward to their present location, incorporating many of the customs of the San, including the well-known linguistic clicking sounds of the region.
Under their leader, Shaka Zulu (1787-1828), the Zulu conquered most of the territory between the Drakensburg Mountains and the sea (now KwaZulu-Natal).
King Mpande allowed the British extensive control over his peoples. By the time he died in 1872, the Zulu had had enough of the English invasion. Cetewayo, Mpande’s replacement, tried vainly for six years to avoid a confrontation with the British, yet in 1879 war erupted. Although the Zulu initially experienced some success, the British army eventually prevailed. In less than six months, Cetewayo was exiled to England, and the Zulu kingdom was divided to the British advantage.
So I guess all SA’s with exception of the San are settlers and if we want to call the Afrikaners Dutch then I suppose we need to call the Zulu and Xhosa Congolians (the other name for Zulu is Nguni)
And the Afrikaner is not actually only Dutch, more detail following above:
In subsequent decades, French Huguenot refugees, the Dutch, and Germans began to settle the cape. Collectively, they form the Afrikaner segment of today’s population.
And it goes on to say to a lesser extent Portuguese, Greek, Swedish, Denmark, etc. Quite a mix the Afrikaners. Have heard Dutch can hardly make it out though.
30 Mar 2006, 18:59 pm
Hmmm
yip, i’m sorry too at times, especially during winter.
Thought the bantu farmers actually orginally came from further up the west-african originally, i.e. in the ***** region. The zulus were incredibly tough bunch, especially Sharka’s impis, apparantly Sharka’s sadistic tendencies stemmed from being bullied as a boy, but the Brits and Boers can count themselves lucky as having superior technology, since the Zulus were formidable warriors, fearless, superfit and ferocious.
Yip, the Hugenots were actually an unusually creative section of European society, perhaps the most creative. Have them to think for our wine-making and many other skills. Apparantly account to up to 1/4 of the afr background, undoubtedly where names like DeVilliers, Pienaar, etc come from.
Fascinatingly rich society and history SA has, much of it still being discovered. Right am off, spot you later.
30 Mar 2006, 22:06 pm
Burning of the feet,does set one’s mind
wondering about setting off
to sunny, south africa.
30 Mar 2006, 22:07 pm
WPW,
Whose Poepoel’s Wet.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
31 Mar 2006, 06:51 am
Cab and hmmmm get a f@#$%ing room this is a rugby blog not a history site. Bulls by 15.
31 Mar 2006, 06:51 am
4/6 for Keo this time.
Provincialism clouding the thinking again.
Bulls to beat Blues
Force to beat Stormers comprehensively, with good running play all round
Otherwise I agree.
31 Mar 2006, 06:55 am
Any one heard from tt he is keeping a very low profile maybe he is scared of the game today.Go dem bulls.
31 Mar 2006, 11:16 am
pompies,
how about dem bulls?
1 Apr 2006, 06:33 am
Bulls hit in Auckland.
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