Deans expects rampaging Bulls
15 May 2006
Crusaders coach Robbie Deans is expecting a “totally” different game from the Bulls in Saturday’s Vodacom Super 14 semi-final than their comfortable win in the round-robin match.
The Crusaders beat the Bulls 37-17 in Pretoria after they had suffered their first loss of the season a week earlier to the Stormers. “There’s no way we’ll get through this fixture like we did in the last encounter with them,” he told the New Zealand Press Association. “It will be a totally different contest.”
Deans is expecting more of the rampaging type of game they played in beating the Stormers 43-10 in Cape Town to steal a semi-final berth from the Sharks. “That’s an indicator as to what they’ll bring here,” he said.
He dismissed travel dislocation and jetlag as factors that could possibly be in the Crusaders’ favour. “It’s not relevant at play-offs where it’s ‘do-or-die’. The adrenalin carries you,” he said. “The games go very fast and fatigue won’t be an issue.”
In the other semi-final, the Hurricanes host the NSW Waratahs in Wellington on Friday.
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16 May 2006, 11:21 am
a win is a win boet
16 May 2006, 11:33 am
Shot
Best of luck
All of you’s are going to need it
16 May 2006, 11:55 am
I prefer an inbetween game plan:
we can’t run at all costs as the Saders will capitalise on mistakes
we also cannot simply play 10-man rugby as that has been figured out
we have to play to our strenghts but also surprise them with well-drilled and executed other tactics
16 May 2006, 15:16 pm
Shot…your memory is very flat! 3 seasons ago was in 2004. Where were the bulls? Where were the stormers? Stormers played in Semi and did it actually well I thought! Bad luck cost us that game! So dont think because you made the semis you are now the best ever! The sharks actually made two finals!!!!
16 May 2006, 21:52 pm
Saterdag is al die bulle, Bokke.
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