Brutal Bulls outclass Cheetahs
3 Mar 2012
GARETH DUNCAN writes the Bulls were physically superior in their convincing 51-19 win over the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein.
While it’s still early days in their transition into a new era, the Bulls were dominant in an impressive overall performance. On attack, they were elusive and clinical with their heavies setting the main momentum up front. Their tight five must be credited for their contribution. On defence, they were ferocious in the tackle and their counter-rucking at the breakdown was top class. Flyhalf Morne Steyn also delivered a good kicking display, slotting nine of his 10 goal attempts for a personal haul of 21 points.
The Cheetahs were stronger at the scrums, but they struggled to restrict the rampant visitors, who finished the match with 13 men following Francois Hougaard’s red card for a dangerous tackle and Jacques Potgieter’s yellow card for a shoulder charge. Even with the player advantage, the home side couldn’t trouble the Bulls as they looked disjointed for most parts of the match.
The Bulls’ victory was built on a burly first-half showing, which saw them secure the four-try bonus point before the break.
The first try from Dean Greyling was a controversial one. The player was tackled and the breakdown was formed. He then tried to place the ball over the tryline while on the ground. He achieved this on the second attempt. Referee Craig Joubert asked the TMO for ‘a reason why he couldn’t award the try’ as he saw the ball successfully grounded, and the latter said he found none. However, it was a clear double movement. Why is the TMO not allowed to discuss all the problematic areas, despite the question asked? This decision will be a talking point in the coming week.
You couldn’t doubt the next three tries, though, as the Bulls thrived with the upper hand in the forwards battle. The continuous ball carries did massive damage to the Cheetahs defence, and saw Werner Kruger, Bjorn Basson and Zane Kirchner cross the whitewash. The Cheetahs could only manage four Johan Goosen penalties as the Bulls led 31-12 at the break.
Hougaard was shifted to wing midway through the second half, but that return was shortlived as he was sent off for a tip tackle on Robert Ebersohn. The Cheetahs grabbed a consolation try moments later as Adriaan Strauss powered through.
This did little to halt the Bulls’ march as replacement wing JJ Engelbrecht hit back with an interception try while Kirchner showed great composure for a chip-and-chase score. Potgieter was sent to the sin bin after his hit on Heinrich Brussow late in the match, but by then, the Bulls were already celebrating a compelling victory.
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5 Mar 2012, 01:07 am
Get serious u ain’t got no one riled, you and your big ego-blasting and guess who has the biggest ego, precisely the one who professes nit to have one, your mamoth ego is precisely what fuels the **** on here day in and day out, or what u think it’s everyone else that’s the problem, oh wait that is exactly what u think, catch a goddamn wakeup u deluded ou doos.
You ain’t the be all and end all, in fact you exactly the opposite, u going to go to your grave buried in that little identity u created for yourself cos it makes u feel better and that’s fine but don’t VPN yourself u actually know anything about anything, let alone everything and about everything.
Bladdy fool.
5 Mar 2012, 01:21 am
ah so you the authority on ego too.. as much as you and your self righteous self deluded scientific skeptic cronies are the authority on who or what created the universe.. you dumb dweeb?
without ego none would exist to tell the tale.. so ego is a necessity for survival in this soul less jungle … the entire rigmarole in this universe is all about your dumb deluded ego and how in hell you hope to get rid of it… and that is the sum total of the pantomime… except you reckon its real when I know its not..
you ain’t in a position to lecture me on ego or anything relevant to existence here.. its quite the opposite you dumb deluded twat.. that’s precisely how dumb and deaf you are.. you so filled with your self righteousness you still haven’t figured out wtf you actually hoping to realize about yourself.
5 Mar 2012, 01:31 am
I know fkall about ego, that’s your psychological game, problem is u actually don’t realise the power of your own mind, u do intent on knowing your self, you’ve total lost contact with reality, which is almost certainly exactly how your mind or ego wants it, which is why you are simply unable to see another point of view.
Who are my cronies then? They your fkn buddies.
I gotta be off, you got a plank covering a large part of your vision and astruse fk u think u some sort of great seer or visionary, meanwhile u can’t see the blatantly obvious for all to see.
5 Mar 2012, 01:42 am
if you know fck all about it then who you to come pretend you do? There’s no seer ruminating here .. there is simply one ego tripping up all the holier than thou self righteous others… and you as much a part of the ego tripping fraternity as the rest.. or you reckon that you’re aloof and apart from it because your so called higher education led you to believe you know so?
5 Mar 2012, 01:50 am
Yeah yeah, ain’t the power of bullshit rhetoric and a twisted mind a wonderful thing, whatever u say – it’s everyone else that got it wrong.
5 Mar 2012, 01:52 am
Oh wait so your purpose here is not to discuss rugby, but to be an ego-tripper?
What a fkn hero you are skoppie.
5 Mar 2012, 01:58 am
who’s the every one else? you and who else that got it so fundamentally right?
you got it wrong you idiot.. you think you know wrong from right or reality from illusion.. lemme tell you for an absolute fact.. you do not .
And that is absolutely unequivocal . that much you can take to the bank.. what you know regarding reality from illusion or right from wrong or fact from fiction is absolutely zero.. and that’s an empirical undeniable fact..!
5 Mar 2012, 02:01 am
rugby.. like science .. like religion.. like philosophy .. or whatever else human endeavor for expression of ego.. is all boiled down to opinion.. yours vs someone else’s.. or wtf else is anyone doing debating and arguing the toss here from morning to night.. if it ain’t about being right.. or wrong?
5 Mar 2012, 02:04 am
take it up further with the pseudo scientists .. I’m out
5 Mar 2012, 02:06 am
No let me tell you, that’s just it, there are very few if any facts, I don’t know them but u sure as **** don’t, and that is precisely shy it us you who us deluded and arrogant, not I.
U seem bessotted with my education, can’t remember ever mentioning my education, this is your twisted kak not mine.
5 Mar 2012, 02:22 am
Ou doos got his knickers in a knot because his blue-eyed boy Goosen got schooled by the Bok 10 Morne Steyn…
5 Mar 2012, 06:22 am
hahaha,it is so easy to press this mad old man’s buttons and he really likes the sound of his own voice.
treehugger i have a friend who is bigtime into ******* she also spends weekends at a rehab here in jhb,when i lived in dbn i donted money to crow.
prawn dalk moet jy jou tyd liewer spandeer om n tik kop boyfriend tekry want soos jy nou aangaan sal jy alleen doodgaan.laas toe ek gecheck het het jy 46 fb vriende gehad…
5 Mar 2012, 07:22 am
@Fern, I know who your friend is, she is extremely funny and recently got a collie, love the way she gives you a hard time.
5 Mar 2012, 07:34 am
Small world treehugger,seems you rat lovers stick together:-)
5 Mar 2012, 11:51 am
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