Bulls reel in second Lions player
3 Aug 2012
The Bulls have signed Baby Bok and Lions lock Paul Willemse.
According to media reports, the Bulls have recruited one of the top junior locks in the country in Willemse. The 19-year-old Monument old boy, who stands at 2m and weighs 127kg, played a key part in the SA U20s’ maiden Junior World Championship triumph in June as a primary ball carrier and solid defender.
Willemse also made his Super Rugby debut for the Lions and has featured in three U21 provincial matches so far this season.
Willemse is the second Lions player to make the move to Pretoria in a space of a month. Flank Grant Hattingh – who joined the Lions from Maties during the Super Rugby campaign – made his exit recently and will start for the Bulls in a Currie Cup warm-up match against the Lions on Friday.
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3 Aug 2012, 09:56 am
@>^..^< katman-47:
outstanding.
3 Aug 2012, 09:56 am
Willemse and Hattingh both tailor-made for Bulls rugby.
But with Willemse shoring up the number 4 locking berth, Hattingh will probably be looked at predominantly as a 7 much like Jacques Potgieter.
With Stegman, Dewald Potgieter, Jacques Potgieter, Hattingh, Spies and Arno Botha, how will the Bulls accomodate the likes of Liebenberg, Adendorf, Tecklenberg and Cooke?
3 Aug 2012, 09:57 am
@Transformation-44:
As in:
The Stormers were thoroughly Le Clossed by the Sharks on Saturday?
3 Aug 2012, 09:58 am
@Tacitus-53: Ha Ha.
3 Aug 2012, 09:59 am
@Tacitus-53:
3 Aug 2012, 10:00 am
@Transformation-44:
3 Aug 2012, 10:04 am
@>^..^< katman-47:
3 Aug 2012, 10:05 am
What’s this I read about Nienaber and the Bulls? Where’s that rumour coming from?
3 Aug 2012, 10:11 am
@Tacitus-58: I can’t even remember where I heard it,
(what I do know, is that I didn’t make it up)
read it, dreamt it. But any of the above will do, and it will all work out for the
Bulls
3 Aug 2012, 10:12 am
had to laugh at the commentator for the rowing yesterday when i got to watch it…
he got so excited near the end when he thought the english team would win that he mixed up the sa and aus teams and started screeching about the aussie team taking it coming up strongly…
only to sound like phelps’ mum looked when the graphic showed south africa had won…
then goes on about how remarkable a victory it was because south africa came out of nowhere to take gold…
fool got it completely wrong…
3 Aug 2012, 10:15 am
@Tacitus-58: Pissant
3 Aug 2012, 10:17 am
carlos spencer’s on the market.
3 Aug 2012, 10:18 am
stormers could bring him in as a consultant
if they dont have the heart to fire fleck
3 Aug 2012, 10:19 am
@>^..^< katman-47: that is brilliant!
3 Aug 2012, 10:21 am
With Stegman, Dewald Potgieter, Jacques Potgieter, Hattingh, Spies and Arno Botha, how will the Bulls accomodate the likes of Liebenberg, Adendorf, Tecklenberg and Cooke?
Stormers need to get either Liebenberg or Adendorf.
3 Aug 2012, 10:22 am
@wait for it, wait for it…-63: They need to fire Fleck and get Spencer on board. He will do wonders with that backline. Or get Spencer as a skills coach.
3 Aug 2012, 10:23 am
@Sasuke-65:
Steggers on his way out.
3 Aug 2012, 10:24 am
Stormers can bring in the entire All Blacks team….they still won’t win anything with that coach.
3 Aug 2012, 10:25 am
@>^..^< katman-47: K4k snaaks!
3 Aug 2012, 10:26 am
@>^..^< katman-47:
“Priceless”
3 Aug 2012, 10:27 am
@the artist formerly known as gunther-67: Where too?
3 Aug 2012, 10:28 am
The Bulls will be a force in this years currie cup and will build well for next year.
3 Aug 2012, 10:29 am
@Sasuke-71:
fucked if I care.
The dude has spent most of the last 2 seasons injured.
They won’t renew his contract.
3 Aug 2012, 10:30 am
@Sasuke-66:
they dont have the heart or guts to fire fleck. to much softy buddy, buddy, friend of the family type cosy relations in the wp setup.
3 Aug 2012, 10:36 am
@wait for it, wait for it…-74: That is bad for business!
3 Aug 2012, 10:38 am
@Transformation-61: I know I saw or read it somewhere. I am relieved it’s not a figment of my imagination
It wasn’t here though, that I am certain of. Another site maybe.
@the artist formerly known as gunther-73: Oh dear. There was a chap on here a few weeks back who dedicated a 3000 word essay to Steggie’s abilities and talents. That dude will be inconsolable.
3 Aug 2012, 10:44 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.-76: wasnt it agile *** tyrant? Some people believe he in fact is Deon Stegmann.
3 Aug 2012, 10:49 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged by Mad Eye Productions.-76:
it’s probably steggers himself.
**** knows he’s ahd enough time off to write it.
3 Aug 2012, 10:50 am
@the artist formerly known as gunther-51: @HHS-69: @Atlas-70: I don’t mean to sound pedantic, but we must get the terminology straight.
While Michael was clearly Le Clossed, his Mom was actually Phelpsed. Which is when the actual events playing out in front of you, for a brief period of time, have zero relation to what’s being processed in your brain.
3 Aug 2012, 10:57 am
@Sasuke-77: @the artist formerly known as gunther-78: Now that you fellows mention it, it did read like a CV….. Stats, stats, stats and more stats.
3 Aug 2012, 11:07 am
@>^..^< katman-79:
pe·dan·tic? ?[puh-dan-tik] Show IPA
adjective
1.
ostentatious in one’s learning.
2.
overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.
I had to look it up
Now I have to look up “ostentatious”
3 Aug 2012, 11:12 am
@Atlas-81:
It’s going to be a long day
3 Aug 2012, 12:02 pm
The Bulls should be buying the Lions front and reserve front rows
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