Bulls backlash buries Griquas
10 Aug 2012
JON CARDINELLI watched the Blue Bulls overcome a slow start to hammer Griquas 35-20 at Loftus Versfeld on Friday.
Griquas played some exciting rugby in the opening quarter, fullback Wille le Roux showcasing his vision and superb distribution skills in the build-up to the first try.
Le Roux beat two defenders before releasing Rocco Jansen down the left-hand touchline, and linked up with his left winger again later in the move to complete the score. At 10-3, Griquas had raced to a handy and unlikely lead.
They managed to go to the break with a 13-9 advantage, but it was during the latter stages of the first half that the Bulls started to assert themselves.
The hosts dominated the contact point and stuck to their plan to kick for territory. They enjoyed a wealth of possession and it was only due to some fine Griquas defence that they were denied more points in the first stanza.
The Bulls failed to take full advantage when Le Roux was sin-binned for a reckless tackle, but continued to hammer away at Griquas’ defensive line. Eventually, the pressure began to tell, with Arno Botha breaking the line and setting up Akona Ndungane for a momentum-shifting try.
From that point, Griquas began to miss tackles regularly. The hosts were more ruthless in the second period, punishing Griquas via the boot. Flyhalf Louis Fouche kicked seven penalties and two conversions to finish with a personal tally of 25 points.
There was a glimmer of hope for the visitors when they scored on the hour, lock Martin Muller finishing a multi-phase move that was sparked from an excellent lineout.
Unfortunately for Griquas, they then conceded a seven-pointer at the other end of the field. Another two penalties by Fouche stretched the deficit to an insurmountable 15 points.
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11 Aug 2012, 17:44 pm
Godgerd ud swear Seb Coe was the reincaranation of the 2nd coming – he certainly seems to think so – never have I heard so much puffed-up self-congratulatory tosh over so little – ud swear the okes actually done something useful and solved the problems in the middle-east instead he looks a fkn danger to operating a toaster.. Nee fok – waar is die rugby manne met dok jannie wie speel voorentoe..?
11 Aug 2012, 17:46 pm
cab
snoekskiet is going to be coming hard at you.
11 Aug 2012, 17:49 pm
The inept Olympic officials, after cheating the Korean female fencer out of a spot in the finals (by ordering another reset with the time up on the clock), almost cheated the German female hammer thrower out of a legit bronze medal yesterday. Said their measuring equipment couldn’t read her 77m throw, so they offered her another throw as consolation. Took a lot of protest and pleading for them to make a plan and measure the damn thing.
11 Aug 2012, 17:53 pm
katman seems there is somerigging and protection for some athletes at the olympics going on…
11 Aug 2012, 18:00 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19-154: I don’t know about that. But it’s just plain embarrassing when she throws a legit throw, and we can all see it sail through the air and land at least 2m over the 75m mark, for them to then say their electronic measuring device has a problem.
I mean, for all records they measure again with a good old metal tape. Why could they not just whip this out for her last night?
11 Aug 2012, 20:39 pm
Yip around and around and around they go ,,, and guess what ,,, what a verassing … Round they go again.
11 Aug 2012, 23:56 pm
@cab-156:
Come on Cab.
Even you can see it. The man going round and round and round and….. the track, do it on his very own… without the help from somebody else.
We are talking about the guys/girls who are “clean.”
Don’t just try to differ from Skop just for the sake of it.
It makes YOU look like the fool because in this case he is absolutely right.
Question to you and some others: Who of the following two sportsman are known throughout the world: Richie Mc Caw or Ussain Bolt?
… or Brian Habana or Caster Semenya?
…or Hashim Amla or Phellps?
12 Aug 2012, 00:19 am
@nama1-157: Spot on.. Richie McCaw and John Smit are no name bit part player in any world reality.. ask anyone in Afghanistan who Usain Bolt or Yohan Blake or even Mo Farah is.. and they’ll tell you they’re Olympic athletes who competed and were triumphant on the world stage..
Ask them who the fck these down and out non essentials are like McCaw, or Matfield or Pisswilly in the wind is and they gonna wonder who or what such nonevent nonentities are who you so fck’d up about..
12 Aug 2012, 00:45 am
@fitz1ella-158:
Sure Skop.
In the big, wide world out there, rugby is played amongst how many counties?
16/20 in the RWC now?
How many countries take part in the Olympics? More than a 100?
12 Aug 2012, 01:00 am
@nama1-157:
“Who of the following two sportsman”
Let’s make that SPORTSPERSON.
Sorry Caster.
12 Aug 2012, 08:55 am
The leftback at Huddersfield fc’s 10th team has more reknown then most of these Olympians – noones heard of any of them save for bolt.
Let’s face it Boone really cares – they far prefer other sports to watch – WTF in their right mind going to watch sone oke playingvring a rosies 40 times in one night.
Nama – you telling me you watch track-and-field kak throughout the year or rugby?
PS – yip u right on Bolt he certainly could do it again but I think they gotta have goals and he’s already accomplished them all – also seems to be greying a bit – wonder if it’s not his last big runs.
12 Aug 2012, 09:03 am
The British invented proper sports which are interesting – hence tge popularity of football which dwarfs these little Olympiad games. Despite these colonial masters – cricket is tge most popular sport in the subcontinent and growing. Rugby is a sport that allows for a range of body types, skills and mental abilities – which combined perhaps ensure it is tge greatest game ever devised by any inhabitants of the cosmos – let us give thanks and praise – or if not simply keep watching rugby every year and pretend to feign interest in atletiek ring a rosies whenever the hype assembled and there’s an excuse for great huiling every 4 years.
12 Aug 2012, 09:09 am
Ibaint heard one single guy on this forum say – hey guess what there an atletiek meet in Gothenburg this weekend I’ll be glued to the screens – why?
Noone is intrerested – u get a better turn out for the local pub xv vs the outer Hebrides special school.
13 Aug 2012, 11:34 am
I’m sitting here and watching a re run of this Bulls – Griekwas game on my coffee break and try tell me this game of exhilarating kick chase mayhem is more riveting than next weekends IAAF meeting in Gutenberg you gotta be kidding me, plus yourself, even the spectators agree, there about 2205 people sitting at Loftus watching this colonialist throwback to barberous idiocy unfold before their eyes, while there will be at least 20,225 Swedes at Gutenberg watching some dedicated conditioned athletes strut their stuff around the track and on the field.
No scandinavian scoundrel gonna waste his time and money watching some behemoths enact their ode to barbaric brainlessness while they got the opportunity to witness some aesthetically superior sport of real athletic prowess. Not a chance in a million years unless they quite happy to turn the clock back in their evolutionary cycle of progression, and set off on a regressive course back to neanderthal barbarism.
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