Province pound pathetic Bulls

Province pound pathetic Bulls

1 Sep 2012

RYAN VREDE watched Western Province comprehensively outplay the Bulls in their 42-6 win at Newlands.

The quality of the match was poor in parts, but this was understandable given the calibre of player on show – most of whom were Vodacom Cup standard. Certainly injuries and Springbok call ups were also mitigating factors.

But WP, vastly superior in every facet of play, won’t care. There were good signs on attack for a team that has struggled there, the bonus point secured before the final quarter. Their defence, however, remains the bedrock upon which they will build their success. Tonight they blunted the Bulls through an organised and brutal effort. They looked shaky under the high ball at times in the first half, but outside of that were rarely troubled.

The Bulls have big problems. Some of their players should have been playing club rugby this afternoon, not running out in front of a few thousand faithful in Cape Town. How coach Pine Pienaar fixes deeply rooted problems in the week ahead will be decisive.

WP started strongly, replacement scrumhalf Nic Groom (Dewaldt Duvenage was stretchered off with what looks a serious knee injury) sniping around the ruck fringe after a couple of phases. Flyhalf Demetri Catrakilis kicked the conversion to go with an earlier penalty, but Bulls pivot Louis Fouché responded with two three pointers to reduce the defict. That is as close as they would ever come.

The match laboured along until just before the break when a powerful rolling maul culminated in WP captain Deon Fourie crossing the whitewash. Catrakilis banked the extras to give his side a 17-6 half-time lead.

WP produced their best move of the game after the restart, depleting the Bulls’ defensive line through numerous phases before JP du Plessis offloaded brilliantly to set up Marcel Brache for the score. Catrakilis converted to give WP a lead that the Bulls never looked like overturning.

Damian de Allende ensured the five points, finishing a slick backline move and Du Plessis kept the scoreboard ticking for the hosts with a clinical score. WP settled for the mauling they had inflicted on their northern nemesis thereafter. They must build on this impressive performance as they go in search of a home semi-final.


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  • 1.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 18:37 pm

    I’ll take these dragons too

  • 2.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 18:52 pm

    idont think you’re particularly good, its because you’re oppostions particularly bad tonight :lol:

  • 3.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 18:55 pm

    Talking bout the dragons not the game!

  • 4.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:02 pm

    The battle between outside centres du Plessis and Sadie should be interesting to watch. That is if du Plessis gets any ball.

  • 5.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:02 pm

    Can’t see Province taking this.

    The Bulls are simply too awesome!

  • 6.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:05 pm

    @Robzim-4:

    JP du Plessis is someone I’m watching more closely. Certain guys just need a solid game. Same goes for Sadie. They must do the basic stuff first.

  • 7.kaksioek: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:09 pm

    Stay classy Problems fans – booing Potgieter and the Bulls as they come out.

  • 8.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:09 pm

    @I am a stormer-6:

    The first thing that WP must get right if they want to stand any chance is their lineouts. The throwing in by the hookers especially have been dismal so far this year and that includes Ntubeni who starts tonight.

  • 9.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:09 pm

    @Dawn-3:
    ja but i’m talking about you :lol:

  • 10.kaksioek: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:10 pm

    Deon Fourie is just bigger than the little girl who accompanied him onto the field.

  • 11.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:10 pm

    you got two lucky dragons tonight

  • 12.KWAGGA ROBERTSE: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:13 pm

    Ek weet nie almal in Slaapstad is so nie maar fok elke liewe donner op Nuweland wat die teenstanders BOOOOO. Julle is faktap man!!!

  • 13.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:14 pm

    @kaksioek-10:

    The new hooker Ntubeni is even smaller than Fourie but he is also quite a livewire.
    The little girl is Jacques Niehaber’s daughter.

  • 14.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:15 pm

    Classy Province fans booing Dewald Potgieter as he runs out alone to celebrate his 50th Currie Cup cap.

    Nice one.

  • 15.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:15 pm

    @kaksioek-10:

    And she got more spunk than the whole Bulls outfit. Being Nienaber’s daughter!

  • 16.kaksioek: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:17 pm

    @I am a stormer-15: Maybe she should be fast-tracked into the Problems side then.

  • 17.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:17 pm

    @Tacitus-14:

    Inexcusable, but it is a national disease.

  • 18.KWAGGA ROBERTSE: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:18 pm

    @Tacitus-14: Tipies van die klomp moeg moere

  • 19.Humphrey: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:19 pm

    Boolands is rather empty. WP fans are always telling us how large the crowds are there…

  • 20.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:19 pm

    @Tacitus-14:

    I know it doesn’t happen at Loftus as that is a home game for the Stormers/WP. ;D

    But not right. I agree.

  • 21.Humphrey: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:19 pm

    Go Bulls! Anyone over WP!

  • 22.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:20 pm

    @Humphrey-19:

    It is all relative. Did you watch the previous game in Durban. It looked like an empty sardine can.

  • 23.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:21 pm

    Go Bulls !

  • 24.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:22 pm

    Get up Duvenhag you papbroek

  • 25.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:23 pm

    Hmm. I dislike the law that if a guy gathers the ball cleanly from a high kick and then goes to ground, that the opposition players who are on their feet can then steal the ball from him.

    There should be some reward for the lone chaser who jumps and catches the ball and then goes to ground. Should be scrum to the team that gathered the high kick, really, if I could suggest a change to the laws.

  • 26.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:23 pm

    @Humphrey-19: Apparently Sharks bumper stickers sold out in Cape Town after the Sharks beat the Stormers/WP for the third time in a row, including consecutive wins at Mofflands.

  • 27.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:23 pm

    Hellooo again dusky

    Where’d you go

  • 28.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:23 pm

    Booing their own kicker or is it blue bull fans behind the poles?

  • 29.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:24 pm

    @Tacitus-25: I agree

  • 30.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:24 pm

    @Dawn-27: For a stormer.

  • 31.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:25 pm

    Swing mood Fouche having one of his “down” moods again today.

    Can’t hit the broad side of a barn, or keep a kick off in touch. Take him off now.

  • 32.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:25 pm

    @Robzim-28: If I were a WP/Stormers fan I would also boo my own team.

  • 33.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:26 pm

    :lol:

  • 34.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:27 pm

    @Tacitus-31: What ? After last weekend I thought they were trying to find a new Ge Korsten or Bles Bridges song to serenade him with at Loftus. Some people on here were calling for him to be awarded Green and Gold ! You mean, he is no ‘liefling’ ?

  • 35.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:27 pm

    You gotta watch your diet

    All the herring can’t be good

  • 36.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:28 pm

    @Tacitus-31: Hey Tac – I wanted to ask you. Aren’t you petrified that Vd. Heever is going to rip your boys to shreds with his incredible speed ?

  • 37.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:29 pm

    I don’t think Tac likes the way he looks.

    He creepy.

  • 38.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:30 pm

    haha

    fourie is a lot of things

    but he’s not a winger

  • 39.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:30 pm

    @Dusky-34:

    He’s got all the talent, but his state of mind is brilliant one week, atrocious the next.

  • 40.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:31 pm

    So if WP knock’s the ball over the tryline, then surely if you play advantage for the Bulls, then if they dot it down it is a 22 kick in for them? Much better than a scrum on their own line?

  • 41.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:32 pm

    @Dusky-36:

    Nah, once he lost his speed, we packed him off to Cape Town.

  • 42.Rage: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:37 pm

    where’s agile?

  • 43.W.P: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:39 pm

    Deon Fourie is a better flank than GHD Pottie. No contest! :)

  • 44.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:39 pm

    province shooting their bolt too early

  • 45.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:41 pm

    @Tacitus-41: Thought that was the case :-D

  • 46.W.P: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:42 pm

    PROOOOOOOOOVIIIIIIIIIIIIINCE!!!!! :)

  • 47.W.P: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:48 pm

    The referee seeing an imaginary offside line everytime the Bulls get into WP territory lol

  • 48.W.P: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:55 pm

    Deon Fourie! :)

  • 49.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:55 pm

    Nice try Province.

    Wait a minute. Province don’t score tries!

  • 50.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    1 Sep 2012, 19:57 pm

    You on your own here WP

    Don’t shoot your bolt too early

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