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 Sep 2012, 20:44 pm
AC is one big d00s! This game proves it! WP was always about running rugby!
1 Sep 2012, 20:45 pm
Tac must be slitting his wrists…
1 Sep 2012, 20:45 pm
@Gumboots-94:
No wonder he was drop. No technique, no heart. Makes you wonder why he was picked in the first place.
1 Sep 2012, 20:46 pm
Just a question. Seeing half of the Stormers fans on this site kakked their cotton shorts when Aplon did not crack the nod for the Boks. You guys are playing against a super kak Bulls team and he is nowhere to be seen…… makes you wonder…..
1 Sep 2012, 20:46 pm
@HongKongSlong-99:
He left after dewald got booed running onto the field!
1 Sep 2012, 20:47 pm
Nice to see the Bulls being at the receiving end of a super cheating referee
What goes around comes around
prachtag!
1 Sep 2012, 20:47 pm
@W.P-101: AC was trying out the Bulls gameplan…..dating back to 2008
1 Sep 2012, 20:47 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-104:
You right. How on earth did JJ crack a spot in the Bok team. He is uber k a k
1 Sep 2012, 20:48 pm
J.J and Sadie coming back to haunt us
1 Sep 2012, 20:48 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-104:
They weren’t super kak before the game. So in your mind, a Springbok should be measured on one game?
1 Sep 2012, 20:48 pm
Fouche is also just hype…
1 Sep 2012, 20:49 pm
@I am a stormer-105:
Dewald is actually my favourite Blue Bull player. Tacitus does not like him that much as he once mentioned he supported WP while still at school, lol.
1 Sep 2012, 20:50 pm
@Hondo-106:
The ref is from Pretoria.
1 Sep 2012, 20:50 pm
Johann Sadie, JJ Engelbrecht, Jurgen Visser, Lionel Cronje, etc. The Bulls sure love the brokeback boys.
1 Sep 2012, 20:50 pm
I wish him well on his recovery but I hope Duwenhage’s injury is season ending!
1 Sep 2012, 20:51 pm
The Bulls are so bad, they can’t even run through Aplon, even the pisspoor Lions managed it 4 times last week
It’s how bad they became
1 Sep 2012, 20:51 pm
Before the game I mentioned the name JP du Plessis as a player to watch.
Thought I would mention his name again.
1 Sep 2012, 20:51 pm
@Robzim-113:
waahaahahahahah!
1 Sep 2012, 20:52 pm
Bulls = Bokke currently a big pile of poo
1 Sep 2012, 20:52 pm
@I am a stormer-117:
He is super impressive… First time I’ve really seen him play…
1 Sep 2012, 20:53 pm
This Wp kiddies team is our future, not the real deal yet. Silly errors and inexperienced but they are p@esklapping the bulls! Life is good. Jp dup is a farkin legend in the making.
1 Sep 2012, 20:54 pm
@Gumboots-108: Never a choice I would have made either.
@RugbyStudent-110: Two words balsak.. Morne Steyn… The moment he had a kak game the folk had the pitchforks out….. In all fairness he gave them some serious ammo though with rest of the S15 campaign.
1 Sep 2012, 20:54 pm
Go Brache!
(Is he still on field?)
1 Sep 2012, 20:55 pm
The new WP jewel No 2 is pathetic, totally inadequate physically for a front rower
Compare his size when standing next to Deon Fourie who himself not the biggest of hookers, mind you
1 Sep 2012, 20:56 pm
Kwagga!
So onplesierig!
1 Sep 2012, 20:56 pm
@Hondo-116: See rugbystudent? One game hey?
1 Sep 2012, 20:56 pm
@Gumboots-120:
He was seen as “the next big thing” while still a school (SA schools) and then unexpectedly left for Aus. According to Robbie Fleck he has the best step of any player in SA.
The Bulls will now probably buy him:)
1 Sep 2012, 20:56 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-122:
I feel for you mate! This team looks clueless…
On paper not a bad side, but man they were pathetic this evening…
1 Sep 2012, 20:57 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-122:
Guess its time to get the cheque book out because the Bulls academy is just not cutting it.
1 Sep 2012, 20:57 pm
@Dawn-125: Oorlat jy nie meer groet nie. Gaan dit goed in valley Dawn?
1 Sep 2012, 20:57 pm
Ag Hondo it’s cos he’s black
Just say so already man
No-one is fooled by your size kuk
1 Sep 2012, 20:57 pm
bulls were atrocious tonight
i cant say wp won this game
it was more a case of the bulls losing it
1 Sep 2012, 20:57 pm
Kwagga this Bulls team is stronger than the one that beat the Sharks last weak. What was that again?
1 Sep 2012, 20:58 pm
@Hondo-124:
Yet he made Willie Bierpens Wepener his peos tonight.
1 Sep 2012, 20:58 pm
@Robzim-127:
LOL
1 Sep 2012, 20:59 pm
Baie goed Kwagga
Daar?
1 Sep 2012, 21:00 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-132: ****. It sure looked to me like WP won.
1 Sep 2012, 21:00 pm
Congrats Province! I really thought it was going to be a really tough game and not the one way traffic that it was…
Sorry Tac! Alarm bells are ringing…
1 Sep 2012, 21:01 pm
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-122:
If that’s true, the whole Bulls team needs to be sacked. I would laugh my *** off if the Bulls next year have a playoff battle against the Kings. To me it seems the Bulls Super 15 and Currie Cup team is goin backwards. Didn’t reach the playoffs this year and losing to a varsity/junior rugby team with a hooker at scrumhalf hahahaha Maak die Bulle almal Bokke! (Sodat hulle kan verloor en Nick Mallet kan oorneem)
1 Sep 2012, 21:01 pm
crusaders = AB’s a big pile of dirty filthy cheating poo.
1 Sep 2012, 21:01 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-132:
Dit is nou blerrie snaaks… They were trashed mate…
1 Sep 2012, 21:01 pm
@kaksioek-137:
Bwahahaha, you could swear they were scoring 42 own goals
1 Sep 2012, 21:02 pm
so these are the two “powerhouses” of sa rugby?
with all the “tradition”, “heritage” and “pegigree”?
well…..
farken heaven help us.
1 Sep 2012, 21:02 pm
@Robzim-112:
That’s the Uitenhage brigade for you.
1 Sep 2012, 21:02 pm
pedigree as well!
1 Sep 2012, 21:03 pm
@kaksioek-137:
ja, but they did not win it by winning it. they won it because the bulls lost it.
1 Sep 2012, 21:03 pm
Bulls need to urgently get rid of this Pine Pienaar palooka who is coaching the side. Wonder why they bought him from Bloem. Must be somebody’s cousin. Bulls specialises in nepotism. Half of the people working their are relatives of the CEO.
1 Sep 2012, 21:03 pm
Is Dewald Potgieter not the most overrated player in the world? And this guy is punted as the next Bok captain? He wouldn’t make the Stormers or Sharks team. Where was overhyped CJ Stander?
1 Sep 2012, 21:04 pm
@Hondo-124:
He is the man of the match peos!
1 Sep 2012, 21:05 pm
MOM Scarra. Well deserved.
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