2014 Super Rugby: Bulls v Sharks (Round 6)

[TRF Mr Fish]

Round 6 - Pretoria
Loftus Versfeld
Saturday 22/03/14 at 7:10PM

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[TRF Mr Fish]

This is definitely the match of the round, between the pace-setters and a team which is steadily climbing the ladder after a pretty poor start.

If the Sharks can get a win away from home it will reinforce their credentials as genuine title contenders, whereas the Bulls will be looking to ensure that the Sharks don't run away as conference winners this early in the season.

 

[TRF_heineken]

I will be missing this game.

I'm getting married on Saturday, and there is no tv at the reception, and no cellphone coverage either.

I see Dewald Potgieter is back with immediate effect from Japan, after the Bulls reached an agreement with his Japanese club, and he could even play this weekend.

Gonna be a tough game this one, I hope we can pull it off, but this Sharks team are so good...

 

[TRF Mr Fish]

I will be missing this game.

I'm getting married on Saturday, and there is no tv at the reception, and no cellphone coverage either.

I see Dewald Potgieter is back with immediate effect from Japan, after the Bulls reached an agreement with his Japanese club, and he could even play this weekend.

Gonna be a tough game this one, I hope we can pull it off, but this Sharks team are so good...

Fiance planned it, eh? Congrats man

 

[TRF_heineken]

Fiance planned it, eh? Congrats man

yup! rather now than when it's the playoffs or when the Boks play...

 

[Sam Owen]

Shawks will win.

 

[Gena_ZA]

Congrats on the big day or sorry that your team will loose on Saturday

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Will be a close game. Jordaan and du Toit missing is a big loss to us. It showed on Saturday. Lewies and Sithole played well, but we missed the chemistry to really flourish on attack.

Bulls are getting back into form as always and will make the play offs. I hope this will be a close game.

 

[Bull]

I'll also be missing the game, no cell reception or tv where I'm fishing not that it's a bad thing. Congrats Heineken.

Reckon the Sharks will sneak it.

 

[Bull]

Bulls:

15 Jurgen Visser, 14 Sampie Mastriet, 13 J J Engelbrecht, 12 Jan Serfontein, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Dewald Potgieter, 7 Jacques du Plessis, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Flip vd Merwe (captain), 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Callie Visagie, 1 Dean Greyling

Substitutes: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Marcel vd Merwe, 18 Paul Willemse, 19 Jono Ross, 20 Piet van Zyl, 21 Handré Pollard, 22 Ulrich Beyers, 23 Morné Mellet

 

[SomeOke]

Was really impressed with the Bulls fire today, Sharks really need to establish forward dominance and for the most part (apart from the scrums) the Bulls denied them that. A bit of a kick fest and not a great game of rugby (come now Kanko) but Bulls the deserving victors. Looks like Victor has done a lot for the composure and structure of the Bulls forward pack particularly the line outs.

To be fair though losing your half-back pairing within the first ten minutes was always going to make things really tough for the Sharks. I usually support the Sharks but I'm glad the Bulls won as it shows there is life in the South African conference from somewhere other than the Sharks, and a loss at Loftus hardly makes for a disastrous season.

 

[Draggs]

Last few weeks I have said that we need to play more clinically, best we can do is use this as a kick up the backside to change things. Gutted with the loss but it's early days. Real measure of the team is how well they can pick themselves up.
Congratulations bulls and bulls fans.