Albereth
Honorary Master
And now down to 14 players
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14 each but that last one should have been red
The tip tackle or the punch?
Flip is a tjop.
Rebels are such sore losers. Nice one pink Bulls!![]()
The Vodacom Bulls were dealt a double blow on Sunday as it was learnt that both flanker Jacques Potgieter and prop Frik Kirsten would return home with injuries.
Potgieter, who limped off the field with a knee injury, went for a scan in Sydney on Saturday and was given the bad news that he had damaged his kneecap and would be out for between six and eight weeks.
Kirsten, who came onto the field as a replacement, broke his hand in the game and has also been ruled out for six weeks.
While the Bulls already gave Springbok prop Dean Greyling permission to return to South Africa because of the birth of his first child, they now have a small problem in the front row with only one fit loosehead on tour.
Dawie Steyn will start this weekend against the Waratahs, with Rayno Gerber joining up with the team on Monday after flying out of South Africa on Sunday.
“At this stage no other replacements will be called up. We will make a decision later on who will join us next week,” High Performance manager Ian Schwartz told SuperSport.com.
This also means that Springbok flank Deon Stegmann is likely to start this weekend in Potgieter’s place, giving the Bulls a fetcher for the first time in more than two months.
Defense - both commitment and attitude - was very poor today. If we play like that, the Tahs will run riot next week. Add to that the fact that we almost never win the 2nd game on tour, and this time I might have to pick against my team on SuperBru![]()
http://www.supersport.com/rugby/super-rugby/news/120506/Bulls_dealt_double_injury_blow
Not good news, especially as Potgieter has been in good form this season![]()
Bulls: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 Johann Sadie, 12 Francois Venter, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 CJ Stander, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Juandré Kruger, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 1 Dawie Steyn
Substitutes: 16 Willie Wepener, 17 Rayno Gerber, 18 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 19 Arno Botha, 20 Jano Vermaak, 21 Louis Fouché, 22 JJ Engelbrecht
Just to weigh in on your team's defensive effort over the past few weeks.
Not many people know it but the Bulls were without their defensive coach for three weeks due to Bok planning camp commitments.
Bulls basically had no defensive training over those three weeks and still won. And before they started leaking tries like a strainer leaks water, they actually did great on defense.
Good thing we will have him at the Boks.
I like Engelbrecht, he is a very attacking player, but he really does lack defensive ability
Why the Bulls opted to buy 2 wings and only play them at Centre is beyond me, If the defense does not dramatically improve its going to cost u's the Super15, The Bulls desperately need a experienced outside Centre....
2 wings?
JJ and .... ?
Well i presumed Johan Sadie is a Wing coz he really has not made a mark on Centre this far, according to Wiki he is a Centre, my bad.
What a nail bitter game...geeezz
the Sadie/Ventre combination wasn't as bad as i thought its going to be.....
Pity about Stegman, next week its going to be 8.Spies 7.Botha 6.Stander, we are running out of loosies