Maak die Bulle almal Bokke?
What was this? Did the Bulls leave their heads and their hearts at home?
Die Blou Bul eet nie van die vloer af nie? Dis omdat die Crusaders die vloer met hulle gevee het.
This game reminded me of the Boks at Twickenham in 2002 - clueless. Lack of possession and some positional nous from Daniel Carter made the Bulls look desperate after 10 minutes.
Daniel Carter attacked Morne Steyn's channel from the beginning, one such effort resulting in Mauger's try. Steyn's many punters might like to comment on his whereabouts - he was absent.
Daniel Carter's brilliance notwithstanding, the Pretoria side never looked in the game. They were in fact an embarrassment. The Force would have beaten them tonight and possibly even the Cats. Don't give me any rubbish about the Crusaders being a different side from the one that the Stormers beat last week. Of course Carter made a difference, but don't tell me he won this match and made the Bulls look like idiots. They managed to do that all by themselves.
So unbelievable was the difference between the Bulls first half performance against the Sharks to this week's effort, that I'd do some investigation for possible match fixing.
The Bulls protection of the ball was, to put it kindly, pathetic, and on multiple occassions the ball was merely taken from the attacking player's grasp. No time more vitally than by Daniel Carter from Jacques Cronje as he attacked the line. This occurred just after Matfield had turned down an option to kick at poles from close to in-front.
This match did some of the Bulls players' reputations no good at all. I'd picked the Bulls centre pairing as my back-up Bok combination. No more. The crabbing across the field and pedestrian passing meant they lost ground every time the ball went down the line. I believe JP Nel dodged out of a tackle in the first half.
Frikkie Welsh clearly knows nothing about marking and forcing his opposite man outside - this led directly to the Crusaders' first try.
Bakkies Botha and Victor Matfield jogged around the field and watched rucks form and their players lose the ball.
The Bulls running of support lines was so bad that not one but two passes went into touch.
Further, the men in blue squandered no less than five takes against the line-out throw, either kicking the ball away or running across the field.
It was fitting that basics and Daniel Carter cost the Bulls what would have been a spectacular length of the field try in the last two minutes of the game. If the guy on the inside of Danie Rossouw had drawn Carter, he would have put Rossouw over.
When it's not your night, nothing goes your way. The Crusaders should have had two yellow cards against them for blatant fouls - one by Caleb Ralph and one by Corey Flynn. But frankly it would not have made a difference.
Die Blou Bul eet nie van die vloer af nie? Dis omdat die Crusaders die vloer met hulle gevee het.
This game reminded me of the Boks at Twickenham in 2002 - clueless. Lack of possession and some positional nous from Daniel Carter made the Bulls look desperate after 10 minutes.
Daniel Carter attacked Morne Steyn's channel from the beginning, one such effort resulting in Mauger's try. Steyn's many punters might like to comment on his whereabouts - he was absent.
Daniel Carter's brilliance notwithstanding, the Pretoria side never looked in the game. They were in fact an embarrassment. The Force would have beaten them tonight and possibly even the Cats. Don't give me any rubbish about the Crusaders being a different side from the one that the Stormers beat last week. Of course Carter made a difference, but don't tell me he won this match and made the Bulls look like idiots. They managed to do that all by themselves.
So unbelievable was the difference between the Bulls first half performance against the Sharks to this week's effort, that I'd do some investigation for possible match fixing.
The Bulls protection of the ball was, to put it kindly, pathetic, and on multiple occassions the ball was merely taken from the attacking player's grasp. No time more vitally than by Daniel Carter from Jacques Cronje as he attacked the line. This occurred just after Matfield had turned down an option to kick at poles from close to in-front.
This match did some of the Bulls players' reputations no good at all. I'd picked the Bulls centre pairing as my back-up Bok combination. No more. The crabbing across the field and pedestrian passing meant they lost ground every time the ball went down the line. I believe JP Nel dodged out of a tackle in the first half.
Frikkie Welsh clearly knows nothing about marking and forcing his opposite man outside - this led directly to the Crusaders' first try.
Bakkies Botha and Victor Matfield jogged around the field and watched rucks form and their players lose the ball.
The Bulls running of support lines was so bad that not one but two passes went into touch.
Further, the men in blue squandered no less than five takes against the line-out throw, either kicking the ball away or running across the field.
It was fitting that basics and Daniel Carter cost the Bulls what would have been a spectacular length of the field try in the last two minutes of the game. If the guy on the inside of Danie Rossouw had drawn Carter, he would have put Rossouw over.
When it's not your night, nothing goes your way. The Crusaders should have had two yellow cards against them for blatant fouls - one by Caleb Ralph and one by Corey Flynn. But frankly it would not have made a difference.
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