[2015 Super Rugby] Cheetahs vs. Bulls (Round 4) 07/03/2015

[TRF_heineken]

Free State Stadium

17:05 CAT (SA, GMT+2)​

Teams:

Cheetahs: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Cornal Hendricks, 13 Francois Venter, 12 Michael van der Spuy, 11 Raymond Rhule, 10 Joe Petersen, 9 Sarel Pretorius, 8 Jean Cook, 7 Oupa Mohoje, 6 Boom Prinsloo, 5 Francois Uys (captain), 4 Carl Wegner, 3 Coenie Oosthuizen, 2 Torsten van Jaarsveld, 1 Danie Mienie.

Substitutes: 16 Stephan Coetzee, 17 BG Uys, Maks van Dyk, 18 Tienie Burger, 19 Steven Sykes, 20 Tian Meyer, 21 Willie du Plessis, 22 Johann Sadie

Bulls: 15. Jesse Kriel, 14. Bjorn Basson, 13. JJ Engelbrecht, 12. Jan Serfontein, 11. Francois Hougaard, 10. Handre Pollard, 9. Rudy Paige, 8. Pierre Spies (captain), 7. Lappies Labuschagne, 6. Deon Stegmann, 5. Victor Matfield, 4. Jacques du Plessis, 3. Trevor Nyakane, 2. Adriaan Strauss, 1. Morne Mellett

Substitutes: 16. Callie Visagie, 17. Dean Greyling, 18. Marcel van der Merwe, 19. Grant Hattingh, 20. Hanro Liebenberg, 21 Tian Schoeman, 22. Piet van Zyl, 23. Jurgen Visser

 

[Bull]

Reckon it's going to be very tough and damn close

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

Can't imagine anything else though the Bulls have had the rub of it in this fixture in the past. I'm saying Bulls be a whisker. Pietersen/le Roux vs Pollard/Kriel will be intruiging. Nyakane, Labuschagne and Strauss up against their old pals. Both teams somewhat lucky to get wins this past weekend.. will be an interesting game for sure.

 

[TRF_heineken]

It will indeed be interesting. The Bulls already have the psychological advantage after comfortably beating the Cheetahs in the warm-ups.

I'll wait for the team selection before making a prediction. I think the Cheetahs will need Willie Britz for this game...

 

[Bull]

Cheetahs
15 Willie le Roux, 14 Cornal Hendricks, 13 Francois Venter, 12 Michael van der Spuy, 11 Raymond Rhule, 10 Joe Petersen, 9 Sarel Pretorius, 8 Jean Cook, 7 Oupa Mohoje, 6 Boom Prinsloo, 5 Francois Uys (captain), 4 Carl Wegner, 3 Coenie Oosthuizen, 2 Torsten van Jaarsveld, 1 Danie Mienie.
Substitutes: 16 Stephan Coetzee, 17 BG Uys, 18 Maks van Dyk, 19 Tienie Burger, 20 Steven Sykes, 21 Tian Meyer, 22 Willie du Plessis, 23 Johann Sadie

 

[Gena_ZA]

I have no idea here, both teams have enough positives.
Flip da coin

 

[TRF_heineken]

Bulls have named an unchanged starting 15 with only one change on the bench.

Gonna be a tough battle this one...

 

[TRF_heineken]

Well I was very impressed in the manner in which the Bulls have come together the last 2 weeks. And this game has showed glimpses of the way the Bulls wants to play and how they were going about in their warm-up games.

Pollard is just getting better and better. And the one are in which he struggled so much last year, was his goal kicking. Last week and this week he had a 100% success rate when kicking at goal, and that is wonderful to see. I was afraid that if he started to become a kicking machine, he would turn into Morne Steyn and Derick Hougaard. But he didn't stop with his big hits, running at players and scoring tries.

The other area that is impressing me are the scrums. Morne Mellett at loosehead just gives us more stability, And Nyakane is slowly becoming a real scrummager at tight head.

Then Jesse Kriel, he is having a blinder! I love it that we have a fullback that doesn't have Niknaks hair and keeps on kicking every ball he recieves.

The Cheetahs are going to cause a few teams a few problems this year, and I think the SA conference is going to be a very tight affair yet again. Joe Pietersen is just the guy the Cheetahs needed, but my worry is that if he goes off or gets injured, their attack from the back gets dampened.

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

Yep. I was wondering whether we might not start to consider Kriel for the Bokke squad. Possibly not in the 23 for teh RWC but he'd be a handy player to have in the extended squad as fullback or wing cover. The incumbents for 14/15 in Le Roux, JPP and Hendrix are yet to cement their places IMO.

I'm no Bulls supporter but it's great to see the Bulls young'uns (and the SA teams in general) do well- it can only be good for the Bokke while I have faith the Stormers'll topple them over in Cape Town later on ;P

 

[Gena_ZA]

Bulls showed what they are capable off, very good game

 

[TRF_heineken]

Bulls showed what they are capable off, very good game

Yup, and just when we hit our straps, we get a bye... Dammit!!

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

Yup, and just when we hit our straps, we get a bye... Dammit!!

Thereafter the Farce, early season Crusaders, Lions returning from tour and Red(in the face)s all at home... plenty of opportunity to rebuild the momentum after a nice break I'd say!

 

[TRF_heineken]

Thereafter the Farce, early season Crusaders, Lions returning from tour and Red(in the face)s all at home... plenty of opportunity to rebuild the momentum after a nice break I'd say!

Yeah, I see we start our tour at the Blues in May, and the last time we played there, we won...