Currie Cup: Blue Bulls - Leopards (14-10-2011, 19:10)

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria (14-10-2011, 19:10)

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Play and wait seems to be the mantra for the Vodacom Blue Bulls this weekend as they open the final round of Absa Currie Cup league fixtures at Loftus Versfeld against the Platinum Leopards on Friday evening.

But even though they still have a small chance of reaching the semi-finals, they Blue Bulls will have to make sure they win this game before they can start hoping for a big favour from the Ford Pumas.

Pine Pienaar, coach of the Vodacom Blue Bulls, realises they can't take anything for granted this weekend, not even a victory over the Leopards, who would like to finish their season on a high.

Had the Blue Bulls not lost against Griquas in Kimberley last weekend, they could have started the final round with their destiny still in their own hands.

"This coming weekend against Leopards we have to focus on ourselves. We are not in control with what happens with the Western Province and Puma game. It was the same principle we had against Griquas," said Pienaar.

"We can only blame ourselves for the past weekend against Griquas. We did not do well, and conceded too many turnovers. That is the position we put ourselves in and again we have to focus on this weekend, our last game at home."

[TABLE="class: grid"]
[TR][TD] Blue Bulls [/TD][TD] [/TD][TD] Leopards [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Zane Kirchner [/TD][TD] 15 [/TD][TD] Hoffmann Maritz [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Gerhard van den Heever [/TD][TD] 14 [/TD][TD] Danie Dames [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Wynand Olivier [/TD][TD] 13 [/TD][TD] Charl Weideman [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Francois Venter [/TD][TD] 12 [/TD][TD] Joubert Engelbrecht (c) [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Bjorn Basson [/TD][TD] 11 [/TD][TD] Wynand Willis [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Louis Fouché [/TD][TD] 10 [/TD][TD] Wesley Dunlop [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Jano Vermaak [/TD][TD] 9 [/TD][TD] Johann Laker [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] CJ Stander [/TD][TD] 8 [/TD][TD] Robert Kruger [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Jacques Potgieter [/TD][TD] 7 [/TD][TD] MB Lusaseni [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Warwick Tecklenburg [/TD][TD] 6 [/TD][TD] Philip de Wet [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Juandre Kruger [/TD][TD] 5 [/TD][TD] Brendon Snyman [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Flip van der Merwe [/TD][TD] 4 [/TD][TD] Brad Mockford [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Werner Kruger [/TD][TD] 3 [/TD][TD] Dewald Coetzee [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Gary Botha (c) [/TD][TD] 2 [/TD][TD] Gavin Williamson [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Dean Greyling [/TD][TD] 1 [/TD][TD] Jean-Jacques Rossouw [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] [/TD][TD] [/TD][TD] [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Willie Wepener [/TD][TD] 16 [/TD][TD] Marius Fourie [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Frik Kirsten [/TD][TD] 17 [/TD][TD] Bush Mxunyelwa [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Gerrit-Jan van Velze [/TD][TD] 18 [/TD][TD] Berend Botha [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Arno Botha [/TD][TD] 19 [/TD][TD] Spanner Pretorius [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Dustin Jinka [/TD][TD] 20 [/TD][TD] George Tossel [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Francois Brummer [/TD][TD] 21 [/TD][TD] Clayton Durand [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Jurgen Visser [/TD][TD] 22 [/TD][TD] Jovan Bowles [/TD][/TR]
[/TABLE]

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Place your bets!!!

Go ahead guys, make some bucks!

 

[Seaton]

*Whistle*

35-21 at half-time to the Bulls




92-21 at full-time.

WTF?!?

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Luckily they don't get a bonus point for every 4 tries! That would have given them a total of 7 log points for this match haha

 

[Seaton]

Haha, I know that Leopards went to the dogs (or didn't come out) in the second half, but the Bulls played some brilliant stuff with good handling.

Glad they won't be in the play-offs