Marcel Coetzee has come to play, lovely offload out of contact. Grobbelaar knocks unfortunately.
Marcel Coetzee has come to play, lovely offload out of contact. Grobbelaar knocks unfortunately.
Batho with a big break.
Coetzee wins a turnover penalty.
Long period of pick and go for the Bulls and eventually Vorster slips a tackle to get over after a Pollard half break. 7-0
Vorster with a huge break, puts the kick through to the corner for Jacobs, just can't gather.
Great take in the air by Kriel followed by an offload that gets the Lions going.
Yo yo Paks
Kriel with another great take, upended in the air by Arendse. He may be in trouble, didn't look like a contest at first glance.
What I miss?
Howzit Plummie
Same as he did to BB early in his on career...Dangerous Kurt!
Yeah Arendse is in trouble, he got that wrong. Yellow.
What I miss?
One Bulls try and a bunch of box kicks.
The box kick really has replaced constructive back play. Hardly exciting.
Lions scrum looks solid against the mega Bulls pack
He who kicks the most wins...so say the stats.
On the Rassie pod they had a good line about "stats".
Stats are like bikinis, they show almost everything but not good parts
Lekker Crappies! Good chase there after Stoke knocks it
Pollard knocks, vd Bergh kicks through, penalty against Papier for getting up from the tackle without releasing. Big turnaround. Poles.
7-3 B
3-7 as Smith knocks it over from halfway
Summer water break.
Eish Polly kicks his restart out
You sound highly entertained Pakie
Ha, not yet but hopefully soon.
Kriel has really come on as a player, looked a bit of a tappit when I first saw him but he's turned into a handy player. In the meantime it's end to end action.
Bit of back and forth action until Pollard eventually nudges it out on the Lions 10m
Kurt back on
Lions haven't taken advantage of Arendse's absence as he comes back on.
Lions with a nice net gain into the Bulls 22
Lions willing to run it, they end up inside the Bulls 22 as Mills puts a decent little tap over the top into touch.
Nice clearance by Papier. One step forward two steps back for the Lions at the moment.
Now Batho knocks it and Bulls counter. Back in the Lions 22 after a nice kick by Devon.
Eish, Pollard directly into touch and the Lions have a lineout on the Bulls 22
...and then Batho knocks, the Bulls break out and get a 50/22
Geez, massive net loss and the Bulls now battering the Lions line
And Grobbies dives over
Grobbelaar over. Looks like brute force will be enough for the Bulls today, not much finesse out there.
Pollard pulls the convo, 12-3.
Terrible pass Quan. Basic errors.
Davids concedes a dumb penalty, Lions will be back in their own territory again.
Marcel offloads to Pollard for the try, Lions can't stop the Bulls pick and go bonanza.
Bulls in again although Pollard.
Lions coming apart here
That's 14 points off the back of soft errors from the Lions
Another one for the Bulls, Arendse in.
Damn another try before the half :/
Well I was thinking I need to watch more Lions games. Turns out maybe I don't :P
Bulls aren't doing anything much, brute forcing it mostly and capitalizing on the plethora of Lions errors.
If that Bools player who hugged Pollard was wearing red he’d be gone for 8 weeks for an eye gouge.
Don't count the Leeus out yet, Paks.
And early score in the 2nd half might change their fortunes
We have seen some second half turnarounds/collapses recently so let's see what happens. Lions will need to stop making basic errors.
If that Bools player who hugged Pollard was wearing red he’d be gone for 8 weeks for an eye gouge.
Missed that.
And Bulls ruck the Lions off the ball right on the line. Not gonna win the game like that.
Lions putting on a little early pressure in the half...they need something
It was totally benign in the congratulatory hug….but easy to find the eye.
And Horns get a break in traffic to put Crappies over!!!
Cumon Leeeeeus!
Krappies scored, I missed how cause my feed bugged out right on a try, which is usually when it does if it does.
Hiya Moz
LOL, Bulls doing absolutely nothing except the smash and bash.
Morning chaps….excuse my bad manners. Loved that old style collar tackle, which of course was penalized. Nothing wrong with that in the old days and boy did it work.
Lions change there front row
Theyre not out of this
Howzit Moz, my bad too
Ruckers isn't a place for manners, Moz
...it's where noobs hang out
And the Lions drops it again, they get the penalty though. Got nice quick ball but support was just too slow to arrive and they had to pause before getting it back out.
Lions with a big let off as the knock but win a penalty for offside regardless...
Go to the corner boys!!!
They set up a lineout deep in the Leeus half...
but they fluff the lineout :/
...it's where noobs hang out
For a moment I read boobs and got all excited.
Too true…but there is one expert.
Without set piece success the Lions are going to struggle.
And Henko drops the pass. That looked a bit of a clumsy move though. Ou Maaik's man Bronson doing a weird twirl before passing.
Jacobs burns Davids, jeez.
Vorster gets a well deserved try. Lions look dead in the water, Plummie. Lions 19 not covering himself in glory there by running around to defend against no one while Vorster casually plants the ball on the side he just abandoned.
Voster dots down.
That might be the game.
Stravino is faster than he looks...he outpaced Crappies there for a bit
23 points in it and 23 minutes to go
Lions' brute forcing not having even close to the results of that of the Bulls. Now they throw the lamest intercept pass you're ever likely to see.
Batho with the old seeyalater on Rudolph.
Lions are forcing the pass and the runners are getting ahead of the ball…they seem a bit too hyped.
Lions absolutely have to score here if they want a sniff of a chance
Geez the Lions have zero lineout skills
Theyve had so many chances but just cant convert their lineouts into pressure or points
Whatever the Lions is doing out back is so easy to defend against.
And that's the game as Kriel gets a break puts Embrose through for an easy score
And the Bulls toddle through. Kriel ran into his own man, maybe lucky to get away with it but ended up with a nice break and offload to Papier.
Kriel shows he still has the business.
Another knock Lions. Bronson the Maaik hopeful having his eyes everywhere except on the ball.
Bulls looking like Akker's Lions of old as they approach 50 points.
Lions just don't have the quality to compete
Nice try Bulls, absolutely burying the Lions now.
Not much kicking in this game….one high kick in the second half
See you for the big one guys.
Bronnie scores one to make Ou Maaik happy.
Lekker chaps.
Catch yas later
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Let's see if the Lions can pull a cat out of the bag.