Howzit Blobbie. I'll watch a bit and see how it goes.
Howzit Blobbie. I'll watch a bit and see how it goes.
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Willie with a nothing kick.
More meneer Pakie
Seb in front of the Willie kick. Pretty elementary error. Ed on attack now.
Ed scores. Started with Kriel unable to stop his man, giving Ed momentum into the 22. Terrible conversion attempt, 5-0.
Lions 5 - 0 ,, Francis Horn
Bulls maul it over. Pollard misses, 5-5.
Ed gets another, from one side of the field to the other 5m out all the way until they get over in the corner. 10-5
Bulle made em work for that try
Bulls have yet to get the ball to either of their wings.
Another pointless kick by oupa Willie.
Bulls forward pass. They're looking pretty useless. Either Pollard kicks, or they pass to Willie to kick, or they have this flat attacking line and then throw it forward anyway.
Schoeman running into Wilco, topples right back over where he came from.
Osprey maul over for try ... 7 - 5 24min
Grobbelaar wins the penalty on the ground. He's good at that.
Pretty average stuff from both sides.
Douglas wins another turnover for Ed. Bulls have nothing man, just isolated runners into contact.
Graham almost goes all the way, much like in WC 2023 though he hangs on when he probably should have attempted to find his support.
lineout woes for Bulle
Good turnover for the Bulls on the line.
Great tackle by Seb hitting his man into touch.
Ed has scored another one while I switched streams. 17-5. Bulls are just woeful. Not a clue between the lot of them.
If kAkkerman doesn't win this game then he deserves to get fired
What happened to Pollard form?!
Honestly I don't know what Ackerman is coaching these guys. You have probably the fastest player in world rugby on the wing yet you never even attempt to get the ball to him. Arendse hasn't seen it either.
And Willie refuses the pass to Jooste and gets turned over in contact. Fucking circus.
Bulls look every bit as uncoached at the moment as the Sharks did under Plumtree.
Please tell me - how can a team with 17 Springboks in the Playing squad be as bad as the Bulls have been n the first half.
Halftime Osprey 19-5 ... :-(
Seb and Grobbelaar probably the only two players who look like much of anything. Maybe they should move Jooste to fullback and give him all the ball Willie is booting into no man's land, something might actually happen then.
premature htime score ... 2nd try to Horn ...... 19-12 ht
What a kak game
How much blame on the travel from a glorious highveld summer to a bleak frosty cold grim Brit winter night
Willie chips for Jooste but too deep and into Ed hands, another Bulls attack over.
Finally Jooste gets the ball and immediately beats 3 tacklers. Looks like he might have got a head knock, his mouthguard is flashing. Yep, HIA.
Bulls scrum wins them a penalty. There does seem to be some urgency, but do they have the skill to do anything with it. 5m lineout. Grobbelaar breaks from the maul and gets it down. He's a dynamo. 17-12
Grobbies !! makes up for his kak lineout throwing
Far more hand speed and urgency from the Bulls now. Ran themselves out of options in the end and just boots it back to Ed for the mark.
oh Kriel ..........
Don't know how some people can still have Kriel pegged for a future Bok. Bog average.
Bulls just run out of options after a few phases and does something stupid.
Seb now with the break and chip off turnover possession but just can't get enough control on the second dribble forward and it goes dead.
Jooste won't come back. Pity, just when the Bulls are finally getting the ball wide.
Ed now ripping the Bulls scrum and Burger knocks it at the back.
And now they get a scrum penalty.
Clear early hit by Edinburgh in that scrum
Now Gumede mistimes his run onto Pollard's pass and the Bulls die again after 3 of 4 phases.
Lions maul over for try ... Osprey 19-17 .... 48min
Grobbelaar into the gap, feeds Willie who a few years ago would probably have gone all the way but now barely makes the 22 before looking for the pass.
Seb looks to be in trouble on the ground after taking contact chasing a grubber.
Stretcher out. Bulls losing their best players.
And Willie overruns the Pollard pass and another Bulls sequence comes to a lame end.
Horn scores another for the Lions after a nice Kriel chip.
Quan Horn scores Lion lead 24-19 .... 59min
And again the Bulls lose it after attacking and Ed now back on their 22.
The Bulls with advantage ball again ends up with Pollard chipping the ball away. They just can't put enough constructive phases together.
Osprey score 24-24 ........ 63m
Eskom with a terrific carry off the tap gets over the line, but he looks held up. Might well have got it down actually, hard to tell for sure. TMO calls it a try. Probably a bit lucky as I don't think there's clear evidence but we'll take it. 19-17 B
Given the physics it looks like a try was scored, but no evidence. Commentators saying it was off a knee but he looked in possession to the line.
Escom has made a difference
we will indeed
Bulls cock up the lineout again and blows an attacking position.
A late penalty could decide this.
Ed boots it out on the full and the Bulls have another lineout just outside the 22.
My internet is working again!!!
...but then I forget there's rugby on.
Bulls leading!
Jacobs has been lively but Douglas rules the breakdown and turns him over.
Stravino has a touch of Aki about him
Almost on time, Plummie. Almost.
Geez, had the whole game been this hectic?
Going to be a hectic last few minutes.
Geez, had the whole game been this hectic?
Nah, first half was a shitter. Bulls got better in the second but it's been stop start all the way. This is just a bit of late game desperation.
Dumb kick by Thompson.
Wouldn't be a bad win for the Bulls if they can pull this off.
wot a lekker double feature !!
Bulls scrum wins them a penalty. Thompson might well have kicked the game away there.
Another game won by. the scrum!
Miraculous win for the Bulls, they looked dead in the water after the first half. Grobbelaar worthy MOTM.
bravu Bulle
Nice. Akker turning it around.
24 a piece in the a Lions game with 5 to go
The scrum, the maul and Eskom's tap and go. Can't say the Bulls have much else. Still struggling not to implode after 5 or 6 phases.
Big one tomorrow….Willemse vs Esterhozen…see you then chaps.
Cheers bois, will deffos check out the battle of the 12s.
Great victory up north...well done Bools!
Osprey 24-24 .... 74min ....
"Cheers bois, will deffos check out the battle of the 12s."
The main battle will be front rows and back rows...and Gelant not brainfarting...
haha lovely weather in the Lions game.
LOL, Ospreys miss a sitter of a penalty for the win. 24-24
Gotta hand it to Ospreys, terrific retention of possession in shit conditions despite some tough Lions tackling. Now they try a droppie, it's wide. Lions now want to run it back.
And they just about score off the chip but not quite. What an end.
Brave Lions earn a 24 all draw
Ospreys miss a penalty at the death to chuck the game and then Smith almost makes a try 4 minutes after the 80 minute mark.
Got some balls on them running it from their own tryline in those conditions. Good stuff.
I was going to mow me lawns but weather here today similar to what the Lions had to endure in em Welsh vulleys, boyos.
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