Glassgo hooker forgot how to throw.
Glassgo hooker forgot how to throw.
Impressive fend on Vermaak by Glassgo 14.
Nothing kick by Huw Jones after many phases for Glassgo.
Super take in the air by Arendse.
Bulls scrum bullies the Worriers.
Sharp backline move by the Bulls, Worriers cover good though.
Lekker deliberate sealing off by Bhatti in the red zone. Should have been yellow. 6-0 Bulls.
Almost a long range try against the run of play for the Bulls. You feel they botched that.
Bulls going for touch, not poles. Bold.
Bulls denied a try by the TMO.
Van Staden now powers over at last. All Bulls at the moment. 13-0
Worriers hitting back big time but unable to score.
Wonderful break by Williams but poor passing lets the Bulls down.
And the Worriers score just before half time.
Glasgow hanging in there. I've been flicking between F1 qualifying, T20 WC cricket and Turkey vs Portugal in the Euros but the URC final might yet be a lot closer than everyone thought.
Go Bulls!
Bulls looked the stronger side for almost the entire half, but they need to convert the opportunities they create.
Case in point. Just as they start to rumble Steenekamp throws a panicky pass to no one.
And that stupid little kick was never going to amount to anything other than giving possession away.
Missed that. Was watching Ronaldo very unselfishly giving a pass to Bruno Fernandes to score against Turkey. Bangladesh currently stuttering against India in the T20 WC and Lando Norris gets pole in Spain. What a day of sport!
Worriers on fire now.
Hanekom replaced by Carr. Big blow for the Bulls.
Yes, Glasgow are not going away here. Every time I flick to the rugby either Johan Grobelaar or Sergeal Pietersen is doing something positive. Akker now on for Grobelaar.
Bulls starting to falter under the high kicks, Worriers getting cash back on them.
Better in the air from Petersen. Bulls gain some much needed territory.
When they start playing Kaptein span die Seile I'm tempted to pull for Glasgow! Goosen just misses a drop kick.
Penalty Goosen. Bulls have breathing space again.
Drop goal with a penalty advantage? Have a run, Goose FFS.
My feed is a minute or two slow, clearly. 16-7
Well deserved try for Glasgow. Only 4 behind with conversion to come.
Big error by the Bulls on the kickoff, Louw knocking the ball and Arendse playing from offside.Worriers going for touch.
Conversion over. 16-14.
Ja the Bulls are slipping on the basics. They should never have found themselves in that position.
Poor kick from McKay after breaking the line. Let off for the Bulls.
Looked like big truck and trailer on that maul though. Bulls were penalized for the same thing in the first half.
Penalty Glasgow. Bulls have looked flat pretty much since Hanekom and Grobelaar went off.
Bulls slipping tackles now. They'll need to get their shit together. They've gone from clinical in the first half to downright sloppy.
I think their slide started at the end of the first half already. Missed a lot of tackles in the lead up to the Worriers try and started the second half much in the same vein.
Ex-Sharks flanker Henco Venter now on for Glasgow and making his presence felt. Glasgow look the more likely to score here.
Bulls kicking away their possession. High balls not accurate enough.
And there it is . . . Huw Jones scores to give Glasgow the lead.
Conversion over. Glasgow lead 21-16 with 15 minutes to go.
Worriers score again. Bulls falling off tackles like they're playing touchies.
The Bulls are playing Jake Ball and that rarely wins matches against strong opposition . Defense was pathetic and the fact is this far the Bulls were by some distance not good enough to win the final.
There was a moment in the lead up to that try where Vorster was on the ground clinging with one hand to a piece of Tuipuloto's jersey in a desperate tackle that sort of provided the perfect image for the match situation.
Oh dear, Dempsey intercepts and scores for Glasgow. Could be game over? Checking for early tackle, no try. Whew!
And Papier throws a pass to no one, picked up by the Worriers, try. Another unforced error. Arendse may have been taken early which could save the Bulls. Yep, no try.
Bulls starting to play as individuals now. They need to get their structure back. Hardly anyone is protecting the breakdowns.
Brute forcing themselves to a standstill while the Worriers tackle them back meter for slow meter.
Arendse penalized for a hand around the neck in the ruck. Again, stupid stuff.
37 missed tackles for the Bulls.
And Goosen kicks the penalty dead. What is going on.
Bulls look bereft of ideas. Glasgow defending well. 3 minutes to go!
Bulls attack so static and telegraphed. All wrestling, no finesse. Concedes the penalty after battling to make 20m.
Long wait as we review a Glasgow dangerous tackle and the producer keeps putting up the wrong footage . . .
Another high shot that happened literally right under the ref's nose has to be dealt with by the TMO. Farcical.
It's a yellow card for Glasgow right at the death but too little too late?
Congratulations Glasgow! Bulls clueless in last quarter. Glasgow absorbed enormous pressure in last few minutes but hung on.
Final score Glasgow 21 Bulls 16
Bulls clueless the entire second half. Two totally different teams between the first and second 40.
Well played Glasgow, brilliant second half performance.
Not much in the Talent pool for the Springboks in that set-up Hannekom was injured - but he remains a contender.
Congrats to the Scots .............. beating the Stormers, Munster & BBalle.
Take a bow.
Superb fight back by Glasgow…they never gave up and finished the stronger team. But the Bools had a couple of shots in the last minutes. In every case they tried to maul against a team that was clearly well organized to deal with that tactic.
South African teams tend to never take a chance in these situations. But just looking at the field Glasgow’s defense was very narrow and in Arendse the Bools had one of the most elusive backs in the game.
Why not get him to cut across at pace behind the maul into the sparsely defended wider area. The chance of him pulling that off was surely higher than the 5th maul prevailing.
Franco Smith, future Bok coach ?
We were actually wondering whether, in future, Scotland might sign him up…great credentials and familiarity with Scotland’s best players.
Jake Ball did not win and the fact is the Bulls were pathetic especcially in defense.
The perfect meme for the Bulls in the second half (I mentioned it in the live commentary):
Glasgow the better team on the night. Impressive winning away to Munster and then hoping on the plane to South Africa and beating the Bulls. A bit like in the Munster game, Glasgow got dominated in the first half but bossed the second half. Felt like altitude wasn't a factor and Glasgow where the more fit team. Perhaps the Bulls expended too much physical and mental effort in dispatching Leinster last week.
Poor form from Jake White in his post match press conference putting the blame on the ref, though in fairness you can see how much that loss hurt him so I'll give him some leeway.
Great for the URC, 3 years, 3 different champions from 3 different countries. Very competitive competition.
"Poor form from Jake White in his post match press conference putting the blame on the ref . . ."
Jake did put some blame on the ref but also admitted his own shortcomings…not sure but I think this is already the second final the Bulls have lost …so you could see it was really eating him….he does deserve credit in building this young team of players into strong competitors, but they also need to win these finals….Credit to Glasgow though….they never gave up and deserved winners.
Jake's teams tend to default back to brute force when the heat is on. I still remember the dour smash and bash his 2007 Bok team dished up when the Barbarians put them to the sword after the World Cup final. Bulls were very enterprising in the first half and then suddenly forgot all about it.
The ref was poor no doubt about that.
The bulls missed the creativity of Willie Le Roux and Canaan Moodie.
They also missed Nyankane.
Enough to change the outcome.
How about Pollard as well?
But give credit to the Glasgow oaks who were very fit and physical.
The Bulls had some lardy players but they lacked real grunt.
Well done to Jake and his team. making the finals.
Rooitwit hapless sharks were good on paper but flopped again.
What a disgrace the Sharks are. Buying up so much talent from other SA provinces then not utilizing them!!
Beno
Nice tos ee at last a contribution from you - but you are really letting em down in trying to get some truth onto site - while the rest love and adore leftist lies and propaganda and never stopped posting that BS on site.
I disagree with you here - there was no way there was a proper game plan yesterday. It was equal to what John Smit said about the WC final in 2007 - there was never a pan in place to score tries - it was all Jake Ball playing. Trying to out-musscle the forwards and kick he shit out of the ball through aimless kicking were all it amouts to. It gives the opponents the opportunity to counter-attack and the buslls defense was pathetic in those instances, The same happened yesterday - I was badlky disappointed in what the Bulls came up with.
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The players I mentioned would have brought the creativity needed Mike.
Bad luck to have them out.
Yes I am amazed at the the incredible level of ignorance a indeed foolishness of the very frot five.
So much has happened of which these boneheads are completely oblivious. They simply have no idea how ignorant as they suck like babies on the teat of Globalist propaganda machines. Not realizing they are the target of the WEF Globalist Depopulation programme!
The dopes like sharkTWIT actually think Trump is a rightly convicted Felon. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Beeno this into the case where idiocy by the BSters should be discussed. I asked every one of them what law did Trump break and not one - and that include Mozart - could answer the Question. That means that they just believed the BS they have been fed by the fake media.
Nobody can be found guiltuy if they did not break a law or break commonlaw in any process in any democratic country so we musitn assume the USA has lost the status of being a Democratic country?
I don’t believe there is South African team who would have resorted the back play in those last seconds….goal line fever would always prevail. It’s a uniform weakness, no deception…5 yards and a cloud of dust.
The Bools threw the game away, forgot about drop kicks. They still had had 15 min left and 5 points behind, but opted to go for the corner. They tried to play way to expansive and their maul defense let them down.
Papier was all over the place and his game management was put under some serious questions. M
The forwards became toothless and reverted back to channel 1 crash ball with hardly any support. They didn't try any pick and drives and lost their shape badly.
Glasgow knows how to open teams up.
Maybe the Bools should fire Jake and hire Franco Smith who is a seasoned campaigner and has taken a weaker team on paper to the championships
Mike Prof Dershowitz, Prof Turley and a number of other top legal people also don't know what the crime was. You are dealing with dumb bigotted nutters here who will once again be embarrassed when this is all ultimately over turned on appeal. are their faces ever anything but red,
But thy good news is that it has led to a massive windfall in donations to the Trump campaign and now Trump has more money than Biden. Hhahaahhahaha
Did you see that latest Rasmussen poll that put Trump 10 points ahead of Biden in a head to head match up and 9 points ahead if RFK etc are included. That is a huge lead. If correct it would man a huge Trump landslide!
Beeno welcome back...will you and Mike please move over to Beeno's trumpet if you want to talk non rugby topics.
No thanks I am happy replying to Mike and making some points here.
I am not back just visiting.
That said the ignorance levels of the frot 5 that includes you Blobbrain has reached alarming levels. Further my making posts used to give poor mozzietard something to do - counting how many responses I got etc, Hahahhahahahahaha the dope is soooo childish.
I must make a few posts to flatten the frot five. My specialty!
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Bullies up 3-0.