Unbeaten Bulls edge Wellington 19-18
By AP, 20 Mar 2010 AP is a Roar Pro
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In-form Bulls flyhalf Morne Steyn kicked four penalties and a conversion to pass 100 points for the season and help the Bulls to a narrow 19-18 win over the Wellington Hurricanes on Friday.
The Super 14 leaders scored just one try, through fullback Zane Kirchner, and relied on Steyn’s radar-like boot to extend their winning run in Pretoria to 15 games. The Hurricanes were the last team to win at Loftus Versfeld, back in April 2008.
A much-changed Hurricanes team had made the early running with first-half tries from flanker Karl Lowe and lock Jeremy Thrush.
Kirchner stepped inside two defenders for the Bulls’ first points and Steyn’s three second-half penalties continued the champions’ unbeaten start to the competition.
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Pothale said | March 20th 2010 @ 9:30am | Report comment
Interesting to see the Bulls have picked up the old style play of Munster. Steyn kicks them into the lead after forced infringements and then pick n gos for the last 7 minutes to run down the clock. NH rugby at its cliche best. The Bulls are a remarkable team to be able to switch styles from scoring 50 pointers to being able to scrag out a result like this.
katzilla said | March 20th 2010 @ 11:03am | Report comment
It also showed that the Bulls can get rattled by hard defence.
There is no way a Hurricanes team without Jane and Gear (notice the amount of mistakes in the air that both of their replacements made?) should have gotten within a point of the Bulls at home.
johno said | March 20th 2010 @ 6:58pm | Report comment
The reffing was kak to say the least, I don’t think either side knew what was happening and the Canes got nailed at the setting up of a ruck out of the line out, which confused the hell outa everybody.
But they were constantly off side in the backs.
The Bulls really played badly, and nothing seemed to go right for them, but they still pulled of the win against a Canes side that was not going to let them in for any tries by any means neccesary.
Highlight of the game for me was the match-up between Nonu and Olivier, if you’ve ever wanted to see Nonu annonymous and being manhandled then this was the game you needed to watch. It seems as if Nonu did something that really upset olivier casue he clattered into Nonu a couple of times and ran right over him, or tried to.
funmaster said | March 20th 2010 @ 10:56pm | Report comment
Now it’l be exciting to watch the bulls play the reds in brisbane. Do any of you reckon they”ll be the once to finally end the bulls”s onslaught?….Cos theres no way the force, chiefs and the blues will.
Good on the Sharks!!!
pothale said | March 20th 2010 @ 11:51pm | Report comment
the once to finally end the bull’s onslaught?