A failed penalty in the last play of the match by DHL Western Province confirmed a hard-fought 30-29 win to the Vodacom Blue Bulls Under-19 team in the semifinals of the Absa Under-19 Provincial Championship at Loftus Versfeld on Friday.
This win pushed the Blue Bulls into next weekend's final, where they will face EP Kings, who earlier beat the Free State in Port Elizabeth.
U19: Final Score. VBB 30 v DHL WP 29
Vodacom Blue Bulls Point scorers
Tries: Denzil Hill, Divan Rossouw, Coneree Poole, JT Jackson
Conv: JT Jackson: 1. Tinus de Beer: 1
Pen: JT Jackson: 1. Tinus de Beer: 1
DHL Western Province Point scorers
Tries: Duncan Saal, Jaco Willemse, Jaco Coetzee, Justin Heunis
Conv: Tian Swanepoel: 3
Pen: Tian Swanepoel: 1
More to follow.
Swak manne swak.
Genoeg met die verskonings. Koop ordentlike spelers, of Loftus gaan permanent leeg bly.
Genoeg met die verskonings. Koop ordentlike spelers, of Loftus gaan permanent leeg bly.
SA rugby,.and the Bulls in.particular, need to focus now ont he development lf skills in our players. The.Bulls have started this CC to try and evelop it, but iwas still obvious that we lack in this department,.although I must be honest and state that we are far better than last year this time, only that we lack agood experience pair of locks. How wever beautiful rugby you want to play, you cannot compromise on beef in the tight 5.
The Spingboks scrummed bwtter today, but we lost 5 crucial line outs in a row that cost us moementum 15 minutes after the break.
I dont know what the Bulls are going to do,.but I mean even WP.as the loosing side in the final got 1,2 milllion for just playing in.the final,.everyone looks at the Lions for playing good rugby, but in reality it took them 4 years to reach this peak,.four years of not even having a sponsor,.being relegated to the Vodacom Cup and invest in okayers who were the throw aways at other provinces. Cietzee the full back, Ruhan v Rensburg, , Marnitz Boshoff, Ross Cronjé,.Cortnal Skosan, Franco Moster and Robbie Cietzee are all ex Bulls players Johan Ackerman took off where Mitchell left in 2012.
The same.qill be true of our beloved Bulls - but we need to start reaching the finals so that we can.have money to get guys like willemse back again.