In certain respects, it might have been better if the Bulls had simply repeated their Timaru horror show last week and we could all have begun to suspect that there must be unrest of some sort in the champions’ camp. Rob Houwing writes for Sports24 that events in Brisbane on Saturday, where the once-mighty...
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Reds, Super 15
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Decorated skipper Victor Matfield is urging the revamped Bulls to turn party-crashers tomorrow night so his barren streak at Suncorp Stadium ends before retirement. Jim Tucker writes in The Couriermail that this feature clash against the Reds will be the South African World Cup champion’s final outing in Brisbane and never has he needed...
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Tags: Ballymore, Bulls Rugby, Reds, Suncorp Stadium, Super 15, Victor Matfield
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Queensland rugby’s marketing boffins have needlessly fired up the Bulls by promoting tonight’s clash as a “slaughter” even though the South Africans’ own bragging rights over the Reds in every trophy department. Jim Tucker writes for The Couriermail that the “Watch Us Slaughter The Bulls” pitch on the QRU’s official website and advertising material...
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Reds, Super 15
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It’s not all bad news in Bulls country at the moment, as the Bulls have managed to hold on to three future stars according to Brenden Nel from SuperSport
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Deon Stegmann, Gerhard van der Heever, Stefan Watermeyer
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They might have lost stand-in captain, Adriaan Strauss, to a broken hand, but the Cheetahs received a massive boost ahead of this weekend’s clash with the Bulls as Juan Smith was declared fit to lead the side.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Cheetahs Rugby, Juan Smith, Super 15
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Vodacom Bulls coach Frans Ludeke included Chiliboy Ralepelle at hooker for his team’s second match of Super Rugby, against the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein on Friday.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Chiliboy Ralepelle, Super 15
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Vodacom Bulls scrumhalf, Fourie du Preez, describes his pending achievement of 100 Super Rugby matches for the Bulls as a ‘massive honour and milestone”.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Fourie du Preez, Super 15
Posted in Rugby Personalities, Super 15 | 33 Comments »
It has been a rumour that has surfaced in recent days, and although everyone will deny it, it seems to be true.
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Tags: Bakkies Botha, Bulls Rugby, Lions Rugby
Posted in Rugby Personalities | 13 Comments »
The Vodacom Blue Bulls have made a massive coup by signing Griquas and Springbok winger Bjorn Basson to join them from November 1.
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Tags: Bjorn Basson, Blue Bulls, Bulls Rugby, Griquas
Posted in Rugby Personalities | 14 Comments »
The 2010 Absa Currie Cup kicked off to an exciting start after 26 tries were scored in the opening weekend of South Africa’s premier domestic rugby competition.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Cheetahs Rugby, Currie Cup First Division, Griquas Rugby, Leopards Rugby, Lions Rugby, Pumas Rugby, Sharks Rugby, WP Rugby
Posted in Currie Cup | 4 Comments »
The Vodacom Blue Bulls have signed promising young scrumhalf Dustin Jinka from Western Province for the Absa Currie Cup season.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Currie Cup, Dustin Jinka, WP Rugby
Posted in Rugby Personalities | 75 Comments »
Francois Hougaard is fit and ready to join the Springboks on their tour to New Zealand.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Francois Hougaard, Springbok Rugby
Posted in Rugby Personalities | 84 Comments »
The Bulls’ most experienced Super 14 player, Pedrie Wannenburg, will continue his rugby career with Ulster.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Pedrie Wannenburg, Ulster Rugby
Posted in Rugby Personalities | 2 Comments »
It may be a tad early to suggest it, but the biggest threat to the Bulls’ domination of South African rugby could be the successors to the captaincy duo of Victor Matfield and Fourie du Preez.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Fourie du Preez, Victor Matfield
Posted in Rugby Personalities | 6 Comments »
I KNOW northern and southern hemisphere rugby is played to different laws, but I never knew that the northern and southern discrepancy applied to South African rugby.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Craig Joubert, Rugby Laws, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
Posted in Expert Opinion | 33 Comments »
After 15 weeks of planning, plotting and playing it comes down to this: An 80-minute resolute and unwavering arm-wrestle for the most prized possession outside of the Test arena.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
Posted in Super 14 | 26 Comments »
I guess it would be hard to describe to the southern tribe how great Orlando Stadium was when the Bulls managed, for a second year in a row, to convincingly beat the Crusaders in the Super 14 semi-finals.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Frans Steyn, Stormers Rugby, Tendai Mtawarira; The Beast
Posted in Expert Opinion, Springboks, Super 14 | 3 Comments »
For those wishing that some season ticket holders will surrender their right on tickets and thus be made available to the public – there is some bad news. The Blue Bulls Company confirmed that every last ticket has been sold for the final.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Super 14 Final
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It is a strange and arguably not ideal dynamic … three rugby players playing probably the two biggest games of their lives, in different jerseys, within the space of a week.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Dewald Potgieter, Francois Louw, Gio Aplon, Orlando Stadium, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
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Allister Coetzee stuck with the team that won the semi-final last week to take on the Bulls in the all-South African Super 14 final in Soweto this Saturday.
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Tags: Allister Coetzee, Bulls Rugby, JC Kritzinger, Sireli Naqelevuki, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
Posted in Super 14 | 2 Comments »
South African bookmakers are backing the Bulls to win their third Super 14 final against the Stormers in Soweto on Saturday.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
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Top South African referee Craig Joubert has been rewarded with his first Vodacom Super 14 final, and the Bulls, of all people are rather happy with this.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Craig Joubert, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
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Bulls coach Frans Ludeke believes the fact that this weekend’s Vodacom Super 14 final pits the best defence against the best attack in the competition means little when the sides take the field on Saturday.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Frans Ludeke, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
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Tickets to the Super 14 final at Orlando Stadium in Soweto at the weekend sold out within minutes on Tuesday morning.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
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The Blue Bulls Company (Pty) Ltd would like to announce that the tickets for the Vodacom Super 14 final at Orlando Stadium in Soweto on 29 May 2010 at 17:00 will be available on 25 May 2010. The cost per ticket will be R 350.
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
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Order in the rugby world has been restored, and thank goodness for that!
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
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Will the Stormers also flounder when they face the Vuvuzela-onslaught at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Saturday?
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Tags: Bulls Rugby, Stormers Rugby, Super 14 Final
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No-one is happier than Gerhard van den Heever that the Bulls are playing the Stormers in the Super 14 final at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Saturday.
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Tags: Bryan Habana, Bulls Rugby, Gerhard van den Heever, Stormers Rugby
Posted in Super 14 | 24 Comments »