Official United Rugby Championship thread

[Chilli]

Bulls are playing nice looking rugby.

[bok_viking]

Bulls looking good so far, surprised there are not more handling errors. Field is very wet after the downpour. Just a lot of slipping by the players. The cheerleaders were slipping doing their routines beforehand as well

[OomStruisbaai]

Benneton in tight finish with Embra

[Chilli]

31-19.
Bulls have stopped tackling. 23 minutes to go.

[Sards]

I don't get the Simelane love

[OomStruisbaai]

Duvey motm. Stormers legend.

[Slick]

I am taking a bunch of Kenyan lads to the Bulls game today, at R10 a tickets its costing nothing They always watch the Springbok games in the bar close to my home, so this will be their first live game to go to. Hope there is a decent crowd in.

[OomStruisbaai]

Benneton try their best to lose this one. Rhyno Smith yellowed

[OomStruisbaai]

I am taking a bunch of Kenyan lads to the Bulls game today, at R10 a tickets its costing nothing They always watch the Springbok games in the bar close to my home, so this will be their first live game to go to. Hope there is a decent crowd in.

Hope he don't give them Bulls vuil coke.

[bok_viking]

Haha no vuil coke, just lots of beer in Castle Corner where we were nice day out. Got a few new bulls supporters now. They want to buy bulls jerseys now and come out more. The one guy was from Zimbabwe and his nephew straight out of highschool just got selected for the Zimbabwe sevens team so he was a happy man today.

[Chilli]

I don't get the Simelane love

Big & slow

[bok_viking]

I don't get the Simelane love

Big & slow

Its interesting that White keeps using him at 15 instead of centre. I also think he is a bit slow for FB but for a centee he is not to bad. But he does not seem to be able to unseat Mapoe and Hendricks. When Arendse is back he will be back on the bench most likely.

[OomStruisbaai]

Haha no vuil coke, just lots of beer in Castle Corner where we were nice day out. Got a few new bulls supporters now. They want to buy bulls jerseys now and come out more. The one guy was from Zimbabwe and his nephew straight out of highschool just got selected for the Zimbabwe sevens team so he was a happy man today.

Awesome! Send them across the street to Affies or Pta Boys

[fishfoodie]

5 - 10 down in Limerick, despite Munster having much the better possession.

[fishfoodie]

10 - 10 HT

[Slick]

10 - 10 HT

Hows it going now?

[fishfoodie]

10 - 10 HT

Hows it going now?

Physically Brutal.

It's amazing to see a Connacht back row out play their Munster opponents.

No change in score

[fishfoodie]

And then the returning John Ryan scores

17 - 10

[fishfoodie]

FFS, Munster bring on the subs, & another maul try to make it 24 - 10

[fishfoodie]

24 - 17

6 minutes to go !!

[fishfoodie]

Cock; that game was there for the taking for Connacht

24 - 17 FT

Some lad in a blue scrum cap took MoTM, but it should have been Prendergast

[OomStruisbaai]

Munster catch up. They are much better then their lig position.n

[Uncle fester]

5 - 10 down in Limerick, despite Munster having much the better possession.

That try Haley handed you was free points. Like something you'd see in junior rugby.

[fishfoodie]

5 - 10 down in Limerick, despite Munster having much the better possession.

That try Haley handed you was free points. Like something you'd see in junior rugby.

The peno where the Munster player jumped into the tackle should never have been given.

Bottom line was that Joey kicked better, & the Munster pack was able to convert when they got into that red zone.

I can't remember the last time Munster got a TBP, so that's a big improvement over their performance so far this season

[OomStruisbaai]

Teams:

Lions: 15 Quan Horn, 14 Rabz Maxwane, 13 Henco van Wyk, 12 Marius Louw, 11 Edwill van der Merwe, 10 Jordan Hendrikse, 9 Sanele Nohamba, 8 Francke Horn, 7 Ruhan Straeuli, 6 Emmanuel Tshituka, 5 Reinhard Nothnagel (captain), 4 Ruben Schoeman, 3 Ruan Dreyer, 2 Pieter Botha, 1 Sti Sithole
Replacements: 16 Jaco Visagie, 17 JP Smith, 18 Asenathi Ntlabakanye, 19 Pieter Jansen van Vuren, 20 Sibusiso Sangweni, 21 Andre Warner, 22 Gianni Lombard, 23 Zander du Plessis.

Dragons: 15 Angus O’Brien, 14 David Richards, 13 Steff Hughes, 12 Jack Dixon, 11 Sio Tomkinson, 10 Sam Davies, 9 Lewis Jones; 8 Ross Moriarty (captain), 7 Ben Fry, 6 Aaron Wainwright, 5 Sean Lonsdale, 4 Joe Davies, 3 Lloyd Fairbrother, 2 James Benjamin, 1 Aki Seiuli.
Replacements: 16 Ellis Shipp, 17 Josh Reynolds, 18 Chris Coleman, 19 Matthew Screech, 20 Huw Taylor, 21 Che Hope, 22 JJ Hanrahan, 23 Jordan Williams

Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)
Assistant referees: Cwengile Jadezweni (South Africa) & Griffin Colby (South Africa)
TMO: Ben Blain (Scotland)

Sharks v Cardiff Rugby
(Kings Park, Durban – Kick-off 18.10; 16.10 Ireland & UK time)
Prediction
@rugby365com: Sharks by five points

Teams:

Sharks: 15 Anthony Volmink, 14 Marnus Potgieter, 13 Francois Venter, 12 Rohan Janse van Rensburg, 11 Werner Kok, 10 Boeta Chamberlain, 9 Cameron Wright, 8 Sikhumbuzo Notshe, 7 Vincent Tshituka, 6 James Venter (captain), 5 Gerbrandt Grobler, 4 Justin Basson, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 Kerron van Vuuren, 1 Dian Bleuler
Replacements: 16 Dan Jooste, 17 Khwezi Mona, 18 Khutha Mchunu, 19 Hyron Andrews, 20 Phepsi Buthelezi, 21 Bradley Davids, 22 Lionel Cronje, 23 Ben Tapuai

Cardiff: 15 Ben Thomas, 14 Jason Harries, 13 Rey Lee-Lo, 12 Max Llewellyn, 11 Theo Cabango, 10 Jarrod Evans, 9 Lloyd Williams, 8 James Botham, 7 Thomas Young, 6 Josh Turnbull (Captain), 5 Rory Thornton, 4 Lopeti Timani, 3 Dmitri Arhip, 2 Liam Belcher, 1 Rhys Carré.
Replacements: 16 Kristian Dacey, 17 Corey Domachowski, 18 Will Davies-King, 19 Seb Davies, 20 Gwilym Bradley, 21 James Ratti, 22 Ellis Bevan, 23 Mason Grady

Referee: Frank Murphy
Assistant Referees: Aimee Barrett-Theron, Stephan Geldenhuys
TMO: Eoghan Cross

[Chilli]

19-6 to the Lions at 1/2 time.

Nohamba is playing really well since moving from the $harks.

[Uncle fester]

5 - 10 down in Limerick, despite Munster having much the better possession.

That try Haley handed you was free points. Like something you'd see in junior rugby.

The peno where the Munster player jumped into the tackle should never have been given.

Bottom line was that Joey kicked better, & the Munster pack was able to convert when they got into that red zone.

I can't remember the last time Munster got a TBP, so that's a big improvement over their performance so far this season

Whisper it but Joey isn't playing too badly. That means Crowley isn't going to get the jersey by default.
Good for green.

[OomStruisbaai]

Dragons put up a match vs Lions

[OomStruisbaai]

Pissing down in Derbs

[TheNatalShark]

Cameron Wright just dumb play.

[OomStruisbaai]

Boeta boeta.

[TheNatalShark]

There's being down players and then putting out dumb players . It's like these Sharks players grew up in the desert and have never seen a drop of water.

[bok_viking]

Sharks looking like crap. Might just be the SA team to lose this weekend if they do not wake up soon. Really bad decision making getting them in trouble over and over.

[OomStruisbaai]

Matfield moaning about the ref.

[TheNatalShark]

Cardiff bringing the scrum down and then the ref telling Sharks not to drive when the Cardiff player has brought it down and the Sharks will be penalised... what.

[bok_viking]

One thing though. The Cardiff prop keeps putting his elbow on the ground in every scrum and not blown up once.

[TheNatalShark]

Sharks losing that ball at the maul on the halfway line. Just can't even say.

[OomStruisbaai]

Fuck me this is a disaster.

[TheNatalShark]

Jesus Christ Volmink has always been a bit useless but this half has been something special.

[bok_viking]

This is really painful to watch. The sharks players are trying to one-up each other in who can make the best comedic errors.