As It Happened: Stormers v Bulls

As It Happened: Stormers v Bulls

In a thrilling encounter between two South African giants of the URC, the Bulls emerged victorious by a solitary point in Cape Town against The Stormers. The win see's the Stormers move up to 10 after securing the losing bonus point. Here is a play by play recap of the action. 

2' Bulls lock no.4 Cobus Wiese opens the scoring in the 2nd min, after a dominant start by Cameron Hanekom who made a 20m run from the very first kickoff

4' Bulls lose the ball forward after Moodie was chasing a high ball, not giving the Stormers a break.

10' Frans Malherbe scores from a smooth Ruben van Heerden offload in the 5, to finish right next to the poles

18' Jan-Hendrick Wessels scores right under the poles picking up from the back of a a ruck after frantic defense from the stormers.


24' Wessels makes a lethal interception but a miss-step sees him go down in the centre of the field, saving the Stormers from a dangerous attack.

26' Wessles goes off for a Head Injury Assessment (HIA).


31' Stormers fly-half Jurie Matthee slots in a penalty to decrease the deficit, after the Bulls were caught offside.

'35' A grubber by Gelant on the visitors' 5 bounced off the Bulls player JF van Heerden and into Salmaan Moerats hands who dived over the line for the try giving the Stormers the lead.

39' A pass by Willie le Roux finds touch, however the ref goes back to the penalty. Kriel knocked it over to snatch the lead at halftime.

41' Hanekom picks up from the back of scrum for the Bulls setting up centre Harold Vorster who started the second-half the same way the bulls started the first half: with a try.

46' Cobus Wiese is helped off the field with what looks like may be serious knock to his knee.

54' Gerhard Steenkamp is shown yellow after a late tackle. 

55' Evan Roos shows immense to power over for the Stormers, who've been knocking on the Bulls tryline. However, having missed 2 conversions and a penalty, the Stormers still trailed even though both sides had scored three tries a piece a piece.

58' Gelant scores from a Marlherbe try assist, giving the home side the lead for the second time of the match

61' Kriel hands the Bulls a lead again after slotting in a penalty after the Stormers were caught offside.

71' An excting line break from Akker van der Merwe saw him charge from the halfway, all the way into the Stormers' 5. Gelant did well to hold him up, but Ruan Vermaak was there to pick up fro the ruck to score the try.

75' Stormers centre Wandi Simelane knocked the ball on in the Bulls' 22 killing their momentum

77' Stormers again lose the ball in Bulls territory 

78' Ben-Jason Dixon hands the stormers a lifeline, scoring after a Herschel Jantjies made the quick tap. Two phases later, Dixon score the try. Clayton Blommetjies missed the extra two that would have handed the home side the lead.

79' Nizaam Carr's match comes to an end after a dangerous hit Herschel Jantjies see's him earn a yellow card.

80' Sazi Sandi knocks the ball on for the Stormers' bringing the game to an end.



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