Vodacom Bulls On Sunset Cruise At Loftus

 

The Vodacom Bulls hosted the Scarlets in Pretoria and simply outplayed their visitors, dominating all aspects of the game to claim a bonus-point win with 57-12

The Bulls dominated from the first whistle until the final whistle.

01:23 Canan Moodie goes over in the corner after Elrigh Louw broke from the back of the scrum and fed the ball to Moodie. (07-00)

07:20 Marcell Coetzee bulldozed his way over the tryline for the Bulls' second try. (12-00)

13:20 Cyle Brink scored the Bulls' third try. (17-00)

20:00 The Bulls started like a house on fire and scored three tries in the first quarter without much opposition from the visitors. The Scarlets did end the first quarter on the tryline of the Bulls for the first time during the game.

24:18 Johan Grobbelaar scored the 4th Bulls try to secure the bonus point. (24-00)

29:16 Elrigh Louw went over for the Bulls' 5th try. (31-00)

31:53 The Scarlets struck back immediately when Sione Kalamafoni go over in the corner after some questionable defence by the hosts. (31-07)

40:00 The first 40 minutes of play could be summed up as follow: Brilliant if you are a Bulls supporter and tragic if you are a Scarlets supporter. One way traffic at this stage.

40:45 Ioan Nicholas (Scarlets) was shown a yellow card.

44:15 Ruan Cronje intercepted and ran 55m to score another Bulls' try. (38-07)

51:22 Johan Grobbelaar scored his second try of the game, ending off a move which started in the Bulls' 22m. (45-07)

60:00 The game has lost all its structure with the Bulls' props trying to run like their wings with the resulting handling mistakes to be expected.

71:01 Marcell Coetzee scored his second try of the match. (50-07)

77:35 Robert Hunt scored the Bulls' 9th try. (57-07)

80:00 Scarlets score a consolation try by Rob Evans. (57-12)

Scorers:
Vodacom Bulls: Tries: Canan Moddie, Marcell Coetzee (2), Cyle Brink, Johan Grobbelaar (2), Elrigh Louw, Ruan Cronje, Robert Hunt. Conversions: Chris Smith (5), Morne Steyn.
Scarlets: Try: Sione Kalamafoni. Conversion: Rhys Patchell.

Vodacom Bulls: 15. Kurt-Lee Arendse, 14. Canan Moodie, 13. Cornal Hendricks, 12. Harold Vorster, 11. Madosh Tambwe, 10. Chris Smith, 9. Zak Burger, 8. Elrigh Louw, 7. Cyle Brink , 6. Marcell Coetzee (c), 5. Ruan Nortje, 4. Walt Steenkamp, 3. Jacques van Rooyen, 2. Johan Grobbelaar, 1. Gerhard Steenekamp. Replacements: 16. Joe van Zyl, 17. Simphiwe Matanzima, 18. Robert Hunt, 19. Reinhardt Ludwig, 20. Arno Botha, 21. Keagan Johannes, 22. Morne Steyn, 23. Lionel Mapoe.

Scarlets: 15. Ioan Nicholas; 14. Steff Evans, 13. Johnny Williams, 12. Scott Williams (c), 11. Ryan Conbeer, 10. Rhys Patchell, 9. Dane Blacker, 8. Blade Thomson, 7. Tomas Lezana, 6. Aaron Shingler, 5. Jac Price, 4. Sam Lousi, 3. Javan Sebastian, 2. Daf Hughes, 1. Kemsley Mathias. Replacements: 16. Shaun Evans, 17. Rob Evans, 18. Harri O’Connor, 19. Morgan Jones, 20. , 21. Archie Hughes, 22. Sam Costelow, 23. Joe Roberts.