Grant Khomo Week Rugby Day 2 featured Game.

The main game on the second day at Grant Khomo week featured Western Province who narrowly defeated the Lions on the first day, against the Blue Bulls.

The game ended 36 points to 5 in favour of the young men in blue and white stripes. As far as contests go, this game was like Floyd Mayweather with his quick hands and slick movement against an overweight woman. It really was that bad. The Bulls team offered nothing in the game. They pretended to be a good side in the first half and came undone in the second. The score was 15-5 at halftime but once the second half kicked off, WP ran riot over the young lads from Pretoria. Tries from lock Pieter Jordaan, hooker Rudolf Cornelius Brits who ran 45 metres down the touchline after a great turnover from lock Jaco Willemse and another from left winger Veranzo Pipers secured the victory for Province.

The impressive Tiaan Swanepoel, the man of the match in the first game, didn’t not feature much in this match and his place in the team was filled by Herschel Jantjes who produced a sterling performance with the ball in hand on attack, kicking and on defence and he was named Man of the Match. The fact that the Bulls were so poor in this game could perhaps suggest that WP weren’t that great but they were efficient. WP forwards must also be commended for the number of turnovers they forced in the rucks as well as winning several scrums and lineouts against their own feed which is something they also did well in their first game. Special mention must go to Brits, the captain and hooker as well the two locks from Province, Jordaan and Willemse and the outside backs who produced quality performances .The only Bulls player who played fairly well was their replacement flyhalf, Tristan Nel, who tried to ignite the Bulls backs and made a few mazy runs and opened up gaps that the team weren’t able to exploit fully.

Perhaps the game wasn’t the spectacle expected of a main game but the Province team did try to entertain. Watching this game made realize why the Bulls recruit so many youngsters from other regions, Handre Pollard most recently. Their junior sides aren’t all that great. It was a disappointing display of rugby from the Bulls but nonetheless a clinical performance from WP.