SA, it might be time to give us back that Tri-Nations cup you have been looking after for us. We have a
nice spot for it ready in the cabinet, next to the Bledisloe...

:D

BT

My Crusaders came up just short against the UnbeataBulls at home but damn they came close!

Holding onto a narrow lead the game finished dramatically with an amazing charge-down on a Steyn drop-goal attempt only to cruelly knock the ball back in the resulting possession into the hands of the racey little Bulls winger who scored the winning try. ARRGHH!!

The Crusaders interesting approach of running everything and even passing up kickable penalties in the first half just to keep the momentum up was audacious and almost worked.

Unfortunately when you play like that you really have to handle the ball well and a few handling errors and silly penalties let the foot off the throat. It was some of the new young Crusaders that were most guilty of it too, I guess they will learn from the experience, but only the coach can really take any solace from that sort of thing, for a fan it's just aggravating!

This let the Bulls back into the game, and as the commentators so rightly called it, the Bull's slow poison style got them back into the possession stakes, notching up penalty goals with their goal-kicking-bot Steyn and then counter-attacking well when they had the chance.

Good effort Richie and your boys, let's hope the two bonus points are enough to keep us in the race, although we may have to come back to the high-veldt to play a semi. Yikes!