NON-AUSTRALIAN MATCHES: ROUND SIX

[waiopehu oldboy]

Lions v Crusaders, Johannesburg 2/04/16 - 0400 AEDT

Crucial match for both teams who can consolidate their Top Eight position with a win. A Lions loss leaves them vulnerable should the Bulls beat the Cheetahs; a Crusaders loss probably sees them lose eighth spot to the winner of Waratahs v Rebels.

Ref: Stu Berry AR's: Craig Joubert, AJ Jacobs TMO: Johan Greeff

Lions: 15 Andries Coetzee, 14 Ruan Combrinck, 13 Lionel Mapoe, 12 Howard Mnisi, 11 Courtnall Skosan, 10 Elton Jantjies/Marnitz Boshoff, 9 Faf de Klerk, 8 Warren Whiteley (c), 7 Warwick Tecklenburg, 6 Jaco Kriel, 5 Franco Mostert, 4 Andries Ferreira/Lourens Erasmus, 3 Julian Redelinghuys, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Dylan Smith, 16 Armand van der Merwe, 17 Corne Fourie, 18 Ruan Dreyer, 19 Ruan Ackermann, 20 Cyle Brink, 21 Dillon Smit, 22 Jaco van der Walt, 23 Rohan Janse van Rensburg

Crusaders: 15 David Haviili, 14 Johnny McNicholl, 13 Kieron Fonotia, 12 Ryan Crotty, 11 Nemani Nadolo, 10 Richie Mo’unga, 9 Andy Ellis, 8 Kieran Read (c), 7 Matt Todd, 6 Jimmy Tupou, 5 Scott Barrett, 4 Luke Romano, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Codie Taylor, 1 Wyatt Crockett, 16 Ben Funnell, 17 Joe Moody, 18 Mike Ala'alatoa, 19 Sam Whitelock, 20 Jordan Taufua, 21 Mitchell Drummond, 22 Ben Volavola, 23 Sean Wainui

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Blues v Jaguares, North Harbour 2/04/16 - 1535 AEDT

Both have seven Table points so winner still mathematically in with a shot at the Eight, loser joins the also-rans. It'll be interesting to see how many people venture into the wasteland in the middle of which North Harbour stadium was dumped............

Ref: Mike Fraser AR's: Ben O'Keefe, Angus Mabey TMO: Ben Skeen

@MHCS has started a match thread:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/community/threads/blues-vs-jaguares-round-6-2016.16512/

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Kings v Sunwolves, Port Elizabeth 3/04/16 - 0205 AEDT (0105 Queensland at which point I think NSW etc are still on daylight savings?)

Loser joins the Reds in the wooden spoon race, winner gets some breathing space.

Ref: Rasta Rasivhenge, AR's: Cwengile Jadezweni, Rodney Bonaparte TMO: Christie du Preez

Kings: 15 Jurgen Visser, 14 Siyanda Grey, 13 Stefan Watermeyer, 12 Shane Gates, 11 Malcolm Jaer, 10 Louis Fouche, 9 Ntando Kebe, 8 Aidon Davis, 7 Stefan Willemse, 6 CJ Velleman, 5 JC Astle, 4 Steven Sykes (c), 3 Jacobie Adriaanse, 2 Edgar Marutlulle, 1 Sti Sithole, 16 Martin Ferreira, 17 Schalk Ferreira, 18 Tom Botha, 19 Schalk Oelofse, 20 Chris Cloete, 21 Kevin Luiters, 22 Elgar Watts, 23 Jaco van Tonder

Sunwolves: 15 Riaan Viljoen, 14 Viliami Lolohea, 13 Harumichi Tatekawa, 12 Yu Tamura, 11 Akihito Yamada, 10 Tusi Pisi, 9 Kaito Shigeno, 8 Ed Quirk, 7 Andrew Durutalo, 6 Liaki Moli, 5 Timothy Bond, 4 Hitoshi Ono, 3 Shinnosuke Kakinaga, 2 Shota Horie (c), 1 Keita Inagaki, 16 Futoshi Mori, 17 Masataka Mikami, 18 Takuma Asahara, 19 Shinya Makabe, 20 Yoshiya Hosoda, 21 Tomás Leonardi, 22 Yuki Yatomi, 23 Mifiposeti Paea

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Bulls v Cheetahs, Pretoria 3/04/16 - 0315 AEDT

A Bulls win sees them at least stay in touch with the Lions for the third African qualifying spot, or overtake them should the Lions lose. Cheetahs probably need to win everything from here in just to qualify, a loss almost certainly means elimination.

Ref: Craig Joubert AR's: Shuhei Kubo, AJ Jacobs TMO: Willie Vos

Bulls: 15 Jesse Kriel, 14 Travis Ismaiel, 13 Jan Serfontein, 12 Burger Odendaal, 11 Jamba Ulengo, 10 Tian Schoeman, 9 Rudy Paige, 8 Arno Botha/Nic de Jager, 7 Jannes Kirsten, 6 Roelof Smit, 5 RG Snyman, 4 Jason Jenkins, 3 Marcel van der Merwe, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Lizo Gqoboka, 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Pierre Schoeman, 19 Nicolaas Janse van Rensburg, 20 Lappies Labuschagne, 21 Ivan van Zyl, 22 Francois Brumme, 23 SP Marais

Cheetahs: 15 Clayton Blommetjies, 14 Segeal Petersen, 13 Francois Venter (c), 12 Nico Lee, 11 Raymond Rhule, 10 Niel Marais, 9 Shaun Venter, 8 Paul Schoeman, 7 Uzair Cassiem, 6 Boom Prinsloo, 5 Francois Uys, 4 Lood de Jager, 3 Johan Coetzee, Torsten van Jaarsveld, 1 Ox Nche, 16 Jacques du Toit, 17 Charles Marais, 18 Maks van Dyk, 19 Carl Wegner, 20 Hilton Lobberts, 21 Henco Venter, 22 Tian Meyer, 23 Fred Zeilinga

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

For the record, Crusaders 43-37 in a 10-try pearler. If you didn't record it, catch a replay ASAP.

 

[galumay]

For the record, Crusaders 43-37 in a 10-try pearler. If you didn't record it, catch a replay ASAP.

Woke up this morning and pressed play on this one, what a cracker of a match! Some sublime tries from both sides, 'Saders always looked to have the game in hand, but the Lions just kept coming. Will be surprised if its not the game of the round.

We are blessed with a comp like Super Rugby, games of the highest quality spread over 4 continents, it also augers well for the 4N comp.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Highlights (or as many as they could fit into 91 seconds):

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Kings 33-28 Sunwolves

Bulls 23-18 Cheetahs

 

[galumay]

Poor old Sunwolves! Very entertaining game, stoic defence by the Kings in that second half, SW's just refused to give up and kept coming at them. In hindsight they had so much time in the 22 that they should have just taken the repeated penalties and probably would have built a winning lead.

Instead they kept going for a try which was entertaining but eventually fruitless. Probably felt they were going to crack the Kings defence eventually or see a YC for the King's repeated penalties - neither eventuated and in the end it was the Kings that got the try at the other end.

Real feel for the SW's, they are playing entertaining rugby and getting oh so close.