It hurts me to see a South Africa team beat an New Zealand team but you just have to take your hat off to what the Bulls did to the Chiefs at Loftus on Saturday. Going into the game, I was pretty sure that the Bulls were going to win this game but I did not expect them to win by the margin they did. I honestly do no think that anyone predicted this win margin. Usually finals are close affairs with very few tries and the winner usually coming from the team with the most kicks on goal. But on Saturday we were treated to a feast of tries.

A final score of 61-17 to the Bulls was massive. That is almost a 50 point win! The Chiefs just did not pitch up for this game. They may have started well with an early try which got me excited but that was about all as the Bulls started to run the game. One may say that the Chiefs lost because they had to travel from New Zealand to South Africa and play at altitude but that is no excuse! Even if the game was in New Zealand, I still believe the Bulls would have won with the form they showed on Saturday.

I had thought that the Bulls would use the Morne Steyn drop goal tactic through out the game but instead they did not rely on Steyn’s boot but rather just ran the ball. I can not single out a Bulls player who was head and shoulders better than his team mates on Saturday, the whole team did well.

Congratulations to the Bulls on a job well done. Bring on the British & Irish Lions now!

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