The Vodacom Bulls left hoofprints throughout a hapless Scarlets in a nine-try mauling at Loftus Versfeld on Friday evening.
The guests capitulated within the face of the hosts’ highly effective strike-runners, who attacked a porous line of defense at will in a 57-12 victory for the Bulls within the Vodacom United Rugby Championship.
Trailing 31-7 on the interval, Scarlets made the worst attainable begin to the second half after Ioan Nicholas was yellow-carded for taking out Madosh Tambwe, earlier than Ruan Nortje ran the size of the pitch for a landing after a sneaky interception.
The Bulls gave Scarlets no time to settle as the lads in blue hurtled upfield for one of many tries of the season, Johan Grobbelaar ending off the primary of his two tries on the evening.
Marcell Coetzee capped off one other sterling efficiency when the Bulls skipper exploited the tiniest of gaps for his second attempt of the match, with Rob Evans’ attempt on the dying scarce comfort for Scarlets.
The Bulls struck as early because the third minute after Elrigh Louw shocked the protection off the again of a 5m scrum, earlier than offloading to Canan Moodie out broad, with Chris Smith including the extras.
Tambwe then unleashed the damaging Kurt-Lee Arendse, who ran the space to attain, just for his effort to be disallowed on a TMO evaluate. However Coetzee was to not be denied, as he powered over from shut quarters for an unconverted five-pointer.
Cyle Brink nabbed the house facet’s third attempt from a robust driving maul, Smith once more failing to transform, however he made no mistake to make it 22-0 after Grobbelaar crossed the whitewash.
Louw then added his identify to the scoresheet, the No 8 ending off within the nook after Tambwe was stopped in need of the road, earlier than Sione Kalamafoni dotted down for the guests as the primary half drew to an in depth.
Strive of the season? Tell us. 😀@Vodacom #URC #BULvSCA #SSRugby #NorthvsSouth pic.twitter.com/CoCyiWXYqN
— vodacomrugby (@VodacomRugga) March 18, 2022
Tambwe is having enjoyable tonight! 149 meters in 56 minutes. #BULvSCA pic.twitter.com/joVe3IcDEx
— Jared Wright (@jaredwright17) March 18, 2022
A quick abstract of the primary half. #URC #BULvSCA pic.twitter.com/jOeO5OK8MF
— LloydEM (@Lloydyy22) March 18, 2022
The captain was just too sturdy. 💪@Vodacom #URC #BULvSCA #SSRugby pic.twitter.com/Y6v0jZhJcR
— vodacomrugby (@VodacomRugga) March 18, 2022
That’s the way you begin a house sport!@Vodacom #URC #BULvSCA #SSRugby pic.twitter.com/pWuGNuT7qk
— vodacomrugby (@VodacomRugga) March 18, 2022
