Date : Friday, May 15, 2015 Kick Off : 09:35 Venue : Eden Park Tournament : Super Rugby Round : pool stage
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Blues

18LB

Bulls

Match Blues vs Bulls

Match between Blues squad and Bulls squad was played at Eden Park as of round #14 of Super Rugby . Before kick-off Blues was in 12th position and Bulls 6th.

Lineups

Game sheet Blues vs Bulls
YC	Penalty	Conversion	Try	Players		Players	Try	Conversion	Penalty
				Tony WOODCOCK	1	Trevor NYAKANE
				James PARSONS	2	Adriaan STRAUSS
				Charlie FAUMUINA	3	Marcel VAN DER MERWE
				Culum RETALLICK	4	Flip VAN DER MERWE
				Josh BEKHUIS	5	Victor MATFIELD
				Akira IOANE	6	Lappies LABUSCHAGNÉ
				Brendon O'CONNOR	7	Arno BOTHA
				Steven LUATUA	8	Pierre SPIES
				Jamison GIBSON-PARK	9	Rudy PAIGE
	10' 35' 38'	19' 69'		Ihaia WEST	10	Handré POLLARD		32'	7' 17'
				Melani NANAI	11	Björn BASSON
			67'	George MOALA	12	Jan SERFONTEIN	31' 52'
				Francis SAILI	13	JJ ENGELBRECHT
				Ben LAM	14	François HOUGAARD
			18'	Lolagi VISINIA	15	Jesse KRIEL

				Keven MEALAMU	16	Callie VISAGIE
				Ofa TU'UNGAFASI	17	Dean GREYLING
				Sam PRATTLEY	18	Jacques DU PLESSIS
				William LLOYD	19	Deon STEGMANN
				Blake GIBSON	20	Burger ODENDAAL
				Jimmy COWAN	21	Jacques-Louis POTGIETER
				Simon HICKEY	22	Travis ISMAIEL
				Matt VAEGA	23	Werner KRUGER
Replacements
LUATUA 🡇 🡅 GIBSON 53'					#1	51' LABUSCHAGNÉ 🡇 🡅 STEGMANN
PARSONS 🡇 🡅 MEALAMU 53'					#2	51' BOTHA 🡇 🡅 DU PLESSIS
RETALLICK 🡇 🡅 LLOYD 62'					#3	58' PAIGE 🡇 🡅 ISMAIEL
FAUMUINA 🡇 🡅 TU'UNGAFASI 62'					#4	63' NYAKANE 🡇 🡅 GREYLING
GIBSON-PARK 🡇 🡅 COWAN 69'					#5	63' VAN DER MERWE 🡇 🡅 KRUGER
BEKHUIS 🡇 🡅 RETALLICK 69'					#6	69' STRAUSS 🡇 🡅 VISAGIE
WOODCOCK 🡇 🡅 PRATTLEY 71'					#7

Interesting datas⁽¹⁾

Blues	VS	Bulls
915 kg (114.38 kg)	Pack weight (average)	916 kg (114.50 kg)
27 ans	Forwards average age	28 ans
24 ans	Backs average age	25 ans
200 cm	Tallest player	201 cm
New Zealand : 80% (12/15) Samoa : 13% (2/15) Tonga : 7% (1/15)	Differents nationalities for starters	South Africa : 100% (15/15)
New Zealand : 83% (19/23) Samoa : 9% (2/23) Tonga : 9% (2/23)	Differents nationalities for all the team	South Africa : 100% (23/23)

(1) Calculations based on data in the database, which may be incomplete.

Timeline

Score : 0 - 0, 0 - 3, 3 - 3, 3 - 6, 8 - 6, 10 - 6, 10 - 11, 10 - 13, 13 - 13, 16 - 13, 16 - 18, 21 - 18, 23 - 18
Gap : 0, -3, 0, -3, +2, +4, -1, -3, 0, +3, -2, +3, +5

Standings before and after

Before

Super Rugby Round 13		Pts	P.	W.	L.	Diff.	B.
1	Brumbies	5	1	1	0	44	1
2	Western Force	5	1	1	0	12	1
3	Cheetahs	5	1	1	0	6	1
4	Hurricanes	4	1	1	0	14	0
5	Stormers	4	1	1	0	12	0
6	Rebels	4	1	1	0	10	0
7	Chiefs	4	1	1	0	5	0
8	Blues	1	1	0	1	-5	1
9	Sharks	1	1	0	1	-6	1
10	Highlanders	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Crusaders	0	1	0	1	-10	0
12	Waratahs	0	1	0	1	-12	0
13	Bulls	0	1	0	1	-12	0
14	Lions	0	1	0	1	-14	0
15	Reds	0	1	0	1	-44	0

After

Super Rugby Round 14		Pts	P.	W.	L.	Diff.	B.
1	Hurricanes	52	12	11	1	119	8
2	Chiefs	39	12	8	4	73	7
3	Highlanders	39	12	8	4	69	7
4	Brumbies	38	13	7	6	102	10
5	Waratahs	36	12	8	4	40	4
6	Bulls	35	12	7	5	43	7
7	Stormers	34	12	8	4	26	2
8	Crusaders	31	12	6	6	100	7
9	Lions	31	13	7	6	-50	3
10	Rebels	30	12	6	6	-14	6
11	Sharks	21	13	4	9	-96	5
12	Blues	20	13	3	10	-62	8
13	Cheetahs	20	12	4	8	-109	4
14	Reds	16	12	3	9	-155	4
15	Western Force	15	12	2	10	-86	7