Burke blitz clips Falcons' wings
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:13
Boland captain Conrad Burke scored a last minute intercept try to secure a 48-42 victory over the Falcons in their First Round Currie Cup match at Bosman Stadium in Brakpan on Friday.
It was a case of dejavu when Burke intercepted a loose pass from a Falcons player close to the half-way line. A year ago tighthead prop Andries Human scored a similar try to set up a Boland victory at the same venue. Burke sprinted 40 metres for the winning try.
The Falcons only have themselves to blame after leading 36-17 at the break with some scintillating running rugby.
But they committed rugby suicide in the second half as they tried to run every ball - even
from their own tryline - to their own demise.
Veteran Boland wing John Daniels has lost a lot of his pace, but the Currie Cup try-scoring record holder scored another hat-trick in a game that produced 11 tries.
The Boland led 10-3 after Daniels set up a try for Justin Peach early in the match.
Peach finished the game with 23 points to his tally. He converted all six tries - some with precision kicking from the sideline - and he kicked two penalties.
The Falcons played some sublime rugby in the first half and looked certain to score their first Currie Cup victory in two seasons after the first 40 minutes.
With flyhalf Riaan Smit running the show with his precision passing, the Falcons easily ran in five tries and looked like certain winners.
Left wing Luvo Sogidashe, outside centre Rowan Cloete, scrumhalf Gerrie Odendaal and veteran No.8 Sean Plaatjies all shared in the try feast.
With a 19 point lead it is still hard to understand how they squandered this game.
The scorers:
For the Falcons:
Tries: Sogidashe 2, Cloete, Odendaal, Plaatjies
Cons: Smit 4
Pens: Smit 3
For the Boland Cavaliers:
Tries:
Daniels 3, Peach, Hugo, Burke
Cons: Peach 6
Pens: Peach 2
Teams:
Falcons: 15 Jacques Schutte, 14 Ernie Kruger, 13 Rouan Cloete, 12 Hanno Coetzee (captain), 11 Luvo Sogidashe, 10 Riaan Smit, 9 Gerrie Odendaal, 8 Sean Plaatjies, 7 Emile Verster, 6 Uwe Sauer, 5 Wouter Moore, 4 Marius Coetzer, 3 Nico Pretorius, 2 Rayno Barnes, 1 Gavin Whittingham.
Replacements: 16 Rassie van Vuuren, 17 Frik Venter, 18 Reg Perkins, 19 Reg Muller, 20 Poerie van Rooyen, 21 Len Olivier, 22 Showan Smith.
Boland: 15 Justin Peach, 14 John Daniels, 13 Piet van Zyl, 12 Lionel Cornelius, 11 Alvin Hugo, 10 Elgar Watts, 9 Marnus Hugo, 8 Dries van Schalkwyk, 7 Whalied Heyns, 6 Frankie Horne, 5 Coenie Basson, 4 Cecil Kemp, 3 Andries Human, 2 Conrad Burke (captain), 1 Jean Botha.
Replacements: 16 Clemen Lewis, 17 WP Nel, 18 Frikkie Spies, 19 Mpho
Mbiyozo, 20 Ricardo Jones, 21 Deon Scholtz, 22 Stefan Basson.
Referee: Jaco Peyper
Touch judges: Gareth Lloyd-Jones, Peet Badenhorst
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