Whatever brief moments of structure to emerge came mainly through driving mauls off of line-outs, with three of the first four tries in the opening half, coming via that unimaginative method. The scrums were a mess, with penalty after penalty at that set-piece, while passes went laughably astray and basic handling was non-existent. The Cheetahs won 29-14 but the real losers were the poor folk who paid to watch.ĭescribing it as a “scrappy affair” would be a compliment. In fact for long periods of a Currie Cup match featuring two teams who started the penultimate round of matches in the top four on the log, the Cheetahs and Pumas may have been playing in the dark, such was the paucity of quality on display. In a country where electricity is such a scarce commodity, it was a waste of the nation’s resources to have the lights on at the Mbombela Stadium on Saturday night.
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