Bulls swamped by rampant ’Canes

CURIOUSLY‚ in this instance it is perhaps adding injury to insult‚ as the Bulls suffered a freakish number of casualties in their 34-20 defeat to the Hurricanes at Loftus Versfeld.

Hurricanes captain TJ Perenara remarked it was the most physical game they had been involved in this season and the injury list certainly lends credence to his sentiment.

The Bulls are likely to be without eighthman Hanro Liebenberg for the rest of the season after he departed the field with a serious ankle injury.

“Hanro is not good,” said coach Nollis Marais. “He went to hospital for X-rays. It might be a broken ankle or a sindesmosis‚ so it’s not going to be good.”

He wasn’t the only Bull player lost in action.

Replacement back Ulrich Beyers had barely been on the field when he was helped from the field with a calf injury.

Beyers was on the field because fullback Warwick Gelant had limped to the sidelines.

It was a brutal clash at times.

The Bulls had to rearrange their personnel‚ which did little for the cohesion of a side already low in confidence.

“When it goes wrong it goes wrong in a big way‚” Marais said.

“Jannes [Kirsten] had concussion as did Jacobie [Adriaanse] and we had to take them off.”