It was a great day in South African rugby when the Bulls played the Stormers in Soweto on Saturday - a day to rival the opening of the 1995 World Cup and the Final of the 1995 World Cup, a day that showed Bulls and its rugby at its cheerful best.

The Bulls won a splendid match 25-17 - the third time they have won the Super 14, the second time in succession.

Sanctionary Cards

There was none.

Penalties conceded

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

Total number of penalties: 19

Bulls: 8
Stormers: 11

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Bulls:
Tackle: 7 (Olivier, Rossouw*, Spies, Pretorius, Wannenburg 2, Maku)
Discipline: 1 (Steyn - high tackle)

Stormers:
Tackle: 5 (Jaque Fourie, Burger, Vermeulen*, Aplon, Pietersen)
Offside: 1 (Vermeulen)
Scrum: 3 (Blaauw, Kritzinger** 2)
Discipline: 2 (Blaauw* + 10; Bekker - jumping on tackle/ruck)

The Bulls and the Stormers each missed a penalty kick at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 12/19 - 63%

Getting possession - line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs, turn-overs

In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.

Bulls:
Line-outs: 11 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (6 resets, 5 collapses, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 2

Stormers:
Line-outs: 9 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 3
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 3

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 60

Tries: 3

Bulls: 1
Stormers: 2