The Northern Bulls have made it two wins from two clashes after successfully defeating the Mpumalanga Panthers 60 – 32 in Witbank last weekend in the South African Rugby League Provincial Championship.
The current Jan Prinsloo Cup holders were too strong for the home team, passing the half century mark for the second time already this season. 
In other Provincial Championship matches, the Northern Bulls Invitational defeated the Limpopo Bisons whilst the Eastern Eagles defeated the North Western Warthogs.
Provincial Championship: Round Two
Northern Bulls Invitational 46 defeated Limpop Bisons 24
Northern Bulls 60 defeated Mpumalanga Panthers 32
Eastern Eagles 60 defeated North Western Warthogs 26
Provincial Youth Clash
Mpumalanga Panthers 22 defeated Northern Bulls 14
Provincial Championship: Ladder
Northern Bulls – 10 Pts
Northern Bulls Invitational – 10 Pts
Mpumalanga Panthers – 6 Pts
Eastern Eagles – 5 Pts
North Western Warthogs – 2 Pts
Limpopo Bisons – 1 Pts

TuksRugbyLeague was invited to participate in an exhibition Rugby League-match at the Future Blue Bulls Union Tournament hosted at Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria on the 22 June 2019.
This tournament is earmarked to become one of the regular tournaments on the rugby-union calendar in the future.
Due to union commitments resulting in only a few RL-club-players being available, at this time of the year, invitations were extended to other provinces and clubs to nominate and aware their players of this change to “show-boat” RL- with the union-code.

It was quite a surprise to see the interest to play in the match.  As the union-tournament games were played on the various pitches at Loftus the exhibition RL-match had a spectator value of ±300 people around the pitch watching the game.  The game entertained the spectators with the typical fast plays, as associated with Rugby League, resulted in a regular flow of tries been scored.  Willie Ferreira surprised us all by slotting well in the “commentator-chair” by doing live commentating for all to hear- while the game was played.

Interest was seen & heard all around.  During the game interest was noted by some of the spectators asking reference to when and where they can attend when the season starts.

On the day it must be noted that sharing different codes on the same pitch brings interest and entertainment that can be shared by all.
Hopefully such an event can be duplicated for all.

On behalf of TuksRL Management we would like to say thank you to the following persons that participated & assisted on the fun day.​

Match Officials:

• Willie
• Warren
• Riaan
• Henry
• Janice

The Mpumalanga Panthers has beaten the Northern Bulls in the Jan Prinsloo Cup Final on Saturday18-16.

This is the 2nd Consecutive year that the Panthers wins the Cup.

The Bulls have announced their coaching staff for the upcoming season. Congrats to all - and good luck.

Brian Griege from Australia (RLIF / NRL / Asian Pacific Conference) has been busy mentoring and coaching various clubs in Mpumalanga during the past 3 weeks.

During his stay - he will also be assisting the Coaches and Referees in Gauteng and Western Cape as well as assist the Rhinos Development with specific aim for next years WC Qualifiers.

Below are some snapshots of his visit to Mpumalanga Panthers region to date.

The SARL Provincial Final (Jan Prinsloo Cup) was hosted at Tuks Groenkloof Campus on 22 February 2014. The game was played with the same high-intensive spirit as with the last encounter between the two provincial teams.  As a typical final, both teams did not allow the other team to get much freedom on the pitch.  Tackles were typical rugby league style – group tackling of quality.  Under footing was heavy due to the past few day’s raining in Pretoria and the humidity started to show it’s effect with players showing signs of cramping in the second half.

The Northern Bulls came out victorious with the final score 26 – 4 at the sound of the final hooter.

Scoring




First Half-

Nardus Raubenheimer (Northern Bulls) open the scoreboard for the day which Jean Coetzer converted. Score: Northern Bulls 6 – 0 MP Panthers.

The Panthers then hit back by scoring their first unconverted try by the right wing, Mtzwake Fransman. Score: Northern Bulls 6 – 4 MP Panthers.

Peet V/d Merwe (Northern Bulls) scored the next unconverted try on the left  wing. Score: Northern Bulls 10 – 4 MP Panthers.

Second Half-

After the break Juan Greenberg (Northern Bulls) on replacement wing scored the third try that was converted by Jean Coetzer. Score: Northern Bulls 16 – 4 MP Panthers.

Steynberg Van Zyl (Northern Bulls) kept his habit warm by scoring the fourth try. Score: Northern Bulls 20 – 4 MP Panthers.

Captain Courages - Allen Kasselman (Northern Bulls) nailed the last try that Piet (Chuck) de Jager converted.

Final Score: Northern Bulls 26 – 4 MP Panthers

Yellow Card: Nardus Raubenheimer (Northern Bulls).

Man of the Match: (As nominated by the Opposition)

Northern Bulls: Jean-Pierre Nel

MP Panthers: Samuel Schmidt

Match Officials

Referee: Rudolf du Plooy

Line 1: Warren Pretorius

Line 2: Henry Warrington

Match Commissioner: AJ Barnard