Bulls burnt as Chiliboy crashes
22 Jan 2008
The Bulls’ already worrying injury situation was compounded yesterday when Chiliboy Ralepelle left training having injured the same knee that has kept him sidelined for nine months.
Ralepelle tore his cruciate knee ligament early in last year’s Super 14 and hasn’t played since. With Gary Botha’s departure for the London-based Harlequins, Ralepelle was expected to be the first-choice hooker.
Derick Kuün filled the role in the Currie Cup but his stint only reinforced the widely held view that he would be better suited to the flank, where he starred for the SA U21s. James van der Walt, signed from the Lions last year, has hardly had any game time in either the Currie Cup or Super 14 and would be a risky option for the Bulls.
Bulls team doctor Tommie Smook played down concerns about Ralepelle saying he would be out for around two weeks.
“It looks like a medial ligament and not the cruciate that he tore last year, but I’ll have to wait until the swelling subsides to know for sure,” Smook told keo.co.za. “If that’s the case we’re talking a few weeks out of the game, not months.”
Bulls coach Frans Ludeke will be concerned at how many of his key players are injured just three weeks from the start of the Super 14. Already Bakkies Botha and Gurthro Steenkamp are almost certain to miss start of the tournament, while Pierre Spies’ availability depends on the result of tests that will conducted at the end of January.
“They’ll do a few blood tests and scans to reconfirm that their is no longer a problem with Pierre,” Smook said of the Springbok loose forward who, in August last year, was diagnosed with blood clots on his lungs.
“From there the specialist will decide whether he requires further treatment on the blood thinning medication or whether he is fit to play. If he doesn’t get a clean bill of health there he’ll have another round of tests at the end of February, and I’m optimistic that those tests will show he has recovered.”
By Ryan Vrede
576 Comments
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22 Jan 2008, 10:02 am
it does not look to bad.
Lets hope it stays that way.
We need him…if Kuun gets the job…we in kuk
22 Jan 2008, 10:07 am
with the new laws, I think Chilliboy was going to be one of the stars of this years S14
22 Jan 2008, 10:10 am
never talk up any player..Chillyboy is like 5 yrs away from reachimg his peak and living up to his hype.
sad he is down but he will not be a great loss.
22 Jan 2008, 10:11 am
#3 True but to reach his peak he needs gametime!!!
22 Jan 2008, 10:16 am
The Bulls are in trouble.
22 Jan 2008, 10:17 am
Okay G13, what of 21 yr old Spies
22 Jan 2008, 10:17 am
Given who you have left to take up his position gerber, I reckon it would be quite a loss. That Kuun fellow hardly inspires confidence.
22 Jan 2008, 10:17 am
Bulls have a mountain to climb with all these disruptions.
Sadly, Chilli’s turning ioto a sick-note ala Chavhanga. Fantastic potential, but never fit enough to build up any momentum…
22 Jan 2008, 10:19 am
#7 Kuun is not a good hooker!!!! but boy he is a good loosie
22 Jan 2008, 10:19 am
That did not come out right hehehehehe
22 Jan 2008, 10:20 am
#3 – Dear Lord, I’m unsure as to whether I should pray for Greatest, or just leave his soul to rot in the cesspit……God, please give me a sign as to what I should do??
#5 – They’ve lost their cheerleader Steve….I think that bothers the faithful more than the loss of a great player such as Chilliboy….Go figure!
22 Jan 2008, 10:22 am
i vote cesspit!
22 Jan 2008, 10:22 am
E,
I thought he was average at best in the CC in 2007, and his captaincy even worse.
Reminds me of that hooker WP used to have a couple of years back, Morne van Wyk I believe.
22 Jan 2008, 10:22 am
Hi there Ruck
Yippeeeeeee the bulls fan bashing can once again commence for a change!!!!
22 Jan 2008, 10:23 am
#13 Yes PA I agree but he was forced to play out of position and to captain……when he plays his postion he is brilliant
22 Jan 2008, 10:25 am
No Meyer, no Matfield, no hooker, an ever more injury prone Bakkies, Spies with a cloud surrounding him, no #12 centre and JP Nel at 13. It might just be a long season for the Bulls.
22 Jan 2008, 10:26 am
There goes gerber again.
Blah blah blah whine whine whinge whinge.
gerber just admit it. He’s too black for your liking.
22 Jan 2008, 10:28 am
true Dawn. Hi, and compliments of the new year.
22 Jan 2008, 10:30 am
#17 Dawn just so you know………..not all Bulls fans have a problem with colour!!! In fact the majority don’t have, and this is not solely a bulls occurrence, unfortunately it is country wide, but of course, as all things bulls, it is apparantly just the bulls supporters!!!! My fave vodacom and CC player is John Mametsa!!!!!
22 Jan 2008, 10:32 am
in greatests defence, we havent seen enough of chiliboy to really justify the hype.
good player and definately talented enough but injury prone. damn and damn again.
kinda reminds me of butch and his famous knees!
22 Jan 2008, 10:32 am
Before 1994 we shouted “white power” !
After 1994 the ANC shouted “black power” !
At last we can all shout together no “NO POWER” !
22 Jan 2008, 10:34 am
lol trip
no shouting for me. i am saving my vocal chords for the S14!
22 Jan 2008, 10:36 am
LOL #22
Cant wait, wish all the SA teams can feature this season!!!!! I love it love it love it!!!!! as long as the convicts’ teams dont feature!!!!!
22 Jan 2008, 10:42 am
ja trip
hope the convicts crash and burn. but we can be sure they will exploit these new laws, just hope our thinkers do the same. not too sure about ludekes ability to exploit anything but his contacts but time will tell and good luck to the man! (and thats from a wounded sharks supporter, still trying to mend my heart after the S14 final!)
22 Jan 2008, 10:46 am
Wonder what Escom has in mind during S14 time for power at the stadiums. I can also hear the construction PTY’s blaming escom for not finishing the stadiums.
Wonder if the current stadiums can run from a generator(s)?
22 Jan 2008, 10:48 am
#25
2010 soccer stadiums that is.
22 Jan 2008, 10:49 am
isigidi
morning to you.
everyone is buying gennies. all the stadiums will have one by now i am sure. what concerns me is the power going off when i am in front of the tv and the sharks are leading the crusaders by 2 pts in the final minute with the crusaders on all out attack!
well, then again, the sharks will probably lose anyway so why worry?
22 Jan 2008, 10:50 am
i think chilli is faking. he got fed up with ludecrous’s mad mumbling and has decided he wants out of the bulls set-up hehe
22 Jan 2008, 10:53 am
Martin, you may not be too far off.
22 Jan 2008, 10:54 am
Bulls to be wooden spooners in 2008
22 Jan 2008, 10:55 am
Is it true that Justin Marshall hit Chilliboy on the knee with a baseball bat?
22 Jan 2008, 10:58 am
Bhupendra.
Turn you log point shedule the right way around!!!
No wonder you support the team you do….you keep on seeing them at the top of the log every year.
Come buddy you can do better then that!
22 Jan 2008, 10:58 am
All anti-Bull supporters are powerless, their comments like Stormer dust in the wind….why? Because the Bulls are the SUPER 14 CHAMPS. Until any other SA team matches this feat….respect the Bulls. After all, we read these same old comments year after year….
We will FOREVER be the first SA team to have ever won the SUP14. Deal with it.
GO with the Blou.
22 Jan 2008, 11:01 am
33, maybe your arrogrance and graceless ways is what makes the rest of the country not like you
22 Jan 2008, 11:02 am
33. There are a few NZ sides who cannot wait to show who the actual S14 champs are. No 2nd NZ teams playing this year buddy, so a S14 title would actually be worth something, not kinda hollow like a Bulls supporters head.
22 Jan 2008, 11:03 am
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE – Am I the only Bulls basher that strolls the hallowed halls of Keo??? It seems that in my absence an even harsher form of Bulls Breakdown-dancing takes place……Look, all you need to get most of us going is G13G. Hell, even Bhupendra, who is in Australia, is calling the Bulls wooden spooners……I don’t hate the Bulls, I am irritated by the karavaan/ratkas mindset that seems to dovetail Bulls support,IN GENERAL that is…You, Kwagga, Staal, Bluebarb and a few others are the EXCEPTION, unfortunately the rest are the RULE……..
22 Jan 2008, 11:04 am
I await the 16th Feb with anticipation… this mob do not look very convincing at all
A Bulls thread without GBS, Tacitus and Cousin seems a bit lame… time for the green card Ignatious (or Ignatious’ shadow)
22 Jan 2008, 11:05 am
This is a moerse set-back. Lets hope its not too serious.
True to form I see Dawn pulled the race card again………FFS!
#30 BDS I doubt if we will be wooden spooners but we are looking down the barrel at this point.
22 Jan 2008, 11:05 am
I`ve got your back ruck….
22 Jan 2008, 11:05 am
you lot must be careful about how you run the bulls down. if they are as bad as you make them out to be, what are you going to say when the third string, leaderless sicknote Bulls thrash your magnificent teams?
22 Jan 2008, 11:06 am
39, Ruck , i recommend you get some disinfectant and a good anti-bacterial..
22 Jan 2008, 11:08 am
bluebarb
And what will you say when your magnificent team gets dissected by the smallcocked ladyboy Stormers of dubious sexuality?
22 Jan 2008, 11:09 am
34, eat me, why should we be gracious in victory when you lot have been so disgraceful in defeat?
22 Jan 2008, 11:09 am
bluebarb, jou flippin grapgat!
22 Jan 2008, 11:09 am
Tony,
you see it as hollow!!
look at it this way…we won the super 14…against the 2nd stringers ( as you call them )now in this same year against the 2nd stringer….what happend to the Stormers, Lions and the cheaters?
Come now, Think about it…if we had a hollow victory…what did you have…seeing your teem get beaten week in and week out…by the so called kuk teams!!
22 Jan 2008, 11:10 am
42, i’d say i was quite sure about your lot being ladyboys, but the you revelation that they are hung like squirrels is very amusing.
22 Jan 2008, 11:10 am
Karavaa/ratkas mindset………fukkit Ruck jy crack my elke dag op……goeies!!!!
22 Jan 2008, 11:11 am
45, Steyntjie, we were just ****!!! Nobody`s arguing that.
All I want to know is if you guys would`ve been champs if the Blues and Crusaders had their best teams on the field?
22 Jan 2008, 11:12 am
#45 Shot!!! More Steyn Bulletjie
22 Jan 2008, 11:13 am
Naaa Steyn
We see it as hollow, as you got away with disgraceful cheating in the last minute of the final in the build up to that “try”
Personally, I wouldnt be able to live with myself as a supporter if my team had won a trothy like that, never mind brag about it…
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