By David van der Merwe
Our South African columnist, David van der Merwe, will be providing a weekly team-by-team preview of the Super Rugby season. He will preview one team from South Africa, New Zealand and Australia every week and in this edition he will preview The Brumbies, The Lions and The Blues.

Report by David van der Merwe

The Cheetahs made the journey to Newlands for a clash that promised to be full of running and hard rugby against WP. With WP 2nd and the Cheetahs 4th on the log before this round it was expected to be tough with both teams putting everything on the line.

The first half did not disappoint at all. The Cheetahs put first points on the board through a Johan Goosen penalty. Dewaldt Duvehage then handed them their first try when he passed the ball to Robert Ebersohn. Robert gave the ball to Cameron Jacobs who scored. Goosen promptly converted. Shortly after this Piet v Zyl went over for the Cheetahs and after the Goosen conversion it was 17-0 after just 17 minutes. WP fought back with two Lionel Cronje penalties to make it 17-6. But Lappies Labuschagne had the last say in the half as he scored his try. Goosen again converted and the teams went at 24-6.