The Bulls won their fifth game in this year's Super 14 competition when they deservedly beat the Hurricanes 19-18 in a tense and seldom attractive match at Loftus on Friday night after trailing for 67 minutes of the game.
A second half of mostly one-dimensional but effective and clinical rugby by the Bulls saw them home with the forwards grinding away at the Hurricanes line for the greater part of the half.
With the Hurricanes having done their homework on the Bulls' backline moves, they seldom broke the advantage line. Unlike their previous five matches when they ran in the tries almost at will and failed to breach the 50 mark only once, the Bulls failed to score more than just the one try by Zane Kirchner on 30 minutes.
For the Bulls the biggest plus of the match is that they came from behind to win, and that their defence, so often suspect in recent matches, this time held out a quality Hurricanes backline that had enough good ball especially before the break.
Halftime had been taken with the Hurricanes 15-10 ahead - and a Willie Ripia penalty put the visitors 18-10 ahead after 48 minutes before two penalties by Morne Steyn took it to 18-16, still in favour of the visitors, after 57 minutes.
The Bulls by now had full control of the match and took the lead for the first time with less than 13 minutes left when Walsh found the visitors' play at the breakdown unacceptable. Steyn's penalty made it 19-18.
