1
Bulls clinch home play-off with Benetton win
By PA
The Bulls booked a home tie in the United Rugby Championship play-offs after beating Benetton 56-35 at Loftus Versfeld.
Jake White’s team scored nine tries, securing a bonus-point victory which ensured a top-four finish with one game of the regular season left.
It was job done after just 25 minutes as Canan Moodie, David Kriel, Kurt-Lee Arendse and Ruan Nortje claimed touchdowns, with Johan Goosen kicking three conversions.
Moodie added two more tries to finish with a hat-trick and there were further scores from Kriel, Akker van der Merwe and Johan Grobbelaar, plus another Goosen conversion and a Chris Smith penalty.
Benetton posted scores from Onisi Ratave, Gianmarco Lucchesi, Andy Uren, Toa Halafihi and Marco Zanon, all converted by Rhyno Smith, as a try bonus-point kept them in play-off contention.
Trending on RugbyPass
2
No Barrett or Snyman as Leinster roll out 6'10, 138kg giant against Sh
3
Test rookie Dylan Richardson to make move to Scotland
4
Leinster lining up Springbok to replace Jordie Barrett
5
Latest Comments
Dan Edwards at 10 for starters no more will Rowlands plenty of locks better than him fender carter raati and stop going on about how great tomas Williams is finally get one of our locks and change him into a flanker we need a bigger man in the backrow right coach wales will beat Japan comfortably
Go to commentsProbably ruled himself out via poor attitude already and no amount of reiko talking up individuality will remove the sulks hes had in the past. England have good forwards already
Go to comments