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Bulls clinch home play-off with Benetton win
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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.
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"Argentina by multiple leagues of magnitude played better than Ireland today"
Utter nonsense. Ireland left a lot of scores out there.
Go to commentsYou can't have wholesale criticism of Borthwick when he brings on Ford for Smith and then criticise him when he doesn't. Why was Ford on the bench? In case Smith was injured of course.
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