The primary playoff spherical of the EPCR Problem Cup didn’t get off to a great begin for SA groups as Edinburgh claimed a cushty win over the Lions, however first up for the South African sides on Saturday would be the Bulls’ battle towards Bayonne.
Jake White’s staff come off a morale-boosting three-match successful streak within the URC – one in every of which was a rewarding 21-20 victory towards Irish powerhouse Leinster – a development they wish to construct on they put together for the enterprise finish of each the EPCR Problem Cup and URC respectively.
They will even draw inspiration from the truth that they’ve confirmed they’ll win on the highway, with victories towards the Ospreys, Benetton, and Connacht within the URC.
In addition they registered a complete 48-7 victory towards Stade Francais within the Investec Champions Cup in Pretoria – the identical aspect that defeated Bayonne by 31-27 two weeks in the past within the High 14.
Bayonne v Bulls
Date: Saturday, 5 April
Venue: Stade Jean Dauger, Bayonne
SA Time: 13h30
Referee: Christophe Ridley
TV: SuperSport
Problem Cup | Dwell scoring: Bulls v Bayonne
The Bulls, who’re at present in third place on the URC desk with 10 victories in 14 matches, will again themselves towards Bayonne regardless of successful solely one in every of their 4 pool matches within the Champions Cup, in comparison with three victories out of 4 by the opposition within the EPCR Problem Cup this season.
They are going to, nevertheless, need to ship a high quality show on assault and defence to emerge victorious because the hosts come off back-to-back wins within the competitors and could have full religion of their talents as fourth-placed staff within the High 14, who will even be enjoying in entrance of their passionate dwelling crowd and in vastly completely different situations to that which the Pretoria outfit are used to in South Africa.
Groups
Aviron Bayonnais: 15 Cheikh Tiberghien, 14 Nadir Megdoud, 13 Arnaud Erbinartegaray, 12 Federico Mori, 11 Xan Mousques, 10 Tom Spring, 9 Baptiste Germain, 8 Giovanni Habel-Kuffner (captain), 7 Rémi Bourdeau, 6 Noa Traversier, 5 Alex Moon, 4 Veikoso Poloniati, 3 Tevita Tatafu, 2 Lucas Martin, 1 Pierre Castillon.
Replacements: 16 Vincent Giudicelli, 17 Martin Villar, 18 Pieter Scholtz, 19 Denis Marchois, 20 Lucas Paulos, 21 Baptiste Chouzenoux, 22 Baptiste Tilloles, 23 Aurélien Callandret.
Bulls: 15 Devon Williams, 14 Sergeal Petersen, 13 David Kriel, 12 Harold Vorster, 11 Stravino Jacobs, 10 Keagan Johannes, 9 Izak Burger, 8 Marcell Coetzee (captain), 7 Jannes Kirsten, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 JF van Heerden, 4 Reinhardt Ludwig, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Armand van der Merwe, 1 Simphiwe Matanzima.
Replacements: 16 Jan-Hendrik Wessels, 17 Alulutho Tshakweni, 18 Mornay Smith, 19 Ruan Nortjé, 20 Cameron Hanekom, 21 Embrose Papier, 22 Johan Goosen, 23 Stedman Gans.
Referee: Christophe Ridley (England)
Assistant referees: Sara Cox (England) & Jack Makepeace (England)
TMO: Stuart Terheege (England)
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