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Pretoria - Bulls coach Nollis Marais made two changes to his starting team that will play their final regular
season match of the Super Rugby competition against the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein
on Saturday.
Tian Schoeman will start at flyhalf for
the Pretoria team, while Marcel van der Merwe
will begin at tighthead prop.
Both players started off the bench
against the Sunwolves last weekend
and swap places with Francois Brummer and Werner Kruger respectively.
There is one other change on the bench, with Bandise Maku coming in for Jaco Visagie.
“We want to finish this phase with some momentum,” Marais said.
"This group developed nicely this season
and I am happy about the progress we
have shown. It may very well be a final
opportunity for a number of players to
represent the Bulls and I expect a very
positive effort from them.”
Captain Adriaan Strauss knows that
Bloemfontein will be a hostile environment.
"The Cheetahs will try to finish strong,
but so will we. We owe it to ourselves
to deliver a performance we all can be
proud of. If we fall short in making the
play-offs, we only have ourselves to blame,
but it will not be because of a lack of trying
in our final game.”
Teams:
Cheetahs
TBA
Bulls
15 Jesse Kriel, 14 Jamba Ulengo, 13 Dries Swanepoel, 12 Burger Odendaal,
11 Travis Ismaiel, 10 Tian Schoeman,
9 Piet van Zyl, 8 Renaldo Bothma,
7 Jannes Kirsten, 6 Lappies Labuschagne,
5 Marvin Orie, 4 Jason Jenkins,
3 Marcel van der Merwe, 2 Adriaan Strauss (captain), 1 Pierre Schoeman
Substitutes: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Nqoba Mxoli, 18 Werner Kruger, 19 Grant Hattingh, 20 Arno Botha, 21 Rudy Paige, 22 Francois Brummer, 23 SP Marais
