The Bulls host the Dragons in the United Rugby Championship in Pretoria on Saturday and the home side are looking to seal second spot in the regular season standings

 

 

 

Bulls v Dragons, Saturday 17th May, Pretoria, KO 15:00 (South African time)

 

Referee: Andrew Brace (Ireland)
Assistant Referees: Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa), AJ Jacobs (South Africa)
TMO: Olly Hodges (IRFU)

 

Weather Forecast – Pretoria

 

 

Bulls:

 

The Bulls have moved up to second place in the standings with a record of 13 wins and 4 defeats. They have a tally of 63 log points which is 4 better than Glasgow Warriors and they 9 behind Leinster.

 

The Bulls put Cardiff away 45-21 at Loftus in Round 17 and that came on the back of 2 big wins overseas, a 16-13 victory over Munster in Round 15 and they beat the Warriors 26-19 in Glasgow in Round 16

 

In the outright betting to win the URC title they are 9/2 second favourites with WSB.

 

Dragons:

 

The Dragons remain rooted to the foot of the standings and finished the previous round all of 20 points adrift of second bottom Zebre Parma. They have won just 1 game all season, losing the other 16 and earning just 9 log points.

 

Round 17 saw them go down 48-12 to the Stormers in Cape Town. The sole victory came at home to the Ospreys in Round 1 although they did run South African opposition close in other home games, going down 33-30 to the Sharks in Round 3 and 23-19 to the Lions in Round 4.

 

Team News

 

Bulls: tbc

 

Dragons: tbc

 

 

The Betting,

 

Average early show, to be updated

 

Bulls -35.5 points at 9/10

Dragons +35.5 points at 9/10

 

Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.

 

Betting Angle

 

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Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.

 

 

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