The Bulls are in the mix for a top two finish in the United Rugby Championship and on Saturday they host play off hopefuls Cardiff at Loftus
Bulls v Cardiff, Saturday 10th May, Pretoria, KO 16:00 (South African time)
Referee: Eoghan Cross (Ireland)
Assistant Referees: Griffin Colby (South Africa), Dylen November (South Africa)
TMO: Andrew Brace (Ireland)
Weather Forecast – Pretoria
Bulls:
The Bulls remain in third place in the standings with a record of 11 wins and 4 defeats. They have a tally of 58 log points just 1 shy of Glasgow Warriors and 9 behind Leinster. Looking down the Sharks are fourth with 53 points and given the Bulls have a 12 point cushion over fifth placed Cardiff a home quarter final is assured.
The Bulls return to Loftus after 2 big wins overseas. They came away from Limerick with a 16-13 victory over Munster in Round 15 and last time out they beat the Warriors 26-19 in Glasgow.
After this the Bulls finish up at home to the Dragons and in the outright betting to win the URC title they are 9/2 second favourites with WSB.
Cardiff:
Fifth placed Cardiff have a record of 8 wins, 1 draw and 7 defeats and their tally of 46 log points is 7 shy of the fourth placed Sharks. They have the Stormers breathing down their necks on 45 points and with a gap of just 5 points to 9th placed Munster they still have work to do to finish in the play off places.
Recent results include a 36-19 victory away to the Ospreys and in Round 16 they came out on top at home to Munster 26-21. In Round 10 they lost at home to the Sharks (42-22) but in Round 13 they beat the Lions 20-17 in another home game and next week they finish up away to the Stormers.
Cardiff are 50/1 shots in the outright betting to win the URC title with WSB
Team News
Bulls: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Canan Moodie, 13 David Kriel, 12 Harold Vorster, 11 Sebastian de Klerk, 10 Johan Goosen, 9 Zak Burger, 8 Cameron Hanekom, 7 Ruan Nortje (captain), 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 JF van Heerden, 4 Cobus Wiese, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Johann Grobbelaar, 1 Jan-hendrik Wessels.
Replacements: 16 Akker van der Merwe, 17 Alulutho Tshakweni, 18 Mornay Smith, 19 Jannes Kirstin, 20 Marco van Staden, 21 Keagan Johannes, 22 Devon Williams, 23 Stedman Gans
Cardiff: 15 Cam Winnett, 14 Josh Adams, 13 Harri Millard, 12 Ben Thomas (c), 11 Gabe Hamer-Webb, 10 Tinus de Beer, 9 Johan Mulder, 8 Alun Lawrence, 7 James Botham, 6 Alex Mann, 5 Rory Thornton, 4 Josh McNally, 3 Keiron Assiratti, 2 Evan Lloyd, 1 Corey Domachowski
Replacements: 16 Liam Belcher, 17 Danny Southworth, 18 Rhys Litterick, 19 Teddy Williams, 20 Dan Thomas, 21 Taulupe Faletau, 22 Aled Davies, 23 Rory Jennings
The Betting,
Average early show, to be updated
Bulls -18.5 points at 9/10
Cardiff +18.5 points at 9/10
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
Betting Angle
Posted 09 May 08h15
This handicap opened -16.5 and has moved to as high as -19.5 but is generally -18.5 at the time of writing.
The Bulls will want a bonus point win to keep in the running for 2nd place and Cardiff will obviously want the win but any bonus points they could get would be valuable in terms of their playoff chances.
I am waiting for the teams and points lines and if I like what I see will be firing into this game.
The weather looks clear and dry.
Click here for more URC bets in the blog
Click here for the Super Rugby Pacific blog
Posted 09 May 16h38
I am sure you can see above what I was waiting for. The points line is 56.5 and I am firing the overs.
BET: 7 units over 56.5 points at 0.89 at Betxchange
Posted 10 May 07h10
The line of 56.5 held for a bit longer than I thought but the dam wall broke and it is now 60.5.
At this level it is still a bet for me with the stake scaled back to 5 units.
I believe there is still a point or 2 to run on this one and there will be 62.5 come kick off.
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
Subscribe to our free weekly betting mailer which will include our best and value bets below.
