WE'RE NOT HERE TO MAKE UP THE NUMBERS

White has 14 reasons to believe Bulls have a date with destiny & will use inspirational figure to drive his side to Croke Park glory

- DEREK FOLEY

FORMER Springbok Cornal Hendricks was a living legend during his years at Bulls.

But following his tragic death two months ago he has become a symbol of unity and diversity, the club going as far as retiring his No14 jersey with their right wingers now wearing No23 in games.

Hendricks died on May 14 and the URC final is being played on June 14 and wily Bulls coach Jake White (below) was quick to make another connection.

"I was doing a bit of homework about Croke Park and I read that Bloody Sunday, 14 people died there," he said.

"Cornell died on the 14th of May and we play the URC final on Saturday 14th of June. It's quite an ominous number so there is a lot of nice memories of Cornal that we will use and the number 14.

"Hopefully it will be a fantastic day on the 14th of June for us as a club as well. It's quite amazing the number 14 keeps coming up. Stars are aligned. Hopefully we will use that in our favour.

"There is a lot of relevance, the number 14 not being used this weekend. Sometimes you need that.

"You guys are from Ireland and look what Munster did in the time that they lost their coach Anthony Foley.