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White: D-Day for Bulls to show how good they are in Leinster
The Mercury
|June 11, 2025
WHATEVER has happened in the past won't count for much for the Bulls in Saturday's United Rugby Championship final against Leinster in Dublin.
That was the word from Bulls boss Jake White yesterday as he addressed the Irish media ahead of the title decider at Croke Park (6pm SA time kick-off).
The Pretoria side have come up short twice in the URC, losing the 2022 final to the Stormers in Cape Town, and then going down 21-16 to Glasgow at Loftus Versfeld last year.
But White doesn’t feel that losing two previous finals will have any effect on this weekend’s game against the Irish giants.
One could argue that Leinster are in a similar boat, having failed to clinch the URC crown since the South African teams joined the competition.
They lost in the Champions Cup semi-finals this season as well, so coach Leo Cullen and his team will also be hungry for silverware this weekend. “To be fair, it’s completely different teams, competitions, venues, different time of the year... People can look at it and say this team loses semis, this team loses finals. This team has a lot of Irish players... It’s irrelevant, it doesn’t matter,” White said after training in Dublin yesterday.
This story is from the June 11, 2025 edition of The Mercury.
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