The Bulls are in the Champions Cup Round of 16 action on Saturday and thy travel to Glasgow for a clash with URC rivals the Warriors.
Glasgow Warriors v Bulls, Saturday 4th April, Glasgow, KO 18:30 (South African time)
Referee: Pierre Brousset (Fra)
Assistant Referees: Vincent Blasco Baque (Fra), Julien Caulier (Fra)
TMO: Tual Trainini (Fra)
Weather Forecast - Glasgow
Glasgow Warriors:
The Warriors were foot perfect in topping Pool 1 with 4 wins from 4. Stade Toulouse, Sale Sharks and Saracens came second, third and fourth with 2 wins and 2 defeats, the Hollywoodbets Sharks finished fifth and take their chances in the Challenge Cup and Clermont were the also rans, failing to earn a point.
Glasgow came away from Sale with a 26-21 victory in their opening pool match and went on to win at home to Toulouse (28-21), at Clermont (33-21) and finally at home to Saracens (28-3).
In the URC Glasgow Warriors lead the way 4 pints clear of the Stormers with a record of 11 wins and 3 defeats.
In the outright betting to win the Champions Cup title this season Glasgow Warriors are 10/1 with Hollywoodbets
Bulls:
A record of 1 win and 3 defeats still took the Bulls to a fourth-place finish in Pool 4, finishing behind Bordeaux and Northampton Saints with Bristol Bears third. Section Paloise took fifth and the Challenge Cup place and the Scarlets missed out completely.
The Bulls made really hard work of their pool, losing their first 3 matches: at home to Bordeaux (46-33), away to Northampton (50-5) and at home to Bristol (61-49). In their final pool match they edged out Section Paloise (26-24) to squeeze through.
The Bulls are currently eighth on the URC log with a record of 8 wins and 6 defeats and it’s congested either side of the cut for a play off place. They visited the Warriors in Round 5 on the 24th October and went down 21-12.
In the outright betting to win the Champions Cup title this season the Bulls are 66/1 with Hollywoodbets
Team News
Warriors: 15 Josh McKay, 14 Kyle Steyn (c), 13 Stafford McDowall, 12 Sione Tuipulotu, 11 Ollie Smith, 10 Dan Lancaster, 9 George Horne, 8 Jack Dempsey, 7 Rory Darge, 6 Matt Fagerson, 5 Alex Samuel, 4 Max Williamson, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 Gregor Hiddleston, 1 Patrick Schickerling.
Replacements:16 Seb Stephen, 17 Jamie Bhatti, 18 Sam Talakai, 19 Olujare Oguntibeju, 20 Euan Ferrie, 21 Angus Fraser, 22 Ben Afshar, 23 Adam Hastings
Bulls: 15 David Kriel, 14 Cheswill Jooste, 13 Canan Moodie, 12 Harold Voster, 11 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 10 Handre Pollard, 9 Embrose Papier, 8 Cameron Hanekom, 7 Elrigh Louw, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Ruan Nortje, 4 Ruan Vermaak, 3 Francois Klopper, 2 Johan Grobbelaar, 1 Gerhard Steenekamp.
Replacements: 16 Marco van Staden, 17 Jan-Hendrik Wessels, 18 Mornay Smith, 19 Cobus Wiese, 20 Jeandre Rudolph, 21 Zak Burger, 22 Stedman Gans, 23 Willie le Roux
The Betting,
Updated 03 April 23h09
Warriors -9.5 points at 9/10
Bulls +9.5 points at 9/10
Note, odds quoted are available at the time of writing but are subject to change.
Betting Angle
Posted 03 April 23h09
The Warriors are -9.5 with the line having coming in a point from -10.5 when this preview template was put up.
Points look low at 48.5 but there is rain and wind forecast so if pushed I would be an unders backer.
The Bulls are not known to be great travellers and the Warriors are a proper team these days but I really like the Bulls team selected and I give them a chance here.
I am going to sleep on a points bet but for now am taking an interest in the Bulls to win the match.
Bet: 1 unit (1-5) Bulls win at 33/10 at Betxchange
Adding Unders in Glasgow
Posted 04 April
With rain and wind about I think this could develop into an arm wrestle and have decided to get involved on the unders
BET: 2 units under 48.5 points at 10/11 at WSB
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