{"id":52530,"date":"2025-04-26T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52530\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:20:08","slug":"jake-white-says-what-pleases-him-about-the-bulls-after-glasgow-win-planet-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52530\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake White says what pleases him about the Bulls after Glasgow win : Planet Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulls director of rugby Jake White hailed his players after they clinched a deserved 26-19 victory over Glasgow Warriors in their United Rugby Championship (URC) encounter at Scotstoun.<\/b><\/p>\n

The clash was a repeat of last season\u2019s URC final which the Warriors won against great odds in Pretoria, but the Bulls were full value for Friday\u2019s triumph as they dominated proceedings for long periods.<\/p>\n

The visitors held a 26-7 lead during the game\u2019s latter stages before late tries from Kyle Steyn and Stafford McDowall secured the home side a crucial losing bonus point.<\/p>\n

That means the Warriors<\/a> are still in second position in the standings on 59 points while the Bulls are just one point adrift in third spot with both sides having played 16 matches.<\/p>\n

The Bulls<\/a> will now head to Pretoria \u2013 after four weeks on the road following Challenge Cup matches against Bayonne and Edinburgh as well as another URC<\/a> game against Munster \u2013 where they are set to face Cardiff and the Dragons in their last two URC league matches.<\/p>\n

White<\/a> couldn\u2019t hide his delight with the performance of his charges after the win over Glasgow and said they will take a deserved break before returning to action against Cardiff on May 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a massive effort, especially because it was away from home. I\u2019m just very happy that in a short week, we\u2019ve been able to replicate what we did last week (against Munster), which was show a lot of heart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefensively, we were outstanding last week and this week. It\u2019s a very good way to finish the tour, because now we head back and we\u2019ve got two home games. Destiny is now in our hands, which is fantastic.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing on tour for four weeks is difficult. It takes a lot out of the players and they\u2019re away from their families. I can only be proud with that performance, because it sets us up nicely for when we get home and we can really prepare properly for the back-end of the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glasgow v Bulls: Five takeaways as \u2018transformed\u2019 defence fires Jake White\u2019s charges to victory while Springboks prodigy \u2018delivers\u2019 on hype<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The former Springboks mentor hailed his players\u2019 ability to control the big moments in tight matches but feels his side are not the finished article yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the ability to understand how we can take another step up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very talented Bulls team, and I\u2019m not just saying that because I\u2019m the coach. There are 17 or 18 guys being included in the Springbok alignment camps, so the challenge for me is just to find a bit extra in terms of our cohesion and desire to do well.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo get those sorts of accolades on a tour is something that just shows resilience, and that is what coaches want.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re going to win this competition, we\u2019re going to have to beat big sides away from home. What\u2019s really nice is we\u2019ve proven that our away games are as good as our home games at times, and that\u2019s the thing I\u2019m most pleased about.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a bit of fight in us. We don\u2019t get sucked into what is happening around the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still not where we need to be. I don\u2019t want to jump the gun\u2026 but we\u2019ll grow and wins like this can only make you a better team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s back-to-back wins away from home against two teams that have won the tournament in two years\u2026 it says a lot about how we are growing as a group.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/b> Franco Smith\u2019s blunt response to Stephen Donald\u2019s criticism of the United Rugby Championship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulls director of rugby Jake White hailed his players after they clinched a deserved 26-19 victory over Glasgow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,8924,918,4884,225,27265,12,712,16,15,4510],"class_list":{"0":"post-52530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-jake-white","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-united-rugby-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}