The Vodacom Bulls, with their bonus level win in Durban final weekend in opposition to the Sharks, set a brand new Vodacom URC try-scoring file for the season.
85 season tries is yet another than Leinster’s mark final season, and reveals an enchancment on the 78 tries that the Vodacom Bulls scored in the identical 12 months that Leinster made their mark within the file books.
The Bulls are additionally the highest facet in terms of factors scored with 639, which can be a event file, eclipsing the 613 they scored of their first season within the Vodacom URC.
Jake White’s facet is second in offloads, third in metres gained and fourth in clear breaks, displaying what an distinctive attacking season it has been.
The Bulls’ scrum could also be formidable in fame, however they’re solely fourth when it comes to penalties received, with the Stormers topping that stat with 49 penalties, approach forward of Ospreys (34) and Edinburgh (31).
South Africa’s – and the Bulls’ – dominance reveals in terms of the person data as properly.
Whereas Glasgow Warriors’ Johnny Matthews leads the try-scoring stakes with 14, there are at least 5 Bulls gamers within the prime ten strive scorers for the season.
Akker van der Merwe, who scored many a strive from the again of a rolling maul, is second on 12 tries, with David Kriel third on 10 and Canan Moodie joint-fourth on 9. Kurt-Lee Arendse and Johan Grobbelaar are joint eighth in a gaggle of gamers with eight tries that features Evan Roos (Stormers) and Francke Horn (Lions).
On the points-scoring facet, it’s unlikely somebody will catch Edinburgh’s Ben Healy with 175 factors for the season, however the Bulls’ Johan Goosen is the subsequent finest with 126 factors whereas South African-born Cardiff flyhalf Thinus de Beer is third on 118. Sanele Nohamba is fourth with 117 whereas Manie Libbok options at eighth with 111 factors for the season.
Munster’s Gavin Coombes might prime the profitable carries stat, however it’s Evan Roos in second spot, one carry behind Coombes on 103, and Elrigh Louw in fourth that function extremely. Aphelele Fassi is a stunning title in fourth spot alongside Louw, whereas Marius Louw (sixth), Francke Horn (eighth) and Sanele Nohamba (ninth) all function within the prime ten for the event.
There’s South African flavour within the defenders’ crushed stat, topped by Scottish worldwide Duhan van der Merwe with 61 for the season, adopted by Roos with 49 in second spot.
Fassi dominates the metres made, with a large 1232 metres whereas Warrick Gelant is the one different South African within the prime 5.
Gelant does prime the offloads stat for the competitors with a large 34, whereas Cameron Hanekom is a stunning second with 22, forward of double World Cup winner RG Snyman, who plies his commerce for Munster with 20.
The Stormers’ Ruben van Heerden is the competitors’s prime tackler, making an astounding 224 tackles with Elrigh Louw (seventh) and Ben-Jason Dixon (ninth) additionally that includes extremely.
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