The Bulls' Elrigh Louw goes in the charge in the United Rugby Championship quarter-final against Munster.
The Bulls ran riot at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday afternoon to crush Munster 45-14 and book a place in a United Rugby Championship semi-final in Glasgow, where the Warriors await.
The Bulls are a side peaking at the right time — they have won 10 of their last 11 games — and their balance between forward power and tidy backline play was a joy to behold. They scored six splendid tries to quell a Munster side that fought hard but was outmuscled and outplayed.
The first scrum saw Munster accelerate backwards. Shortly after, a neat backline movement that should have culminated in a try was halted because of a clumsy forward pass by Canan Moodie. The upshot was that there was a scrum, and once more Munster shot backward. This time the Bulls capitalised, with Embrose Papier finishing well.
The opening salvo from the Bulls was relentless — the all-out attack soon had Willie le Roux hit a gap out wide, and when Kurt-Lee Arendse cut inside from his wing to take an inside pass, there could be only one result. In the same passage of play, there was a further blow for Munster when influential lock Tom Ahern took a knock to the head and went off for an assessment.
