Bulls pick formidable travelling squad for Dublin

The Vodacom Bulls have named a powerful squad, featuring 17 Springboks, for their trip to Dublin to contest the Vodacom United Rugby Championship Grand Final next Friday night.

The Bulls squad has no injuries at the moment, even the shoulder niggle for captain Marcell Coetzee has healed, and will travel at full strength on Monday to Dublin for the game.

They include World Cup winners such as Willie le Roux, Handre Pollard, Kurt Lee Arendse, Canan Moodie, Marco van Staden as well as several other Boks.

There is also a place for SA under-20 winger Cheswill Jooste in the squad.

The front row and the back-up are formidable, with Van Staden and Jan-Hendrik Wessels both able to play multiple positions, while Wilco Louw and Gerhard Steenekamp are the Bok incumbents, and Johan Grobbelaar rounds out a top front row.

The game will be the last for the likes of Louw, Arendse and Ruan Nortje, who will leave the franchise after the final.

A notable inclusion is the return of players like Akker van der Merwe, who had a neck injury, and Keagan Johannes, while Reinhardt Ludwig also forms part of the extended squad.

VODACOM BULLS SQUAD FOR URC FINAL

Alulutho Tshakweni, Akker van der Merwe, Cameron Hanekom, Cheswill Jooste,

Canan Moodie, Cobus Wiese, Devon Williams, Elrigh Louw, Embrose Papier,

Francois Klopper, Gerhard Steenekamp, Handre Pollard, Harold Vorster, Johan

Grobbelaar, Jeandre Rudolph, Jan-Hendrik Wessels, Kurt-Lee Arendse, Keagan

Johannes, Katlego Letebele, Marcell Coetzee, Mpilo Gumede, Mornay Smith, Marco

van Staden, Nizaam Carr, Reinhardt Ludwig, Ruan Nortje, Ruan Vermaak, Stedman

Gans, Stravino Jacobs, Willie le Roux, Wilco Louw, Zak Burger