Ahead of Saturday's quarter-final at Loftus, Coetzee has singled out Pollard and Le Roux as the senior players the Bulls will lean on when the pressure spikes. His reasoning is straightforward: World Cup-winning experience produces the kind of big-moment instinct — what he calls "BMT moments" — that play-off rugby demands. The Bulls have lost three URC finals, and Coetzee is candid that inconsistency during the round-robin phase sometimes came from trying to force the game rather than trust their structures. His message for the knock-outs is simpler: execute in the 22, don't look past Munster, and let the experienced heads deliver when the moments arrive.
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Coetzee backs Pollard and Le Roux to be Bulls' difference-makers against Munster
Coetzee identifies Pollard and Le Roux as the Bulls' play-off X-factors against Munster, arguing that World Cup-hardened composure — not past final appearances — is what will matter at Loftus on Saturday.
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