Jake White insists there are no easy points on the road in URC

Jake White was delighted to see his team take a full house of URC points from their visit to Zebre.

The Bulls had been expected to triumph but found themselves exposed on defence a few times in an exciting match in Parma.

JAKE WHITE INSISTS THERE ARE NO EASY POINTS

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In round three, the Bulls were the first away team to win, something White noted.

“Winning anywhere, if you look at results last week, I don’t think an away team won anywhere. So it’s got nothing to do with South African sides coming here. Sides that went from here to Wales and to Ireland lost as well,” White said.

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“What I mean is, in between the UK, sides also lost. It’s tough to win away from home. We saw last night, the Sharks and the Stormers lost, and that means it is so much more tough to win away from home.

“We don’t have our best player, then it will be tough. Imagine if today we could’ve played RG Snyman, Jason Jenkins, Handre Pollard, Jesse Kriel, Trevor Nyakane, Madosh Tambwe, Ivan van Zyl, Duane Vermeulen – all guys that have been with us the last couple of seasons.

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“Imagine if we could run out with those guys every week, I think then the playing fields are level. And we’ve got to try and find a way to get that. If you want to be able to play Leinster with 15 international Bulls.

“We don’t want to be playing Leinster with players that are coming through the ranks to try and make a name for themselves,” Jake White said.

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BULLS GET IT DONE

White felt that his team did well to contain Zebre on their own patch.

“To be fair, they [Zebre] scored 36 points against Ulster and 31 points against Osprey so we probably kept them lower with 29 points,” Jake White added.

“Not ideal, you never want to leave points, but in saying that, they are a team that can score a lot of points as you’ve seen in the first three weeks.I think people come here and underestimate Zebre at their peril. Zebre are not as poor as everyone thinks they are.

“When they attacked, and they asked questions of our defence, they asked good questions and we had to make good reads.

“Their set-piece, they maul very well, we didn’t give them a maul penalty and we scrummed really well. Because they are a very strong scrum.

“They were in a chance to scrum Ulster to a win, so we obviously focused on our scrum and our maul so I am obviously very happy with that.”