Head to Head | Bulls v Glasgow

Ruan Nortje returns to match fitness & captains the Vodacom Bulls when they take on Glasgow in round 16 of the BKT United Rugby Championship. Grant Stewart & Sione Tuipulotu will make their 50th appearances for Glasgow Warriors

Picture-Ruan Nortje returns for the Bulls

URC – Head-to-head record

Tries scored

The Bulls (4.5) and Glasgow Warriors (4.3) are two of just three teams to have scored 4+ tries per game in this season’s URC (also Leinster, 4.3).

Meters gained

The Bulls have gained the most metres per game (442) and the most metres per carry (4.1) of any side in this season’s URC.

Graph-Carries per meter

Line breaks

Glasgow Warriors have made more line breaks (7.4) and beaten more defenders (26.5) per game than any other team in this season’s URC and have gained the second most metres per game of any team in the league this term (433), only behind the Bulls (442).

Tackle %

Glasgow Warriors are the only team with a 90%+ tackle success rate in this season’s URC (90.6%) and have also made more turnover-winning tackles per game than any other team in the league this term (2.9).

Weakness

Glasgow Warriors are one of just three teams to have conceded 10+ penalties per game in the URC this season (10.3, also Scarlets and Dragons RFC).

Key Players

Glasgow Warriors’ Johnny Matthews is the top try scorer in this season’s URC (12), while the Bulls’ Akker van der Merwe has scored the joint-second most tries of any player in the competition (level with Tom Stewart)

Bulls duo David Kriel and Kurt-Lee Arendse are two of the seven backs to have scored a joint-high seven URC tries this this season, along with Glasgow’s Kyle Rowe.

Picture-Glasgow Warriors’ Josh McKay has gained the second most metres of any player in this season’s URC (837, Aphelele Fassi – 1039)

Elrigh Louw has made 245 metres in contact in the URC this season, only Gavin Coombes – who has made 50 carries more than Louw – has made more (264).

The Bulls’ Embrose Papier is the only player to have evaded 60%+ of the tackles he’s faced in this season’s URC (62%, min.20 faced) and also ranks joint-second for try assists in the league this term (7).

Kurt-Lee Arendse has carried for 726 metres from 53 carries in the URC this season, his average of 13.7 metres per carry is over two metres more than any other player to run with the ball on 50+ occasions.