RUGBY FEATURE: If Jake White’s Bulls win the URC it could be his finest coaching achievement

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The Bulls travel to Cape Town as underdogs to face the Stormers in the United Rugby Championship final on Saturday. Bulls coach Jake White has already written another impressive chapter in his story.

It’s that attention to detail and that unflinching belief in building a foundation that has made White such a successful coach across the world. He has gone from South Africa to France, Japan and back via many places, picking up skills and honing his craft.

Jake White during the Bulls’ United Rugby Championship clash with the Lions at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on 29 January 2022. In the final, White’s Junior Boks beat Australia, perhaps the best young Wallaby side for a generation. It included future Wallaby stars Matt Giteau, Mark Gerrard and Morgan Turinui.

It was a difficult time after the massive success of 2007, which wasn’t helped by watching “his” team continue to evolve under Peter de Villiers to the point where they dominated the world in 2009. His three years at French club Montpellier yielded an EPCR Challenge Cup trophy, beating Harlequins in the 2016 final, before his globetrotting career took him to Japan for a similar-length stint in charge of Toyota Verblitz.Rebuilding an empire

The union were on to their third coach in three years – Pote Human – who came after John Mitchell and Nollis Marais. All had failed to bring success.The once-great Pretoria-based franchise, which won three Super Rugby titles between 2007 and 2010 under coaches Heyneke Meyer and Frans Ludeke, needed a boost. White provided it.

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