Matchday programme: Bristol Bears vs Vodacom Bulls
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MATCHDAY<br />
PROGRAMME<br />
SAT JAN 13TH<br />
3.15PM
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A warm welcome to this Round 3 match in the 2023/24 Investec Champions Cup and a Happy New<br />
Year to all as we reach the business end of the tournament’s pool stage.<br />
Complementing the landmark introduction of Investec as the competition’s new title partner, the<br />
opening rounds delivered a compelling series of world-class and indeed out of the ordinary matches.<br />
Now the intensity goes up another notch with coveted places in the knockout stage at stake.<br />
With the top four clubs in each pool guaranteed qualification, there’s an important added incentive<br />
for the contenders: the clubs finishing first and second in their respective pools will have<br />
home venue advantage in the all-important first knockout stage, the Round of 16. For those<br />
clubs that finish fifth in each pool, the journey does not end there as they qualify for the Round<br />
of 16 of the EPCR Challenge Cup.<br />
Everything is to play for.<br />
So, after what promises to be even more tension-fuelled action this month, we’ll have a clearer<br />
idea of the pathway to the showpiece Finals weekend at London’s state-of-the-art Tottenham<br />
Hotspur Stadium next May for which over 45,000 tickets have already been sold.<br />
We are delighted to be joined on the journey to London by Investec, by our premium partner,<br />
Heineken, and by our official partners, DHL, IHG Hotels & Resorts and Georgia Rugby Marketing<br />
Hub, as well as our official supporters, Tissot, Gilbert and Kappa, and also by our official airline<br />
partner in South Africa, Qatar Airways.<br />
TNT Sports, ITV and RTÉ in the UK and Ireland, beIN SPORTS and France Télévisions in France,<br />
and SuperSport in South Africa, continue to provide comprehensive and innovative broadcast<br />
coverage, while S4C in Wales and FloRugby in the USA and Canada, are showcasing the matches<br />
to more viewers than ever across the globe.<br />
We hope that you enjoy the match today and take this opportunity to send our best wishes to<br />
you, the fans, your club’s players and staff, and of course to our match officials, as we anticipate<br />
the celebrations and the occasional heartache that go with the territory when qualification for<br />
the Investec Champions Cup knockout stage is on the line!<br />
Yours in rugby,<br />
Dominic McKay,<br />
EPCR Chairman<br />
EPCR<br />
WELCOME<br />
MESSAGE
Max Malins<br />
Noah Heward<br />
Benhard Janse van Rensburg<br />
James Williams<br />
Gabriel Ibitoye<br />
AJ MacGinty<br />
Kieran Marmion<br />
Sam Grahamslaw<br />
Gabriel Oghre<br />
George Kloska<br />
Josh Caulfield<br />
Joe Batley<br />
Steven Luatua (c)<br />
Dan Thomas<br />
Magnus Bradbury<br />
16. Will Capon 17. Jake Woolmore<br />
18. Max Lahiff 19. Joe Owen<br />
20. Jake Heenan 21. Harry Randall<br />
22. Virimi Vakatawa 23. Rich Lane<br />
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Devon Williams<br />
Sebastian de Klerk<br />
David Kriel<br />
Harold Vorster<br />
name surname<br />
Sergeal Petersen<br />
Johan Goosen<br />
Gerhard Steenekamp<br />
Jan-Hendrik Wessels<br />
Wilco Louw<br />
Ruan Vermaak<br />
Reinhardt Ludwig<br />
Marcell Coetzee (c)<br />
Elrigh Louw<br />
Mpilo Gumede<br />
16. Simphiwe Matanzima 17. Tiaan Lange<br />
18. Khutha Mchunu 19. Ruan Nortjé<br />
20. Deon Slabbert 21. Keagan Johannes<br />
22. Chris Smith 23. Henry Immelman.<br />
SAT JAN 13TH 3.15PM
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