{"id":36758,"date":"2026-03-10T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=36758"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:40:44","slug":"coetzee-wary-of-stormers-threat-despite-bulls-good-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2026\/03\/10\/coetzee-wary-of-stormers-threat-despite-bulls-good-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Coetzee wary of Stormers threat despite Bulls\u2019 good form"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bulls captain, Marcell Coetzee, says he is expecting a fierce challenge against the Stormers when the two sides meet at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have recovered from a difficult period earlier in the season to become the in-form South African team in the United Rugby Championship, while the Stormers have slipped from first on the log to fifth after three successive defeats.<\/p>\n

However, Coetzee warned that the Stormers remain dangerous opponents, especially given their impressive URC record in Pretoria, where they have won three of their previous four encounters.<\/p>\n

“If you look at history, they actually have a very good record here at Loftus,\u201d Coetzee said. “There have been a couple of games where they\u2019ve had our number, so we know it\u2019s always a big challenge.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a massive clash and the guys are very excited for it. The Stormers have got danger all over the park \u2013 a lot of X-factor players who can create momentum and punish you if you\u2019re not accurate.”<\/p>\n

Coetzee also insisted that there was never a loss of faith in the coaching group under, Johan Ackermann<\/a>, during that difficult spell earlier this season.<\/p>\n

“It was always going to be a process. It takes time for players to adapt to new systems and structures. We also didn\u2019t always have our full squad available because of Springbok duties and rest periods, and injuries,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Bulls captain, Marcell Coetzee, says he is expecting a fierce challenge against the Stormers when the two sides meet at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday. The Bulls have recovered from a difficult period earlier in the season to become the in-form South African team in the United Rugby Championship, while the ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":36759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2946,2945,2947,1273,2944],"class_list":["post-36758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-marcel-coetzee","tag-stormers","tag-united-rugby-championship","tag-urc","tag-vodacom-bulls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-10-at-19.44.11.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36760,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36758\/revisions\/36760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}