Severely beaten on Saturday evening by Northampton in the quarter-final of the Champions Cup (59-22), the South African franchise of the Bulls would have been in the sights of the EPCR, the governing body managing the competition, for having largely rotated its squad for this decisive match, which would have constituted a “failure to respect the integrity of the competition”. Information which was published by the British daily The Times.
But which has no basis. Questioned by our colleagues from Rugbyrama, the EPCR denied this information: “There is no investigation underway, we do not know where this information comes from. This is a rule that goes back several years but to date, there is nothing of this order. Much ado about nothing, then.