DHL Stormers vs Vodacom Bulls
The Official Matchday Programme for the United Rugby Champions Grand Final DHL Stormers vs Vodacom Bulls | URC Saturday 18th June, 2022 | Kick off 6.30pm | DHL Stadium
The Official Matchday Programme for the United Rugby Champions Grand Final
DHL Stormers vs Vodacom Bulls | URC
Saturday 18th June, 2022 | Kick off 6.30pm | DHL Stadium
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GRAND FINAL<br />
<strong>DHL</strong> STORMERS VS VODACOM BULLS<br />
LEO CULLEN HAS BEEN<br />
CROWNED LOCH LOMOND<br />
COACH OF THE SEASON<br />
The Leinster boss collects the award<br />
after leading his side to victory in<br />
the Irish Shield and the top of the<br />
overall <strong>Vodacom</strong> United Rugby<br />
Championship standings at the end<br />
of the regular season.<br />
A record-breaking victory over<br />
Glasgow Warriors followed in the Final<br />
Eight but Leinster could not book a<br />
place in the Grand Final after suffering<br />
a home Final Four defeat to the<br />
<strong>Vodacom</strong> <strong>Bulls</strong> on Friday night.<br />
Cullen also led Leinster to the<br />
Heineken Champions Cup final this<br />
season, with a narrow defeat to La<br />
Rochelle in Marseille.<br />
LEO CULLEN (LEINSTER)<br />
&<br />
COACH OF<br />
THE SEASON<br />
“I’d like to thank the <strong>Vodacom</strong> URC<br />
for the Award which I will accept on<br />
behalf of the wider coaching group<br />
and the 60 players that pulled on<br />
a Leinster Rugby jersey this year.<br />
The season most certainly did not<br />
end the way we would have liked<br />
but there were many highlights and<br />
positives over the year. I’d like to wish<br />
the <strong>DHL</strong> <strong>Stormers</strong> and the <strong>Vodacom</strong><br />
<strong>Bulls</strong> the very best of luck in this<br />
weekend’s final. Having played both<br />
teams recently, it will be an intriguing<br />
final and a great way to bring the<br />
curtain down on the first season<br />
of the <strong>Vodacom</strong> United Rugby<br />
Championship. The introduction<br />
of the four South African clubs has<br />
raised the standards and we’ll all<br />
have to raise our game to compete<br />
with them next season. We would<br />
dearly love to be there and will<br />
watch with keen interest and we look<br />
forward to challenging for the title<br />
again next season.”<br />
This award was voted for by the<br />
<strong>Vodacom</strong> URC’s 16 head coaches<br />
and leaves only one prize still to be<br />
announced – the Players’ Player of<br />
the Season.<br />
It is the second prize won by a<br />
Leinster representative during the<br />
<strong>Vodacom</strong> URC Awards, with Ross<br />
Byrne having been selected at half in the Dream<br />
fly-<br />
Team.<br />
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