Sport | Jake White tries this Bomb Squad thing for size in clash against Cardiff

Celimpilo Gumede. (Photo by Eoin Noonan/Sportsfile/Gallo Images)

In a case of better late than never, Bulls director of rugby Jake White has finally succumbed to the hype and named his first ever Bomb Squad bench for his side’s United Rugby Championship clash against Cardiff.

Four years after two-time Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok coaches Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber first shocked and awed the rugby world with a 6/2 split on the bench, White – the game’s elder statesman in South Africa – has finally dipped his toes in the risky but often rewarding world of repl