News24 | URC play-off picture: Lions have destiny in own hands, Bulls can still book Loftus final

News24 | URC play-off picture: Lions have destiny in own hands, Bulls can still book Loftus final

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Lloyd Burnard

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Bulls director of rugby Jake White looks on prior to the Champions Cup quarter-final against Northampton Saints at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday. (Paul Harding/Getty Images)

Bulls director of rugby Jake White looks on prior to the Champions Cup quarter-final against Northampton Saints at Franklin’s Gardens on Saturday. (Paul Harding/Getty Images)

With just one round of group stage fixtures remaining in the 2023/24 United Rugby Championship (URC), the race for play-off places is red-hot. 

The top eight teams on the table at the end of the season will qualify for the tournament quarter-finals, of course, and heading into the final weekend there are just five points separating the Stormers in fifth (54 points) and the Lions in ninth (49 points). 

It means that there are still a lot of permutations at play.

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