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Pierre Spies (Gallo Images)
Pierre Spies (Gallo Images)

Pretoria - Bulls captain Pierre Spies says although they were made to work for their 43-35 bonus-point victory over the Sharks in their Super Rugby encounter in Pretoria on Saturday, his side believed they had the potential to do just that.

"If you go in order, your first go for the win, so we were obviously going for that and we knew we had it in us to score four tries and we really had to graft it out for 80 minutes," Spies said.

"Tonight was a much better performance with a lot less mistakes and we could put pressure on their set-pieces and convert the pressure into points.

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