Teenager Canan Moodie shows the way as Bulls mine ample X-factor in Ospreys win

While Cornal Hendricks' brilliance in midfield was the most obvious example, the Bulls managed to find bouts of X-factor in various guises in a superb 38-31 win over the Ospreys in Swansea on Friday night.

Mentor Jake White had said in the build-up that game-breaking moments in a must-win match aren't necessarily a twinkle-toed line-break or a spectacular try but any fleeting instance of a player just simply doing something right.

No one illustrated that point better than 19-year-old fullback Canan Moodie.

Near the end of the first half, the Junior Springbok clumsily spilt a loose ball and then panicked enough not to release it. 

The ensuing penalty saw the Welsh hosts score their opening try and threaten to undo the dominance the Bulls had shown for most of the first 40 minutes.

Yet Moodie would emerge from the second half with enough confidence to shrug off his mistake to set up his own try as well as Hendricks' hat-trick score.

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"That's exactly why you need to put players in those positions," said White.

"Even a young guy like [rookie 22-year-old flyhalf] Juan Mostert 10 seconds before he threw the intercept pass for the Ospreys' final try made a try-saving tackle by holding the guy up over the line.

"That's what we talk about when we're discussing X-factor. It's got nothing to do with individual brilliance, it's about the whole team understanding how we can play in a way that takes the game away from the opposition.

"I thought we played really well. The way we attacked, the shape we had, the ruck speed and precision of understanding where we need to go was, at times, as good as any team we've played against this year. I'm very positive."

Naturally,