Official Super Rugby 2016 Thread

GreGorGy said:
True, actually. My mother is of Irish parents while my father are a plank. So I am indeed Springboks all the way then Ireland provided they're not playing the boks.
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Think the Irish is everyone's favorite team to support if they don't play against their own team.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
No idea, but why would that matter? Is the idea that they give contracts with the caveat that players stay in SA?
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The idea was to offer them big enough contracts so they wouldn't be lured by the money overseas.
 
Stander told he was 'too small'

Ireland flanker CJ Stander was told he was too small to cut it as a loose-forward at test level.

The former SA Schools captain received the ill-conceived advice from a coach in South Africa, while he was still plying his trade in the country of his birth.

“It’s tough to mention names and I don’t want to single people out, but I was told by someone coaching at a high level that I was too small and that I should move to hooker as that’s the only position where I would play international rugby” Stander told EWN Sport from Dublin.
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