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[2017 Rugby Championship] Round 4: New Zealand v South Africa (16/09/2017)
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 873187" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>Oh I agree with you completely. But this is already happening.</p><p></p><p>If you look at the Blue Bulls team currently playing in the Currie Cup, there's not a single player older than 25 years old, and this past weekend, we fielded 8 players who are 19 years old.</p><p></p><p>Whereas nearly the bulk of the players that played super rugby are either with the Springboks, or playing in Japan. Out of the Starting line-up for the Bulls in the Super Rugby, it's only Pierre Schoeman, Frik Kirsten, Burger Odendaal and Warwick Gelant that is currently starting for the Currie Cup team.</p><p></p><p>But the thing is that standards/expectations have been dropping. The Currie Cup has been running in the same period it has ever since it was the Super 10. But the past 8 or so years there was too many tweaks changes being done on a yearly basis, confusing everyone, and trying to be more accomodating towards the Kings/EP in getting them in the Premier division. Yet, they didn't feature at all the past 2 seasons of Currie Cup.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Just on a different note:</p><p><a href="http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyChampionship/boks-send-sos-to-louw-pick-uncapped-sharks-duo-20170920" target="_blank">http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyChampionship/boks-send-sos-to-louw-pick-uncapped-sharks-duo-20170920</a></p><p><strong>Francois Louw, <strong>S'busiso Nkosi</strong> (wing) and <strong>Louis Schreuder</strong> (scrumhalf) have been called up to the Springboks</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 873187, member: 40658"] Oh I agree with you completely. But this is already happening. If you look at the Blue Bulls team currently playing in the Currie Cup, there's not a single player older than 25 years old, and this past weekend, we fielded 8 players who are 19 years old. Whereas nearly the bulk of the players that played super rugby are either with the Springboks, or playing in Japan. Out of the Starting line-up for the Bulls in the Super Rugby, it's only Pierre Schoeman, Frik Kirsten, Burger Odendaal and Warwick Gelant that is currently starting for the Currie Cup team. But the thing is that standards/expectations have been dropping. The Currie Cup has been running in the same period it has ever since it was the Super 10. But the past 8 or so years there was too many tweaks changes being done on a yearly basis, confusing everyone, and trying to be more accomodating towards the Kings/EP in getting them in the Premier division. Yet, they didn't feature at all the past 2 seasons of Currie Cup. Just on a different note: [URL]http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyChampionship/boks-send-sos-to-louw-pick-uncapped-sharks-duo-20170920[/URL] [B]Francois Louw, [B]S’busiso Nkosi[/B] (wing) and [B]Louis Schreuder[/B] (scrumhalf) have been called up to the Springboks[/B] [/QUOTE]
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