WP reel in Bulls duo
13 Jul 2012
WP have signed Blue Bulls U18 Craven Week stars eighthman Steven Meiring and flyhalf Ryno Eksteen for next season.
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While the Bulls will be chuffed with their signing of Baby Bok and WP junior flyhalf Handre Pollard, they have lost two of their Craven Week players to the Cape union.
Meiring and Eksteen, both based at Affies, will make the rare trek down south as they’ve both signed one-year junior contracts with WP.
Bulls U18 head coach Riaan Brandt confirmed the news.
‘Steven and Ryno will leave at the end of the year,’ Brandt told keo.co.za’s Schoolboy Derby. ‘I think they will both do well and will get their opportunities at a more professional level.
‘Steven has been part of our impressive forward displays at Craven Week, while Ryno has shown his class in our two wins so far. Especially against the Pumas, where he controlled the game and backline well and scored 16 points in our 36-10 win.’
By Gareth Duncan, in Port Elizabeth
22 Comments
13 Jul 2012, 16:57 pm
Interesting wp fighting back
13 Jul 2012, 17:10 pm
Hey WP stop poaching our school boys!!!!!
Thought you people from the WP had no intrest in anything behind the Boerewors curtain.
13 Jul 2012, 17:18 pm
Steven Meiring in particular is a very good signing…
13 Jul 2012, 18:10 pm
This is crazy,snap up there replacement prop as well Dayaan van der Westhuizen I think his name is.
13 Jul 2012, 18:52 pm
No worries. That Tacitus fellow will say its part of his idol Heyneke’s master plan…
13 Jul 2012, 19:00 pm
A one year contract for an under 18 year old, isn’t quite the coup that grabbing talented under 21s is. Both are still at least 2 years away from adding any value to WP seniors, let alone the Stormers.
13 Jul 2012, 19:14 pm
@David(David)-6:
They will probably go to the Rugby Institute in Stellenbosch and play for the WP under 19 team and if they perform well they will be offered better contracts.
There are a few excellent players in the WP Cravenweek team that hopefully will also be contracted- the best of the lot is the fullback Jason Worall, while the number 6 flank Samuels and the number 8 Bothma (apparently still in grade 11) and one or two others are also very good.
13 Jul 2012, 19:26 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-7: One of the problems for sportsmen that go to Stllenbosch to futher their careers, is that it is a nice place.
A VERY nice place.
With cheap brandy and coke and very attractive women.
In fact, coming to think of it, this is a problem for WP Rugby in general.
13 Jul 2012, 19:40 pm
@willievz(willievz)-8:
The poppies in Pretoria aren’t to be sneezed at either!
13 Jul 2012, 19:40 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-7: Do you know anything about Jason Worral? I’m wondering If he’s related to the ex MP Dennis or his brother Terry. They grew up and live in Gordons Bay and Strand.
It’s an unfamiliar name.
13 Jul 2012, 19:42 pm
Note Wp have signed Blue Bulls trio of
Rohan janse Van Resburg(Centre)
Ryno Estkeen(Flyhalf)
Meiring(8th Man)
As well as Pieter Jordaan Cheetahs Centre from Grey(Paul Jordaans bro)
Along with players who already part of the union
meiring .. Goliath, Hazner,
Cupido, Samuels
13 Jul 2012, 19:44 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-7: A Mate of mine is the GM there. It’s a very impressive place!
13 Jul 2012, 19:45 pm
@willievz(willievz)-8:
Lol….. Stellies is also the “home of Tassies”
For sure there are lots of temtations- lately even more then before I heard- the life of a potential top sportsman is indeed not easy
The Rugby Institute does well though- lately they “produced” Elstadt, Etsebeth, Kolisi, Engelbrecht etc……. but there were corpses too.
13 Jul 2012, 19:49 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-10:
I am not sure- someone mentioned to me that his dad also played for Paul Roos (Bradley or something) but that is all I know of him.
13 Jul 2012, 19:54 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-12:
It’s good to know the place is so impressive – my daugther knows a guy who went there with Elstadt – he told me that they were all shitscared of Rayno and always tried to avoid tackling him if it was at all possible- he also said that Engelbrecht was just about the most dedicated player in the whole place and had no time for beers and girls- it seemed to have paid off for him.
13 Jul 2012, 20:37 pm
From the Bulls site, don’t know if it’s true:
SARU beplan `n drafting stelsel, ander unies het gekla oor Bulle se aankoop van hulle spelers
Hulle stel voor dat die unies eerste reg het op die top 22 spelers, en daarna word die ander spelers in n pool geplaas vanwaar die unies kan aanbiedinge maak en die spelers kies.
Blykbaar is daar baie ongelukkigheid by die Cravenweek onder ander unies oor al die aankope van die Bulls.
13 Jul 2012, 20:43 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-15: It’s a great place. Rupert – funded.
It has a half size rugby field indoors, something like 66 hotel style rooms, full doctor and physio staff, the works. The SA 7′s team is based there and they regularly host teams from other countries who are doing their pre season training.
13 Jul 2012, 23:46 pm
@victoriabok(victoriabok)-16:
About time, if it happens.
That or bringing in a roster of some kind, so they can’t sign freeking EVERYBODY!
Fact that they have both Francois Venter & Jan Serfontein, our best two up-and-coming 12′s, says it all. Venter could be starting consistently at both the Lions or Cheetahs, while Serfontein is good enough to do the same, but will have to bide his time in Pretoria.
What a waste. The unions should be working together to make Springbok rugby strong. Not buying everything and everyone to try keep the other unions weak.
13 Jul 2012, 23:57 pm
*** for tat? or are they actually decent players?
13 Jul 2012, 23:59 pm
what is wrong with t i t when used in the for tat context?
14 Jul 2012, 00:35 am
@munkiboi(munkiboi)-20:
Automated, it doesn’t matter what context you used it in.
Anyway, I’m going to put it out there… If there were no injuries (which there are of course, but hypothetically), my Rugby Championship 30 would be:
1 Beast Mtawarira
2 Bismarck du Plessis
3 Jannie du Plessis
4 Eben Etzebeth
5 Andries Bekker
6 Heinrich Brussow
7 Schalk Burger
8 Duane Vermeulen
9 Ruan Pienaar
10 Johan Goosen (debutant)
11 Bryan Habana
12 Francois Steyn
13 Jaco Taute (debutant)
14 JP Pietersen
15 Gio Aplon
16 Adriaan Strauss
17 Coenie Oosthuizen
18 Juandre Kruger
19 Willem Alberts
20 Francois Hougaard
21 Patrick Lambie
22 Jean de Villiers
23 Chiliboy Ralepelle
24 Frans Malherbe (debutant)
25 Pieter Steph du Toit (debutant)
26 Marcell Coetzee
27 Piet van Zyl (debutant)
28 Morne Steyn
29 Juan de Jongh
30 JJ Engelbrecht (debutant)
14 Jul 2012, 06:30 am
these not the only signings for WP
from news24
Baby Boks sign with WP
Cape Town – With the Under-19 and Under-21 provincial competitions kicking-off this weekend, Western Province have announced a raft of new signings at Under-21 level.
And at the heart of these signings is a core group of players that helped the South African Under-20 team to glory at last month’s 2012 IRB Junior World Championship.
Junior World champions, prop Ollie Kebble and backs Dillyn Leyds, Kobus van Wyk, Pat Howard and Tshotsho Mbovane, have all committed their futures to Western Province Rugby.
Kebble (Prop) and Leyds (Flyhalf) will travel to Johannesburg with the DHL WP U21 team this weekend, for their season-opener against the Lions Under-21s on Saturday.
Western Province Rugby (Pty) Ltd MD Rob Wagner commented: “What people tend to forget is that established Super Rugby players like Steven Kitshoff, Frans Malherbe, Eben Etzebeth and Siya Kolisi are all still Under-21 this season.
“That’s why it was so important to also sign the next generation in the shape of Ollie, Dillyn, Kobus, Pat and Tshotsho.
“We have faith that these players have the ability to join their counterparts at senior level in the not to distant future and we look forward to seeing them grow in the years to come.”
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