Edinburgh sign 17 year old

Is that a photo of a 17 year old?  Cannot believe it - must be a creatine junkie that one.

This is going too far,   The player has not played for the SA Under 20 side yet and has not even  completed his senior certificate studies,   This type of cradle snatching should be forbidden.            

ouDawie, as an aside, you could say thanks to saarkie ....... nevertheless the 'cradlesnatchers' should be named, shamed & abused.  Draad elsewhere extols the virtues of our top schools coaches, he's undoubtedly correct ..... our schools should make provisos to ensure that the foreign bastards pay $$$$$  for their despicable deeds .

Looks like he is pumped up for that tackle, but that said, how has he been dodging his drug testing. That can't be natural, unless he has been buying his meat from a certain butcher

First it was our old players near retirement. Next our test players in their prime. Now it's our talented schoolboys. 

Can anything stop this?

Of course Rassie was condemned for being willing to pick overseas players by some unthinking types here. But Rassie and  Beeno were of course on the same page! 

Rassie went further and appointed an agent to monitor the form of our overseas based players. Great move. 

I suppose it's necessary to spell out its not Rassie's fault such a huge contingent are now playing overseas. Rassie is just doing what he can to help the Boks. 

As the FIRST here to be telling the oaks Rassie is a great coach I do of course deserve much more credit than I got. Thankfully most here at last. recognize what a fine coach Rassie is. I mean even Saffex gets it and he usually struggles to understand the game. 

"Overseas clubs should not be allowed to sign foreign under 20’s and if they do they should be fined and points deducted"

How about their own country looking after them to begin with..... and giving them confidence that they have a promising career in their own country, or in this case South Africa...….that would be a great start

Just like most promising cricket players, it's a monumental fuck up in South Africa  that we lose so many talented players to county cricket or other national sides 

Looks like rugby is slowly shifting towards football obscurity where test matches will have less value vs playing for your club or should I say held hostage by their clubs because of some dumb injury concern. 

We started to see this with Habana, Bakkies and even Bismark and Frans Steyn were mysteriously removed from Rassies training group due to injury 

"Just like most promising cricket players, it's a monumental fuck up in South Africa that we lose so many talented players to county cricket or other national sides"

Exactly. The first thing to do is to scrap the ANC Transformation Policy.....it's a virus, has and will continue s to destroy our sport. 

As well as the country.