Blue Bulls scout Xander Janse van Rensburg, who is known to travel the length and breadth of South Africa during the school rugby season in search of talent to sign up for the Loftus based team and the University of Pretoria, is in the Western Cape at the moment. Since the local school season is still weeks away from kicking off, his much earlier than anticipated trip down south has a number of loyal Province officials feeling a bit uncomfortable. Ever since the Bulls adopted Heyneke Meyer’s major recruitment plan of action aimed at keeping the Bulls on the top of the Super Rugby table, Janse van Rensburg has sprung to the fore big time and snapped up some prominent youngsters from right under the noses of their home unions. The Boland has become a happy hunting ground for the Bulls in recent times with talent seemingly around every street corner in the region. They have even struck gold in Paarl in 2012 with the signing of Handre Pollard, the unofficial best school player of that year.
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I have heard from some trustworthy people in the rugby industry that the ethics which Mr Janse van Rensburg displays in signing black and coloured schoolboy players leaves much to be desired for and that some players being done in and have been approached by journalists to put forward all the facts of the devious ways and means that this person displays in collecting signatures and the extent to which Xander will go to pick up previously disadvantaged kids for as cheap as possible.This also brings to mind the article that appeared in the papers 2 years ago when Xander wanted to off load coloured andblack players at Waterkloof and the then new headmaster of Klofies called in Xander which coincidentally was an old boy of Waterkloof and told him there is more to life for young boys than to be abused to make the Blue Bulls failed developement program looked better with especially the required number of quota players being much more competitive for the Blue Bulls representative age group provincial rugby sides!.Good on you Mr.Headmaster!Where there is smoke there is fire and it looks like this Xander guy is never to far away from incidents that stinks! Apparently he works very close with Garsfontein High School and uses them to offload black and coloured players with the promise of a Blue Bull contract after school as well as a reserved spot in the Blue Bull Grant Khomo or Craven Week side.Hell this way of recruiting 16 year old sends shivers down my spine! I wonder if Barend van Graan the Bulls CEO are aware of Xander modus operandi and his unethical ways or is it a matter of turning his eyes another side because of this win at all costs at all times attitude the Bulls have.I wonder if Muzi knows about these articles that the papers want to publish and what SARU will say about black and coloured schoolboy rugby players being short changed by the Bulls recruiters.
@Boet: My wankelrige bron het sopas ook bevestig dat hulle nognie teen Bishops gespeel het nie, maar dat hulle wel ‘n bepaling het teen hulle hierdie jaar. So sal hulle ook binnekort die kans kry om by die 0/16 toernooi in Hermanus teen Rondebosch te verloor, so aan die einde van die seisoen behoort ons ‘n goeie idee te hê of my prys ongegrond was.
@Boet: Ek vra plegtig om verskoning, my inligting betreffende Bellville was dan foutief en my bron sal streng aangespreek word. Dus het hulle nognie die afgelope 2 jaar die voorreg gehad om teen Gim, Bois of Rondebosch te speel nie, maar het puik gevaar teen die res, ja? Waar is jou trui Boet, kannie lekker sien wie jy ondersteun nie, maar jy klink soos ‘n Gimmerige ou.
@Ploegskaar: @Ploegskaar: Jammer maar Bellville het nog nie die voorreg gehad om teen Rondebosch te verloor nie.
@Ploegskaar: Jammer Gim het O/15 teen Rondebosch verloor 25 — 24 verlede jaar.
@rugbyfan: Nothing that a bit of salmonella cannot sort out
Must say that I don’t have that big a problem with the WC players being signed elsewhere, as the powers that be down here have been notoriously poor in recognizing and selecting talent in the past (just look at the yearly CW selections for starters). Over the past 20 years I have been fortunate enough to see most of the premier A, B and even C schools play over the course of each season, and the amount of brilliant players that slip through the net every year down here is just amazing.
What I am excited about though, is the collective drive by various northern suburbs schools over the past 2 – 3 years to retain and develop their local talent in areas that have been the traditional feeder areas for the 2 Paarl powerhouses and PRG. Full bursaries are on the increase and various infrastructure upgrades are in progress as local businesses are re-directing their funds to local schools and I for one hope that these investments pay dividends in the near future.
@Ploegskaar: Maybe the scout has herd about your good quality products you sell and was down for a taste.
Remember to put some poisen in
@BoishaaiPa: Ditto, beslis geen voorspellings hierdie jaar nie. Met ‘n fyn-beplande rooster van wedstryde wat ek moes verdeel tussen 2 skole gaan daar in elk geval nie tyd wees vir praat met al die ry nie.
@Ploegskaar: Ek weet nie wat daar in die Noorder Paarl aangaan nie…Ek sien ook die manne maak sommer al vroeg voorspellings….Ek sal maar rustig sit en kyk wat aangaan die seisoen.
@Woltrui: Duidelik moeggeploeg. Dis wat gebeur as jy Multi-task tussen jaareinde, aankope, fx en kakpraat hier! Dink Xander het vir Arno van Wyk op goeie advies geteken, Bargain van 2012!
@Ploegskaar: Hi Ploeg. Jy het jouself duidelik verstaanbaar gemaak. Ek verwys na die Janse Van Rensburg in bg artikel 8)
@BOG: Almost, but not quite, and yet their combined size is still smaller than Botshabelo, which apparently now runs all the way to Thaba Nchu
@Woltrui: Met Noordelike bure het ek verwys na Paarl Gim en/of die organiseerders van die toernooi. Ek het myself klaarblyklik geweldig onduidelik uitgedruk. Mr van Rensburg is die vise-prinsipaal en afrigter van Bellville se o/16A wat die vorige 2 jaar onoorwonne was. Sy skoohoof is toevallig ‘n gewese Affie leerkrag wat volgens goedgeplaasde bronne die afgelope 3 jaar puik werk daar verrig. Hierdie groep seuns het al die plaaslike groot skole (Landbou, Drostdy, Outeniqua, SACS, Wynberg, Rondebosch en Bishops) wat hulle tot op hede gespeel het, afgestof en ‘n wedstryd teen Gim of Bois of die ander groot honde daar sou ‘n welverdiende beloning wees.
@Ploegskaar: I believe the squatter camps begin at Du Toitskloof and at the bottom of Sir Lowries and all the way to Cape Point?
@Woltrui: Dat julle nie rekrute van elders by julle aanvaar nie is net n rookskerm. Wie op aarde sal bereid wees om daardie lang/kort grysbroeke met net die kniekoppe wat uitsteek en koel gehou word, aan te trek.? Mind you, miskien Boishaai- ek dink net die kleur verskil.
Sou Mnr Janse Van Rensburg dalk die moeite doen om oor die pad na Affies te stap, of alternatiewelik die paar kilometers na Klofies af te le, sal hy dalk verbaas wees met die plaaslike talent. Ek verstout my om te se geen Boland – of Kaapse skooltjie gaan die jaar by die 2 Bul spanne kers vas hou nie.
Natuurlik nie so eksoties vir ‘n Vaalie om met die N4 na Klofies te ry, as om na Kaapstad te vlieg nie 8)
@BOG: No, its more like someone going to the Free State, period.
@BoishaaiPa: Jy sal daai klomp banggatte by jou noordelike buurskool moet aanspreek, ek sien die beste o/16 span in die Wes Kaap, afgerig deur Boishaai OB Emile van Rensburg, het nie ‘n uitnodiging na die Gim o/16 week gekry nie! Daai mannetjies is al van o/14 onoorwonne, hule het beslis ‘n kans verdien teen van die groter skole.
Its like someone going to the Free State to buy rice in bulk
@BoishaaiPa: Ye know what you mean.
He will have to travel incognito…he is not a very well loved chap in these parts!..