Jake White is winning the lockdown recruitment game and has enhanced his reputation as a man who can build a bakery from the crumbs he is given.
If what he has achieved during the national lockdown due to the Covid-19 coronavirus is anything to go by, Jake White has enhanced his reputation as a man who can build a bakery from the crumbs he is given.
Yet, in the past two months, he’s managed to shift a relative mountain by signing David Kriel, Marcel van der Merwe, Gio Aplon, Arno Botha, Walt Steenkamp, Schalk Erasmus and Travis Ismaiel; committing youngsters Johan Grobbelaar, Gerhard Steenekamp and Muller Uys to extensions; and luring promising young coaches Russell Winter and Joey Mongalo to Loftus.Gio Aplon has joined the Bulls.
“The other thing is that some players are looking at other options with the way it is [with the pay cuts]. It doesn’t necessarily mean during the 21-day window that there are overseas clubs interested in a few of our players even though they couldn’t take them straight away. While both of them were raised in the southern Cape, the gifted duo – who have left for the Stormers and the Sharks, respectively – have played all their first-class rugby at Loftus and were on the verge of being pivotal senior players when they left.
With Libbok gone, White is a fly half light – among other positions – what with Morné Steyn turning 36 in July.
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