The Blue Bulls Company has announced on Wednesday that Vodacom Bulls loose forward CJ Stander has decided against taking the option to extend his contract with the Blue Bulls Company.
The Bulls player will instead move to Munster, after agreeing terms with the Irish club.
Stander will remain part of the Vodacom Bulls 2012 Vodacom Super Rugby campaign and will be available to play for the Vodacom Blue Bulls in the Absa Currie Cup competition.
His contract with the BBC runs out on October 31st, where after he will move to Ireland.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Blue Bulls Company, Barend van Graan, said that they were unable to match the current offer on the table from the Irish club.
“We identified CJ at schoolboy level already and he was part of our future planning at the Bulls. However we couldn’t match the Munster offer – such is the reality of professional sport.”
Vodacom Bulls coach, Frans Ludeke, wished Stander well in his decision;
“Quality players like CJ, who have also shown tremendous leadership abilities, don’t come around very often and so it was not a surprise to hear about his overseas offer. We would have loved to have had him with us well into the future, but it makes financial sense for CJ to accept the Munster offer. I have no doubt that CJ will continue to give everything he has throughout the remainder of our Vodacom Super Rugby campaign as well as our ABSA Currie Cup season.”
Stander has captained the Vodacom Blue Bulls at u.19 and u.21 level as well as South Africa at u.20 level.
He made his Vodacom Super Rugby debut in 2012 and has played in all 13 Vodacom Super Rugby matches for the Vodacom Bulls this year.
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June 20th, 2012 at 8:32 pm
in 3 years he will do a Richard Strauss!!
June 20th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Yip but just maybe HM will give him a bok cap so we insure his future in Bok rugby
June 20th, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Fuck but I am pissed off for loosing him……really hope we are not going to see him in a Pom or Irish shirt one of these days….
Come HM give him a try in the bok team, he is a great player and great leader, watch this chap when he was still playing in school.
Like him alot
June 20th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
This now brings the number of loose forwards playing in Europe to 20.
Joe van Niekerk – Toulon
Ashley Johnson – London Wasps
CJ Stander – Munster
Pedrie Wannenburg – Ulster moving to Castres
Frans Louw – Bath
Gerrit Jan van Veldze – Northampton Saints
Justin Melck – Saracens
Ernst Joubert – Saracens
Nick Fenton Wells – Saracens
Andries Pretorius – Cardiff Blues
Robbie Diack – Ulster
Adrie Badenhorst – Agen
Petrus Hauman – Brive
Antonie Claassen – Brive
Jannie Bornman – Castres
Gerhard Volsoo – Clermont
Gerrie Brits – Perpignon
Bernard le Roux – Racing Metro
Jacques Cronje – Racing Metro
Shaun Sowerby – Toulous
June 21st, 2012 at 2:06 am
Reply to biltongbek @ 9:22 pm:
Such is life… most of those guys are in their twilight years having served the Boks and/or their Super Rugby sides well for many seasons…
But CJ is a former U20 captain who was touted as a future Bok/Bulls captain… personally I was just saying last night he hadn’t quite made the step-up and no doubt the Bulls think so too…
That said like Juandre… maybe it’s just the tonic he needs…
I see these youngsters as no different to the rest of the country’s youngsters going OS on working holidays after education… some return some don’t such is the nature of the beast in Afrique…
Currently the only player in that list that could have possibly made the 42 man squad (with the injuries) IMO is Flo…