Promoted Top 14 side La Rochelle announced on Friday the signing of former All Black Jason Eaton along with Australian Alofa Alofa and ex-Springbok Peter Grant on two-year deals.
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Lock Eaton, 31, has 17 caps for the All Blacks. He played 80 matches for Super Rugby side, the Hurricanes, during a seven-year spell before joining NTT Shining Arcs in Japan last season.
New Zealand-born wing Alofa, 23, played last season for the Waratahs, while South African flyhalf Grant, 29, who has five caps for the Springboks, has played for the Stormers since 2004.
Peter grant…. jeeez what a kak buy by La Rochelle!
Stormers supporters should be happy!
Die Stormers is nou besig om n goeie span te bou vir volgende jaar.
MacroBok wrote:
Volgende jaar is ons jaar, watch net, volgende jaar se ek jou
😉
We must just hold thumbs that the Japanese do not allow Grant to play any rugby including beach touchies near Cape Town during their off season.
Shame, poor Japanese, first they had Godzilla…..now they get Plodzilla
“Japanese’ should read “French”, my reading is as bad as Grant’s kicking.
@ nortierd:
I noticed Dobson selected Rob du Preez ahead of van Aswegen for the WP team to play Kenya tomorrow and also included last year SA schools fullback EW Viljoen in the starting line up. Centre Pat Howard is also back after being injured the whole season.
Sign of things to come?
@Rob
I saw that, quite an exciting team of youngsters that.
Think you are right, Van Aswegen is still so young, but feels like he has been around for ages, ok, he has hardly been used, spends more time at the mechanics than on the road.
@ nortierd:
It is a pity about Gary and his injuries… seems he will never realise his potential…same as Nick Koster
It is now up to du preez and Coleman to make use of the opportunities during the currie cup …place in the super rugby team for 2015 is up for grabs.
Yep, still can’t help wondering how Swiel would have fared….especially these last few weeks where we have actually attempted running the ball.
Du Preez must now be the guy to take us forward.
Pollard is really impressing at the JWC, he will bee in the WC group next year if he gets more game time at the Bulls
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