THE FINAL WHISTLE
MARK KEOHANE: Alarm bells over powerhouses as northern hemisphere exodus shows up coaches
'On the evidence of this season’s results it’s not the Kings who should get the boot, but the traditional powerhouse of South African rugby, the Bulls'
The Sharks squad depth was tested in Durban and came up short in terms of a place in the championship playoffs. The Sharks’s great escape against the Southern Kings surprised me; not the escape but the fact that they had to rely on a 52m 73rd-minute penalty from Curwin Bosch to subdue a team that had never beaten a fellow South African outfit in their brief Super Rugby history. The talk in South African rugby circles is that the Kings will be chopped in a Super Rugby competition team reduction and that transformation again will be sold to the government in another guise. On the evidence of this season’s results it’s not the Kings who should get the boot, but the traditional powerhouse of South African rugby, the Bulls. What is happening in Pretoria? I asked the question on social media and the response was immediate from those who proudly wear those bull horns and were born with blue rather than red blood. They are fed up with the nonsense of the Bulls being a team in transition and...
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