In the end there was no fond farewell and no closure. It was as if Western Province and their beloved Newlands were permanently parted by a pandemic.

WP simply seemed incapable of invoking the spirit of predecessors who so gloriously illuminated the Currie Cup at the famous ground. Instead the stage‚ perhaps fittingly with no-one in attendance‚ belonged to a team dressed in black‚ one better suited to the occasion...

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