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Super Rugby: Cheetahs squad contenders - Back Three

The Cheetahs have assembled some real speed merchants in their wider training squad, and the competition will be fierce for starting spots. With players like Piet van Zyl, Johan Goosen, Robert Ebersohn and Johann Sadie, one can expect the pace men to get plenty of opportunity to stretch the hamstrings.

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Cheetah Super Rugby Squad contenders (continued) – The last outpost

In this final edition of the series of articles, dissecting the contenders for the Cheetahs squad, we are going to look at the players vying for the fullback berth. GBS has been putting the pressure on, for me to finish, in the vain hope that the Breezers, Guppies, Pink Nulle, and Kitties get their contenders on the table.

It is almost time, but still almost a month before the first salvos in this years Super Rugby competition gets fired.

Enough time methinks for these scribes to put fingers to keyboards!

Without further ado, here are the Cheetahs contenders for the Last Outpost:

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Cheetahs Super Rugby contenders (continued) – Wingmen

As we continue to wait in anticipation of Super Rugby to start proper, here are the contenders for the glory boys out wide. Here I have a concern, with the players available. While all of them are speedsters, they aren’t in the same league as the likes of Guildford, and co. That said, they fit well into the Cheetahs pattern, where there is often space created out wide.

I see that most supporters believe that this is their teams year lol, normally this has been the sole preserve of the “Drizzlers” as GBS rfers to the Stormers.

Be it as it may, I am impatient for it all to start! Bring it on!!

Time running out for the opposition scribes to name their teams GBS? How about getting your slaves to work!

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RWC: Pool C Preview

At first glance this pool looks to be cut and dried, but when one looks deeper into each squad and the potential clashes, it soon becomes apparent that this group has the potential to throw up some HUGE upsets.

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