Ek sal maar die berig copy paste soos Voldy se manne doen!
World Cup-winning Springbok wing Bryan Habana will continue to play his rugby in South Africa for the next two years, but it will be in the colours of Western Province and the Stormers.
rugby365.com can reveal that Habana has accepted an offer from WP to move from Pretoria to Cape Town for a contract that will run until 2011.
Bernie Habana, father of the Bok wing, confirmed on Sunday that Habana Jnr will be playing his domestic and Super Rugby in Cape Town for the next two years.
“Some details of the contract still has to be sorted out, but Bryan has decided that Cape Town is where it is at,” Habana Snr said, adding: “Those details will be sorted out in the next few days [before he departs with the Boks for Australasia on Tuesday].”
This follows less than a week after he arrived in Cape Town, last Monday, for ‘explorative talks’ with Stormers coach Rassie Erasmus.
Habana, winner of both the International Rugby Board and South African Rugby Union Player of the Year awards for 2007, also had an offer to stay with the Blue Bulls in Pretoria and had talks with the Bulls last Sunday.
And as rugby365.com revealed last week, apart from the offers from the Blue Bulls (Pty) Ltd and WP Rugby (Pty) Ltd, there were no other written offers on the table. This was despite recent reports that suggested French Top 14 outfit Bayonne was leading the chase for his signature.
The 26-year-old try machine, Habana – who was one of the key players in South Africa’s 2-1 victory in the series against the British and Irish Lions earlier this year as well as the 2-0 whitewash over the All Blacks this month – has been repeatedly linked with a switch to Europe.
But this has all proved to be unfounded media speculation.
The decision to move to Cape Town follows after the Stormers head coach, Erasmus, made contact with Habana.
Erasmus made the initial approach, to determine if there is any interest from the Bok flyer, and they then met last Monday.
The Bulls, who managed to retain the services of fellow World Cup winner Wynand Olivier, despite moves to also lure him to Cape Town, will now look towards 20-year-old flyer Gerhard van den Heever to fill the void left by Habana’s departure.
Van den Heever and Springbok Akona Ndungane, who fractured his leg at the weekend, are the top wings in Pretoria at present. Van den Heever, who has come through the Bulls ranks and played for all their age-group teams, played for South Africa in the International Rugby Board Junior World Championships earlier this year.
Despite making it a “top priority” for them to retain the services of Habana, the Bulls also made it clear they won’t be offering him “outrageous amounts” to stay in Pretoria.
WP, apart from losing out in the race to sign the Bulls midfielder, Olivier, have also recently lost the services of Springbok midfielder Jean de Villiers to Irish province Munster.
De Villiers was present at Munster’s pre-season match against Guinness Premiership club Sale Sharks at Musgrave Park last weekend.
The Springbok centre was on a two-day tour of the Munster set-up before returning to the South Africa Tri-Nations squad last week.
WP and the Golden Lions are currently also in a tug-of-war over the services of another World Cup-winning midfielder, Jaque Fourie, who has indicated that he is keen on joining his Bok teammate, Habana, in Cape Town.
By Jan de Koning
30 @Ed_the_Lion Hoekom hardloop jy so ver, jy nie ‘n kar nie?
@Koos – Ek het ‘n kar maar petrol is duur jong. :shock:.
Ek raak fiks vir die squash en MMA seisoen wat in Oktober begin.
32 @Ed_the_Lion Koop vir jou ‘n fiets…
MMA?
@Koos – 🙂 Ek gaan vir my ‘n lekker 12 spoed fiets kry.
Mixed martial arts. Daai kak wat hulle cage fighting noem. Ek oefen saam een van die afrigters in Cambridge. Die ou is ‘n Russian underground fighter. Hy skop my gat goed, maar dit is lekker.
@Koos –
@25
Not the same Koos.
I didn’t get paid.
I moved out of protest.
You sound like Robzim now 🙂
34 @Ed_the_Lion Vra vir K9 of hy nie sy Raleigh vir jou wil gee nie, hy kan in elk geval nie meer fiets ry nie…sukkel met die zimmerframe en als!
Ahh ek sien!
@Koos – Nee flok. Die ding het nog vierkantige wiele.
Luister manne. EK gaan nou slaap. Julle moet ‘n moesa lekker dag hê.
35 @Pietman Nah Pete, ek trek jou been but it is the old hairy chestnut, you can’t blame them for going after the money. Short time to earn the big bucks and all that…
Hey, you must know how I feel, blerrie Freestaters all over the show!
37 @Ed_the_Lion Een van daai met die GROOT voorwiel…
Cheers, tot later, gaan bietjie berigte soek vir ons…
@Koos – CHeers Koos.
“Habana’s told his team-mates by SMS” ?? 😯
What … He could not pick up the phone ?
Seems not very respectful considering many of these boys he must play with on the Bok team …
41 @Rugby_Princess More RP! Maybe he did phone a few but thought it best to sms the whole bang shoot before they read it in the papers…
More disconcerting is that management found out from the papers! Is what happens if you let Daddie run the show for you…
@Rugby_Princess –
RP@41
Check BBC Sport News, live scenes from a pub in Sydney, Ozzies watching the Ashes cricket, place resembles a monastry…..you can actually here their beer fizz if you care to listen carefully!
Check it out.
43 @Pietman Bwhahahahahaha!!! Yeah, could not have happened to a nicer bunch of cricketers…I see they drop to #4 in the World rankings!
#44 Koos, Piet,
Agreed, hoe lekker kry ek nou. Funniest was the headline in the Telegraph today.
“SOUTH AFRICA B TOO GOOD FOR AUSTRALIA!”
45 @Manlybok Hehe first captain in over a 100 years to lose the Ashes twice! Hope he wears that tag with pride…
I still don’t think Habana will go to WP.
Somebody must just convince his Janine that it’s a bad idea.
Same with Mossie.
The wifes are always pushing to move down there, mine is the same.
They only see the beaches, shops, mountains and restaurants at the boardwalk, and then they think everything else is going to be ‘honkey dorey’…….
@Pietman – There is also other reasons why the northern wifes likes to visit Cape Town…but it’s a trade secret!
@Pietman – More oumaat, ek het n sms van haar af gekry gistraand waarin sy bevestig dat hy redds Saterdag geteken het.
I wonder if Habana will come and live in Durbanville?
Lets hope that he has checked out his sponsered car, remember that Rassies last big signing, AJ Venter, drove a TATA bakkie as his sponsered car.
gou gou ‘n Maandag oggend grappie vir julle….praat nou nou weer met julle
Die man stap die boekwinkel in en vra vir die assistant, Mev. Het julle dalk die boek “Die Man, die Hoof van die huis”?
Die vrou kyk so oor haar brilletjie en se’ –
” Meneer , gaan loer maar daar by die fkkn Fee verhale”.
Een van die bulle se goue seuns het besluit om te gaan. Gaan meer volg?
Habana trek na die WeePee
Die Bulle seg Ag Nee!
Ons kry jou weer of Loftus…
En tackle jou tot jy Dof Is!..
Maar Bryanjie is mos vinnig
en die Floues is ligsinning
hulle kry hom nie gevang
en nou hol hy Loftus bang!
@Polla – 😆
@Loosehead – 😯
55 + 54 @K9-MonsterLeeu – Doen jy gesig oefeninge? Te laat, daai plooie gaan nooit weg nie…
@superBul – 20 Superbul……CJ en BJ is te stadig vir vleuel ;). Jy reken Habana moes eerder oorsee gegaan het. Hy het nog ‘n paar jaar se internasionale rugby oor in hom. Ek dink sy waarde (finansieel vir homself) is meer as internasionale speler as wat hy daar gaan wegraak oorsee. Deur borgskappe ens.
@Koos – as jy so aangaan gaan die dr vir jou sê…mnr Koos……daai swelling om die oë gaan nooit weer weggaan nie.
58 @K9-MonsterLeeu – mnr Koos…hahahaha, ten minste ken hy sy plek!
@Koos – dis nou so stil hier soos die Aussies se kleedkamers Saterdag en gister.
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