{"id":21544,"date":"2013-07-31T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T10:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/eight-bulls-depart-for-overseas-rugby-clubs\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T12:33:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T10:33:42","slug":"eight-bulls-depart-for-overseas-rugby-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/eight-bulls-depart-for-overseas-rugby-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Bulls depart for overseas rugby clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=11620\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11620 \" alt=\"Morne Steyn is one of eight players leaving three-time Super Rugby champions, the Bulls, to join overseas clubs. Photo: Backpagepix\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6d513_B13GFBA0596W.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morne Steyn is one of eight players leaving three-time Super Rugby champions, the Bulls, to join overseas clubs. Photo: Backpagepix<\/p>\n<p>Eight rugby players will be joining the ever growing group of South African internationals to head to big-paying teams in Europe and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=35.6833333333,139.766666667spn=10.0,10.0q=35.6833333333,139.766666667 (Japan)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pretoria-based Bulls said the contracts of the eight players, all <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/former-springboks-team-up-for-epic-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Springboks<\/a>, had expired and they would leave before the start of the domestic <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/varsity-cup-sets-international-trends\/\" target=\"_blank\">Currie Cup<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Their departure was confirmed three days after the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/brumbies-beat-bulls-to-reach-final\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bulls lost to Australian team Brumbies<\/a> in the Super Rugby semifinals, the first time the Bulls have dropped a post-season game in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese players all became Springboks at the Blue Bulls, which speaks volumes of how much impact they had in our structures and teams,\u201d Bulls chief executive Barend van Graan said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls tried to retain a number of the players, but said they couldn\u2019t compete with the salaries overseas, which continue to draw away South Africa\u2019s top Rugby talent.<\/p>\n<p>Morne Steyn, who has played more than 100 Super Rugby games for the Bulls and is the Springboks\u2019 second-highest point scorer in tests, will join Stade Francais in France. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcupweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rugbyweek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/63edf_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morne Steyn is one of eight players leaving three-time Super Rugby champions, the Bulls, to join overseas clubs. Photo: Backpagepix Eight rugby players will be joining the ever growing group of South African internationals to head to big-paying teams in Europe and Japan. The Pretoria-based Bulls said the contracts of the eight players, all Springboks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}