Stormers

Cape Town - The Rassie Erasmus documentary currently on television includes a clip of the glory days of the Cheetahs when they won the full-strength Currie ...

Fourie explains: “The difficult thing is that we no longer attract the players who are not starting regularly at the Sharks, Bulls, Lions and Stormers. The Cheetahs are treated so shabbily because they are financially poorer than the teams from Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria. It started in the ’90s with Andre Joubert, Vleis Visagie, Henry Honiball, Pieter Muller and Ollie le Roux, and continued with the likes of Ruan Pienaar, Frans Steyn, Coenie Oosthuizen, AJ Venter, Andries Strauss, Bismarck and Jannie du Plessis ... according to the stats](/sport/rugby/urc/lions-look-to-be-heading-to-another-defeat-according-to-the-stats-877e2cb9-e16d-4883-8abb-b592ff35c0bf) by January 2021 we had lost 23 players and 15 were of top quality.” Incidentally, Super Rugby had also seen the Cheetahs treated deplorably.