Currie Cup

For some in the current eight-team competition, it is their alpha and omega but for others, it is an irritating flea.

There is no need for us to look down on the Currie Cup. The Currie Cup is a great product. Aside from the Free Staters having a semblance of involvement in a second-tier competition in Europe, these teams have nothing else to play in and they are giving it horns. The Sharks team that the up-and-coming coach Joey Mongalo put on the field against the Purple People Eaters from Welkom (they won the First Division last year to earn promotion) was what he euphemistically called “a melting pot” of URC fringe players, Under-20s and club players. The Bulls, of course, have bigger fish to fry. That is because it is a competition that has lost its identity.