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Brink heads to the Premiership following immediate-effect release from Super Rugby's Lions
By Jamie Lyall
South African back row Cyle Brink will join Leicester Tigers next month after the Lions agreed to release him from his contract with immediate effect.
The powerful 26-year-old is currently working his way back to fitness following a ruptured Achilles tendon and is not expected to be available until next season.
However, having successfully cut short the final eight months of his Lions deal, Brink is free to link up with Geordan Murphy's Tigers in April.
An under-20 international, he was part of the Handre Pollard-led South African side that made the final of the 2014 Junior World Championship where they lost to England by a point.
Other members of that squad included Springboks Jessie Kriel, Andre Esterhuizen, and in-form Edinburgh duo Pierre Schoeman and Duhan van der Merwe.
Brink made his Super Rugby bow two years later and was set to make his full international debut after being called into the Boks squad in 2018, but suffered a nerve problem in his back and neck, and subsequently spent time on the sidelines with a knee injury.
Tigers' rivals Northampton Saints had made an offer to bring him to Franklin's Gardens last season, but a deal could not be done.
Several other teams, including Glasgow Warriors, showed an interest in acquiring the destructive flanker, but Leicester and Murphy have won the race for his signature.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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