At a pretty cool function held at the Cape Town airport of all places last night, Bryan Habana was named as the SA Player of the Year for the third time.
Habana was in superb form for the Boks this year, scoring seven tries, including a hat-trick against Australia at Loftus, resulting in him being the top try scorer in the Four Nations. He becomes only the second player to win the title more than two times, following in the footsteps of Naas Botha, who won it four times.
Big thanks to the Energade team for inviting me ? Might need a few of those today in order to come right in time for the Sharks supporters golf day!!
The winners:
Rugby Player of the Year: Bryan Habana
Young Player of the Year: Eben Etzebeth
Team of the Year: The Sharks (Currie Cup)
Coach of the Year: John Plumtree (Sharks).
Super Rugby Player of the Year: Keegan Daniel (Sharks)
Currie Cup Player of the Year: Deon Fourie (Western Province)
Currie Cup First Division Player of the Year: Hansie Graaff (Griffons)
Vodacom Cup Player of the Year: Demetri Catrakilis (Western Province)
Players? Player of the Year: JP Pietersen (Sharks)
Sevens Player of the Year: Cecil Afrika
Try of the Year: Bryan Habana (Springboks v All Blacks).
SA Under-20 Player of the Year: Jan Serfontein (Blue Bulls)
Craven Week Player of the Tournament: Sergeal Petersen (Eastern Province)
Referee Award: Jaco Peyer
Women?s Achiever of the Year: Yolanda Meiring (Blue Bulls)
Club Champs Player of the Tournament: Nico Luus (Pretoria Police)
As said prior to the awards, I would have had Jannie du Plessis bringing home the bacon, but I have no issue at all with SA legenda Bryan Habana taking the title this year ? As said in my Virgin Active blog post this week: Bryan Habana you legend!
Quite clearly no one saw WP winning the Currie Cup this year, hence the Sharks taking the team of the year award, while WP were not even nominated. SARU might want to wait until after the Currie Cup before deciding on the nominations next year?
So the Currie Cup and Super Rugby players of the year cannot make it into the Bok EOYT squad? The above decided by the public voting on Facebook ? Clearly the public and the bok coach are singing from different hymn sheets ?
Dean Fourie was phenomenal at flank during the Currie Cup, but I would have had JC Janse Van Rensburg taking that title, and on a plane to the UK tomorrow with the Boks. He is a scrumming machine at loosehead ?
Author: Tank
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