Jake White

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696 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 24 Jun

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RTÉ Rugby Podcast · URC Grand Final special with Jake White and Bernard Jackman · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

But, I mean, the cycle will just turn.

So Kirtley Orense goes now, but, you know, Ivan van Zyl comes back from Saracen.

So, you know, I just think, imagine, just imagine if...

If the rule was you all got to come back in your next term and you got to come and play.

So, I'll give you an example.

If a guy's got a contract overseas, if he wants to be a Springbok, he has to commit that his next contract will be in South Africa.

Then you can pick him.

Okay?

So, you can't because there's no way you get a cutoff date for everyone to get out of a contract.

But let's just say, you're going to come back to South Africa after Leinster.

And so, when your contract comes up for renewal, you're already coming back.

We'll pick you.

But we're not going to now find out that next week you've extended your contract for three more years and now we're still going to pick you because that's not where we want to get to.

Now, imagine 150 players.

We've probably got about 350 players overseas playing in Japan, France, all over Russia, whatever.

We've got players playing all over the world.

Imagine if just 100 came back.

We've got four franchises.

That's 25 to each franchise.

It means 25 of those franchise players go to the next level down, which is the

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