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Springboks fly-half Elton Jantjies set for Top 14 switch - report

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Elton Jantjies is set to be handed a timely career boost, with media reports in France stating that the out-of-favour Springboks fly-half is on the verge of joining Toulon in the Top 14. The 32-year-old headed back to Japan after he was sent home by South Africa from Argentina following media allegations that he was having an extra-marital affair with a member of the national team’s backroom staff.

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It has now been reported that his stay in the Far East is set to reach a quick conclusion and a switch to France – where he previously played with Pau – is on the cards as Toulon are looking for a backup to Ihaia West, the Champions Cup-winning No10 recruited in the off-season from La Rochelle.

Midi Olympique, the French rugby newspaper, reported: “This week should allow the RCT to finalise the arrival of the South African world champion… It’s just a matter of days and details. Elton Jantjies will, barring last-minute setbacks, join Toulon as an additional player.

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“The South African opener, ousted from the Springboks for an affair in September, will be officially dismissed by his Japanese franchise, Urayasu D-Rocks, for the same reason. In the process, he should finalise his commitment to the RCT with immediate effect. The Var club had been looking for an out-half for several months to assist Ihaia West.

“Jantjies arrival is made possible by the early departure of Julien Blanc to Castres, who freed up a place in the red and black workforce. Jantjies’ commitment is expected to run until the end of the season.”

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It was September 11 – shortly after the Springboks arrived in Buenos Aires – when Jantjies was cut loose by his Test team squad. A media statement at the time read: “The Springboks management are aware of reports regarding fly-half Elton Jantjies and team dietician Zeenat Simjee between the training camp in Sabie and the Test match against New Zealand in Mbombela earlier this year.

“No team protocols were breached, but the individuals are returning to South Africa to attend to these personal reports and to eliminate any distractions to the team’s preparations for the Test against Argentina.”

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JW 49 minutes ago
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This piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.


I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.


Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.


The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.

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