Duane Vermeulen says he could have stayed at the Vodacom Bulls, but chose to join Irish side Ulster rather than being “stuck in one place”.
The veteran No 8 inked a two-year deal with Ulster in September while in Australia with the Springboks during the Rugby Championship.
is deal with the Pretoria outfit had ended and he was tipped to return to Japan, where he had spent two seasons with the Kubota Spears. “Then this offer came up and I sat down with my wife and said, ‘Listen, let’s do this as a family, one last Hail Mary before I retire’. “There would have been one or two [other offers] in the pipeline, but I had to make an immediate decision. I could have stayed at the Bulls, but I decided to try something else.
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