RG Snyman & Marco van Staden headline Bulls extensions

Bulls captain, Burger Odendaal and leading locks, RG Snyman and Jason Jenkins are amongst some of the leading talents who extended contracts with the Blue Bulls, the club today confirmed.

Odendaal committed to the Bulls cause until 2020 and Snyman as well as Jenkins until 2019.

The trio is amongst some of South Africa's finest rugby stars and part of a surge of younger talent signing on to stay with the Bulls, it was confirmed by the High-Performance Manager at the BBCo, Xander Janse van Rensburg.

"It is an impressive list of players who opted to stay with us," said van Rensburg. "We are humbled by their decision, because it means that we are doing something right. All these individuals have ambitions to play at the highest level and rightly so, as they are outstanding players. It means a lot to our structures and confidence to know that they feel those ambitions can be realised while playing their rugby in Pretoria."

Former Junior Springboks Hendre Stassen (until 2021), Ruan Steenkamp (2019), Tinus de Beer (2019), Abongile Nonkontwana (2019) and Duncan Matthews (2020) all confirmed their loyalty to the club. 

The club also confirmed the renewal of young flank forward Marco van Staden until 2019. Van Staden has made a telling impact since making his Super Rugby debut earlier this year. Paul ‘Tier’ Schoeman, the 25-year-old loose forward currently plying his trade in Bloemfontein for the Cheetahs, has also just signed a contract that will run until 2019.

Furthering our earlier announcement about a host of players extending their contracts, Bulls have confirmed that tough-as-nails hooker Jaco Visagie has also just re-committed to the club until 2020. He is also joined by exciting young centre JT Jackson, who has extended his stay at Loftus to 2019.