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Article in today's Newsletter
SOUTH Afrcan international prop, BJ Botha, is expected to join Ulster in November at the latest.
Ulster coach, Matt Williams, has the majority of his new signings on board, but allayed fears yesterday that the star prop may not after all be coming to the Irish Province.

"At the very latest, he should be here by November," Williams told the News Letter.

"But we are hopeful that he will be in Belfast long before that," he added.

Landing Botha was a major coup for Ulster, and he will be a tremendous boost to the front of the pack.
At least we have Matt Williams' telling us that Botha is coming :cheers: can't wait for the new season to start
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Thats a good job hopefully he'll be here in time to play againest Stade.

Anyways i reckon with Botha, Best and Young/Fitzepatrick we can become one of the best scrumaging teams in europe
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Good news. Any definate word on Nagusa yet?
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Botha is to take up a contract with Ulster at the beginning of October
http://www.supersport.co.za/rugby/artic ... en%20ready

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He was back playing in the match v the Griquas, came on as sub in the second half.
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Apparently he was at the "Hog" thingy last night, though i can't say i seen him myself unless he had the "Sparky" suit on, which would account for the growth of Sparky over the summer.
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Would have been possible as he did not play last weekend and there are no Sharks games till end of month plus he seems to have dropped from the SA radar.
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BJ Botha was not part of the Sharks side last week because he was suffering from a bad bout of influenza
http://www.sarugby.com/news/News/article/sid=9781.html
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McPepper wrote:
BJ Botha was not part of the Sharks side last week because he was suffering from a bad bout of influenza
Aye, maybe he 'flu' to Belfast.
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