Newcastle signs Springboks scrum-half for new Premiership season

12:18 pm, September 16, 2020

Louis Schreuder, the former Springboks scrum half, joins the Newcastle Falcons’ rise for the 2020/21 Gallagher Premier League season that begins in November. The 30-year-old was part of the Sharks team that led the South African Super Rugby Conference before the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, starting in five of his six games this year and suffering only one loss.

Schreuder has won the South African Currie Cup three times, twice with Western Province and most recently with Natal Sharks, whom he captained to victory during the 2018 final.

Having made his international debut against Wales in 2017, Schreuder has more than 100 Super Rugby appearances under his belt following his time with the Stormers, Sharks and Southern Kings, and the 6-footer half has also played for French club Toulon and the Kubota Spears from Japan. .

Newcastle boss Dean Richards said: “Louis is a player of great quality who has shown this consistently throughout his career.

“Our new defense coach Nick Easter worked with him on the Sharks so we have great first-hand knowledge about him, and our defender Philip van der Walt has also been very helpful in terms of getting the track. inside of their time playing together.

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“He is a great signing that adds to what is already a very strong core ahead of our return to the Gallagher Premiership, and emphasizes the real competition for places that we have among our team.”

Newcastle will begin its Gallagher Premiership campaign on the weekend of November 20-22 after last season’s championship title triumph, Richards’ team won every game and sat 18 points clear at the top off the table when the competition ended prematurely in March.

Schreuder becomes Newcastle’s sixth signing for next season, alongside Matias Orlando (Jaguares), Marco Fuser (Benetton Treviso), Tom Penny (Harlequins), Pete Lucock (Doncaster Knights) and Iwan Stephens (Leeds Rhinos RL).

Newcastle also welcomes Englishman Mark Wilson from his loan stint at Sale Sharks, while Matthew Ward, James Blackett and Phil Brantingham have been promoted to the club’s senior academy squad.

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