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South Africa’s Ruan Pienaar leaves the field during their Rugby Championship match against New Zealand’s. He has struggled to recover from that knee injury. South Africa will put Ulster scrumhalf Ruan Pienaar through his paces in training this week before making a decision on both his availability for Saturday’s test with Ireland and the remainder […]
Ulster scrumhalf, Ruan Pienaar, has been nominated on the longlist for ERC European Player of the Year for the third season in a row. Pienaar scored 54 points, including two tries, in the Province’s 100% pool stage performance. Selected by a distinguished panel of rugby experts, the longlist for one of the most prized individual […]
Following the conclusion of the pool stages of the Heineken Cup and the Amlin Challenge Cup, ERC, the governing body of European club rugby’s two tournaments, has announced the longlist for the prestigious ERC European Player of the Year 2013 award. Selected by a distinguished panel of rugby experts, the longlist for one of the […]
As the finals weekend of the European club rugby season fast approaches, ERC have named a shortlist of five players who are in contention for the northern hemisphere’s most prestigious individual accolade, ERC European Player of the Year 2012. The two Irish clubs who contest Saturday’s Heineken Cup final at Twickenham Stadium, Leinster Rugby and […]
On Wednesday 21st March an Ulster Rugby Road Show in conjunction with the Belfast Telegraph and the Bank of Ireland visited Rainey ES. Rainey had the honour of being visited by three of Ulster Rugby’s highest profile players – Ruan Pienaar, Ian Humphries and Jared Payne and they spent some time out of their busy […]
Ruan Pienaar and Paddy McAllister have both been included in the starting team for Ulster’s Heineken Cup Pool 4 match versus Aironi at Ravenhill on Friday (kick off 7.30pm). Brian McLaughlin has recalled Pienaar at scrumhalf in place of Paul Marshall, who drops to the replacements bench. He is partnered at halfback with Ian Humphreys, […]
Ruan Pienaar returned to action on Friday evening against Scarlets, bringing an end to a frustrating period for the 27 year old… After returning from the World Cup in October, Pienaar lined out against the Scarlets, only to suffer a hamstring injury and be ruled out until now. It has been a frustrating period him: […]