By letting Ruan Botha go to the Sharks, the Stormers have dangerously depleted their stocks at No 5 lock ... and simultaneously enhanced the prospect that their coastal arch-rivals assemble a formidable starting second row.
It might be argued that the lanky 23-year-old going the other way in the last few days is simply a "trade" for Springbok Pieter-Steph du Toit - a title-winning colleague of Botha's at the home-staged 2012 IRB Junior World Championship -- heading back to the Cape after some four years at Kings Park, a switch that has already been known about for some time.
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